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After waiting outside overnight to be among the first to enter this year's White House Easter Egg Roll, families in line were surprised to learn that the White House had changed the ticketing policy for the annual event, PageOneQ has learned.
The unannounced change means that the families who waited in line the longest, in one case for twenty-four hours, will not be among the visitors at the event's opening ceremonies. The first families in line, who were not part of the LGBT family group, received tickets with an 11:00am entrance time, two hours later than the opening time listed in the White House press release.
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i was in DC this weekend trying to weasel my way into the Whitehouse festivities for a podcast for my blog. I had my niece and nephew along for props and found that my time would be better spent haning out with family than trying to make a statement. You can't just waltz into the rosegarden. So i gave up and went home when I realized that the stink was in the air. Too bad.
posted by jay lassiter, at
4/17/2006 11:24 AM
What fucking bastards these bush/republicans are to treat children that way (it's bad enough to do it to adults). Too bad the gay families didnt have a catapult to pelt the whole damn white house with rotten eggs. Then the stench of sulphur dioxide outside would match the stench coming from the inside! B. Queer
posted by Anonymous, at
4/17/2006 1:59 PM
B. Queer, you have to remember how Bush and his cronies view gays for it all to make sense. They don't view gays as real people, therefore they cannot form real families, and their children by extension cannot be real children. Voila! It's so logical! Seriously, though, they're bastards.
It’s become fashionable to talk about family values. In today’s culture war, the posturing by various groups to become the definitive voice on the subject is rampant. All too often the debate centers on issues outside of the family in what appears to be an attempt to vilify segments of the population that don’t meet with the approval of any given group. Most recently, homosexuals, through their efforts to legalize gay marriage, have become the focal point of many of these family values proponents.
From my perspective, children learn their values at home and the values they adopt are primarily discerned in proportion to the degree of sincerity and integrity they believe exists in their parents. In this construct, the degradation of family values originates within individual families as a result of a child’s perception that their parents are inauthentic and hypocritical. It’s also important to keep in mind that nearly every homosexual is the product of a heterosexual relationship and a heterosexual family. Consequently, the fact that the vast majority of children are raised in traditional heterosexual families makes the premise that homosexuals endanger the family not only flawed, but blatantly absurd.
Ultimately, the family succeeds one child at a time and that must start at home. The relationship of the Mexican couple down the street or the gay couple in the grocery store can only threaten one family…their own. Time spent obsessing about the actions of other families simply detracts from the precious time each family needs to succeed. The sooner families begin to act accordingly, the sooner the value of all families can be maximized. If and when this happens, the individual will flourish and society will endure.
Notice that the WH's last minute change has gone virtually unreported by the MSM.
Today the press has reported that GLBT numbered in the hundreds among thousands of participants at the WH event ... but failed to mention that the first lady and w were spared from having to mingle with GLBT families due to their change in ticketing/admission policy.
It is disgraceful. Am I surprised? Nothing these cretins do surprises me anymore.
