Beyond LGBT

Howard Hemsley, a delegate at large for New York, said Michelle Obama's speech Monday night was pitch perfect. "I thought she put herself smack dab in the middle of the American dream." Well put.

Hemsley was at the LGBT delegate lunch today, but gay issues were not the only thing on his mind. "I'm concerned with war, I'm concerned with Georgia, I'm concerned with attacking countries that haven't attacked us. I'm very much concerned with our standing overseas. I was in Berlin when the wall fell and I'll never forget when an elderly gentleman walked up to me, and his manner was military and he said, 'I want to thank you for keeping the spark of freedom alive for all these years.' That was the state of our reputation before Bush-Cheney trampled on it."

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[danamarie jones]

How cute and adoring you all must feel when you hear people use the word US and WE when their evading saying the word Gay.Big deal they got HIV test done in kenya.They could have gotten that done here in the states.People you think that their going to vote in favor of gay marriage? Do you think when the bill comes across their desk their going to remember that you broke your back running to the polls to vote that they get into office?Do you think their going to remember telling you that they wouldn't stand in the way of your bill,but when the time comes they turn a deaf ear.Do you think that when your partner can't get your pension,health coverage,or even have the right to stand proxy for you when your in the hospital or during your last resting time? IT's amazing how little it takes to get people to forget.Sure i'm concerned about more than just Gay Marriage.I hear ya on the war,economic,and finacial downfall.But aren't you the same people who forgot about the war when it was time to vote four years ago and re-elected Bush?Now your crying about the war and economics!!!! Then you tell me if the words US and WE still mean as much.