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Friend or foe? New year's edition.


FOE ALAN KEYES This article or section contains information about one or more candidates in an upcoming or ongoing election.
Content may change as the election approaches.
, conservative moral watchdog and former presidential candidate, for effectively disowning dis·own  
tr.v. dis·owned, dis·own·ing, dis·owns
To refuse to acknowledge or accept as one's own; repudiate.

Noun 1.
 and refusing to pay college tuition The examples and perspective in this article may not represent a worldwide view of the subject.
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 for his daughter Maya when she came out. Keyes is reportedly inspiration for a new WB sitcom, Father Knows Nothing.

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FRIEND MAINE WON'T DISCRIMINATE, for an impeccably planned and executed campaign that kept Maine's antidiscrimination law on the books. Both straight and gay lobsters will be eaten equally.

FOE SAM BROWNBACK Samuel Dale Brownback (b. September 12 1956) is the senior United States senator from the U.S. state of Kansas. On January 20 2007, he announced his intention to seek the Republican Party's nomination for President in the 2008 Presidential election. , Republican U.S. senator from Kansas, for reviving the antigay federal constitutional marriage amendment, recycling the same arguments from past battles. Is this guy's mother Miss Gulch?

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FRIEND THE GAY AND LESBIAN VICTORY FUND, for helping to get 36 out of 56 openly gay endorsed candidates elected or into a runoff, often in hostile places. Today Texas, tomorrow the world!

FOE JAMES WEST, mayor of Spokane, Wash., for years of speaking against gay rights while secretly engaging in online gay hookups. Might an exorcism exorcism (ĕk`sôrsĭz'əm), ritual act of driving out evil demons or spirits from places, persons, or things in which they are thought to dwell. It occurs both in primitive societies and in the religions of sophisticated cultures.  remove the spirit of Roy Cohn from his body?

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FRIEND THE MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE, for rejecting legislation against gay marriage after seeing that gay marriage had no ill effect on the state. "We're here, we're queer, we're as boring as you, get used to it!"

FOE JEFF GANNON, White House reporter/shill and "verbal, dominant top" hustler, for refusing to discuss his sexuality, writing antigay articles, and loudly promoting a right-wing agenda. I'm all for verbal tops, but shut up already.

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FRIEND TAB HUNTER, for a candid autobiography proving that you're never too old to come out. You can, however, be too old to be called "Tab."

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FRIEND GAY EMPLOYEES OF MICROSOFT, for forcing the company to reinstate its support of pro-gay legislation in Washington State, the company's HQ. The Microsoft Word "Office Assistant" is now a dancing go-go boy.

FOE MARGARET SPELLINGS, U.S. secretary of Education, for forcing cancellation of an episode of the PBS PBS
 in full Public Broadcasting Service

Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural,
 series Postcards From Buster Postcards from Buster, also called Buster's Postcards, is a children's television series, containing both animation and live-action that airs on PBS, and is a spin-off of the Arthur cartoon series.  because it featured two families headed by lesbian moms. God knows what Spellings has to say about Big Bird.

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Title Annotation:TIME LINE
Author:David, Jim
Publication:The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Jan 17, 2006
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