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Rants & raves.


"I will address such issues in their proper context, and, uh, my visit to the tooling and manufacturing association is not that proper context."

--Alan Keyes, rabidly antigay Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Illinois, declining to answer a question about whether his 19-year-old daughter is involved in a relationship with another woman, as heard on WBBM radio in Chicago, September 28

"Although I try not to have my religious beliefs dominate or determine my political views ... my religious beliefs say that marriage is something sanctified sanc·ti·fy  
tr.v. sanc·ti·fied, sanc·ti·fy·ing, sanc·ti·fies
1. To set apart for sacred use; consecrate.

2. To make holy; purify.

3.
 between a man and a woman."

--Barack Obama, Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in Illinois, in an WBBM radio interview, September 24

"I was never in, baby. Coming out of what? That I'm a lesbian? Well, duh! ... I was stupid enough to get married. That didn't last very long."

--"Stop the insanity!" fitness guru Susan Powter Susan Powter (b. December 22, 1957, Sydney, Australia) is a motivational speaker, dietitian and personal trainer who rose to fame in the 1990s with her mantra "Stop the Insanity!" , coming out on the Derek and Romaine show on Sirius OutQ satellite radio, September 28

"I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed)

"Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party.
 why it would be news that I go to gay bars--unless I was straight."

--Openly gay New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 State assemblyman Danny O'Donnell (brother to Rosie), responding to a New York Post The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and the oldest to have been published continually as a daily.[3] Since 1976, it has been owned by Australian-born billionaire Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and is one of the 10  Page Six query about his visits to the Dug Out, a bar reportedly popular with gay bears, September 29
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Publication:The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
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Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Nov 9, 2004
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