Pride and Prejudice


Did I say I was proud of my state? I take it back.

Yesterday the house performed surgery on the civil union bill and added in the old “marriage is between a man and a woman” clause. Our dearly beloved repub/gov Jodi Rell said she wouldn’t sign the bill without this inclusion.

Straight Anonymous said: I hope that everyone against the bill and everyone against same-sex marriage finds out that all their children are gay. It would serve them right.

I say – hell no. Almost to a man, every gay person I know is smarter, nicer, kinder and a better citizen than the average person.

Maybe it’s because my circle of gay friends are all hard-working, accomplished people who have survived the bigotry and hate shown to them by “doing well” as in doing well is the best revenge.

I am not stupid enough to think ALL gay people are spectacular. But I do know all the ones I know are.

(Just a reminder to my gay friends just how much I cherish their friendship and love.)

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Next, I have to say that something has to be done with our new U.S. Secretary of Education, Margaret Spellings.

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal plans to make Connecticut the first state to sue the federal government over the No child Left Behind law. Blumenthal alleges that the law is an illegally unfunded mandate among other points.

(Ask almost any Connecticut teacher and you will be told this law is setting back public education and not enhancing it.)

So Spellings responds with calling my state “un-American”?

I ask the same questions our state’s education commissioner Betty J. Sternberg did in reply.

"Are we un-American because we're asking for a waiver?"

"Are we back in the McCarthy era?"

Well are we?

If so I’m sure we’ll soon be hearing:

Are you now or have you ever been a member of any liberal group?

Do you now or did you ever live in the state of Connecticut?

Have you now or in the past ever left a child behind?