In my best Lumberg voice, "ummm, yeeeah...".

No, it shouldn't. Lofty goal ya got there. Really lofty. Sounds great. Love the idea behind it.

Really, I just got two things to say about it:

1. AMERICA MUST WORK TO END ANTI-GAY ABUSES IN AMERICA FIRST!!! Cuz, quite frankly, we don't have the problem here licked yet, now do we?

2. Right now isn't really a good time, to start suggesting that America should police the world. It's a really bad time. I mean, like, no, really, it's a bad time for it.

Are you trying to be the LGBT equivalent of George W. Bush?

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Reading this article, it looks like we're the only part of the LGBT community that NEVER, EVER, gets attacked because of our orientation.

Funny, though. I went to the State Department website and read some of these reports myself. They say that bisexuals are also victims of hate crimes and state repression. Guess you must have missed it.

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Not much on the website, yet, but here it is

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Like Federal legislation protecting the LGBT community from discrimination in employment, housing and accomodation as well as inclusion in Federal hate crime laws.
AFTER these are addressed, THEN we can tackle the marriage/civil union issue.

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I have already heard that speech !
It was Bush who read it when he said.. whe must spread democracy troughout the middle east, whe must help the democratic forces there.
Remember the result?
Will minorities protection be the pretext of future democratic administrations to wage future agressive illegal wars (the way they did in yugoslavia?)
Will the abstract concept of "war on terror" be the precedent for similar future abstract concepts, like "war on intolerance" or "war on sexual prejudice"?
You really are a creepy people. I would not be surprised if your industrial-military complex catches that new slogan just to stay in business....

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One more thing.
Peoples around the world are grown up enough to resolve tehyr problems by themselves. hey dont need a fahter, or mother, country to "help" or "teach" them.
The author of this article's position is based on the very same imperial position Bush's administration has in its foreign policy.
Or like one preeminent american would say, there is the world's point of vue (that's to say, Anglo-American point of vue) and the unpeople.
Sorry, but the "unpeople" doenst want your "help", we can manage without american deplected uranium filled "generosity".

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I plan to intervene today to demand intervenion against China to help save Gays in Darfur, Kosovo, and Tibet! Send in the Peacekeepers clad in purple uniforms, with flowers in their wigs!

Gosh alternet comes up with some funny stuff! I peed in my panties reading this article. Dubya, can you help this man out?

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If he/she had the courage, he/she would write those letters to world leaders today. I'm sorry for her/him. It seems that she/he is asleep. Do you think she/he can have her/his gay rights in America and turn a blind eye to the rest of the world. With supporters like her/him, gay rights in America should be over in about ten more years.

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Stop fighting amongst ourselves trying to vie for attention. We are all sexual beings. Admit this. Read the Kinsey study. Get over the in fighting! Queer is queer. I'm queer and so are so are you and you and you! The article was about human rights abuses because someone was queer. If you think you've been left out of the discussion, sorry, but you are wrong. If you are queer anywhere in this world, your life is in danger. You are lucky to be queer in America where you have a greater chance to avoid the danger.

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It's in our national anthem "land of the free and the home of the brave." What a disgusting lie. Black people in this country went through years of opression, then went through the civil rights movement to gain some freedom. Now they preach hatred about gay people. Some black men say they are on the down-low because they're taught to be ashamed about feeling for another man. Many hispanics bitch about being looked down on and yet they preach hatred against gays as well. This venomous bullshit comes out of the mouths of some women, physically handicapped, and immigrants as well. Minorities saying that other minorities deserve less rights and are wrong for who they are. Does this make sense to ANYONE????? America should not be telling other nations what to do, we should be setting an example of how a FREE NATION should be. UNTIL PEOPLE OF ALL NATIONS ENJOY THE SAME RIGHTS AND ARE PROTECTED BY LAW WE ARE ALL ENSLAVED!!!!!

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. . . other people beat me to this.

No, no, NO America should not be telling other countries' what kind of policy they should have towards homosexuals. Or women. Or the environment. Or oil prices.

We cannot violate other countries' sovereignty because we don't think they are as socially progressive as we are. This article is lunacy.

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