LGBTIQ Enrorsements Unimportant to the Beshear-Abramson Campaign.
Oct 24th, 2011 | By Kentucky Guardian Contributors & Staff | Category: Around the Commonwealth, Kentucky Guardian News
Apparently LGBTIQ endorsements are not important to Governor Beshear’s reelection. The Beshear-Abramson Campaign just released an email: “Exciting Endorsements!”
The Beshear Campaign snubbed the LGBTIQ community in an email tonight. They completely ignored endorsements from the Louisville Fairness Campaign’s PAC: C-FAIR as well as the states deflated social organization, Kentucky Fairness Alliance who has over the past five years lost every chapter it had [which is happening now to Equality California].
The Beshear Campaign also snubbed Kentucky Equality Federation, the states largest all-volunteer civil rights organization which has in recent years leaned less on lobbying and become the states “bulling, hate crimes, and discrimination police.”
Perhaps the vote of the LGBTIQ community is unimportant to Governor Beshear, or perhaps he needs the votes in Republican strongholds like Northern, Southern, and extreme Western Kentucky even though the bulk of the Commonwealth’s population resides in the Central Kentucky.
Apparently newspaper endorsements are more important than endorsements from non-government organizations or perhaps only if the organizations are LGBTIQ.
The Governor did reinstate an executive order protecting the LGBTIQ community from discrimination if you work for the state, but has yet to issue an executive order granting hospital visitation rights or have an openly LGBTIQ person as part of his government.
United We Stand (old version)
So, why must Governor Beshear have a LGBTIQ individual in his administration cabinet? It seems, to me, that coercing an elected official to have a particular subset of the culture in his office defies the standards of what makes America great. America is a meritocracy—it means that you must work to achieve, not be granted or given a position by virtue of how one chooses to have an orgasm.
One other question: How many more letters of the alphabet can we attach onto “LGBTIQ?” I mean, I’m an oppressed white male who happens to enjoy playing Magic: The Gathering, a game that is no longer popular. So, could you please add the following to your identifying sign: “LGBTIQOWMPMTG?”—Oppressed White Male Playing Magic: The Gathering. I’d prefer the special recognition and solidarity that would accompany such designation.
Couldn’t, under your argument, a group of oppressed “Magic: The Gathering” players band together, express frustration and demand representation, special protection, and employment? Sign me up!
Steve W. you are an idiot you cannot be fired for playing “Magic: The Gathering” but you can for being gay or lesbian.