[Vision2020] Say What?

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Disgraceful behavior of the GOP during the civil rights era?

What did Robert Byrd, Howard W. Smith, James O. Eastland, Albert Gore, Sr., J. William Fulbright, Jimmy Byrnes, Hugo Black, Ernest Hollings, Sam Ervin, Richard Russell, George Wallace, Orval Faubus, Lester Maddox, etc, etc, etc, all have in common? Heres a hint for the slow, the young, and those with an excess of sanctamony, it wasn't an R following their names.

40% of the House Democrats voted against the Civil Rights Act, while 80% of Republicans SUPPORTED it. Republican support in the Senate was even higher. Pretending that Democracts were the only Americans with an interest in civil rights legislation is either a display of willfull ignorance or a blatant distortion of fact.

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: keely emerinemix 
  To: Tom Hansen ; vision2020 at moscow.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 8:57 PM
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Say What?


  My, what a disgusting co-opting of Rosa Parks, about whose position on gay marriage nothing is known whatsoever.  What is known, though, is not only the disgraceful behavior of the GOP during the civil rights era, but its current eagerness to appropriate heroes of equality and justice in its fight against basic civil rights for lesbian and gay people.

  Which is something I think most of us could safely conclude Ms. Parks would oppose.

  Keely
  www.keely-prevailingwinds.com




  > Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 15:05:25 -0800
  > From: thansen at moscow.com
  > To: vision2020 at moscow.com
  > Subject: [Vision2020] Say What?
  > 
  > "Rosa Parks did not move to the front of the bus to support sodomy,"
  > 
  > - Congressional candidate Barb Davis White (R-MN), on marriage equality.
  > 
  > http://minnesotaindependent.com/55645/barb-davis-white-gay-marriage-rosa-parks
  > 
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  > Seeya round town, Moscow.
  > 
  > Tom Hansen
  > Moscow, Idaho
  > 
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  > and the Realist adjusts his sails."
  > 
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