I'm not sure what to make of this, except to say that most lobby groups that endorse a candidate ought to have a rule that private donations are verboten, for officers, because it brings up the potential for conflict of interest.
I guess if you join such an organization, AS's view is that you give up your right to individual political conscience, at least as far as donations, if not the ballot box? Is that ... conservatism or Conservatism?
NO FLOWERS AND CHOCOLATES ON FLOWERS-AND-CHOCOLATES DAY
Anyway, it's an interesting thing to watch one totally biased source condemn what it sees as another.
Here's AS from last year.
oh, and, solely for the purpose of brutal intellectual honesty, what does HIV status, via immigration or otherwise, have to do with "being gay" (or "human rights"?) any more than does, say, transgender, which was hived off just recently, by some? Why would we draw the community circle wide in one instance and narrow in the other?
There are, of course, answers to those questions; and I'm so obviously not against an agenda that includes both concerns, but it bears looking at the logic people employ to reason their way to how they conclude what is a priority and what is not...
Monday, June 16, 2008
AS and the pebbles in his boot called "HRC"
