I always get drawn into the this clip from The View, and how Whoopi handles herself in the discussion. She has a great solid demeanor during the whole thing — not confrontational, but not backing off her beliefs. It’s a great little case study for how to talk about marriage equality with people who don’t agree. And while she might not convert the other side, I could easily see her bringing over any undecideds listening in, just with her calm yet forceful, relaxed yet emphatic attitude. It’s an attitude very few people manage to maintain on the CNN/MSNBC/FOX talking-head debates.
OMG…”suffrage” means voting rights, quite literally, from the Latin.
…maybe they didn’t protest Obama because he specifically said he was against Prop 8?!
Well, I do about as well as Whoopi does against people who spout opinions but remain uninformed.
Praise the Lord I love that Whoopi!
We need more woman like her in Influence instead of the Vacumous Blonde ninnees that get all the headlines.
Go Whoopi!
In equality
Rod
I’m unimpressed by the religious right to say that we cannot marry, it is a union between two people that love each other, WHO CARES IF IT IS CALLED A MARRIAGE OR CIVIL UNION. I’M GLAD THAT I LIVE IN CANADA WHERE IT IS LEGAL TO UNITE WITH YOUR PARTNER WITHOUT ALL THE REDERICK!
But we have to be vigilant because we have a prime minister that if gets a majority government will try to repeal that same law that gives us the right to wed.
KEEP THE DEBATE GOING, DON’T LET THEM TAKE YOUR RIGHTS AS CITIZEN AND AN AMERICAN AND FIGHT WHAT YOU BELIEVE YOU SHOULD HAVE, THE SAME RIGHTS AS YOUR STRAIGHT NEIGHBOUR.
I know this comment is for a very old post but I have seen this clip in several other venues and wanted to comment upon it. The one woman, Elizabeth, I believe her name is; asks repeatedly why the LGBT community is fighting for the word marriage and not just the rights and I do not believe any of the four women in this clip addressed that question. I would like to say that the reason the LGBT community has a problem excepting the same rights of marriage under the title of civil union is the same reason that blacks had a problem drinking the same water as whites from a different drinking fountain during segregation. Even though the water comes from the same pipe a different drinking fountain is just that: different. Brown vs Board of Education has already determined that “…separate but equal is inherently unequal…” When we are fighting for equality among our heterosexual counterparts; what logic is used by supporters of civil unions to suggest that we should meekly accept an “inherently unequal” status. The LGBT community is asking for equality, for the right to have our committed relationships recognized by the government and laws that purport to protect all citizens; we are not asking for a separate term to cover our relationships as some second class aberration that will never be considered good enough for the privileged term of marriage. Supporters of civil unions with all the rights of marriage are asking the LGBT people of this country to gratefully drink from a different fountain then the nice, normal, god-approved, straight folk. It’s insulting.