Ronald Reagan was painfully slow to respond to the AIDS crisis,
yet close friends swear the man was never homophobic. Still, a new
CBS miniseries on the former president, by openly gay executive
producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, is stirring up controversy.
As gay.com
reports:
In one scene, Ronald and Nancy are having breakfast when the subject of AIDS comes up. Reagan, in the script, says "They that live in sin shall die in sin" and refuses to discuss the issue further. Elizabeth Egloff, a playwright who wrote the final version of the script, acknowledged there was no evidence such a conversation took place.
The Reagan record is open to criticism, but using slander to bolster one's case smacks of cheap leftwing propaganda. And the fact that defenders of the series cite Edmund Morris's biography "Dutch" without noting that this book was roundly castigated for mixing fact with totally fictitious dialog and characters (and phony footnotes) certainly doesn't inspire trust is what the series presents as "truth."
They're Going to Sue Science?
The socially conservative CNSNews.com reports:
A coalition representing former homosexuals is
developing a legal strategy to litigate on behalf of people who
challenge the proposition that individuals are "born gay."
Next up, perhaps, will be a suit against the claim that the earth isn't the center of the universe.
Bush Expands Marriage . . . in Iraq.
One upside of deposing Saddam, the
Washington Post reports, is that "Freed of an onerous Baath
Party bureaucracy that sought to regulate even the most fundamental
aspects of Iraqi life -- such as who married whom -- Iraqis lately
are tying the knot in numbers not seen in recent memory." Now, if
we could only get rid of some of our own "onerous" government
regulation that tries to limit who can marry whom right here in the
U.S.! After all, it would be nice to be at least
as progressive as Taiwan on this matter.
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