I know it's been forever since I posted anything, and I promise, I will update this blog with more Turkey stories as well as some movie reviews.
However, I wanted to detour into politics and LGBT issues for a quick post. The "It Get's Better Campaign" has become famous for posting videos online by both regular and famous people encouraging young people, especially those struggling with their sexual orientation and gender identity. Although I think some people believe that posting a video is all they need to do to solve gay and teen suicide, it is a noble project.
Recently, eleven out of the twelve members of the Massachusetts congressional delegation posted a joint video for the Campaign. Although it may not be the best one out there, it is a wonderful reminder of how lucky some of us, including myself, are to live in such a liberal and accepting state. It's especially meaningful for me because I worked on both Congressmen Jim McGovern and Bill Keating's campaigns, so it's nice to see some of the people I helped to elect standing up for causes that I believe in.
It also is a reminder of the one eyesore in our delegation. Like I said earlier, eleven out of the twelve members are present in the video. The one missing? The one Republican, Scott Brown, of course. Now it is certainly possible that in today's hyper-partisan Washington the other members just didn't tell Senator Brown that they were making this video to make him look bad....but I highly doubt it.
Anyway, here's the actual video:
UPDATE: As I suspected, Sen. Brown was indeed invited to join in the making of the video, but declined. His spokesman insisted that Sen. Brown has a "strong record" of standing up to bullying and discrimination and the National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee has gone so far as to attack Dan Savage, trying to distract from the real issue at hand. If Sen. Brown is truly the bipartisan, moderate Republican that he claims to be, the least he could do is take part with is home state colleagues in making a video urging young kids not to kill themselves!
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