By Jeff Johnson -
OneNewsNow -
2/7/2008

Washington- The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force is holding its annual "Creating Change" conference in Detroit this week. Its sponsors claim to have trained more than 30,000 activists since 1988.
"It's essentially a grassroots training conference for homosexual, bisexual, transgender -- and now, it turns out -- sadomasochistic activists."
The event's handbook even addresses "transgender restroom etiquette.""It says that, 'Each of us can decide for ourselves in which bathroom we belong,'"

Source: DNC sponsors event honoring sadomasochism (OneNewsNow.com)

Commentary: Hey, does that mean guys can put on a pair of heels and hang in women’s restrooms???
I mean, don’t chicks have a say in this?
Democrats are running on a change platform, makes one wonder what kind of change they have in mind.
<strike>Disgust</strike>, discuss;

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Which bathroom would you prefer they use?

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The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity; where everything is made simple, and in that simplification the truth is lost.

It's the DNC???

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Who would know? Since there are no urinals in the ladies room, this "woman" would just use the stall. Just no foot-tapping under the divider. That's a non-issue, really.

The REAL issue is why the DNC chooses to associate with such a politically INcorrect group.

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Not a day goes by that I don't see something that reinforces my belief that people are idiots.

This is the mission statement of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force:

I certainly may be missing something, but I don't really see what the problem is. I understand that many people feel threatened by homosexuals and transgender individuals, but I'm not really sure what is wrong with the DNC sponsoring an event promoted by a group determined to win "complete equality."

Personally, I think sadomasochism is pretty weird, but who am I to question the sexual practices of consenting adults? It's not like straight people don't practice sadomasochism.

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The democrats or the sadomasochist???
They’re being sponsored by the DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE during election primaries for goodness sakes (I thought they were hard up for cash?).

How in the hell can the DNC associate themselves to this and get away with it: FOXNews.com - Sadomasochism Bondage Death in Massachusetts Raises Legal Questions - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News

The DNC is the whole flipping party. Why aren’t dempelcrates running to disassociate themselves from the democratic party??

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sometimes the lauable goal of-
works to build the grassroots political power of the LGBT community to win complete equality

results in an inequality, the vying for some specialized recognition regards a particular viewpoint, special protections etc..in affect, to coin Orwell; some pigs are more equal than others....debilitating diversity by just creating a mechanism that sppt.s more of it...

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It’s just not the integrity disregard of the D.N.C.. It’s them being in power without the ability to recognize that when the homo dyke task force added sadomasochism, they didn’t have the decision making ability to disassociate themselves. They did the same shit with move-on dot dumb-asses when they attacked General Betraius.

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Maybe the DNC just thinks people's sexual preferences should be respected as long as they are conducted by consenting adults?

Discovery Health: Sadomasochism

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Asa far as I know, Gays are not legally all that unequal as it is. Neither are sex changes, cross-dressing, bondage and all that stuff. But if you leave for vacation as Joseph and return as Josephine, and your boss fires you because of it, that's your boss's business and none of the government's.

If they want more SOCIAL acceptance, legislation is not the way to go, and the DNC should stay out of it.
I know there are a lot of Democrats who used to be disgruntled Republicans. I wonder if this will cause party affiliation shifting in the other directions.
There ARE a lot of Democrats who could be called conservative.

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I think they'd rather have legislative acceptance than social acceptance. If a man leaves for vacation as Joseph, and returns from vacation as Josephine, they want legislative protection that deters their boss from firing them. If their boss chooses to disagree with their lifestyle, then that is his business and not the government's. It is a promotion of legislative equality, based on, what they believe to be, their right to their choice of sexuality.

100 years ago, if a white woman left on vacation as a single woman, then came back from vacation married to a black man, would it be justified for the woman's boss to fire her? At the time, many people may have said, "It's the boss's business, not the government's." People fought for legislation to protect them from such injustices and these rights are now protected by the law. I think that is what many gays, lesbians and transgenders are trying to do now.

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Precisly-unless his 'change' makes a big diffrence to how he works he should bot be fired.

I fail to see the problem with the DNC sponsoring this event. What someone wants to do in there bed is no buisness of mine.

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I think people are over looking a significant issue. Why is sadomasochism part of it? Sadomasochists aren't a social group that needs protection. As I understand it, they're not a social group, and they kind of like the abuse anyway.

Were I an employer and one of my employees let me no he/she was a sadomasochist I'd fire the person in a heart beat. Not for being a sadomasochist but for telling me more about their sex life than "this is my boyfriend, girlfriend, etc."

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Thanks, sorry about the sloppy commentary. The thread is about the DNC associating themselves and giving donations to a sadomasochism activist group, not homo rights.

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