[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Therefore, I was taken aback by the comment attributed to Mark Stenglein in this 
>article:  "Sooner or later there will be a gay agenda that emerges, and it won't be 
>the same as the one for middle-class, two-parent, heterosexual families."  The 
>absurdity of this comment should be obvious, but in case it isn't, think about it for 
>a moment. Imagine Mr. Stenglein implying that another group of people seeking public 
>office had some sort of secret agenda that was contrary to that of the majority. 
>Perhaps Mr. Stenglein, speaking of a group of Jewish officeholders, could just as 
>well have said:  "Sooner or later there will be a Jewish agenda that emerges, and it 
>won't be the same as the one for middle-class, two parent, Christian families."

Strangely, I find your implication that gay or Jewish individuals don't have
political interests that differ uniquely from those of middle-class, two-parent,
Christian families, absurd.  If gay and Jewish individuals don't have their
own agendas, why do they have their own PACs?  Minneapolis politics
seems to have a lot to do with placing people who hold opposing viewpoints on
the other side of the rainbow (so to speak).

Michael Atherton
Prospect Park

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