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To Agree or

By Pat Robinson

Disagree?

Thatis the Question.

Things change slowly in
this country. We are still
along way from true fair-
ness and equality. There is
still much ground to cover.

Regis Philbin made a
statement on Live this
morning (August 15, 2001;
repeated) that gay men are
only making 86% of what
straight men are making.
Gee, just like all women,
huh? Nothing has change.d
there except women have
company at that economic
level now. Welcome guys!

Poor neighborhoods are
still just that, poor. Poor
schools, housing, hospitals,
businesses, and people that
struggle everyday to come

home with enough to feed,

house, and clothe their fam-
ilies. I know that the neigh-
borhood I grew up in looks
just as dismal and defeated
as it did in 1967. I left it for
the tiny balconied streets of
Beacon Hill and the Back
Bay. At 16, I was barely
able to make enough to pay
my. way but, I was out of
out of the
urine-stenched halls, and
out of the gutter and with a
future affordedgme in the
Bill of Rights.

How was I to know that
the Bill of Rights doesn’t
really apply to me or to
many others?

In poetry, less is more.
Nowhere else is less a
blessing; except crime and
pollution. Less money,
housing, jobs, education,
opportunities, promotions,
rights, white, Christian,
civilized, sophisticated,
people do NOT get the top
shelf chances at anything.

Karin Kerin suggests
(‘Things Change,
Sometimes’... August, Out
in the Mountains) that
Republicans ‘should be
angry at the good senator
that switched his party
affiliation. Are you sug-
gesting that we should wait
till an election to switch
things? If you are not happy
with your local pizza
maker, do you wait till the
pizza makes you sick or till
an election is held?’ If your
long distance telephone
company raises it rates, do
you wait till someone else
agrees with you to switch
companies? NO! You make

a decision based on your
needs and wants. So did
Senator Jeffords. He saw
the brink of disaster boiling

up at the edge of the pot '

and he made a choice.
Where would we be if the
political enemies of King
George had faltered? We
would be calling trucks lor-
ries, and singing the praises
of the Queen, and that ain’t
Latifah honey.

So. Karen, what do you
think we should do? How
do we fix the messes that
have been a mess for a long

 

stock trades, not the "sepa-
rate accounts we have and
of course the two commis-

-sions we pay either. Does

that justify this veiled con
George Dublya called a tax
relief?

And you the transsexual
has openly signed up to
help your local Republicans
get re-elected? Do you

How was I to know that the Bill of
Rights doesn’t really apply to me or to

many others?

time? How do we get your
side of the aisle to finally
accept us at work, at play,
at church, and most decid-
edly, the armed services
where people are NOT
required by law (like ALL
other occupations) to sup-
port this country as a cohe-
sive unit regardless of sex,

. color, age, place of origin,
or sexual orientation?

And you make so much
of your marriage, not a
CIVIL union, as a glove in
our faces. I have been mar-
ried 3 times, and divorced 3
times, too. Is this a victory
for you or only a mere date
in the path you have
walked? Karen, have you
taken a good long look at
who sits on the boards of
directors that have to
explain or justify costs to
the many stockholders in
major corporations like the
insurance companies that
will lose millions of col-
lected funds from single
people vs. domestic partner
coverage? Have you looked

1 at who sits on the boards of
companies that own hospi-
"tals?

Are these the people that
get to decide ifI go into the
ICU to see my partner? Of
course, you who are legally
married don’t have this
dilemma, do you? NOPE,
and this I know from MY
experience as a wife.

And you of course get to
have one 401K account and
pay one commission for

think you will be welcomed
whether»-your name is Karen
or Charles? I bet dinner at
the restaurant of your
choice that you will be
more than just the “joke of
the day” but proof positive
to them that we are an
absurd group of confused
people that don’t even
know what sex we are or
who to love. This I hear all
the time from the almost
totally Republican popula-
tion that surrounds me. But
of course, it’s always:

“Nothing personal, Pat. I’
love you and Rho. I want *

you to be happy, too!” Yet
sadly, they still.don’t get it.

I wish for you the same
love, happiness and success
we all deserve, but do you
wish the same for
because .I am a Democrat? I

thank God, or the Goddess’

if my readers prefer, that
we all have the singular
right to speak our minds;
vote our conscience, and
live our lives as United
States citizens do, one and
all. And that goes for
Senator Jeffords of
Vermont, Mark Noel
New Hampshire, Jesse
Helms of North Carolina,
Tom Daschle of South
Dakota, William Weld of
Massachusetts, Senator
Hillary Clinton of New
York, and Karen Kerin of
Vermont.

So Karen, choose your
restaurant and lets have at a

‘column or two‘?

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