It is fascinating to watch how IRD (Institute on Religion and Democracy) and their fellow neo-conservatives are continuing to try to make a news story out of the plans of some lesbian and gay families to join with other families at one of our country's family events--the White House Easter Egg Roll.
They're actually taking up the time of the White House press spokesman, Scott McClellan, to ask, not about the war, not about wire-tapping U.S. citizens, not the response to national disasters, but about plans of some gay and lesbian families with children to join other families with children to roll eggs down the White House lawn.
Yes, Family Pride, Soulforce and other lesbian and gay groups are trying to make a point--our children and grandchildren are real kids who love the Easter Bunny too. If lesbian and gay families with kids are admitted to the event on the same basis as other families with kids, what's the big deal? If the White House says "no, this event is only for families headed by one man and one woman, other families are not welcome" then I think there will be a question to ask Scott McClellan, "Does the White House belong to all Americans or does it belong to the neoconservatives and the theoconservatives?"--I think that is the real issue. I'd like to see President Bush tell the neocons and theocons that they don't own the Presidency or America--this is a much bigger country than that.
I would like to think the White House is bright and mature enough to treat the existence of lesbian and gay families at family events as a non-issue. As I said in the previous post, I don't think George Bush is personally prejudiced against lesbians and gays. It is extremists from the so-called Christian Right who continue to demand that the power of government be employed to punish and exclude whoever does not conform to their narrow views of family life. Bush doesn't need their votes for his next election, and he should ignore them.
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