(2012/05/16) It's ok to not be cynical at least for a moment (Same Sex Marriage)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 16 May 2012
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Summary
Edition #606
It's ok to not be cynical at least for a moment
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Harvey Milk - Hope
Ch. 3: Song 1: Hope - Jack Johnson
Ch. 4: Act 2: Case Against Gay Marriage Falls Apart With Retraction of Ex-Gay Study - Rachel Maddow - Air Date: 4-26-12
Ch. 5: Song 2: Wait so long - Trampled by turtles
Ch. 6: Act 3: An Affirmation And They Amend Once Again - Matthew Filipowicz Show - Air Date: 5-10-12
Ch. 7: Song 3: Here it goes again - OKGO
Ch. 8: Act 4: Obama and same sex marriage, let's enjoy the moment - Throwing Shade - Air Date: 5-14-12
Ch. 9: Song 4: Rainbow connection - Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Ch. 10: Act 5: A Fight That's Going To Be Won - On The Media - Air Date: 5-10-12
Ch. 11: Song 5: Movin' on up - Primal Scream
Ch. 12: Act 6: Obama's Historic and Gutsy Proclamation - The Progressive - Air Date: 5-10-12
Ch. 13: Song 6: Marry you - Glee Cast
Ch. 14: Act 7: Gay Marriage Seen From Both Shores - The Bugle - Air Date: 5-12-12
Ch. 15: Song 7: I was married - Tegan and Sara
Ch. 16: Act 8: Marriage Equality and Symbiotic Evolution - JSmooth
Ch. 17: Song 8: Tobacco Road - Common Market
Ch. 18: Act 9: Reaction to Obama and same-sex marriage from elderly black women - Blacking it up - Air Date: 5-14-12
Voicemails:
Ch. 19: Thoughts on male privilege in reaction to Dave from Mass - Cody from Olympia, WA
Ch. 20: Reaction to Dave from Mass on affirmative action and white privilege - Jeff in Louisiana
Ch. 21: Thoughts on the reality of classism - Anonymous
Ch. 22: Race vs class - Colin from Cleveland, OH
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show for details |
| 0:05.0 | visit the membership tab at bestableleft.com. |
| 0:08.0 | Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with Cups Today from a speech by Harvey Milk, |
| 0:12.0 | The Rachel Maddo Show, The Matthew Philip Ovid Show, Throwing Shade, On the Media, |
| 0:16.0 | The Progressive, The Bugle, J-Smooth, and Blackened It Up. |
| 0:20.0 | And note for our more sensitive listeners, this episode contains both facts and emotional compassion |
| 0:25.0 | regarding human sexuality. |
| 0:30.0 | Some ways in Des Moines or San Antonio, there's a young gay person |
| 0:35.0 | where all of a sudden realizes that cheer he is gay, |
| 0:38.0 | knows that if the parents find out they'll be tossed out of the house, |
| 0:43.0 | the classmates would taunt the child, |
| 0:46.0 | and the Anita Bryant and John Briggs are doing their bit on TV |
| 0:50.0 | and that child had several options. |
| 0:53.0 | Staying in a closet, suicide, and then one day that child might open up a paper |
| 0:59.0 | and says homosexual elected from San Francisco and there are two new options. |
| 1:04.0 | The option is to go to California. |
| 1:12.0 | Staying in San Antonio and fight. |
| 1:14.0 | Two days after I was elected I got a phone call and the voice was quite young. |
| 1:20.0 | It was from Altoona, Pennsylvania, and the person said, thanks. |
| 1:27.0 | And you've got to let gay people so that that young child and the thousands upon thousands |
| 1:34.0 | of life that child know that there's hope for a better world. |
| 1:39.0 | There's hope for a better tomorrow. |
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