(2013/05/28) Part 1: The mostly bad news (LGBTQ Rights)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 28 May 2013
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Edition #721
Part 1: The mostly bad news
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Republicans Love Gay Marriage - Mark Fiore's Animation - Air Date: 04-01-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Big tent - Contino
Ch. 4: Act 2: Virginia Is Definitely Not For Lovers - Dan Savage - Air Date 4-9-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Where is the love? - Black Eyed Peas
Ch. 6: Act 3: Montana Endorses Decriminalizing Gay Sex - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 04-20-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Tenderness - General Public
Ch. 8: Act 4: Use Civil Disobedience to Fight Gay Rights, Says Hatemonger Buchanan - Young Turks - Air Date: 04-20-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Same Love (feat. Mary Lambert) - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Ch. 10: Act 5: Caller: The Homophobia 'Industry' is a Money Maker - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 05-02-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Ready for the good times - Shakira
Ch. 12: Act 6: Anti Gay Marriage Group Fund Raising Off Comedy Spoof - Throwing Shades - Air Date 5-13-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Dancin' in the moonlight - Top Loader
Ch. 14: Act 7: Minnesota Legalizes Same Sex Marriage - Majority Report - Air Date: 05-15-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: All my love - Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Ch. 16: Act 8: Minnesota Legalizes Gay Marriage - The Young Turks - Air Date: 05-15-13
Ch. 17: Song 8: The importance of being idle - Oasis
Ch. 18: Act 9: Straight rights watch: 'Functioning' societies - Dan Savage - Air Date: 3-19-13
Ch. 19: Song 9: Genesis (Apoptygma Berzerk Remix) - VNV Nation
Ch. 20: Act 10: Anti-Gay Catholic Activist Commits Suicide Over Same-Sex Marriage - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 05-22-13
Ch. 21: Song 10: The bells of Notre Dame - Chorus, David Ogden Stiers, Paul Kandel & Tony Jay
Ch. 22: Act 11: Historic Ban Overturned - The Young Turks - Air Date: 05-25-13
Voicemails:
Ch. 23: Bush library "based on a true story" - Chris from Colorado Springs
Ch. 24: Every prison sentence turns to a life sentence of unemployment - Wade from Ft. Worth, TX
Ch. 25: I don't get Sandford either - A Conservative
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Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 26: Final comments on a native Bostonian's feeling about the marathon bombings
Ch. 27: Bonus Voicemail: Mad at comparing deaths in the Boston Marathon to deaths in other countries - Rachel from Boston, Mass
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:05.8 | For details, visit the membership tab at BestOfLeft.com. |
| 0:09.2 | Welcome to the award-winning BestOfLeft podcast with Guips today from MarkFury.com, Dan Savage, |
| 0:14.5 | the David Pakman show, the Young Turks, the Tom Hardman program, throwing shade and the |
| 0:18.6 | majority report. |
| 0:30.0 | Dogboy! Dogboy! Yes, Mr. Dan? |
| 0:40.5 | Did you hear about the Supreme Court? They're poised to stop gay marriage once and for all. |
| 0:45.9 | Oh, you mean and just make it regular, I was marriage. I heard. |
| 0:49.3 | No, they've got the chance to make it all go away. |
| 0:52.8 | Make what go away? |
| 0:54.2 | Marriage by lesbianians and the galley inclined. |
| 0:58.0 | Um, I don't think that's really what they... |
| 1:00.2 | Of course it is. The courts turn conservative and conservative means traditional values. |
| 1:06.2 | Like long-term commitments, vows, family, stability, and love, no matter... |
| 1:11.6 | No, that's conservative, not gay. |
| 1:14.3 | But that's what they want. |
| 1:15.5 | No, gays dance all night long and are promiscuous. |
| 1:19.1 | Um, except for the ones who want to settle down with the one they love for the rest of their lives? |
| 1:23.5 | No, that sort of traditional marriage threatens traditional marriage. |
| 1:28.5 | Tradition threatens tradition? |
| 1:30.8 | Stop it, dogboy. It's about conservative values, Republican values. |
| 1:36.5 | I know, like Rob Portman, he's the latest Republican to support gay marriage. |
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