Your government enforces a culture of greed, bigotry, intolerance and ignorance.
While the Bush regime makes laws outlawing gay marriage, there has been a sharp increase of
police abuse against thousands of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and
transgender individuals. A recent Amnesty Internation report
documents the brutality and abuse at the hands of law enforcement,
including a Georgia woman raped at gunpoint by an officer who said he was doing it to “teach her a lesson,” a
Native American transgender woman handcuffed, beaten, abused and raped by two officers in Los Angeles saying “That’s what you deserve,” and a young
African-American gay activist in Chicago arrested and held for two days
for distributing political information. In a statement, Amnesty
said, “Thousands of
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people across the USA are
victims of a system that fuels discrimination and facilitates torture.”
At the same time as these outrageous attacks on LGBT people by police,
the Bush regime has worked to ban gay marriage and is moving to ban gay
adoption in the 2006 elections. Theocrats increasingly hold
positions of power and influence in the highest levels of government,
from which to spread their hateful brand of Christian
fundamentalism. Bush himself said in his state of the union
address, “many Americans, especially parents, still have deep concerns
about the direction of our culture and the health of our most basic
institutions. They are concerned about unethical conduct by public
officials and discouraged be activist courts that try to redefine
marriage.”
Who let the brown shirts out?
(Sources: “Amnesty International details police abuse of gays and lesbians in the USA”, 3/24/06, PageOneQ.com; “Stonewalled”, Amnesty International Report)