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Great analysis and overview by Times staffesr Michael A. Memoli and Kathleen Hennessey:
Gay-rights activists have widely believed that the president privately supported same-sex marriages, but withheld a public declaration out of concerns about alienating independent voters in key swing states.
There is a movement among activists in the party to adopt a so-called “marriage equality” plank in the official platform this summer. Such language would mark the continuance of the party’s own evolution. In 2000, the Democratic platform stated simply that the party supported “the full inclusion of gay and lesbian families in the life of the nation,” and “an equitable alignment of benefits.”
In 2004, in the face of an effort supported by the Bush campaign to put gay marriage bans to statewide referendums across the country, the Democratic platform stated that marriage “has been defined at the state level for 200 years, and we believe it should continue to be defined there.”
By 2008, the party vowed to “enact a comprehensive bipartisan employment non-discrimination act,” and opposed the Defense of Marriage Act “and all attempts to use this issue to divide us.”
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- blink-182: Hello there, the angel from my nightmare, the shadow in the background of the morgue, the unsuspecting victim of darkness in the valley. We can live like Jack and Sally if we want.
- blink-182: You're cold with disappointment, while I'm drowning in the next room. The last contagious victim of this plague between us. I'm sick with apprehension, I'm crippled from exhaustion and I dread the moment when you finally come to kill me.
- blink-182: Cut the skin to the bone, fall asleep all alone, hear your voice in the dark. Lose myself in your eyes, choke my voice, say goodnight as the world falls apart.
- blink-182: I wanna fuck a dog in the ass.
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In an interview with the Guardian last year, Sendak said that the term “children’s illustrator” annoyed him, since it seems to belittle his talent. “I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can’t do that. I’m in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person,” he said.
Maurice Sendak, American born author of Where the Wild Things Are, has died at the age of 83.
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