A great orator on a great man: “Ted Kennedy has gone home now, guided by his faith and by the light of those he has loved and lost. At last he is with them once more, leaving those of us who grieve his passing with the memories he gave, the good he did, the dream he kept alive, and a single, enduring image – the image of a man on a boat; white mane tousled; smiling broadly as he sails into the wind, ready for what storms may come, carrying on toward some new and wondrous place just beyond the horizon. May God Bless Ted Kennedy, and may he rest in eternal peace.”
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President Obama Remembers Gay-Friendliest Senator Ted Kennedy
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Dennis
So who shall ‘cast the first stone’ here and call out all of these homophobes, gay hating bigots, and ‘bus drivers attempting to run us over’? Can’t hardly wait…
Ted Kennedy’s record as a LGBT ally speaks for itself, and losing him is a loss for all of us. Who in government has the courage to take his place?
And Queerty, no mention of Biden’s tribute to Kennedy? Where he mentioned ‘the gays’ favorably, in a televised memorial viewed by tens of millions of people? Is there no way to make a snarky headline out of that? Or is that still in the works?
Robert, NYC
@Dennis:
If only Obama had the same courage, temerity and guts to speak out and take on the right wing christo fascists and other rethuglicans on issues. I don’t think we’re going to see that, he’s a wuss, no passion and no balls. I can live in hope that I’ll be proved wrong, but judging from the past few weeks, I doubt it.