Playing in Hartford Nov 2-15 at Cinema City, New Haven Nov. 16-29 at Criterion Cinemas
This is an issue that my own family dealt with back in the late 1970s. Being from a one red light Southern town, the issue was handled extremely well for that period of time. It is amazing how progressive my whole family has become in these past twenty-five years with most still attending weekly worship services in fundamental type Churches that do not contain any of the hate as seen at the national level.
As you will see below there are five other conservative Christian families in the movie that are the same or presently dealing with the issue.
The loons came out of the woodwork for the recent Judiciary Committee hearing on the marriage equality bill. Easily the most bizarre and colorful testimony came from Robert Muckle, Vice President of Connecticut Right to Life. In this video, I've added visual aids to help flesh out his unique arguments.
Muckle was only one of many eccentric, homophobic, and unintentionally comic speakers to grace the hearing. The video below highlights some of the more entertaining and disturbing representatives of the anti-gay fringe. The final speaker is particularly over the top. They demonstrate that one of the best ways to win the marriage equality debate is to let the opposition speak - in a loud, spontaneous, and unguarded fashion.
Hattoy was the first openly gay person (and the first with HIV) to address a political convention when Bill Clinton asked him to speak at the 1992 Democratic National Convention in New York. His speech was broadcast nationally in prime time.
and below brings back very bad memories and is a Hattoy quote:
AIDS is a disease of the Reagan-Bush years. The first case was detected in 1981, but it took 40,000 deaths and seven years for Ronald Reagan to say the word "AIDS." It's five years later, 70,000 more dead and George Bush doesn't talk about AIDS, much less do anything about it.
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