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AquaticSub -> RE: Obama extends Inaugural Invite to Gay Band Groups (12/11/2008 2:23:03 AM)
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ORIGINAL: popeye1250
OK, how is this a "political gesture?"
I thought being gay was a "sexual issue."
Don't get me wrong, I'm not at all hostile towards gays, I support gay marriage.
It would seem to me that if you wanted to be "inclusive" to gays you wouldn't want to be singling them out.
What if there's a few people in those groups who wish to maintain their privacy?
It's a band composed of gays and lesbians. Those in it aren't concerned about the closet or they wouldn't be in it.
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Why do people have a need to try to politicise everything?
Not everything but, as I go into below, things involving the inauguration simply *are* political.
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I mean is that really neccessary?
And what if other groups feel excluded?
I'm sure they will. That's another part of politics - trying to keep all the balls in the air.
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That "feel good" "political correctness crap never works.
If you were in one of those music groups would you want people applauding you because they liked your music or because they knew you were gay?
I would want you, Popeye, to clap because you like my music. However, if I'm invited to play at the inauguration because I make great music and the President wants to make a political gesture I have no issue with that. 1) I know I must be good or I wouldn't make the cut and 2) I'd be pleased that the President is making that gesture.
And, blah, I'm not talking political correctness at all. That's bullshit.
But this is a political gesture. "Minority" groups are not chosen accidently. Everyone who will speak, march, sing, dance, play music, fart on cue has been looked at from all angles. It's a gesture of goodwill towards the gay community and, hopefully, a sign that he will keep gay issues in mind during his term.
Who the President entertains and is entertained by at public events such as this are never as simple as "he likes the music". You can regard that a shame but I regard this as much more noteworthy than if Suri Cruise is off her weird oatmeal shake yet though more Americans are probably interested in the latter.
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