You Should Know: Five Facts About Jon Huntsman

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You Should Know: Five Facts About Mitt Romney

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You Should Know: Five Facts About Herman Cain

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You Should Know: Five Facts About Ron Paul

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I am reposting the “You Should Know: Five Facts About…” candidates for the Republic Party nomination for the Presidency.

Obama and same-sex marriage: the lawyerly straddle continues

“To be sure, this administration has accomplished far more to advance gay and lesbian equality than any other: the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell; the bold decision not to defend the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA); a federal mandate that hospitals allow visitation rights to gay partners; passage of a new hate crimes law. Much of this policy and legal work has been creative and courageous.

And yet, speaking in New York, where gays and other progressives are on the one-yard line of legalizing same-sex marriage, Obama could not bring himself to join or even clearly endorse their fight. The best he could do was praise marriage supporters for advancing “debate” and “deliberation about what it means here in New York to treat people fairly in the eyes of the law.”  Grappling with issues that are “tough” and “emotional” will, he said, help assure that “slowly but surely we find the way forward.”"

You Should Know: Five Facts About Rick Santorum

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You Should Know: Five Facts About Newt Gingrich

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You Should Know: Five Facts About Michele Bachmann

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You Should Know: Five Facts About Tim Pawlenty

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It Means What?

This article came out today, Changing of Symbol Meaning and it reminded me of a couple of years ago around this time that I was driving my parents to the airport.  Every year for Pride (LGBT) Week, the hill by Sutro Tower is decorated with a Pink Triangle and my mother asked me about it  – I explained that it was for LGBT Pride and that is came about because Hitler used it as a symbol to designated someone was gay in the concentration camps.  It has now been “taken” by the LGBT community as a symbol of Pride.

This article explains that the swastika was pre-World War II was a symbol of good luck, but Hitler took it and made it a his own and therefore, made it a symbol associated with him and the horrendous events of World War II.  In fact, in the Buddhist religion still uses the symbol and still consider it as good luck.

The other symbolism that is addressed is the color pink. “… Nazi’s use of pink to label gay and lesbian prisoners led pink to be stigmatized as effeminate and, thus, an inappropriate color for men…and over time it instead became the epitome of symbols of femininity.”