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LGBT Civil Rights and Activism

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dlwickham

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Fri Feb 22, 2013, 05:56 PM Feb 2013

A gay dad’s open letter to Laura Bush on quitting the gay marriage ad [View all]

In these modern times, it is funny how we forge interesting and new kinds of relationships through media, social and otherwise.

We gain unique attachments to people we have never met, some of whom we interact with on Twitter or Facebook, and some of whom we have never interacted with at all. I have such a pseudo-relationship with former first lady Laura Bush.

This week our relationship, which had moved into a rather warm and appreciative state of late, took a turn for the worse.

Mrs. Bush had been featured in a new ad by the Respect for Marriage Coalition in which she and other Republican leaders had expressed support for marriage equality ideals. After the ad came out, she requested that her likeness and comments be removed from the public airways.

http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2013/02/a-gay-dads-open-letter-to-laura-bush-on-quitting-the-gay-marriage-ad/

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