Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer.
You remember, of course, the “It Gets Better” anti-bullying campaign. Well, now we have “Mitt Gets Worse,” organized by The Courage Campaign, an online “multi-issue advocacy organization,” and American Bridge 21st Century, a “progressive research and communications organization.”
The Mitt Gets Worse project is an oral history of Mitt Romney’s efforts to diminish the rights and the freedoms of LGBT Americans, told by the brave people who have fought back against Mitt’s anti-equality agenda.
When Mitt Romney ran for the US Senate in 1994, he claimed he would be better on LGBT rights than Ted Kennedy. Today, Mitt is one of the most outspoken enemies of the LGBT community, and he’s campaigning for president on an extreme and inhumane platform.
As a politician, Mitt Romney has earned a reputation as a flip-flopper — changing his positions in whatever direction furthers his career. But when it comes to LGBT issues, there’s one thing you can always count on: Mitt Gets Worse.
Four of the Mitt Gets Worse videos follow.
Adam Bink, of the Courage Campaign:
Julie Goodridge, whose law suit eventually helped bring about marriage equality in Massachusetts:
Jennifer Chrisler, of the Family Equality Council:
Kathleen Henry, who chaired the Governor’s Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth that Romney attempted to defund:
Among many other people, President Obama did a video for “It Gets Better,” so I have to wonder if he’d do one for “Mitt Gets Worse.” That’s probably almost as unlikely as Romney doing one for “It Gets Better,” of course. I’ve said this before: in general Obama and the Dems are better on LGBT issues than Romney and the Repubs, and pointing out Romney’s getting worse direction is important. As long as that doesn’t prevent holding Dems accountable at the same time, let the videos continue.
(Mitt Gets Worse logo via Mitt Gets Worse Campaign)
All those ads in a row… Wow.
YOU. WILL. NOT. BE. YOURSELF.
Got it?
Let’s see….DOMA no longer defended….DADT GONE…Obama came out for marriage equity……….late? Yes, no question…but he did.
Mittens? Fluffing for the UBERChristian homophobes in the repugnantklan/teabagger mob.
The guy from it gets better is a bully and a hate monger as this video clearly shows http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao0k9qDsOvs I applaud the children who had enough sense to just get up and walk away. This grown man calling high school students the worst names is beyond any lavel of acceptable tolerance.
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Thank you, Joyce, for posting these videos. I didnt know about these until your post.
They were all powerful but the video featuring Julie Goodridge was devestating to me and made me cry.
When she told about Romney’s comment to her when she asked him what she should tell her 8 year old daughter why her mommy and ma can’t marry and he icily turned to her and said:
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How anyone could say that out loud to anyone is beyond any definition of humanity I know to be true.
Watching and listening to Ms. Goodridge speak about her experience with Romney and what he had to say to her about her family (and my family by proxy) made me feel like someone walking in the dark and suddenly scrapping my face against sharp, concrete wall. It was that gut wrenchingly painful to hear.
I mean I knew this plastic, souless, lying shitbag of a person (this is one exception where corporations have more of a right to that description than he does) was bad but I never thought of him as evil. Now I do.
And, btw, how he automatically assumed that her daughter was adopted and that she didn’t give birth to her child is another tell about him because he didn’t even have the humanity to ask because he didn’t/doesn’t give a rat’s ass about her, me, us and our families.
Frankly, I think the only family he cares about and/or has sympathy for is his own.
Afternoon Joyce
I don’t have a comment …just a greeting