Conservative Family Welcomes Lesbian Couple and Kids After Katrina

[PageOneQ]

FULL STORY: www.tinyurl.com/9unae

Tomorrow's edition of TIME MAGAZINE, includes and article, Guess Who's Coming ... How Katrina evacuees and their hosts have formed surprising friendships across the red-blue divide PageOneQ has learned.



The item, by Amanda Ripley includes the story of a conservative Massachusetts man, Forrest King, who found the government and American Red Cross less than responsive in helping to place a needy family with his family who had rooms to spare.

FULL STORY: www.tinyurl.com/9unae

[jackster]

1. a dyed in the wool conservative

a REAL dyed in the wool conservative does not WANT government to dictate personal choices in matters such as marriage.

This conservative is the type I miss

:cry:

[sakabatou]

2. Hell has frozen over

But you know, it good to see this. :)

[TechBear_Seattle]

6. Not at all

The number one reason why bigotry exists is that people don't have any counterexamples that would adjust their perceptions.

I have seen quite a few conservative, religious people become P-FLAG supporters once one of their children or grandchildren or a beloved niece or godson comes out to them as gay. Not as many as I would like, sad to say, but still quite a few.

Once you find out that someone you love or respect is gay/atheist/Republican/other, you are forced to change your attitudes towards all people who are gay/atheist/Republican/other, if only a little bit.

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

3. (P)ricky will be all over this: "Well, he is from Massachusetts"

Sorry, Massachusetts for my idiot Senator. NE conservatives are not of the same breed as theocratic-neocons of today.

[skids]

4. Oh, we have a few neocons running around here.

Not many, but they are around.

[bluedawg12]

5. Lesbians live in the south? n/t