{"id":383,"date":"2004-06-09T10:26:17","date_gmt":"2004-06-09T14:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2004\/06\/09\/i-couldnt-have-said-it-better-myselfand"},"modified":"2004-06-09T10:26:17","modified_gmt":"2004-06-09T14:26:17","slug":"i-couldnt-have-said-it-better-myselfand-tampax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2004\/06\/09\/i-couldnt-have-said-it-better-myselfand-tampax\/","title":{"rendered":"I Couldn’t Have Said it Better Myself…and Tampax"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I was reading an article this morning about the ACLU’s new ad campaign. They’ve been getting celebrities to pose for pictures and write their own text about issues affecting our civil liberties. One such celebrity was everybody’s favorite nanny, Fran Drescher (also known as my favorite Spinal Tap character…Bobbi Fleckman). <\/P>
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Anyway, since the celebrities all got to pick their ad’s topic, she chose to make her’s about gay marriage. It’s a very good ad, but what surprised me was one of her comments in the interview for the article (that doesn’t appear in the ad). She said in two sentences something I’ve not been able to say myself (probably because I’m so long-winded).<\/P>
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“I’m getting very concerned that the separation between church and state is beginning to blur. The very thing we go into the Middle East to fight – namely a government that is imposing its religious values on the whole country – is the very thing that seems to be occurring right under our noses.”<\/P>
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…and that really scares me. When we’ve got a president creating faith-based initiatives and religious denominations threatening to deny communion to politicians who’s social beliefs differ from the church’s, I’m realizing that my biggest fear is no longer terrorism…but what’s going on in my own back yard.<\/P>
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On a lighter note, I saw a very dapper young man on the subway platform this morning. He was wearing some very trendy H&M style clothes…quite handsome, and most likely gay. But then I looked down at what he was carrying in his hand…a box of Tampax. Why wouldn’t he have left them in a CVS bag? And what’s he plan on doing with them?<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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