Scott Brown sits out Massachusetts delegation's 'It Gets Better' video

Eh, he'll be booted out of office in a year.

 

yah. it is bad taste to sit out on a video that tries to held counter the epidemic of suicides caused by anti-lgbt bullying.

You enable it by being silent on it... not just by promoting that bullying is okay, which is a common right wing bullshit. They will bully whoever they want, and the moment someone criticizes them for their blatently uncivil and at times unconstitutional behavior, they whine that they are being bullied, when there is no comparrison between physical, emotional, and verbal abuse that is bullying, and being criticized for ones stupidity, which is criticisem, not bullying.

 

Let's wait a second here before we condemn him. As nice as it would be for him to have appeared in the video, the American economy is a few days away from being flushed down the toilet again, so it's understandable that he would prioritize that. Besides, as far as republicans go, he's very progressive on social issues. He's made it pretty clear that he's against bullying as well.

 

besides, he is a senater if I remeber correctly... it is the house that is dealing with the budget at the moment... well, not so much dealing with it as delaying at the moment... they cant even get a vote together in the chamber they control.

it would have only taken probably 15 minutes to do. just say your lines, and tada, your done.

 

First of all, The Senate is just as involved in the current debt debate as The House is at the moment.

Secondly, I don't know the details behind this particular circumstance but it would be nice to know all the details of this thing before you condemn the man. Like I said, I don't know the particulars of this situation, but I do know this: For 6 years, every second of a U.S. Senators life is planned by the communications director, the state scheduler and the Washington scheduler. Maybe this was put together on short notice, perhaps he had a prior commitment, I don't know.

If he ducked out because he didn't want to be associated with gays (which I kinda doubt because he is not what I would call radical right wing) then shame on him....but I don't think we really know that.

 

This. For just about everything.

 

Scott Brown's record on gay issues isn't exactly stellar.

 

Honestly I think it's better than him being forced to appear in the video and then have people call him two-faced.

 

It's a video whose message is mostly, "Don't blow your brains out, wait a while and see if your life gets better."

I think it's sad that someone could support something like that and be considered two-faced.

 

518: Number of days Senator Brown has been in office.
0: Number of interviews he's given to LGBT media.

DADT was a gift. This is no surprise.