Dominicans Rage Against Obama's Gay Ambassador Pick

[Moonwalk]

52. I know you don't think you're comparing apples and oranges, but you are. If they objected...

...to, oh, say, an Asian person, then you'd have your comparison. Or say, a person born with a blue eye and a brown eyes. Or someone born left-handed who was not taught to write with his right hand and is publicly left handed. Or, say, a woman.

This gay ambassador is not holding a "view" of anything. His attraction to his own sex is not a philosophy or ethics or even cultural. It's not anything he can change any more than you could change your attraction to whatever gender attracts you. Not those against him believe that, but there are people who believe the world is flat, too. If there are a group of anti-left-handers in a country, or anti-woman, do we keep back our best ambassador to a government because of that? Even if the government itself says they welcome that left-hander or woman?

And FYI, we here in the U.S. don't usually know what views ambassadors from other countries have. Be they anti-woman or whatever. Those countries have the right to send to us whomever they wish, and we tolerate them. Now, if they commit some crime, or come forward and try to interfere with us and how our country is run (like get involved in taking away a woman's right to vote) that's different. But just because an ambassador doesn't think women should be allowed to vote, doesn't mean we U.S. citizens have a right to tell the country sending him not to send him. We have the right to say that if he makes speeches to us and ours on that topic we will protest them, but if he acts only as the ambassador for his country, making deals with the U.S. government and swallowing down his objections to the women representatives, then why not? Maybe his time here will change his mind, after all, and make him a better ambassador for both countries.