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Friday Happy Hour Video: How we turned ourselves around, on gay marriage

05.24.2012 by David Murray // 3 Comments

Blowing out of town for a long weekend, so Friday Happy Hour comes on Thursday. But this video, when you consider the political context—it was 40 years from the Bunkers to Barack—ought to hold us over.

Categories // Uncategorized Tags // All in the Family, Archie Bunker, Edith Bunker, gay marriage, President Obama

Are you touching others, or just touching yourself?

10.22.2009 by David Murray // Leave a Comment

Writing Boots’ Hong Kong correspondent, speechwriter Lorne Christensen, alerts us to this speech, given in support of a gay marriage law in Maine, last spring. He calls it “a humble and powerful speech from the heart,” and adds that its genuineness would appeal to people on either side of the gay marriage debate.

As far as I’m concerned, that’s the test all communication has to pass—does it affect (even subtly, even silently) the sworn enemies of the idea it espouses? Or does it only excite those who agreed in the first place?

Categories // Uncategorized Tags // communication, gay marriage, Maine, speech, WWII Veteran

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