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Silverton's mayor-elect, Stu Rasmussen, said the protest is ironic considering he is not gay - he's been together with his live-in girlfriend for nearly 35 years. This is a little puzzling, because the Phelpses are also going to be in Portland, where they will protest in front of the German consulate, the Finnish consulate, and the Swedish Consulate. So they're going to Silverton to protest a heterosexual mayor, and they're coming to Oregon to protest three foreign nations (something they presumably would be able to do just as well in Kansas). So, why aren't they bothering with Portland's mayor elect, who is indeed gay? It's all very mystifying.
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Howie wrote: http://www.katu.com/news/34715624.html An anti-gay church from Kansas plans to protest in Silverton next week after the town elected the nation's first openly transgender mayor. [...] Silverton's mayor-elect, Stu Rasmussen, said the protest is ironic considering he is not gay - he's been together with his live-in girlfriend for nearly 35 years. This is a little puzzling, because the Phelpses are also going to be in Portland, where they will protest in front of the German consulate, the Finnish consulate, and the Swedish Consulate. So they're going to Silverton to protest a heterosexual mayor, and they're coming to Oregon to protest three foreign nations (something they presumably would be able to do just as well in Kansas). So, why aren't they bothering with Portland's mayor elect, who is indeed gay? It's all very mystifying.
Dec 13 08 8:19 AM
The precarious state of relations with the nations at war in Europe, particularly Germany, made Wilson fear for national security in the event of an interregnum - which then, before the ratification of the 20th Amendment in 1933, lasted more than a month longer than it does today. A former professor of political science who had studied and admired parliamentary systems, Wilson decided upon a drastic plan to shorten this uneasy period.
Two days before the election he had a sealed letter, which he had typed himself, hand-delivered to the secretary of state, who was then third in line of succession to the presidency. Wilson wrote that if he lost he would immediately appoint his Republican opponent, Charles Evans Hughes, secretary of state, and then he and his vice president would resign, making Hughes president at once. Wilson said he was proposing this plan because those were not "ordinary times" and "no such critical circumstances in regard to our foreign policy have ever existed before."
I don't know what it's trying to get at in terms of contemporary politics, but it's pretty interesting nonetheless...
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