Yet another politician with a lesbian daughter

Via blog.au.org:

Gay Marriage Hits Home For Georgia Christian Coalition
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Sadie Fields is leading the campaign to ban same-sex marriage as chairwoman of the Georgia Christian Coalition. In Monday’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution she railed against the “assault” on the family by marriage-rights advocates. Her slippery-slope argument warned, “If we fail to protect marriage, the floodgates will be opened to every other kind of relationship outside of traditional norms.”

Later in the week the editorial board of the paper received a letter condemning Mrs. Field’s argument — from her lesbian daughter.

Anybody else starting to think alot of these gay-slandering fundies who accuse us of trying to destroy society are just lashing out because their kid didn’t turn out to be exactly the way they wanted? Talk about selfish.

This is too rich.

So I was sending an email to my local Senator and my local Representative (futile, probably, but I do it anyway). One is Republican. The other is Democrat. When you send them an email you are required to pick a topic area to classify your email under. It was a Civil Rights email, and I quickly found “Civil Rights” on the list for the Democrat’s email classification system. Then I tried to find “Civil Rights” on the Republican’s classifications list. Wasn’t there. Then I looked for just “Rights”. Not there. “Human Rights”? Nope. “Civil Liberties”? “Liberties”? Nope on both. I looked through the entire list, and the closest things I could find were “Judiciary” and “International Human Rights.” (Oh, so Domestic Human Rights don’t matter?). I sent it as “Judiciary” because I figure there’s a better chance of it being read that way. Ugh.

Generic Drug Update: Celexa, Neurontin

Celexa is now available as a generic (Citalopram Hydrobromide). The cash price on 30 pills of the 40mg strength is currently $40, and will probably go down more in the coming months. It is being made by Purepac, by the same facility that was manufacturing brand-name Celexa on contract. I can’t stress it enough: this is Celexa by another name with a slightly different appearance.

Neurontin went generic about a month ago (Gabepentin). I know for certain that the 100, 300, and 400 mg strengths are available right now. I don’t know the cash price on that one off the top of my head.

How to predict when it’ll go on sale

The Dec. ‘04 issue of Smart Money magazine has an Anne Kadet article called “The Price is Right”. I’m paraphrasing and summarizing some of it here, but I’ve left alot out and I recommend the article to any who want to know more.