March 9, 2008

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  http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/78277/

  
  Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres speaks about the murder of 15-year-old Lawrence King, who was killed by a classmate
  for being gay. Saying that "we must change our country," Ellen urges
  her audience to "check on who you're voting for" to see if they stand
  for gay rights:
  

  A boy has been killed and a
  number of lives have been ruined. And, somewhere along the line the
  killer, Brandon, got the message that it's so threatening, so awful,
  and so horrific that Larry would want to be his Valentine -- that
  killing Larry seemed to be the right thing to do. And when the
  message out there is so horrible that to be gay, you can get killed for
  it, we need to change the message. Larry was not a second-class
  citizen. I am not a second-class citizen. It's ok if you're gay.

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