Lt Dan Choi Speech 9/25/10 at the Coffee Party Convention

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Convention Builds Relationships, Momentum for Coffee Party

(LOUISVILLE, KY) Sept. 28, 2010 — Participants in the first Coffee Party Convention arrived home to 40 different states on Sunday and Monday, energized and determined to pursue electoral and legislative goals outlined during the three-day event.

Meredith Diamond drove six hours from Oberlin College with classmate Xenna Goh, and was struck by the agreement she witnessed across party lines. "It made me see a real hope for the sort of engagement the Coffee Party is pushing for, something I hadn't thought possible until this weekend."

The most emotional speech at the convention came from Lt. Dan Choi. In his first public remarks since last week's filibuster of a Defense Authorization Bill that included a conditional repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, Choi spoke of love, equality, and determination, bringing listeners to tears.

"Love is non-partisan," Choi said. "Love does not belong to any specific group. And the equality of love is also non-partisan. ... Equality is non-partisan because the priority of our rights and our liberties, as if freedom is some kind of finite resource, is most anti-American."

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[Nenendude]

It's seriously time to repeal that law, the time has come!

[Akihito007]

Practically EVERY State had anti-sodomy and anti-homosexual acts laws which were enforced. It took a liberal progressive Supreme Court to overlook over 150 years of American history to somehow say it's now "unconstitutional"?!? The people who wrote the Constitution were dead set against homosexuality.

[Akihito007]

Sorry Lt. Choi but you yourself disgraced yourself and the uniform you wore. George Washington during the Revolutionary war personally court-martialed and publicly threw out two sodomites to universal American praise because he and Americans knew that God wouldn't bless a military which allowed its members to practice what is an abomination to Him. You could be EXECUTED for homosexual acts in the state of Virginia and Thomas Jefferson SUPPORTED those laws. EVERY colony had anti Sodomy laws

[soulfuluniverse]

Very inspirational