I'm a fighting liberal - Steve Gilliard Nov 13, 1964-Jn 2, 2007

[TexasProgresive]

I am sure that this has been posted on DU sometime in the past since Steve Gilliard was eulalized at DU after his death http://journals.democraticunderground.com/BlogBox/58

But it needs repeating. Shannyn Moore was just honored to receive the Gilliard Grant of Merit for her fine work.

Wednesday, December 03, 2003

I'm a fighting liberal



You know, I've studied history, I've read about America and you know something, if it weren't for liberals, we'd be living in a dark, evil country, far worse than anything Bush could conjure up. A world where children were told to piss on the side of the road because they weren't fit to pee in a white outhouse, where women had to get back alley abortions and where rape was a joke, unless the alleged criminal was black, whereupon he was hung from a tree and castrated.

What has conservatism given America? A stable social order? A peaceful homelife? Respect for law and order? No. Hell, no. It hasn't given us anything we didn't have and it wants to take away our freedoms.

The Founding Fathers, as flawed as they were, slaveowners and pornographers, smugglers and terrorists, understood one thing, a man's path to God needed no help from the state. Is the religion of these conservatives so fragile that they need the state to prop it up, to tell us how to pray and think? Is that what they stand for? Is that their America?
http://stevegilliard.blogspot.com/2003/12/im-fighting-liberal-you-know-ive.html

Shannyn Moore was awarded the Gilliard Grant of Merit this morning at the Netroots Nation Conference in Pittsburgh, PA. The grant was named after blogger and journalist Steve Gilliard (November 13, 1964-June 2, 2007).
http://shannynmoore.wordpress.com/

[pansypoo53219]

1. more fire-breathing liberals.

don't back down. stand up to the rite.

[stranger81]

2. Steve's voice is sorely missed right now.

He would have made a great contribution to this debate.