(This same statement will be posted to
RadioNosferatu.com.)
My friends,
Today, President Bush called for a constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage. This is bald-faced election year pandering to the religious right, and I will not stand for it. As the nephew of a gay man and the friend of so very many more gay men and women, I cannot stand for it. As someone who has seen the results of an otherwise wonderful young man beaten into a coma in the parking lot of a movie theater where I was a cast member of The Rocky Horror Picture Show for the sole fact of his love for and sexual activites with other men, I have an absolute moral obligation not to stand for it.
Therefore, I am officially - and it must be said, without prior consultation with the staff - throwing the support of Radio Nosferatu behind the inevitable efforts to cast light on this shameful act.
We will help raise awareness of the issues surrounding the impending public debate. We will keep the public informed of developments concerning this issue, and we will fight until the last drop of blood has left our bodies to make sure this will not stand.
We will be providing information about voter registration so that our audience can exercise the single most powerful weapon an American citizen posesses - the vote.
Mr. Bush, I have the utmost respect for the office of President Of The United States. I have utmost respect for the magnificent Constitution that is the bedrock of that office. Too bad it would seem that you do not.
Hate and discrimination must not and WILL not EVER be codified in the Constitution of these United States!
I thank you.
Doc Webster,
owner and co-operator of Radio Nosferatu