Bill Clinton lent a hand to Fran Drescher as he escorted her into the Life Ball in Vienna over the weekend.

Alec Baldwin was on the Late Show with David Letterman, where he was asked if he wanted to have more children, to which Alec said:

"I’m thinking about getting a Filipino mail-order bride at this point…or a Russian one."

To which an angry Philippine Senator Ramon Ravilla said was an "arrogant" remark, and was "insensitive and uncalled for," and insulted millions of his fellow citizens. Ravilla says Baldwin’s words have elicited an angry nationwide response, and that the actor better keep his distance. Ravilla added:

"Let him try to come to the Philippines and he’ll see mayhem."

Maybe Ravilla should open his eyes. Filipinas want a better life, so they do whatever they can to come to America. Two popular ways filipinas get a visa is by either becoming a nurse, or getting married to an American, usually a Caucasian guy. Rather than attacking Baldwin for an obvious joke, maybe Ravilla should work a little harder to make life better in the Philippines so Filipinas won’t want to leave.

Wanda Sykes, who recently revealed she is a lesbian, spoke at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, where President Obama and his wife Michelle were seated next to the podium Sykes spoke from.

Sykes said of Rush Limbaugh that she thought he was the twentieth 9-11 high jacker, but she thought he was so strung out on Oxycontin that he missed his flight. Sykes even said she wishes Limbaugh’s kidneys would fail, and that he needed his own water board. The audience did not laugh, but instead gave more of a grown to indicate their discomfort with Sykes, but she continued.

Sykes spent her time speaking attacking and criticizing anyone associated with republicans or conservatives, even their non-political wives.

Our reaction to Sykes comments is that she is rude and inappropriate, as well as another angry lesbian who attacks anyone who doesn’t agree with her political positions on gay marriage. We expect inappropriate behavior from people like Sykes. Just because Sykes is a black lesbian doesn’t give her the right to engage in hate speech.

We were offended by Sykes racist remarks against white people. Racism of any kind at an official White House event is inappropriate. Sykes should be ashamed of herself, but we know she isn’t. We used to like Sykes, but after hearing what she really thinks, we realize what an ugly, and angry, person she is inside. What Sykes did was not comedy, is was personal attacks and racism disguised as comedy.

President Obama should denounce Sykes comments, and never invite her to any official function again.

The Times of Harvey Milk is a 1984 documentary film by Robert Epstein and Richard Schmiechen. The significance of this documentary is that history is repeating itself. Gay activists tried to force their minority agenda on the majority, and as a result the anger and resentment boiled over into not just a backlash, but in the form of violence.

In a civil society all opposing opinions are respected. The gay activists today attacking Carrie Prejean are experiencing the same backlash for their attempt to silence the majority. Attacks create resentment and hatred.

Proposition 8 passed on November 4, 2008 when all people in California were allowed to vote on the issue of marriage. Proposition 8 was passed by the majority of California, and thus caused the State of California to be amended defining marriage as between a man and a woman.

Prior to the passing of Proposition 8 the courts in California repeatedly attacked the majority by allowing gay marriage when it was clear the majority of voters did not want it. Even now the courts are considering whether to again strike down the will of the majority who voted to amend the California Constitution. We don’t want to see any violence over any political issue, even as personal this issue is to all of us.

We would like to see today’s gay activists learn a lesson from this documentary, stop the attacks, and dance with their political opponents to make political progress. Violence is not the way to solve problems. Trying to destroy someone like Carrie Prejean is not the way to solve problems. Mutual respect, and allowing each side to be heard, is the way to have a civil discussion.

Harvey Milk was not a bad person, and neither was Dan White who killed Harvey. The problem that caused emotions to boil over was when Harvey was able to get a law, or city ordinance, in place that gave special rights to gays, without a vote by the people, who would have not agreed to pass the law. White felt angry, as the majority felt, because Milk’s special gay rights ordinance didn’t just cover Milk’s district 5, but all of San Francisco.

It was not right for White to kill anyone. It was also not right for Milk to bypass the majority of people in San Francisco to get a law passed they didn’t agree with. When the majority of people are silenced by the minority, they will take action when they feel the price is too high not to.

If gays want to advance their political agenda they must do so by making heterosexuals their allies. You can’t win by opposing someone. You must get people to take your side, and to do that you must make them feel you are on their side. It takes skill, not attacks and criticism, to make political progress. White felt attacked, so he fought back. White tried to fought back politically which was right, and when that didn’t work he used violence, which was wrong.

Milk knew he could be killed for the approach he used to make political progress, and he was right, because it was the wrong approach.

On October 21, 1985, less than two years after his release from prison, White committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning in his garage in San Francisco by running a garden hose from the exhaust pipe to the inside of his car. White had been listening to a recording of Paddy Reilly’s rendition of “The Town I Loved So Well” on the car’s cassette player. White’s body was discovered by his brother, Thomas, shortly before 2 p.m. the same day.

This story wasn’t so much for me about gay versus straight, it was about how opposing someone, rather than gaining your opposition’s support, can cause a trajedy.

Miss California Carrie Prejean allowed film footage, of her answering a politically motivation question at the Miss USA pageant, to be used for National Organization For Marriage ad.

The ad points out the fact that gay activists are trying to silence debate, and an opposing opinion, on the issue of gay marriage.

Gay Miss USA officials are threatening to take away the Miss California crown from Carrie Prejean if she doesn’t stop expressing her opinion on gay marriage. The gay officials claim Prejean doesn’t speak for the majority of California, but that’s where they are wrong. In November of 2008 the majority of California voters passed proposition 8 that amended the California state constitution defining marriage as being between a man and a woman.

Trying to claim Prejean doesn’t speak for the majority of California is a lie, in fact she does. The minority have the right to be outspoken, but it is illegal to threaten, strike fear into, or discriminate against Prejean just because she doesn’t share the same political opinion as the minority gay organizers that are currently running the Miss USA pageant. The gays trying to get Prejean’s crown taken away are acting un-American.

If Prejean spoke in favor of gay marriage Miss USA officials would support her right to free speech, but since she disagrees with gay marriage, Miss USA officials are discrimination, threatening, and making every effort to silence Prejean’s right to free speech. I don’t support people that try to intimidate another person to silence them, especially when that person is speaking what they believe to be true.

The Miss USA pageant has become a political event, and controls contestants through fear and intimidation. It’s a beauty pageant, there is no room for politics. Miss America should represent the good in the American people like truth, kindness, love, helping others, etc., not what they believe about global warming, socialist healthcare, or gay marriage. Leave the politics to the politicians, and the beauty in life to Miss USA.