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...theaters, and the figurehead of this movement is the controversial and enigmatic Lars von Trier. With the release of Dancer in the Dark, von Trier has taken center stage as cinema's most hated yet challenging directors of the new millennium. As founder of Dogma 95, the filmic manifesto equal parts mocking and serious, he created a mission statement to scale down cinema and bring an honesty, directness,and more personal style that was previously found in filmmaking giants such as Bresson, Dreyer and Ozu. This decree has spawned the use of handheld video over 35mm film, as well...
...Lieberman, who has failed to speak publicly since his nomination without praising America's willingness to embrace diversity and safeguard minority rights, the position is particularly disturbing. Openly indebted to a country whose acceptance of principles of legal equality engendered his success, Lieberman comes across as nothing short of hypocritical when he questions whether homosexuals should be extended the same rights which were, despite the prevalence of anti-Semitism in much of the 20th century, unquestionably extended to him. Tainted by his need to qualify the issue of equal rights, his frequent approbation of the American "promise…that...
...best Lieberman could muster was an "I'm thinking about it." For Cheney, more bluntly, the issue was "no slam dunk." Padding their responses with empty rhetoric, both candidates did a poor job of concealing the message their answers conveyed: Implied in the constitutional promise of equal rights for all citizens is an exception clause with respect to gays...
...some pundits the moral reprehensibility of Lieberman's and Cheney's positions is excused by the fact that both candidates' reservations about equal rights are premised primarily on their hesitancy to officially sanction committed, monogamous homosexual relationships as marriages. Noting that Lieberman is "open to taking some action that will address… unfairness" towards homosexuals and that Cheney "[tries] to be…tolerant of homosexual relationships," such commentators claim that the only thing preventing the candidates from unequivocally supporting equal rights was an inconsequential semantic reluctance to call homosexual unions "marriages...
...must demand that our next leaders do more than "think about" and "wrestle with" the idea of equal rights, as Lieberman and Cheney, respectively, say that they will. We must hold them accountable for action, legislative reform and genuine respect for the dignity of all individuals. The next leaders of our country must be willing to bridge the gap between tolerance and acceptance--between the attitude that homosexuals are an unavoidable aberration that, for political purposes, must be granted legal concessions and the attitude that homosexuals are equals, deserving of the same fundamental rights as all citizens...