For the third day in a row the local news channel posted a story on Facebook about Chick-fil-a and for the third day in a row the homophobes come out in droves to comment on it. It is beyond frustrating to read the comments.
http://www.americaforpurchase.com/american-injustice/in-memorium-unsung-gay-americans/
Lol @ the sexy Roman soldiers clearly having more fun than the brainwashed kiddies.
And the usual false comparisons that conservatives make when they make this goddamned silly graphics.
Mainly that there aren’t gay pride parades in the middle of schools. Because I’m guessing that whoever made/posted this graphic are protesting the lack of prayer in school (which is unconstitutional, but these ignoramuses treat the Constitution like the Bible; they only quote the parts of it they like.)
Now the other possibility here is that they are saying that liberals don’t approve of public prayer, but public displays of affection are okay. Obviously that logic is flawed also, because there is no push by liberals, atheists, or any other godless folk to ban public prayer that I’m aware of. But it does not belong in a government-run institution or at a government-run event. If it’s a religious event or a religious school or a religious institution, you can pray all you want and no one is trying to take that away from you. And as far as I know there is no push to encourage opening government-run events with a PDA between two flamboyant gay dudes (though I personally think it would make everything a lot more interesting and fun.)
Conservative Christians, I know you aren’t friends with logic, but you really need to think about utilizing it a little more often so your arguments make sense.
Ridiculousness from conservatives, what makes this even more ridiculous is this is the way these people think.
They are so entitled that they can’t understand the difference between something that happens in public and something that happens in publicly funded institutions.
They look not being able to have publicly “led” prayers as the same thing as not being allowed to pray in public.
Poor oppressed Fundamentalist Christians, and by oppressed I mean “can’t have everything in the whole world be dominated by our religion.”
(Source: communismkills)
until gays can get married, please shut the fuck up. They didn’t even get to fight for their country freely up until last year. Unless you’re in the middle east (which even then it’s considered a local celebration for catching and lynching gays), just shut up. So many chicks on here complain about being verbally sexualized, well I’m pretty sure there are a shit ton of dudes would rather have people cat calling them at school or on the street than being physically threatened. When was the last time gays got to run in any major political race? Meanwhile you have Hillary, Palin, Bachmann, Feinstein, etc etc. Maybe not ALL the best people but they’re women, they’re running and they’re considered. So the next time you wanna bitch about how much America sucks because you have a vagina think twice, you sound like a spoiled brat.
You’re a misogynistic asshole.
You can care about multiple things.
Please delete this post if you want to be taken seriously.
What the fuck did I just read.
Everyone knows that people can only care about one thing at a time. ONE.
What’s sad but not surprising to me is that there are parents who support her. ~ Kim
Tennessee high school principal: Gay students are ‘going to hell’
BROWNSVILLE, Tenn. — A high school principal in Tennessee school reportedly told students during an assembly that gay students were going to hell.
Dorothy Bond
Dorothy Bond, principal at Haywood High School in Brownsville, Tenn., allegedly singled out LGBT and pregnant students during a meeting with students,reported WPTY-TV in Memphis.
“At first she was talking about PDA and she turned around and she directly pointed to the gay people and said: if you’re gay you’re going to hell and if you’re pregnant, your life is over,” according to student Amber Whittiemore.
This is not the first time Bond has made inflammatory remarks about gays and lesbians.
According to Tony Snipes, one parent in the district, at another assembly several years ago, Bond “told the young men if they’re sitting between the legs of a girl getting their hair braided for a few hours, that they must be gay.”
Snipes said that Bond’s controversial statements boil down to, “If you’re pregnant or homosexual, you’re not welcome to Haywood County High School.”
No one from the Haywood County School District would talk to WPTY-TV on camera, and insisted the principal was simply informing students about the school’s policy on public displays of affection.
A school district spokesman said allegations of Bond’s comments are unfounded.
We need to find a way to get this person fired. She has absolutely no business in any position of power.
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There needs to be a tumblr for visual representations of politicians slimy contradictions. Especially in an election year. (Contradictions are not bad in and of themselves, however when you are denying seeing folks as human beings, I am calling spades).
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Oh, that’s nothing: check out this gem from when he was running against Sen. Ted Kennedy:
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You don’t get to make up random shit and just declare it a fact! You … just … don’t!
We have more unicorns than wild horses, and that is a fact!
See! I can make up random shit too!
We have more repressed gays because of our dogmatic bullshit, and that’s a fact.
(Source: skepticalavenger, via brashblacknonbeliever)
1. There is no empirical evidence that supports the denial of marriage rights to people in same-sex relationships.
2. There is empirical evidence that denial of marriage rights to people in same-sex relationships is damaging to their psychological health.
3. There is empirical evidence that opposing denial of marriage rights initiatives has beneficial psychological effects.
4. Psychologists have colleagues and we have clients for whom this issue is relevant and important, and who appreciate representation. From a social justice perspective, significant benefits accrue to all of us when diverse families are legally and socially sanctioned.
Thus, it is resolved that, based on the available empirical evidence, the North Carolina Psychological Association is opposed to the May ballot initiative that would alter the North Carolina Constitution to make marriage between a man and a woman the only legal domestic union recognized in the state. This position will be communicated to NCPA members, and NCPA may be listed with other organizations opposing the amendment, such as Equality NC. NCPA may also seek to make coalitions with other mental health associations and agencies for the purpose of opposing the amendment.
The Star-Tribune reports:
In an effort to promote the passage of the marriage amendment to the state’s Constitution, Twin Cities Archbishop John Nienstedt wants Catholics to recite a special prayer during mass. He’s also urging area Catholics “to embrace Fridays as a particular day of prayer and sacrifice for the success of this most current struggle to defend marriage with our civil constitution. Without such deliberate prayers and sacrifices, our efforts will be in vain. But with God, all things are possible.”
“Much rides on the success of our struggle to defend marriage,” according to Nienstedt, who made the comments in a letter posted on the archdiocese’s website. It’s the latest effort by Minnesota church leaders urging Catholics to support passage of the proposed amendment, which calls for a ban on gay marriage. This fall, the state’s Catholic bishops took the unusual step of directing parish priests across the state to form committees to help get the marriage amendment passed by voters in November 2012.Dear Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis,
I would like to direct you to Matthew 7:3-5 as you seem to be forgetting that this exists in your Bible:
3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
So there’s nothing in your house that needs to be cleaned up? Good; then lets focus on all the other shit that’s going on in your religion firsts. Then and only then might I take your letter seriously.
That is all.
~ Kim
(Source: joemygod.blogspot.com, via nonplussedbyreligion-deactivate)
AFA’s Buster Wilson on how marriage equality for gays and lesbians leads to polygamy, along with marriages to buildings, cars and dogs.
I can’t wait for marriage equality so I can marry my laptop. It brings me hours of pleasure. No matter what I want, it can find it for me. If I’m feeling down, it can cheer me up. If I’m feeling amorous, it can find me…um…stuff ;) Yup and the best thing is, when we marry I won’t even have to pay for his ticket for our honeymoon. He gets to travel for free! So now you know. I’m not really for marriage equality so that my lgbtqa friends can marry. I only want to have hot monkey sex with my laptop, in the sacred confines of our marriage bed. Is that so wrong?~ Kim
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This argument is so ridiculous. So, I’m guessing that these people don’t understand the difference between a sentient being capable of making decisions and an inanimate object or animal that doesn’t have the mental capacity to consent to marriage.
December 2, 2011 at 12:03 pm
Ed Brayton
It never ceases to astonish me how much power bigots think The Gay has. In their minds, it’s so incredibly and alluring that we must make the lives of gay people miserable lest their children be tempted to give it a try and risk their mortal souls. Bryan Fischer thinks that men became gay just by seeing that Barney Frank was in Congress:
Fischer: Barney Frank served seventeen terms in Congress and this is some of the stuff in his background: he was the first openly gay member of Congress – I just saw deal, according to the Centers for Disease Control, sixty-one percent of all of the new HIV/AIDS cases are among men who have sex with men. This is a dangerous, risky, immoral, unhealthy lifestyle, and Barney Frank has been an open practitioner of a lifestyle that is condemning one young man after another to an early grave. This is not somebody to admire, this is not somebody to honor – you’ve got all these left-wing media outlets out there talking about what a colorful figure he was and how important a legislator he was and how he’s going to be missed on the American political scene. And yet he modeled a lifestyle which is really a deathstyle. People imitate that. You have got to know that people are influenced toward that behavior, if they have any kind of inclination in that direction, if there are very prominent people that are engaging in it, they’re doing it openly, they are praised by the press rather than criticized for flaunting this kind of behavior, you’ve got to know that has got an impact. So who knows how many people were sort of drawn or encouraged in some way by Barney Frank’s example to dabble in a lifestyle that eventually cost them their health and maybe even cost them their lives.
Man, Planet Wingnuttia is one weird place. On planet earth, where the rest of us live, this is an absurd idea. I know lots and lots of gay men, many of whom I admire very much, yet it has never occurred to me that I should give being gay a try. There’s a simple reason for that — I’m not gay. And there’s another reason for it — them being gay has nothing to do with my admiration for them. Thinking one should be gay because someone you like or admire is gay is the equivalent of thinking that you should like broccoli if they also like broccoli. But one simply has nothing to do with the other and no rational person would think it does.
But since it’s all about risk of disease, Fischer is in favor of lots and lots of prominent gay women because lesbians have the lowest incidence of AIDS and other STDs, right? Right? Nope, he thinks they’re evil too. Gee, it’s almost as if that was a red herring rather than a serious argument.
This is hilarious, and sad, and disgusting.
Just a little anecdote, when I was growing up I had a gay uncle that was around quite a bit, he was very “out” in his homosexuality, he even lived with us for a while.
I knew he was gay when I was a child, this was never hidden from me, I even heard him talk about his boyfriend to my mother. It was just understood that that’s who he was, and I accepted it, he just like men instead of women.
Sure I asked him questions, I was curious, and he explained to me that about the time his male friends and classmates started noticing girls, he started noticing boys, he didn’t know why, he just knew that he was attracted to men.
Thing is, here I am as an adult, and I grew up to be heterosexual, having a gay family member around, and being in an environment where it was accepted had no bearing on my sexual orientation what so ever.
I never understood this argument, but then again, I don’t understand a lot of arguments people make to justify hate.
(Source: freethoughtblogs.com, via nonplussedbyreligion-deactivate)
Michael Brown: Gays Are Hypersensitive Because They Are Not Affirmed By God (by RWWBlog)
No you asshat the LGBTQA community is not hypersensitive because they are not affirmed by God. They are pissed off because they are treated like second class citizens in a country where they pay the same taxes as every one else. They deserve the right to love, live, and marry wherever and whenever they choose. I’m sick and tired of the Christians sitting on their hypocritical high horses passing judgement on people for wanting to simply live their life. How about we take a look at ourselves first before we go trying to clean up other peoples lives. Lets work on the divorce rate amongst Christians. Lets go a month without some fundamentalist Christian being involved in some kind of sexual, financial, or criminal scandal. How about a few of your pastors GIVE more to the poor and needy, instead of building themselves mega-mansions to go along with their mega-churches.
Or have you forgotten that the bible says:
Matthew 7:3-5
New King James Version (NKJV)
3 And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye’; and look, a plank is in your own eye? 5 Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
In the words of one of my favorite bloggers, STFU your hypocrisy is showing! ~ Kim
And people wonder why so many of us have a problem with religion, LOOK AT THE BULLSHIT THEY SPEW!!!
This is pure 100% dehumanizing hate leveled at people who are doing nothing that affects any one else’s life.
THIS is one of the biggest problems I have with religion, thinking their set of morals is somehow superior and should be pushed on the rest of society.
Fuck that guy.
by Staks Rosch - Philadelphia Atheism Examiner October 22, 2010
NOTE: This article is almost exactly a year old, but very pertinent considering the rhetoric from GOP candidates and their supporters right now.
According to a new poll from the Public Religion Research Institute, two thirds of Americans believe that religion is in part to blame for the rise in gay suicide. Younger people in particular disapprove of church attitudes toward homosexuality.
The Public Religion Research Institute asked over a thousand Americans a series of questions about their church’s attitude about homosexuality, the attitude of other churches in relation to homosexuality, and the impact of those messages on the gay community as well as other related questions.
One third of those surveyed stated that the messages coming from churches in relation to homosexuality contribute a lot to the high rates of suicide among gay and lesbian youth. Almost another third stated that it contributes a little and only 17% stated that it doesn’t contribute at all.
Interestingly enough, most of the people surveyed believe that their own house of worship presents a positive view of homosexuality (45% grading their churches an A or a B). Although young adults (ages 18 to 34) believe that the messages from their churches are very negative toward the gay community.
You can read the full results of the survey HERE and you can see the exact questions HERE (pdf).
If you’re anti-choice, if you’re anti gay marriage, if you have a problem with gays or transgendered people, fine, go about your merry little way being a fucking asshat.
But the moment you try to say something that is NONE of your fucking business should be illegal, fuck you. The moment you physically assault someone because they offend you. Fuck you. The moment you try to tell someone what they can do with their own fucking body fuck you.
The fact of the matter is, it’s none of your fucking business. Stop trying to tell other people how to live their fucking lives and get over yourself.
And oh yeah… fuck you.
The slaying of Lawrence King has alarmed gay rights activists and led to demands that middle schools do more to educate youngsters about discrimination.
Prosecutors are scrambling to arrange another trial for a teenager who shot and killed a gay classmate after the first ended in a mistrial.
Seventeen-year-old Brandon McInerney, then 14, shot 15-year-old Larry King twice in the head in the middle of class. According to a friend’s testimony, McInerney decided to bring a gun to school after King regaled in him the hallway with, “What’s up, baby?” He pulled the trigger shortly after hearing that King was considering changing his name to Latisha.
Jurors had no doubt that McInerney killed King.
What they could not determine was the degree of the offense — was it manslaughter or homicide? The disagreement stems from the defense’s argument that McInerney was responding to persistent advances from King.
First, I want it to be known that the reason I’m writing this is because of an ask I saw received by Aaron (abaldwin360 ), from a gay man regarding his and his partner’s struggle on whether or not to have a child.
So, starting the letter now.
My name is Carolyn, and I’m 19 years old. My mom is a lesbian. All my life, she’s had a girlfriend- except for when I was little, and I barely remember that at all.
I like reading and swimming and I have plenty of friends. I go to college, I recently got a minimum wage job, I like cats and video games, and am generally a nice person. I’m what a lot of people would consider to be a normal 19 year old girl.
There’s nothing wrong with me, or with my family. We’re a loving, functional family and my mom raised me to be an accepting, kind person. She taught me to see the good in people, to not judge people based on their background, race, intelligence, religion- or sexual orientation.
Yes, in middle school there was some teasing. Horrible teasing. People called me a dyke, they wouldn’t sit with me at lunch and harassed me relentlessly. Every day was a struggle to get up in the morning, to just pull myself through the day, and everyday I came home not wanting to go back. I didn’t understand why they didn’t like me. And honestly, it used to affect my everyday life on a large scale.
Then high school came around. And everything was different. It didn’t matter to me anymore that she was a lesbian, I just didn’t care and I most certainly was no longer ashamed. It didn’t matter to me if someone didn’t accept me for that, or her for that. I loved her. She was, and is, my mother. I began to stand up for myself- for her. I joined the GSA at my high school, I spread awareness and my ultimate goal? To ensure that any other kid going through the same thing I did when I was younger knew that they weren’t alone, because I knew that feeling alone was the worst thing that could happen in that situation.
It’s scary to know that your child could be chastised for having two same sex parents. It’s scary to bring them into a world, knowing that the world may or may not accept them.
My point is, yes it can be hard for kids with gay parents to get through school. But it is possible. If you’re strong, and loving and show them the right way to treat people, then eventually they’ll have a child, and teach them those same lessons- and someday, the world will be full of people like that.
I guess that’s all I wanted to say. I just wanted you to see the product of a child that has gone through that, a child that has survived it and has come out for the better, learning valuable life lessons that otherwise never would have been taught. And despite what people believe, a normal, healthy and generally happy person.
Thank you so much for sharing that!
I can kind of identify, though not to the extent you described, but I got some a good deal of crap in elementary school because my gay uncle that lived with us.
I especially hated that some kids would make remarks like, “Did he ever touch you.” and it would piss me off so fucking bad, he was gay not a pedophile.
(Source: daughter-of-din)
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