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When I say that these people aren't worthy of the respect of human beings, this is exactly what I'm talking about: holding a vote to take away people's fucking rights. That's not something one human being does to another.
If there were gay people holding Pride rallies in front of churches in speedos and leather every Sunday, saying "we're here until gay marriage is legal," I'll bet you gay marriage would be legal in no fucking time.
What's that CS Lewis quote? Ah, here it is.
Barkley is fucking awesome. Straight athlete who is willing to come out and say he's liberal as fuck in these issues.
He should be totes governor.
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"I don't know about you guys, but I cannot look at his family, I can't look at his picture and say, 'you know what Cpl? You where good enough to fight for your country and give your life, but you where not good enough to marry the person you love.' I can't do that, I cannot do that, and I won't do that."
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Fuck. Fuck.
If you stop businesses from discriminating against transpeople, it opens bathrooms for child molesters.
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I think we've reached a new level of insane when it comes to our bigot propaganda.
"Is a candidate's stance on civil rights, specifically GLBT and abortion rights, the most important qualifier in determining their viability for office?"
Note that I'm not asking whether or not GLBT rights or abortion rights are the most pressing or important issues of the coming election, because I don't really think they are. However, I do feel that a candidate's position on those issues says quite a lot about his or her suitability to lead this nation and direct its national mandate.
I've said this in this thread before, but I think the Right-wing arguments against gay rights and abortion rights skirt very, very closely to being unconstitutional on the grounds that they violate the Jeffersonian interpretations of inherent clauses of the First Amendment's separation of church and state. Meaning, if your primary rhetorical argument is based in appeal to religious moral imperative, that should be considered utterly invalid. I know well that the US hasn't ever been consistent in its application of those provisions and statutes, but citing those inconsistencies to support an argument to persist and expand in that erring tradition is patently and knowingly ignorant, and I wish there was a stronger word to use than that.
To the point specifically, if a candidate for political office has either the inclination to promote populism over constitutional protections and egalitarianism, or worse, honestly feels that sectarian religious positions are a legitimate rhetorical foundation for arguments supporting the appropriation or (more likely) restriction of rights and entitlements to anyone, regardless of any sexual, racial, or philosophical qualifier, then I feel that the only reasonable assumption that can be made is that said candidate is utterly and irrecoverably unfit to serve the public in any capacity.
My mouth is hanging open. I don't know what to say.
You can usually scale how strong the evangelical's rhetoric is by how ridiculous their counterarguments are. Here, we have a politician equating provisions for transgendered people with allowing grown men to prey on small girls in public restrooms.
I suppose that's somewhat better than the "gay marriage will lead to legalizing bestiality" chestnut, but not by much.
That's a wordy way of saying "religious bigots have no place in public service."
I know you have a religion thing going on, but I don't reaaaaly think you want that to be the dividing line. If it's a a toss-up between a libertarian atheist who says "homosexuality is unnatural and biologically dangerous behavior, I have these Powerpoint slides that say so" and a devout liberal Christian who says "God doesn't play pranks on His children, gay or straight, we are all one in Christ Jesus and the state has no business enshrining discrimination," I know which one I'd pick.
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You'd pick the one that specifically suits your interests at that one given time? Or you would pick the official who was open to choosing the best position based on logic and informed rhetoric?
Remove the word 'religious' and I think very few people would have a problem with the sentence. Hell, most people probably wouldn't mind it as is.
Ahaha go younger generation!
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It is something we have talked about before, and I believe our current generation is increasingly willing to criticize religious beliefs when they conflict negatively with society. Previously, when people criticized or discriminated against religion, it was usually based out of baseless religious strife (i.e., people who hated Catholics because they were Protestant) and no valid reason otherwise. So we enacted laws, rightly so, to protect people from being discriminated against based on their religion.
But now we see religion being used as a shield from criticism, because once you apply the adjective "religious" to the word "bigot" suddenly it's okay to be a non-knowing ass because you "believe it to be true." As a result, we are seeing the lines increasingly drawn on the left between those who wish to keep religions free from any criticism, and those who want to say "no, that belief and attitude is fucking stupid, you're a bad person for believing so, and saying it's your religion is no excuse for being a terrible human being."
Is it wrong to hope a LOT?
I want to see their bottom-line suffer, and for them to lose more members like they did after Prop 8.
I don't know much about it, but I'd say it's wrong. Aren't churches usually spending most of their money on charitable stuff? Like food and clothes for the needy and such?
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They essentially utilized the church's organization to funnel both cash and support in the form of bodies to advocate for a particular political outcome. Which is a big, big no no. In a just world in which we followed the law we would have revoked the entire church's tax exempt status in a heartbeat.
Its not just the south. This kind of transphobia and trans discrimination happens EVERYWHERE. Even in places where we have protections in place for gender identity and expression.
I have seen trans people get harassed/kicked out of bathrooms in LGBT centers in California. Its fucking depressing. If an LGBT center isnt even a safe space to pee... I really don't know where is.
This is from the creator of South Park's new musical: The Book of Mormon. Just watch it. Watch it. It's hilarious.
Elder McKinley is one of the other missionaries who is sent to Africa along with Price and Cunningham. He laments his homosexual feelings, but reminds himself to "Turn It Off" like a light switch. The others agree that their feelings must be hidden, at all costs.
Hey, that's the guy who did Princeton orginally in Avenue Q, John Tartaglia. Also, that's not even vaguely amusing. South Park dude hast lost his mojo.
What is? The jokes just don't work; they're barely there. It's lame.
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What? How does that even work?
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ouryour type round here"Actor Bill Hunter dies
You may know him as Bob from Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Which I JUST watched last night.
Sad.
Its kind of mind boggling, but there are plenty instances where LGB folk still think of the T peeps as freaks and infiltrators and impostors and the like. Granted, all in all, larger cities in CA are still some of the better places to be trans, but its not like the problems are JUST located in the south/rural areas. Heck often times the more conservative areas can be easier for trans people in that you can generally blend in with the populace easier. People are not as aware of it or can't imagine a trans person MIGHT be among them. So you can slip on thru easier.
Well that was the Mormon's strategy. Keep bouncing from place to place till you find a state that doesn't chase you out.