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Posted By david_nwpa 8 months ago in StyleWHAT would happen if you crossed that creepy 1960s horror classic "The Village of the Damned" with the Broadway staple "A Chorus Line"? You don't need to use your imagination. It's there waiting for you on YouTube under the title "Gathering Storm": a 60-second ad presenting homosexuality as a national threat second only to terrorism.
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david_nwpa8 months ago
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The last nattering nabobs against civil rights for gays and lesbians will continue to lose in court and in the legislatures. We cannot allow ourselves to become complacent. Although the author of this article dismisses the advertisement, it is precisely this kind of ad that panders to right-wing social conservatives. Enough of them will buy into the ad and accept that gays and lesbians are not worthy of equal marriage or civil rights. Until we come out to our friends and neighbors, we cannot effectively fight the scourge of homophobia.
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Endoscopy8 months ago
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This story is very biased. The legislature and Courts created the rules in Iowa and Vermont. What will happen there if there is a referendum policy like a lot of states have. Proposition 8 passed in a very liberal state. Why do the judges and legislatures go against the thoughts of the electorate. I personally believe that when the people in those states are heard these laws will be gone.
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The bias of this story stick out all over with the following quote.
"homophobic activism is ever more depopulated and isolated as well as brain-dead"
Why do these people place the label of homophobic on people who object to the mainstreaming of homosexual preferences. It is not fear but the beliefs that a splinter of the country should not prevail over the concepts of marriage etc. But that community has to play the phobic card to try and make the mainstream beliefs seem foolish. The only thing they know how to do is attack, attack, attack. Very sad.-
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chuck-the-canuck8 months ago
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When are you right wing morons going to get it through your pointy little heads that homosexuality is not a choice. It is something that you are born with, like the colour of your eyes.
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Gay men didn’t just wake up one morning and decide “gee I think I’ll go out and suck a ****”, just as gay women didn’t just decide out of the blue that what they really needed in their diet was some tasty vagina.-
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scott42618 months ago
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In another thread a few days ago I asked, "You don't know any gay people, do you?"
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And you said, "Neighbors across the street and I get along well with them. Why are you so ignorant to think that."
You "get along well with them," but you don't want them to have equal rights? OK, I see. So either you are lying about actually knowing your neighbors as real people or you are really just a heartless bastard.....or BOTH!
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scott42618 months ago
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I fail to see how a marriage between me and my partner would infringe on anyone else's rights! This ad is merely a composite of of the irrational lies and fears spread by homophobes over the years.
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Frank Rich's last two sentences captures my sentiments: "It is justice, not a storm, that is gathering. Only those who have spread the poisons of bigotry and fear have any reason to be afraid."
I wholeheartedly agree!-
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lvrofwolves8 months ago
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scott4261,Even if it did somehow infringe, so what?!?! in the name of equality for all, that's just something we will have to live with. IF that was even the case.
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The homophobic fear that it will somehow change their marriage or any other aspect of their life is a completely irrational fear. If they get over it, great, if not..well that's just too damn bad.
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bubba28 months ago
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The divorce rate among heterosexuals in this country is over 50%.
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Seems to me the "Christians" in this country need to be more concerned about THAT.
When over 50% of marriages "between a man and a woman" fail, THAT is a moral crisis!-
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cheif8 months ago
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Why do you 'people' always slander Christians when you want to beat on someone who don't believe the way you do?
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Why don't you move to an Islamic country? I'm sure you and your 'partner' won't be jumping all over Christians when your head is beside your rear or in a bucket somewhere...
Christianity is some of the reason you can actually be so blatant in your show of affection for the same sex...it simply wouldn't be tolerated at all in lots of areas of the world - so if you're going to jump all over somebody who is intolerant, try the muslims...see where it goes...and get off our backs.-
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lvrofwolves8 months ago
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cheif,why don't people like you move to an Islamic country? where you'd be more comfortable, just think...no more being called a bigot, no more caring if everyone has equal rights, no more having the gay agenda forced down your throats, no more having to practice tolerance...yeah, that should sound GREAT for your kind.YOU leave!
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hamy8 months ago
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This is not a "christian" nation. America is a Democratic Republic.
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That is why I don't live under any theistic regime. Well, now that Bush is gone.
And I didn't throw the first stone. People use christianity as a way to hide their own bigotry. People will say "it's in the bible that Jesus said homosexuality is wrong" when in fact, it isn't. Jesus never said anything about it. See why we would fight back against that?
And being in America has everything to do with ANYONE being able to express affection. Why is it only the same sex ones that seem to bother you?
And I didn't jump on your back. Marriage equality would have quietly come to be if the religious right wing hadn't taken it up as one of their "culture war" talking points. So don't blame me. I didn't make it an issue, Rove, O'Reilly, Savage, Coulter and Rush did. They made it a fight.
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