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posted by [personal profile] orichalcum at 03:21pm on 09/04/2008 under
One of U.S. Representative Sally Kern's arguments against gay rights laws is that "the Gays "have more suicides and they're more discouraged."

Did it ever, maybe, occur to her that the reason gay youth have a higher suicide rate and rate of depression is because they face massive discrimination and harassment???

What's really scary is how much the rhetoric mirrors traditional anti-Semitism:

"Have you heard that the city council of Eureka Springs is now controlled by gays? There are some others, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, Tacoma, Maryland, Kinsington, Maryland, in Vermont, Oregon, West Palm Beach, Florida and a lot of other places in Florida. "

"And one of my colleagues said, ‘well you know we don’t have a gay problem in my community and that’s why I voted against that bill.” Well, you know what? To me that is so dumb. If you got cancer or something in your little toe, do you say, well you know, I’m just going to forget about it because the rest of me is just fine. It spreads, and this stuff is deadly and it’s spreading and will destroy our young people and it will destroy this nation. "

"In the same vein, Matt, we've got, toddlers being taught to equate homosexuality with, love. All these children's books, that, teach, very very very young children, that homosexuality is about love. This is an aggressive threat that most Americans are not aware of how great it is."

I think I'm going to go read _And Tango Makes Three_ to my son tonight.
Mood:: outraged
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There are 5 comments on this entry. (Reply.)
 
posted by [identity profile] ladybird97.livejournal.com at 08:25pm on 09/04/2008
Wow. That is so heinously offensive that I just don't have the words for it.

I'll just think about the penguins. happy penguins. Happy daddy penguins.
 
posted by [identity profile] meepodeekin.livejournal.com at 08:45pm on 09/04/2008
Aarrrggggh. I can console myself only by thinking that this too shall pass, or at least fade, as the worst of the prejudice becomes the preserve of the elderly.
 
posted by [identity profile] digitalemur.livejournal.com at 09:04pm on 09/04/2008
Hell, the entire county that I work in is controlled by the gays! Why aren't we on that list?!?

This is one of the reasons I want to live closer to Springfield; to be an outpost of big gay liberalism in more conservative Hampden county.
 
posted by [identity profile] marginaleye.livejournal.com at 09:12pm on 09/04/2008
Suppose, hypothetically, the world really was run by gay people.

Why would this be such a bad thing?

<insert stereotypes about witty, perceptive, aesthetically-gifted gay people here>

 
posted by [identity profile] meepodeekin.livejournal.com at 10:44pm on 09/04/2008
Sadly those stereotypes are just as wrong as the others. My best friend and I were talking last night about how we always automatically assume, if we find out a new acquaintance is gay, that they are going to be cool, liberal, etc. people. Both of us had recently had our noses rubbed in our pro-gay prejudices.

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