Are they trying to make Texas look enlightened? I appreciate the effort y'all, but damn.
I just want to paint you a picture. During the election this fall, proponents of Prop 8 said it was about freedom. They talked about their right to tell their children that gay people were evil (which has nothing to do with Prop 8). They talked about their right to promote their own kind of family values. And these benighted folks would say this with an utterly straight face.
Well, they got what they wanted. Prop 8 passed by a couple of points and then the next shitstorm began. Miss California said something about opposite marriage and all the homophobes embraced her as a hot chick who said something brave. And all the Prop 8 opponents hit replay on their Tivos because she wasn't even speaking english. And when she didn't win, I saw people who were astounded that she got fired for having an opinion... or something.
Well, friends, fear not for your famous homophobes. Yes, they may not get to keep their tiaras, but at least they won't be arrested for giving their honeys a peck on the cheek.
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I guess kissing your opposite sex 10-yr-old first cousin is okay though, as long as you’re married to her first. (just like you'd be to her sister, mother and aunt)
Rated
i mean garment violation.
I was going to give you the benefit of the doubt until I saw this:
"no way, thoth! feel free to theorize. after all, no one is born mormon, though i guess you are born utahn. is it the water? are they drinking that salt lake?"
You are slamming a lot of good people in Utah who do not support the LDS Church's actions. They deserve better than this.
Decidedly NOT rated.
According to The Salt Lake Tribune, “More than 80 percent of legislators are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), and for the past 15 years, legislative leaders have met annually with Mormon church officials to discuss the coming year’s agenda.”
You also need to check you population numbers cuz according to the Salt Lake Tribune (again), “A majority of the state's residents are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly referred to as the Mormons or the LDS Church. As of 2007, the percentage of Utahns that are counted as members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was 68.7 percent of the state's population.”
Lokk, for instance, at what is called, by the victims, "Mormon beer." One of my closest friends went to college at Olympia, Washington. To meet expenses, he had an exhausting, backbreaking, and really foully stinky job, hoicking great bags of oyster shells from shucking mills to new oyster beds in the Sound.
Hour on hour, truckload upon truckload, great stench-laden bags of oyster material were schlepped about. The bags of shells and muck contained larvae of the oyster and could be spread on the shoals to cause the formation of new oyster beds.
But these bags had to be loaded and unloaded, hefted and thrown down, and after a day of this, he went to a tavern for refreshment.
Behold, all they had was three-two beer. Mormon beer. The whole western side of my country has this problem. They aren't just a Utah thing.
what's the matter with kansas".
incidentally, i'm from texas. are you defending the people who arrested men for kissing in public?
but holy shit, they arrested people for kissing. it's so impossibly archaic and ridiculous.
high lonesome, let me state again: i'm not accusing all the people in utah of being bigots. i mean i did post a video that showed the protest after the arrest, and presumably all of those people live in the city and came to speak out against what had happened. they rock. hooray those utahns!!
at no point did i say that every single person in utah was to blame. again, my title is supposed to be a riff on a well known book that came out a few years ago.
My daughter once asked me, Why do you always say you're from Texas, but don't like Dubya Bush?
To distinguish that all Texans are not idiots, duh! And that's why they laugh 'cause even taxi drivers in Japan can understand why I would want to make that distinction.
I don't know what Sundance's record is for queer films, but I'm all for you suggesting to Robert, CaPn, that they offer a documentary scholarship on the theme, Utah Loves Queers! Be An Activist And Settle Here!
My theory is this. Religion is the cause of that. It is very obvious.
I mean just look at a map of the state. All the lines are STRAIGHT! Not only are the lines straight, but they are all at RIGHT angles to each other. No variations, no irregularities. None. Nope, none allowed.
Now look at the neighboring “role model” states around them: Colorado = straight and square; Wyoming = straight and square; Nevada = pretty straight, but them deviate in Las Vegas prolly screwed that up; Arizona = pretty darn straight except where it touches California (only figures!). We won’t discuss Idaho because the top half of that state is a plain embarrassment to Utahians.
So let’s recap: Way straight, Way right (angled). Now if those aren’t grounds for being a bunch of homophobic, right wing, fundy, wack jobs nothing is!
P.S. With the kind exception for the few that aren’t (but I AM keeping my eye on ‘em just in case the lines get to them!)
our wabi!
as they say in crawford, your cat can have kittens in the oven, but that don't make 'em biscuits.
phaedo, tell me more of this place called washington...
safe bet, i believe you have a bona fide scientific theory there!