Told you they’d be calling us terrorists.
You’ll have to excuse me if I have a little trouble managing “righteous outrage” this morning. I just turned in my resignation letter, ending my three-year prison term at Crappy Old Job, and I’m so euphoric I could float through the roof. If anything deserves righteous outrage, though, it’s this:
Man, I’m glad I don’t live in Oklahoma.
“The homosexual agenda is destroying this nation, okay? It’s just a fact.”
I would really love to find the laws of reality as written by right-wing nutjobs, because they continuously pull “facts” out of their red-spanked little arses that continuously conflict with reality as we know it. If they keep this up, they’re going to cause the implosion of the universe when their reality collides with standard reality and causes a temporospatial claudication to just swallow the whole shebang.
We are not destroying the nation. Not by a long shot. If there are any financial analysts out there, I’d love it if you could draw up a table of figures showing the increased contributions to the economy made by homosexuals who, even when living together, pay full taxes for two individuals (since we don’t get tax cuts for marriage or children, hm, maybe that’s why they protest so much), contributing larger amounts than your standard White Picket Fence family. Not only that, but because we aren’t spending the leavings from our nonexistent tax cuts on our children, we’re free to engage in more spending to support the economy through purchase of nicer vehicles, nicer homes, and other expenses that directly support market growth. All we ask in exchange is to be treated like equals. That’s not an agenda. That’s the animal need to live within a safe environment.
Do you know why we have more suicides? Because living in society with the kind of fear and prejudice that we deal with is depressing. Some people who live in constant isolation and fear end up with serious complexes that negatively affect their physical, mental, and emotional health. As dramatic as it sounds, we live in a traumatic environment of constant assault and emotional abuse.
The entire thing is absolutely ridiculous. She accuses us of “infiltrating” government and organizations, trying to “indoctrinate” people - how is that any different from the Christian right’s efforts to remove evolution from school curriculae, and take key positions in which they can influence legislature in the direction that they want? It’s only infiltration and indoctrination when it’s coming from people that you don’t like - people that you consider a “cancer”. People that you think are more dangerous than terrorists, more dangerous than Jihadists - who are, by the way, religious fundamentalists. Religious fundamentalists who speak of their god’s desires and their god’s hatreds in a way quite similar to this.
We are not a cancer, and you cannot excise us from the body of the nation, for in the aftermath this nation would bleed to death of its own self-inflicted wounds. We are as much a part of America as anyone else, and we are just as necessary.
We are not a threat.
And we are not the terrorists.
I can’t believe these people get elected.
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March 11th, 2008 at 9:37 am
I honestly have no comment. This woman is utterly insane. I just…can I punch her in the cunt repeatedly until it just falls off?
March 11th, 2008 at 10:04 am
Omg! I can’t belive she said that :O And I’m so sick of the Islam-hate too, It’s a religion that many people have faith in. Why can’t people just respect that?
March 11th, 2008 at 10:48 am
I understand that people feel the need to hate something. That it brings them together in a sense of fear, and they can form a community based on the “us and them” concept. But really, can’t it be on something logically horrifying, like clowns? I blame religion. I believe people have the right to believe in whatever diety they want, but our society condemns views like satanism based on what they think it’s about, when their own floods the world with so much more hate. People suck. In a not fun way.
March 11th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
I posted this on my blog yesterday. I think I live in this happy little gay bubble and I forget that this exists out there until I hear about Lawrence King, or see a video like this. I go about my days, live in a community where I can be myself, be out and openly with a woman and not expect reaction or judgement - and I forget that there is still so much hatred and prejudice and intolerance.
I’m always confused for a moment, because this has not yet been a part of my experience in any real way, but I know that it could be, likely will be on some level…and that is a sobering reality.
j.
March 11th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
And people wonder why I don’t like humanity.
March 11th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
OMG!! My ex lives in OK, I wonder if she knows about this…RAWR! This is just infuriating!! IT’s just….RAWR!!!! XO When i go video-game-shopping I’m gonna imagine the monster-heads looking like her and be like “MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Look who has the shorter life-span now!!”
March 11th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
What did she mean by “no society that has totally embraced homosexuality has lasted more than, you know, a few decades”?
Well, I guess that “totally” is a bit relative. It’s funny how she uses “society” instead of “nation”. o.O
Sometimes I have to agree with people who think idiots shouldn’t have a say on the ways things works simply because they are idiots. Even if it seems arrogant, undemocratic, … whatever…
March 12th, 2008 at 3:22 am
Oh. My. Non-existent Higher Being.
Frankly, seeing or hearing a person like that speak just leaves me baffled. I understand hatred. I understand why one group of people might hate another, and I can honestly say that I’ve felt that hatred in me before, and do still at some level. But I’ve always been ASHAMED of my hatred, because the logical part of me understood that it’s ridiculous to try and hate someone simply because they fit under some fictional umbrella term.
That’s why I sit here wondering, “how can a human being say that about another?” I mean, I hear all those things that she accuses homosexuality of, and my knee-jerk reaction is to think of ways to make this world a better place to live for a demographic that is obviously suffering. While she is trying to drown out that demographic altogether… And anyway, isn’t that where terrorism starts?
March 12th, 2008 at 4:00 am
Oh damn! She’s found out about the secret gay agenda!
The Gay Agenda:
1) Obtain equal rights.
2) Replace all radar with “gay”-dar.
3) TAKE OVER WORLD.
4) Paint all roads rainbow-colored.
March 12th, 2008 at 5:44 am
Ugh. I have no words. I wonder if she actually paid attention to any of her studies, assuming she’s had ANYTHING to do with Greek history and what their religions permitted and sometimes openly encouraged. THAT society lasted for much longer than a few decades, didn’t it? It became an EMPIRE.
There are some people I feel should be forced to live an alternate lifestyle than theirs, and she is desperately in need of the experience.
March 12th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
Sadly, neither the Greeks nor the Roman Empire FULLY accepted homosexuality, though they were perfectly okay with bisexuality… and pedophilia… and adultery… and incest.. And as I understand, homosexual acts between two grown men were looked down upon, while acts with a young boy were perfectly acceptable as young boys are more like females. Or something like that.
March 12th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
So many unsupported statements… so many “facts” pulled out of (thin air/her ass)… can’t process it all.
March 12th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Apparently, she also has a gay son, according to artcle over at Queerty.
http://www.queerty.com/sally-kern-scrubs-gay-son-20080312/
March 12th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Sounds to me like you had no trouble at all managing righteous outrage this morning
March 27th, 2008 at 10:20 am
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