Sara: English major, writer, clarinetist.
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This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day: Earlier this month, a North Carolina pastor suggested rounding up gays and lesbians and starving them to death.
Just yesterday, an audio file of a Kansas pastor saying the government should kill gays made the rounds.
Now, we are confronted with perhaps the most egregious homophobic offense in recent weeks — a youngster at Apostolic Truth Tabernacle in Greensburg, Indiana,belted out “Ain’t No Homos Gonna Make It To Heaven,” and the congregation rewarded him with a standing ovation.
From a hearing in Lincoln, NE regarding an LGBT anti-discrimination ordinance. Thanks to Towleroad for putting this up.
Do not multitask while watching this or your brain will melt. Focus on the task at hand, which is watching the guy directly behind this clearly insane woman crack up at the bizarre things coming out of her mouth. This woman is the human version of @horse_ebooks — if @horse_ebooks had questionable views about homosexuality.
You guys. WyWatch from Wyoming made it to Nebraska.
Um…
You guys can keep them.
Seriously.
I. Do. Not. Know. Where. To. Start. With. Whatever. This. Is.
(trigger warning for homophobia, i guess, although this is so unbelievably ridiculous that it’s hard to get offended by it)
SHE STARTS HER SPEECH WITH: “Winter Wipeout TV show had broken bones and manslaughter every minute. Winter Wipeout show is produced in Holland by gays, bis and orgiers. Why do gays like to see people perishing? P-E-N-I-S goes into the anus to rupture intestines. The more a man does this, the more likely he will be a fatality or a homicider.”
And that’s only the first 40 seconds. Some greatest hits from the next five minutes:
“Only gays go to Gender Studies”
“Whitney Houston was found without clothes in a bathtub” (…and?)
“Lesbians and gays rarely live past 40 because it is common for them to do away with their partner, or they self-inflict”
“Anus licking causes sepsis. If not given antibiotics within half an hour, they perish.”
“A high percent of gay men who work in schools molest boys, mostly because they don’t have AIDS yet”
“To avoid going gay like Hillary Clinton did, college students need single rooms and single-gender dorms” (yeah, there are no gays at women’s colleges)
“80% of those who did treason by the year 2000 were gays”
“Jesus was celibate, and he was kissed by Judas, a homo”
“Wedding dresses are for women, not for men”
I… I have no response to any of this. Citation needed, lady. Citation very desperately needed.
-Jess
I cannot bring myself to actually watch this, but with regards to her point about Gender Studies…HOW DID SHE KNOW?
This semester, as a minor in Gender and Sexuality Studies, I was in the capstone seminar, which consisted of six women (five students and the professor).
But instead of having serious discussions about our purported topic, affect, IT WAS JUST ONE BIG LESBIAN ORGY FOR THREE HOURS A WEEK.
WOOOOOOO!
I think I make it pretty clear in my video today that I don’t understand why we’re even talking about this. I don’t understand the arguments of people who oppose gay marriage, and I’m usually pretty good at understanding people’s viewpoints.
The arguments are so silly and uninteresting that it’s hard to argue that there isn’t a deeper place where all of this is coming from. I think, in my quest, I’ve found some understanding that allows me a little bit of peace.
The world is complicated, and we like to think that we have tools with which to understand it. But it’s difficult to imagine understanding a world with no foundations. To a lot of people, I think, gender and sexual orientation are a big pillar of support for their understanding of the world.
I have mine, science, belief in the fundamental goodness of people, love of family, etc.
Other people have God and tradition and loyalty.
And so when I say something like “All people who love each other should be allowed to get married.” People who use God and tradition and gender roles as fundamental supports for their understanding of the world feel as if those supports are being attacked.
When people attack my fundamental supports, I also get angry. Like when people stop teaching science in schools because they see it as an attack on Christianity…that pisses me off. A lot.
So I can understand that. But being American isn’t about protecting your pilars of belief, it’s about supporting equality and freedom.
We are not asking straight people to get married to gay people. We’re not even asking them to hang out with gay people, or agree that homosexuality is OK. They’re perfectly welcome to believe whatever they want, as long as it does not infringe upon the rights of other Americans.
Legalizing gay marriage does not infringe upon anyone’s rights, making it illegal does. It’s that simple.
no one ever thinks they’re ‘against homosexuals’, they just ‘don’t want to see this right now’ or ‘want to point out this ship isn’t canon’ or ‘don’t want to look at it in public’ or ‘don’t want to explain it to their kids’ and what it all adds up to is
“please be invisible, you are not quite human and don’t deserve to be seen.”
" — http://jumpingjacktrash.tumblr.com/ (via noneortheother)(via fattiesinlove)
23rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards
I officially… Come here please..
(Source: ohdarefinnick, via fattiesinlove)
At its congregational meeting on March 25, United Church of Chapel Hill, U.C.C., by unanimous vote endorsed the following resolution:
“We believe LGBT people should have the rights of all citizens including the right to marry. Thus by resolution adopted at a congregational meeting on March 25, 2012, the congregation of the United Church of Chapel Hill pledges action to encourage our citizens to vote against Amendment One.”
Consistent with this resolution and as co-pastor of United Church of Chapel Hill, I urge the voters of our state to vote “no” on Amendment One on May 8. Our Christian denomination, The United Church of Christ, has been marrying same-gender couples since the early ’80s. We are pleading with our state and with our country to honor our religious freedom to do so. We believe that no right is more precious than the freedom to enter into marriage, thus in 2005 the General Synod of the United Church of Christ affirmed “marriage equality” for heterosexual and same-gender couples.
We should recognize that marriage controversies are nothing new: Two hundred years ago there was debate about whether slaves should be allowed to marry; 150 years ago it was whether married women should remain their husband’s property or whether women should be regarded as their own persons with full rights and responsibilities; 45 years ago there was controversy concerning the freedom of interracial couples to marry. More recently the freedom to marry has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court as fundamental to our humanity – in the mid 1980s the court ruled on whether incarcerated prisoners on death row retained the right to marry even though their marriages would never be consummated. The court said “yes,” death row inmates should have the freedom to marry because it found this freedom to be a person-defining freedom, essential to human identity and community. Marriage, the justices affirmed, is a fundamental human right.
Christian ethicist Marvin Ellison has written, “To deny any group of our citizens the right to marry is not a minor inconvenience nor merely unpleasant, but rather an exclusion that is dehumanizing, oppressive, unjust, and violates the religious freedom of Christians who recognize these marriages.”
Let’s protect the fundamental freedoms of North Carolina’s citizens: the freedom to practice one’s faith according to the dictates of one’s church and the freedom to marry the person of one’s choosing. Let’s protect all families and children in North Carolina. On May 8, vote “no” on Amendment One.
" — Rev. Dr. Jill R. Edens co-pastor of the United Church of Chapel Hill, U.C.C. (via voteagainstamendmentone)(via stfuconservatives)
This is Richard Hayne, President and CEO of Urban Outfitters. He’s also a supporter of Rick Santorum and donated over $13,000 to him. He’s against gay marriage and abortion.
His company pulled a pro-gay shirt back in 08, they also blatantly ripped off an Etsy designers work, featured a t-shirt for women that said “eat less” and most recently had a card with a “tranny” slur on in.
Why do you shop at this store? I imagine because you weren’t aware of these facts. Now you are, so stop shopping there.He also owns Anthropologie and Free People.
Sometimes, I find it worth it to overlook the fact that a store overprices its items and has an annoying attitude of thinking itself to be so damn cool. In those cases, I might shop its sales.
But Santorum? Various offensive decisions? Rip-offs?
Yeah, no.
No Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, or Free People for me.
*Did I mention RICK FUCKING SANTORUM?
(via stfuconservatives)
President Obama, yelling at Presidential Candidates after they do nothing to stop the booing of gay soldiers.
<3
This. Just fucking this.
HELLZ YES.
(Source: gerardthehomosexual, via motherjones)
(Source: doubleadoublek, via stfuconservatives)
Reasons to say ‘fuck you’ to the Salvation Army.
“The Salvation Army has refused assistance to gay couples unless they break up and “go straight”, Muslim families who refuse to attend “Christian Bible classes”, kids who can’t prove their immigration status, and more.”
Admittedly, i only skimmed the article, but this quote alone should give you a pretty good idea of how awful they are.
EDIT: I also just learned of this:
Of course, the bigotry of the Salvation Army proved to be deadly towards a transgender woman in Austin, Texas just before Christmas in 2008.
Two years ago today trans woman Jennifer Gale was found dead sleeping on an Austin sidewalk outside a homeless shelter run by the Salvation Army.because they refused to take her in.…
Wow.
I want everybody to understand what happened here. They refused to take in a trans woman, and she died as a result. They killed a trans woman. Killed. Because they “disagreed with her lifestyle”.
You wanna know why I can’t just be all “oh well, it’s their opinion, they’re entitled to it” when it comes to bigotry? This. This is fucking why.
Tried to tell a friend about this a couple of years ago and she got genuinely angry with me for “spoiling everything nice”. I haven’t spoiled anything, goddamnit, they’re the ones killing trans women! It would still have happened if you didn’t know about it!
What.
I wish more people knew about this shit.
Holy crap.
What the hell, Salvation Army. What is your PROBLEM?
(via stfuconservatives)
(via haley--james)
Same-Sex Marriage Debate of the Day: During a Q&A session at Penn State, a couple of students who had a bit of a problem with GOP presidential candidate (and Penn State alum) Rick Santorum’s argumentum ad antiquitatem opposition to same-sex marriage challenged him with science.
Santorum’s response? Science doesn’t prove anything.
Aside from his unfounded scare-tactics in the beginning, it’s also ridiculous that he attacks the idea that the APA is proof of something, when in fact, what was actually references was decisions/studies by the APA.
I mean, those aren’t particularly refutable, so I guess it makes sense that he tried to make it seem like his opponents were saying something as stupid as “the existence of an organization itself proves things”.
some of the comments are also appalling. most of them aren’t bad though.
The link is to a Glamour blog post citing studies that (I think, unsurprisingly) find that male bisexuality exists.
And the non-supportive comments say things like: equating bisexuality in men with emasculation, declaring that they should pick a side, a version of the “I’m not ____, but”, and strange fears about sexual practices.
Yeah, I’m with cindysherman on this one: very stupid, and very offensive.
(via cindysherman-deactivated2011102)
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Here Comes The Bigotry of the Day: A Highland Park woman was denied the purchase of her “dream bridal gown” from a New Jersey wedding dress store because she is marrying another woman.
Alix Genter, who is set to marry her longtime partner next July, had her dress all picked out when Here Comes the Bride store manager Donna phoned her up and told her she couldn’t buy it because she was a lesbian.
According to Genter, Donna decried the marriage as “illegal” and said the store “do[es] not participate in any illegal actions.” (Genter and her partner are planning to get married in New York, which legalized same-sex marriages in June.)
“I was devastated,” Genter told Philadelphia Daily News columnist Ronnie Polaneczky. “I was crying. I called her a bigot; I told her, ‘I am a happy person and you are a miserable person.’ Then she hung up on me.”
When Polaneczky followed up with Donna, she was told that Genter’s replacement of the word “groom” with “partner” on the customer-information sheet was a deliberate provocation in an effort “to show that she’s different.” The manager then went on to define lesbians as women who are experimenting with other women because “men can be difficult.”
Apparently Donna has been “persuaded” by a bad Yelp review from Genter to meet with her parents “to try to smooth things over.”
[philly / image: advocate.]
Dude, all bigotry aside (not that we can actually put it aside, since it’s awful, but bear with me a second), I can buy a wedding dress and then immediately put it through a shredder if I want. Why does my plan for the dress have any bearing on whether you’ll sell it to me? I mean, you want my money, right?](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lq59olmEfP1qzpwi0o1_400.jpg)
Here Comes The Bigotry of the Day: A Highland Park woman was denied the purchase of her “dream bridal gown” from a New Jersey wedding dress store because she is marrying another woman.
Alix Genter, who is set to marry her longtime partner next July, had her dress all picked out when Here Comes the Bride store manager Donna phoned her up and told her she couldn’t buy it because she was a lesbian.
According to Genter, Donna decried the marriage as “illegal” and said the store “do[es] not participate in any illegal actions.” (Genter and her partner are planning to get married in New York, which legalized same-sex marriages in June.)
“I was devastated,” Genter told Philadelphia Daily News columnist Ronnie Polaneczky. “I was crying. I called her a bigot; I told her, ‘I am a happy person and you are a miserable person.’ Then she hung up on me.”
When Polaneczky followed up with Donna, she was told that Genter’s replacement of the word “groom” with “partner” on the customer-information sheet was a deliberate provocation in an effort “to show that she’s different.” The manager then went on to define lesbians as women who are experimenting with other women because “men can be difficult.”
Apparently Donna has been “persuaded” by a bad Yelp review from Genter to meet with her parents “to try to smooth things over.”
Dude, all bigotry aside (not that we can actually put it aside, since it’s awful, but bear with me a second), I can buy a wedding dress and then immediately put it through a shredder if I want. Why does my plan for the dress have any bearing on whether you’ll sell it to me? I mean, you want my money, right?
