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Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Jerry Falwell is Still Dead

posted by on May 29 at 14:31 PM

The right has waged a balls-out assault on gay people, gay couples, and gay parents over the last five years. All those anti-gay marriage amendments, George W. Bush’s gay-bashing reelection strategy, conservative Christian bigots pouring all their blood, sweat, and tears into anti-gay campaigns. (Sorry, poor, sick, and imprisoned people—until we stamp out the gays, you’re just going to have to wait!) And what do they have to show for it? Support for gay rights in the US are back at historic highs. The American public is evenly divided over whether homosexuality is morally acceptable—but morally acceptable or not, a large majority of Americans believes that homosexual sex should be legal.

The clearest example of the recent renewal in pro-gay rights attitudes comes from a question asking Americans whether they believe homosexual relations should be legal. Public tolerance for this aspect of gay rights expanded from 43% at the inception of the question in 1977 to 60% in May 2003. Then in July 2003, it fell to 50% and remained at about that level through 2005. Last year, it jumped to 56% and this year it reached 59%, similar to the 2003 high point.

And for the record: homosexual sex is sooooooo much better in Chicago, which is where homosexual sex was invented in 1977—the same year Chicagoans invented the cheddar-char dog, deep-dish pizza, and all-you-can eat deep-fried mozzarella sticks.

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Good to point these things out Dan. When male-to-male kissing on ABC primetime shows is almost passé, things are better!

The religious right's bark is always worse than their bite. And that will pretty much always be the case.

Posted by raindrop | May 29, 2007 3:05 PM
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They also invented the year 1977!

Posted by Mr. Poe | May 29, 2007 3:17 PM
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Since when does the religious right care about poor, sick, or imprisoned people?

Posted by keshmeshi | May 29, 2007 3:51 PM
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Chicago-styled anything (well, food-wise) usually means deep-frying it and piling on twice the weight of the original food with toppings and condiments, until it becomes one giant, sloppy mess.

I don't think I want to know what Chicago-styled gay sex is like.

Posted by JC | May 29, 2007 4:02 PM
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Chicago invented it, but it was perfected by the entire state of california (except for Fresno, that city had nothing to do with it). Sorta like how there were MP3 players but it took a california company to make one into the iPod.

Just imagine the possibility for travel broceurs: Chicago, we invented buttfucking.

I can already imagine all the conservative mid-western husbands pushing their wives to go to chicago for their next vacation.

Posted by brandon h | May 29, 2007 4:13 PM
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Chicago: the anti-seattle

Posted by Bellevue Ave | May 29, 2007 11:15 PM
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~40% of Americans think gay sex should be illegal??!? Completely insane.

Posted by lauren | May 30, 2007 1:04 AM
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I thought that homosexuality was invented in 1973 in Grand Blanc.

Posted by lawrence clark | May 30, 2007 1:36 AM
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That 40% is against man-on-man love, right? We all know the support for hot lesbian action is 100%.

Posted by Gloria | May 30, 2007 4:27 AM
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@ 7 - That number's a bit soft. Keep in mind that you have to take out the 3% of Republican congressmen that are currently engaging in gay sex while chairing various Family Values committees, the 6% of polled Evangelicals (and shouldn't they all be polled, really?) that have accidentally tripped (or were pushed by Satan) and fallen onto an underaged boy's genitals, and the 11% of Assorted Rednecks, Homophobes and Self-Despising Anti-Feminist "Traditional Marriage" Women that would like to see gay sex made illegal but regularly engage in physical acts of love with various farm animals, John Deere machinery, their own brothers and sisters or the husbands/wives of their best friends. Add all of them up and you cut that number in half, huzzah!

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