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I expect more and more of this as true LGBT equality comes closer to reality.
But so help me god, no damned left-handed person will lay a backwards hand on my child!
(However, if a black doctor sets your daughter's broken leg and she grows up to have a thing for black men... well, you have only yourself to blame.)
Seriously, her obsessive fetish about denying productive members of society the respect to which they are entitled is disgusting. But I guess it's what she's reduced to spouting, if THEY can't be fired due to orientation.
God, Froot Loops makes more sense than she does!
yeah.
we thought about that too.
Cause the two cases are EXACTLY the same.
yeah.
Danny you have stumbled onto something there.
This woman saddens me, but I thank her for the work she does for equality and justice. Her attitude just fuels the change. They have lost. When your religious polls show that 67% of religious Millennials support equality then the tide has turned. Heck, the president of Focus on the Family even
admits this. But, yay, she found a way to milk fifteen more minutes of "fame".
Was Ms. Harvey home skoold?
Last I checked, nurses were only allowed to wear name tags.
I am sure these requests will be taken about as seriously as a guy requesting "no fat chicks."
That's when I became a lesbian. At least, until 11 years later, when I fell off my bike and went to the hospital again. My nurse then was straight, so I became straight again.
It really is that simple, people!
And there are black-and-white versions of the american flag, too.
The sad message of these seems to be "I see the world in black and white only, my world has no shades of grey."
Oh, and any jacked-up truck with one of these bigot stickers also always has a cross decal, a jesus-fish, and a 'heretic' decal.
And @5, I used to work in a nursing home, and it was very common for the residents to have "No Ethnic" written into their care plan. But then, these were 90 year olds with severe dementia who would flip out if a black/asian/excessively tan white person tried to wipe their ass. Just a fun fact.
Yes, unfortunately The Savage does.
And I agree, he should stop the hate.
During the first year of my son's life, I'd often talk to a nurse friend of mine about questions and concerns I had about my son. This nurse has spent most of his career working in an NICU. He's a caring, compassionate, and knowledgable nurse who gave me excellent, helpful advice. He's also gay. My husband/son's dad is bi. I'm straight. We have other gay, lesbian, and bi friends. My son's sexual orientation is based on who he is, not who any of us are. The Linda Harveys of the world are so irritating, bigoted, and wrong!
Good Christians: it really is time to start disowning bigots.
This woman is so stupid I am surprised she manages to feed herself. She clearly has no idea how a hospital or other medical facility operates. They can't accommodate crap like this. They have no time and not enough personnel to deal with the bullshit. If a gay nurse is covering the floor your kid is on, what are they going to do, have a nurse from another floor abandon his/her floor to run to your kid when she needs attention? Is there supposed to be a chinese fire drill every time something needs to be done to your kid to accommodate your paranoid bigotry? Get a grip and STFU. Where I live this request legally could not be honored, but I can't imagine any hospital (except one which already discriminates in hiring LGBT personnel) agreeing to honor such a directive.
Bingo. These folks will only get more and more and more shrill and extreme. I anticipate an uptick in hate crimes too.
@27 - I believe you mean yarmulke? Sorry to be a spelling nazi...nice substitution. Sadly, these types pine for the days of exactly that kind of discrimination.
Let's not kid ourselves: there was a point in country's history when it was "normal" for whites to refuse to be seen by black nurses or doctors (those who could afford to go to school for it, that is). That was the segregated South. Whites and blacks couldn't use the same toilets, drinking fountains, schools...
Yes, that time passed (no pun intended) with a fight, so will this.
Last week, a major hospital in my city started an official rainbow sticker / ID badge program to make sure GLBT patients and families were feeling respected and validated. Even the straight allies wear them. I would *love* to have this wingnut have to get admitted to this hospital - her head would implode from all the gay.
Fucking bigots. Why can't they all drink the kool-aid and kill themselves already!
Where she's looney-tunes is in thinking that is a bad thing.
Which means that a good reason to keep this woman's letter on file is historical documentation. When the first scholarly account of homophobia in the late 20th / early 21st century is written, this is the kind of materials the author(s) will need.
My suggestion is that you worry more about keeping your children away from clergy.
He doesn't have reading comprehension problems, he has a reality comprehension problem.
Come to that, I can't see how hating someone based on their poor personal sexual choices is Christian as I understand the term. Nor can I understand how those choices are my business from that same perspective.
Picking the internet apart each and every day to see a) how bad those evil Christians are and b) how horribly MEAN people are for your lifestyle choice of homosexuality is just as tricky as trying to defend people like this woman though. It's silly, childish, petty. It's the behavior of a perpetual adolescent. In others words, Ladies and Gentlemen, meet Dan Savage.
I could care less if Savage, my neighbor, my attorney or my health care provider are gay. Just isn't on my radar of things that merit my time and attention. However, I feel a deep repugnance for those that having chosen a lifestyle dislike the social consequences of that choice and whine about those consequences incessantly.
For people like Savage the gay anthem would run to words to the effect if 'It isn't FAAAIIIRRR!!!!!!' From my 5 year old this is irritating but understandable. From a nearly 50 year old man it's simply contemptible.
Maybe you should go back and read what exactly it is that Linda Harvey is saying, and see what Dan is criticizing. Or are you actually defending what she's saying? It sounds like you're not, but you're also trying to distract people from the issue by making completely nonsensical claims. From a 5 year old this would be understandable. I don't know how old you are, but presumably you're old enough to know better. So grow up.
Do you know why it is silly? Because many here have met him. Some of us have chatted on the phone even. Others have been introduced to his family members. Some have sat down and ate a meal or chatted over a beer. You see, your attempting to introduce us to someone we know.
I think you are right, society is frowning. A good number of us are frowning at you. We frown at you because you insist that we should have second class citizens. We frown at you because you are talking about and pretending to know someone that many of
us socialize with.
I'll tell you what is exceedingly frustrating, in my opinion, an about 40 year old man who makes up falsehoods and uses coy nicknames like "The Savage" or "Bwarney Fwank". Nigh, it isn't exceedingly frustrating it is distressingly sad. But, hey, it's my $0.02 and I'm aware that it is an opinion that can be dismissed.
Enjoy your day.
My phone. Being legally blind, I can bring it up to my face and see okay, eventhough I have to wear two sets of corrective lenses. Why are my typos hurting your eyes?
I work from home.
Keeping your strange little fantasies to yourselves would be more seemly...
"Because many here have met him. Some of us have chatted on the phone even. Others have been introduced to his family members. Some have sat down and ate a meal or chatted over a beer. You see, your attempting to introduce us to someone we know."
My deepest sympathies. Being in the presence of that level of moral decreptitude, active malice and even evil is truly a horrible way to spend anyones time.
I don't know the fortuitously named Savage. I never will, if my inclinations are consulted.
I don't know one tree from another either, in a general way. But I know the apple tree in my backyard by it's yearly output. And I know Savage by the damaging effect he and those like him have on society.
I have never advocated for second class citizen status for any person. As things stand the laws apply equally to Savage and myself. I can marry a woman, and so can he. He can't marry a man, and neither can I. He and I must equally accept the social consequences of our romantic choices. Perfect equality under the law.
People like Savage do however in insisting that gays have the right to set the social and legal terms for the vast majority of their fellow citizens based solely on their lifestyle choices.
You can't convince me that you are not morally decrepit, and not active in your malice. I am glad that you finally admit to not knowing Dan Savage. So in the interest of integrity you'll stop with the falsehoods. Yes?
I do not need nor want your sympathy. But I shall give you this, though, spending time with someone blind to his moral failings and full of perceived moral superiority is a "horrible waste of time." I have tasted the "fruits" of your writings here and fine them unhealthy, even if they are amusing.
Take care.
The SPLC is a bit more questionable than the Anti Defamation League in their ideologically blinded choices, but both are at least attempting good work. And neither are in any way comparable to the execrable Savage.
Dan Savage and the other writers here lie consistently. When they don't lie openly, they misrepresent what others write or say. They read only far left echo chamber sources and skew even those farther left in misleading headlines to postings. The SPLC should be eyeballing Savage and the Stranger if they're after hate groups as much as some of the admittedly bigoted groups they do list.
For reference, see the ongoing jihad Savage is waging against Rick Santorum. Mr. Santorum isn't a public official, nor likely to become one. He has no effect on the life of Savage or anyone else who simply ignores him. But since Savage tasted the bullies' power of a vicious and vulgar personal campaign against the man he simply can't do without that addiction. This is of a pattern with pretty much any political stance taken by the Stranger. Personal attack stands in for reasoned analysis, and unsupported assertions for supporting cites.
Comparing this cesspool to the occasional good work of the SPLC and Anti Defamation League is itself defamatory.
Well, let’s just make a slight change to this statement and see if we can’t make it a little clearer, hmm?
“I can marry a woman AS LONG AS THEY ARE OF THE SAME RACE.”
Wasn’t that long ago the rule of the law said the above was true. Of course, things have changed since then, but some people refuse to evolve. Fine by me. It never ceases to amaze me how some people can be so obtuse about certain things, and refuse to examine their point of view. Of course, the easy answer is because they are an idiot.
"Mr. Santorum isn't a public official, nor likely to become one."
Really? Man, you must have blown a lobe or something. Not a big history fan, I take it. Or up on current events. Or, as I posted previously, maybe you're just an idiot. Should we have a Slog Poll for that? I mean, that was just a FAIL of epic magnitude...
Sounds like privileged dominant culture baby needs his bottle so hims less cwanky.
And he is short a deck.
You do realize that Rick Santorum isn't a public or elected official at present, right?
And you do realize his poll numbers and campaign status strongly suggest that he has the proverbial snowballs chance in hell of becoming president, right?
And you realize that there is a huge difference between being born a woman or black or asian and being born with a predilection to homosexuality? No? Who's the idiot again?
And there is a huge difference between being born a woman or black or asian and being born with a predilection to homosexuality? What ever could it be? Since you are the self-proclaimed genius who spewed this pile of crap, how about you 'edjumucate' the rest of us heathens?
Seattleblues, this has been said before, and it so rightly applies to you: "It is better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
You have just spewed stupid all over Slog. do you know how hard it is to clean that up? Man, what a tool.