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News & ArtsFriday, June 18, 2010
Homo The Texan Taliban
Posted by Dan Savage on Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 1:29 PM
The Texas GOP's party platform is almost indistinguishable from Uganda's proposed anti-gay laws. Republicans in Texas want sodomy laws enforced (because the Supreme Court can go fuck itself—except, of course, when they're installing a Texan in the White House), they want to make it a felony to issue a marriage license to a same-sex couple, and they want to imprison any state official who marries a gay couple. And one elected official in Texas is running around arguing that life in prison is too good for us because prison is "fun" for gay men. Rob Tisinai:
I don’t even know how to end this entry. I guess it comes back to the fact that we can never settle for anything less than full civil equality. There can be no compromise — there can’t even be negotiation — with people who deny your basic right to exist. The Texas GOP controls the governor’s office, the State Senate, and the State House. This is the platform of the people in charge. Remember that when somebody tells you gays don’t face the same threat to our civil rights as other minorities.
Go read Rob's entire post.
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isn't this the platform written by the guy that insisted on Apologizing to BP for investigating the worst terrorist attack on the US in modern history?
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But since Obama is a fierce advocate for gay rights then he'll stand up....
Oh nevermind. His plate's full, He's playing chess while everyone else plays checkers.....
Oh nevermind. His plate's full, He's playing chess while everyone else plays checkers.....
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This makes me SO fucking happy to have just moved from Texas to Seattle. Sorry, progressive Texans, for taking my vote with me.
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My goodness, what ever happend to the Barry Goldwater, Gerald Ford, Nelson Rockefeller flavor of the GOP?
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What?!? Conservatives hate gays? I'm shocked I tell you... SHOCKED!
Seriously though, read the GOP's entire platform. Actually, don't bother reading it. It's the same rhetoric everyone expects from them (e.g., abortion bad, guns good, science bad, christians good, etc.).
Wake me when this shit actually gets proposed in legislature and potentially has enough votes to pass. Otherwise, I have no desire to listen to the GOP/Teabaggers proselytize their standard drivel.
Seriously though, read the GOP's entire platform. Actually, don't bother reading it. It's the same rhetoric everyone expects from them (e.g., abortion bad, guns good, science bad, christians good, etc.).
Wake me when this shit actually gets proposed in legislature and potentially has enough votes to pass. Otherwise, I have no desire to listen to the GOP/Teabaggers proselytize their standard drivel.
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@5,
That's ok, I just moved from Florida to Texas, taking my progressive vote with me (Florida is hopelessly doomed anyway).
That's ok, I just moved from Florida to Texas, taking my progressive vote with me (Florida is hopelessly doomed anyway).
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i just wish they would be a little more specific. i'm left wondering what acts i can and cannot do in the privacy of my home, and was hoping the texas legislature would provide some clarification.
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I live in Austin, and it is fascinating how easy it is to forget that I also happen to live in Texas. Where things like this are on the party platform. Shudder.
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I'm starting to think Austin just needs to secede from the rest of Texas and become our own state.
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Yeah. Texas has become the new front of choice in ultraconservatives' war on sanity - and that's not just an observation, it's actually an acknowledged strategic shift by right-wing interest groups.
It started with the Board of Education and science text standards, and around the same time there was a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage (as well as civil unions, and, according to some interpretations of the poorly-written law, all marriage in general), then came the history text revisionism. Now this. Not surprising. Oh, and let's not forget this week's shining moment in which one of our legislators apologized to BP.
What happened to the Lone Star? It used to be about individualism, self-sufficiency, and live-and-let-live. That was the whole point of that deal where we fought Mexico, remember, guys? The Alamo? You... forgot the Alamo, didn't you? Now you're letting the the national lunacy movement push you around and steer you into line with the Discovery Institute and Focus on the Family and all the other meddling shitheads from everywhere but Texas.
Ugh. I keep getting homesick for Austin, but then I read something like this and it makes me never want to go home again.
It started with the Board of Education and science text standards, and around the same time there was a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage (as well as civil unions, and, according to some interpretations of the poorly-written law, all marriage in general), then came the history text revisionism. Now this. Not surprising. Oh, and let's not forget this week's shining moment in which one of our legislators apologized to BP.
What happened to the Lone Star? It used to be about individualism, self-sufficiency, and live-and-let-live. That was the whole point of that deal where we fought Mexico, remember, guys? The Alamo? You... forgot the Alamo, didn't you? Now you're letting the the national lunacy movement push you around and steer you into line with the Discovery Institute and Focus on the Family and all the other meddling shitheads from everywhere but Texas.
Ugh. I keep getting homesick for Austin, but then I read something like this and it makes me never want to go home again.
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Gay dude sex is gross, so I don't do it. End of story for me.
I'll never understand why some people are so obsessed about it that gay sex takes over their lives. The very thing they find so disgusting and against nature becomes the thing they talk about and involve themselves in for their entire lives.
I'll never understand why some people are so obsessed about it that gay sex takes over their lives. The very thing they find so disgusting and against nature becomes the thing they talk about and involve themselves in for their entire lives.
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I think Texas wants anti-sodomy laws because it's very common down there for people to stick their heads up their collective asses. Gotta stop that sort of behavior.
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@8 Ugh, don't make me think about how doomed we are. I'm a progressive Floridian, and the outlook continues to be bleak.
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@3 that was what I was thinking - sodomy laws generally outlaw blow jobs performed by anyone. Of course these are the same folks who brought you, "the 15 year old babysitter from the mega-church seduced the 40 year old youth pastor," and "what do you mean, the signals I was throwing under the bathroom stall meant I wanted to blow you? I thought I was asking for toilet paper," and "science, we don't need no fu@$ing science." They would probably argue that they don't like oral sex and it is wrong to even suggest they do!
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Could this be an advance move to counter what most believe the outcome of the court case against Prop 8 in California yesterday? I read this and could not help think that. It is a Federal case that will get to the SCOTUS....- Any takers on that one?
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@13-->>What happened to the Lone Star? It used to be about individualism, self-sufficiency, and live-and-let-live. That was the whole point of that deal where we fought Mexico, remember, guys? The Alamo? You... forgot the Alamo, didn't you?
Um, you do know that the whole of the 1836 Texas Revolution was about one thing: 1) Slavery.
The Texians--White settlers, mostly from the south, were fighting the Mexicans and Tejanos over the right to own other human beings as livestock.
This whole Southern individualism, self-sufficiency, standing up against tyranny rhetoric has been poisoned from the very beginning.
Um, you do know that the whole of the 1836 Texas Revolution was about one thing: 1) Slavery.
The Texians--White settlers, mostly from the south, were fighting the Mexicans and Tejanos over the right to own other human beings as livestock.
This whole Southern individualism, self-sufficiency, standing up against tyranny rhetoric has been poisoned from the very beginning.
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I just don't understand seeking to create injustice. How does one help such poverty? I've have no clue. It sure does speak volumes, though, about their integrity. Sad.
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@16,
Sorry.
I can't help it. Even as I was driving past the stinking swamps of Louisiana and the radio stations were playing nothing but christian music and conservative talk all I could think was "at least I'm not in Florida anymore."
Sorry.
I can't help it. Even as I was driving past the stinking swamps of Louisiana and the radio stations were playing nothing but christian music and conservative talk all I could think was "at least I'm not in Florida anymore."
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& @14: Sex is gross, period.
Thank you for your neutrality or defense of people's right to do what they wish but I don't think that gay sex (btwn to "dudes") deserved to be singled-out as the only form of sex that's "gross", as you put it.
Too many people, I think, who actually support lgbt people & rights make this uninformed point. Learn something about MICROBIOLOGY and the human body, skin, mouth, fluids and male and female genitalia...you'll realize sex is "gross" for everyone.
-smh.
Thank you for your neutrality or defense of people's right to do what they wish but I don't think that gay sex (btwn to "dudes") deserved to be singled-out as the only form of sex that's "gross", as you put it.
Too many people, I think, who actually support lgbt people & rights make this uninformed point. Learn something about MICROBIOLOGY and the human body, skin, mouth, fluids and male and female genitalia...you'll realize sex is "gross" for everyone.
-smh.
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I vote for another civil war. Let's settle for good and all what kind of country we're going to be.
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Fuck, this makes me hate living in this state. I live in a liberal county in a conservative state and everyone assumes that all of this feel like that.IT IS NOT TRUE. Unfortunately there are more of them than there are us us.Many people everywhere believe in rights for all people ,but we don't all have voices.This just shows that we must all vote or our we will never be heard.
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To All Gay Americans! Buy lot of Guns and do the world a favore and kill ALL republicans all over the US.
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Have you read the rest of the platform? The state party's position on other issues is just as wacko. And not just on the predictable stuff, like abortion or creationism, but things that you hardly knew were essential to taking our country back, like opposing mandatory kindergarten. (The stilted and essentially illiterate language does make you wonder about their insistence on making "American English" the official language of Texas. )
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