Tag: homophobia
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I Want To Fight Ted Cruz
One of the great sacrifices that comes from living way up here in the USA, miles away from Texas and the heart of the confederacy, is that we don’t enjoy timely access to the broad range of news pertaining to Ted “Tough as Texas” Cruz. Indeed, we barely hear tales of fabled adventures at all,…
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Scalia’s Awesome Massive Marriage Meltdown
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has been getting hammered this week, on the losing end of a series of decisions that uphold legislation that runs contrary to his idealogical stance, including upholding the Affordable Care Act and, today, legalizing same sex marriage in all 50 States. Scalia and his partner, Judge Clarence Thomas, are two…
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God Bless America? Sometimes You Gotta Wonder
This disgusting tale needs no editorial comment from me. WWJD indeed. http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_27312180/family-lakewood-church-refuses-funeral-service-because-woman?source=infinite http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/01/13/colorado-church-denies-funeral-for-lesbian-woman/21709363/
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D.A.H.O.F. Clarke Woodger, Nomen Global Language Institute
Tim Torkildson, a social media specialist and English as a Second Language teacher at Utah’s Nomen Global Language Center wrote what he thought was a typicially innocuous blog entry a few weeks back on the subjects of homophones–which we called homonyms when I was in school. If you remember elementary school, homophones are those pesky…
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Jim Crow, Thy Middle Name Is Kansas
I’ve been through Kansas a few times–it doesn’t seem like a bad place: lots of sunflowers to go with the wheat, though it’s awfully flat, which puts that whole tornado alley/Wizard of Oz thing is perspective. One of my very favorite people loved Kansas, and while he lived there only briefly I’ll forever attach his…
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Free Speech For Homophobic Celebrities
It’s important that the Duck Dynasty actors get to spout their hatespeech–because the one thing that Conservatives, especially REDNECK conservatives, give a big damn shit about is the free speech of celebrities–how quickly we forget the cd smashing rallys, the boycotts, the endless commentaries, and the very real DEATH THREATS that followed Nathalie Maines expressing…
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