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You know what’s not funny? Hate. You know what’s also not funny? People going on hate-filled rants. However, you know what is funny, people going on hate-filled rants that make so little sense that they sound like someone took the worst comments from a political message board, mixed all the words around, translated them to Japanese, and then translated them back. And that’s what happened at a council meeting in Lincoln, Nebraska and it resulted in one of the craziest videos you’ll see this week.
Recently, Nebraskan cities have been trying to deal with the lack of protection that LGBT citizens have from discrimination. The state’s anti-discrimination laws don’t cover sexual orientation. YouTube user aksarbent has been uploading videos of some of the more interesting moments from hearings on the issue. One of them, he or she labeled “Best in Show!” and, good lord, is that not hyperbole.
I promise this is the best video you’ll watch today. Just….wow.
A top Vatican representative and Roman Catholic Archbishop is reaching out to form a coalition with other religions and has called on them to join the Vatican in a worldwide holy war against same-sex marriage, claiming that proliferation of equality “is not a good thing for society,” and will lead to “confusion.” (via Vatican Declares Gay Marriage Holy War, Forms Worldwide Religions Coalition | The New Civil Rights Movement)
When I was a teenager there was no “It Gets Better” campaign. There was only this and I’m posting it now because I found it inspirational then and I find it true now.
Not only does it get better. You’re going to be big and important.
A Teen’s Brave Response to “I’m Christian, Unless You’re Gay”
Article To Make You Cry of the day
Joe the plumber gets stupid:
“I personally still think it’s wrong,” Wurzelbacher opined in 2009. “People don’t understand the dictionary—it’s called queer. Queer means strange and unusual. It’s not like a slur, like you would call a white person a honky or something like that. You know, God is pretty explicit in what we’re supposed to do—what man and woman are for.”
“I’ve had some friends that are actually homosexual,” he added. “And, I mean, they know where I stand, and they know that I wouldn’t have them anywhere near my children.”
“Have you changed your positions on this at all?” Sambolin asked the GOP candidate on Thursday.
“So, this is TMZ. This isn’t CNN is what you’re saying?” Wurzelbacher complained. “No, I want everybody to have a job.”
“What about these comments that you made?” the CNN host pressed. “Do you stand by these comments?”
“Listen, in my dictionary and in everyone’s dictionary from the 1970s, the word queer did mean strange and unusual. There was no slur to it. Do you challenge that?” Wurzelbacher shot back. “Come on. You’re trying to do a gotcha moment, it’s quite obvious.”
“No, no, it’s not a gotcha moment,” Sambolin replied. “These are things that you said and I think people voting for you should have an opportunity to understand whether or not you have changed your positions on these two issues here.”
“I’m allowed to have my opinion as an American but it seems the left becomes very intolerant when you have an opinion other than what they state,” Wurzelbacher insisted. “My opinions are mine.”
So my aunt is a born-again Christian
My brother is an ordained priest in some pagan religion (I’m not sure of the details), and he’s very well-read in all religion
My aunt was spouting something off about religion, about how God hates gays or something
And my mom said, “Well, my son says that it’s proven that blah blah blah”
And my aunt goes: “He is a homosexual. He knows nothing about the word of God. Homosexuals are an abomination of the Bible.”
Forget that he basically studies religion
FUCK YOU.
We’ve disowned my aunt.
She’s such a menace.
I know this is negative, but there is a point - STAND UP FOR WHO YOU LOVE. My mom did not ask for two queer children. My mom did not ask to have her mind opened, her point of view shaken to the core, her idea of normal turned upside down. But she loves us. And she knows in her heart that what my aunt said is WRONG.
What Christianity does to a family.
Way to practice that universal love and peace y’all supposedly preach about.
Catholicism.
![In returning the bill to the Legislature, Christie reaffirmed his view that voters should decide whether to change the definition of marriage in New Jersey. His veto also proposed creating an ombudsman to oversee compliance with the state’s civil union law, which same-sex couples have said is flawed. [Click photo for story]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzk7bzbEjn1qzid25o1_400.png)
In returning the bill to the Legislature, Christie reaffirmed his view that voters should decide whether to change the definition of marriage in New Jersey. His veto also proposed creating an ombudsman to oversee compliance with the state’s civil union law, which same-sex couples have said is flawed. [Click photo for story]
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — As a bill legalizing same-sex marriage in Maryland hurtles toward a vote in the legislature this week, a coalition lobbying for its passage has focused much of its efforts on a group of Democrats who could potentially scuttle its success: African-Americans.
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Much of the hesitation, black advocates of the bill say, has its roots in the churches, whose influence is strong among many African-Americans. And while the overwhelming majority of black clergy in the state still strongly oppose same-sex marriage — they held a rally here in the state capital last month to make that point — a few young pastors have come out in support.
Religion divides us and teaches oppressed people hypocrisy.
