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Gay rights group, after recent victories, turns to a new frontier: the South
The Washington Post ^ | September 10, 2014 | Sandhya Somashekhar

Posted on 09/14/2014 2:29:19 PM PDT by Salman

NATCHEZ, Miss. — Just three months ago, Rob Hill was a Methodist pastor with a burning secret. But as a swampy heat took hold one recent morning, he put on a suit, climbed into his car and headed into this river town on a mission that would have been unthinkable not long ago: promoting gay rights in rural Mississippi.

It’s hardly the most audacious thing he’s done this year. In July, after 12 years in the clergy, Hill came out of the closet — not at an intimate gathering around his kitchen table, or to friends on Facebook, but at a news conference orchestrated by the Human Rights Campaign, a Washington-based gay-advocacy organization that is pouring $9.5 million into an effort to push the needle of public opinion in the Deep South.

It is part of a broader shift within the gay rights movement, which has turned much of its attention away from same-sex marriage now that it is legal in 19 states and the District and is a question likely to be settled by the Supreme Court. The focus has shifted to improving job protections, passing local anti-discrimination ordinances, bolstering the rights of gay parents, reducing anti-gay bullying in schools and nudging change in places that have resisted it.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: dixie; homosexualagenda; liberalfascism
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1 posted on 09/14/2014 2:29:19 PM PDT by Salman
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To: Salman

Send some bucks Haley Barbour’s way, Rev. He’ll put some words in Thad’s mouth, and if the poor demented soul manages to win reelection, maybe you’ll get something for your troubles.


2 posted on 09/14/2014 2:33:43 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: Salman

“I’ll tell ya, young fella. You go down this road about five miles, then turn left. It ain’t paved or marled, but you’ll see it. Keep on that road for about another 7 miles or so....”


3 posted on 09/14/2014 2:35:12 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Salman

What the queers don’t get is that even their liberal apologists shun and revile them. Every liberal I know disdains and mocks the queers in private, but the Party wants their money and their media influence so they’re all-in, publicly.


4 posted on 09/14/2014 2:37:05 PM PDT by clintonh8r (It's possible to love your country and hate your government. I'm proof of it.)
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To: Salman
Homosexuals now going to try and take over the South?

This ought to be fun to watch!

5 posted on 09/14/2014 2:37:53 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Salman
This is what we get when we FAIL to OBEY God.
For it is written: Those who support homosexuals are against our Heavenly Father and His Son Jesus Christ.
These anti Christ people only bring destruction on us ALL.
I have NO sympathy for homosexuals!

Homosexuality is a "Mark" of disobedience.
Someone once asked The answer is in the definition of "REPROBATE". And the reason"why" is given in the Bible.

God has a cure for homosexuals.

"Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect
that God is just,
that his justice cannot sleep forever."


6 posted on 09/14/2014 2:38:23 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: doorgunner69

Did they try this on TOP Gear episode

I mean TOP Gear UK episode remember yeah this be fun to watch I want see this


7 posted on 09/14/2014 2:42:48 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: doorgunner69
Do you know how many mosquitoes can bite on a person tied to a tree before they're found?
And mosquito bites are nothing, compared to deer fly bites and horse fly bites.

Yeah, those people will learn something in the swamps of Mississippi, ~ something they'll NEVER forget, for as long as they survive.
8 posted on 09/14/2014 2:42:50 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Salman

They have ‘em in Mississippi. Just watch the movie “Ode to Bille Joe”. Directed by none other than “Jethro” from the Beverly Hillbillies.


9 posted on 09/14/2014 2:45:42 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Salman

Leftist/fascist groups CANNOT be allowed any victory as this will encourage them to go on a full blown assault. The homosexual groups will not be satisfied until all the hetros are worshiping at their feet.


10 posted on 09/14/2014 2:45:54 PM PDT by logic101.net (How many more children must die on the altar of gun free zones?)
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To: Salman

Romans Chap 1. The Lord doesn’t care about opinion polls. Just sayin’.


11 posted on 09/14/2014 2:49:44 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: Salman

Vile locusts swarm down. ‘Methodist’. A method of madness for sure, and the method of Lucifer, the great deceiver.


12 posted on 09/14/2014 2:57:02 PM PDT by Viennacon (ILLEGALS ARE VIRAL WEAPONS!!)
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To: Salman

Regarding Mississippi, do a web search for “Camp Sister Spirit”.


13 posted on 09/14/2014 2:58:56 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: PAR35
They have ‘em in Mississippi. Just watch the movie “Ode to Bille Joe”. Directed by none other than “Jethro” from the Beverly Hillbillies.

I guess Jed never got around to having a long talk with that boy.

14 posted on 09/14/2014 3:01:32 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: Eagles6

And any man that takes the word of a man over the Word of God is in deep doodoo.

Any one that says that this behavior is normal, I refuse to believe until they allow themselves to be “normal” and submit to be sodomized. Then I might actually believe that they believe what they are saying.

How can less than 2% of the population have so much clout?

Satan is the only answer I can come up with. He is obviously leading the rat party.


15 posted on 09/14/2014 3:41:12 PM PDT by bobo1 (progressives=commies/fascists)
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To: Yosemitest

My own anti-gay fantasy involves Burt Reynolds and a compound bow.


16 posted on 09/14/2014 3:48:51 PM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: Salman

As Erick Erickson at Red State says, “you will be made to care.” So many people interviewed for this by the ComPost said their towns are fine, people aren’t bullied and they don’t want or need the gaystapo to push their agenda. Yet, there they are.

It will only be a matter of time where the gaystapo will get their way and all sorts of ordinances and regulations will be passed to make everything just peachy for the gays. And if you speak out against them or their agenda or stand on your 1A rights, you will be sent to a re-education camp.

Sodom and Gomorrah, here we come.


17 posted on 09/14/2014 3:49:00 PM PDT by iceskater (Enjoy your chains, comrades.)
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To: Salman

What’a with all the Indian female propagandists? Don’t they know they’really free to leave?


18 posted on 09/14/2014 3:51:50 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: doorgunner69
Homosexuals now going to try and take over the South?

They already have in New Orleans, Savannah, Atlanta and any businesses having to do with the usual gay things: fashion, home decor, hairdressing, etc. Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote -- Southrun Gothic is full of gayness.

There are three very, very "out" guys on Real Housewives of Atlanta who wear high heels with men's clothes, or full makeup and women's clothes with men's haircuts, whatever. Here are two of them:


19 posted on 09/14/2014 5:06:07 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (S.I.N. = Systematic Inversion of Norms)
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And here's the other one:


20 posted on 09/14/2014 5:08:13 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (S.I.N. = Systematic Inversion of Norms)
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