Posted on 04/26/2014 11:10:52 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A national organization is launching a three-year, $8.5 million campaign to promote LGBT equality and push for new legal protections in three Southern states dominated by conservative politics and religion and known for resistance to change: Alabama, Arkansas and Mississippi.
Decades after groups used boycotts, marches, sit-ins, pickets and mass rallies to end legalized racial segregation and push for equal protection for blacks, the Washington-based Human Rights Campaign is planning a new kind of civil rights movement. It’s one based on using chats and front-porch visits between relatives and friends to foster an environment more welcoming toward people of all sexual orientations.
The idea is simple, and it’s borne out in polls: People are less likely to oppose expanded rights and acceptance if they know and care for someone who’s gay. Activists hope that’s particularly true in a region that values hospitality. …
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Mountain Man: Looks like we got us a sow here instead of a boar.
Methinks that's precisely what they want.
Just like during the 1960s with the Civil Rights Movement.
That’s part of what got their panties in a twist over the Duck Dynasty issue. Phil Robertson talked about the male anus and talked about sex activity. Generally, we don’t hear about “gay” sexual activities, we only hear that we are “homophobic” if we want to deny them “equal” rights.
Rednecks don’t go looking for trouble. She pals around with a female friend, rednecks don’t go shouting about what they might be doing in bed. Private gossip, maybe, but it’s all kept discreet. Live and let live, even if they’re going to hell. They will probably get an earful of gospel every now and then, but nothing pushier.
She parades down the street with her partner and a bunch of banners, and asks for the state to bless these shack ups as “marriages,” and the rednecks draw a line. The lezzes go publicly pushy, and so will the rednecks.
Especially in the big cities, but even in the small towns, there is always one or more flamboyantly gay characters in most communities who are just part of the drama of southernism. Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Tallulah Bankhead spring to mind. Gay folks love to exaggerate the southern drawl, and cherish nostalgia for the glorious days of hoop skirts and mint juleps...
Tallulah Bankhead? Say it wasn’t so!
... and for certain things that happened back of the slave quarters.
I have no objection to gay people receiving exactly the same rights as everyone else. I wish I didn't have to hear about their gross and perverted sex lives. Otherwise, if they would stop pretending that redefining words (Marriage included) will encourage people to pretend that these perverts are not sick, I'd be fine with their existence. I know people who are gay, and I pray for them, but I will not accept the word of a pervert or a usurper pretending that homosexuality is okay over the Word of God.
Bingo. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
I thought that out-of-staters spending money to campaign for policy changes was wrong...oh, that’s only if the out-of-staters are the NRA or the Koch brothers.
What in the world are you saying such a thing for? Back away from the keyboard.
Go on over to Wikipedia and check it out.
From my experience, the people down south don’t really care if you’re queer (”confirmed bachelor”) as long as you keep your relationships low key and down go around raping the neighborhood boys.
I lived in LA, Lower Alabama for seven years. I had a pretty 29 year old Engineering technician who worked for me. Her wife is a Nurse and they had been together for 14 years. Everybody in this small town knew and never held it against her.
The South takes people as they come.
I still remember ‘Lifeboat’.
“During filming, several crew members noted that Tallulah Bankhead was not wearing underwear. When advised of this situation, Alfred Hitchcock observed, “I don’t know if this is a matter for the costume department, makeup, or hairdressing.”
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What misguided LGBT activists don't understand is the following. The states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect LGBT rights. So the states are free to make laws which discriminate on the basis of such "rights," as long as such laws don't also unreasonably abridge rights which the states have amended the Constitution to specifically protect.
What LGBT activist need to do to establish such rights within the framework of the Constitution is this. They need to work with state and federal lawmakers to propose an LGBT rights amendment to the Constitution to the states for ratification. And if the Constitution's Article V majority of states choose to ratify the amendment then LGBT rights will be constitutionally protected and LGBT activists will be heroes.
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A national organization is launching a three-year, $8.5 million campaign to promote LGBT equality and push for new legal protections...”
Gays are going to run around in half-naked, kissing each other in front of people and kids, and generally acting like creepy narcissistic pervs, to get a completely understandable reaction of disgust from folks so they can then say they are “homophobic” even though people would react that way regardless of who did that. Then they will demand laws making it illegal for people to not associate with them.
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