As gays advance, America squirms

The Detroit News ^ | August 10, 2003 | Ron French

[new cruelty]

FARMINGTON -- Jan Stevenson plans a summer wedding, a small affair with 30 or 40 friends and family. She hasn't picked a chapel or even a city. But she has picked a country.

She and partner Susan Horowitz will marry next summer in Canada. The gay couple's union will be a ceremony laced with private sentiment and public symbolism.

[King Prout]

ok, that's a nasty headline with which to impale us this late in the evening just before sleep.

[new cruelty]

...to impale us this late in the evening just before sleep

LOL, sorry about the headline at this late hour. However, your comment was just as witty. : )

[prairiebreeze]

with Bush calling homosexuals "sinners."

Lies. Bush said we are ALL sinners. Big difference which the article obviously strives to downplay. Perhaps the author feels that homosexuals don't commit any sins. Of any kind.

Prairie

[Palladin]

The YUCK factor will never go away, not in a thousand years.

The more these people push, the more there is an equal and opposite reaction.

The backlash ain't gonna be pretty.

[King Prout]

ah...er...umm...
tit for tat?
*fleeing before this gets SOOOO much worse*

[Waco]

The Episco's "leadership" have said the church no longer exists. Believe it. If yo can't believe men of the cloth, who can you beieve??? Hic

[Steely Tom]

The Triangle Foundation and similar organizations around the country are receiving more calls from gay people concerned about harassment since the Supreme Court ruling, Montgomery said, though no statistics have been compiled.

Why is that?

I love the way this is phrased.

Imagine if it had been written like this:

The Triangle Foundation and similar organizations around the country are receiving more calls from gay people concerned about harassment since the Supreme Court ruling, Montgomery said, but they haven't compiled any statistics to back up their claim.

(steely)

[new cruelty]

It seems though that the reaction is less and less with each passing generation. Maybe not. I'll have to give it more consideration.

[Terriergal]

"This is the line in the sand, the marriage issue," said Horowitz, 51, of Farmington. "We are their vision of hell."

Only one among many.

[hayfried]

You're right. That phrase can be written with so many different slants:

...Montgomery said, though he could not provide statistics.

...Montgomery said, though he declined to provide statistics.

...Montgomery claimed, though he declined to provide statistics.

In the liberal press, Republicans "claim" and Democrats "say". Republicans "push" their agenda, while Democrats "fight" for theirs. Republicans "force", "refuse", and "deny", while Democrats "struggle", "protect" and "defend".

But the media's not biased.

[Jeff Gordon]

Cere believes the debate isn't over homosexuality, but about the definition of marriage.

That was a damned stupid thing to say.

[new cruelty]

She knows its a multipass!... fun movie.

[Terriergal]

yep. :-)

[RLK]

As gays advance, America squirms

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They aren't advancing any more than schizophrenics are advancing. With the help of the media and leftist judges they are wearing us down.

[new cruelty]

Tough day at work?

[Judith Anne]

I'm bored with homosexuals. When I was younger and more naive, there was an initial fascination learning about something that was a taboo topic for so long, now it just reminds me of that stage children go through where they tell the same joke a hundred times and expect to get the same reaction as the first time.

I mean, who cares what people do? Why do they have to be so public about their "private lives"? Who do they think is interested? If they want a permanent life together, they should sign a contract. It's not like they care what the church has to say about their orientation. All they do is bitch about that, and get really nasty about demanding that mainline churches pat them on the head and tell them they're normal and won't go to hell or something, and that God wants them to be "fulfilled." What I can't believe is that any church would fall for that whiny approval-seeking petulant hostile behavior.

If they want conventional approval for an unconventional lifestyle, good frikken luck. I personally find descriptions of both male and female homosexuality icky. I hope that the next celebrity that decides to tell all thinks it over and gives it a pass.

[At _War_With_Liberals]

"In the bedroom, homosexuals now can do what they want without fear of being arrested".

BS- there never was a "fear" of being arrested. Yeah, like it was a police state 3 weeks ago. Liars.

[new cruelty]

Well said.

[MightyMouseToSaveThe Day]

Typical liberal reporting of manipulated 'facts'. Like this one:
"President Bush and the Vatican both spoke out against gay marriage, with Bush calling homosexuals "sinners." "

Bush did NOT call homosexuals sinners. He said, "we are ALL sinners." He did not single out homosexuals. Of course, an accurate quote would not make for an incendiary quote, though, would it?

I had to doublecheck to make sure Dowd didn't write this article with her usual extractions and manipulations. Poo poo to this balderdash.