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The New Civil Rights Movement : Disgusting. Gov. Chris Christie Hits On MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski - Watch.

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:53:52 +0000

What, did you stop watching after 2 seconds? Did you miss the part where he says. "Blame me?... [to one of the males] look how you're looking at me. Do you blame me for that line? You just wish you came up with it first". He meant it to be a come on line.

The New Civil Rights Movement : Watch Michelangelo Signorile Explain America To A Palin Supporter

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 02:24:29 +0000

I run in a lot of debate circles, this caller is what we like to call "moving the goal post". She starts her argument with "oh Michael, you're just so negative toward Sarah Palin", when her point is crushed, she moves on to "you hate women". Thank you caller, buh beye. Sadly, there are far too many people in this world who simply cannot, when faced with facts, alter their opinion or at the very least, admit that they were incorrect.

The New Civil Rights Movement : Discredited Journalist Breitbart Joins Gay GOP Group GOProud

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 19:37:56 +0000

GOProud it's like the black auxiliary to the KKK. Somebody please tell me I somehow landed in bazaaro world and all I have to do is click my heals three times to get back to a world that makes actual sense.

Austin News, Weather, Sports, Traffic | KXAN.com : Men say they were attacked for being gay | KXAN.com

Wed, 29 Dec 2010 03:25:09 +0000

Um, no they aren't. Armed robbery which ends in the death of the clerk at the store is not a hate crime. It is murder. What you, apparently, don't seem to understand is that our legal system punishes crimes based on specific criteria. Motive being one of them. Designation of a "hate crime" as opposed to simple assault provides a specific punishment to the criminal greater than that of assault. It's a matter of getting the maximum amount of punishment for a particular crime so that we can deter similar crimes from happening or at the very least, keep those who have a blatant disregard for humans off the streets. It is not I who categorizes this as a hate crime, it's the government. You have a problem with that, take it up with your government. again you show the limits of your imagination.

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Tue, 28 Dec 2010 22:13:50 +0000

Okay, so, you admit that Christianity is a choice? Why then should religion be a protected class? If these two men were beaten up because they were carrying Bibles would you not be outraged? Would you not consider that a hate crime? I would!

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Tue, 28 Dec 2010 22:06:16 +0000

You know what? I can't debate you on this, now that I know where you're getting your arguments from. Even if you don't know where they come from, the majority of your arguments about homosexuality are coming from the people at "Family Research Counsel" and "National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality". These are both faith based organizations that are not scientific at all and both are listed as hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center. They make money off of trying to "treat" homosexuality. If you align yourself with them and your arguments are coming from their play book, your mind is already made up. But, just for the heck of it... Identical twins in fact DO NOT have the same genes. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/health/11real.h... I am telling you that LGBT people are being murdered, imprisoned and undergo corrective rape in other countries such as Uganda, South Africa and Iran. Yet somehow they still exist. Millions of people would not risk death or torture for a choice that they can simply unmake. To think otherwise is absolutely ignorant of reality. I'm done with you as you obviously refuse to see the reality that is in front of you.

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Tue, 28 Dec 2010 20:57:50 +0000

Austinactivist: I don't care what "learned and respected" people agree with you. Are those learned and respected people students or scientists within a field that would gain them access to superior knowledge to that effect? Are they LGBT themselves? I'm learned in software engineering and I can have opinions in that regard because that is my area of study and expertise. I can not comment on the economic situation in China because it is not an area that I've studied nor can I tell you how to perform brain surgery. I am, however, gay. I am telling you, do to my 32 years of being me and knowing me better than you do... I did not choose to be gay. The overwhelming vast majority of LGBT people you will encounter in your life will tell you the same. You do not get to just make up your own reality and spread it like truth. That's not how the world works. I don't know your children and I am not teaching them anything at all. I do object to you teaching your children that being LGBT is a choice. Would you go around teaching them that 2+2 is 6? No, because that is not true. Why then would you teach them another untruth to further your own agenda?

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Tue, 28 Dec 2010 20:14:28 +0000

I am the grandson of two carpenters, doesn't mean I know how to frame a house. My dad is also a cop doesn't mean I can run around with handcuffs arresting people either. Throughout this "debate", you've attributed myths about homosexuality to being real. You've decided that being LGBT is a choice, all on your own, despite the scientific evidence to the contrary. You've decided that homosexuality as we see it in humans does not exist in nature, despite scientific evidence to the contrary and despite the fact that, as humans, we are part of nature as well. You justify your thought process, internally, based on a Christian world view but... I'm willing to bet you dollars to donuts that if you were to ask those 5 cowards who attacked these two men what religion they were, they will tell you "Christian". I'm also willing to bet (because I've seen it before) that you and others like you will say that, these 5 attackers weren't "Real Christians". I've seen the debates and arguments before, and when actual evidence is put to the task, you will turn a blind eye to what is right in front of your nose in order to maintain your stand point on LGBT people being less than you because you happened to have been privileged enough to be born heterosexual. You've said several things in this debate but when asked to show scientific peer reviewed evidence to back up your assertions, you fail to provide. This is simply because, simple google searches will provide evidence contrary to what you say from credible scientific sources. Back to Genesis. Here is where you need to think a little bit. As the story is being told, part of the story has to do with men of the town wanting to rape the angels (who they think are men), this is true. You equate that with two consenting adults who are in a mutual loving relationship with one another. As anyone who has ever written anything will tell you, it's a task to paint a full picture of events. The S&G story attempts to be very descriptive even to the point where the townsmen assembled in the town outside of Lot's house. Is assembling outside of a house also a sin since that's in there too? No, it is the intent. The intent of the men was not to engage in a life long loving relationship with these angels, the intent was to physically rape them. Now, I don't begrudge you being Christian and outspoken about it. You are entitled to maintain your religion, and when push comes to shove, I will stand up and defend that with you even though we disagree on the particulars. I will not, however, allow misinformation and unproved and disproved myths about LGBT people to run without opposition. These myths are wrong, they are lies and they need to stop. If you have an opposition to LGBT people that is fine. You have a right to your opinion but, please, quit spreading the ancient lies which have already been debunked. While the sexual acts that follow any given relationship are a choice, being LGBT is not a choice. We should not be denied our right to life, liberty or property simply because we happen to be LGBT and your world view says otherwise. This is America, land of the free and home of the brave!

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Tue, 28 Dec 2010 19:12:15 +0000

Austinactivist No, homosexuality had nothing at all to do with Sodom and Gomorah Ezekiel 16:48-49 "This is the sin of Sodom; she and her suburbs had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not help or encourage the poor and needy. They were arrogant and this was abominable in God's eyes." However, the S&G story was not even written as historical fact. It was parable which any serious student of scripture knows. Also, any serious student of both scripture and history will tell you that, during biblical times, there was no concept of homosexuality as we have today. In that day, homosexuality was purely an act of physical sexual gratification and sex at all, outside of the purpose of procreation was abominable. Further, as an American, I invoke my first Amendment right to be free from YOUR misunderstanding of scripture.. Meaning, I have freedom of religion as well and yours should not be used as a means of legalized discrimination against my sexual orientation.

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Tue, 28 Dec 2010 18:56:00 +0000

"No other species practices homosexuality"... No other species is human either and as a human, I am telling you that I did not make the choice to be gay, therefore, it was not a choice. Nor is it about dominance or necessity due to lack of interest from the opposite sex. Now, about your other assertions. Just because homosexuality has not been found to appear in a similar manor in nature, does not mean it does not actually exist in nature. It simply means that we have not witnessed it in nature as of yet. Except that, your assertion is completely false, if you would care to simply google the term homosexuality in nature, you will find all sorts of resources that will show that there are over 1500 species in the animal kingdom (of which we are a part) that exhibit not only homosexual acts but, relationships with members of the same gender. The going theory is that, of all of the social species you will find some percent that naturally fall on the homosexual end of the spectrum. You will also find that this has been studied by actual scientists and not just some armchair activist. However, considering the fact that humans are part of nature and you do find homosexuality in humans, it does in fact exist in nature in at least 1 species that we know of. We did not need scientific data to prove this to be correct. Wrap your brain around that and then get back to me.

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Tue, 28 Dec 2010 18:07:25 +0000

Okay, and let's see your scientific peer reviewed studies on this fact please. You can't just assert that EVERYONE who is LGBT chose it. It defies all reason and logic to think that way, especially given what I mentioned above. Would millions of people subject themselves to a life of torture and/or death for a choice that they could simply unmake? No. It need not be proven or disproved that there is a genetic disposition to being LGBT for my statement to be accurate. I am gay and not by choice but by actuality. You are confusing emotion and behavior. Being LGBT is internal and requires no action at all just as one can be heterosexual and still a virgin. LGBT is a state of emotion or a state of mind or whatever. We do not choose our attractions nor our emotional requirements. Perhaps it is your opinion that heterosexual people have relationships and LGBT persons just have sex. I gather that from your most recent comments (but forgive me if I'm wrong in that assessment as you haven't been completely transparent in your motive here). I assure you, my so far 7 year relationship with my other half is so far beyond sex that we rarely even have it. It's all about the relationship, love and mutual respect and understanding.

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Tue, 28 Dec 2010 17:51:57 +0000

NuffSaid did not compare these two men to Christ at all. The poster simply pointed out how Christ would have treated the two men and how Christ commanded to love one another, without excluding gays in that commandment. The fact that you find it so easy to dismiss the point of the post is despicable.

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Tue, 28 Dec 2010 17:47:42 +0000

Neither does it get to be swept under the rug just because gays are involved. A hate crime is a hate crime. If these attackers were yelling the n word at an African-American person and this story developed in the same exact manor, we wouldn't be having this discussion. Even if the two shouted back at these bigots. Violence on the streets of Austin, Texas and America NEEDS attention because people need to be made aware of the dangers that are out there. This is a hate crime. These people yelled the words "faggots" and "queers" out at people who were minding their own business. That the two said something back may have caused escalation in the matter is not relevant to the fact that 5 grown men, thought not only that it was okay to attack two gay people but that it was their duty to do so. First verbally and then physically. This is not acceptable and the story needs to be told. I should not have to feel threatened or uncomfortable hugging someone of the same gender goodbye for the evening be they my life partner, best friend, my father or my brother. Not in Austin, not anywhere. Thumbs down the designation all that you want. I support and applaud KXAN for bringing to light the fact that this type of thing still happens, even in the place that I call home.

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Tue, 28 Dec 2010 17:29:25 +0000

I'm gay, I did not choose that. There are an estimated 16 million LGBT persons in the world and near all of them will tell you that it's not a choice. South Africa allows corrective rape and even murder for homosexuality while Uganda is on a rampage of killing LGBT persons. Yet somehow, these countries where the punishment for being gay is an almost inevitable early demise at the hands of others or the government, LGBT persons still exist. Question... how on Earth could one consider this a choice? If you are gay and happen to be fortunate enough to have made a choice to be, that's great, that's you. Don't blanket the rest of us with your own personal experience.

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Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:50:40 +0000

You read that wrong. It did not happen to the same two people, "This is at least the second time this year two gay men have been beat up after leaving a gay bar on 4th Street." And a nice little link was provided in this story to the first one. The one reported here happened to Beltran and Ortega, the other one that this report mentioned happened to Matt Morgan and Emmanuel Winston.

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Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:38:03 +0000

Seriously? Anyone in this thread who posts a message of support for these two men who were attacked get thumbs down? Where is the outrage at the violence. Whether or not you view this as a hate crime is irrelivant. Someone was beaten down in the street. People make me sick. We should all be allowed to feel safe in Austin and I always have. Frankly though, after this, I'm completely on guard and I shouldn't have to be.

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Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:26:24 +0000

In case you haven't realized, two men hugged each other and were beaten up for it. Let a man and a woman hug at the corner of 4th and Lavaca and they go untouched. This is an issue. You don't think this is a hate crime? Do we have to spell this out for you? These 5 attackers did not know the two victims, the only thing they knew is that the two men were hugging and jumped to the conclusion (albeit a correct conclusion) that they were gay. They felt the need to attack these two men for being gay. Let's change the word gay in this story to African-American and tell us again that it's not a hate crime. Better yet, use your google skills and read up on what a hate crime actually is. Should 5 men who are obviously prone to violence be allowed to run free without punishment? Why should violence be tolerated in any form? They jumped out of a car and beat someone up in public with people around them. What's next? What would have happened if there weren't people there? [sarcastic font] Yes, you're correct, the police do have a lot to do, especially in the wee hours the morning after Christmas like manning speed traps which is far more important than someone getting a beat down on the corner. [/sarcastic font]

jaysays.com | because simon isn't cool anymore : Radical Racist Extremists Infiltrating U.S. Armed Forces – It’s ok… they are straight.

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 02:50:44 +0000

Gay militia? I'm in! Oh, by the way.. this article will in fact go viral, I guarantee it!

jaysays.com | because simon isn't cool anymore : Stupid Things People Say About Gays - The American Dream Doesn't Apply - Deshon Porter for City Coun

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:33:18 +0000

Thanks for the shout out as well as your quick action on this guy. Chances are, he will never make it but, the sort of thing brought out into the open quickly (as this was) hopefully does some good. Grandma always said "nip it in the bud". I didn't agree with her on everything, but I certainly agree with her on that one.

Portland News, Oregon News and Local Weather from KPTV FOX 12 News : Anti-Gay Group To Rally Outside Grant High - Education News Story - KPTV Portland

Fri, 4 Jun 2010 05:01:06 +0000

Religion is like sex it should be practiced behind closed doors!