From the comments section of a very stupid, very redundant op-ed in Austin, Minnesota’s Austin Daily Herald, about how discriminating against gay people in Minnesota is right and just and however it is that bigots are arranging their words these days. Who knows who the commenter is, but he goes by “damien95,” and he had this to say:
If we allow blacks and whites to marry each other, then the gays will get married, then we’ll have polygamy, then we’ll have underage zebras marrying microwaves. Oh why won’t somebody think of the children?
If the zebras were of age, that would be one thing, but if this is going to affect teenage zebras, I’m out.
Sidenote: Never in my life did I think there would be a ready-made and appropriate picture to illustrate this post, but god, the internet.
I wish I knew who “Damien95″ was, because I think I love his style.
In Minnesota, we need to fight this idea that it’s okay to put the civil rights of those you dislike up to a popularity vote. If we allow anti-gay activists to normalize this idea of civil rights for those the majority likes, then which group is next? Whose rights get voted away next time?
I can’t stop looking at that picture OMG
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I’m not too surprised given how crazy the wingnuts are, though I have to say that that is the craziest thing I have read in some time.
Voting on the civil rights of others is morally wrong and I hope that the Supreme Court will rule it to be legally wrong at some point as well. Michael is right–they won’t stop at GLBT people–they will move onto other groups that they view as vulnerable.
Is that a mannequin or a person in a costume?…kinda creepy cool though. When I was in college I had a friend from England (gay of course) who had that twisted sense of British humor. He put the mannequin of a woman with her arm extended, in front of his living room window, pulled the shade down and put a light on behind it. He put a gun in her hand so that passers by would see the silhouette of a woman aiming a pistol at someone. Life was much more fun at 20. :)
Wow, rule 34 really does cover everything.