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You don’t say. This is real, and here’s the entire 2012 Republican Party of Texas Report of Platform Committee. If you’re a member of the Republican party in Texas and were wondering how you should feel about gay people – here you go! Your thoughts and opinions handled for you!
Personally, I would MUCH rather people spell their bigotry out like this so I know where I stand rather than smile in my face, and wish me into a concentration camp behind my back.
Your thoughts?
– J. Harvey (via Buzzfeed)
Well, they say everything’s bigger in Texas… I guess they aren’t referring to their hearts or sense of fairness and equality. I say fuck ’em.
Religion – Legitimizing political, social, and economic control through hate, suffering and outright stupidity since the dawn of time. Get yours today!!
Regardless of the demographic, even within a particular state such as Texas, there are variables. However, as a proud gay Texan living in a very progressive oasis called the city of Austin, home of the University of Texas, there are many people fighting this bigotry and narrow-mindedness in our state. It is true that the Republican Party, with their hatred toward the LGBTQ community, rules the state. However, I ask you to join with the many liberal, fair-minded people in this state to retake the state legislature and governor’s mansion. We are all staunchly pro-Texas, but please do not consciously discard the many like-minded, pro-gay gays and lesbians in our great state. The Democratic Party is alive and well in the Lone Star State, and we welcome your support!
a generation ago these type of people hated black people (many of them i’d guess still do). These sort of people bring shame to our species
So to summarize Anti-Homosexuals, but Pro violence against homosexuals without repercussions. Another day, another reason I’m glad I live in Canada.
why do so many gay porn stars live in texas ?
Because so many conservative, bible-thumping, fake-married, closeted, self-loathing, keep-your-mouth-shut-paying, gay Republican politicians on the “discreet” prowl do.
My thoughts are the same as always – that as long as the gay rights movement continues to be as hypocritical as it is today, I will respect it as much as I respect the Texas GOP.
This is an intriguing post. While being extremely far to the left politically, I have many qualms about the gay rights movement. I am genuinely interested to hear your objections (though I admit this may not be the best forum for such a discussion).
As I commented on this blog recently, the term “gay Republican” strikes me as an oxymoron, with a heavy emphasis on MORON. The term “gay Texan Republican” is nothing but a farce.
I had the sad misfortune of growing up in west Texas. So if I am stereotyping, at least I am stereotyping from an informed vantage point.
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If the ‘movement’ isn’t working in the way you’d like to see it work…who’s fault is that? What is it that you are doing to further the cause as you see it? That is a genuine question as I have no idea.
If you are, as I suspect, just sitting back and watching other people fight your battles, it seems unfair to me that you criticize their efforts without first entering the ring.
They claim for themselves the heart of cultural and social progressivism while conveniently avoiding issues that 1) are far harder to deal with in society, 2) are not convenient to tackle, both due to 1) and due to the economic well being of their biggest current support based – the urban gay adult professional who otherwise abides perfectly by the heteronormative mold. The further you stray from that, the less likely the gay rights movement will work for your benefit.
FUCK. YOU. TEXAS.
Don’t kid around. The gay rights movement is a monopolized political block; an international coalition (like ILGA) of individual movements and organizations that are themselves monopolizing.
Queer rights were born out of opposition to society’s heteronormative mold – nowadays they’re focused on allowing gay people participation in that mold. The gay people that are interested in it, that is. Furthermore:
a) You can’t be an ephebophile, even though biology’s logic is firmly by your side and psychiatry doesn’t consider you ill – that’s too close to pedophilia and it would stir up our socially conservative slaveowners. Leave the tabloid press ‘protect our children’ mindless fanaticism alone; age of consent matters only in its comparison to the heterosexual one.
b) You can’t hold political views outside the mainstream center-left – not if you want the gay rights movement to truly represent you politically, because they’re tightly glued to that particular ideological zone.
Interesting and very well articulated.
Feel free to provide correction if I’m wrong, but doesn’t it make sense to first focus on obtaining such things as the freedom to have legally recognized marriages and anti discrimination protections in the workplace prior to altering age of consent concepts?
This is especially true if it is a majority of gay/lesbian/bi/trans/ individuals acting as a group seeking these expressions of equality.
I suppose it can be seen as hypocritical that the present “Gay Rights Movement” doesn’t endorse NAMBLA but is that grounds for dismissing the movement?
I think it is fairly impossible for one group to speak fully for the beliefs of everyone in that group, and indeed this is one of the great failings with ‘liberals’ in general, they don’t present a unified front especially in the face of the apparent and again general single mindedness of the conservatives at work today.
Also, I thought that Queer rights were born out of a desire to not be criminalized and persecuted. I don’t get the sense that the “Gay Community” persecutes or criminalizes the more fringe elements of the community. They simply seem to not want the fringe to be taken for the middle, and kind of treat associations such as NAMBLA as something of an embarassment.
The only other course really is to not participate in the system…but then it just makes it that much easier for the straight majority to go back to the way things once were … what 60 years ago.
Many of the comments here belie an intolerance and hatred (of the normal, traditional historical, vast-majority opinion of millennia of human opinion) that is far more vitriolic than what you willfully-aggrieved are “bitching” about. You worship penis as a god which is nothing new (Priapus, etc.) but increasingly intolerant of the norms of civilized society.
Get over it, guys. You’re different so be different. You have achieved tolerance; if approval — pretending that your choices are normal and as equally positive as MARRIED heterosexuality — ever comes, it will bring societal decline with it.
Stop being so fucking selfish and narrow-minded.
They don’t have to take anyone for the middle. That’s what coalitions are for. Roosevelt managed to make one that included both blacks and white segregationists that wanted them dead (kudos to the Democratic Party in the South for that).
I’m not against the drive for marriage equality, as it is currently labelled. The problem is that the picture the gay rights movements paints of people just like everyone else, wanting something that everyone else wants, is a demeaning one. It’s watering down the message, surrendering convictions. It’s also convenient because it targets those people whose financial outlook allows for the healthy political support of the movement.
LGBT rights’ public image has responded to baseless socially conservative criticisms of homosexuality-as-pedophilia by proving itself otherwise to them, rather than dismissing it for the nonsense it is. You’re unlikely to find Death in Venice embraced by the publically minded LGBT as a film of their own, even though in objective terms it has nothing to do with either sex or pre-pubescent children (in reactionary bigoted kneejerk terms, it has everything to do with it).
Paternalistic legislation has nothing to do with how human beings are wired, which is why even though it’s illegal in the US for an adult to have consensual sex with a post-pubescent minor, everyone knows at the same time that they’re biologically equipped for the act, and that sticking a dick in a hole is only automatically synonymous with an entangled personal relationship of dominance and abuse in the minds of soccer moms. Nevermind that there’s no connection between sadistic abuse of pre-pubescent children by mentally ill people and a horny 16 year old liking an older guy that likes him back. If the media says they’re the same, the LGBT spokesmen follow suit.
Nevermind that Harry Hay Jr. was an explicit ally of NAMBLA. Nevermind that the Mattachine Society was virtually a communist ideological think thank. Nevermind the gigantic heritage of Ancient Athens, Renaissance Italy and Victorian England, through wide ranging artistic and social expression, of age disparity in consensual gay relationships, celebrated by a genuinely daring few at a time when all acts of ‘sodomy’ were illegal. Heck, nevermind that there are also almost as many secular center-right LGBT people as there are on the other side of the political spectrum.
To truly enjoy the fruits of the LGBT movement, you should be an urban professional adult, whose only desire is to be in monogamy with other appropriately adult urban professionals, and want a left-leaning keynesian mixed economy. And the Texas GOP are the narrowminded people.
I don’t think gay promiscuity is any better than heterosexual monogamous stability. The point is that heterosexual monogamous stability is its own thing, and gay rights don’t have to pander to that. Men having sex with men, or with teenage boys for that matter, don’t have to be the cornerstone of civilization, but it doesn’t mean you have to criminalize those acts, or belittle them.
Athens 2500 years ago did just fine with legalized prostitution and boys allying education in mathematics, rhetoric and music to getting it up the ass from their older teachers.
the Democratic Party may be alive in Texas, but its far from “well” when it comes to LGBT issues. In neither the 2010 nor 2012 platform do Texas Democrats support anti-discrimination legislation for employment, housing or marriage rights. The 2010 platform merely advocates that current discriminatory laws be taken off the books (in other words, discrimination can still occur by private employers, landlords, etc., it just can’t be mandated by law). And the 2012 platform doesn’t even go that far — although it does come out in favor of adoption rights for parents regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.
In other words, while the Texas Republicans suck big time, Texas Democrats suck only somewhat less. That’s no reason to suggest that LGBT people owe any allegience to the Democratic party. Indeed, by praising them Dems, you demostrate why the rest of us should be so contemptuous of Texas’s LGBT community (such as it is.) When you start confronting your acquiescence to your own oppression (here’s a clue — start outing prominent politicians — and their family members) maybe you’ll deserve more consideration.
Am I understanding this correctly? If someone goes on a shooting rampage and kills dozens of known homosexuals the shooter can use the defense that homosexuality is against their religious beliefs and they get off scott free?
As someone who lives in Texas I can tell you that no one I know is against anyone who is gay
As a gay Texan, I think what I find just as sad is to read the comments on here blasting the state of Texas as a whole for the opinions of a closed minded group of republicans. That sort of attitude is just as bad as theirs. It would be like thinking all African Americans are drug dealers and gang bangers because some of them,are, or to believe that all homosexuals like to dress in drag, enjoy show tunes, and are overly feminine, because some are. Just because a group of closed minded republicans feel this way, and they just so happen to live in Texas, doesn’t mean you should attack or hate on the entire state. I’m sure there are groups that feel this same way in every state and probably in every country. Texas has huge gay communities in Dallas, Austin, & Houston. So just remember to focus your hate in the right direction. This is a republican party view. Not the view or opinion of the whole state.
the state as a whole consistently EMPOWERS the Texas GOP, and thus to suggest that what we’re discussing here is just some fringe group opinion is asinine.
To act like everyone in the state has this opinion is just as asinine. I see a hundred news reports about people doing stupid stuff in Florida, but that doesn’t mean everyone who lives there is an idiot. My point is there are many many people who live here who do not think this way or have this opinion. So to act like everyone who lives here feels this way makes you no better than the close minded idiots who have this opinion.
Isn’t “no legal action being taken against those who oppose homosexuality on the basis of religion” saying that they are declaring a jihad? Sounds like it to me. You just go do whatever you want and we’ll bless it because you’re spreading your hate in the name of God.
FUCKING BULLSHIT.
to act as if “as a whole” is the same thing as “everyone” isn’t asinine, its just plain stupid.
It truly saddens me to know there are still so many bigoted and evil people in this world, and yet we’re the unnatural ones. I’m fortunate that the only people who really matter (my family) loves and supports me no matter what. These people do not behave the way their “God” commands them to, so to me they are just a pathetic virus infecting our country.