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Based on recent history with public figures who stridently oppose gays, I'm assuming there's at least one cross-dressing, pansexual, crush-porn fan among them.
"Let Constance Take Her Girlfriend to Prom!"
is there a picture of Constance's Girlfriend?
Do any of the 250,000 friends of Constance know if she actually Has a girlfriend?
Perhaps there is a cart/horse problem here...
Perhaps we need a
"Find Constance A Girlfriend to Take to the Prom!"
FaceBook page....
Obviously, these cockroaches liked the light enough to risk being covered by the media, knowing full well how this same situation happened last year in — where was it? oh right — Alabama. They knew what they wrre getting into by de facto banning Constance by killing prom. These people have lived in the South since time immemorial, and they'd rather be called insects than give up their deeply sacrosanct value system on what they think their society should be.
Where belief holds that something shouldn't change on account of sexuality, people can and do fight to bitter ends to prevent a queer from being treated no differently than anyone else.
I'm wondering whether you've done growing up time in the South. I suspect not.
And the mere fact that the ACLU is for it is reason enough for half the people to be against it.
You'd get more sympathy if you hired Lucifer to represent you in court.
Not everyone is as brave as Constance or has such a supportive family. There must be a lot of closeted teens in small homophobia-laden towns who think everyone in the world thinks they're disgusting. This sort of thing shows those kids that outside their backwater communities there's a wide world willing to embrace them with open arms. It also doesn't hurt that Constance is being hailed and embraced while being plus-sized with a southern accent, because most of the gays (and straights, for that matter) on TV are coastal with perfect bodies.
Sounds like they don't grow many spines where you're from.
This proves Facebook is an unreliable gauge of fandom. We all know far less than 5000 people watch that show.
(And that's where I came out. At 18. In 1991. Not as a cissexual homo, but as a transsexual homo. So I know where you're coming from, and where you came from.)
But there are far, far more productive and strategic means to have your voice (solo or collective) heard than via silly pap like joining a goofy Facebook group or signing an online petition. And yet, when people are outraged, these are the ways they channel that frustration. They are also the two laziest, most ineffective ways to speak out.
Do you want effective? Go down there yourself and challenge the school board in person. Give donations to the Mississippi local queer chapters that do exist. Facilitate the start of new ones if they don't already exist.
Do you hate freedom? Do you hate liberty?
OMG I love *love* Wanda Sykes!
You claim that all real Americans hate the ACLU. That's funny: over 500,000 not only support it, but are members or regular donors. How many members do right-wing charities (presumably full of your "real americans" [sic] have?
So anyway, what exactly is wrong with the ACLU? You say it "personifies all that is wrong with the left" [sic], but since I can't read your mind, I have no idea what you consider to be wrong with the Left. Tell me, in excruciating detail if you must.
February 17, 2010
A new CNN poll sheds light on who makes up the Tea Party movement. According to the results, tea partiers are richer, more male and have more education than the general population.
Eleven percent of respondents to the poll said that they had in someway participated in the tea party movement, either by going to a rally, donating money, or "taking some other active step to support the movement." The demographics among that 11% are much different from the rest of the U.S. population.
"Of this core group of Tea Party activists, 6 of 10 are male and half live in rural areas," CNN reports. "Nearly three quarters of Tea Party activists attended college, compared to 54 percent of all Americans, and more than three in four call themselves conservatives."
Sixty-six percent of the tea party activists reported an income higher than $50,000 per year. Among the overall sample in the poll, that figure was 42%. The group is 80% white, as opposed to 71% among all respondents to the poll.
Politically, the figures are not a surprise. Forty-four percent of tea partiers called themselves "Republican," while 52% said they were independent.
wow
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double wow
what is the (exact) age difference, in months, between Constance and mystery girl?
Since you have yet to give me any reasons so far, I'm getting this sneaking suspicion that you don't know what the hell you are talking about.
Sounds like right-wing politics as usual.
But indeed, what is wrong with the ACLU?
I never heard the details, and I wonder if there were any to be had at all. Whatever the case, the ACLU carried with it the aura of pedophilia and atheism, whenever it was brought into conversation or debate.
A guy who raped and murdered a kid had visited the NAMBLA website in the past. The victim's family sued the pervs for wrongful death.
Now, clearly NAMBLA was not directly responsible for the man's crimes, so the ACLU defended them, while making it clear that they did not in any way espouse its ideas.