Focus on the Family really should change it's name to Focus on the Anal Sex, because it seems that this is the only thing they see in gay people. They're aren't really people to them, they're just symbols for anal sex. Walmart is not promoting gay sex by advertising to gay people, any more than they are promoting Christian sex if they take out an ad in a Christian publication. They're not starting a new department to sell them ball gags and butt plugs, for crying out loud.
Hee. I apologize in advance to both of you, but I just can't read that and "rimrunner" and not cackle in a juvenile fashion!
"It is unfortunate," Perkins said, "that Wal-Mart has joined forces with an organization whose mission opposes many of the values shared by rural and small-town America."
Oh, Jesus Christ on toast points, people. WAL-MART is a symbol of RURAL AND SMALL-TOWM AMERICA? The most gigantic, tentacular, small-business-strangling, rural-area-killing, wetlands-destroying....! In what universe?!!
Oh, right, the universe in which only gay people have anal sex (news flash, you ever read any of the statistical reports about the activities of straight couples?) and *all* gay people have anal sex (uh, lesbians, anyone?) and of course, of goddamn course, gay sex leads inevitably to man on dog or sheep (y'know, guys, this ridiculous obsession with bestiality only makes me wonder where YOUR proclivities lie).
And seriously --their fixation on whatever lives they think gay people are living says more about them than anything they say about gay people at large. Just ridiculous!
(While kudos to Wal * Mart for not giving a shit about what their consumers do at home, it still doesn't make me want to shop their for all the other reasons you've neatly outlined above.)
You can have the icon if you want; I borrowed it from someone else after I fell in love with it as an expression of "incandescent rage."
Yeah, I refuse to shop there, too. and like you, I give credit where it's due; this is the company that censored movies and refused to carry "racy" books and covered up Maxim like it was porn, so this is a huge step in the right direction (besides, you always know you're doing the right thing when Focus on the Anal Sex - hee - gets angry!).
Yep. Gay "lifestyles" are all about sex. Gee, that couldn't be because you fundie Christians only get some once a year to conceive a new fundie, could it? :)
It's funny and sad that a measure of my support relies on whatever it is the fundies disapprove of! I haven't stopped thinking for myself or anything, but it does almost always seem to work out that way!
(And seriously, don't be legislating based on the fact that your wife-y-poo won't put out unless it's for procreation!)
Less sarcastically, I bet they wouldn't be at all amused if us evil sex-havers ganged up to dictate that someone must have sex at least twice a week, in something other than the missionary position. If it's not fun from that end (er, no pun intended), well, I believe there's a Bible verse that covers doing unto others what you would not wish done to yourself.
(One about public and blatant faith display, too, for that matter!)
I would just love to be able to stick them into a parallel universe where what felt right and normal to them was considered an aberration by those in power and society at large. I think they'd come back with a decided shift to their perspective.
I have often really, really wished I could do that. (Then I remember their amazing imperviousness to facts they don't like, combined with the human tendency to pick on other people *even if* you're being picked on yourself by someone else... and despair. Sigh. Still be fun, though!)
I just can't read that and "rimrunner" and not cackle in a juvenile fashion!
Mwa ha ha!
(Yes, this handle has gotten that reaction before.)
(y'know, guys, this ridiculous obsession with bestiality only makes me wonder where YOUR proclivities lie).
It's been my theory for some time now that the most virulent, vicious anti-gay folk are closet cases—IOW, the gentlemen doth protest too much, methinks.
Uh, I truly *am* sorry. :) But at least I'm not alone!
I don't even think they're gay; most gay people are way too normal to resemble these jackasses. I think, quite seriously, that many of them have even weirder fetishes.... if not animals, then kumqats or something. That, or my snide speculation about them being severely deprived. This level of obsession with the sex lives of other people just isn't healthy.
(Although it's certainly true that a percentage of the most virulent probably really are in denial. After all, if *they* don't get to like other men without shame and misery, why should anyone else?)
I think I have to agree with both you and lietya on this one. I think a good chunk of them must be closet cases, which I think can be used as a sort of boogeyman for little gay boys and girls.... "Now, be brave and come out of the closet or you'll end up like James Dobson or something!"
So it's not just because they're closet gays that they're freaks, but it's because they are so self-loathing, mind-warped, and miserable that they are freaks!
If an unmarried woman comes in and cannot show them an intact hymen, then they don't get to buy that sunscreen and shampoo (because hussies like you deserve oily hair, itchy scalp and sunburn as God intended). In fact, they could make a tidy profit by selling stones to the horde outside the front door waiting to stone that slut to death for her crimes against God.
Also--I just saw your icon on the cover of some comic book earlier today! It looks fantastic up close. Is that the work of some artist that you were once raving about? (Can't remember his name.)
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Date: 2006-09-01 10:05 pm (UTC)Fan-fucking-tastic.
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Date: 2006-09-01 10:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-01 10:12 pm (UTC)"It is unfortunate," Perkins said, "that Wal-Mart has joined forces with an organization whose mission opposes many of the values shared by rural and small-town America."
Oh, Jesus Christ on toast points, people. WAL-MART is a symbol of RURAL AND SMALL-TOWM AMERICA? The most gigantic, tentacular, small-business-strangling, rural-area-killing, wetlands-destroying....! In what universe?!!
Oh, right, the universe in which only gay people have anal sex (news flash, you ever read any of the statistical reports about the activities of straight couples?) and *all* gay people have anal sex (uh, lesbians, anyone?) and of course, of goddamn course, gay sex leads inevitably to man on dog or sheep (y'know, guys, this ridiculous obsession with bestiality only makes me wonder where YOUR proclivities lie).
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Date: 2006-09-01 10:18 pm (UTC)And seriously --their fixation on whatever lives they think gay people are living says more about them than anything they say about gay people at large. Just ridiculous!
(While kudos to Wal * Mart for not giving a shit about what their consumers do at home, it still doesn't make me want to shop their for all the other reasons you've neatly outlined above.)
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Date: 2006-09-01 10:26 pm (UTC)Yeah, I refuse to shop there, too. and like you, I give credit where it's due; this is the company that censored movies and refused to carry "racy" books and covered up Maxim like it was porn, so this is a huge step in the right direction (besides, you always know you're doing the right thing when Focus on the Anal Sex - hee - gets angry!).
Yep. Gay "lifestyles" are all about sex. Gee, that couldn't be because you fundie Christians only get some once a year to conceive a new fundie, could it? :)
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Date: 2006-09-01 10:53 pm (UTC)(And seriously, don't be legislating based on the fact that your wife-y-poo won't put out unless it's for procreation!)
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Date: 2006-09-02 12:29 am (UTC)Less sarcastically, I bet they wouldn't be at all amused if us evil sex-havers ganged up to dictate that someone must have sex at least twice a week, in something other than the missionary position. If it's not fun from that end (er, no pun intended), well, I believe there's a Bible verse that covers doing unto others what you would not wish done to yourself.
(One about public and blatant faith display, too, for that matter!)
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Date: 2006-09-02 01:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-02 02:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-01 10:20 pm (UTC)Oh! OH! You naughty thing. Even *I* didn't think of that! :)
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Date: 2006-09-01 10:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-01 10:26 pm (UTC)I blame Sheep, for both of us :)
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Date: 2006-09-01 10:27 pm (UTC)....and gay people.
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Date: 2006-09-01 10:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-01 10:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-01 11:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-01 10:27 pm (UTC)Mwa ha ha!
(Yes, this handle has gotten that reaction before.)
(y'know, guys, this ridiculous obsession with bestiality only makes me wonder where YOUR proclivities lie).
It's been my theory for some time now that the most virulent, vicious anti-gay folk are closet cases—IOW, the gentlemen doth protest too much, methinks.
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Date: 2006-09-01 10:32 pm (UTC)I don't even think they're gay; most gay people are way too normal to resemble these jackasses. I think, quite seriously, that many of them have even weirder fetishes.... if not animals, then kumqats or something. That, or my snide speculation about them being severely deprived. This level of obsession with the sex lives of other people just isn't healthy.
(Although it's certainly true that a percentage of the most virulent probably really are in denial. After all, if *they* don't get to like other men without shame and misery, why should anyone else?)
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Date: 2006-09-01 10:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-02 12:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-01 10:57 pm (UTC)So it's not just because they're closet gays that they're freaks, but it's because they are so self-loathing, mind-warped, and miserable that they are freaks!
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Date: 2006-09-02 12:30 am (UTC)That is GREAT. Hee.
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Date: 2006-09-01 10:25 pm (UTC)Ahem:
If an unmarried woman comes in and cannot show them an intact hymen, then they don't get to buy that sunscreen and shampoo (because hussies like you deserve oily hair, itchy scalp and sunburn as God intended). In fact, they could make a tidy profit by selling stones to the horde outside the front door waiting to stone that slut to death for her crimes against God.
Hah!
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Date: 2006-09-01 10:59 pm (UTC)Also--I just saw your icon on the cover of some comic book earlier today! It looks fantastic up close. Is that the work of some artist that you were once raving about? (Can't remember his name.)
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Date: 2006-09-01 11:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-01 11:24 pm (UTC)