StrangeSox

Anyone who is against LGBT rights is ok with LGBT people being treated as less-than-equal. That's sort of the definition of "against rights"

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 16, 2012 -> 10:08 AM) If you actually practice the love that is in the bible, pretty much all of those would be taboo. But plenty of people who choose to focus on a few lines in Leviticus clearly don't get the same message as you do, so why are you offended when they're called out for the consequences of their bigotry? My brother's boyfriend just had to leave his home in the middle of the night because his ultra-conservative-religious family found out he was gay and were going to send him to a "pray away the gay" camp. They were also having him pray 5 hours a day to remove his sin, made him move home from college and cut off communication with everyone (took phone and computer). His story isn't particularly unique, unfortunately. That's why it isn't an oversimplification to say that those who oppose LGBT rights enable if not more typically advocate for this sort of treatment. That's why its pretty terrible to dismiss real-world suffering with "masturbation kills kittens." Because real people get really hurt, physically and emotionally. They lose friends and their family cuts them out of their lives. They can be fired for being LGBT without recourse. They aren't treated equally in the eyes of the law in a majority of states. They're beaten up and teased and ostracized as children. They're driven to suicide. They're murdered. The quicker this sort of bigotry is gone, the better our society will be. These are the real consequences of it.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 16, 2012 -> 10:03 AM) I am, but I hate fighting stereotypes and ignorance with more stereotypes and ignorance. Telling people who have a religious objection to being gay that they are in favor of people having their heads bashed in doesn't help anything. Well good thing that wasn't the message on all but one (sorta) of those signs?!

I thought you guys were down with LGBT rights?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 16, 2012 -> 09:59 AM) Opposing rights based on religious reasonings doesn't mean you are in favor of any of those things. It means you're cool with enabling those things, though. Especially since these issues arise from religious bigotry in the first place.

I mean, to me, his insulting dismissal of the very real problems many LGBT face displayed on those signs as equivalent to "masturbation kills kittens" seems like a pretty good illustration of the message of that pic. Both hostility and indifference enable that sort of treatment.

What's being oversimplified there? What's misleading?

Some are, which is why we have things like the Matthew Shepard law. But most of those signs aren't about violence and are about real issues faced by real LGBT people every single day, so I'm really not sure what you're laughing at. It comes across as incredibly callous and oblivious.

I watched this pretty interesting documentary the other night about an American GI who defected to NK in 1962 and has been living there since.

Updated chart of what's fueling the deficit: But we must use this as an opportunity to gut SS and Medicare because benefits may have to be reduced a few decades from now if we don't reduce them immediately.

I think that's at the 50k level.

Boehner is pushing for another debt ceiling showdown. Yeah, it was so great last time.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 15, 2012 -> 11:27 AM) LMAO what? You think Jerry and his investors make on-field decisions? They make calls to the pen. Who do you think put Ohman in yesterday?

It shouldn't matter how much he got his ass kicked if they have convincing evidence that he started it.

I guess there was a strike called right before that that wasn't even close, too. Maybe the ump's ego didn't like Lawrie heading down the line before the call was made? http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/...-human-element/

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 16, 2012 -> 07:23 AM) Brett Lawrie ejected for arguing call, throws his helmet and it richochets up and nails the umpire. Im guessing he will be sitting out for a few http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/7936517/...et-gets-ejected That looked like a pretty terrible call

Why J.P. Morgan's Jamie Dimon Should Resign

GOP-controlled Virginia House rejects a judicial nominee because he's "outspoken on the subject of gay rights"

Here's a good example of how people can be shockingly blind to the privileges they benefit from.

This is just awful:

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ May 15, 2012 -> 02:14 PM) Putting someone in handcuffs is a use of force? Yes, since they're being detained and removed. There's also an implied escalation of force if you resist the state's attempts to deny your civil rights. It's not like these women went to the courthouse expecting to be successful in getting a license, or King organizes sit-ins in Birmingham thinking that they'd just be able to eat at that lunch counter without a problem.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ May 15, 2012 -> 01:21 PM) Good idea...this is a P90X thing, right? I'll have to just use that. It's a basic yoga move that's included in P90X's yoga and I think stretch routines. Get on your hands and balls of your feet and push your chest towards your feet. You can alternate which leg has the weight for additional stretching, too. I always overdo my calf muscles and this really helps.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 15, 2012 -> 01:15 PM) All you know is he went out drinking, are you against athletes getting drunk? Nobody has a problem with partying and having a good time, but come on man, we've got several years now indicating that Kane *might* have a drinking problem in that he drinks too much and he sucks at doing it on top of that.

The scope of the damage would have been far, far less. S&L crisis vs Great Depression 2, CDS Buggaloo