Special Rights for Homophobes

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Friday February 13, 2015 · 11:16 AM PST

2015/02/13 · 11:16

People shouldn’t be given the special right to discriminate. And being in favor of discrimination shouldn’t be a protected class. Attacking someone else’s civil rights or equality (even via plain old speech or the political process) shouldn’t be a protected class, religious or not.

The Mormon Church is saying we can only have anti-discrimination laws protecting LGBT people if there are special rights to discriminate for religious people and protections from them never being fired for their hateful activities or attitudes. http://www.bilerico.com/...

If any mainstream person makes this false equivalency or thinks this is a reasonable argument, I’ll ask them this: should we repeal the 1964 Civil Rights Act and other previously passed anti-discrimination laws unless and until racists and sexists have protection from getting fired?

Civil rights laws make it so you can’t discriminate against a religion. It doesn’t religions the right to discriminate.

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Friday August 29, 2008 · 8:08 AM PDT

2008/08/29 · 08:08

I was waiting for this moment. But I was unprepared.

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Saturday August 23, 2008 · 12:53 AM PDT

2008/08/23 · 00:53

Below is a link to the instahackery of a story already put out against the O-B '08 ticket by the GOP sycophant Ron Fournier at AP (Associated Press/American Pravda):

http://news.yahoo.com/...

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Tuesday August 19, 2008 · 8:45 AM PDT

2008/08/19 · 08:45

This morning I responded to a letter to the editor in my local paper, with a letter of my own. Hopefully it will get published.

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Monday August 18, 2008 · 8:58 AM PDT

2008/08/18 · 08:58

The media and Republicans have seen Georgia and the national security issue as a big opportunity to get McCain ahead. Is the Obama camp too naive about what they are up against? Democrats always need to realize they are in for an uphill battle with the media the way it is and the Republicans ability to fearmonger. I got scared after reading these three things and other things lately:

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Thursday May 22, 2008 · 9:17 AM PDT

2008/05/22 · 09:17

It’s one thing to continue to divide the party to sincerely support a candidacy that can go nowhere. It’s another thing to further the most insidious, misleading, destructive, and Orwellian right-wing lies for your own failure-desitned short-term gain in supporting such a candidacy. That’s why Clinton surrogate Lanny Davis has to be the most myopically cynical person I can think of.

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Monday April 14, 2008 · 9:37 AM PDT

2008/04/14 · 09:37

Obama said some rural Americans are bitter. About all this job loss and jobs not coming back. Who wouldn't be?

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Friday April 11, 2008 · 9:47 AM PDT

2008/04/11 · 09:47

Senator McCain may have flip-flopped for obvious political reasons on the mortgage mess, actually trying to propose a plan with solutions, albeit solutions that wouldn’t help many homeowners if he actually ever even supported the plan once he (God forbid) is President. See McCain shifts aid to some mortgage holders," Michael Cooper, New York Times, April 11, 2008, at http://www.nytimes.com/...

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Thursday February 21, 2008 · 3:42 PM PST

2008/02/21 · 15:42

One of McCain's problems is that the knee-jerk conservative right, his base as a GOP nominee, doesn't like him.

The NYT knows people think they are liberal, but as their war coverage and other recent history shows, they seem just as much an establishmentarian neo-con tool as the rest of the "liberal media".

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Saturday February 02, 2008 · 1:54 PM PST

2008/02/02 · 13:54

My parents moved to Fairfield, subject of the front page diary on Ron Paul's top zipcodes to the left, from Mason City Iowa when they retired in 1998. I grew up mainly in Mason City, born in Dubuque.

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Wednesday June 27, 2007 · 8:37 AM PDT

2007/06/27 · 08:37

A CNN poll shows, for the first time, that a majority of Americans think that sexual orientation cannot be changed.

CNN Poll

Many still disagree of course. Including of course those proverbial self-righteous but image-conscious conservatives out there, so common these days, who go around thinking and saying "I love my gay relatives, and I’m such a great person because I’m all nicey nice to gay people, but this is their choice, I know it’s a choice and therefore I can oppose gay rights without having any blood on my hands; they are the ones that chose a lifestyle where you don’t get rights."

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Tuesday May 15, 2007 · 2:10 PM PDT

2007/05/15 · 14:10

Jerry's Dead. Get a Job.

Your revolution is over.

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