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#1 Mar 18 2004 at 10:07 AM Rating: Decent
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/South/03/18/county.gays.ap/index.html


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DAYTON, Tennessee (AP) -- The county that was the site of the Scopes "Monkey Trial" over the teaching of evolution is asking lawmakers to amend state law so the county can charge homosexuals with crimes against nature.

The Rhea County commissioners approved the request 8-0 Tuesday.

Commissioner J.C. Fugate, who introduced the measure, also asked the county attorney to find a way to enact an ordinance banning homosexuals from living in the county.

"We need to keep them out of here," Fugate said.




Personally, I don't give a rat's *** if you are gay or not. To each his own, as long as you are not pushing your lifestyle on me.

But I hate to see bigot ******** like this spewing thier hate filled garbage out all over the place. What the **** gives you the right to say that gays are commiting crimes against nature? Hell, the fact that you still draw breath is a crime in my eyes, can I petition to have your brains removed from your skull by means of a high powered rifle? Jackass.



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Rhea County is one of the most conservative counties in Tennessee. It holds an annual festival commemorating the 1925 trial at which John T. Scopes was convicted of teaching evolution.


You people ******* amaze me. Do the world a favor, and remove yourselves from the gene pool in the most expedient way possible.
#2 Mar 18 2004 at 1:25 PM Rating: Good
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I (sadly) live very close to Rhea County, TN (not really by choice, my husband is from this part of the state). For the most part, people in TN aren't really this intolerant, at least not in Nashville, where I lived all my life until a few years ago. But seeing things like this makes me ashamed to be from here. Stupid people like this are why the south still has such a bad sterotype attached to it. Smiley: banghead
#3 Mar 18 2004 at 1:32 PM Rating: Good
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The fact that this was even proposed is an atrocity. The fact that it was approved 8-0 is even more disgusting. So here's my proposal to solve the problem:

I propose that we launch a quick, decisive arial raid against Rhea county using stealth F-117A Nighthawk bombers. We should erradicate the target county so that stupidity like this can never be spread to adjacent counties.

RACK Rhea county for being bigots.
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#4 Mar 18 2004 at 3:37 PM Rating: Decent
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To each his own, as long as you are not pushing your lifestyle on me.
What exactly does that mean? While I appreciate your stand on the Tennessee issue, I'd say you still my have some issues to resolve yourself. Just a thought.Smiley: smile

My guess is that the county attorney will toss this request right in the trash can, regardless of his/her personal feelings on the matter.

As more glbt people come out of their closets, so do the bigots and hatemongers.

I for one say, let them come. Let the hatemongers try to retain their credibility in the light of day. They know they're fighting a losing battle, regardless of any short term victories they may enjoy. That knowledge is making them even more irrational and less credible with each passing day.

Just another opinion from one more not-so-straight woman.
#5 Mar 18 2004 at 7:11 PM Rating: Decent
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Yannari wrote:
What exactly does that mean? While I appreciate your stand on the Tennessee issue, I'd say you still my have some issues to resolve yourself. Just a thought


That's just me Yannari. Some of the best friends I have ever had have been gay. I have even been hit on a couple of times by gay men.

What I meant by that, was that once I tell you I am not gay, don't keep on pushing. I'm not gonna suddenely give in and sleep with you. That's all.


Nadenu wrote:
I (sadly) live very close to Rhea County, TN (not really by choice, my husband is from this part of the state). For the most part, people in TN aren't really this intolerant, at least not in Nashville, where I lived all my life until a few years ago. But seeing things like this makes me ashamed to be from here. Stupid people like this are why the south still has such a bad sterotype attached to it.



Nothing to feel sorry for, you aren't the one acting an *** in front on the world. And while these morons "might" be giving Tennessee a bad name, most people with an above average IQ will figure out that it is just these fanatical ********* stirring up all the trouble.

Here is an idea. Draft these asshats into the Military, and then ship them all off to Afghanistan or Iraq.
#6 Mar 18 2004 at 7:23 PM Rating: Good
Hating people that don't like gay and lesbian people.....

Pot, meet kettle.


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But I hate to see bigot @#%^s like this spewing thier hate filled garbage out all over the place.

Anybody else see the irony in this?
#7 Mar 18 2004 at 7:34 PM Rating: Decent
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unfortunately, the agenda of the religious right is to destroy the Bill of Rights and the constitution. And everyone who wants to keep this country free has to make a stand next election.

The politics of paranoia
The sexually insecure voices of moral absolutism are criminalizing some of our most cherished constitutional protections.
#8 Mar 18 2004 at 7:37 PM Rating: Decent
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Madhame wrote:
Hating people that don't like gay and lesbian people.....


Never said I didn't like you Madhame. But you aren't PUBLICLY trying to get gays banned from living in your county. Or are you? You one of those Rhea county asshats?

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But I hate to see bigot @#%^s like this spewing thier hate filled garbage out all over the place.
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Anybody else see the irony in this?


You are comparing me to these bigots? Go **** yourself.

You are an idiot. I now rank you right up there with Oxid, Pum, Empyre, and Leap on my list. Wootles to you moron.



Edited, Thu Mar 18 19:38:09 2004 by SelfishMan
#9 Mar 18 2004 at 7:54 PM Rating: Decent
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Is it really irony to not tolerate intolerant people?

Is it wrong to hate the haters? Is it wrong to kill the killers?

Maybe it is. But there has to be a point at which you take a stand against injustice. Generally gay people just want the same rights as others, namely to live their lives as they see fit. The 'bigots' are trying to deny these people their rights. It would seem to be morally just (to me at least) to act against those who would deny others their rights.
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#10 Mar 18 2004 at 8:56 PM Rating: Good
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Never said I didn't like you Madhame.


Guess what? Doesn't matter to me one way or the other.

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But you aren't PUBLICLY trying to get gays banned from living in your county. Or are you?


Never said I was or wasn't. My opinion is my own. I just wanted to point out how much your OP looks like a dog chasing it's proverbial tail.

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You one of those Rhea county asshats?

I actually live in the city with the second highest per capita gay population in the U.S.A. Never been to Rhea county or even the state so you're wrong there.

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You are comparing me to these bigots?

dictionary.com wrote:

Bigot
One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ.


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Go @#%^ yourself

Got a wife that takes care of this for me.

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You are an idiot. I now rank you right up there with Oxid, Pum, Empyre, and Leap on my list. Wootles to you moron.

Out of curiosity, are you calling me an idiot and a moron because I pointed out that hating haters is kinda backwards or because you think I have the same views as Oxid, Pum, Empyre and Leap? Or is it something else entirely?
#11 Mar 18 2004 at 9:11 PM Rating: Good
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"unfortunately, the agenda of the religious right is to destroy the Bill of Rights and the constitution. And everyone who wants to keep this country free has to make a stand next election." --Vanillabean

Nice use of the paint brush, there, buddy-boy. But I'm thinking that you're using too small of a tip and should upgrade to a wider brush. Awwww, who am I kidding? Nothing less than a Wagner Power Painter will do for such an open minded individual such as yourself. And that's what you are, right? Open minded? After all, someone so concerned about a particular segment of society such as gays certainly would be equally intent on ensuring another EVEN LARGER group of people receive fair treatment?

Thank you for so amply demonstrating in such exquisite and explicit detail your grasp of the big picture *cough* and for setting the example for the rest of us in your sense of balance and even handedness.

Thank goodness you're another prime example of the noisily vacuous, but ultimately harmless Democratic voting block. Idiot.

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#12 Mar 18 2004 at 10:05 PM Rating: Default
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dictionary.com wrote: wrote:


Bigot
One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ.



I know what the word means. And I would say that J.C. Fugate and the residents of Rhea county fit that definition to perfection.


Let's get this straight. They are trying to ban gays from living in thier county, and are trying to make homosexuality illegal. That makes them bigots.

And for the record Madahme, I don't have a problem with people that don't like gays. Everybody is entitled to thier own opinion. I do however have a problem with people that attempt stupid publicity stunts like this, trying to dictate to people how they should live thier lives.

If that makes me a bad guy in your book, so be it. I don't give a flying ****. I didn't invite you to post in this thread, you did that all on your own. But the fact that your very first post in the thread was an attack on me for stating that I hated bigots...yeah.

Madahme wrote:
Out of curiosity, are you calling me an idiot and a moron because I pointed out that hating haters is kinda backwards or because you think I have the same views as Oxid, Pum, Empyre and Leap? Or is it something else entirely?


Just thier mental aptitude. That is why you are on the list.





#13 Mar 19 2004 at 4:27 AM Rating: Good
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Ding ding ding!!
Round over. Everybody back to their corners.

All that he was trying to say, SelfishMan, was this:

People in Rhea county are bigots and hate gay people.
You hate people who hate gay people, like the bigots from Rhea county.

Yes, there is irony in that.
No, it doesn't make you look like a bad guy.
No, it doesn't matter what other people on this forum think.


Please don't turn this into another God/Politics thread. PLEASE!!!
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#14 Mar 19 2004 at 7:50 AM Rating: Decent
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What I meant by that, was that once I tell you I am not gay, don't keep on pushing. I'm not gonna suddenely give in and sleep with you. That's all.

Some men are just like that, and you don't have to be gay. They just don't believe you don't want to sleep with them. They think you need a little more convincing.



Be quiet, Totem.
#15 Mar 19 2004 at 8:09 AM Rating: Good
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/South/03/18/county.gays.ap/index.html

Well, in an update to the thread. They've apparently withdrawn this proposal.

I love the quote from their county attorney:

County attorney Gary Fritts wrote:
the initial vote triggered a "wildfire" of reaction. "I've never seen nothing like this," he said Thursday.


Well, gosh darnit. Me neither. How scary is it that this is the guy in charge of cleaning up their public affairs.

Then he continues:

County attorney Gary Fritts wrote:
advised the commissioners they cannot ban homosexuals or make them subject to criminal charges.


Who knew?

12-year-old Caitlin Kinney wrote:
attending the meeting with her mother, said she supported the commissioners' initial vote.

"I think they should go further, try to see if they can ban them," she said. "It's not a Christian thing."


It saddens me that parents are still teaching their children such intolerance.



Edited, Fri Mar 19 08:14:02 2004 by Alienone
#16 Mar 19 2004 at 10:55 AM Rating: Decent
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Alienone, it brings to mind the little song from South Pacific.

You've got to be taught, before it's too late!
Before you are six, or seven or eight,
to hate all the people your relatives hate.
You've got to be carefully taught.

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Some men are just like that, and you don't have to be gay. They just don't believe you don't want to sleep with them. They think you need a little more convincing.
Amen, Flea. It's that whole "no means no" thing that seems to be a very difficult concept for some people.

Selfishman, this apparently isn't your case but many "straight" people are often suddenly not so straight when given the option. Some of us (glbt peeps) are very skeptical of people's claims of total straightness.

Quit teasing those boys, you saucy thing! Smiley: flowers
#17 Mar 19 2004 at 11:33 AM Rating: Good
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But I hate to see bigot @#%^s like this spewing thier hate filled garbage out all over the place.


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I don't have a problem with people that don't like gays.


So which is it?
#18 Mar 19 2004 at 11:40 AM Rating: Decent
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Some of us (glbt peeps) are very skeptical of people's claims of total straightness


If you want respect for your gayness, you should respect straightness.

Having said that, a guy gets a lot of guy points if he turns a lesbian.
#19 Mar 19 2004 at 11:45 AM Rating: Good
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It's not just the Rhea Co. people who are giving Tennesseans a bad name... remember; this state passed a law making the cooking of roadkill legal.

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#20 Mar 19 2004 at 12:54 PM Rating: Decent
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But I hate to see bigot @#%^s like this spewing thier hate filled garbage out all over the place.

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I don't have a problem with people that don't like gays.

So which is it?


I think he explained that already, he has no problem with people who don't like gays, he has a problem with people who go beyond that into hatred and discrimination.

I personally don't like the french but i would never ask them to be any different and certainly wouldn't start changing the law to make it illeagal for french people to live in my town. That is the difference.
#21 Mar 19 2004 at 1:11 PM Rating: Good
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Patrician wrote:

Having said that, a guy gets a lot of guy points if he turns a lesbian.


Does a girl get lots of girl points for turning a gay man?
(And out of curiosity, if gay women are called lesbians, what name do gay men get?)
#22 Mar 19 2004 at 1:15 PM Rating: Decent
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Does a girl get lots of girl points for turning a gay man?


Girls don't get points at all. Bless 'em.

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(And out of curiosity, if gay women are called lesbians, what name do gay men get?)


****. Joke, I promise, I am have no issue with gay people
#23 Mar 19 2004 at 1:20 PM Rating: Good
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Patrician wrote:
****. Joke, I promise, I am have no issue with gay people


Hmm.. I thought it was fruits.
I guess I need to put disclaimer in small print as well. Don't want anyone to take offense. I've dated some very nice gay people.
#24 Mar 19 2004 at 1:26 PM Rating: Good
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I thought it was **** burgler.

Totem
#25 Mar 19 2004 at 1:31 PM Rating: Decent
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I thought it was **** burgler.

Totem


I don't think they burgle them, it's more of a packing, and the correct term is Fudge, not ****.



#26 Mar 19 2004 at 1:34 PM Rating: Decent
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If you want respect for your gayness, you should respect straightness
I respect people's orientation completely. My point is that many people are not honest (even with themselves) about how they're oriented. People who are not straight tend to view sexual orientation as shades of gray.

And no, this is not directed at you personally.

The teasing was, of course.
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