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The date on that article was 18 Dec 2002!
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timmy
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Apart from the article being massively out of date, do you know who the unpleasant author is?
He is a bigot and a homophobe.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Peter LaBarbera, the author, now heads up a group called "Americans for Truth About Homosexuality". I'll let you do a google search, I don't want to link to THAT site. I feel like I need to rinse out my brain with bleach after reading some of that shit.....
I think you need to come up with a stronger term than bigot, the man is evil.
(\\__/) And if you don't believe The sun will rise
(='.'=) Stand alone and greet The coming night
(")_(") In the last remaining light. (C. Cornell)
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timmy
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I was being very restrained. And I will scrub out any link to his site from here.
The thing is, pat, why did you post this here? What was the reason we needed to see it?
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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yusime
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I did not find something better suited for posting about Andrew Sullivan at the time. The extreme attack these people insisted on making was so disturbing I just couldn't ignore it. There are elements of the "RIGHT" that we should be at least modestly aware of no matter how much of a sickening world view they possess.
This explains the world view of "Concerned Women for America" very well. They are all completely nuts. Looks almost like Conservatives are trying to become less like right-wing ideologues and more responsible political members in the US. I do not want to see the radical right attempt to destroy as they have termed "THE OBAMA AGENDA". If the crazy people should regain the house of representatives I'm not sure the US will be able to withstand them having political power again. The fact that the "Radical Right" seems to hate everyone who disagrees with them about anything no matter their ideology is becoming more disturbing with every passing day.
The truly strange thing is the Radical Right took conservative politics to its logical conclusion but hardly anyone is willing to admit that little detail.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/12/leaving-the-right.html
He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake since for him a spinal cord would suffice. Albert Einstein
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The first article is written by a homophobic and in my humble opinion,twisted evil fuck, who'd like nothing better than to see the eradication of LGBT folk ala SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich's Final Solution.
Then, the second article is a lengthy intellectualized rant by Sullivan not unlike the overall theme of his daily columns.
(He is an editor at Atlantic Monthly where his blog is based.)
Note* For those that are interested, Sullivan is a British Ex-Pat who lives here in D. C. He's a self proclaimed conservative political commentator, blogger, and is semi-popular on the U. S. college/uni speaking circuit. He claims to be VERY Roman Catholic and is forever having mortal combat with the Holy See. He was married in 2007 to actor/artist Aaron Tone in Massachusetts.
Now, here's the thing to note about Sullivan, as a NON-Citizen of the U. S. he's barred from voting and interestingly enough as much as he blogs about the political scene, one would think that Sullivan would be motivated enough to become naturalised and jump right in eh? Then there is his rather bizarre political ideology and fringe opinions that sometimes wins him a good deal of criticism because he leaps from one "firmly held belief" to another at a seemingly drop of a hat. He annoys more than just the Ultra-Right with his questionable political grandstanding and frankly sometimes weird behaviours. The Left sometimes is left shaking its collective heads at his antics.
Okay so there' a quick review of the facts. Now Pat, IF, you'd been looking for say a contemporary article that dealt with current events that was in keeping with Tim's desired and stated aims for the message board; Then I would have chosen say this one by Sullivan from his blog:
"09 Jan 2010 02:49 pm
Christianist Watch
The fusion of religion and politics and the use of Biblical authority to strip other people of civil rights is not, of course, unique to America. In Northern Ireland, for example, sectarian conflict was accompanied by incredibly repressive attitudes toward sexual minorities and women. When I went on Ulster television for "Virtually Normal" in 1995, it was the first ever broadcast across Northern Ireland dealing specifically with the homosexual question. They invited ten openly gay people to be in the studio audience, and only three had the balls to show up. And so it is not that surprising that a leading politician in Ulster would respond to a brutal gay-bashing by criticizing the attack but adding that she nonetheless believed that homosexuality was an "abomination" and made her feel "sick" and "nauseous". She believed that sexual orientation could be cured by psychiatry. She argued that......"
Here's the URL for those who'd like to finish reading the article:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/01/christianist-watch-1.html#more
OR, you could have written your opinion on a current LGBT topic that made you question, or express anger over, etc and then referenced Sullivan.
But your first post absolutely did not, and the second article was pretty much pointless as it only summed up Sullivan's disdain for the way that the "Political Right" has evolved since the Reagan era. There was nothing specific that was noteworthy.
So I ask? What were you striving for Pat?
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