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Phil sent me this a minute ago...
http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/health_med_fit/vital_signs/article_f0ca35e4-1737-11df-b146-001cc4c03286.html
I think there should be some new laws. If you believe evolution is a theory and the universe was made in 7 days, you don't get to vote.
If you believe being gay or lesbian is a choice and that school counselors would somehow 'force' kids to be gay simply by talking to them about it, you don't get to vote.
The above two rules would go a long way to keeping psychos like Grothman out of government. Because they don't belong there.
This part really got me;
Back when he went to high school in Mequon, he recalled, the issue never, ever came up. "Did people even know what homosexuality was in high school in 1975? I don't remember any discussion about that at the time. There were a few guys who would make fun of a few effeminate boys," he said, "but that's a different thing than homosexuality."
"Homosexuality," Grothman remembered, "was not on anybody's radar. And that's a good thing."
That sounds akin to people who talk about the 50s like some shining, golden era, when issues of racial and gender equality "didn't exist." In reality, the problems were there, the only difference is, the groups in question were held firmly under heel by society, so the average person in middle america didn't see it.
What too many Republicans fail to realize is that just because you don't see an issue and no one talks about it... it doesn't mean it isn't there. It just means there's no room for people to come forward, no guarantee for their safety.
And that's the kind of world Grothman really means when he talks about a time when nobody talked about being gay in school; a world where gays and lesbians have no rights, no protections, no sympathy, and with no consequences for those who harm them. I guess they should just quit being ghey and go be NORMAL, right? >.>
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Phil sent me this a minute ago...
http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/health_med_fit/vital_signs/article_f0ca35e4-1737-11df-b146-001cc4c03286.html
I think there should be some new laws. If you believe evolution is a theory and the universe was made in 7 days, you don't get to vote.
If you believe being gay or lesbian is a choice and that school counselors would somehow 'force' kids to be gay simply by talking to them about it, you don't get to vote.
The above two rules would go a long way to keeping psychos like Grothman out of government. Because they don't belong there.
This part really got me;
Back when he went to high school in Mequon, he recalled, the issue never, ever came up. "Did people even know what homosexuality was in high school in 1975? I don't remember any discussion about that at the time. There were a few guys who would make fun of a few effeminate boys," he said, "but that's a different thing than homosexuality."
"Homosexuality," Grothman remembered, "was not on anybody's radar. And that's a good thing."
That sounds akin to people who talk about the 50s like some shining, golden era, when issues of racial and gender equality "didn't exist." In reality, the problems were there, the only difference is, the groups in question were held firmly under heel by society, so the average person in middle america didn't see it.
What too many Republicans fail to realize is that just because you don't see an issue and no one talks about it... it doesn't mean it isn't there. It just means there's no room for people to come forward, no guarantee for their safety.
And that's the kind of world Grothman really means when he talks about a time when nobody talked about being gay in school; a world where gays and lesbians have no rights, no protections, no sympathy, and with no consequences for those who harm them. I guess they should just quit being ghey and go be NORMAL, right? >.>
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