Missouri 'Don't Say Gay' Bill: GOP Sponsors Wary Of 'Homosexual Agenda'

[lovedforaday]

Republican lawmakers in Missouri are defending their controversial bill to ban the teaching of sexual orientation in schools as a way to prevent students from learning about the "homosexual agenda," the "heterosexual agenda" and bestiality. A group of 20 Republican state representatives introduced the so-called "don't say gay" bill last week to

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[chimbleysweep]

You have heterosexuals pushing an agenda

Yes. We do.

[lastrega]

[lastrega]

"I'm not bigoted," he told HuffPost. "I have friends who are homosexual."

Y'know...sometimes I think about the (horrible, appalling) people I know who don't know how reprehensible I find them (because it would be unprofessional to spit on them in a work situation) who might actually use this excuse because they know me and it kind of makes me want to light things on fire.

[bowtomecha]

I never thought about this.

I wonder how many people are unaware that they may be that one black guy or that one lesbian or that one Muslim that people quote as knowing. Now that I look back, my family seems to use me as a shield against being labeled as racist. When they pretty much are.

[phililen3]

"I'm not bigoted," he told HuffPost. "I have friends who are homosexual."

*insert eyeroll over here*

[mentalguru]

Shouldn't there be a tag on ontd_p related to this argument? It seems to crop up enough to warrant it IMO.

[theguindo]

If not, I vote we add a "but I have [insert minority] friends!" tag

[magus_69]

I second this proposed tag. It's going to get so much use!

*thinks about that*

*goes off to cry in the nearest corner*

[phoenixblaze]

I just, I'm still always baffled by these assumptions that if someone's looking to get married to the same sex others are going to take that opportunity to try to marry an animal. I want to know how it became the same thing. Because I've been in school LGTB groups, I know a lot of people of varying orientation and I know some people into beastiality. Not only are they not the same people, but I've never heard those into beastiality ever even remotely mention they want to marry the animal...

[tigerdreams]

As far as I can determine, in the minds of many bigots, everything they consider to be "sexual immorality" is equivalent and interchangeable, AND is wrong for the same reason (because it's "sexual immorality"). That's why they don't see a distinction between a loving relationship between two consenting adults of the same sex, and a person sexually abusing an animal that is incapable of consent -- because to them, bestiality isn't wrong because animals can't consent; it's wrong because it's "dirty."

Therefore, in the minds of these bigots, if the government is asked to give official sanction to one type of "sexually immoral" behavior by offering legal marriage, it will have to do the same for all "similarly" ~sexually immoral~ behaviors -- because there is no difference between them in these people's minds.

Typing it out like this kind of makes me want to hurt people.