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NOM uses Tyler Clementi's name to promote anti-gay agenda; parents demand apology
The extremely anti-gay National Organization for Marriage recently referred to Tyler Clementi, the gay college student who committed suicide in 2010, in a speech meant to promote its homophobic cause. His parents, GLAAD and other organizations are rightfully outraged and demanding an apology.
NOM’s Jennifer Morse was speaking at Iowa State University a few weeks ago and implied that Clementi ended his life because he had too much access to other LGBT people.
“There are a lot of situations where people are doing something sexual that’s probably not the best thing for them,” he said. Morse used Clementi as an example of LGBT youth who she claimed are “getting help and support from the gay activists who have their own thing that they’re doing which is not necessarily to help the individuals but they’ve got some sort of political vision.”
The Clementis’ heartbreaking, honest response:
“To exploit our late son’s name to advance an anti-equality agenda is offensive and wrong,” Joe and Jane Clementi wrote in a statement. “By doing so, [NOM] proves[s] that not only is there no low they will not sink to to advance their cruel agenda, but that neither they nor Ms. Morse have any grip on reality. The very idea that Tyler’s tragedy happened because of too much support, instead of not enough, is ludicrous. Shame on them.”
Unbelievable.
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Pretty much.
Say something, you cowardly fucks. Say something about Savita Halappanavar, the woman who had a wanted pregnancy… wanted pregnancy… WANTED PREGNANCY… and needed a LIFE-SAVING ABORTION, and because she was denied that abortion, she DIED.
Where is your pro-life…
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Did anyone notice…
Obama mentions his wife in his victory speech: “…The woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago”
Romney mentions his wife in his concession speech: “… The woman I chose to marry”
It’s amazing how someone’s views on equality can come out in one simple sentence
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"People who grew up in public schools, run…to the embassy the instant they get a runny nose overseas, stuff burgers down their throats without worrying about E. Coli and sleep happily in planes they know have been inspected by the FAA…can with straight faces make the argument that having to pay any taxes at all is tyranny. It’s almost as if people feel the need to announce that they don’t need any help with anything, ever—not even keeping bridges safe or drinking water clean. It’s this weird national paranoia about being seen as needy, or labeled a parasite who needs government aid, that leads to lunacies like the idea that having a strong disaster-relief agency qualifies as a “big government” concept, when in fact it’s just sensible. If everyone could just admit that government is a fact of life, we could probably do a much better job of fixing it and managing its costs. Instead, we have to play this silly game where millions of us pretend we’re above it all, that we don’t walk on regularly-cleaned streets or fly in protected skies. It shouldn’t take a once-in-a-generation hurricane for Americans to admit they need the government occasionally, but that’s apparently where we are."
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Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present to you the destruction of the sanctity of marriage.
(Source: buzzfeed, via most-awkward-moments)
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this song is perfection
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"Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them."
Brian Eno, A Year With Swollen Appendices, 1996. I saw part of this quotation and thought “that’s fantastic”; some judicious googling turned up both the source (hat tip to here) and more of the original thought. (via imathers)(Source: imathers, via hitrecordjoe)
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