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William769

(55,142 posts)
Wed Jan 8, 2014, 04:16 PM Jan 2014

If Rose Parade Can Have Gay Wedding, Why Not Stoning?

Right-wing reactions to the wedding of a gay couple on a Rose Parade float New Year’s Day are continuing to pour in, with one antigay activist theorizing about stoning and another seeking an ostensibly more receptive audience for his rants in Russia.

On a recent edition of the fundamentalist Christian Generations Radio program, producer Dave Buehner asked host Kevin Swanson, “I wonder what the Rose Bowl parade would do if we had the stoning of a homosexual along the parade just as an expression of free speech and all that.” Swanson replied that organizers likely wouldn’t allow that, even if, as Buehner suggested, “the stones were just made, like, of flowers and flower petals,” as the parade’s floats are. Nonetheless, Swanson said, “This is another instance in which the degradation of our society is going mainstream.”

Buehner also expressed surprise that the wedding was taking place on a float sponsored by an AIDS service organization (the AIDS Healthcare Foundation). “This is a group that’s against AIDS?” he said. “They’re not trying to spread AIDS, right? I mean, if you are trying to spread AIDS, you would have pro-homosexual propaganda, but if you’re trying to stop it…”

Later in the show, Swanson said LGBT people and their allies “are coming after Christians … to make sure they lose their jobs, to make sure that they are persecuted, to make sure that they may even be burned at the stake.” To prevent this, he said, “we have to draw lines ourselves and encourage the civil magistrate to prosecute homosexuality, especially public acts of homosexuality.”

http://www.advocate.com/politics/religion/2014/01/08/listen-if-rose-parade-can-have-gay-wedding-why-not-stoning

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If Rose Parade Can Have Gay Wedding, Why Not Stoning? (Original Post) William769 Jan 2014 OP
Assault with a deadly weapon isn't covered by free speech. Agnosticsherbet Jan 2014 #1
... William769 Jan 2014 #2
"especially public acts of homosexuality" - like for example the act of being a homosexual. Warren Stupidity Jan 2014 #3
Everybody... riqster Jan 2014 #4
Stoning!!1! AIDS!!1! Sex in public!!!1! BE SCARED, PEOPLE!!!!1! BE AFRAID!!!1! LadyHawkAZ Jan 2014 #5
+1000! William769 Jan 2014 #6
Aaaagh shenmue Jan 2014 #7
 

Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts)
3. "especially public acts of homosexuality" - like for example the act of being a homosexual.
Wed Jan 8, 2014, 04:46 PM
Jan 2014

'cause last I heard, in most states, actually having sex in public, of any kind, is already illegal.

These people revel and wallow in their vile bullshit.

LadyHawkAZ

(6,199 posts)
5. Stoning!!1! AIDS!!1! Sex in public!!!1! BE SCARED, PEOPLE!!!!1! BE AFRAID!!!1!
Wed Jan 8, 2014, 04:57 PM
Jan 2014

How-mo-sexyoualls are gonna be gay WHERE YOUR KIDS CAN SEE!!!1!





Someone please just make the stupid stop. The facepalms are making my face ache.

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