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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsARIZONA CONFRONTING AWKWARD REALIZATION THAT GAY PEOPLE HAVE MONEY, BUY STUFF
PHOENIX (The Borowitz Report)The state of Arizona found itself in the middle of a conundrum today as it awoke to the awkward realization that gay people have money and buy stuff.
Just days after the Arizona legislature passed a law that would enable businesses to discriminate against gays, it emerged that gays spend billions of dollars in Arizona each yearan unexpected development that seemed to take many legislators by surprise.
Carol Foyler, a Tea Party Republican who supported the anti-gay law, said that the startling bombshell that gays play a role in the states economy put her and her fellow lawmakers in a tight spot.
Quite frankly, we were blindsided by this, she said. We had no idea that gays had money and bought things just like regular people do.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2014/02/arizona-confronting-awkward-realization-that-gay-people-have-money-buy-stuff.html
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ARIZONA CONFRONTING AWKWARD REALIZATION THAT GAY PEOPLE HAVE MONEY, BUY STUFF (Original Post)
Katashi_itto
Feb 2014
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Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)1. ha! the inexorable collision of the stupid and the greedy.
grilled onions
(1,957 posts)2. The Stupid Burns
Regular people? Compared to what....irregular people? Did they think that gays or any other minority does not buy things, eat etc? It's amazing how hate can wipe away any common sense a person should have.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,163 posts)3. Well, they are slow learners.
Too funny. I love satire.
justhanginon
(3,287 posts)4. It is just amazing what
constitutes an epiphany for these dumb ass conservative Arizonans. I cannot imagine being a businessman and not having this hit me square in the face the minute it was proposed.