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joeybee12

(56,177 posts)
Mon Apr 7, 2014, 01:02 PM Apr 2014

Want to read some garbage? Check out asshat Damon Linker's column

The gay marriage bigots strike again

Five and a half years ago, over seven million people in the state of California voted for Proposition 8, the ballot initiative that (temporarily) eliminated the right of same-sex couples in the state to marry. An influential faction of the pro-gay marriage movement now apparently believes that those seven million should be barred from positions of power and influence in the United States.

That may be an exaggeration. Brendan Eich — who resigned as chief executive of Mozilla, a company he helped found, after OKCupid launched a boycott against the company for placing him in a senior position — did more than vote for Prop 8. He donated $1,000 to the cause. So maybe that's where the activists draw the line.

Or maybe not, at least in the "progressive" city of Portland, Oregon, where a woman named Chauncy Childs who personally opposes gay marriage and is attempting to open a premium food store has reportedly found herself the target of her own boycott. As has another business owner who supports gay marriage but dared to criticize the Childs boycott.

Who could possibly have predicted that the drive for equal marriage rights for homosexuals would take a turn into bigotry and intolerance? Oh, that's right: I did.

http://theweek.com/article/index/259422/the-gay-marriage-bigots-strike-again

You MUST be tolerant of his idiocy and intolerance, dammit!

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Want to read some garbage? Check out asshat Damon Linker's column (Original Post) joeybee12 Apr 2014 OP
" KY churches withhold $7 million from children’s home to force anti-gay policies" Dawson Leery Apr 2014 #1
Damn you and your actual FACTS! joeybee12 Apr 2014 #2
This kind of crap pisses me off. BeeBee Apr 2014 #3
Thing is, it wasn't even a boycott...lots of people joeybee12 Apr 2014 #4

Dawson Leery

(19,348 posts)
1. " KY churches withhold $7 million from children’s home to force anti-gay policies"
Mon Apr 7, 2014, 01:52 PM
Apr 2014
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/11/ky-churches-withhold-7-million-from-childrens-home-to-force-anti-gay-policies/

"Sunrise Children’s Services is working to recover from a massive budget shortfall after Kentucky churches withheld $7 million because the children’s home had proposed ending its policy of discrimination against LGBT employees.

Bill Smithwick, the then-director of Sunrise Children’s Services, proposed last year that the home allow employees who were openly gay and lesbian over fears that government funding would dry up.

After churches in Kentucky began withholding their donations, Smithwick was forced to resign, and the children’s home did not change its policy."

Sully the Tory is no where to be found.

BeeBee

(1,074 posts)
3. This kind of crap pisses me off.
Mon Apr 7, 2014, 03:36 PM
Apr 2014

No one ever complains when the right wingers boycott Disneyland or Honeymaid but when the big bad gays boycott something they're automatically bigots and intolerant!

This man, and the other seven million people who voted like him, tried to destroy my family. I take this very personally. I am not going to apologize or feel bad that he lost his job.

 

joeybee12

(56,177 posts)
4. Thing is, it wasn't even a boycott...lots of people
Mon Apr 7, 2014, 04:45 PM
Apr 2014

were offended by them appointing this putz, and they let them know...nothing was organized, and the company realized it was going to affect thier bottom line...d-bag republicans always go on about letting the market decide...well, in this case it did.

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