Straight hysteria hits Atlanta

[ccharles000]

Maybe the stinky economy is drying up logic cells. Could be people are reeling from Alez Rodriguez’s steroid use confession. Possibly the Nadya Suleman drama is making a few of us nutty. Whatever the cause, hysteria over gays and lesbians has taken over some minds in West Virginia and Morehouse College in Atlanta.

An organization called wv4marriage has a video out arguing how homosexual radicals are looking to pass laws that will force churches to hire gay porn stars and make good Christians replace their cross with chaps and lube. Okay, they don’t say that but they might as well. According to them West Virginia is now the epicenter of the same sex marriage debate and the rights of straight couples are now under attack. Look at this line spouted by the narrator.

“A weekend trip to San Francisco for a West Virginia same-sex couple, plus a pro-bono ACLU attorney, could easily become a nightmare for marriage in West Virginia.”

Really? Really? Do the good people of wv4marriage know what a newspaper is? Have they been paying attention to what happened to same sex marriage in California? That is a dumb question. Of course they have, but facts are no good when you are peddling propaganda.

Farther down in the land of Dixie, Morehouse College student Gerren Gaynor wonders how much an institution has to do to accept gay students. For those not in the know Morehouse is an all male historically black college with a illustrious list of graduates (Dr Martin Luther King was a proud “Morehouse man”). Gaynor gets credit for being honest about life on his campus: too many straight Morehouse students have issues with their gay brothers and the corners of the closet are where many gay Morehouse men remain.

http://www.365gay.com/blog/021709-west-virginia-and-morehouse-college-get-hysterical/

[Ilsa]

1. Some people can't handle thinking about the real problems out there.

So, they make boogeymen out of anyone different. And successfully peddling their hateful propaganda.

[leftyclimber]

2. I was absolutely floored tonight -- on the local news,

the crazy RW station owner had an editorial comment (these are normally either so unhinged as to be hysterically funny or completely infuriating) about how this was an issue whose time was past and that we as West Virginians had more important fish to fry. (Obviously I don't agree that our equal rights are unimportant, but from this dude's perspective it was like he'd realized the earth was round or something.)

Of course the rest of it was about how we needed to really focus on superduperultraRW fiscal policies and crap like that, but the first half had me flabbergasted. (And I'm sure they'd be overjoyed to find out that one of the people who deals with recreation and tourism issues in WV -- me -- is thoroughly, gleefully bisexual. :rofl:)

Here's the first hunk -- the last few paragraphs can be found here:

http://www.wboy.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=52389&catid=203

With all the difficulties that burden this state, it almost makes me laugh that some folks want to make an issue out of gay marriage.

West Virginia's courts and lawmakers have never wavered on how they define marriage (note from lefty: narrowly and badly) and this is clearly an argument whose time has passed.

One second wasted on this kind of polarizing, headline-grabbing nonsense is one second too many.

[ColbertWatcher]

3. What a sad and frightening place to live in!

It's bad enough out here in California to have so many dumbasses, but I guess their everywhere.

I hope we can open some minds once Prop H8 is overturned in the courts.