One wonders if the scapegoating of homosexuals serves the same kind of electoral purpose that segregation served in mobilizing poor White Southerners into a political coalition half a century ago. That is, politics has its Machiavellian schemers (Karl Rove, who probably doesn't care much about the gay marriage issue personally, I'd bet) and its earnest cultural practitioners (the high school kids who are swindled by this talk into creating for themselves anti-gay identities). When something is done as a political expedient (putting divisive propositions on local ballots), I always wonder if it is meant by those who cynically manipulate public perceptions to have such far-flung cultural consequences, or if they'd actually rather it weren't taken too seriously.
Did I actually just read that there are Christians who want to wear these shirts? The notion of an article of clothing as a means of public censure has a Scarlet Letterish zeal to it.
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Your totaly on it i know i my self am bi and people like this are wicked i mean it's in the Old testimite that States "If a man lie with a other man he is shamed in the eyes of god" who pays attenion to old testiment? i no i don't.
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