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I've long been on the mailing list of the American Family Association, one of many, many organizations in the country founded and run by politico-religious fascist assholes hellbent on legislating and browbeating everything they consider to be non-Christian out of society. These guys are unabashedly theocratic—like the twisted, evil humans appearing in Jesus Camp, which I finally saw last night, they believe that no government can be valid except one directly authorized and run by God Almighty (or, one assumed, designees, whoever they might turn out to be... can't even guess...). They do everything in their logistical and fiscal power to put like-minded politicians in office. They are scary and vile.
But this is a fun post. AFA's particular head dickwad is Donald Wildmon... Don often sends me friendly warnings about what them homasexules is up to, and I thank him for it. Because it's always worth a good chuckle what the fundies considered "shocking," "offensive," or "depraved." In today's mailing Don deplores the specter of Hate Crimes Legislation, because it will explicitly protect the shocking, offensive, depraved behaviors seen in queer pride parades across the country. What are those behaviors? See subject line, and here.
BTW, this footage is from the Dallas pride parade... I've not been to pride in Dallas but I have been to a Halloween parade and street festival, which was remarkable for the intermingling of a ton of unmistakably gay people/content on the one hand (fabulous drag, sailor uniforms and hairdos, gymbots and muscleboys in what amounted to lingerie) with a ton of nuclear families on the other. Maybe it's just the Halloween thing where you get to be whoever once a year with impunity, but I saw absolutely no anti-gay sentiment* demonstrated among the straight folk there.
So what's most offensive to the American Family Association? I'm guessing it's parents who practically buy their queer children's passage to eternal damnation by loving and supporting them instead of institutionalizing or disowning them. The shame of it all.
Still, I wonder how many of Wildmon's intended "flock" look at this kind of video and go, EEEEWWWW, pervert freaks! and how many go, What up? That's just a bunch of regular people celebrating? (And for that matter, how many go, OMG, I MUST have those boots!) I also wonder what AFA's videographer could have been thinking at 3:46 - 3:44 on this video.
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*As opposed to Tysons Corner, Virginia, where yesterday a guy in the passanger's seat of a panel van hollered either "You gay shit!" or "You're gay as shit!" to me as I was crossing Spring Hill Road. I must have mistakenly worn my boa instead of a scarf.
But this is a fun post. AFA's particular head dickwad is Donald Wildmon... Don often sends me friendly warnings about what them homasexules is up to, and I thank him for it. Because it's always worth a good chuckle what the fundies considered "shocking," "offensive," or "depraved." In today's mailing Don deplores the specter of Hate Crimes Legislation, because it will explicitly protect the shocking, offensive, depraved behaviors seen in queer pride parades across the country. What are those behaviors? See subject line, and here.
BTW, this footage is from the Dallas pride parade... I've not been to pride in Dallas but I have been to a Halloween parade and street festival, which was remarkable for the intermingling of a ton of unmistakably gay people/content on the one hand (fabulous drag, sailor uniforms and hairdos, gymbots and muscleboys in what amounted to lingerie) with a ton of nuclear families on the other. Maybe it's just the Halloween thing where you get to be whoever once a year with impunity, but I saw absolutely no anti-gay sentiment* demonstrated among the straight folk there.
So what's most offensive to the American Family Association? I'm guessing it's parents who practically buy their queer children's passage to eternal damnation by loving and supporting them instead of institutionalizing or disowning them. The shame of it all.
Still, I wonder how many of Wildmon's intended "flock" look at this kind of video and go, EEEEWWWW, pervert freaks! and how many go, What up? That's just a bunch of regular people celebrating? (And for that matter, how many go, OMG, I MUST have those boots!) I also wonder what AFA's videographer could have been thinking at 3:46 - 3:44 on this video.
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*As opposed to Tysons Corner, Virginia, where yesterday a guy in the passanger's seat of a panel van hollered either "You gay shit!" or "You're gay as shit!" to me as I was crossing Spring Hill Road. I must have mistakenly worn my boa instead of a scarf.
