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theweaselkingRepublican Alabama lawmaker Gerald Allen says homosexuality is an unacceptable lifestyle. Under his proposed bill, public school libraries could no longer buy new copies of plays or books by gay authors, or about gay characters.
"I don't look at it as censorship," says State Representative Gerald Allen. Books by any gay author would have to go: Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote and Gore Vidal. Alice Walker's novel "The Color Purple" has lesbian characters. Allen originally wanted to ban even some Shakespeare. After criticism, he narrowed his bill to exempt the classics, although he still can't define what a classic is.
In book after book, Allen reads what he calls the "homosexual agenda," and he's alarmed. "It's not healthy for America, it doesn't fit what we stand for," says Allen. "And they will do whatever it takes to reach their goal."
"I don't look at it as censorship," says State Representative Gerald Allen. Books by any gay author would have to go: Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote and Gore Vidal. Alice Walker's novel "The Color Purple" has lesbian characters. Allen originally wanted to ban even some Shakespeare. After criticism, he narrowed his bill to exempt the classics, although he still can't define what a classic is.
In book after book, Allen reads what he calls the "homosexual agenda," and he's alarmed. "It's not healthy for America, it doesn't fit what we stand for," says Allen. "And they will do whatever it takes to reach their goal."
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Date: 2005-04-28 07:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-28 07:53 pm (UTC)Duh.
They lost "peoplehood" to the mexicans, and the women, and they lost it to the blacks, but they'll be DAMNED if they have to accept it being watered down any further! "Human" is FAR too broad a definition of "person" to be acceptable in God's eyes, and we ALL KNOW that God's eyes are OUR eyes, and that he tells us that homosexuality is *just* as wrong as shellfish, adultery, hatred, and lying! And all people who are homosexuals should be put to death! And all those other things are little foibles that mean you should GIVE ALL YOUR MONEY TO JAMES DOBSON!
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Date: 2005-04-28 08:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-29 06:35 am (UTC)(But discretely. He was a nice pacifistic type, and I wouldn't want to upset him.)
((Not that, you know, I'd actually *hurt* people over this. I think. But it's late and the wine is sweet and I'm *really* *really* *tempted*...))
(((Who's James Dobson?)))
((((Look, pretty (s and )s.))))
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Date: 2005-04-28 08:22 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-28 09:01 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-29 06:32 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-29 12:53 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-29 06:32 am (UTC)(Damn you, typos! Damn you and the wine that assists you!)
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Date: 2005-04-28 07:55 pm (UTC)Quelle horreurs!
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Date: 2005-04-28 08:28 pm (UTC)seriously, every time i have spoken to this man I wonder how in hell he got elected. (then I realize that i should get the name of his PR agents, they must be realllllyyy good. )
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Date: 2005-04-28 08:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-29 01:05 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-29 01:13 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-28 08:51 pm (UTC)Fifteen minutes, closed room, and one of those idiots who spout about a gay agenda. All I ask. I don't even want a baseball bat, see. I'm just going to... talk.
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Date: 2005-04-28 09:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-28 10:15 pm (UTC)Allenhomosexualconservative agenda," and he's alarmed. "It's not healthy for America, it doesn't fit what we stand for," saysAllen(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-29 12:27 am (UTC)No? Than what the fuck would he call it?
Courtesy of Merriam-Webster:
Main Entry: censor
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): cen·sored; cen·sor·ing /'sen(t)-s&-ri[ng], 'sen(t)s-ri[ng]/
: to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable