# Missouri Republican legislator 'comes out' in response to anti-gay bill. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 3, 2012, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-republican-legislator-comes-out-in-response-to-anti-gay-bill/620762 "2012-05-03T15:28:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-republican-legislator-comes-out-in-response-to-anti-gay-bill/620762/21 "2012-05-04T03:16:04Z")
Did you not get the fishing referece, **Idle Thoughts**? Do you honestly not know the difference between “trolling” and being a Troll? ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-republican-legislator-comes-out-in-response-to-anti-gay-bill/620762/22 "2012-05-04T03:44:04Z")
I saw it, but I really don’t see the difference because saying someone is trolling is also against the rules in this forum. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-republican-legislator-comes-out-in-response-to-anti-gay-bill/620762/23 "2012-05-04T10:57:48Z")
The bill mentioned in the article sounds like “DADT for schools” - and there’s others like it around? Bloody hell! ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-republican-legislator-comes-out-in-response-to-anti-gay-bill/620762/24 "2012-05-04T11:19:23Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > So? Farmer doesn’t have jack shit to do with being gay, and this guy may eventually end up being the face of the Log Cabin Republicans. Good for him. I thought about this, and now I kind of doubt it. Since he claims that he has been taking positions and making votes that he doesn’t agree with, he very well drop the (R). I think it’s possible that he ran as a republican in order to get elected. I could be wrong, but I doubt that many democrats get elected in that district. > [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > What I meant by that is that it looks to me like you were trying to start a political fight so you could sit back and enjoy the fireworks. You wanted inflammatory responses to your OP, you didn’t get them, so you “baited the hook again”. > > You’re fishing, buddy. I went canoeing up in Minnesota in a canoe a while ago. We dropped fishing lines out the back as we paddled. That type of fishing is called trolling. It is what the annoying internet behavior is named after. It means not doing anything except letting the fish in the lake do all the work. > > You’re fishing. Yeah, I know what it **looks** like. And it’s mainly a result of my being lazy when I posted the article in the first place. So I’ll take the blame for that. I wasn’t trying to start a fight or troll for inflammatory responses; it doesn’t appear that there’s actually that much to fight _about_. It’s more of a human interest story, as I see it. And yes, apparently I was mistaken as to how much ‘interest’ there would be in it. ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-republican-legislator-comes-out-in-response-to-anti-gay-bill/620762/25 "2012-05-04T14:22:38Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > So? Farmer doesn’t have jack shit to do with being gay… I beg to differ. It’s a slippery slope surely; first gay marriage, then animal husbandry - where does it end! ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-republican-legislator-comes-out-in-response-to-anti-gay-bill/620762/26 "2012-05-04T14:57:14Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > I wasn’t trying to start a fight or troll for inflammatory responses; it doesn’t appear that there’s actually that much to fight _about_. It’s more of a human interest story, as I see it. And yes, apparently I was mistaken as to how much ‘interest’ there would be in it. It’s cool, **Sicks Ate**. Being completely honest, I’ve always liked your posts. You didn’t really have your thoughts in order here or what you wanted to say when you started this, and you ended up fishing. I called you on that, but I in no way expected the mods to get involved - or me to end up arguing with them as much as I have. I’m truly sorry about that. If I offended you in any way, please forgive me. one other thing: > [@Staggerlee](#): > > It’s a slippery slope surely; first gay marriage, then animal husbandry - where does it end! Sheep. It ends with sheep. Sexy sexy sheep. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-republican-legislator-comes-out-in-response-to-anti-gay-bill/620762/27 "2012-05-04T16:32:25Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > It’s cool, **Sicks Ate**. Being completely honest, I’ve always liked your posts. You didn’t really have your thoughts in order here or what you wanted to say when you started this, and you ended up fishing. I called you on that, but I in no way expected the mods to get involved - or me to end up arguing with them as much as I have. I’m truly sorry about that. If I offended you in any way, please forgive me. > > one other thing: > Sheep. It ends with sheep. Sexy sexy sheep. 🙂 Thanks! No worries; I did get puffed up a little initially, but I’m over it. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-republican-legislator-comes-out-in-response-to-anti-gay-bill/620762/28 "2012-05-04T17:09:59Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > My favorite part of the article is how he votes against his personal beliefs to toe the party line, but is fed up with bigotry from “both sides of the aisle”. Yeah, I read that and was like WTF? Only one party’s actively trying to make being gay almost a crime, and it ain’t the Dems ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-republican-legislator-comes-out-in-response-to-anti-gay-bill/620762/29 "2012-05-04T17:22:34Z")
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