No, really! It’s in the statute, I looked it up! Trust me!
I “borrowed” this for my Facebook page.
Ah, I see you accidentally started your first guy on the short-bus Minecraft server, too.
Myself, I’m just gobsmacked that there are gays who would want to live in Oklahoma. Seems a bit like Jews demanding the right to live in Nazi Berlin.
I was listening to Dan Savage’s Savage Love podcast this week, and his guest (Seth Stephens-Davidowitz) had done a study using various data sources to estimate how many gay men were in the US, and came up with 5% of the male population being gay. In his analysis, he came to the depressing conclusion that the majority of gay men in highly conservative areas stayed in the closet and stayed near where they grew up, choosing to try to keep their family and friends by closeting themselves and, generally, marrying women.
That being said, I’m sure that everywhere you look in this country, there are out gay/lesbian/bi/etc. people who manage to create their own little community and have a decent life, regardless of what strangers might think about them.
Tiger?
Hah! You win the thread.
Me too.
OK, if that’s what they want, I suppose, but I can’t help thinking it better if gay people are integrated into the general community with no more sense of negative distinction than hipsters, vegans or Satanists.
Well, “own little community” in the sense that they have enough people in their home conservative area who accept them for who they are. The guest on the podcast contrasted this with either being closeted in the same area (and thus trying to keep one’s possibly-bigoted family and friends), or otherwise uprooting themselves from everything and everyone to run off to a big city.
Me too, but then I’m gobsmacked that anyone would want to live in Oklahoma. Unless you’re an oil derrick or a steer, I just don’t see the attraction.
So that old line from Officer and a Gentleman is TRUE??
Oh, c’mon! They have to be treated better than that. I mean…vegans? Them folks is weird.
Huh. I didn’t even mean to allude to that. I just couldn’t think of anything else that comes from Oklahoma. 
Growing up and as a young adult, we and later I alone would at least once a year drive the length of Oklahoma twice, going to and from my grandmother’s house in Arkansas from West Texas. As much as I hate Texas, I would slit my wrists if I had to live in Oklahoma.
Reminds one of the old joke about Ireland: Why did all the snakes leave Ireland? Why stay?
I don’t know about the hipsters or vegans, but the Satanists are also trying to get their concerns addressed.
Kind of weird that both these things happened in the same month. I’m sure there are some interesting sermons to be heard. But my only experience of Oklahoma is the casinos just north of the state line and I’m happy to keep it that way.
This one is across the street.
Roddy
You haven’t heard us deal with hipsters, have you?
“Whassa matter, Brannnnndon, can’t get your flat black Amex card outta those skin-tight plaid pants to pay for that venti quad-shot half-soy half-cow 2% amaretto half-caf frappuccino extra hot with a dash of Sri Lankan nutmeg under the foam?”
Whaling is against the law in Oklahoma?
So, how long have you been a vegan?