From The Fort Worth Star Telegram comes the story of Gay Days at Arlington, home of the Texas Rangers. Apparently some homophobic assholes are up in arms about gay people trying to “push their perverted homosexual agendas in an effort to gain some sort of normalcy to their kind”. They’ve started a Protest Petition on the web and are planning to protest the game. Columnist Mark Davis, while making some snide and ill-formed comments himself, hits the mark late in his column. Davis succumbs to the notion that publicly identifying as gay is the same thing as talking about sex. He buys in to the “think of the children” arguement that the protesters shout, accepting that it’s inappropriate for gays to self-identify in front of children because it’s somehow shocking to their delicate sensibilities.
However, that said, he also recognizes how outlanding the protest is.
Me, I’m almost to incoherent to even rant. So I’ll skip it for now.
in-co-he-rent. Now please, lie down, you’ve had a rough day.
I checked out the protest website and it’s some scary ludicrous shit. Has anyone else noticed that, since the SCOTUS ruling striking down sodomy laws, use of the word “sodomite” has increased tremendously amongst the lunatic religious fringe? I was checking out the site hoping to find a way to tell the loons to fuck off and die but I was afraid I’d accidentally click on something that says I support their idiotic petition.
Maybe we should take it as progress that they would even consider having a ‘gay day’ at a Texas ballpark. I live in the LA area and we’ve never had a gay day.
That’s just because no one’s organized one yet. It’s not like Gay Day is an official Rangers promotion. Just a bunch of organizations got together and requested a bunch of tickets together.
It stands as an amusing document of the time when folks who clicked on the petition were being treated to the goatse man, redirected to soldierofcock.com, and whatever other suprises that creative HTML & javascript entered into in the “name” field by earlier visitors provided.
I think it’s very interesting that for all the flaunting our sexuality that we’re supposed to be doing, it’s always them who bring up in anatomical detail what we supposedly do in bed. As Kate Clinton said, I wish I were getting half as much sex as I’m accused of.
I wouldn’t worry about it. Back in August, when “signing” the petition took you to a page that displayed the names of the signers, you could see that the first eight or nine signatures seemed sincere-- and then the link circulated further than Mr. Warden’s buddies, and the rest of the “signatures” are either expressions of support from the likes of Heywood Jablome, Ima Biggit, Dick Lessman, and the rest of the usual suspects, people who have used the “name” field to vent their spleen, and of course the numerous imbedded images and javascript hacks. Before they changed that, it appeared that for every one sincere apparantly signature they collected, there were about four hundred people telling them to fuck off and die, in so many words.
Something I just now noticed-- the banner on the left of the page says “Sodomy Is A Perverted Lifestyle Jesus Saves.” The other banners have punctuation, so I can only assume this is meant to be read as a sentence. Seriously conflicted.
