We all know the proverbial “rubber-necking a train wreck” saying. That is, we know that something will end badly and possibly cost us our lunch, but we indulge anyway. The law doesn’t apply to just disasters and celebrities. It can be projected upon articles, as well.
Take, for example, this editorial by a Mississippi yokel native named Zack Williams. In this piece, Mr. Williams rails against – you guessed it – the gays. Despite the title – “The homosexual lifestyle is an unhealthy one” – we couldn’t stop ourselves from reading it. And, yes, we feel sick.
Views presented on homosexuality are one-sided, and its portrayal as a completely healthy alternative lifestyle is inaccurate. Fact is, being gay is very hazardous to one’s health.
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Homosexuality is unhealthy. Not in the way that cigarettes and booze are unhealthy, but in the way that drinking a shot of turpentine every Wednesday afternoon while perusing real estate catalogues for houses near nuclear waste dumps is unhealthy.
Hey, don’t knock it ’til you’ve tried it!
Paul Raposo
“Don’t take my word for it; look it up for yourself.”
The mating call of the anti-gay rightwinger.
I have yet to debate a rightwinger who did not present absurd ideas and then when challenged to come up with concrete proof, tells others to do the legwork.
emb
So Zack is an expert on the “homosexual lifestyle”? Again, the musical question is how long til Mr Williams is arrested for offering blowjobs to cops in some smelly rest stop? Now THAT’S unhealthy!
Maverick69
Actually, when I stoped drinking a shot of turpentine every Wednesday is when I was able to free myself and start suck dick and taking it in the ass. I fell so much better now.
CitizenGeek
Why did Matt Foreman say that HIV is a gay disease? Fair enough, in the US, the majority of people with the disease are gay. But, there’s still lots of straight people with the illness. And, worldwide, HIV is spread overwhelmingly by heterosexual sex. Such a comment is firstly, not true and secondly, dangerous. Aren’t sexual health advocates trying to spread the message that even if you’re straight, you should be weary of contracting HIV; Foreman’s comments totally fly in the face of that.
Also, if Christians are saying that likelihood of contracting HIV is a moral benchmark, then lesbians are surely the most moral people on Earth, yes? But, Christians don’t believe this. And it’s because all of these ridiculous arguments against homosexuality are all thinly veiled xenophobia and prejudice.
Anyway, of course that article is the typical nonsense spouted by Christian idiots. It’s ironic that Christians use the statistics that suicide and depression are more widespread among gays when they are mostly responsible for such statistics.
Thankfully, that news site also ran an counter-editorial (http://media.www.thedmonline.com/media/storage/paper876/news/2008/04/24/Opinion/Homosexuality.Is.Bad.Prove.It-3346517.shtml)
Qjersey
I love that these right wingers think that we have a true democracy where the public can vote on whatever it wants. The founding fathers were well aware of the dangers of mob rule.
This is my favorite passage from a legal ruling that I have posted around the net in response to such drivel and Mr. Williams’
The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One’s right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.
Justice Jackson, WEST VIRGINIA STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION ET AL. v. BARNETTE, SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES 319 U.S. 624, June 14, 1943, Decided
Now why hasn’t anyone used this to fight “marriage protection” admendments is beyond me.
Ian J UK
We are talking Kentucky here, you know parents very closely related, most people have six toes and ears like Jumbo not to mention an overbite you could open botles with.
Since when have I needed some hicks from the sticks to tell me what’s right and what’s wrong!
thatguyfromboston
While I enjoy a shot of turpentine as much as the next cocksucker; as a homeowner in Uranium Hills (a model subdivision, in conjunction with Halliburton, LLC) I take umbrage with the assertion that it’s an unhealthy place to live.
Z.
I feel quizy! I wanna barf on Zack Williams!
http://www.ilovezeren.com
kevin57
I take this horseshit talk as a sign of victory, boys. The more progress we make, the more lunatic they get.
Dick Mills
Does that shirt come in a tank-top?
Dick Mills
allstarecho
Shame that Queerty left out the fact that there were 2 opinion pieces on homosexuality that day.. this one lunatic piece, and another piece that offered an opposing view: http://media.www.thedmonline.com/media/storage/paper876/news/2008/04/24/Opinion/Homosexuality.Is.Bad.Prove.It-3346517.shtml