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Robert Livingston
Citizen
Username: Rob_livingston
Post Number: 844
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Friday, February 11, 2005 - 1:11 pm: | 
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Alabama Lawmaker Targets Books, Plays That 'Sanction' Homosexuality
By Susan Jones
CNSNews.com Morning Editor
February 11, 2005
(CNSNews.com) - A self-described "gay novelist" says he's sent a copy of his novel and a miniature shovel to the Alabama politician who wants to remove "gay-themed" books, plays, and films from Alabama's public libraries, schools and universities.
The measure recently introduced by Rep. Gerald Allen, a Republican, would ban books that, "...sanction, recognize, foster, or promote a lifestyle or actions prohibited by the sodomy and sexual misconduct laws of the state."
"A society cannot sustain itself through activities such as this, and for us to promote it with public dollars just doesn't make sense," press reports quoted Allen as saying. Allen also sponsored legislation seeking a state constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.
Author Michael Holloway Perronne said if Allen is determined to bury "such great works at The Color Purple, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Brideshead Revisited, then I would be honored to have my own work buried with such classics.
"Mr. Allen can use the shovel I sent him to start digging his hole," Perronne said in a press release.
In a widely quoted remark, Allen suggested that if his bill passes, all novels and college textbooks dealing with proscribed subject matter would have to be removed from libraries and schools.
"I guess we dig a big hole and dump them in and bury them," he said.
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Strawberry Alarm Clock
Supporter
Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 4481
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 11, 2005 - 1:22 pm: |
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boring |
Michael Janay
Citizen
Username: Childprotect
Post Number: 1567
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 11, 2005 - 1:56 pm: |
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I hear Bush himself talked this Alabama State legislator into introducing this bill.
He did it right before personally flying deportees to Montserrat, and then making a stop at Gitmo to sodomize some prisoners.
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Mark Fuhrman
Citizen
Username: Mfpark
Post Number: 1285
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 11, 2005 - 2:06 pm: |
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 You beat me to the post, Michael. |
tjohn
Citizen
Username: Tjohn
Post Number: 2918
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 11, 2005 - 2:39 pm: |
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Bush is very responsible for setting a tone that makes the above-mentioned Fahrenheit 451 legislation acceptable. There is very little difference between an American values amendment that Bush supports and the legislation proposed above.
I don't believe that we will ever see the extremes of Nazi Germany here in the United States. Nevertheless, it is worth remembering that Hitler was enabled by those willing to overlook his dark side because they thought he would be a good antidote to chaos and Communism.
So, anybody who finds Bush's anti-gay pronouncements disturbing but supports him anyway because of his stance of terror might want to rethink that position. As Ben Franklin noted, people who sacrifice freedom for security end up with neither. |
lumpynose
Citizen
Username: Lumpyhead
Post Number: 1105
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Friday, February 11, 2005 - 2:47 pm: |
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It's the same public tax dollars in Maplewood that doesn't want to promote Christmas music in our schools.
Gerald Allen is an ignorant jerk (how does he even get elected??)and both bans are ridiculous. |
Michael Janay
Citizen
Username: Childprotect
Post Number: 1568
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 11, 2005 - 3:30 pm: |
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The worst part is Bush signed into law acts banning Gays from military service and then signed the Defense of Marriage act. These are two highly anti-gay laws. He is is very responsible for setting a tone that makes the above-mentioned Fahrenheit 451 legislation acceptable. Its almost Naziism!!
Oh, wait, Clinton signed those laws... Never mind. |
Sgt. Pepper
Citizen
Username: Jjkatz
Post Number: 669
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 11, 2005 - 4:00 pm: |
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Yeah, and how about that Constitutional amendment outlawing gay marriage, the first attempt to pass an amendment specifically intended to deny a group of people a civil right based on theology and bigotry!
Oh wait, that was Bush. |
Albatross
Citizen
Username: Albatross
Post Number: 487
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Friday, February 11, 2005 - 4:09 pm: |
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For the millionth time:
1) Disapproval of Bush / conservative agendas and policies does NOT equate to approval of Clinton's.
2) Clinton's misdeeds do not absolve anyone's misdeeds today.
The tone has been in place for some time. It was not started in this administration. However. the Bush administration is partly responsible for perpetuating that tone, which is equally heinous. |
Michael Janay
Citizen
Username: Childprotect
Post Number: 1569
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 11, 2005 - 4:33 pm: |
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Since when is getting married a civil right? |
tjohn
Citizen
Username: Tjohn
Post Number: 2919
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 11, 2005 - 4:41 pm: |
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Are we talking about a religious marriage or a civil ceremony? The latter is subject to anti-discrimination clauses in the Constitution. |
Sgt. Pepper
Citizen
Username: Jjkatz
Post Number: 673
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 11, 2005 - 4:49 pm: |
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I'm talking about a civil ceremony. Nobody can force a religious organization to marry people it doesn't want to marry. |
anon
Citizen
Username: Anon
Post Number: 1651
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Friday, February 11, 2005 - 5:55 pm: |
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"Since when is getting married a civil right?"
Research it, Michael. I am sure you will find plenty of cases stating that there is a fundamental right to marry. Read Griswold v. Connecticut. The Right says that marraige is the basis of society. That's why the want to "protect" marraige. |
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