top republican announces he is gay - no one cares

tater · 08-27-10, 12:55 PM

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Originally Posted by The Third Man

The sky is every color but blue. Blue is the refracted color.

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tater

08-27-10, 01:01 PM

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Originally Posted by tater

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tater

On the whole that which isn't will be from.

Notice the sentence ending in a preposition.

tater · 08-27-10, 01:05 PM

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Originally Posted by The Third Man

On the whole that which isn't will be from.

Notice the sentence ending in a preposition.

Still don't get it.

Particularly the part about refraction, since the blue sky is actually the disproportionate scattering of high-frequency light, and has nothing to do with refraction.

08-27-10, 01:08 PM

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Still don't get it.

Particularly the part about refraction, since the blue sky is actually the disproportionate scattering of high-frequency light, and has nothing to do with refraction.

get it you really don't.

AVGWarhawk · 08-27-10, 01:08 PM

I see where it's at.

Ducimus · 08-27-10, 01:23 PM

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top republican announces he is gay - no one cares

What? Another one coming out of the closet? Hardly surprising. Shock value wore off ages ago, at least on me.

Skybird · 08-27-10, 01:36 PM

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What? Another one coming out of the closet? Hardly surprising. Shock value wore off ages ago, at least on me.

I wonder why the media even reports it. That a gay man makes a public affair of him being gay is as strange as it would be if a heterosexual man would launch a press confernece to announce that he is a heterosexual.

08-27-10, 01:43 PM

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I wonder why the media even reports it. That a gay man makes a public affair of him being gay is as strange as it would be if a heterosexual man would launch a press confernece to announce that he is a heterosexual.

Bingo.

AVGWarhawk · 08-27-10, 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Skybird

I wonder why the media even reports it. That a gay man makes a public affair of him being gay is as strange as it would be if a heterosexual man would launch a press confernece to announce that he is a heterosexual.

If I remember correctly this guy was against gay marriage during the Bush administration. Now he claims he is gay. I guess the media felt it was news worth.

08-27-10, 01:48 PM

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If I remember correctly this guy was against gay marriage during the Bush administration. Now he claims he is gay. I guess the media felt it was news worth.

And perhaps that tells us something about the 'gay marraige' issue. Has he changed his mind on the policy? The story is mute on the subject, yet that could be the only reason to write the story.

frau kaleun · 08-27-10, 01:48 PM

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I wonder why the media even reports it. That a gay man makes a public affair of him being gay is as strange as it would be if a heterosexual man would launch a press confernece to announce that he is a heterosexual.

Not quite, since gay-bashing is one of the preferred pasttimes of the social conservatives in the religious right, whose votes are of great importance to the GOP, which therefore makes a habit of either overtly pandering to their homophobia or at the very least not speaking out against it.

The less hostile and more tolerant the GOP is perceived to be towards the GLBT community, the less attractive it becomes to a portion of its base that it has counted on for several decades now.

Platapus · 08-27-10, 01:54 PM

Perhaps one day we will evolve as a society when no one will ever care when someone declares their sexuality.

08-27-10, 01:56 PM

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Perhaps one day we will evolve as a society when no one will ever care when someone declares their sexuality.

Perhaps somethings can be kept to onesself. When folks start giving out their S/S numbers ,Bank acount numbers and tax returns then we can start talking about our sexual preference.

UnderseaLcpl · 08-27-10, 04:38 PM

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Perhaps one day we will evolve as a society when no one will ever care when someone declares their sexuality.

One can hope, but I suspect there will always be people who have some problem with it. Assuming Dawkins and his disciples are mostly correct, sexuality is a pretty big part of, well, everything people do, whether they realize it or not. Everything we are (biologically) comes from the people before us who reproduced most successfully, a theory that holds broad implications for the rest of our behaviour, both directly and indirectly.

Skybird · 08-27-10, 05:25 PM

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Perhaps one day we will evolve as a society when no one will ever care when someone declares their sexuality.

Or better - that somebody not even care for declaring his sexuality.

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