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dalilaAnna Merlan
10/29/14 1:00pm
The most dangerous thing Glenn Beck has ever seen is anti-discrimation law.

Okay.
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  DaisyLadydalila
  10/29/14 1:09pm
  It is his God-given right to be an asshole and no fancy pants laws can ever change that. Even thought the God he pretends to worship says he shouldn't be an asshole but whatevs.
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  CharltonHestonsColdDeadHandsdalila
  10/29/14 1:09pm
  SRSLY
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thatsslightlyravenAnna Merlan
10/29/14 1:04pm

"I think it was a very productive way for folks who disagreed with our legal strategy to express that disagreement and I'm happy to share the Bibles with those who may want them."

GIF

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  Anna Merlanthatsslightlyraven
  10/29/14 1:29pm
  I thought about submitting this to Kara's Shade Court, but I'm not sure we need to.
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  LailaSanthatsslightlyraven
  10/29/14 1:46pm
  Ooh, I'll take two KJVs, an ESV and a copy of The Word on the Street for shits and giggles.
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GemmabetaAnna Merlan
10/29/14 1:01pm
Fun fact, the Bible only condemns "man lying down with man", it says nothing about lesbianism.
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  RedWriterGemmabeta
  10/29/14 1:03pm
  Because women are not people, you atheist. They're just property and vessels for children to pass through this world.
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  dalilaGemmabeta
  10/29/14 1:03pm
  That's because two girls together is a hot fantasy, duh.
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msfriendlyAnna Merlan
10/29/14 1:40pm
Finally, someone who can do all of a single pinterest page!

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  IWASDARTHVADER's death star canteenmsfriendly
  10/29/14 1:49pm
  I'll let Nick Miller take it away:
  
  GIF
  
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  Justadumbremarkmsfriendly
  10/29/14 3:29pm
  And only for practical reasons, not.
  
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Save.The.SeacowsAnna Merlan
10/29/14 1:10pm
Mayor Parker is a real badass. She's dragging Houston, kicking and screaming, into the 21st century. As much as they'd like to act like they're as liberal and progressive as Austin (pretty much the city in Texas every other city aspires to be; the cool older brother town if you will), Houston is still regressively conservative by the rest of the country's standards.

I find it so interesting how political ads in Houston were Democrats begging to be seen as ultra conservative (vote for me! I hate Obama, love guns and protect fetuses! God bless!) while in other parts of the country, Republicans are trying to come off as moderate and even as liberal-leaning as possible so as not to be clumped in with the current Congress. Here they've gone so far as to claim women have a right to their own healthcare decisions and reproductive rights. Imagine that!
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  RockyAndersonSave.The.Seacows
  10/29/14 1:32pm
  What is interesting is that Houston's demographics are some of the closest to the country as a whole
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  Save.The.SeacowsRockyAnderson
  10/29/14 1:38pm
  Very true! Houston is incredibly diverse. And their population is growing at a much faster rate than many other cities in the country. Thus supporting Wendy Davis' hypothesis on the Daily Show the other night that Texas will inevitably turn blue. Not any time soon but one day, it'll happen!
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Emma GolddiggerAnna Merlan
10/29/14 1:03pm
I'm mailing my straight mayor a bunch of copies of Heather Has Two Mommies.

PS: I'm not 100% sure about this, but the Bible never mentions lesbians, does it? I thought it just talked about how women shouldn't dress like men and said something vague about how they shouldn't perform unnatural acts or something, but never actually talked about lesbians. Anyone here know the Bible well enough to confirm or deny this?
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  Can I Retire Yet?Emma Golddigger
  10/29/14 1:07pm
  Well the book of Ruth is joked about among lesbians for it's porn value. There are references, but since some Christians have picked and chosen which books they include in OT and NT, I don't remember enough to give you a 100% answer.
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  Olivia Pope's Wine GlassEmma Golddigger
  10/29/14 1:08pm
  mostly just, "property, property, blah blah blah, blood, ladies, blah blah blah, property."
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RedWriterAnna Merlan
10/29/14 12:56pm
I know it's been said a ton of time before, but these people should try reading the Bible (such as the Tanakh) before they send it out in self-righteous rage. It's not all sunshine and roses.
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  LOTRme: The Slipper HeroRedWriter
  10/29/14 1:39pm
  BUT ITS THE OLD TESTAMENT! That is my favorite argument. "oh well, we don't take the old testament seriously anymore...except about gays, that part, yes"
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  AggroPhobiaRedWriter
  10/29/14 2:21pm
  Part of the problem is not reading, but interpretation (not to mention the various versions of the Bible differing from each other in small but apparently significant ways). I've already seen one argument here about interpretation. It seems most Christians want to interpret the Bible in a way that makes sense for their lives, but only a percentage (how big or small a percentage, I have no idea) interpret it in a way that causes them to act like decent people.
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CavalishAnna Merlan
10/29/14 12:52pm
What a class act, I wish we had more like her.
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  CoSineBlueCavalish
  10/29/14 1:11pm
  In Houston, there tons more than that came from.
  
  Actually heard this discussion between a gay couple and a guy wearing a bald eagle baseball cap at a coffee shop along Studemont in the Heights one morning:
  
  BaldEagleGuy: (When learning the other guy disagrees with him on an issue) "Oh...your one of those left wingers, huh?"
  
  The guy he's talking to: "Hey man, you ever see those birds with only one wing? They don't fly very far."
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  kimbersaysCoSineBlue
  10/29/14 1:42pm
  I was at a Houston hospital, waiting for my sister to get out of surgery and started talking to this older man who mentioned he worked in oil. I tried to get out of the conversation, thinking we would come to blows about energy policy, etc., but right at the start the man asked if I knew Al Gore and proceeded to tell me what a genius Gore was and how worried he was about global warning. He had done his homework and had stats and information at his fingertips. I was shocked and delighted, to say the least.
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CoSineBlueAnna Merlan
10/29/14 1:08pm
Welcome to Texas: In the city you get to work and live like a human being. In the country and the suburbs, questioning the FOX news nation and sticking up for yourself is akin to the second coming of Santa Ana.

I miss the days when my state got mad at picante sauce made in New York City.
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  Emily FreasCoSineBlue
  10/29/14 1:51pm
  Get a rope. (in Pearland, one of the 'burbs of H-town)
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  CoSineBlueEmily Freas
  10/29/14 2:02pm
  From Spring, just south of crazy conservative Woodlands "Stranger, I hope you can beat a full house."
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Ari Schwartz: Dark Lord of the SnarkAnna Merlan
10/29/14 1:08pm
Goddamn this is one lazy "protest."

"Oh, I'll sure show her! I'll send her a book!"

You could at least have the gumption to go picket or something. It's sad, but we truly are losing our will to care. Even the crazies are getting lazy in their craziness.
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  opheeliaAri Schwartz: Dark Lord of the Snark
  10/29/14 11:44pm
  To be fair, I recall half-hearted campaigns to send politicians tampons. I don't think anything came of those efforts.
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