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pecuniumThat thing in Alabama, where the legislator wants to ban all, "positive" references to homosexuality, and homosexuals, anywhere so much as a dollar of state funds are spent....
I've been quiet about it, because there isn't a whole lot I can do about such silliness from here, and while the tenor of the times makes it worrisome, that's about where it sits.
But I have been keeping up with it, and now it seems Pres. Bush may be affirmatively for it, as opposed to refusing to condemn it. That bothers me.
The Guardian
Allen does not want taxpayers' money to support "positive depictions of homosexuality as an alternative lifestyle". That's why Tennessee Williams and Alice Walker have got to go.
I ask Allen what prompted this bill. Was one of his children exposed to something in school that he considered inappropriate? Did he see some flamingly gay book displayed prominently at the public library?
No, nothing like that. "It was election day," he explains. Last month, "14 states passed referendums defining marriage as a relationship between a man and a woman."...
Cutting off funds to theatre departments that put on A Chorus Line or Cat on a Hot Tin Roof may look like censorship, and smell like censorship, but "it's not censorship", Allen hastens to explain. "For instance, there's a reason for stop lights. You're driving a vehicle, you see that stop light, and I hope you stop."
Go read the whole thing.
Then go and read the Orcinus piece I referred to yesterday, "Extremism Watch."
After that, read his stuff on Fascism, it's origins, and the seeds of it we are seeing now.
Then do as your conscience guides you.
I've been quiet about it, because there isn't a whole lot I can do about such silliness from here, and while the tenor of the times makes it worrisome, that's about where it sits.
But I have been keeping up with it, and now it seems Pres. Bush may be affirmatively for it, as opposed to refusing to condemn it. That bothers me.
The Guardian
Allen does not want taxpayers' money to support "positive depictions of homosexuality as an alternative lifestyle". That's why Tennessee Williams and Alice Walker have got to go.
I ask Allen what prompted this bill. Was one of his children exposed to something in school that he considered inappropriate? Did he see some flamingly gay book displayed prominently at the public library?
No, nothing like that. "It was election day," he explains. Last month, "14 states passed referendums defining marriage as a relationship between a man and a woman."...
Cutting off funds to theatre departments that put on A Chorus Line or Cat on a Hot Tin Roof may look like censorship, and smell like censorship, but "it's not censorship", Allen hastens to explain. "For instance, there's a reason for stop lights. You're driving a vehicle, you see that stop light, and I hope you stop."
Go read the whole thing.
Then go and read the Orcinus piece I referred to yesterday, "Extremism Watch."
After that, read his stuff on Fascism, it's origins, and the seeds of it we are seeing now.
Then do as your conscience guides you.
