Dumb All Over: Moments in Godidiocy (the gays, again!)
Yep, they’re still around. Just a few quickies regarding the latest from the Rapture-ready crowd.
Funny how we always hear conservatives piss and moan about frivolous lawsuits. I wonder what they’ll say about this one (h/t Pharyngula), regarding some rather uptight Wisconsin folks who have their panties in a wad (and lawyers hired) about a book in the local library about teen sexuality:
One particular target of their fury is a book by Francesca Lia Block, Baby Be-Bop, which commits the sin of writing positively about young gay men and negatively about gay bashing. A group called the Christian Civil Liberties Union has filed suit over the book, since it exists at the library, and they don’t like it.
The plaintiffs, all of whom are elderly, say their mental and emotional well-being were damaged by the book at the Library, the claim states.
PZ goes on to describe how this magical book is doing so, it’s quite funny, go have a look.
One more from the “Uptight People Who Think About Gay Sex More Than Gay People Do®” dept;, this time from Ed Brayton. It’s about an article on WorldNutDaily about a school in Boston who held a prom for gay youth, and a guy from a Christian wingnut group who went to observe:
And he was horrified – horrified – to find out that kids at a gay prom do the same kinds of things kids at a straight prom do.
But being anti-gay nuts, they tell this story with all the requisite hysteria and even call it the “prom from sexual hell.” Some of this stuff is really funny:
“I remained in the building for an hour and a half and found the events inside disturbing, depraved and outright criminal,” Max reported. “The line included kids wearing the rainbow regalia of the gay movement, teenage boys wearing dresses and high heels, hugging their ‘boyfriends,’ extremely young looking girls, not much older than 14 or 15, with ‘Out and Proud’ inscribed in rainbow letters on the front of their T-shirts.”
Imagine that. A group that specifically advocates for the rights of gays, lesbians and the transgendered kids has – gasp – gays, lesbians and transgendered kids in it that wear t-shirts and rainbows. How disturbing, depraved and outright criminal.
Max continued, “On the flower pots and stairs leading up to the subway entrance, I saw dozens of kids aged 12-17 smoking cigarettes and making out with each other.”
Yeah, that would never happen at a straight prom. No straight kids would ever smoke cigarettes, only those evil gay kids do that.
More outrage in the rest of the article. Enjoy.
