Tennessee town to make gays illegal!

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― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:09 (twenty-two years ago)

As if this law will last for longer than three seconds

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:12 (twenty-two years ago)

When they overturn this stupid law, they should charge all of the legal costs back to that town's tax base.

― earlnash, Thursday, 18 March 2004 03:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Please join me in mourning the fact that the one gay person left in Rhea County, TN, has to end up leaving that idyllic paradise and move to someplace more progressive and tolerant. Chattanooga, for example.

(Yes, yes, I know. One gay person oppressed is one gay person too many, etc. I'm just funnin' above, though. Mostly.)

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 18 March 2004 05:05 (twenty-two years ago)

They need to call those guys into a room and explain at punishing length that they are stupid, and why they are stupid.

― ferg (Ferg), Thursday, 18 March 2004 05:13 (twenty-two years ago)

there SO should be a homo invasion of this shithole ... a whole bunch of über-butch leather queens riding into town on harleys and fucking shit up, beating motherfuckers with poolcues, "squeal like a pig!" antics, all of that shit.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 18 March 2004 05:18 (twenty-two years ago)

You mean like a gay "Wild Bunch"?

― Sengai, Thursday, 18 March 2004 05:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Wait wait wait THERE was a STRAIGHT Wild Bunch?!?!?!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 March 2004 05:22 (twenty-two years ago)

exactly!

xpost LOL

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 18 March 2004 05:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Once being gay is outlawed, only out outlaws will be gay.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 18 March 2004 05:31 (twenty-two years ago)

breakin' the law, breakin' the law

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Thursday, 18 March 2004 05:54 (twenty-two years ago)

what's this modern world coming to?

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 18 March 2004 05:56 (twenty-two years ago)

that extra 'out' was a typo, but it almost makes sense there.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 18 March 2004 06:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Hahaha I totally thought it was intentional.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 March 2004 06:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Wait, so how do they prove you're gay? What about kids that come out in high school? Do they have to move out of their parents' houses and go to school in a neighboring county? I mean, forget the all-too-depressing intolerance and think of the ridiculous logistics of this!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 March 2004 06:51 (twenty-two years ago)

They hire a sexy man and a sexy woman to roam the town....

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 18 March 2004 06:54 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.bluntreview.com/images/gh2.jpg

I'M PURE MAN, MAN!

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 18 March 2004 06:55 (twenty-two years ago)

The artist (not philosopher) Francis Bacon was very much of the opinion that being gay was much more fun when it was illegal.

― hmmm (hmmm), Thursday, 18 March 2004 12:07 (twenty-two years ago)

It's kind of charming, the idea of a little town of fuckwits who banned homosexuality and dancing, and don't believe in evolution.

It would be like visiting Williamsburg to see how candles used to be made - you could visit Rhea County to see what it was like in the time before schools.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 18 March 2004 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

so much in common with the Taleban...

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 18 March 2004 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Rhea County is one of the most conservative counties in Tennessee. It holds an annual festival commemorating the 1925 trial at which John T. Scopes was convicted of teaching evolution. The verdict was thrown out on a technicality. The trial became the subject of the play and movie "Inherit the Wind."

― Kingfish Cowboy (Kingfish), Thursday, 18 March 2004 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

It would be like visiting Williamsburg to see how candles used to be made

"Yo dude, I need some authentic candles to go with my ironic T-shirt and trucker hat and Pabst."

"Fuck off."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 March 2004 14:09 (twenty-two years ago)

how much do you think it would cost to move all the hookers, pimps, junkies + homeless from downtown detroit to williamsburg¿ you know.

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 18 March 2004 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I think moving them to Rhea County is more urgent and key.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 18 March 2004 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

This is really close to my hometown. As my friend said earier, "I have no desire to go to Rhea County, and I don't know many homosexuals that have that desire either."

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 18 March 2004 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

whoops - you know what i meant.

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 18 March 2004 15:26 (twenty-two years ago)

and in pther news canada moves to outlaw the bible¡

well, almost.

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 18 March 2004 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

no coffee makes pther=other.

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 18 March 2004 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

oh yeah, and this thing, too:

LGBT Federal Workers Lose Job Protections
by Paul Johnson

Gay and lesbians in the entire federal workforce have had their job protections officially removed by the office of Special Counsel. The new Special Counsel, Scott Bloch, says his interpretation of a 1978 law intended to protect employees and job applicants from adverse personnel actions is that gay and lesbian workers are not covered.

Bloch said that the while a gay employee would have no recourse for being fired or demoted for being gay, that same worker could not be fired for attending a gay Pride event.

In his interpretation, Bloch is making a distinction between one’s conduct as a gay or lesbian and one’s status as a gay or lesbian.

“People confuse conduct and sexual orientation as the same thing, and I don’t think they are,” Bloch said in an interview with Federal Times, a publication for government employees...

― Kingfish Cowboy (Kingfish), Thursday, 18 March 2004 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)

So, wait, you're at fault for being gay, but not for acting gay? Now all the feds will be down the local gay bar every friday, straight or gay.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 18 March 2004 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

PS: gaygaygaygaygay

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 18 March 2004 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

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