Hideously Gigantic Smurf: doglover: Odin is wise beyond mortal kenning and is more forgiving of certain things if they're done with good intentions by honest men.

"Good intentions"?
"Honest men"?

You have no IDEA which story in the Asgardian mythos I'm referring to, do you?

No. I missed the horse farking incident.


I do know the ones where Odin pretends to be a beggar and rewards those who help.

Maybe Clint might make it clearer...

Tatsuma: what_now: It originated in the 1970s as a way to symbolize that the LGBT community was open to people of all races.

well, they chose poorly



Especially given that folks associate the rainbow now more with diversity or greasy kids stuff and wonder and pipedreams...

Which, given the current climate, may in fact be accurate on both counts.

I'll trade with you WND. I'll convice my gay friends to give you back the rainbow if you give me back Jesus. The whole fark-the-poor, let 'em starve Supply Side Jesus is really offensive to my beliefs.

12349876: doglover: But if you're a virgin, you can't really be gay or straight.

Did you know who wanted to fark before or after you started farking? If you knew before, you had a sexuality as a virgin.

If his username is any indicator, he wanted to f*ck dogs. I don't think dogf*cking counts as losing one's virginity.

Seriously folks, if THIS is your biggest fear:



then maybe you have chosen...poorly.

You know what gay folks want?

EXACTLY what everyone else wants. The right to find someone to love, to be with, want to be with, need to be with. Folks, to paraphrase Stephen King, who make houses in your heart.

They already do that. They already live their lives, but damnation, it would be easier if everyone would stop poking their noses in everyone else's business.

You know what my Grandmother called that? Rude. Rude was one of her highest sins, because it enabled all the rest. If you feel like you can be rude to folks, that means you lack respect for them, and that lack of respect leads to all the others. Respecting folks, so long as they don't hurt each other, that was her highest rule. It's sad that folks feel like they have any business poking their noses into other folks' lives.

She was a good Catholic woman. She gave up Catholicism because in the South it was damn hard to stay Catholic and still reach folks in the places she worked, so she became a Methodist, and she was a woman of deep principle. To be fair, she was sort of casually racist, as were a lot of folks, but she grew out of that while I lived with her, as my father was overseas, because she saw me playing with the kids in the neighborhood, and if my best friends were black, or brown, and I was half yellow, then it seemed kind of hard to hold onto those prejudices, and it did my heart a lot of good when she realized when she was wrong.

She taught me as much as how to be a man as my father or my Uncle Brian, because she laid the foundation. She was wasn't afraid to say, "I was wrong." And that is what is missing in today's debates on this issue. Few are willing to say, "I was wrong on this."

I am wrong on something damn near everyday. And luckily, I've got a good woman and some good friends who remind me of it, and keep me honest. We need to be able to do the same in instances of simple justice. Admitting when you're wrong, and wanting to rectify the situation isn't waffling, it isn't flip flopping, it's making a correction, and making things right. As a nation, we need to accept this far more often. Not the Romneyesque, "I have ALWAYS been for X" followed fairly soon by "I have ALWAYS been for Y." That doesn't admit the error, and it certainly offers no recompense or restitution or even an admission of being wrong. We need, as a nation, to be able to move on, and do better. On matters of race. On matters of gender equality. On matters of economic equality. On matters of sexuality. On matters of race. On matters of faith. The intransigence of trying to appear "strong" is what is hobbling us as a nation, and as a people.

Be the folks your dog thinks you are. Be THAT Awesome, and maybe we'll get through this. Until then, it's a crap shoot...

thamike: 12349876: doglover: But if you're a virgin, you can't really be gay or straight.

Did you know who wanted to fark before or after you started farking? If you knew before, you had a sexuality as a virgin.

If his username is any indicator, he wanted to f*ck dogs. I don't think dogf*cking counts as losing one's virginity.

Says you.


/wait, what?

When choosing a symbol of unity in the face of oppression, make sure it doesn't offend the oppressors.

I think I need a rainbow flag sticker with a Jesus fish in the middle. Except that I ride a scooter which makes road rage more than a little dangerous.

Awesome, the rest of us will take back the American flag from you fascists.