Arkansas Blog

pssst, hey Jerry, over here buddy.

I'm tellin' ya that Fred Phelps guy is standing ready to help out in any way he can. I mean you two are just like peas in a pod and would get along real well n all. Why don't ya give him a call, he's somewhere up in Kansas, but you can use that newfangled innertubes thing to find him.

Give 'im a call, you'll both be happier.

Compare and contrast, my high school english teachers said that over and over.
Compare and contrast, gay rights and slave rights; the contrasts are easy, the comparisons are profound. Slaves were not allowed to marry either. Slaves were not allowed to make a contract and what is a civil marriage but a hugh contract. You can not deny that gay people are denied the rights involved in marriage.
Stop gay apartheid.
Navanethem Pillay, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights spoke there by video-phone last month saying, "That just like apartheid laws that criminalized sexual relations between different races, laws against homosexuality are increasingly becoming recognized as anachronistic and inconsistent both with international law and with traditional values of dignity, inclusion, and respect for all."

To use one of strange's favorite words..........HYPOCRITES!!!

I think I've come to realize what bothers Jerry, chasv and strange the most.

Recall that part about the wifey submitting to hubby...the ancient goat-herders, male domination-power trip..wifey as chattel property thing?

If they allow same sex marriage contracts who is gonna submit? Who's gonna be the goat herder in those relationships!

Maybe if they rewrite a gay proposal for civil unions requiring a submission clause old Jerry
and strange can jump on it. No more feminine secret powers over the male even is he is the
bitch in the arrangement.

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Question: Exactly how many children have Mr. and Mrs. Cox adopted or fostered?

Many blacks take great exception when you compare homosexuality with the struggle for racial civil rights. Since I know that you don't want to offend the black community you need to rethink you pathetic attempts to compare the two. Again, I am well aware that the issue of homosexuality creates a fire storm of emotion on this blog. I only wish that you felt the same about the abuse against the people occuring in Zimbabwe.

One small rebuttal to Mr. Cox's plea for financial support. I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU for over three decades, born and raised in Arkansas and resident here for 44 of my 62 years. I am not the only Arkansas member and I continue to support the ACLU with my contributions. The action is supported by many more ACLU members and law firms from many other states, not just New York.

As for our organization's so-called "political agenda," I will stand by our mission statement, ". . . working in the nation's courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve individual working rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and the laws of the United States. . ." Although I prefer the more succinct statement, "Our sole purpose is to defend and uphold the Constitution and Bill of Rights."

>>Cox really does have a knack for irony<<

With all due respect, I think I would put it that Cox has absolutely no sense of irony.

FWIW, the entrenched Zimbabweian "leader" Robert Mugaube is a homophobic dictator whom stole that country's last election.

I'm just discombobulated by this whole Initiated Act 1 thing, so somebody please 'splain because Paxil isn't doing it. (BTW: don't you LOVE the NYT article about this law and how it makes Arkansas look? Me neither.)

I'm neither gay nor cohabiting. I'm just me, living large in Chenal, spreading my love, so to speak, and looking to adopt a gay / lesbian kid kicked out of his / her home by, you know, less understanding, less fabulous parents.

Are rejected same-sex youths affected by this? Or just adults who wanna adopt but can't because they're not Baptists?

I MUST know.

Along Norma's train of thought, click the link to read about what kind of damage is caused by parents not accepting their children for who they are. Click the blue...

Arkansas Hillbilly --

THANK you for your understanding. And that link.

I have been blessed with fabulous looks, a magnificent Chenal home and a neverending stream of income.

So naturally I've dedicated myself to helping chldren less fortunate than I.

Like blacks and other non-Caucasian children and same-sex kids kicked out of their homes in the name of God.

Not that I personally have a problem with ungodly non-Caucasian homos.

Hence, the Norma Bates Foundation for Ex-Gay Ex-Non-Caucasians.

Or, as I like to call it, NBFEGENC. Catchy, huh?

Anyhoo, through punishing boot-camp drills around the perimeter of the Chenal CC Golf Course, Taser Therapy, Reparative Bleaching and Heterosexual Hands-On Porno, my intensive program pretty much turns the wee ones into self-loathing God-fearing (or at least Norma-Fearing) beige sociopaths ready for immediate adoption by married Arkansans.

It makes for a better world when we're all heterosexual Caucasians who can't dance, I'm thinking.

My goal for 2009? To expand NBFEGENC into Indonesia and the Middle East.

Yes, my heart's as big as all outdoors.

It's not quite as simplistic as some of you say. Act 1 does NOT affect homosexuals exclusively. To some extent - it treats gays and straights equivalently (i.e. badly). Single non-cohabitating gays and straights are allowed to adopt/foster.

No, Severus, it doesn't, but they were the target. The fact that Cox and Friends used such a large amount of buckshot in drafting this abomination of a law only further proves they do not care about children or people in general. They are only concerned with stopping the spread of 'gay cooties' and anything else that doesn't fit in with their narrow, vengeful, fear filled world view.

This is the "Right Wing" agenda:

1. The deportation of all undoccumented workers immediately.
2. The marginalization, if not outright criminalization of LGBT Americans and keeping them
separate from the mainstream so as not to "infect" the population.
3. The institution of prayer in schools to their idea of the Christian God, complete with teaching
creation science/intelegent design.
4. The reconstruction of all mainline denominations, starting with the Methodists and Episcopalians
to bring them in line with their "correct" interpretation of scripture.
and ultimately:
5. The destruction of the middle class creating a society of either rich or poor, where the poor
are too busy scraping up a living to be a threat and the rich are too complacent in their
luxury to care.

I think that about sums it up.

Gee, Severus--

I don't know how the national media got it wrong and you got it right.

You apologist you, Severus.

"Does not affect homosexuals exclusively." You're so right. It offends would-be adoptive parents equally.

Fuck the children.

God, Severus, you're charming. The rest of the national press calls Arkansas's Initiated Act 1 for what it is: a discriminatory unconstitutional, uh, Amendment.

But thanks, cupcake, for chiming in with your intelligent rejoinder.

I'm so glad that a local blogger can counteract massive national opinion about this hateful anti-child Act.

Because, you know, I'm 9 and would like nothing more than to get out of this shady foster-care bullshit and into a home where I'm wanted and loved.

Plus my six-year old sister would like to be adopted by these two women except she can't be because they're two women.

I don't understand it because they're nice.

Anyway, it's not gonna happen.

Thanks a lot.