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10-28-2010, 09:10 AM
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Originally Posted by LaneSig
No problem. Sorry for my reaction. I do have problems with how Arkansans get depicted and this moron doesn't help.
It's like how I hate when a movie is set in the South and someone walks into the sheriff's office. There's no airconditioning and one of those sorry old time fans that just goes back and forth.
We have airconditioning. We don't say "Aw, shucks" (well, not a lot of us). And, we aren't all prejudiced white trash.
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I'm an Alabamian. I feel you.
This article caused something rare...I literally had nothing to say when I first read it I was so appalled.
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10-28-2010, 09:55 AM
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His little tirade has pretty much guaranteed one of his kids is Gay and will come out, move away, and be awesome. Or perhaps he is one of those people who spill hate to deflect and he's been creeping in bathroom stalls and on Craigslist having casual encounters.
I don't think any less of Arkansas for one moron, hi, I live in Idaho we have plenty of our own embarrassing characters. Luckily the worst of them packed up their white pride hate and moved away and Sarah Palin moved back to Alaska. We even got rid of the guy who believed breast cancer is caused by abortion and though his replacement doesn't believe in evolution he is an improvement.
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10-28-2010, 10:03 AM
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Originally Posted by VandalSquirrel
I don't think any less of Arkansas for one moron, hi, I live in Idaho we have plenty of our own embarrassing characters. Luckily the worst of them packed up their white pride hate and moved away and Sarah Palin moved back to Alaska. We even got rid of the guy who believed breast cancer is caused by abortion and though his replacement doesn't believe in evolution he is an improvement.
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Thanks for the morning laugh!
Arizona isn't exactly the poster child for normalcy either... check out the governors we've had *cough* and then there is the Legislature...
At any rate, I do agree with you that the hate-filled man has something behind all that rage. What it is will be seen eventually; it always works its way to the surface.
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10-28-2010, 11:13 AM
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Thank GOD there are no crazies in Texas.
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10-28-2010, 11:16 AM
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Originally Posted by knight_shadow
Thank GOD there are no crazies in Texas.
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two laughs this morning! Thanks, GreekChat!
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10-29-2010, 03:44 AM
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Originally Posted by AzTheta
 
This is a school board member? Wow.
There are no words, no words for this "man". |
The first that comes to mind is "reprehensible." (...though part of me thinks that baboon wouldn't know what that word means.)
The sad part is that he is a parent. I saw him briefly on Anderson Cooper (talk about irony), where he was trying to explain away his statements. Anderson was being surprisingly objective with the guy.
I also feel bad for the residents of Arkansas to have such a posterchild for ignorance and hate come from their state.
It would be so easy to say, "I hope his kids are gay," but I would never, ever want to subject a child to living with a parent like that.
Given the focus of this website, I certainly hope some of GLO leaders look at this as a wake up call to the ignorance and hate that is still out there and promote more tolerance of diversity.
By the way, does anyone know who this guy works for?
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10-29-2010, 03:50 AM
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Paladino lives in New York and is anti-gay. I don't blame all of New York for 1 person.[/QUOTE]
I don't think there is any possible comparison to what Paladino said (or what Ken Buck in Colorado said) and what was said by the (now former) school board member in Arkansas.
I am certainly not defending Buck or Paladino, but at least they didn't bring God into it or indicate that the suicides were not a loss to society.
It is too bad our former school board member could not be forced to attend that funeral (though I am sure most folks there would want to tear him limb from limb).
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10-29-2010, 06:43 AM
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Arkansas school board member to resign over anti-gay post
(CNN) -- A school board district member in Arkansas who came under fire for an anti-gay post on a social networking site regrets the comments and will resign his seat, he told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Thursday.
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10-29-2010, 10:34 AM
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Originally Posted by knight_shadow
Arkansas school board member to resign over anti-gay post
(CNN) -- A school board district member in Arkansas who came under fire for an anti-gay post on a social networking site regrets the comments and will resign his seat, he told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Thursday.
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Good riddance!
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10-29-2010, 11:19 AM
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I watched him on Anderson Cooper last night.
He is so full of shit. While people say ignorant things and learn from their mistakes, paticularly when getting out of their boxes and educating themselves on issues, I think he's full of shit. I don't believe anything that he said last night. Not a thing.
I love the couple whose son committed suicide. They came on after that other guy and the father said he was going to pray for dude because it's the Christian thing to do. Then he basically said it's taking everything in him not to say what he really wants to say. That made me smile that he was honest about wanting to cuss dude out (or perhaps beat his ass).
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10-29-2010, 11:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Alumiyum
I'm an Alabamian. I feel you.
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Originally Posted by LaneSig
No problem. Sorry for my reaction. I do have problems with how Arkansans get depicted and this moron doesn't help.
It's like how I hate when a movie is set in the South and someone walks into the sheriff's office. There's no airconditioning and one of those sorry old time fans that just goes back and forth.
We have airconditioning. We don't say "Aw, shucks" (well, not a lot of us). And, we aren't all prejudiced white trash.
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What they said!!!
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10-29-2010, 04:00 PM
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Originally Posted by DTD Alum
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Another wacko Democrat.
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10-29-2010, 10:23 PM
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Originally Posted by kidrock
Another wacko Democrat.
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Ok where did you get that he was a Democrat? Please satisfy my curiosity.
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10-29-2010, 11:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Psi U MC Vito
Ok where did you get that he was a Democrat? Please satisfy my curiosity.
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It's madmax. Or his political counterpart, who knows.
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10-29-2010, 11:08 PM
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Originally Posted by knight_shadow
Arkansas school board member to resign over anti-gay post
(CNN) -- A school board district member in Arkansas who came under fire for an anti-gay post on a social networking site regrets the comments and will resign his seat, he told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Thursday.
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He regrets being caught, not what he said.
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