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In reply to the discussion: Hardware store owner refuses service to gay people and sells merchandise saying so [View all]Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)47. Gimme the MONEY!--I mean, Gimme That Old Tyme Religion!
Last edited Fri Sep 11, 2015, 08:32 PM - Edit history (1)
This guy seems to be nothing more than a grifter after his own pile of gold coins. He has no idea who actually has homosexual relations in his town and I will tell you my source: was friends with a couple of gay people in my rural area (they have since moved away) and you would not BELIEVE how many gudolboyz knocked on their doors at all hours. The gudolboyz' girlfriends and wives just didn't satisfy them, I guess. They needed that occasional male-on-male outlet. Whatevs.
I never judged or told a soul what I knew about some of of these fine upstanding men of the community, these "sodomites" who publicly demonized gays. It's none of my business what other people get up to in private, as long as everyone consents and is of age to do so. I'll never understand the fascination and abject FEAR fundies have over other people's private sex lives, but I suspect it's got a lot to do with the shaming done to build cults through religious training.
Seriously, who sits around all day obsessing over what someone else does with their genitals or whom they love? It's a sickness, really--some form of mental illness. If you have a life, you don't have time to be fascinated and appalled at the wild imaginings of your mind when it comes to another's private life.
This fine example of Tennessee hatred may even engage in relations with other men himself. We have all seen that some of the biggest opponents of gay marriage, the family values types, often cannot come to terms with their own sexual propensities. It's frightening when you've been told you'll go to hell. So I guess god ain't lookin' when you do this shit in private? Because guys just like this dude do some real kinky shit in private, if my friends are to be believed. And there is resentment that others are open about it--perhaps the public passion against it is their fear that they will be outed if LGBT relationships aren't seen as anything but ordinary.
The truth is, he probably sells a lot of overpriced, dusty crap that no gay people want anyway, his sales suck, and he wants a big GoFundMe total for his religious-based bigotry.
Gimme the MONEY!--I mean, gimme that old tyme religion!!!!!
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Hardware store owner refuses service to gay people and sells merchandise saying so [View all]
rusty quoin
Sep 2015
OP
That's what scares me too. These people are convinced without a doubt that they are fighting a war.
smirkymonkey
Sep 2015
#25
Just listening to the insane rabid republican presidential hopefuls tells me I think we
RKP5637
Sep 2015
#35
These people wonder why their communities are dying. Nobody wants to live there.
yardwork
Sep 2015
#5
Let's not miss that this man is a Baptist Minister, not just a hardware store owner.
Bluenorthwest
Sep 2015
#7
If I lived in the town I'd walk in, say I was a lesbian, and ask where there is a hardware store
Vinca
Sep 2015
#17
Think I'll start selling 'No Evangelicals Allowed' and 'No Rabid 'Christians' Allowed' tee shirts.
sinkingfeeling
Sep 2015
#22
I guess if someone asked for "No n*****s allowed" stickers he'd do that too?
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
Sep 2015
#26
I thought we got past "Colored & Irish not served here" years ago. nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Sep 2015
#30
Bigots and Racists are always around. Sorta like, "We don't Serve Colored People!"
RKP5637
Sep 2015
#34
He sure has sex on his mind 7x24, as does the rest of his ilk. A psychological profile would
RKP5637
Sep 2015
#37
How can you tell if someone is gay? Are they supposed to shop on the honor system?
mackerel
Sep 2015
#41