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Occulus

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19. My parents gave me the boot out of home and school for being gay twenty years ago.

Reply to Captain Stern (Reply #9)

Fri Jan 11, 2013, 01:46 PM

Jan 2013

I still don't trust my mom enough to ask her for money when I can't make rent (right now, the first time ever).

Why in the blue fuck should I trust THIS guy?

Apology NOT accepted. As far as I'm concerned, he can live with the consequences of his actions and Obama is still just as much at fault for choosing him in the first place.

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Cory Booker: “I hated gays” [View all] DonViejo Jan 2013 OP

thank you! Voice for Peace Jan 2013 #1

People change, sometimes for the better. cheapdate Jan 2013 #2

Like George Wallace. n/t bitchkitty Jan 2013 #18

It's always easy to hate those who are different from you. craigmatic Jan 2013 #3

Many adults are basically children. n/t RKP5637 Jan 2013 #5

Weird Shankapotomus Jan 2013 #4

That kind of prejudice is often carefully taught from childhood--some parents think it is msanthrope Jan 2013 #10

I never did either and I'm in my 50s. LiberalFighter Jan 2013 #13

This story needs to be told, especially in the Black community qanda Jan 2013 #6

Rolling on the floor! This guy is ambitious indeed. Corey Booker desires to ascent to a senate Tutonic Jan 2013 #7

He wrote that Op-Ed twenty years ago. (nt) Captain Stern Jan 2013 #9

My parents gave me the boot out of home and school for being gay twenty years ago. Occulus Jan 2013 #19

were you rolling on the floor 20 years ago snooper2 Jan 2013 #14

He's going after Sen Lautenberg's seat nt DonViejo Jan 2013 #17

Well duh! Anyone who actually knows gay people personally has no problem lunatica Jan 2013 #8

It's an op-ed he wrote 21 years ago when he was at university, age 22 muriel_volestrangler Jan 2013 #11

My bad, but I do feel that he inadvertently showed his true colors in 2012 lunatica Jan 2013 #12

Bingo. And when Rachel turned half of a show over to him because of it - forestpath Jan 2013 #15

This is why it is so hard to come out jinx1 Jan 2013 #16