BuzzFlash: Time To Mess With Texas

[unhappycamper]

Time To Mess With Texas
A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION
by Michael Fox
May 31, 2005

A gay man in Los Angeles, deliriously happy as he is about to enter a joyous union with his beloved partner, has a lot to be thankful for. I have more than most to be thankful for. But on my radar comes some horrifying news from Texas. Yes, Texas, the second largest state in the nation. Granted it has been, of late, and due to some crafty and underhanded mid-census redistricting, the home to some of the most antediluvian legislation in the country, but, still, it is home to Austin, Houston, and Dallas. Surely with the bulk of its population in such cosmopolitan locales, THIS couldn't happen. Surely I jest. Surely I wish it was funny.

Gay people are easy to attack, because we are, and always will be, a minority. Even if every gay man and lesbian were "out," we would still always be a minority, and therefore easily bullied by those who choose to remain ignorant, those who perniciously misinterpret the Bible, and those who simply choose to trade on hate for political expediency. Of late, the barrage of malice leveled against the gay community in this country might've sent a less thick-skinned group to the borders. But now we have an unlikely group of scarlet lettered partners: the entire unmarried heterosexual community! I couldn't have made it up.

Clearly, couples seeking to live together - gay or straight - but without a piece of paper from a church or justice-of-the-peace are harming NO ONE. But in Texas, and (Heaven help us) spreading elsewhere, BOTH groups have somehow become the nation's most urgent moral crisis. In truth, of course, it is neither urgent nor a crisis, and there is nothing immoral in it, because love is never immoral!

I shall tell you what the United States' greatest moral crisis is: missing fathers and unpaid child support. The debt owed to American children by their own missing fathers is so large it could pay for that vercockteh war in Iraq. It leaves children woefully disadvantaged and mothers bankrupt. (Whoops! Congress just made matters even worse for them, too! Sorry Gals!)

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http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/05/05/con05191.html

[Stevious]

1. Lawmakers fail to reach key goals

79th LEGISLATURE

Lawmakers fail
to reach key goals

1,370 measures OK'd, but school finance and property tax relief not among them.


http://www.statesman.com/news/content/shared/tx/legislature/stories/05/31recap.html

:wtf:

[martymar64]

2. It makes me sad

It makes me sad to see my home state turning into such a shithole of intolerance. I'll always ID myself as a Texan, but the people running the state now are absolutely batshit. I get my Austin fix every chance I can and I love San Antonio to death, but the rest of the state can go get buggered.
If it wasn't for Willie, I'd completely give it up.

[Booster]

3. A powerful speech given by a true Christian - one that God would

be proud of. I know I'm proud of her.