Comments on: Birmingham gays sue mayor

By: Stevemd2

Stevemd2 — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:17:45 +0000

Oh, I didn’t know he was black. Amazing, isn’t it. Just shows how prejudice and hatred trump all, just as it did during wwII, e.g. the Holocaust of the Jews.

What the issue seems to be with the Blacks is that

1. Being (recently) poor, people like that look back, rather then look forward. So they are easily trapped by religion, which has almost zero capacity for change.

2. Some of them view their own civil rights struggle as incomplete – true to some extent. So they fear that being associated with another downtrodden group is a risk to their future. The power of hate, from the right wing Christian hypocrites, have found another way to continue their power.

By: SteveMD2

SteveMD2 — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:11:35 +0000

The mayor is just like the people who gave us slavery and it took 600,000 deaths to break the back of the South during the civil war. He is just like the people who gave us 100 more years of segregation.

And he dares to talk about God?! I suspect that God is building a thermonuclear furnace in hell, to be reserrved specifically for these hypocrits. To super hell with them. Bush them. (’Bush should replace ‘fxxk’ in our profanities dictionary, btw.

By: Chris Sullivan

Chris Sullivan — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:24:44 +0000

Perhaps that is what Gordon intended to state, but it surely did not read that way. (There have been a lot of anti-gay posters popping up on this site lately – and if I sense that they are here, I usually will try to smoke them out!)

By: jessica

jessica — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:12:32 +0000

wow what shocked me was when he said if they loose he would sue them for harassment. that’s freaking crazy! what idiot! yes I also hate when people use Gods name for such reasons… i truely hope those of the gay community win this case!

By: Censoredagain

Censoredagain — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:56:00 +0000

Chris I am not going to speak for Gordon but I did not read his comment the same way you did. I read it as though Gordon lives in Birmingham and “us” being the people of Birmingham and “you ” being the mayor and “accomplishing” being the discrimination in which the mayor has engaged.

However I do admit that the pronouns do not have proper antecedents so they (the pronouns) are ambiguous and leave the post open to ones perspective interpretation…much like the bible

By: Chris Sullivan

Chris Sullivan — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:42:07 +0000

“Gordon” – YES, OBVIOUSLY wo DO think this accomplished something and the fact that you think it “further embarassed us in front on the entire state” is revealing – are you some sort of self-loathing homosexual or something? The mayor is a pompous, self-righteous, hypocritical ass and this lawsuit is PERFECTLY appropriate.

By: Censoredagain

Censoredagain — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:30:32 +0000

I am so so so delighted to see that the Pride group (even though I think Pride of any type is in and of its self evil; nor do I believe in being ashamed either for being gay) is suing saying they are the victims of religious persecution and their (Pride) religious freedom is being denied. This is something that needed to be done for such a long long time.

By: John

John — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:21:15 +0000

yes Larry, suing the mayor demonstrates that when injustice occurs, we will not sit idly by, but we will fight back and fight back, and never give up until justice is achieved. Flush your embasassment down the toilet Larry and start standing up for equality

By: Shawn

Shawn — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:50:06 +0000

It the group is harassing the mayor, why would he wait until they loose the lawsuit to file charges…could it be he has no ground and knows he is not quite in the right?

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:24:21 +0000

That is why we left the South! I cannot get over the fact that so many feel God really gives a rat’s ass what goes on in governmental affairs at the city, county, state and federal levels, not to mention football games and any other ridiculously simple event for which they seek God’s blessing or do for His glory or in His name. Learn from history, folks. The mentality that gives government over to religion was responsible for the Inquisition, along with many other horrors. I think that’s why the Constitution includes that politely worded section that dictates church and state shall be separate. It’s a two way street: Keep your religion out of our government and the government will stay out of your religion.