“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”
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Kurt Vonnegut (via gaywrites)
New mission in life.
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Kurt Vonnegut (via gaywrites)
New mission in life.
On December 17th, 2009, in Yemen, following a U.S airstrike (a cruise missile loaded with cluster bomblets):
♦ 58 people reported killed
♦ 41 civilians killed in initial strike including 12 women, 5 of them pregnant, and 22 children. 3 also later killed by cluster bombs
♦ 9 injured by cluster bombs after the eventAs we search for adjectives to describe the Sandy Hook shooter, perhaps we should think of a few to describe our State and those who support such actions. What works? Pathological? Mentally ill? Damaged? What do we call it?
These things are inextricably linked.
As many of you probably have heard, Westboro Baptist Church plans to protest at the funerals of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy. I think it’s time we take a stand against them. If you believe WBC should be recognized as a hate group or funeral protesting should be made illegal, I urge you to sign these petitions or any petitions related the website holds.
Jeeeesssuuuusss.
Banning any form of protesting is a terrible awful idea.
With all due respect, I completely disagree in this instance. Now mind you, I am all for protest and I believe it is an important freedom that we have within the United States.
However, what the Westboro Baptist Church does is not protesting.
Their idea of protesting have been to harass local businesses in the Topeka, KS, region for 3 years straight for simply having a lesbian employee.
Harassing the funerals of military personnel, gay people, and children.
The basic idea of protest is express objection to actions, events, or policies. If you read that article I posted, one of the main ways the Westboro Baptist Church funds itself has been to win civil lawsuits by basically, instigating people to attack them, and then suing the town for failing to protect them during their demonstrations. Or in by suing the families of people they are picketing.
This is not protest. This is fear mongering, this is hatred in its purest form, this is harassment, it is exploitation, and it has gone on for far too long.
The original post says “If you believe WBC should be recognized as a hate group or funeral protesting should be made illegal, I urge you to sign these petitions”. I said “Banning any form of protesting is a terrible awful idea.”
You can criticize the hell out of them. You can spend your whole life fighting their lawsuits and standing in front of their picket lines. You cannot ban them from protesting. You can’t shut them up because you don’t like what they say for the simple fact that it would make it okay for someone to do the exact same thing to you.
There are laws in place against harassment and intimidation. Police SHOULD be protecting them and they are within their rights to sue if they are not protected. Don’t create laws for specific individuals or groups you don’t like. It will not turn out well.
I typed a one sentence reply about never banning protests ever, you wrote: “I completely disagree with you in this instance.” I’m a little confused.
Shout out to the homeless queers youths, jailed trans women, queer people of color struggling with intersecting oppression, and poor rural queer kids who survive homophobic abuse from their communities while Katy Perry gets recognition for their struggles.
As many of you probably have heard, Westboro Baptist Church plans to protest at the funerals of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy. I think it’s time we take a stand against them. If you believe WBC should be recognized as a hate group or funeral protesting should be made illegal, I urge you to sign these petitions or any petitions related the website holds.
Jeeeesssuuuusss.
Banning any form of protesting is a terrible awful idea.
With all due respect, I completely disagree in this instance. Now mind you, I am all for protest and I believe it is an important freedom that we have within the United States.
However, what the Westboro Baptist Church does is not protesting.
Their idea of protesting have been to harass local businesses in the Topeka, KS, region for 3 years straight for simply having a lesbian employee.
Harassing the funerals of military personnel, gay people, and children.
The basic idea of protest is express objection to actions, events, or policies. If you read that article I posted, one of the main ways the Westboro Baptist Church funds itself has been to win civil lawsuits by basically, instigating people to attack them, and then suing the town for failing to protect them during their demonstrations. Or in by suing the families of people they are picketing.
This is not protest. This is fear mongering, this is hatred in its purest form, this is harassment, it is exploitation, and it has gone on for far too long.
The original post says “If you believe WBC should be recognized as a hate group or funeral protesting should be made illegal, I urge you to sign these petitions”. I said “Banning any form of protesting is a terrible awful idea.”
You can criticize the hell out of them. You can spend your whole life fighting their lawsuits and standing in front of their picket lines. You cannot ban them from protesting. You can’t shut them up because you don’t like what they say for the simple fact that it would make it okay for someone to do the exact same thing to you.
As many of you probably have heard, Westboro Baptist Church plans to protest at the funerals of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy. I think it’s time we take a stand against them. If you believe WBC should be recognized as a hate group or funeral protesting should be made illegal, I urge you to sign these petitions or any petitions related the website holds.
Jeeeesssuuuusss.
Banning any form of protesting is a terrible awful idea.
(via forever-let-it-burn)
Hey remember this.
We had the first night of our Church Christmas show tonight. After we finished our last minute rehearsal our music director came in to pray with us and encourage us. What a man of wisdom he is. He talked about how the shootings Friday have shaken us as a nation and read a prayer to prepare us to…
Atheism changes your whole outlook. When I see terrible things in the world I think “we must change this now, right this second.” When there is no afterlife, every moment of pain is a moment too much. I don’t believe there is a secret purpose to suffering and I refuse to stand by while it happens. When there is no tomorrow, today matters, incredibly so. I run on hope, my life is nothing but hope.
If you sent atheists to Connecticut, we wouldn’t lie to them about things we don’t know. We wouldn’t “comfort” them with false promises. We wouldn’t belittle their pain with guesses and assumptions about the future, about the nature of reality. I, for one, would say, let’s do something to make the world better.
see people keep saying “no strong woman would stay in an abusive relationship” but I keep hearing “please, put arsenic in my coffee”
Bahahhahahah
Yes.
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