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	<title>Comments on: Michigan State House Candidate is Hard-Line Anti-Gay Activist</title>
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		<title>By: Erika</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/08/01/michigan-state-house-candidate-is-hard-line-anti-gay-activist/comment-page-1/#comment-2706133</link>
		<dc:creator>Erika</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2013 14:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The American Family Association was so much better when the Rev. Donald Wildmon was in charge and they stuck to making hysterically funny hysterical claims about the media - most involved them seeing sex everywhere but of course, was the one where he claimed that Mighty Mouse cartoons were promoting cocaine use to chidlren.

Yes, they still had some harmful effects to society (such as getting Mighty Mouse canceled after teaching thousands of Mighty Mouse watching children what cocaine was) but they were basically harmless - and the Rev. Donald Wildmon&#039;s letters were even funnier than Chick Tracts.

Now they seem to have ceased their hysterically funny media advocacy (possibly because in this age of constantly plunging lowest common demonators  and reality television they don&#039;t need to look for and expose hidden sex - but also possibly because if people today were complaining about gratitious comments about sex and gratitutous scantily clad women on television one of their primary targets would be Fox News) and just moved to bashing gay people they now have a much higher negative impact on society and they don&#039;t even balance it by providing the societal benefit of unintended comedy.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The American Family Association was so much better when the Rev. Donald Wildmon was in charge and they stuck to making hysterically funny hysterical claims about the media &#8211; most involved them seeing sex everywhere but of course, was the one where he claimed that Mighty Mouse cartoons were promoting cocaine use to chidlren.</p>
<p>Yes, they still had some harmful effects to society (such as getting Mighty Mouse canceled after teaching thousands of Mighty Mouse watching children what cocaine was) but they were basically harmless &#8211; and the Rev. Donald Wildmon&#8217;s letters were even funnier than Chick Tracts.</p>
<p>Now they seem to have ceased their hysterically funny media advocacy (possibly because in this age of constantly plunging lowest common demonators  and reality television they don&#8217;t need to look for and expose hidden sex &#8211; but also possibly because if people today were complaining about gratitious comments about sex and gratitutous scantily clad women on television one of their primary targets would be Fox News) and just moved to bashing gay people they now have a much higher negative impact on society and they don&#8217;t even balance it by providing the societal benefit of unintended comedy.</p>
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		<title>By: aadila</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/08/01/michigan-state-house-candidate-is-hard-line-anti-gay-activist/comment-page-1/#comment-2705907</link>
		<dc:creator>aadila</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2013 13:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah yes, the good old American family values of hate.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ah yes, the good old American family values of hate.</p>
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		<title>By: MRJ</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/08/01/michigan-state-house-candidate-is-hard-line-anti-gay-activist/comment-page-1/#comment-2705615</link>
		<dc:creator>MRJ</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2013 12:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know, welcome to Michigan.
One of these types lives across the road, and down the road, and around the corner both ways, and up the road, and two roads over, and two roads north, and south, etc..
This guy is in the Midland area?
So is Randy Grey.
Figures.
 
Alcoholism and homosexuality:
Being equated in What way? Being a &quot;filthy lifestyle&quot; (!?) whereas both have been proven to be genetic in make up, and cover every spectrum, country, or class on every part of the globe for as long as recorded history?
Is that how it is?
Tell that to the alcoholic, racist, wife beating, Christians living around here.
 
Parallelism between alcoholics and LGBT, between LGBT and Hitler/Third Reich, and, also, between Jews and pedophilia, between stupidity and LGBT, between health risks of smoking and LGBT, between domestic violence or pedophiles and LGBT... you know, the people whom I have met who say these things are all Christians.
You know, the people who actually engage in these things in this area are all white, most are alcoholic or using drugs, and alllll Christians.
 
You want another interesting parallel in an ignorant, racist mind?
One of the racists down the street saying, when he saw a group of teens in a nearby city walking in front of the DMV/Sec. of State office: &quot;Look at &#039;em! Their pants down like that means they&#039;re trying to get picked up for gay sex! They want it!&quot;
Guess what skin color the kids had?
But, then again, he abuses his wife (2), uses drugs, grows, and he&#039;s been charged/convicted of Felony Possession in FL.
 
Trying to explain Hip Hop/Gangsta dress, and the social statement made by those &quot;pants on the ground&quot; went absolutely past him... you can&#039;t explain sociology, and any type of cultural fad differences to a cat turd who already believes through the deranged teaching of his father and peers that any type of cultural difference immediately equates to Sodom and Gomorrah.
 
&quot;...really only meant to further the “homosexual agenda.”&quot;

Riiiiiight... any child or adult who is &quot;bullied&quot; (stalked/harassed/abused: call it what it is) is by this definition a homosexual
 
My apologies to any self respecting cat turd, and any cats who feel affronted: we who own cats watch your joy when running around the house after your daily constitutional offerings to us.:)]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know, welcome to Michigan.<br />
One of these types lives across the road, and down the road, and around the corner both ways, and up the road, and two roads over, and two roads north, and south, etc..<br />
This guy is in the Midland area?<br />
So is Randy Grey.<br />
Figures.</p>
<p>Alcoholism and homosexuality:<br />
Being equated in What way? Being a &#8220;filthy lifestyle&#8221; (!?) whereas both have been proven to be genetic in make up, and cover every spectrum, country, or class on every part of the globe for as long as recorded history?<br />
Is that how it is?<br />
Tell that to the alcoholic, racist, wife beating, Christians living around here.</p>
<p>Parallelism between alcoholics and LGBT, between LGBT and Hitler/Third Reich, and, also, between Jews and pedophilia, between stupidity and LGBT, between health risks of smoking and LGBT, between domestic violence or pedophiles and LGBT&#8230; you know, the people whom I have met who say these things are all Christians.<br />
You know, the people who actually engage in these things in this area are all white, most are alcoholic or using drugs, and alllll Christians.</p>
<p>You want another interesting parallel in an ignorant, racist mind?<br />
One of the racists down the street saying, when he saw a group of teens in a nearby city walking in front of the DMV/Sec. of State office: &#8220;Look at &#8216;em! Their pants down like that means they&#8217;re trying to get picked up for gay sex! They want it!&#8221;<br />
Guess what skin color the kids had?<br />
But, then again, he abuses his wife (2), uses drugs, grows, and he&#8217;s been charged/convicted of Felony Possession in FL.</p>
<p>Trying to explain Hip Hop/Gangsta dress, and the social statement made by those &#8220;pants on the ground&#8221; went absolutely past him&#8230; you can&#8217;t explain sociology, and any type of cultural fad differences to a cat turd who already believes through the deranged teaching of his father and peers that any type of cultural difference immediately equates to Sodom and Gomorrah.</p>
<p>&#8220;&#8230;really only meant to further the “homosexual agenda.”&#8221;</p>
<p>Riiiiiight&#8230; any child or adult who is &#8220;bullied&#8221; (stalked/harassed/abused: call it what it is) is by this definition a homosexual</p>
<p>My apologies to any self respecting cat turd, and any cats who feel affronted: we who own cats watch your joy when running around the house after your daily constitutional offerings to us.:)</p>
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		<title>By: Sam Molloy</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/08/01/michigan-state-house-candidate-is-hard-line-anti-gay-activist/comment-page-1/#comment-2703829</link>
		<dc:creator>Sam Molloy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2013 04:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to NPR, Gerrymandering in recent years has further enhanced the success of all-or-nothing candidates on both sides of our Continental Divide. There are very few districts remaining that &quot;can go either way&quot;. The most Right Wing candidate will always triumph in some, and the most Left Wing in others. This dinosaur will probably win this local Michigan election. Like Sary Palin and even Michelle Bachmann, he probably has some fiscal opinions I would agree with. It is astounding that they think they support &quot; limited government&quot; when they take such an interest in who I stay awake with.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>According to NPR, Gerrymandering in recent years has further enhanced the success of all-or-nothing candidates on both sides of our Continental Divide. There are very few districts remaining that &#8220;can go either way&#8221;. The most Right Wing candidate will always triumph in some, and the most Left Wing in others. This dinosaur will probably win this local Michigan election. Like Sary Palin and even Michelle Bachmann, he probably has some fiscal opinions I would agree with. It is astounding that they think they support &#8221; limited government&#8221; when they take such an interest in who I stay awake with.</p>
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		<title>By: Paul</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/08/01/michigan-state-house-candidate-is-hard-line-anti-gay-activist/comment-page-1/#comment-2702976</link>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2013 00:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[He and State Rep Tom McMillin are chums. Listen to this robocall. 

http://youtu.be/CoFKMmGjghA]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He and State Rep Tom McMillin are chums. Listen to this robocall. </p>
<p><a href="http://youtu.be/CoFKMmGjghA" rel="nofollow">http://youtu.be/CoFKMmGjghA</a></p>
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		<title>By: Mary Suzanne Smith</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mary Suzanne Smith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2013 23:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is happening to Michigan since I left eight years ago.  I was 65 when I left.  Michigan goes right to work,  which should leave my good old dad, Linwood, shaking in his grave.  Now all this nonsense against lgbt folks.  You all should be ashamed of yourselves.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What is happening to Michigan since I left eight years ago.  I was 65 when I left.  Michigan goes right to work,  which should leave my good old dad, Linwood, shaking in his grave.  Now all this nonsense against lgbt folks.  You all should be ashamed of yourselves.</p>
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		<title>By: concernedcitizen</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/08/01/michigan-state-house-candidate-is-hard-line-anti-gay-activist/comment-page-1/#comment-2702848</link>
		<dc:creator>concernedcitizen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2013 23:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This man is a complete idiot.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This man is a complete idiot.</p>
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