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09/03/09
Matt's funeral took place in my home town of Casper. The Westboro Baptist church flocked to the small episcopal church where the service was held, wielding their "God hates fags" signs. Anticipating this, many Casper residents also went to the churchyard. They stood side by side, and turned their backs on the Westboro demonstrators. It was something that moves me still to this day when I think about it.
In May of this year, nearly 11 years after Matt's death, our state's lone representative voted against the Matthew Shepard Act. While this only reaffirmed my poor opinion of Cynthia Lummis, it also draws into question what this will mean for Wyoming. And what it will say about us if she is reelected in 2010.
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I also like the working "actual or perceived sexual orientation". While it's nowhere near the same, I have several friends who have been assaulted/discriminated against to different degrees for their perceived homosexuality. Usually men who don't conform to rigid gender roles by having long hair, or dressing androgynously. Their sexuality is, of course, irrelevant...but the perception of it has made them targets.
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And the more I heard about the details of the case, the more horrified I was, and I realized that stuff like this should never, ever happen to anyone. I just hope his story can continue to change people's minds like it did mine.
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That really does need to change immediately.
09/03/09
There are no words for this type of hatred.
09/03/09
That detail made me cry.
05/01/09
I was a camp counselor and we took a group of HS seniors to visit her and ask questions. Firstly, she didn't even take us into her office, she met us in the hall. The first question one of our kids asked was how the recent London subway bombings (it was 2005) would impact US security. She gave a pat political answer about how we're safe but take threats seriously...then added that London really brought this on themselves because they "tolerate mosques". She seriously said that. I will never forger her exact words and how quickly I had to pick my jaw up off the floor to be professional.
She also told a group of students in a program to help underprivileged kids be the first in their family to go to college that the government shouldn't pay for higher ed because if you can't do it on your own, you really don't deserve it. Icing on the cake? She founded this group decades earlier.
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Ah Keith, sometimes your wonderful rants can gallop off into hyperbole, but you hit the nail on the head this time.
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I love how she called it a "poor choice of words". I would love to know what a great choice of words would be
05/01/09
*stretches out hands as far apart as they will go*
THIS much. And then some.
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Do you think the event and subsequent activism made any real progress toward queer tolerance in that area? I couldn't really tell when I was there, but I do remember seeing a couple of rainbow flags in some downtown storefronts, which was nice.
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Ugh.... I am 100% fail.
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