Another Oregon homobigot lawmaker steps forward

[Shana A]

Another Oregon homobigot lawmaker steps forward
by: pam
Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 12:00:00 PM EDT

http://pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=D4B3E7BA1D38183BDBDF015C428DBCF9?diaryId=4824

Joining Oregon State Senator Gary "violent backlash against gays" George in the homobigot brigade is Rep. Kim Thatcher (R-Keizer), who added her pearls of wisdom on her support of a repeal of anti-discrimination legislation on the books that extended protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity. KeizerTimes):

    "Many of my constituents tell me they don't believe sexual orientation should be considered a protected class like race or religion," Thatcher said. "The new law has vague definitions of sexual orientation, which will lead to expensive litigation and there are already measures in place to deal with discrimination."

[cindianna_jones]

Shannon said that the legislature did not "represent the people when they ... gave protected status" based on sexual orientation.

Hey!  I'm protected! I have a special status!  Give me a good job!  ... like that's going to happen.

These people are not underprivileged," Shannon said. "They take more expensive vacations, drive nicer cars.

I'll just have to go out, get in my Mercedes, and drive over to her house to talk to her about this.  I want a Lamborghini!

Cindi

[Kate]

I stop reading whenever I see the word "lifestyle."

I hate that these people get away with calling people "deviant, immoral sickoes destined to burn in hell" by using the PC code-word "lifestyle" for their ignorance.

And how in God's name is my life a "lifestyle?" I pay my bills, go to work, buy groceries, go out to dinner... not as a transsexual, not even as a woman really, but just as me. I'm not in a "transsexual community." I don't do "transsexual things" every weekend. I don't have a set of "transsexual beliefs" that my world is filtered through. I do normal things, in normal ways, as a boring and ordinary person.

I CAN see how some TSs and gays DO live a "lifestyle" in the sense that their world is oriented around other people in their "community," going only to gay owned and operated establishments, attending get-togethers and conferences every weekend, etc.

But the vast majority of TSs and gays "just happen to be" what they are. It's not some dominating worldview and closed environment that they live within.

In fact, if anything is a "lifestyle," it'd be these people who run around seeing only saints and sinners, the saved and the damned, hanging out with people in their own cult, reading only things which perpetuate their closed and narrow worldview. THAT is a "lifestyle." That is oriented your life around a limiting, self-blinding, isolating set of beliefs and practices.

~Kate~

[cindianna_jones]

Wow Kate!  This is one of the best posts I've read in quite some time.  You go girl!

Cindi

[Sheila]

Kate, I have to agree, what a post. You are exactly right though. My life is not what you would call a lifestyle of any sense of the word. I do what most people do and that is get up at a set time, get ready for work, go to work, come home and retire for the night. The next day is groundhog day. There maybe be some differences in the day that makes it interesting, but it has nothing to do with that at one time in my life I transitioned from male to female and that was only a decade out of my life if that. Nothing has changed for my, except that I'm happier. I have the lifestyle of what most Americans and Canadians have and what probably the rest of the world has. Nothing exceptional about me.
Sheila

[Lori]

I stop reading whenever I see the word "lifestyle."

I hate that these people get away with calling people "deviant, immoral sickoes destined to burn in hell" by using the PC code-word "lifestyle" for their ignorance.

And how in God's name is my life a "lifestyle?" I pay my bills, go to work, buy groceries, go out to dinner... not as a transsexual, not even as a woman really, but just as me. I'm not in a "transsexual community." I don't do "transsexual things" every weekend. I don't have a set of "transsexual beliefs" that my world is filtered through. I do normal things, in normal ways, as a boring and ordinary person.

I CAN see how some TSs and gays DO live a "lifestyle" in the sense that their world is oriented around other people in their "community," going only to gay owned and operated establishments, attending get-togethers and conferences every weekend, etc.

But the vast majority of TSs and gays "just happen to be" what they are. It's not some dominating worldview and closed environment that they live within.

In fact, if anything is a "lifestyle," it'd be these people who run around seeing only saints and sinners, the saved and the damned, hanging out with people in their own cult, reading only things which perpetuate their closed and narrow worldview. THAT is a "lifestyle." That is oriented your life around a limiting, self-blinding, isolating set of beliefs and practices.

~Kate~

Wow I just read this, and OMG was that good. I guess we need to come up with a term for those that go to church 3 days a week and base their lives on a book and live that lifestyle!! This is one of my favorite posts!!