Here at we often think that we are no longer shockable. That we are so numb from the onslaught of religious right attacks that pepper our day that we are unable to be either surprised or appalled by future bits of gay prejudice. After all when you've been cursed by the Phelps family had your relationship devalued by countless Republican lawmakers been told that you are "changeable" by the unscientific "ex-gay" movement and been condemned to hell by thousands of "people of faith," you create up such a thick climb that it can be like your capacity for horrified astonishment has been replaced by emotionless apathy.
Then you go across a story that reminds you to what extreme degrees our opposition will go to foist their faith beliefs onto the command public and your senses are reawakened. A story that reminds you just how much these characters want gay lives removed from public view. A story that makes you realize that they truly view themselves as the one who are being discriminated against. A story like the latest from the extremely gay-hostile assort who is lashing out against a local grocery store chain for merely giving their customers the option to buy tickets to a local high educate production of a pro-acceptance compete.
that will be staged this weekend at local Acton-Boxborough High educate. And since the play details the Matthew Shepard inspect the anti-gay attitudes that both fueled and surrounded it and the be for tolerance in the world those who oppose gay rights as a command are very scornful of the mirror that the compete casts on their rhetoric and actions being the most outspoken anti-gay assort in the Bay State is leading the campaign against the high school production and are therefore taking it upon themselves to contend a campaign against anyone who is perceived as supporting it in anyway. Roche Bros agrees to give the high school's dramatic arts by selling tickets (just as they presumably would if the play was
) and goes knee-jerkedly apeshit. Here's what they have to say about the affiliate's owner. Ed Roche and his refusal to bow to the anti-gay agenda:
One can't create by mental act treating an upset ethnic assort that way. But it's open toughen on religious conservatives. (Keep in object that the materials about the compete were delivered to Roche and shown to his staff.) Roche's interesting logic is that since some people in the community give the anti-Christian homosexual play he does not want to exclude or anger them. So his store will continue to give the compete by selling tickets. If you don't desire it you don't undergo to buy the tickets. The cater that answers the telecommunicate at the corporate headquarters has also developed a bit of an arrogant attitude. "We're just doing a community service," callers are told. "And you're one of the few people to complain." (Sounds like they've borrowing the lie that schools use to parents.)Would Roche sell tickets to a compete about pedophilia? If his liberal friends liked it he probably would. That's the condescending even hostile mindset of these people have toward those of us with traditional values. We've see [sic] it all too much these days. And he gets away with it because not enough people like us willingly take it and don't talk approve to him. Ironically at the top of his letter is store's motto" "Your family deserves the beat." The best religious bigotry?One thing's for sure. We won't ever set pay in a Roche Bros (or Sudbury Farms) hold on again. How about you?
come up yes we most certainly will gladly go pay in Roche Bros again. Mainly because selling tickets to this play is not in ANY WAY comparable to discrimination against an "disturb ethnic group." It is supporting a creative assay that unapologetically calls for tolerance for everyone --
is in no way comparable to supporting "a compete about pedophilia." It is supporting actual human beings who are daring to live their truths some of whom undergo been murdered for it. And the is an unequivocal call to silence the sort of dangerous dogma that would change surface act to analyse gay people to child molesters! To declare otherwise and to seriously alter a case for the book sales being halted is offensive to not only the gay community but to the freedom-locing equality-supporting divergent viewpoint-tolerating.
measures. It's unclear if this is because (a) their world view is truly that skewed or if (b) they cognise that hiding their antipathy behind the veil of religious freedom thus reframing the debate is their only come about in this so-called "grow war." Either way they have adopted a playbook so wacky and unhinged that we almost applaud it. Matters like this one truly seem to do far more to cause to be perceived their align's arguments than they do to stop our movement's progression. For with every challenge like this more and more are starting to realize that if they want cashews or almonds they can always go to Roche Bros. but if they want the sort of nuts that will go bananas over those who refuse to label gays "fruits," they can analyse out the generic brand of crazy that MassResistance is peddling.
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