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Double Dalk
Jun. 1st, 2005 08:56 pmI'm following the Jim West scandal.
1. If he did what he is being accused of, then he is a dirty bastard, yes.
2. However, he has NOT received due process. Everyone in Spokane (Yes, I do live in Spokane, in fact.) knows that the Spokesman Review is a rag. No one has given him the benefit of the doubt on this. It's practically illegal.
3. I believe that were he straight and this scandal had involved young women and not young men, this would not be the crisis it has become.
4. Self-loathing pisses me off. However, I think it's tragic. Some people have been lead to believe so much that gays are immoral, that if they discover that they are gay that they do not feel obligated to behave in a moral way. This is sad.
5. The Today Show interview: Paraphrase, not exact quote on the subject of being gay and voting against gay rights bills: I was hired to vote the way my colleges wanted me to. If you hire someone to paint your house blue but they think it should be red, what color should they paint your house?
Two seconds later:
I am not a closet liberal pretending to be a conservative. Gay people can be conservative. Black people can be conservative.
Huh... Blink.... didn't he basically just say "Don't blame me, I was just following orders. Of course... I did agree with those orders."
Asswhipe.
1. If he did what he is being accused of, then he is a dirty bastard, yes.
2. However, he has NOT received due process. Everyone in Spokane (Yes, I do live in Spokane, in fact.) knows that the Spokesman Review is a rag. No one has given him the benefit of the doubt on this. It's practically illegal.
3. I believe that were he straight and this scandal had involved young women and not young men, this would not be the crisis it has become.
4. Self-loathing pisses me off. However, I think it's tragic. Some people have been lead to believe so much that gays are immoral, that if they discover that they are gay that they do not feel obligated to behave in a moral way. This is sad.
5. The Today Show interview: Paraphrase, not exact quote on the subject of being gay and voting against gay rights bills: I was hired to vote the way my colleges wanted me to. If you hire someone to paint your house blue but they think it should be red, what color should they paint your house?
Two seconds later:
I am not a closet liberal pretending to be a conservative. Gay people can be conservative. Black people can be conservative.
Huh... Blink.... didn't he basically just say "Don't blame me, I was just following orders. Of course... I did agree with those orders."
Asswhipe.
