{"id":39521,"date":"2012-11-01T12:23:39","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T19:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=39521"},"modified":"2014-12-30T11:01:58","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T18:01:58","slug":"it-gets-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2012\/11\/it-gets-better.html","title":{"rendered":"It Gets Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Some of you may remember the huge push by advocates of the Awesomeness of Teh\u00a0Gay to confront the vast epidemic of \u201cbullying\u201d we were assured was afflicting the gay community.\u00a0 One of the iron laws to emerge from this latest fake dudgeonry was that any vocal advocate of the the \u201canti-bullying\u201d fad is himself a bully (and often a curiously homophobic one).\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2012\/04\/dan-savage-proves-his-courage.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Savage <\/a>proved it by shouting that some kids half his age who would not sit still while he trashed their faith were \u201cpansies\u201d.\u00a0 Michael Signorile demonstrates it again by telling some gay Romney voter to kill himself:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h_9r8b24SP4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Class with a capital KKK.  Imagine what would happen if, say, Limbaugh told a gay voter he should commit suicide or be prohibited from voting. The shrieks of fake dudgeonry would surpass the fake dudgeonry over the honor of Sandra Fluke. Happily our state-run media is here to shield you from these untoward lapses by gay bullies and correct the impression that so many leaders in the gay community give of being intolerant fascists who would happily impose a police state in the service of their groins if they weren\u2019t such a small minority that they can\u2019t pull it off.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it\u2019s the thought that counts.  And Michael Signorile is, unfortunately, characteristic of the intolerant bullying fascism that is, all too typically, the gay movement in Aemrica.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you may remember the huge push by advocates of the Awesomeness of Teh\u00a0Gay to confront the vast epidemic of \u201cbullying\u201d we were assured was afflicting the gay community.\u00a0 One of the iron laws to emerge from this latest fake dudgeonry was that any vocal advocate of the the \u201canti-bullying\u201d fad is himself a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[117],"class_list":["post-39521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-gay-legion-of-menacing-visigoths-for-tolerance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized 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