Re: On Being Force Fed Messages We Don't Want
Author: Seriously?
Date: 08-02-2012 - 19:43
National (Limited) Observer Wrote:
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> Arghh Wrote:
> > Unfortunately, I expect this panic is going to
> result in more acts of violence like the recent
> shooting of the lesbian couple in Texas.
>
> NOW look who's wringing their hands in fear that
> the sky is falling and it's the end of the
> Republic. Statistically speaking, gays and
> lesbians have a much better chance of being shot
> by a paranoid schitzophrenic (think Aurora, CO and
> Tucson, AZ) than by a person who doesn't like
> gays.
>
> Rail content (to keep this thread on topic): Back
> in the "good old days," if someone wanted to
> travel by rail from Aurora, CO to Tucson, AZ,
> perhaps the best routing would been
> C&S-FW&D-CRI&P-SP, changing between trains at
> Dalhart, TX.
>
> > It is really impressive how bent out of shape
> the zealots can get out of something as innocuous
> as a gay family on a train. You guys are complete
> cowards to let this scare you the way it does.
>
> It's not innocuous and it's not scary. It IS,
> however, stomach-turning. We're having an agenda
> forced down our throats that we don't want. We're
> expected to accept it as "normal", when some of us
> simply don't (and won't ever) accept it as such.
> It's inappropriate for a taxpayer-funded
> organization like Amtrak to be force-feeding us
> this product/agenda. Period.
>
> You don't see Chik-Fil-A ads depicting a
> traditional man-woman couple exiting a wedding
> ceremony, with the patrons showering them with
> rice, and climbing into a limo carrying bags of
> Chik-Fil-A take-out. Chik-Fil-A has the common
> sense not to force-feed us such a message.
>
> If only Amtrak could get a clue and learn
> something from the common sense of Chik-Fil-A.
No, it's an agenda that you don't want. It's an agenda that most Americans do want, that's why they voted for it and why the President is on track to be re-elected. Your hate is of the past. Look forward.