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News and commentary about the anti-gay lobbyJune 7th, 2007
Anti-gay extremist Stacy Harp approves of the Israeli parliament’s recent vote, passing a first reading of measures prohibiting gay pride parades in Jesrusalem and “banning mass homosexual public events anywhere in Israel.” Harp adds, “May the USA follow in Israel’s footsteps.” Unfortunately for her, that would violate the very first provision of America’s Bill of Rights — something every schoolchild should know:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
It looks like Stacy Harp is once again on the wrong side of history — this time more than two hundred years after the fact.
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ck
June 7th, 2007
Do you have a cached version? Looks like she’s edited her post…without comment.
Jim Burroway
June 7th, 2007
Check again, except this time scroll down a little. I just looked and I don’t see anything different.
Timothy Kincaid
June 7th, 2007
I’m sure Stacy also disapproves of this part “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion”.
Kevin
June 7th, 2007
One of the reasons the Right uses the word “moral” so frequently is that it is their primary excuse to muzzle free speech, curtail assembly, and censor media. As long as they get away with claiming anything other then their manufactured beliefs are “immoral,” they’ll continue advocating those views – and the lives which accompany them – be muted.
This is where I wish we would be stronger about putting all the pieces of their little ideological puzzle together – the extremists of the Right believe in nothing short of fascism, a class system in which only they are entitled to specific “freedoms” and the rest of us are only allowed to secure it if we can successfully pretend to be like them.
Kevin
June 7th, 2007
I have a cached version from this morning (June 7) and it looks the same. I wrote this about her and her views:
“May the U.S. follow in Israel’s footsteps”? What Stacy doesn’t realize is that by supporting these proposed legislations, she opens her own beloved religion to the same hate that she herself spews. Do you think the Israelis want Christians running around proselytizing to Jews (as she most recently did in her trip to Israel)? Do you think they want Christians controlling some parts of their ‘holy’ city? What does she think would ‘offend public sensitivities’ in Israel more than that? Not only will this proposed legislation not permit gay people to be gay and open about it, it could block any religion other than Judaism to have a public face. It would most certainly block any type of Muslim festivities, or marches on civil rights for all people (including the Palestinians).
Maybe Stacy will get her wish for Israel, but I am not going to stand by and let her get her wish here for the U.S.
NG
June 9th, 2007
What do you expect from a woman who patterns herself after a character from Carrie?
ck
June 11th, 2007
Yeesh. I missed it. You’re right, it’s still there and I am apalled.
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