Comments on: The Daily Agenda for Saturday, March 17 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2012/03/17/42914 News, analysis and fact-checking of anti-gay rhetoric Thu, 23 May 2013 22:05:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: cd http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2012/03/17/42914/comment-page-1#comment-119677 cd Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:10:16 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=42914#comment-119677 One small point: Bayard Rustin was member of the Religious Society of Friends, aka Quakers. This was not coincidental. One small point: Bayard Rustin was member of the Religious Society of Friends, aka Quakers. This was not coincidental.

]]> By: Timothy Kincaid http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2012/03/17/42914/comment-page-1#comment-119670 Timothy Kincaid Sat, 17 Mar 2012 17:16:42 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=42914#comment-119670 The true heroes of the civil rights movement have almost without exception been vocal supporters of gay equality. I think we probably have Rustin to thank for that. The true heroes of the civil rights movement have almost without exception been vocal supporters of gay equality. I think we probably have Rustin to thank for that.

]]> By: Jessamine http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2012/03/17/42914/comment-page-1#comment-119668 Jessamine Sat, 17 Mar 2012 15:44:09 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=42914#comment-119668 "That’s our job today: to control the extent to which people can publicly manifest antigay sentiment." That's it! The Gay Agenda! I've finally found it! *much happy dancing* I've always known what it isn't, based on what those who oppose it say it is, but I've never been able to articulate it in a positive way. lol Thank you, Bayard Rustin! “That’s our job today: to control the extent to which people can publicly manifest antigay sentiment.”

That’s it! The Gay Agenda! I’ve finally found it! *much happy dancing*

I’ve always known what it isn’t, based on what those who oppose it say it is, but I’ve never been able to articulate it in a positive way. lol Thank you, Bayard Rustin!

]]> By: Lindoro Almaviva http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2012/03/17/42914/comment-page-1#comment-119667 Lindoro Almaviva Sat, 17 Mar 2012 15:26:11 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=42914#comment-119667 I am going to take a wild guess and say that you intended to say NYC and Boston; nos Massachusetts and Boston. I am going to take a wild guess and say that you intended to say NYC and Boston; nos Massachusetts and Boston.

]]> By: Jim Hlavac http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2012/03/17/42914/comment-page-1#comment-119665 Jim Hlavac Sat, 17 Mar 2012 15:05:27 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=42914#comment-119665 It is funny that Florida for years had a law that prohibited serving alcohol to known homosexuals -- this law was on the books as recently as 1999, last I looked. Having not heard of its repeal, I'm pretty sure it's still there. In the mid-1990s I joined a few gay rights groups in West Palm Beach and said we should sue the police, sheriffs, alcohol control board, DAs of every county in the state, and the governor himself, for dereliction of duty for allowing a law to be so blatantly not enforced. I was called a militant and radical homosexual, by gay folks. So I quit the gay groups and went back to the bar and had a drink. It is funny that Florida for years had a law that prohibited serving alcohol to known homosexuals — this law was on the books as recently as 1999, last I looked. Having not heard of its repeal, I’m pretty sure it’s still there. In the mid-1990s I joined a few gay rights groups in West Palm Beach and said we should sue the police, sheriffs, alcohol control board, DAs of every county in the state, and the governor himself, for dereliction of duty for allowing a law to be so blatantly not enforced. I was called a militant and radical homosexual, by gay folks. So I quit the gay groups and went back to the bar and had a drink.

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