Originally published at: Q-Nuts: "Don't Say Gay" | Boing Boing
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Also surprising no one DeSantis’s justification for Florida’s law is based on outright lies.
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Simply brilliant!
GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY
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Paging Randy Rainbow! Randy Rainbow to the white courtesy telephone, please!
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The year is 1983 (or maybe 1984). My family and I, we are coming back from summer vacation at a camp. My father turns on the car radio for the local station. It’s a priest yammering about sin and modern way of life leading to depravation and Hell. He starts ranting on hidden satanic messages that you can hear when you play rock songs backwards.
He starts playing a Beatles song. My dad raises an eyebrow. Paul Cartney repeats ‘number nine’ several times and the priest plays that part backwards, and now we hear (sort of) : ‘turn me on, dead man’. The priest then declares this a proof that the Beatles were necrophiliacs.
I turn to my dad and ask him : “Dad, what’s negrophila?”.
My dad shuts off the radio and immediately asks us, merrily : “Who wants to sing some songs?”
And that was the end of it.
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Interestingly, you can substitute the word “Evil” with “Religion” while retaining full accuracy.
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Unfortunately it seems most of the US agrees with “Don’t Say Gay”.
The Yahoo News/YouGov poll found that, overall, only 27% of Americans support allowing discussions of LGBTQ people in elementary schools while half say they should be illegal.
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I really am starting to hate these poll stories, because they use tiny samples and become headline news
What may be more unexpected is that the new survey of 1,618 U.S. adults, which was conducted from March 31 to April 4,
ETA: This kind of thing bothers me in financial news, too, like when they report a 500 point drop in the stock market as if that’s cause for grave concern or panic on the part of investors. News outlets keep reporting numbers without providing any context for the source or how it relates to the whole (like percentage of US population, or the DJIA). I’m wondering if there’s a way to submit this as an idea for an in-depth report, because it’s a terrible practice and another way organizations are using misinformation to weaponize lazy journalism and influence public opinion.
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The stupidest part of that is the assumption that “discussions of LGBTQ people” always have to be about sex. As the cartoon and others have pointed out ad nauseam you can talk about sexual orientation without it having anything to do with sex.
To take an easy, obvious, and oft-cited example there’s nothing about sex in Leslea Newman’s Heather Has Two Mommies, and banning it and books like it harms children, especially the children of same-sex children, by promoting the idea that such families are wrong.
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Yep. All religious people are all evil. No exceptions. /s
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Yeah, because “Dont’ ask, don’t tell” worked so well in the U.S. military 
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