Down with this sort of thing

February 27, 2014 2:51 AM

The campaign against anti-homophobia
posted by EndsOfInvention (18 comments total)

Careful now.
posted by Decani at 3:16 AM on February 27, 2014 [23 favorites]

For those not in the know, this is a response to the recent Iona Institute case against Irish state broadcaster RTE.

Mr Bollard bears no similarity to John Waters whatsoever of course.
posted by GallonOfAlan at 3:51 AM on February 27, 2014 [6 favorites]

Close-Minded Man Not Even Willing To Hear Out Argument On Why Homosexuality An Abomination
posted by 1970s Antihero at 3:54 AM on February 27, 2014 [12 favorites]

GallonOfAlan's linked article is short and well worth reading.
posted by jon1270 at 4:03 AM on February 27, 2014 [2 favorites]

"...or a woman marrying a dartboard?"

I know variations on this line have been done to death, but I've been laughing about this all morning.
posted by distorte at 4:27 AM on February 27, 2014 [2 favorites]

For those who watch cult films but don't follow Irish journalism very closely, this John Waters is not the same as this John Waters.
posted by TedW at 4:28 AM on February 27, 2014 [3 favorites]

"...or a woman marrying a dartboard?"

don't dartboards like pricks?
posted by MuffinMan at 4:32 AM on February 27, 2014 [4 favorites]

The whole point of the law is that it’s not about giving people equal status because you like them. It’s about freeing people from subjection to the arbitrariness of other people’s benevolence.

What he said
posted by ook at 4:50 AM on February 27, 2014 [6 favorites]

Previously

So is this RTE's way of apologizing for capitulating and paying off a bunch of whiny bigots?
posted by ArbitraryAndCapricious at 5:09 AM on February 27, 2014

Brilliant! And so many lovely little details - the looming Julian Clary cutout, the Putin with his top off collage, the spot-on Westboro Baptist rainbow gradient on the protest signs...
posted by jack_mo at 5:28 AM on February 27, 2014

Tangentially related.
posted by rue72 at 5:50 AM on February 27, 2014 [1 favorite]

In regards to the case GallonOfAllan linked to above, everyone should see this: Panti's Noble Call.

Interestingly we have also have homophobic rollback here in Germany currently where the conservative homophobe crowd is freaking out about education reforms.
posted by ts;dr at 6:18 AM on February 27, 2014 [1 favorite]

"...or a woman marrying a dartboard?"

don't dartboards like pricks?
posted by MuffinMan

Some dartboards were born a little different, and power to them.
posted by jb at 6:34 AM on February 27, 2014 [5 favorites]

Homosexuals have just as much a right to be miserably married as heterosexuals do. Why should they have all the fun of being single? If we have to marry the pregnant girlfriend, they should have to marry the person they made an honest man or woman out of.
posted by speedangel at 6:49 AM on February 27, 2014 [3 favorites]

My friends laughed when I took discrete math in college, but who's getting all the jokes now losers?
posted by tommasz at 7:24 AM on February 27, 2014 [3 favorites]

From tl;dr's link, today I learned that the German for "homosexual agenda" is "der Ideologie des Regenbogens", (if my two years of college German are still working right).
posted by benito.strauss at 9:35 AM on February 27, 2014 [3 favorites]

oops, borked the link on mobile above.

I wanted to post Panti's Noble Call at the Abbey Theatre
posted by ts;dr at 12:03 PM on February 27, 2014 [1 favorite]

speedangel: "Homosexuals have just as much a right to be miserably married as heterosexuals do. Why should they have all the fun of being single?"

Recently tweeted by George Takei.
posted by Lexica at 9:01 PM on March 1, 2014