<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
		>
<channel>
	<title>Comments on: Texas Republicans Hate Gays and Lesbians More Than Anything Else, Ever</title>
	<atom:link href="http://www.autostraddle.com/texas-republicans-hate-gays-and-lesbians-more-than-anything-else-ever-49399/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://www.autostraddle.com/texas-republicans-hate-gays-and-lesbians-more-than-anything-else-ever-49399/</link>
	<description>The World&#039;s Most Popular Independently-Owned Website for Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer Women</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 04:55:37 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2</generator>
	<item>
		<title>By: Ziggy Hreins</title>
		<link>http://www.autostraddle.com/texas-republicans-hate-gays-and-lesbians-more-than-anything-else-ever-49399/#comment-48745</link>
		<dc:creator>Ziggy Hreins</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 08:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=49399#comment-48745</guid>
		<description>Why did you have to spoil the genetic pool by spawning a offspring?  The world is bad enough as it is.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why did you have to spoil the genetic pool by spawning a offspring?  The world is bad enough as it is.</p>
<div class="CommentRating"> <img style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: none;" id="up-48745" src="http://www.autostraddle.com/wp-content/plugins/comment-rating-pro/images/5_14_gray_up.png" alt="Thumb up"  /> <span id="karma-48745-up" style="font-size:12px; color:#333333; padding-right:10px;">0</span> </div>]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: riese</title>
		<link>http://www.autostraddle.com/texas-republicans-hate-gays-and-lesbians-more-than-anything-else-ever-49399/#comment-48742</link>
		<dc:creator>riese</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 07:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=49399#comment-48742</guid>
		<description>I WANNA MARRY A GOAT RIGHT NOW</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I WANNA MARRY A GOAT RIGHT NOW</p>
<div class="CommentRating"> <img style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: none;" id="up-48742" src="http://www.autostraddle.com/wp-content/plugins/comment-rating-pro/images/5_14_gray_up.png" alt="Thumb up"  /> <span id="karma-48742-up" style="font-size:12px; color:#333333; padding-right:10px;">0</span> </div>]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Cait</title>
		<link>http://www.autostraddle.com/texas-republicans-hate-gays-and-lesbians-more-than-anything-else-ever-49399/#comment-48736</link>
		<dc:creator>Cait</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 05:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=49399#comment-48736</guid>
		<description>I don&#039;t like feeding trolls, but you sound sad and lonely.  I&#039;d give you a hug, but I have a feeling you think teh gay is contagious, so I&#039;ll just stand over here.

I hope someone gives you a hug soon.

(FYI, teh lesbos can be proud wives and mothers too!)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t like feeding trolls, but you sound sad and lonely.  I&#8217;d give you a hug, but I have a feeling you think teh gay is contagious, so I&#8217;ll just stand over here.</p>
<p>I hope someone gives you a hug soon.</p>
<p>(FYI, teh lesbos can be proud wives and mothers too!)</p>
<div class="CommentRating"> <img style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: none;" id="up-48736" src="http://www.autostraddle.com/wp-content/plugins/comment-rating-pro/images/5_14_gray_up.png" alt="Thumb up"  /> <span id="karma-48736-up" style="font-size:12px; color:#333333; padding-right:10px;">0</span> </div>]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Duran</title>
		<link>http://www.autostraddle.com/texas-republicans-hate-gays-and-lesbians-more-than-anything-else-ever-49399/#comment-48735</link>
		<dc:creator>Duran</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 05:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=49399#comment-48735</guid>
		<description>0.42% of the Population of the US is gay/lesbian. 
That&#039;s less than half of a percent..
Gay and Lesbian People!, it&#039;s time to face reality, and that is, Gays and Lesbians are done and over, hopefully for ever. 
Stop acting so proud of it and get treatment for &quot;hormonal imbalance, which is actually what you are suffering from. It&#039;s just disorder, nothing more. 
By the way, the &quot;Gay gene&quot; was not found, it doesn&#039;t exist. Your gay and lesbian behavior is not acceptable, it never was. 
Your brain being flexible just simply acclimates to your behavior in your &quot;Experimental period&quot;, and then of course you keep on behaving this way because you are used to it.
Where does it stop?. what&#039;s next? the right to marry your goat or your dog?. What kind of legislation should we come up with then?  Please, stop trying to destroy families in the name of self indulgence.
How can you feel good about yourself when you have an a lesbian affair with a married woman with kids for example? Then your demands end up being a total chaos for the family. 
You may say, well the kids end up being fine!., and I ask, what choice do these kids have? 
Very Narcissistic people your are that won&#039;t get impress by moral conduct and just plain old respect for others.
The only reason why it seems like everyone is gay or lesbian, is because somebody in power (Lesbian or Gay) have a big microphone and a camera.
Just get the fact, and next time you are outside advocating , keep in mind that you! gay and lesbians are just simply being used by someone else to destroy the family unit, so we can all be controlled like slaves..

Duran ( Mother, wife and proud of it )</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>0.42% of the Population of the US is gay/lesbian.<br />
That&#8217;s less than half of a percent..<br />
Gay and Lesbian People!, it&#8217;s time to face reality, and that is, Gays and Lesbians are done and over, hopefully for ever.<br />
Stop acting so proud of it and get treatment for &#8220;hormonal imbalance, which is actually what you are suffering from. It&#8217;s just disorder, nothing more.<br />
By the way, the &#8220;Gay gene&#8221; was not found, it doesn&#8217;t exist. Your gay and lesbian behavior is not acceptable, it never was.<br />
Your brain being flexible just simply acclimates to your behavior in your &#8220;Experimental period&#8221;, and then of course you keep on behaving this way because you are used to it.<br />
Where does it stop?. what&#8217;s next? the right to marry your goat or your dog?. What kind of legislation should we come up with then?  Please, stop trying to destroy families in the name of self indulgence.<br />
How can you feel good about yourself when you have an a lesbian affair with a married woman with kids for example? Then your demands end up being a total chaos for the family.<br />
You may say, well the kids end up being fine!., and I ask, what choice do these kids have?<br />
Very Narcissistic people your are that won&#8217;t get impress by moral conduct and just plain old respect for others.<br />
The only reason why it seems like everyone is gay or lesbian, is because somebody in power (Lesbian or Gay) have a big microphone and a camera.<br />
Just get the fact, and next time you are outside advocating , keep in mind that you! gay and lesbians are just simply being used by someone else to destroy the family unit, so we can all be controlled like slaves..</p>
<p>Duran ( Mother, wife and proud of it )</p>
<div class="CommentRating"> <img style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: none;" id="up-48735" src="http://www.autostraddle.com/wp-content/plugins/comment-rating-pro/images/5_14_gray_up.png" alt="Thumb up"  /> <span id="karma-48735-up" style="font-size:12px; color:#333333; padding-right:10px;">0</span> </div>]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: natalie</title>
		<link>http://www.autostraddle.com/texas-republicans-hate-gays-and-lesbians-more-than-anything-else-ever-49399/#comment-47975</link>
		<dc:creator>natalie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=49399#comment-47975</guid>
		<description>Next time I go to TX, I&#039;ll run around the airport with a sign that says &quot;100% fag.&quot; On behalf of the tribe.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Next time I go to TX, I&#8217;ll run around the airport with a sign that says &#8220;100% fag.&#8221; On behalf of the tribe.</p>
<div class="CommentRating"> <img style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: none;" id="up-47975" src="http://www.autostraddle.com/wp-content/plugins/comment-rating-pro/images/5_14_gray_up.png" alt="Thumb up"  /> <span id="karma-47975-up" style="font-size:12px; color:#333333; padding-right:10px;">0</span> </div>]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: jenin</title>
		<link>http://www.autostraddle.com/texas-republicans-hate-gays-and-lesbians-more-than-anything-else-ever-49399/#comment-45855</link>
		<dc:creator>jenin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 01:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=49399#comment-45855</guid>
		<description>I totes agree. I&#039;m a PK myself, with multiple in my close family. Being raised in a CoC, it&#039;s taken so many questioning/soul-searching/ohmygodwillieverunderstandallthis moments just to get to where I&#039;m at now (which I can&#039;t even really define here, &#039;cause this is already an overshare.)
It&#039;s hard to be constanstly unable to help people understand where I&#039;m coming from when I&#039;m talking to someone who still has &#039;blind faith&#039; that homosexuality is the subject in all of those passages. 
Ftr: I find that my definition of God changes as often as my definition of my sexuality. I&#039;m not opposed to labels; I just think it&#039;s dumb that people believe that labels are intrinsically unchangeable.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I totes agree. I&#8217;m a PK myself, with multiple in my close family. Being raised in a CoC, it&#8217;s taken so many questioning/soul-searching/ohmygodwillieverunderstandallthis moments just to get to where I&#8217;m at now (which I can&#8217;t even really define here, &#8217;cause this is already an overshare.)<br />
It&#8217;s hard to be constanstly unable to help people understand where I&#8217;m coming from when I&#8217;m talking to someone who still has &#8216;blind faith&#8217; that homosexuality is the subject in all of those passages.<br />
Ftr: I find that my definition of God changes as often as my definition of my sexuality. I&#8217;m not opposed to labels; I just think it&#8217;s dumb that people believe that labels are intrinsically unchangeable.</p>
<div class="CommentRating"> <img style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: none;" id="up-45855" src="http://www.autostraddle.com/wp-content/plugins/comment-rating-pro/images/5_14_gray_up.png" alt="Thumb up"  /> <span id="karma-45855-up" style="font-size:12px; color:#333333; padding-right:10px;">0</span> </div>]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Cait</title>
		<link>http://www.autostraddle.com/texas-republicans-hate-gays-and-lesbians-more-than-anything-else-ever-49399/#comment-45851</link>
		<dc:creator>Cait</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=49399#comment-45851</guid>
		<description>Oh, I&#039;m sure it&#039;s not a new practice.  It was quite common in Roman times, actually. If the world was gonna end &#039;cause of gays, it&#039;s like, way overdue.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh, I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s not a new practice.  It was quite common in Roman times, actually. If the world was gonna end &#8217;cause of gays, it&#8217;s like, way overdue.</p>
<div class="CommentRating"> <img style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: none;" id="up-45851" src="http://www.autostraddle.com/wp-content/plugins/comment-rating-pro/images/5_14_gray_up.png" alt="Thumb up"  /> <span id="karma-45851-up" style="font-size:12px; color:#333333; padding-right:10px;">0</span> </div>]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Leah</title>
		<link>http://www.autostraddle.com/texas-republicans-hate-gays-and-lesbians-more-than-anything-else-ever-49399/#comment-45764</link>
		<dc:creator>Leah</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 06:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=49399#comment-45764</guid>
		<description>Your whole point is totally right, I guess I just don&#039;t want to think, or others to think, that being gay is a &quot;new&quot; thing. I want to think it has been happening since the dawn of time, aka Bible time, so that it doesn&#039;t become even less legit to people. 
But yeah, maybe no one ever thought about or experienced it for the Bible story &quot;love who you want&quot;. Who knows. :(</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your whole point is totally right, I guess I just don&#8217;t want to think, or others to think, that being gay is a &#8220;new&#8221; thing. I want to think it has been happening since the dawn of time, aka Bible time, so that it doesn&#8217;t become even less legit to people.<br />
But yeah, maybe no one ever thought about or experienced it for the Bible story &#8220;love who you want&#8221;. Who knows. <img src='http://www.autostraddle.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<div class="CommentRating"> <img style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: none;" id="up-45764" src="http://www.autostraddle.com/wp-content/plugins/comment-rating-pro/images/5_14_gray_up.png" alt="Thumb up"  /> <span id="karma-45764-up" style="font-size:12px; color:#333333; padding-right:10px;">0</span> </div>]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Cait</title>
		<link>http://www.autostraddle.com/texas-republicans-hate-gays-and-lesbians-more-than-anything-else-ever-49399/#comment-45757</link>
		<dc:creator>Cait</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 02:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=49399#comment-45757</guid>
		<description>Here&#039;s what I don&#039;t get. We&#039;ve established that 1) People selectively choose what they&#039;re going to follow in the Bible.  The awful polyester/cotton shirts that my father wears are proof of that. 2) People take stuff out of context in the Bible (the S&amp;G thing is just one example.) 

But the REALLY BIG THING THAT I JUST DO NOT UNDERSTAND IS:

This book is like 2000 years old supposedly.  WHY THE FUCK do we assume that it&#039;s applicable to our lives today?  Sure, maybe it is in some respects, but come on, it is not meant for today&#039;s VERNACULAR in the slightest.  Maybe we&#039;re just misinterpreting the whole fucking thing wrong.  Why are we assuming that the misogynistic monks of five hundred years ago actually interpreted the thing correctly? 

Also, the thing is like a collection of stories and accounts.  Maybe someone, somewhere, left out the part where &quot;Hey, you know what?  Love whomever you want &#039;cause it&#039;s beautiful.&quot; was articulated.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s what I don&#8217;t get. We&#8217;ve established that 1) People selectively choose what they&#8217;re going to follow in the Bible.  The awful polyester/cotton shirts that my father wears are proof of that. 2) People take stuff out of context in the Bible (the S&amp;G thing is just one example.) </p>
<p>But the REALLY BIG THING THAT I JUST DO NOT UNDERSTAND IS:</p>
<p>This book is like 2000 years old supposedly.  WHY THE FUCK do we assume that it&#8217;s applicable to our lives today?  Sure, maybe it is in some respects, but come on, it is not meant for today&#8217;s VERNACULAR in the slightest.  Maybe we&#8217;re just misinterpreting the whole fucking thing wrong.  Why are we assuming that the misogynistic monks of five hundred years ago actually interpreted the thing correctly? </p>
<p>Also, the thing is like a collection of stories and accounts.  Maybe someone, somewhere, left out the part where &#8220;Hey, you know what?  Love whomever you want &#8217;cause it&#8217;s beautiful.&#8221; was articulated.</p>
<div class="CommentRating"> <img style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: none;" id="up-45757" src="http://www.autostraddle.com/wp-content/plugins/comment-rating-pro/images/5_14_gray_up.png" alt="Thumb up"  /> <span id="karma-45757-up" style="font-size:12px; color:#333333; padding-right:10px;">0</span> </div>]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Katie</title>
		<link>http://www.autostraddle.com/texas-republicans-hate-gays-and-lesbians-more-than-anything-else-ever-49399/#comment-45735</link>
		<dc:creator>Katie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=49399#comment-45735</guid>
		<description>Wow, did not know that oral sex was part of &quot;sodomy&quot; either!

95% of biblical anti-gay arguments fall apart completely when you consider that the bible never mentions lesbians. EVER. ever ever. 

This oral sex = sodomy thing just annihilated the remaining 5%

Instead of quoting the Bible to condemn gays, these Texas morons should really be quoting Rick Warren or that awful radio host whose name escapes me. Probably because I blocked him out of my memory while hypnotically listening to Tegan and Sara.

Gay haters should really stop spending money on taking away our rights and go clean up some oil drenched pelicans for fuck&#039;s sake!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow, did not know that oral sex was part of &#8220;sodomy&#8221; either!</p>
<p>95% of biblical anti-gay arguments fall apart completely when you consider that the bible never mentions lesbians. EVER. ever ever. </p>
<p>This oral sex = sodomy thing just annihilated the remaining 5%</p>
<p>Instead of quoting the Bible to condemn gays, these Texas morons should really be quoting Rick Warren or that awful radio host whose name escapes me. Probably because I blocked him out of my memory while hypnotically listening to Tegan and Sara.</p>
<p>Gay haters should really stop spending money on taking away our rights and go clean up some oil drenched pelicans for fuck&#8217;s sake!!!</p>
<div class="CommentRating"> <img style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: none;" id="up-45735" src="http://www.autostraddle.com/wp-content/plugins/comment-rating-pro/images/5_14_gray_up.png" alt="Thumb up"  /> <span id="karma-45735-up" style="font-size:12px; color:#333333; padding-right:10px;">0</span> </div>]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: LEah</title>
		<link>http://www.autostraddle.com/texas-republicans-hate-gays-and-lesbians-more-than-anything-else-ever-49399/#comment-45722</link>
		<dc:creator>LEah</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=49399#comment-45722</guid>
		<description>When you hear of Soddom and Gomorrah in the Bible, you hear of the &quot;gay society&quot; and that God destroyed it because it was gay. What you never hear is what really went on there, because preachers like to paraphrase and ad-lib. S&amp;G was a corrupt place, and they would punish people there by having anal sex with them as a punishment. They thought it was degrading. They would also rape and punish women this way. Some men actually gave up their daughters to rulers in S&amp;G in order not to be punished.
It had absolutely nothing to do with men loving men and having sex, or women doing the same for that matter. Nothing.  
If you read Leviticus, and all the &quot;abominations&quot; besides men laying with men, you would laugh. It&#039;s an abomination to eat shellfish, and to touch pigskin or something crazy. There goes sushi and football...

As a girl raised Christian for my entire life, and with numerous pastors in the family, it&#039;s scary/liberating to question all that I was fed.  And I say &quot;fed&quot;, not &quot;taught&quot;, because I was also told we don&#039;t question anything when it comes to God.  Ignorance is their #1 defense.

Just doesn&#039;t add up.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When you hear of Soddom and Gomorrah in the Bible, you hear of the &#8220;gay society&#8221; and that God destroyed it because it was gay. What you never hear is what really went on there, because preachers like to paraphrase and ad-lib. S&amp;G was a corrupt place, and they would punish people there by having anal sex with them as a punishment. They thought it was degrading. They would also rape and punish women this way. Some men actually gave up their daughters to rulers in S&amp;G in order not to be punished.<br />
It had absolutely nothing to do with men loving men and having sex, or women doing the same for that matter. Nothing.<br />
If you read Leviticus, and all the &#8220;abominations&#8221; besides men laying with men, you would laugh. It&#8217;s an abomination to eat shellfish, and to touch pigskin or something crazy. There goes sushi and football&#8230;</p>
<p>As a girl raised Christian for my entire life, and with numerous pastors in the family, it&#8217;s scary/liberating to question all that I was fed.  And I say &#8220;fed&#8221;, not &#8220;taught&#8221;, because I was also told we don&#8217;t question anything when it comes to God.  Ignorance is their #1 defense.</p>
<p>Just doesn&#8217;t add up.</p>
<div class="CommentRating"> <img style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: none;" id="up-45722" src="http://www.autostraddle.com/wp-content/plugins/comment-rating-pro/images/5_14_gray_up.png" alt="Thumb up"  /> <span id="karma-45722-up" style="font-size:12px; color:#333333; padding-right:10px;">0</span> </div>]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Leah</title>
		<link>http://www.autostraddle.com/texas-republicans-hate-gays-and-lesbians-more-than-anything-else-ever-49399/#comment-45721</link>
		<dc:creator>Leah</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=49399#comment-45721</guid>
		<description>I had no idea oral sex was under &quot;sodomy&quot; in the lawbooks.  That is truly fascinating. How the hell does this hold up then?  I&#039;m serious, how?  Tell me how many of these lawmakers have NEVER HAD A BLOWJOB while living in Texas!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I had no idea oral sex was under &#8220;sodomy&#8221; in the lawbooks.  That is truly fascinating. How the hell does this hold up then?  I&#8217;m serious, how?  Tell me how many of these lawmakers have NEVER HAD A BLOWJOB while living in Texas!</p>
<div class="CommentRating"> <img style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: none;" id="up-45721" src="http://www.autostraddle.com/wp-content/plugins/comment-rating-pro/images/5_14_gray_up.png" alt="Thumb up"  /> <span id="karma-45721-up" style="font-size:12px; color:#333333; padding-right:10px;">0</span> </div>]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
</channel>
</rss>

