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LGBT Civil Rights and Activism

nightscanner59

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5. Oh, but does it ever take kid-gloved activism to gently bring them there!

Reply to NoJusticeNoPeace (Reply #4)

Thu Mar 19, 2015, 02:17 PM

Mar 2015

My parents moved me to a redneck town about halfway through my childhood. It was a devastating event. Long story short, I ran away to save my very skin. The master of hate himself Fred Phelps and his zombie-relatives that lived there were involved in a veritable "lynching"... or at least the threat of it if I didn't disappear.
I've never returned, never intend to. I've had one solitary schoolmate who contacted me through facebook with apologies for how horribly I was treated in that town back then.
Perhaps it has something to do with my activism these days.

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I'm so sick of hearing I want "special rights". What hypocrisy. [View all] nightscanner59 Mar 2015 OP

No kidding, and that you're pushing the gay agenda Warpy Mar 2015 #1

A relative, an intelligent and decent and good person, told me his coworker told him that a gay NoJusticeNoPeace Mar 2015 #2

Aside from the "gay-ish" mannerisms, however... nightscanner59 Mar 2015 #3

Yeah, I didnt know any other way to describe it than "gayish mannerisms" , just goes to show NoJusticeNoPeace Mar 2015 #4

Oh, but does it ever take kid-gloved activism to gently bring them there! nightscanner59 Mar 2015 #5