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Ala. Sheriff's Anti-Gay Views Draw Protest

Nate Harris said:
Thought some of y'all would like to see this. The first link is to the article talking about all the hubbub and the second is the webpage that started it all.


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...6&u=/ap/20050112/ap_on_re_us/anti_gay_sheriff


http://www.marshallco.org/www/so/so.htm
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Yes, life was much more simple back in the good old days of the 1940s and 1950s.

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I'm sure he'd like to return to the days of yesteryear.

I've got no problem with this cracker's right to his own personal beliefs(prejudices), but why does he have to use a gov. web site to issue his bile?
 
It's On A Slab said:
Yes, life was much more simple back in the good old days of the 1940s and 1950s.

klan.jpg


I'm sure he'd like to return to the days of yesteryear.

I've got no problem with this cracker's right to his own personal beliefs(prejudices), but why does he have to use a gov. web site to issue his bile?
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'40's? '50's? Did you notice the pic is dated 1923? :conf3:
 
In many threads I have stated where I stand on homosexuality.

I feel that the sheriff exorcised poor judgement in using what appears to be a government web site. In fact, while I understand his sentiments, his delivery vehicle was a wrong choice.
 
bandersnatch45 said:
'40's? '50's? Did you notice the pic is dated 1923? :conf3:
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Oh, don't be so picky.

Or were you implying that the Klan (like the Mafia) never existed? :p
 
It's On A Slab said:
Oh, don't be so picky.

Or were you implying that the Klan (like the Mafia) never existed? :p
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Not picky, just curious about the dates involved.
Certainly the Klan existed. There is a huge amount of historical evidence to that fact. Also a fact, since you brought up this topic-how much are you willing to wager that every one of those gentlemen in the picture are Not registered Democrats? I've got a hundred dollars that says all of them are.
 
bandersnatch45 said:
Not picky, just curious about the dates involved.
Certainly the Klan existed. There is a huge amount of historical evidence to that fact. Also a fact, since you brought up this topic-how much are you willing to wager that every one of those gentlemen in the picture are Not registered Democrats? I've got a hundred dollars that says all of them are.
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how much will you wager those of them still alive 40 years later became republicans over civil rights and any of them still alive today are republicans now?
 
blackumbrella said:
how much will you wager those of them still alive 40 years later became republicans over civil rights and any of them still alive today are republicans now?
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A higher percentage of Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act than Democrats, troll.
The Democrat party was and still is the party of racism, as inconvenient as that fact is for you.
 
blackumbrella said:
how much will you wager those of them still alive 40 years later became republicans over civil rights and any of them still alive today are republicans now?
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Neither of these possibilities is knowable with any certainty, making for a perfectly eliptical argument (or perhaps merely an oblique reference to a possible argument, sometimes referred to as "blowing smoke"). However the fellows in the pic are in the Klan. Why else are they on bended knee before the Grand Poohbah? The only political party in the South after Reconstruction and up until recently was the Democratic Party (which Party, incidentally, passed all of the "Jim Crow" laws. Shocking!) All members of the Klan were Democrats. Do the math.
 
What a surprise to follow the link and find my hometown's good ole sherriff staring at me with his words of enlightenment there for all to see. 'Ol Mac doesn't understand that the innurnet is global and that anyone other than his constituents might see this. Guntersville, a town of almost 8000 is the county seat of Marshall County. A small town in rural northeast Alabama that doesn't get a lot of nationwide attention, for obvious reasons. Now I gotta see my roots get crucified because of this idiot. I get the hometown paper twice a week and without fail he is making some kind of noise. I think he truly believes he is Buford Pusser reincarnate.

The only thing he has done that I agree with is instituting an actual chain gang dressed in the old time convict stripes that picks up trash on the sides of the highways. He should be spending his time and efforts shutting down the meth labs up there. It's a helluva lot bigger problem than homosexuality in that area, I can guarantee you that. Unfortunately this is the kind of attention that he craves.

Sometimes I really miss home, other times...
 
blackumbrella said:
how much will you wager those of them still alive 40 years later became republicans over civil rights and any of them still alive today are republicans now?
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Fellow, I lived through that era --- and they were 1,000 per cent DEMOCRATS. Democrat legislatures passed the Jim Crow laws; Democrat governors signed them; and Democrats sheriffs, highway patrolmen, policemen and National Guard enforced them. And when that didn't work the Ku Klux Klan, Democrats all, took a hand.

The South was solidly Democrat from the end of Reconstruction to the 1960s.

I don't know how old you are, but from the tone of your posts, you ain't very.

And while we're on this subject, what does a sheriff expounding on homosexuality have to do with the Klan???? I've never heard Kluxers take a stand on gays, for or against. You manufacture some of the flabbiest analogies I've ever read.
 
It's On A Slab said:
Yes, life was much more simple back in the good old days of the 1940s and 1950s.

klan.jpg


I'm sure he'd like to return to the days of yesteryear.

I've got no problem with this cracker's right to his own personal beliefs(prejudices), but why does he have to use a gov. web site to issue his bile?
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In his written remarks, the 61-year-old sheriff says the 1940s and 1950s were a safer, more respectful, religious time, and he promises "to devote all my energy to do my part to return our society to the values that we once held dear.


"While I would agree with you that we have lost many wonderful things from the 1950s," Hunter wrote to the sheriff, "homophobia, racism, and sexism are not part of the wonderful things. They are ugly now, they were ugly then, and surely they would be ugly in the eyes of Jesus Christ, who taught only love and compassion, never hatred."


I dont see any references to race at all. Based on his comments about gays he is right. The second guy uses classic spin. Jesus was aboutlove and compassion yes, he also came to save men from sin, including homosexuality.
It is the pervs that have made the world ugly. I also take umbrage to this notion that taking a position against public acceptance of the gay lifestyle is somehow intolerant. Jesus spoke out against sin but loved the sinner.
 
Tidewater said:
A higher percentage of Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act than Democrats, troll.
The Democrat party was and still is the party of racism, as inconvenient as that fact is for you.
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Nonsense posts like this mean nothing. Racism always has been and still is present in both parties.
 
in pushing through the civil rights act of 63 or 64--to gain the confidence of liberal democrats, mostly northern and western no doubt, confidence he counted on, as a texan, to help him get elected in the coming election-- johnson went against the conservative constituency within his own party, many of whom eventually migrated to the republican party. i wasn't alive then, but this is how i understand the events. perhaps i remember them wrong or am a victim of revisionist historians. if so, by all means, straighten things out for me. and i neither brought up the klan pach nor made any analogies including them; read the thread.
 
Child, you are trying to post your views in the world you live in. From your posts, Black, I can tell that you are a product of the media, but also from your posts, you are trying to challenge what you believe as part of your effort to understand yourself, those around you, and those you love.

That is very admirable. In fact, you do have my respect. I only hope that you keep in mind that many of us have LIVED through topics that you bring up. Sadly, there is not much new in the world than there was 2000 years ago. The same avarice and prejudice in human nature remains even today.

Humans are "pack animals" and readily attack other "packs" to defend or expand our territory. Humans are not much more than smart dogs or excited gorillas, or even patrolling dolphins.

There is a key difference, and evolution will not lend that key to you.

Study, learn, and grow.
 
Southern Democrats switched to Republicans in the 1960s due to the fact that the Republican party better represented their segregationist views.

That is a FACT.

The point umbrella is making is that if John Q. Racist from Mississippi voted Democratic in 1924, then with almost all certainty he voted Republican in 1964.
 
wisten said:
Child, you are trying to post your views in the world you live in. From your posts, Black, I can tell that you are a product of the media, but also from your posts, you are trying to challenge what you believe as part of your effort to understand yourself, those around you, and those you love.

That is very admirable. In fact, you do have my respect. I only hope that you keep in mind that many of us have LIVED through topics that you bring up. Sadly, there is not much new in the world than there was 2000 years ago. The same avarice and prejudice in human nature remains even today.

Humans are "pack animals" and readily attack other "packs" to defend or expand our territory. Humans are not much more than smart dogs or excited gorillas, or even patrolling dolphins.

There is a key difference, and evolution will not lend that key to you.

Study, learn, and grow.
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remarkably, i agree with most of that. though i would say the difference is our capacity for complex language, which has alot to do with evolution.
 
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