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Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:00 AM

The homosexual agenda -- is your town next?

A DVD produced by the American Family Association warns of one town it says is "becoming the San Francisco of Arkansas."

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Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:04 PM

OMG, hilarious!

This could have been ripped right from the pages of The Onion! Too bad it's not satire. How pathetic!

Oh, and kudos to the city council of Eureka Springs, AR! How noble and brave of them. I can only imagine the hateful shit they're going to have to endure now.

Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:08 PM

hope they find my town

does this mean that the heterosexual swingers and cheaters, unwed pregnant teens, wife beaters, child abusers, and gun nuts are leaving??? heading off to wasilla, meth capital of the continent, no doubt, to pray for the rest of us - great news - property values and collective i.q. will soar, might even herald a few nice little bistros and a book store - more good news - sign my little town up - will finally have volunteers to staff the soup kitchens and community service groups - even a good choir or two? sounding better all the time -

Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:10 PM

The homosexual agenda...

I've always said that if you can't get four gay people to agree on a restaurant, how do you expect them to get behind a "Homosexual Agenda"? Even with Gay Marriage, which is supposed to be the Great Uniter, there is nothing approaching complete consensus in the LGBT community.

Here's some news for 97% of the trembling AFA: We aren't interested in your shitty-ass towns. You can have them. For the other 3%: We're coming for your town all right...to redecorate!

Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:13 PM

Darn it, Alex!

You owe me a new computer monitor!

Of course, I laughed hysterically a the Yes on 8 ads, too, and that proved to be not so funny.

But seriously? These people are out of their damn minds.

Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:14 PM

The Agenda

This is too funny. And if you follow the link to the (ah-hem) Christmas decoration (agreed it resembles a burning cross) They want 81 bucks for that. Signifies to me just how dumb some people can be. 1. To believe such nonsense. and 2. To pay that much money for a piece of wood with lights stapled to it. But hey the shipping's free. Whoo Hoo!!

Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:16 PM

Feh

They don't need to come to my town. I live in "Lesbianville, USA". (And proud of it, thankyouverymuch.)

Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:16 PM

LOL ...

... at the "Christmas light" cross.

Wow.

Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:16 PM

Check out the Cross

Be sure to click on the link to the Christmas cross. OMG, this could not just be abject insensitivity. Maybe this is a sideline item for like-minded groups to plant in yards other than their own.

Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:16 PM

Is it just me...

...or did someone take a copy of a script from the 1950's and change the word "communist" to "gay"?

Seriously, this is straight McCarthyism.

Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:21 PM

You've gotta be effin' kidding me!

This would be really funny...if it were some made up story. What the hell is wrong with these nut cases?!?! They've resorted to selling DVD's about a "homosexual agenda" how ridiculous. Next they'll include some kind of elixir to "keep the gays at bay" Let's all hope the medical community perfects the brain transplant and these idiots are first in line for the procedure!

Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:22 PM

In Arkansas...

...a city with more than one Gap in a ten-mile radius is probably enough to sound the "San Francisco of Arkansas" alarm.

More than one American Apparel, and people might as well be blowing each other in the alleys for drug money.

Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:24 PM

I think a parody DVD is called for

I hope someone makes a parody DVD about how difficult life is for the straight people in the town with the gays in control.

"Pack of Marlboro..."

"I'm sorry, sir, we only carry Virginia Slims now, ever since the gays took over and made this an all-gay town for gays."

Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:29 PM

Agh...that DVD and that cross

Oh no! It looks like it's too late for me. I'm in NYC and clearly the AFA has given up on my town. Gasp! Pray for me as the homosexual agenda is out and proud here in the Big Apple. Keep it up AFA! As Rob Wiggle of the Daily Show said on his bus tour of "Fake" America, all of them escape those small towns and stay with us here. And we gladly welcome them as part of our big melting pot known as NYC.

Honestly, that Xmas cross looks way, way, way too much like a KKK burning cross. No way in hell that is going in my yard. I'll stick to Santa and Frosty.

Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:31 PM

Have these people even been to Eureka Springs!?!

I mean, here's a cute little mountain village with lots of restored Victorian architecture, a number of bed & breakfast inns, quirky little shops and bistros, and a thriving theater scene. Homosexuals moving in? Noooo!

Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:33 PM

The cover art

What I just love about this DVD is the cover art showing a rainbow infiltrating some historic row-houses.

Oh no! The horrors of gentrification spirals and home restoration tendencies run amok! That can only result in appreciation of home values and higher property taxes in the long run!

Hee hee. Seriously. That did look just like a burning cross, btw.

Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:34 PM

Dear AFA: It's worse than you think

They're not coming to your town....they're already there!

Honestly, any town that has the population of a medium-size city usually has at least one, and sometimes several, gay bars. And MCC congregations. And you guys haven't noticed?

By the way, wasn't Eureka Springs the setting for the Tim Curry movie "Pass the Ammo," with its sendup of greedy televangelists?

Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:36 PM

Darn Those AFA Folks!

Drats! Those darn AFA folks are right. There is a secret homosexual agenda. It's aimed at having the LGBT community treated as citizens having rights equal to that of the heterosexual majority.

If having a town turn into San Francisco means having a town where a male or female couple can walk down the streets having PDAs without worrying about homophobic schmucks trying to put them in the hospital, then more towns around the nation need to become San Franciscos.

Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:37 PM

"Hey, I guess it only looks like a burning cross."

Which is exactly why Methodists creep me out so much...

http://www.seiyaku.com/customs/crosses/methodist.html

Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:38 PM

@bearpaw1

Is that Northampton, MA? 'cause when I was in college I used to hear that there were more lesbians per capita there than any city in the U.S. But that was 10 years ago, so mebbe things are different.

I used to laugh at things like this when I lived San Francisco, but now that I'm doing time in the deep South, it's not funny, it is just fucked up.

Every few weeks a so-called Christian writes a letter to the editor about how god meant Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve, how liberals are all evil devil worshippers, and the gay agenda is destroying the moral fabric of the country and is to blame for the financial crisis (along with black people.)

Here is where thinking like this ultimately leads: My co-workers cousin made the mistake of telling her reverend that she had lesbian feelings for another sophmore girl in her class and he told the whole congregation during a sermon so as to shame her into being straight. When that didn't work, the words "exorcism" were bandied about. She was verbally attacked by a gang of boys at school who said some pretty nasty things about her, and finally, after months of this pressure, she decided she was straight and got knocked up by her new boyfriend. 16 years old. Now the church won't baptise her kid.

So yeah, this kind of thing is funny unless you actually live in it.

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