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...WTF?!?!?
Straight Pride Wear
May not seem that bad, until you see these two pages:
About Us: Straight Pride Clothing Company
Save America: Straight Pride Clothing Company
So, I'm betting this is part of the Dominionist shadow economy that we know all-too-well about...
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...I'm at a loss for words (in the bad way; the VERY bad way). That is, just...
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So, they are arguing that kids need a male and female rolemodel, but remain oddly silent on single parent families, apart from vaguely dismissing them as a bad thing. I wonder if anyone writing along the same lines has taken this reasoning through to its logical conclusion, and tried to get all those single mums and dads paired off 'for the sake of the kids'? We need t-shirts demanding that, dammit!
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Rainbow
Amen.Reminds of the 80's when OP products had rainbows and you couldn't tell who was wearing for gay or just watned to be a surfer.
BTW <3 your icon.
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...yes, because pandering to Dominionists and rolling back all of the civil rights achievements to the distant, distant past is SO COOL! *rolls eyes*
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May 10 2006, 09:23:35 UTC 6 years ago
Enlighten me please
Because A) I AM gay and B) I seem to never have received my copy of Teh Big Gay Agenda from The Head Homo. A friend of mine has though and has briefed me on it. Here's my understanding of it's contents (please fell free to correct me if I'm wrong):THE BIG GAY AGENDA
1) To live comfortably off of the money I earn
2) To fall and love and be happy
3) Above all things, to be and simply let be
May 10 2006, 09:49:59 UTC 6 years ago
Re: Enlighten me please
That pretty much summarizes "T3H BIG GH3Y AG3NDA, ONOES".Although, there was some whispering about dissidents within the group, wanting to wipe out heterosexuality by engineering a chemical that would make the whole world "gh3y", but that hasn't been substantiated...
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May 10 2006, 10:16:15 UTC 6 years ago
Then again, the big difference with him may have been his relationship with his uncle. His birth mother's brother lived just around the corner and spent tons of time with the family (he was much younger, and didn't have a family of his own yet.) Hmm. Think maybe they've missed a source of male role models somewhere?
May 10 2006, 11:24:39 UTC 6 years ago
This is almost as funny as the time someone in a loose group of acquaintances of mine told me that I wasn't a person because I was born through C-section...
May 10 2006, 11:46:53 UTC 6 years ago
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May 10 2006, 12:05:04 UTC 6 years ago
http://www.straightpride.com/links.php
Let's see the lovely gallery of rogues promoted:
a) Roger Hedgecock is a radio personality that, frankly, makes Rush Limbaugh look like a flaming liberal in comparison. Among other things, he's a regular apologist for dominionists in the US government, and is so anti-immigration that the Southern Poverty Law Center has expressed grave concern--he's also been to meetings with radio personalities linked to Ron "Ten Commandments" Moore (and who work at a station owned by dominionist state legislator Hank Erwin, who has proposed placing warning labels on HIV medication sold in the state warning people to "choose a better lifestyle" and who has claimed that Hurricane Katrina is divine retribution against Louisiana and Mississippi) and--even more disturbingly--frankly racist groups like the Council of Conservative Citizens. Roger Hedgecock was also a major force calling for recall in California; Hedgecock has occasionally subbed for Rush Limbaugh and almost every time he's subbed Media Matters has posted with deep concern.
b) The AFA. Known dominionists, and in fact among the most vociferously anti-LGBT (besides Fred Phelps) of any national-interest dominionist group. State affiliates have been known to promote a book, "The Pink Swastika", which claims the Nazi party was based totally within the LGBT community in Germany and that the Holocaust was entirely conducted by gay people (in fact, gay people were one of the primary *targets* of the Holocaust); thus they can be said to literally be promoting Holocaust revisionism. Other examples of *typical* statements on LGBT individuals by AFA leaders are here.
c) Family.org, homesite of Focus on the Family--probably the largest dominionist group in the country at this point. Dobson has promoted religiously motivated child abuse (including spanking infants for crying about wet diapers) and in his best-selling book documents an episode of animal abuse in the first chapter to document how children "need their wills broken". Focus on the Family is also increasingly anti-gay.
d) Family Research Council is also dominionist, is even more politically active than FotF (in fact, Family Research Council started off as a 501(c)4 split of FotF when the latter was in danger of losing their tax exempt status for electioneering) and has assisted in coordinating many political efforts of dominionists.
e) Concerned Women for America is a dominionist group led by Barbara LaHaye (wife of Tim LaHaye, most known nowadays for the "Left Behind" books--fictionalisations of the premillenial-dispensationalist concept of the "rapture" and "tribulation"). Dominionist, explicitly premillenial dispensationalist and apocalyptic, and has promoted some stances that are radical even for many conservative Christians (including the concepts of "covenant marriage", for example).
f) Rock for Life is a branch of American Life League, an extreme dominionist "pro-life" group that is also one of the primary groups in the dominionist community that is in opposition to not only abortion but practically all forms of contraception as well</a> and has promoted misinformation to women for thirty-odd years (a good recent expose is available at Talk2Action here).
So yeah, saying it's part of the dominionist shadow economy is an understatement.
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We do not hate gays."
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The entire webpage
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"I'm not racist.
I just don't like black people."
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May 10 2006, 12:28:02 UTC 6 years ago
Curiouser and curiouser
The group is certainly trying to hide their funding. A search on the shipping address (5173 Waring Rd #114, San Diego CA 92120) reveals that this may in fact simply be a private mailbag at a UPS Store (all of the references I've found online either point to this being a UPS Store--which rents mailboxes--or of companies using it as a mailbox drop; the UPS Store is a buyout of Mail Boxes Etc., and it is a popular tactic by frauds and spammers to set up a "suite" address which actually points to a Mail Boxes Etc. private-mailbag address).I've resorted to doing whois lookups on the two sites apparently run by the group (straightpride.com and straightpridewear.com); straightpride.com is still using the UPS dropbox (identified properly as a PMB--private mailbag--thus confirming the use of the UPS Store dropbox).
Also, postal regulations now require private mailbox services to provide info on who registered them if they are used for business (as this one is)--hence, technically, one may be able to write to the UPS Store and discover who actually owns this.
May 10 2006, 15:13:46 UTC 6 years ago
Re: Curiouser and curiouser
The t-shirt image I posted in a comment above makes me wonder whether they're connected to Neo-Nazi groups. That's just too much Neo-Nazi symbolism in one image to be an accident.6 years ago
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May 10 2006, 12:56:17 UTC 6 years ago
I hope you don't mind the link beacause it was too long to post in a reply.
Keith
May 10 2006, 12:56:36 UTC 6 years ago
http://keith-dragon.livejournal.com/811
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May 10 2006, 22:48:43 UTC 6 years ago
Part 1 of comment...
Thanks for the suggestion. I have sent the e-mail to her. It's a bit long, but it is as follows:Dear Ms. Spaulding,
I am writing to inform you of a certain discovery that I have found on the Internet. The website is:
http://www.straightpridewear.com
It seems to be a small clothing company that promotes an agenda of "keeping marriage between one man and one woman". This may not be bad in and of itself, but "dogemperor" from Talk2Action (who happens to be a member of the LiveJournal community, "dark_christian", as well) did a little research and ran upon this information:
You're damned straight this is part of the dominionist "parallel economy":
http://www.straightpride.com/links.php
Let's see the lovely gallery of rogues promoted:
a) Roger Hedgecock is a radio personality that, frankly, makes Rush Limbaugh look like a flaming liberal in comparison. Among other things, he's a regular apologist for dominionists in the US government, and is so anti-immigration that the Southern Poverty Law Center has expressed grave concern--he's also been to meetings with radio personalities linked to Ron "Ten Commandments" Moore (and who work at a station owned by dominionist state legislator Hank Erwin, who has proposed placing warning labels on HIV medication sold in the state warning people to "choose a better lifestyle" and who has claimed that Hurricane Katrina is divine retribution against Louisiana and Mississippi) and--even more disturbingly--frankly racist groups like the Council of Conservative Citizens. Roger Hedgecock was also a major force calling for recall in California; Hedgecock has occasionally subbed for Rush Limbaugh and almost every time he's subbed Media Matters has posted with deep concern.
b) The AFA. Known dominionists, and in fact among the most vociferously anti-LGBT (besides Fred Phelps) of any national-interest dominionist group. State affiliates have been known to promote a book, "The Pink Swastika", which claims the Nazi party was based totally within the LGBT community in Germany and that the Holocaust was entirely conducted by gay people (in fact, gay people were one of the primary *targets* of the Holocaust); thus they can be said to literally be promoting Holocaust revisionism. Other examples of *typical* statements on LGBT individuals by AFA leaders are here.
c) Family.org, homesite of Focus on the Family--probably the largest dominionist group in the country at this point. Dobson has promoted religiously motivated child abuse (including spanking infants for crying about wet diapers) and in his best-selling book documents an episode of animal abuse in the first chapter to document how children "need their wills broken". Focus on the Family is also increasingly anti-gay.
d) Family Research Council is also dominionist, is even more politically active than FotF (in fact, Family Research Council started off as a 501(c)4 split of FotF when the latter was in danger of losing their tax exempt status for electioneering) and has assisted in coordinating many political efforts of dominionists.
e) Concerned Women for America is a dominionist group led by Barbara LaHaye (wife of Tim LaHaye, most known nowadays for the "Left Behind" books--fictionalisations of the premillenial-dispensationalist concept of the "rapture" and "tribulation"). Dominionist, explicitly premillenial dispensationalist and apocalyptic, and has promoted some stances that are radical even for many conservative Christians (including the concepts of "covenant marriage", for example).
f) Rock for Life is a branch of American Life League, an extreme dominionist "pro-life" group that is also one of the primary groups in the dominionist community that is in opposition to not only abortion but practically all forms of contraception as well</a> and has promoted misinformation to women for thirty-odd years (a good recent expose is available at Talk2Action here).
So yeah, saying it's part of the dominionist shadow economy is an understatement.
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May 10 2006, 13:39:12 UTC 6 years ago
I would rather be proud of what I actually do, not what I am, like being proud of my community service, or the art I create, not where I put my sexual organs.
Hey how about a people who have sex with inanimate objects pride movement!
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If I remember correctly, it was
May 10 2006, 15:44:37 UTC 6 years ago
Anyway, I love it when websites like this make it easy to write your congress critters, and I take full advantage of the oppertunity. Here is my modified version of their letter:
I DO NOT support the proposed Institution of Marriage Amendment, nor do I support the Federal Marriage Amendment, and I encourage you to oppose this horrible legislation as well. Both amendments define marriage as the union between a man and a woman, and I believe that neither the State nor Federal government has the right or the ultimate authority to dictate who a citizen chooses to marry.
While the Federal Marriage Amendment essentially permits marriage of same sex couples by affording partners within civil unions the rights and status of a spouse, it is not fitting with the spirit of the U.S. Constitution to withhold rights. Rather, the Constitution and Amendments guarantee legal rights and precedent, and provide a framework by which the citizens of the United States allow themselves to be governed; using this document to deny rights to a particular group of people, based on nothing more than sexual preference is abhorrent, and boarders on treason.
We do not need legislation that protects the institution of marriage, nor do we need laws that strip the rights of citizens based on a particular group's moral convictions. The United States was founded on the principals of Liberty and Justice for All, not just some. I urge you and your colleagues in Congress to oppose the Institution of Marriage Amendment.