On-Topic Gay couple's wedding photo used for anti-gay attack ad

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It's not really "sad" that people are pointing out the hypocrisy of someone posting about this who has posted about supporting homophobic politicians in the past.

Sad is perhaps too mild, but whatever the descriptor; expanding a disagreement from one discussion to another or disrupting the flow of conversation by making statements or insinuations that are deliberately inflammatory contravenes the Guidelines for this sub-forum.

http://www.justusboys.com/forum/cur...-ce-p-posting-guidelines-open-discussion.html


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[JayHawk]

Since I went down that road i will return to topic as i can.

The republican party does have a penchant for using intellectual property not their own. I really hope they pay a tangible penalty for it this time around.

An interesting read from 2010:

But this year — and indeed in many past election cycles — it’s the GOP that has been attracting cease-and-desist letters for pilfering music against the artists’ wishes. So let’s take a look at some of the more notable GOP music fails from this cycle, and cycles past.

 

[Centexfarmer]

^ That's just the tip.

In my direct personal experience with "grass roots" Republicans, they'll do and say anything that they think that they can reasonably get away with, without anyone calling them on their shit.

This reminds me of an incidence several years back where I was dating a "field operative" for a local Democratic Congressman seeking re-election.

I was having lunch with my boyfriend at the Congressman's field office, when we looked up and noticed that someone was out there in parking lot taking our picture.

I grabbed my lunch, and my boyfriend and headed out into the parking lot when at that point the guy taking the pictures hopped back into his car and left.

I felt like that this guy felt like he was trying to "intimidate" us, so we hopped in my car and I began to follow him.

I could tell by the direction that he was driving in that he was headed toward the field offices of the Republican challenger for that Congressional race.

About a block from that office, the guy who had been taking our picture, and who we had now been following for several minutes, just parks his car in the middle of a six lane thoroughfare. I park right behind him, turn my flashers on, and continue to finish my lunch.

This guy then signals, and pulls into the strip mall right in front of the Republican Challenger's field office.

I pull up along side him and continue to eat my lunch.

I had my windows rolled down and he hollers over, "What's your fucking problem?

I asked him, "Were you taking pictures of me and my friend here?

He answers, "What if I was? It's a free fucking country!"

To which I replied, "Yeah it is, which is why I'm having lunch with a friend of mine, and following around some asshole who's clearly taking my picture without my permission."

At which point he opened the back of his camera (we all used film back in those days), and pulled the roll of film out of his camera and threw it at me.

I told him to "have a nice day."

He told me to "fuck off."



My point is, the fringe will continue to do this type of shit until we call them on it.

As long as we let them get away with it, and they feel like that they can get away with it, whatever we do is "free game."

Oh, and the Democratic Congressman that my boyfriend was working for?

He got re-elected to four more terms.

Until the Republicans realized that they only way that they could defeat him was when Tom DeLay finally managed to redistrict that Democrat out of Congress.

The process of which landed the former Republican House Majority Leader of the United States Congress; Tom "The Hammer" DeLay into prison.

So let's please not think that this is just some "isolated" incident.

The fact that some "Republicans" went after a couple candidates of their own, within their own party, and bismerched the nuptials of a Gay Couple's wedding while giving no measure to any law, much less respect to those two guys as Americans, to me just shows a pathology that's indicative within their ranks as members of the GOP.

My Grandpa always told me, "If you don't stand for something, then you'll fall for anything."

If the only thing that Republicans stand for is "power at any cost," and "defeating Democrats" without a plan for what they'll do with that power, then our Democratic Republic is clearly at a precipice.

 

[frankfrank]

The very existence of the two republican candidates who support us tends to debunk your blanket assertion, doesn't it?

Any time that any of these "points of light" become visible, the Republican Party does their damndest to make sure that those points of light are forever extinguished. Nobody with any pro-gay message has gone very far "up" in the Republican Party at all in recent years (have they?), or they've changed their message under pressure and coercion.

The RNC cannot possibly tolerate the possibility that any of their candidates may ever hold any favorable position at all (publicly) toward gays. That will assure their candidacies are quarantined and crushed as surely as if it came out that the candidate was an OB-GYN performing third-trimester abortions.

If there's any doubt about the "blanket assertion" being true (that those who are really running the Republican Party would most likely prefer that we didn't exist, or are sinners who deserve to burn in hell for all eternity), just watch the Convention in a few weeks and see how much time they allow for speakers from Log Cabin Republicans or GOProud.

My hunch is that they'll allow the same amount of pro-gay speaking at the entire convention as they are allowing in the next ten minutes (which is NONE, because there is no Republican Convention at this moment).

By the way, as to authorship of the thread in the first place...good call, JQ.

 

[TheFireGod]

I really hope the photographer and the couple sue for the stolen and altered images without permission or paying royalties.

Oh, and the ad looks soooooooo amateurish, looks like what I did in early high school, the person who did it probably has a mental age of a high schooler.

 

[Rolyo85]

I heard LCR and GOProud aren't even allowed at the Convention...

 

[JayHawk]

Even if the courts fall on the side of the thieves it would be nice to drag 'em through court for years on end.

 

[frankfrank]

I heard LCR and GOProud aren't even allowed at the Convention...

My point precisely. "We" can't possibly allow those points of light (for LGBT equality) to exist.

 

[FanofFiction]

This is a most disturbing thread. I commend a right winger for pointing this out.