Comments on: A Gay-Bashing Weekend http://freerangelibrarian.com/2004/11/27/a-gay-bashing-weekend/ K.G. Schneider's blog on librarianship, writing, and everything else Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:59:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Mac Thomason http://freerangelibrarian.com/2004/11/27/a-gay-bashing-weekend/comment-page-1/#comment-929 Mac Thomason Wed, 01 Dec 2004 16:07:42 +0000 http://www.freerangelibrarian.com/2004/11/27/a-gay-bashing-weekend/#comment-929 And everybody in Virginia, give thanks that you don't live in Alabama: <a href="http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1101896768316400.xml" rel="nofollow"><a href="http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1101896768316400.xml" rel="nofollow">http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1101896768316400.xml</a></a> Gay book ban goal of state lawmaker "MONTGOMERY - An Alabama lawmaker who sought to ban gay marriages now wants to ban novels with gay characters from public libraries, including university libraries." And everybody in Virginia, give thanks that you don’t live in Alabama:

http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1101896768316400.xml
Gay book ban goal of state lawmaker

“MONTGOMERY – An Alabama lawmaker who sought to ban gay marriages now wants to ban novels with gay characters from public libraries, including university libraries.”

]]> By: Robert http://freerangelibrarian.com/2004/11/27/a-gay-bashing-weekend/comment-page-1/#comment-928 Robert Wed, 01 Dec 2004 15:20:07 +0000 http://www.freerangelibrarian.com/2004/11/27/a-gay-bashing-weekend/#comment-928 What truly surprises me is that they seem to be basing the story on the two thugs and the girlfriend. This is right up there with all the people that suddenly found Ted Bundy credible when he said that pornography turned him into a serial killer. The fact that he had been a serial liar up to that point didn't evidently make a difference The same thing with McKinney and Henderson. If it had been a simple robbery, they would have pistol whipped him, taken his money, and dumped Shepard out of the car. Tying him to the fence, it seems to me, involved some emotion that was beyond simple robbery. What truly surprises me is that they seem to be basing the story on the two thugs and the girlfriend. This is right up there with all the people that suddenly found Ted Bundy credible when he said that pornography turned him into a serial killer. The fact that he had been a serial liar up to that point didn’t evidently make a difference

The same thing with McKinney and Henderson. If it had been a simple robbery, they would have pistol whipped him, taken his money, and dumped Shepard out of the car. Tying him to the fence, it seems to me, involved some emotion that was beyond simple robbery.

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