Oh Texas, never change...

[thistlechaser]

Texas does its very best to make sure people are educated about heterosexuality.

Thank you, Texas. TV, movies, books, and the majority of the world around me just weren't enough. Now there will be a place for me to go for "advocating heterosexual and traditional values".

Every time I read something like that, I'm even happier to be living in California.

Comments

[kelen.livejournal.com]

I always have to laugh at things like this. They treat it like a center for non hetero anything is going to make all hetero go away. Like all people were suddenly going to stop being hetero because of this. Yep, folks, it's true! Didn't you know that gay was catching? :P :P Makes me want to smack people upside the head.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

What a fitting icon you have!

Unfortunately I think that's exactly what they expect will happen. That's why they don't want gay couples raising kids!

[giftofarthas.livejournal.com]

Ha. There's a guy who regularly posts to the Lawrence Journal World's website. Any story that involves gays and lesbians and transgendered he has to make a comment on. And if you dare to disagree with him, you are-- put your drink down and don't eat anything-- a HETEROPHOBE. Yes, folks, that's right. If you are all for gay rights, you are AFRAID OF HETEROSEXUALS AND DISCRIMINATE AGAINST THEM.

Every time I see him post that I crack up laughing... until I realize he's serious.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ha! I laughed out loud at work over heterophobe! Darned scary that he's serious about it though...

[giftofarthas.livejournal.com]

Here's an article from the paper that cracks me up. Mostly because the majority of the comments are telling the guy he's full of shit.

http://www2.ljworld.com/weblogs/science-becoming-religion/2011/apr/3/homosexual-marriage-is-absurd/

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

"To women, men are strength. To men, women are energy."
O fer gawdssake spare me! What John Norman fantasy did this come from?

Ha! Love the comments.

[giftofarthas.livejournal.com]

That's cathain. :>

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Oh, huh! :D

[flyforfuneral.livejournal.com]

NYC has pods of people that stand around the gay clubs with signs. It makes me chuckle.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Signs reading "Please let us in"? I'M SO THERE

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

Of course this would have to fall into my moral grey area, bah!

On one hand as long as he isn't oppressing or trying to cure homosexuality or something crazy like that then there really isn't any reason he shouldn't be allowed to do what he wants. But on the other hand I highly doubt that it won't be used for oppressing the homosexual life style.

I guess it's because, in a perfect world, there wouldn't be anything wrong with it just being an alternative. But since we aren't in a perfect world it's going to be used for 'evil' purposes. People suck.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

"On one hand as long as he isn't oppressing or trying to cure homosexuality "

That's generally what "traditional values" reads as, unfortunately.

Agreed on your last paragraph. :/

[sahn.livejournal.com]

Personally, I don't understand why schools would want to segregate student resources by sexual orientation, or why schools would be interested in what students do in the bedroom (aside from student health reasons). It seems strange to me that a school would spend money to support any sort of sexuality whether homo or hetero, especially in the current climate where students and teachers are protesting budget cuts and tuition hikes.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Rereading the story, I suspect it's just Texas using something totally unrelated to support their "traditional values". From the story:

"...requiring state colleges and universities, if they use state funds to support "a gender and sexuality center," to spend an equal amount on a center promoting "family and traditional values." "

As far as I know, these sorts of clubs never get money from the college. It'd be the same with an anime club or dance club or whatever other interest there is.

If funds do go to a club (sexual orientation based or not), then I'd totally agree with you.

[voidmagus.livejournal.com]

Some clubs can get university funding, though they have to jump through many hoops to do it. In college I was in a marskmanship club that was funded, and in anime and taiji clubs that weren't.

If they did divide up resources, students won't really care. They'll go to whichever center has the resource they need. Only the complete nutjobs will refuse to go in the alternative center ("Its the closest computer lab to my next class...I'm not walking across campus just to use the hetero one." College students are lazy above all).

I went to what was rated as the worst public university in the USA for alternative lifestyles, but there was still experimentation of all sorts anywhere you looked. Good times.

And on a lighter note Navy cats

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Aww at the cat link. Nice that the men and women could have a kitty around, and in some cases that the kitties got a home!

[sahn.livejournal.com]

The article references "UT's or A&M's gender and sexuality centers". It would be interesting to find out how they're funded (whether they use state, college, or private funds) and what services they provide (whether they tailor their services specifically for homosexuals or provide services that are useful to anyone regardless of orientation, e.g. STD testing, contraceptives, and prophylactics). At my undergrad, there was an alternative sexuality club (cheekily named PRISM), though calling something a center implies that there's an office and a staff.

[peppygrowlithe.livejournal.com]

The vote on the amendment was 110-24.

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[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Roadtrip to Texas, pack your bags!

...wait.