TV shows with gay characters could lose Florida tax credits
Television shows and films with gay characters could miss on tax credits in Florida for not being “family-friendly”. Lawmakers in the state have been coy over the meaning of the phrase “non-traditional family values”.
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I totally agree with the above!
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SHAME on you Florida! SHAME!
I was watching Comedy Central today and I saw this male comedian up on stage singing a rap song about how much he loves women and how he loves to have “sex with their vaginas”. And they were airing it at 4 pm! This isn’t the first time I’ve seen such programs on TV during that time of day. And just in time for all the kiddies to see as they come home from school! So why isn’t anyone complaining about THAT?
Or what about all the programs portraying murder and gun fights and people shooting each others’ heads off? Where’s the outrage?
But if a program has a gay character in it, or (GOD FORBID!) shows two men kissing, suddenly the whole world is going to come to an end and everyone gets all bent out of shape about it. It really makes me wonder about some people. It really does.
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Hmm, I wonder if this new law might actually help ban the bible. Afer all, it’s full of non-traditional families. Multiple wives. Husbands having both wives AND concubines. Kind David lusting of Bathsheba. The whole book of the Song of Solomon. Abraham being prepared to murder his own son with a knife. Cain killing Abel. Jsus hung around with hookers. All those “begets” – just a nice way of saying, “they had SEX and had a bunch of kids.”
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I’m assuming homophobia is one such ‘traditional family value’ to uphold and be proud of then??!!
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I know of trans people who live in Florida, who need to travel out of the state because they can not get any medical treatment.
The whole state it Christian Taliban territory. Run by Jhed Bush, the man that stole the presidential election.
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Where do these people think gay people come from? Do they think we hatch from f_cking eggs? We all (hopefully), grow up in families. So at least one in 20 families has one gay kid, surely that’s enough do define a normal demographic.
Yet again, this is the religious American right that are lobbying this. They want it all back in black & white like “Pleasantville”.
That is, until some damn faggot kid walks in and upsets the applecart.
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Florida is just where old people go to die, it makes sense that a place with so many old people would be so biggoted
Gay people have to come from somewhere, why dont they realise that we arent born in labs?
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Are families headed by a single parent ‘traditional families’?
Are families headed by an inter-racial couple ‘traditional families?’
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I sometimes read about (American) families where there’s sexual abuse, alcoholism, drug-abuse, violence and even murder! Are those families ‘traditional’ in the sense of this stupid law? While these people ponder this: how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
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I think this is an extreme example of what can happen if you accept the premise that the tax system is to be used to reward people on the basis of a morality or lifestyle approved of by the state.
The Conservative party’s plan to give tax benefits to people purely on the basis that they are married, not due to any economic consideration, is an example of the premise that the state is to use the tax system to reward people who’s lifestyles or morality it approves of.
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“Non-traditional family values”? And pray (no pun intended) who determines what “traditional family values” were in the first place? What even are “family values”?
Seems to me that anything/anyone Republicans hate can find itself/themselves defined as being against “traditional family values”. How convenient.
Is letting people die because they can’t get health insurance “traditional family values”?
I repeat the phrase so often because it grates on me so much, and by doing that it makes me angrier, and my anger gets turned into positive action for causes which seek to stop bigots like these getting their way. Who do these people think they are?
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Censorship via tax credits!!!!
Lets hope the NuLabour & NuTory policy makers are not reading this one!
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How odd I am gay and have a family.
Even more shocking America my brother lets me take care of my nephew…
America you are so messed up. Oh and Stephen Precourt is a closet gay
They all are.
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