Comments on: TV shows with gay characters could lose Florida tax credits

By: Andrew Q

Andrew Q — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:45:44 +0000

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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By: Abi1975

Abi1975 — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:53:21 +0000

Censorship via tax credits!!!!

Lets hope the NuLabour & NuTory policy makers are not reading this one!

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By: D_W

D_W — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:02:58 +0000

“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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By: Patrick James

Patrick James — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:21:05 +0000

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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By: Har Davids

Har Davids — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:13:51 +0000

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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By: SimonM

SimonM — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:49:36 +0000

Are families headed by a single parent ‘traditional families’?

Are families headed by an inter-racial couple ‘traditional families?’

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By: Tigra 07

Tigra 07 — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:18:05 +0000

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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By: RobN

RobN — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:27:25 +0000

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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By: Abi1975

Abi1975 — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:20:07 +0000

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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By: Razzab

Razzab — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:03:42 +0000

I’m assuming homophobia is one such ‘traditional family value’ to uphold and be proud of then??!!

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