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Tag: Jim Crow

Royal Oak - Next To Fall?

By JGillman, Section News
Posted on Sun Nov 03, 2013 at 12:23:55 PM EST
Tags: Michigan, Royal Oak, Jim Crow, Homophilia, Ordinances, Local Governance, Constitution, Privacy, 1st Amendment, 5th Amendment, Special Rights, Morality, Neo-Morality, Neo Plantation (all tags)

I feel for the residents of Royal Oak Michigan.

The not-so-benign cancer of Homophilia is metastasizing again in yet another community that will not likely consider the effects of the day's new Political Correctness movement. The question being asked of Royal Oak voters is yet another false one. It has been asked so many other times in other communities across the state, with supporters equating non-support, as having 'Jim Crow' like bigotry. Outside money and activism is being concentrated in Royal Oak, not to stop any rampant queer-hunting problem, but to continue a well planned city-by-city effort by those outsiders to maximize the acceptance of homosexuality as an activity that requires no decision making or choice.

In other words Royal Oak? On Tuesday, its apparently time for you to get your freak on.

Special rights for a behavior identified identity and related higher incidents of mental and physical affliction is truly what is on the ballot. Organizers even admit it is an outside effort, and has an ultimate mission:

"Those in favor of the human rights ordinance, leading a campaign called One Royal Oak, said their effort is a single step in a well-funded statewide effort. They want to add similar ordinances to a growing list of Michigan communities, which now numbers 29, according to Unity Michigan Coalition, a Kalamazoo-based political group behind many local gay rights initiatives."

And before this conversation becomes defined as 'hate speech' or 'bigoted,' lets remind folks that no one can identify a single example of "rights" not available to those who engage in homosexual acts.

No one.

In fact, the entire argument is merely one that forces acceptance of that chosen behavior no matter its consequence socially or medically. Their argument itself is one for ending freedom of association, of First Amendment rights, privacy, and due process. And as much as I would love to NOT have to engage in this argument, from time to time it is clearly necessary.

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There's embarrassing and then there are these local Dems

By Nick, Section News
Posted on Wed Feb 18, 2009 at 07:46:06 AM EST
Tags: Gleason, Whitmer, Slezak, Robert Jones, tax hikes, cruise, Bahamas, Jim Crow, legislature (all tags)

We're talking dumb, dumber and just plain asinine. I don't know how else to describe the moves made yesterday by three Democratic state lawmakers here in Michigan, other than to slap my forehead forcefully and repeatedly.

I'd probably get a kick out of some of this nonsense, if it wasn't so thoroughly dangerous.

OK, so its not all dangerous. One of the House Dem's freshmen members, for instance, isn't going to do any real overt damage but that doesn't make his latest campaign fundraising gimmick any less ridiculous. Apparently the man doesn't own a TV or a radio and he's missed all of the Governor's "Pure Michigan" tourism ads.

Instead of hosting his next fundraiser on the lakeshore or at a great local restaurant or ski resort, Representative Jim Slezak is packing up his donors and asking them to shell out hundreds of dollars to go on a cruise with him. Not in a classic car down Woodward Avenue in Detroit, mind you... on a cruise line. To a private island. In the Bahamas.

All aboard!