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johnnypneumatic

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3. please don't use "lifestyle"

Reply to truedelphi (Original post)

Fri Aug 3, 2012, 04:51 PM

Aug 2012

or "alternative lifestyle", or "homosexual lifestyle"
that is right wing framing language to try and marginalize and demonize LGBT people
besides, it is so 1980's
it sounds like something Jesse Helms would say
I don't have a lifestyle, I have a life, which mostly seems to be just trying to pay the bills and find a job

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As far as Dan Cathy, Chick-Fil-A CEO, my household is thinking [View all] truedelphi Aug 2012 OP

He'd probably think he was entitled to throw it at some "sinner". Scuba Aug 2012 #1

LOL. I also thought of telling him truedelphi Aug 2012 #2

please don't use "lifestyle" johnnypneumatic Aug 2012 #3

I am sorry to have offended you. truedelphi Aug 2012 #5

it's cool, you didn't offend me johnnypneumatic Aug 2012 #7

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NadinB, send me a copy and i'll have a blast high lighting truedelphi Aug 2012 #6