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Bluenorthwest

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13. If you think it is a new set of events, you must be straight....
Thu Mar 20, 2014, 08:34 PM
Mar 2014

This is what life has always been like. Do you know that the bulk of America let Fred Phelps attack hundreds of funerals in every State in the Union for years and years without any comment until he started attacking Veteran's funerals? He had the tacit approval of every Church that did not oppose him, and that's all of them. It went on for years and years. No one gave a flying fuck expect the LGBT community. For years.

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I hear he sometimes says "etc." MannyGoldstein Mar 2014 #1
Cute answer Manny. sheshe2 Mar 2014 #2
My soul is tortured MannyGoldstein Mar 2014 #3
:( sheshe2 Mar 2014 #5
... Cirque du So-What Mar 2014 #4
Not until I've paid my dues MannyGoldstein Mar 2014 #6
Haven't you suffered enough? Cirque du So-What Mar 2014 #7
Hmmm... I think it should be more like the Nuremberg trials MannyGoldstein Mar 2014 #10
By DOG, you're right! Cirque du So-What Mar 2014 #11
Tetrodotoxin MannyGoldstein Mar 2014 #12
Thanks for the heads-up Cirque du So-What Mar 2014 #15
Curses! Folied again! MannyGoldstein Mar 2014 #25
Tetrodotoxin is the most lethal poison Aerows Mar 2014 #28
Worse than botulinum toxin? MannyGoldstein Mar 2014 #32
Botulism toxin can be destroyed at temperatures above 180F Aerows Mar 2014 #33
So Botox users should avoid torching their faces? MannyGoldstein Mar 2014 #34
You asked a scientific question? Aerows Mar 2014 #35
I was just being an idiot. MannyGoldstein Mar 2014 #36
Silly Manny~ sheshe2 Mar 2014 #16
What agenda? Vashta Nerada Mar 2014 #8
In reference to the NASA study floating around GD, anyone who thinks civilization ChisolmTrailDem Mar 2014 #9
If you think it is a new set of events, you must be straight.... Bluenorthwest Mar 2014 #13
Seriously. Homophobia was terrible- and mainstream- when I was growing up. Warren DeMontague Mar 2014 #23
Its NOT a "NASA study", The study did NOT say "civilization will collapse", and if LGBT equality is Warren DeMontague Mar 2014 #21
Let us know how that works out for ya, sport. nt Zorra Mar 2014 #14
He doesn't have a snowballs chance in hell. sheshe2 Mar 2014 #17
I want Lively to run for Governor of Massachusetts, I hope that he stays bluestate10 Mar 2014 #18
Works for me! sheshe2 Mar 2014 #19
Kick! sheshe2 Mar 2014 #20
It's people like this that make it really hard to turn the other cheek. nt William769 Mar 2014 #22
We just need to speak louder than they do, William. sheshe2 Mar 2014 #24
Three Dog Night. Maedhros Mar 2014 #26
Thanks Maedhros! sheshe2 Mar 2014 #27
kick ! nt steve2470 Mar 2014 #29
The Stupid Burns Bright with that one.. Imagine what the Cha Mar 2014 #30
Let's trade our extremist bigots... idendoit Mar 2014 #31
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