This AFA poll...

[johnridley]

I went and voted "no" on the AFA poll that someone linked to a while back. So since then I've been getting all these emails about action to take against one "homosexual agenda" item or another. I've been letting them come instead of unsubscribing, because I like to know what these misdirected, frightened little people are up to.

Today's is about Michigan HB 2459 - supports allowing gays to adopt.

They encourage calling your rep and asking to vote against, and then call Speaker of the House Andy Dillon and asking him to stop "using the house of reps to promote...homosexual activists' 'harmful political agenda'"

Yeah, I'll be contacting someone, but I won't be saying what they hope.

Should I forward these "calls to action" here as "calls to inverse action"? Do you folks want to know about this stuff? Seems like almost all of it is anti-gay, but there are some other small-minded things that come across too. I'd rather just unsubscribe and pretend these people don't exist, but I guess that's not terribly good.

Comments

[madtechie2718.livejournal.com]

Just put it behind a cut and tag it appropriately, would be my guess.

I've always expressed more than a passing interest in politics - but our political process runs differently than yours. Under that toerag Anthony B. Liar, we now have a number of schools replaced by 'City Academies' funded by his pals.

Some, notably those run by the Vardy foundation, hold staunch creationist anti-gay views.
( http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,,1389500,00.html )

At least I no longer give any of my business to Peter Vardy's commercial empire, which, in a very small way, is about all I can do.

[kevinnickerson.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you're happy to see that Tony is quitting on June 27th.

[johnridley.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's been general knowledge for several months at least that he's leaving, and the talk on NPR for a while has been that he's trying to "leave a legacy" but what's actually happening is that what he's doing looks almost like a disorganized retreat under fire.

[mbcrui.livejournal.com]

I'm with madtechie, tag it appropriately, I have no issues at all with grabbing my elected representative and giving him an earfull. I've known him for years...

[mbumby.livejournal.com]

Huh. I went out to the poll too, and haven't gotten more than a "thank you for your interest". (I don't remember the phrasing. Did "no" mean "I agree with you small minded b*ttheads?" I guess that would explain why you've been getting the mail and I've not...)

I agree with the above. I'm interested in seeing it -- please do post.

[backrubbear.livejournal.com]

solarbird puts out a "Cultural Warfare Update" regularly that you might find interesting.