Taking aim at stereotypes; Gun club arms gays, lesbians

[MrSandman]

Deanna Sykes holds a doctorate degree, favors liberal philosophies and she's a lesbian. Pretty much a left-leaning politician's dream vote.
Except for the .45-caliber pistol she owns.

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The 41-year-old Sacramento woman came out of the closet about her gun ownership last year after she discovered there were other gays and lesbians who, like her, frequent shooting ranges and are card-carrying members of the National Rifle Association.

http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/8087442p-9019878c.html

Linkage between Pink Pistols and NRA.

[CO Liberal]

1. And I'm Sure Some NRA Members....

...also belong to the KKK.

Your point????

[MrBenchley]

3. The difference is

that the KKK is a lot closer to what the NRA is really all about...

Also, if the KKK could write, I doubt they'd scrawl the names of fellow bigots and hate groups on their boycott list.

[MrBenchley]

2. Wow.....

What's this, the third time this same bit of idiotic propaganda has popped up?

"there were other gays and lesbians who, like her, frequent shooting ranges and are card-carrying members of the National Rifle Association."
Which National Rifle Association is that, I wonder. This one?

"Reno, Nevada-- The National Rifle Association, holding its annual convention in this dry desert city, took an opportunity Sunday to demonize the gay and lesbian community with inflammatory homophobic rhetoric.
Anti-gun talk show host Rosie O'Donnell was called a "freak" by one speaker for her recent admission that she's a lesbian. O'Donnell had a much publicized disagreement with pro-gun actor Tom Selleck in 1999 on her talk show. Selleck walked off the show during taping over O'Donnell's remarks.
Debbie Schlussel, a frequent guest on The Howard Stern Show and an avid supporter of the NRA referred to O'Donnell when she said, "She's not cool. She's a freak." Schlussel went on to bash actor Jude Law who recently admitted in an interview that he hesitated to handle a gun in the filming of his latest movie fearing it would contribute to people thinking guns were cool. Schlussel referred to the heterosexual Law as a "girly-man".
Kelly Anne Conway, a conservative pollster, droned on for some time about how the "liberal" media has forced changes in the public school curriculum that put gay and lesbian tolerance ahead of the basic studies of math, English and History. "They're so worried now about how many mommies Heather has that (the teachers) run out of time" Conway went on to state venomously that gay and lesbian issues aren't important to "real" Americans.
Grover Norquist, an NRA Board Member and columnist for American Spectator Magazine, not to be outdone, put forth the barb; "we don't have annual parades for gun owners so everyone can appreciate that gun ownership is an alternative lifestyle and look at how great we are." He also quipped that liberal Americans "don't want (men) to date women." "

http://gaytoday.com/garchive/events/050102ev.htm

And so these gay NRA members put together a list of people they hate and want to boycott...and out of that whole bigoted pile of tripe, the only one that landed on the "Pink Pistols" hate list was the only openly gay person named.

The wonder isn't that it's another phony piece of crap from the gun rights crowd (which also has a phony doctors group and a phony law enforcement group), but that it is so transparently so.

[xchrom]

4. thanks for that, mr benchley

i'm sure there are gay folk who shoot guns, own guns, and belong to the nra.
many of them? i would say not -- the gay community is pretty knowledgeable about the statements of the nra regarding gay folk. supporting organizations who hate us isn't something we do in large numbers.

[MrBenchley]

5. You should check out this "gay group's" boycott list

Bigoted right wing hatemongers like Fred Phelps, Rick Santorum, the American Family Foundation and Pat Buchanan seem to be just hunky-dory with these "gay activists" who are all bent out of shape by.....Anne Heche, Barney Frank, Hillary Clinton and Barbra Streisand.

Aren't you convinced this isn't a beard group? Me neither.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=118&topic_id=20608

[davidinalameda]

6. this has already been posted and locked

locking again