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My favorite line from Ricky Perry's horrible new ad is:
"There's something wrong with this country when gays can serve openly in the military, but our children can't openly pray or celebrate Christmas in school."
His facts are bad and he should feel bad. Kids aren't barred from praying or celebrating Christmas, they're just losing the ability to use school resources to do so (or compel others to do so). This really has nothing to do with the fact that soldiers are no longer required to lie about their sex life in off-duty conversations.
The only way it makes sense to me is that they're using some sort of ease-of-life score tracker. Gay people's lives just got easier, Christian people's lives just got harder, therefor gay people won, therefor gay people are winning. The fact that Christians started with way more points than gay people doesn't appear to enter into it.
This is what loss of privilege looks like. It feels like an attack, because you're losing something that, as far as you know, you were entitled to.
"There's something wrong with this country when gays can serve openly in the military, but our children can't openly pray or celebrate Christmas in school."
His facts are bad and he should feel bad. Kids aren't barred from praying or celebrating Christmas, they're just losing the ability to use school resources to do so (or compel others to do so). This really has nothing to do with the fact that soldiers are no longer required to lie about their sex life in off-duty conversations.
The only way it makes sense to me is that they're using some sort of ease-of-life score tracker. Gay people's lives just got easier, Christian people's lives just got harder, therefor gay people won, therefor gay people are winning. The fact that Christians started with way more points than gay people doesn't appear to enter into it.
This is what loss of privilege looks like. It feels like an attack, because you're losing something that, as far as you know, you were entitled to.
