UPDATE: Send a letter to the editor to the Birmingham News about this issue: epage@bhamnews.com Include full name, address and daytime phone (they won't publish your address or phone)
"An Alabama lawmaker who sought to ban gay marriages now wants to ban novels with gay characters from public libraries, including university libraries." - The Birmingham News, 12/1/04I don't care if any of you are from Alabama and are nice people. I've had it with your backwards, redneck, hate-filled state. Yes, I blame Alabama (and the rest of the south) for slavery. I blame Alabama for the death and violence it vested on African-Americans during the civil rights era. And I blame Alabama today for its hateful, backwards, ignorant, twisted, Talibanesque mindset. It's high time the South grew up and joined the 21st century, let alone the Union. 140 years after the civil war these people are still upset about it? Get over it and grow up already.
I'm sorry, but I am sick of being culturally sensitive to a region of the country that is majorly fucked up when it comes to tolerating other human beings who are different. Not an ounce of federal money or corporate money should go into this state until it renounces segregation, for starters, and stops harassing every other minority it can get its hands on. Let's not forget, Alabama just voted DOWN a referendum that would have removed segregationist language from its state constitution. You read that correctly, Albama voted to keep racist law on the books. No politician or company or organization or private citizen who isn't Alabamian should ever step foot or dollar inside that state until they wake up and join the brotherhood of man.
If this is red state values, you can keep 'em. Speaking of which, I understand the local Christian Coalition in Alabama was AGAINST the repeal of the racist anti-black language in the state constitution. Like I said, southern Christian family values at their best. Bush can keep 'em.
