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Anti-gay state Sen. James Forrester (R-Gaston) passed away at Gaston Memorial Hospital on Monday.
Forrester was the chief sponsor of the state’s impending anti-LGBT constitutional amendment banning marriage, civil unions and domestic partner benefits.
Doctors suspected the 11-term senator may have had a stroke that was accompanied by cranial bleeding, said his sister-in-law, Sally Beach.
It is ironic that he just claimed in September that gay people live shorter lives than straight people. It's also ironic that, after many years of pushing this amendment, we won't be able to even cast a vote on the issue.
I have compassion for any person who dies and for the family that grieves for his/her parting. However, I do wish that everyone could have compassion for others while they are alive instead of demonizing them. Pushing legislation that clearly targets a group of individuals does not constitute compassion in my book....especially when the arguments for such actions have all sorts of holes in them that have never been explained to my satisfaction.
Is pretty one sided. Funny how it is all bad things on them and the rest of us get the good. I think everyone already get the same rights as everyone else. By the way healthcare is not a right. Just my opinion. He was an old school guy that represented the majority of the people in his district. Proven by him being elected as many times as he was. He has brought the issue to the people to vote on. After the vote: One side will be happy. One side mad. But, the people would have expressed what they want. After that either side has their right to move to a place in which views their opinion. That is your right!!
It is ironic that he just claimed in September that gay people live shorter lives than straight people. It's also ironic that, after many years of pushing this amendment, we won't be able to even cast a vote on the issue.
I have compassion for any person who dies and for the family that grieves for his/her parting. However, I do wish that everyone could have compassion for others while they are alive instead of demonizing them. Pushing legislation that clearly targets a group of individuals does not constitute compassion in my book....especially when the arguments for such actions have all sorts of holes in them that have never been explained to my satisfaction.
I think that is the opinion of everyone. You, me everyone who feels strongly against an opinion differs on facts. We adopt facts that fits our mode of thinking. We would never be satisfied. The fact that the only study done is old. New data and facts are absent from that study. It stated 20 years less. Which at that time with the facts may have been correct. The fact is if you live a risk life style. You may die early. That means: smoking, drinking, sexual behavior and even driving a car can shorten a lifespan. So dismissing this fact is silly on anyone making either side of the argument. Males living to an average age of 75.2 He did not miss it by much.
I think that is the opinion of everyone. You, me everyone who feels strongly against an opinion differs on facts. We adopt facts that fits our mode of thinking. We would never be satisfied. The fact that the only study done is old. New data and facts are absent from that study. It stated 20 years less. Which at that time with the facts may have been correct. The fact is if you live a risk life style. You may die early. That means: smoking, drinking, sexual behavior and even driving a car can shorten a lifespan. So dismissing this fact is silly on anyone making either side of the argument. Males living to an average age of 75.2 He did not miss it by much.
Facts from the past are not facts today.
If not, then I could use facts such as "women can't vote". It used to be a fact.
[quote=Since72;21523249]IThe fact that the only study done is old. New data and facts are absent from that study. It stated 20 years less. Which at that time with the facts may have been correct. [\QUOTE]
The "study" he cites, by Paul Cameron, has been so thoroughly discredited by all major medical and psychiatric associations, not to mention the laughably flawed "research methodology" he used (using obituaries in one urban gay newspaper at the height of the AIDS crisis death toll to extrapolate to all gay people). In fact, this "Study" is now often used as a textbook example of BAD methodology...yet still is accepted as gospel truth in many right-wing circles.
Religious Leader admits to using bad research to demonize gay community (http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/12/14/religious-right-leader-admits-to-using-bad-research-to-demonize-gay-community-sees-nothing-wrong-with-it/ - broken link)
Further delving into the proven bad science used by Paul Cameron is left as an exercise for the reader.
Anti-gay state Sen. James Forrester (R-Gaston) passed away at Gaston Memorial Hospital on Monday.
Forrester was the chief sponsor of the state’s impending anti-LGBT constitutional amendment banning marriage, civil unions and domestic partner benefits.
Not saying it is the case here but isn't it amazing how so many right wing, holier than thou, anti gay nutcases eventually find their way out of the closet.
Maybe it's just me but I am always suspicious of the over the top anti gay loonies.
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