Comments on: Bigot of the Day: Sally Kern v. Justin Thompson

By: Lover Boy

Lover Boy — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 22:54:02 +0000

Dear Justin’s Loving Beard,

Based on what you’ve written elsewhere, yeah, you’re a bigot. And if a conservative Catholic calls me selfish and reprehensible, then, yes, I suppose I’d call them a bigot, too.

Congrats, you got this one right!

Best,
Justin’s Temptation

By: Darrell W

Darrell W — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 19:21:54 +0000

@MelG If you & Justin end up getting married are you expecting to not have sexual relations except when you are ovulating? Going by his stance, that would seem the appropriate thought to follow his rant.

By: Dana Marie

Dana Marie — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 18:50:01 +0000

This is a tough choice, however, it is easier to tolerate youth with no real experience in life. Maybe he will learn, that if there is a God, she would love all of us, regardless of what those men who wrote the bible think. As for Sally Kern, it is sad that someone so bigoted, narrow minded and plain ole mean spirited has a position of authority and actually taught children. Maybe she should try climbing down from her pedestal and doing some of the backbreaking work for little pay that minorities perform trying to survive in our all to frequently puritanical, paternalistic country.

By: JD

JD — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:20:29 +0000

@MelG

If you’re asking us to go there, then yes, I consider the Pope a bigot. I’d need to read more about Mother Theresa’s attitudes towards gays to say anything conclusive about her, but someone can be proudly supportive of one disenfranchised group and bigoted towards another - these are not mutually exclusive. I don’t want to paint all conservative Catholics as bigots, either – queer theory teaches us that there are always deviations within a supposedly homogeneous group.

Justin _is_ a bigot, plain and simple. He has a right to his side of the story, but his side of the story is wrong. It is contradicted by studies in psychology, biology, zoology, and by faiths and creeds not his own. The reason he was bombarded was not because anyone hates him (although he obviously wants to play the martyr here, speaking of selfish behavior), but because he is not in the right. We don’t necessarily begrudge him his opinion, but his opinion is followed by desire and action to take away from a historically disenfranchised group. He’s not saying, “Let’s have a traditional family values center in addition to GLBTQ center, in order to balance the scales” (ignoring the fact that A&M is already extremely hetero-friendly). He’s saying, “I personally find this type of person icky, so despite the fact that this type of person has been regularly physically and verbally abused on campus, sometimes to the point of being hospitalized, and off-campus, to the point of death, I’m going to take away from this person one of his or her or hir few resources here to try and live like anyone else.” His version of “standing up for his beliefs” takes away from others who are consenting adults – not animals, not pedophiles, not sinners – just consenting adults, and yes, I call that bigotry.

By: MelG

MelG — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:09:29 +0000

Well, I guess if you find Justin to be a bigot, you ought to find the Pope, Mother Theresa, and all conservative Catholics (including myself) bigots, too. All he was doing was standing up for his beliefs after being bombarded for three days with student media articles that advanced beliefs ideas and beliefs that contradicted his own. He has a right to his side of the story.

With respect,
Justin’s loving girlfriend

By: Amber Thompson

Amber Thompson — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:14:54 +0000

Put them in a boxing ring,and let them fight it out.

By: Glen

Glen — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:29:20 +0000

I live in Oklahoma City, just out of her district by a few blocks. If I lived in it, I would sell and move. She is whacked, walks into the capitol with a gun, with no reprimand! Was a teacher, is a preachers wife, and now a Rep. that keeps getting re-elected! She gets the crown!

He’s just a self hating closet case!

You go “christians”!

By: Carl Fant

Carl Fant — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 21:17:19 +0000

So, I guess we’re going to eventually have a “coming out” party for Justin and perhaps we should be good southern neighbors and wash Sally’s white sheet’s before the weekend gets here. She’ll need something to wear. It’s about loving thy neighbor, right?

By: pastol

pastol — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:21:20 +0000

With teachers like Sally, I pity our youth. Justin will never know love if he believe it is based solely on sex. Both are sad excuses for humans. Further proof that we are a nation of idiots.

By: Valerie Chandler

Valerie Chandler — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:33:30 +0000

Although both of them are bad and I agree Justin is obviously in the closet with a self-loathing disposition, I have to nominate someone from my work. He is an Afro-American Baptist minister and couldn’t understand why I was upset when he used the term faggot to describe a gay man. When I confronted him about it he told me it was just man talk. Not only does this not make any sense but it is sexist and all I could get out of it is that he doesn’t understand that gay men are really gay MEN.