Sophistication:



Mississippi legislature approved S.B. 2681 yesterday. The bill reads “State action or an action by any person based on state action shall not burden a person’s right to exercise of religion, even if the burden results from a rule of general applicability.”

The bill leaves it open to employers and individuals claiming rights to discriminate on any basis — race, religion, gender, perceived national origin, etc., — as long as they can claim a religious reason for doing so.





Okay...Okay.

I grew up in Mississippi. It’s a beautiful state with a rich history and a defiant streak. When they rounded up the negroes and lynched them, that was bad. When Elvis or Tammy Wynette and countless others had a compulsion to get out of the Delta and do something big, that was good.

Now they want to make discrimination legal. I think it’s safe to say that most of the country just assumed it already was legal to discriminate in Mississippi. Why now? Why are they digging into this issue?

It’s not intolerance or bigotry it’s about sex. This country has an unnatural fixation on homosexual intercourse. Whenever you are invariably outed as a “homosexual” the person being informed about this matter automatically thinks about two men having butt sex. Lets take the sex out of the identification. 

Homosexual is the clinical term. I identify as Gay. I don’t go around saying, “Oh...you’re a heterosexual.” Why? Because it’s unsophisticated. People have all kinds of strange proclivities. Try to develop some sophistication about such issues.

As for Mississippi’s latest ignorance, I’ve always thought that gay business owners could do far worse damage with such a law on the books. Just because I’m gay doesn’t mean that I’m free of prejudice. I’m just a little more tolerant and sophisticated about it.




But don’t piss me off! Or I’ll refuse my services to you and your unwed pregnant daughter.

Imagine targeting the Mississippi Legislature with a boycott of services provided by gay people. No more hair appointments, no more new curtains, no more new design or construction. 

I’m also going to be so bold and claim with no factual evidence, statistics or made up percentages that, “Gay People Invented The Arts!” That’s right. THE ARTS! Music, Theater, Dance, Fine Art and Literature. All invented by GAY PEOPLE.

I think God made the homosexual for this reason alone. That and we cut down on population but think how boring the world would be without us and the arts. Stop fucking with God’s special creature.



But I think a boycott would be mean and gloating in the face of inevitable victory for equality. Forcing zealots to fly the Gay Unfriendly Flag would be on our part an act of poor taste and retaliation. But it would be so much fun. Instead I think I’ll sit on the lawn like Evita and watch with sophistication as the LGBTQ invade their country clubs.

And now let’s hear a little something about sophistication from the sponsors of this post, 

The Ritchie Sisters.


16 comments:

  1. America. Land of the Free.

    Nope. Jx

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    1. Nope indeed.

      We used to run around in Mississippi in the early 80's feeling the same persecution. Some things will never change. I'm thinking the LGBTQ should rally and only shop at businesses that identify as gay friendly.

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  2. The Richie Sisters are nothing if not sophisticated.

    I knew that way back when as a child I demanded their "Bad Reputation" 8 track because of the *very* sophisticated cover art.

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    1. Don't get me started on the twirlin' around my cousin's bedroom wearing her Natchez Pilgrimage hoop skirt to the sounds of Bad Girl by Ms. Donna Summer...

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  3. norma can only ring her hands & shake her head
    and never venture below the mason-dixon line.

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    1. It's probably for the best. I could find you a nice southern rabbi to help ease the transition, but aint nothing a god fearin' redneck hates more than F*gs is J*ws and N*ggers.

      Have Max call if you should ever find yourself close to the mason-dixon line and I'll talk you down.

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  4. Only to be expected when you have a high population of blacks living there. They'll be passing the "Kill the Gays" bill next and before you know it, it'll be like living in Uganda. It is a worry.

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    1. That's exactly what happened here in North Florida. The black churches got whipped into a frenzy and turned out in full force to vote for the state wide ban on gay marriage several years ago.

      I tell you what, some pissed off drag queens are gonna take Uganda and Mississippi down.

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  5. Sorry about your home state, what a bunch of morons, it's almost like they're proud to be number fifty in everything....

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    1. I know. So I'm kind of struck with a sense of survival to have made it out of there alive today to tell my story.

      It was rather easy to be almost always number one at everything when the odds were so low!

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  6. Now I'm worried that some of our Texas nut-case law makers will pick up on that bill as well.

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    1. You know I'm surprised Texas hasn't pulled this stunt either. I hate to say it but the more level heads prevail in your state at the moment. It's political anathema to go against this issue.

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  7. I think that we are witnessing the last gasp of the Anita Bryant era. They idiots in Montgomery know that this is going to be overturned by the supreme court, but they have run out of options, and they are running out of time. The world is changing and they can't stand it. Let them pass the law, and then lets watch it burn them, bad.

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    1. Today I imagined dragging a haggard Anita Bryant out of her trailer park and into the town square where she was stoned to death with oranges.

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  8. The governor signed the bill today : (

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