• Repressed heterosexuals, rejoice! Texas bill requires funding of traditonal value centers
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[quote="Inside Higher Learning"][b]The Texas House of Representatives has passed a budget bill that would require any public college with a student center on "alternative" sexuality to provide equal funding to create new centers to promote "traditional values."[/b] While the Senate has yet to adopt a version of the budget bill, the inclusion of the measure in the overall budget bill and the dominance of social conservatives in Texas politics means that the measure could well be enacted. The House vote in favor of the amendment on the campus sexuality centers was 110-24. Many Texas public colleges -- as is the case at many colleges elsewhere -- have centers within student affairs departments that serve gay and lesbian students. These centers sponsor programming, refer students who need counseling or support groups, and serve as advocates for gay and lesbian students on their campuses. Representative Wayne Christian, a Republican, proposed the amendment, which would apply to any public colleges with a center "for students focused on gay, lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, pansexual, transsexual, transgender, gender questioning, or other gender identity issues." According to The Dallas Morning News, lawmakers "cracked jokes and guffawed" during debate, with one representative asking Christian what "pansexual" means. Christian urged the lawmaker to visit the centers at the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University to find out. Lawmakers supporting the bill have said that they favor only equal time for all kinds of sexuality. But the Young Conservatives of Texas, a group that worked with Christian on the legislation, did so with the hope that public colleges would respond to a law, if the bill passes, by ending support for existing centers. Tony McDonald, senior vice chairman of the group and a law student at UT Austin, said in an interview that "we could try to get these groups defunded" in a law, but that the equal funding approach was viewed as more likely to pass (perhaps with the same impact). McDonald said that he doesn't believe universities should be funding centers on any sexuality or values -- traditional or otherwise. [b]He said that students "who want to promote a homosexual lifestyle" can do so "on their own time and with their own money."[/b] Requiring the creation of traditional values centers would "give the left a taste of its own medicine," he said. He charged that these centers "are encouraging folks who consider themselves homosexuals to go on considering themselves as such. That's the point of the centers, and that's not something Texas taxpayers should spend their money on." [b]While supporters of the centers have said that they are needed to provide support for students who are in a minority on campus, McDonald said that it is actually traditional students who lack power. "If I were to walk through UT law school with a shirt on that said, 'Homosexuality is immoral,' if I were to do that, there would be an uproar. People would be upset, and it would be considered out of place and not acceptable to do that. I'd probably get a talking to. But if you go through campus to promote homosexuality, that is the norm."[/b] While McDonald said he hoped that, if the bill is enacted, public colleges eliminate existing sexuality centers, he said that there are good programs that could be sponsored by a traditional values center. He said that they might offer programs to encourage chastity or marriage between male and female students, for example. [b]The budget measure is prompting derision from Texas liberals. A column in The Texas Observer began this way: "Imagine the plight of the heterosexual student stepping on to a college campus for the first time. How will he fit in? Should he tell his new roommate about his alternative hetero lifestyle? Will he be bullied, just like he was in high school, where he was mercilessly teased for being a sexual deviant? Where does a straight person turn?"[/b] While centers in Texas await the outcome of the budget bill, the debate has already accelerated at Texas A&M University, where the leadership of the Student Senate is pushing the university to go on record by saying that it would not increase student fees to create traditional values centers, but would cut the existing Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Resource Center in half to finance a new center. In debate over the issue, advocates for traditional values centers said that straight students who may be questioning their sexuality need a center just as much as gay students do. Students said it was important to create "an equal playing field" for those who may disagree with the gay center. (The discussion may be viewed here, starting about 1 hour and 45 minutes into the meeting.) Lowell Kane, program coordinator for the gay center at Texas A&M, said that he could not comment on the state legislation. But he said it was hard for him to accept the idea that gay students somehow have it better than their straight counterparts because of the center at Texas A&M or elsewhere. He noted that in various surveys of gay students about how welcoming the university is, Texas A&M does not do well. "I'm sure there are instances where an individual heterosexual person might feel oppressed," he said, and that's wrong. But it's also not the norm, he added. "What we are talking about is the difference between an individual instance and societal homophobia." "If you walk into any campus classroom or student health services, most of what you find is geared toward a heterosexual population and not a GLBT population," Kane said. Noting the suicide last year of Tyler Clementi, a student at Rutgers University, Kane said, "I have never heard of any student who took their life because their college roommate outed them as being a heterosexual student." And turning to comments from students at Texas A&M, he added, "I have never had a student come up and complain that someone comes up and out of the blue calls them a 'hetero' and slapped them, but that happens to my students, who are called 'dyke' and 'fag.' " — Scott Jaschik[/quote] About damn time, Texas. Heterosexuals have been repressed for far too long. Source: [url]http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/04/25/texas_house_votes_to_require_colleges_with_sexuality_centers_to_promote_traditional_values_too[/url]
[quote]"If I were to walk through UT law school with a shirt on that said, 'Homosexuality is immoral,' if I were to do that, there would be an uproar. People would be upset, and it would be considered out of place and not acceptable to do that. I'd probably get a talking to. But if you go through campus to promote homosexuality, that is the norm."[/quote] What an argument, jeez
Jesus Christ politicians are stupid.
[QUOTE=fishyfish777;29427832]What an argument, jeez[/QUOTE] That's why this won't last.
[quote] [B]While supporters of the centers have said that they are needed to provide support for students who are in a minority on campus, McDonald said that it is actually traditional students who lack power. "If I were to walk through UT law school with a shirt on that said, 'Homosexuality is immoral,' if I were to do that, there would be an uproar. People would be upset, and it would be considered out of place and not acceptable to do that. I'd probably get a talking to. But if you go through campus to promote homosexuality, that is the norm."[/B][/quote]What a bullshit argument.Wearing a "Gay Pride" shirt and a "Homosexuality is Immoral" shirt are two totally different things, the latter being combative. If gay people wore shirts that said "Fuck Straight People", it might be a slightly different issue. This is just another jackass (or group, as it would seem), pulling the "Traditional Values are under attack" card. :argh:
[i]Ohhhh noooo~! That poor, POOR 96% of the Texan population! They're soooooo oppressed! Whatever shall they doooo~![/i] Dumbass bigots. I find it funny that they're forcing colleges to also be tolerant of intolerance. And that the intolerant are bitching about not being tolerated. As if they don't find the irony in that.
Haha straight people problems
It has been too long! We will finally get reparations for being oppressed by stupid female bitches.
man, those straight people working in labour camps, i feel bad for them, so repressed wait a tic, that doesn't fit
Those gays trying to take the rights of good, hard-working, straight Americans need to be stopped!
[QUOTE=Megafanx13;29428637]Those gays trying to take the rights of good, hard-working, straight Americans need to be stopped![/QUOTE] And we need more cars with shitty gas mileage and trucker nuts.
[QUOTE=deathstarboot;29427921]That's why this won't last.[/QUOTE] Are you american? you should know that texas would pass something like that.
We call these strip clubs where I am from.
[QUOTE=Nikota;29428668]And we need more cars with shitty gas mileage and trucker nuts.[/QUOTE] I'm talkin' a hummer on every street corner!
Did they have a KKK support bill back during those wonderful times?
Ahahahahaha this made my evening. Thanks god I live half a globe far away from these people.
What exactly are "traditional family values"?
How about we don't promote being straight, bi or homosexual at all, just tell people that if they attack others for their sexual orientation then they will be punished under the law. Its impossible to fund campaigns to tell everybody that homosexuality is normal and stuff when you have loads of people who don't give a shit about what they are told because of how they were raised.
[QUOTE=The mouse;29429326]What exactly are "traditional family values"?[/QUOTE] Being unapologetically white, christian, straight and rich.
[QUOTE=fishyfish777;29427832]What an argument, jeez[/QUOTE] "If I were to walk through UT law school with a shirt on that said, 'Black people are immoral,' if I were to do that, there would be an uproar. People would be upset, and it would be considered out of place and not acceptable to do that. I'd probably get a talking to. But if you go through campus to promote black rights, that is the norm."
He talks about the outcry against a bigoted shirt as if it's a bad thing My god Texas what the hell are your politicians doing and why are you voting for them
Finally, I can be free with my sexuality in Texas! Stop the straight-bashing!
[img]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_33Kc2KRkhrc/TCdd02NDYsI/AAAAAAAAAiI/nOQsr5nXVkc/s1600/christianoppressionpieej4.png[/img] [editline]25th April 2011[/editline] Same basic concept.
This is perfectly fair. If gay people get a centre, straight people should too.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;29429250]Thanks god I live half a globe far away from these people.[/QUOTE] Hi
[QUOTE=FlapadarV2;29430063]This is perfectly fair. If gay people get a centre, straight people should too.[/QUOTE] Do you even know why the homosexuals and bisexuals got a center in the first place?
i am a homosexual because i cannot take all the stress from being a heterosexual man because of all of the attacks on christianity and traditional beliefs so i think this center will be a very good helpful thing to all of the heterosexuals turned gay because if the attacks on christianity and social peer pressure go with ~god~!!!!
[QUOTE=FlapadarV2;29430063]This is perfectly fair. If gay people get a centre, straight people should too.[/QUOTE] You never fail to amaze me. Heterosexuals are not the oppressed, they are the oppressors. You may as well make the argument that there needs to be a White Entertainment Television channel, while you're at it.
[QUOTE=The mouse;29429326]What exactly are "traditional family values"?[/QUOTE] They're the idealized imagining of a historical family unit (which never existed). For example, the 'til death do us part' bit of marriage was rather important in medieval times, with quite a few marrying up to 3 wives, because women tended to die in childbirth (amongst the increased death rates for, well, everything).
I bet a senator just got upset while watching Full Metal Jacket. [img]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tz2ZwgNrf2c/TR1SeTj9BZI/AAAAAAAACZw/ncBmt6hqtUU/s400/Full%2BMetal%2BJacket%2Bc.jpg[/img] [B]"TEXAS!? Only steers and queers come from Texas, private cowboy!"[/B]
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