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Originally Posted by chandon12  Well, when you have tele-preachers who are outed for having "discrete" sex with hustlers and doing drugs, sexual abusing priests who molest children, religious fanatics going out of there way to make the US government more "theocratic", and politicians sucking up to right wing constituients to change the definition of marriage and "family values" its no wonder gays and straights alike bash organized religion!
It not like isnt any ammo, ya know? | Well, when you have a certian number of folks who dress in leather fetish gear for gay pride parades, or randy gay sex with total strangers in the park bushes being the favored passtime of apparenlty enough people to keep it going on a regular basis (and yes, I've heard first-hand accounts of such hijinks in at least one major American city).. then you have plenty of "ammo" to play up on gay stereotypes.
Point is, ANY group is going to have its weirdos and others who can, and will, reflect badly back on the whole crowd.
And since religion represents a HUGE demographic...well, it's simply a matter of odds.
Plus, a nasty tidbit along the lines of "the preacher who really liked sex with gay prostitues while a goat watches" is sort of a "hot" story right now. And having been in the news media for a number of years, I know editors and producers often think along the lines of:
"Hey, paper and/or channel X just had a good cover story about a preacher who has a pet goat and a gay man-whore on speed-dail. It's a TREND. Where's OUR story...on that... and damnit, get a quote from the goat this time." If at first you don’t succeed – try, try again and then quit. There’s no sense in making a damned fool of yourself. – W.C. Fields
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