Gay Couple Asked to Leave Mall for Holding Hands, Kissing

[Sheilbh]

The whining over Argo has been.... Delicious.

It's a typical Best Picture winner. Cynical about the world and hopelessly romantic about film and actors and the creatives

[derspiess]

I don't think I've ever seen anyone sucking face in a mall.

Go to Buenos Aires.

[Martinus]

There is a slippery slope argument used there that if slavery is abolished it will lead to negroes marrying white women.

Oh ok. It did. Gay civil unions will lead to gay marriage and gay adoption. He's entirely right.

Of course. I agree. Same as abolishing slavery led to mixed unions. So the analogy is apt - you have a reactionary bemoaning the progress to things that are fine.

[Martinus]

Speaking of which, in a recent debate about civil unions for gay couples in Poland, one of the conservative Christian MPs raised an old-time-favourite argument that legalizing gay unions will lead to such evils as gay marriage and gay couples adopting children (sic!).

Fun fact: he is an African immigrant married to a white woman. He was told to watch the congressional debate on "Lincoln".

If one believes that gay marriage and gay adoption are "evil" then he is quite right to point out that legalizing gay unions will inevitably lead to such things.  His conclusion is not illogical.  Your point should probably have been that it is perfectly fine for there to be gay marriage and gay adoption.

Yes, that's my point. His conclusion is not illogical, just as the conclusion of a pro-slavery reactionary was logical. It was an invitation for him to self-reflect.

[crazy canuck]

The whining over Argo has been.... Delicious.

I haven't heard any. CC and Josephus must not have gotten the mailer yet.




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Meh, Americans are ignorant.  News at 11.

[Valmy]

Meh, Americans are ignorant.  News at 11.

It was not done in ignorance.  It was done because Americans saving the day is more entertaining.  The movie would have bombed if it was about Canadians, nobody wants to see that.

[crazy canuck]

Meh, Americans are ignorant.  News at 11.

It was not done in ignorance.  It was done because Americans saving the day is more entertaining.  The movie would have bombed if it was about Canadians, nobody wants to see that.

I am not suggesting that Ben is ignorant.  He clearly isnt.  But that doesnt change the fact that most Americans are.

Your post is good evidence of that fact.  It is entirely accurate that a movie reflecting true events not involving fictional American heroes would indeed have bombed in American movie theatres because Americans have little if any knowledge of the outside world.

[Valmy]

I am not suggesting that Ben is ignorant.  He clearly isnt.  But that doesnt change the fact that most Americans are.

Your post is good evidence of that fact.  It is entirely accurate that a movie reflecting true events not involving fictional American heroes would indeed have bombed in American movie theatres because Americans have little if any knowledge of the outside world.

Well personally I would only see a movie involving French heroes.

[crazy canuck]

I am not suggesting that Ben is ignorant.  He clearly isnt.  But that doesnt change the fact that most Americans are.

Your post is good evidence of that fact.  It is entirely accurate that a movie reflecting true events not involving fictional American heroes would indeed have bombed in American movie theatres because Americans have little if any knowledge of the outside world.

Well personally I would only see a movie involving French heroes.

Ok, then clearly you are outside the norm.

[Neil]

After having watched Argo, I don't feel that it took anything away from the Canadians at all.  The people whining about it are just the usual suspects who feel slighted at the drop of a hat.

[garbon]

I personally wish I hadn't seen it.

[Malthus]

I got a blowjob in the mall parking lot a few months back.  Does that count?

I didn't eve know you were gay.

[garbon]

I got a blowjob in the mall parking lot a few months back.  Does that count?

I didn't eve know you were gay.

Holla!

[katmai]

Garbo is Africa?!?!

It all makes sense now.

[Malthus]

Garbo is Africa?!?!

It all makes sense now.