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Pencil & Ink: Lycorne
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Dec 5, 2004
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Coloring & Lettering: Lycorne (CG)
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Or to quote my "New Friend" *coughassholecough*, "we dig a big hole and dump them in and bury them." I don’t know how many of you out there pick up the Auburn Plainsman every week. I don't know how many of you actually read my rants here. I do pick up the Plainsman every week though. I skim through it for articles of interest. If something catches my eye, I’ll read it. Something caught my eye this week. "Tuscaloosa legislator wants to ban gay literature." Now listen. I am not gay. I have some friends and acquaintances that are though. I don’t know what ticks me off more, that this man wants to ban books from public institutions, or that he’s trying to discriminate against homosexuals. "Rep. Gerald Allen, R-Tuscaloosa, prefiled a bill in the House of Representatives that could ban literature with gay protagonists or textbooks that present homosexuality as natural. The bill aims "to prohibit the expenditure or use of public funds or public facilities by any state agency or public entity for the purchase, production or promotion of printed or electronic materials or activities that sanction, recognize, foster or promote a lifestyle or actions prohibited by the sodomy and sexual misconduct laws of the state." (If you'll read The Plainsman article, you'll see that the sodomy laws he refers to do not hold up in court anymore.) "I don’t want someone teaching my children that it’s OK to have an alternative lifestyle," Allen told The Plainsman Wednesday. "Our culture is sick. It’s a small minority group of citizens who drive the train on our culture," Allen said." The fact that he says that any books that present homosexuality as natural or okay need to be banned because they are "sick" is the real sickness here. Separation of Church and State, Free Speech, and Equal Rights anybody? Perhaps it’s just me who finds this outlandish. I just want to make sure people know about this new bit of legislation that is going in for the Febuary 1st, 2005 run.
That’s right, this legislation goes through, it’ll also forbid the theatre department here at Auburn U. from putting on "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" at Halloween. Because our university is a state-funded and public university, anything that presents homosexuality as okay (be it textbooks, historical texts, plays, what-have-you) is subject to banning because state funds would be paying for them. Other Articles 1
 Doing My Part To Piss Off The "Religious Right",~ Lycorne Resident Sidhe ElfGrove studio LJ Art Journal (Posted on December 05, 2004) |
I'd probably be more excited about it, but we've been waiting almost a month for this. That, and the last time someone did an article on webcomics that we were aware of was The Auburn Plainsman at school, and we all know that the Plainsman can never get to the point much less right it; namely, it was supposed to be about the AU anime club, but it verved onto Becky's comics, very badly I must add, and then didn't even get the web URLs correct. The MA is much better. Pity the interviews had to be over the phone and seperate. He might have had more if had. Ah, well. Go! Read!  Laters!~ Mic. LJ (Posted on November 21, 2004) |
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