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Stifling debate

A certain blogger on the Patch has been posting incendiary content for years. He has recently taken to removing comments that criticize his blogs and comments. This post contains the gist of one of the removed comments.

He decried the “gay agenda”. There is no such thing. A gay day planner? Maybe. The “gay agenda” is a bugbear that was invented to feed the persecution complexes of certain people. The only real “agenda” is justice and fair treatment.

He also stated the Family Research Council and the National Organization for Marriage merely advocate against the right of gay people to marry. This is patently untrue. These groups use junk research and flat out lies to vilify gay people who are the daily victims of all sorts of discrimination, crime, and violence (an average of 140 a day per Justice Department statistics, surely under reported). There is a TON of evidence of this, for example the following written by a conservative Christian woman: http://canyonwalkerconnections.com/family-research-council-the-damage-continues/

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This is obviously NOT merely advocating against gay marriage, and the effort of a certain blogger to diminish it as such is simply not true.

He also stated that Rick Santorum and our terrible former mayor Janice Daniels merely advocate against marriage equality. Among other things, Mr. Santorum famously compared homosexuality to animal abuse, which is a false bigoted stereotype. The frothy mix of evidence can be found if you Google Santorum.

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Our awful former mayor who was improbably recalled in disgrace went on local radio and also spoke false stereotypes. She also said similar things in a meeting with local high schoolers. These were some, but by no means all, of the reasons the voters of Troy thought she should no longer represent us. Perhaps the reason my comment was removed was that I brought this up. She is running for council now, and the blogger who removed my comment has been carrying water for her for some time.

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