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WinterBorn
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And the title of your thread is?
The title is certainly not a claim that their sexual orientation is the news story.
Married lesbian couple saved 40 teenagers from the slaughter in Norway.
The title is certainly not a claim that their sexual orientation is the news story.
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I think that this is a very heart warming story and thanks for posting it. Dick Yanker is always going to be the same, there is no changing him.
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No, there will likely be no changes in his hatred.
But if you look at the main page here you will see we have plenty of lurkers. I am guessing some of those are new people who never post. If my arguing with SM helps them understand the lunacy of the his social conservative views, it is time well spent.
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Is he unusual, even in the south?
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I don't think you could call his opinion rare, but it is becoming less and less common. Most who think as he does are unaware of the facts. That is where SM is more unusual. He does know the score and continues to cling to an outdated and hostile way of thinking.
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It is probably a case of recent convert syndrome, as he is not a native southerner.
DamnYankee
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The fact that the couple are sexual deviants has nothing to do with their heroism, in spite of you wanting it to be important.
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WinterBorn
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I want nothing of the kind. You have been the only one to make this claim.
The fact that such heroism has gone largely unreported is the issue. But perhaps the media outlets, like you, cannot focus on anything but the sexual orientation of these two heros.
DamnYankee
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It's obvious that you're the one focusing on their deviance.
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WinterBorn
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Cite.
DamnYankee
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Read your own OP.
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Here is my OP:
"Married lesbian couple saved 40 teenagers from the slaughter in Norway.
But oddly, the news media hasn't reported much about that detail.
http://talkaboutequality.wordpress.c...really-happen/
"By this point, most of you have heard about the tragedy in Norway a few weeks ago when a Christian Fundamentalist murdered 92 people and injured another 96. The story has been well-covered by International media and the mainstream press here in the US.
What you probably have not heard about is the married lesbian couple who rescued 40 teenagers during and after the bloody event. Several blogs and gay and lesbian publications are now picking up the story, but the heavy hitters who usually kill for hero stories like this, have remained silent.
The Finnish capital city’s largest daily newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat, published this account (translated from Finnish):
Hege Dalen and her spouse, Toril Hansen were near Utöyan having dinner on the opposite shore across from the ill-fated campsite, when they began to hear gunfire and screaming on the island.
“We were eating. Then shooting and then the awful screaming. We saw how the young people ran in panic into the lake,” says Dale to HS in an interview.
The couple immediately took action and pushed the boat into Lake Tyrifjorden.
Dalen and Hansen drove the boat to the island, picked up from the water victims in shock in, the young and wounded, and transported them to the opposite shore to the mainland. Between runs they saw that the bullets had hit the right side of the boat.
Since there were so many and not all fit at once aboard, they returned to the island four times.
They were able to rescue 40 young people from the clutches of the killer.
“We did not sleep last night at all. Today, we have been together and talked about the events,” Dalen said."
But their being legally married would ruin the institution of marriage in the US."
I put my comments in Bold. The first comment simply states that I haven't seen any media coverage of their actions and that I find that odd. Nope, sorry, this was not me making this about their sexuality.
The second statement was ripping the social conservatives, like you, who claim allowing these two to marry would ruin the institution of marriage in the US. While this is peripherally about their sexuality, it is mainly about the laughable stance of the social conservative.
Rationalist
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Who gives a shit that it's true?
If it were a straight couple, would the article point out that they are straight? Of course not, that would be ludicrous. And it is equally ludicrous to suggest that the media isn't covering the story because the couple is lesbian.
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So why isn't the story being covered then? There must be some reason.
Rationalist
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Generally speaking, the media's coverage of tragedy always outweighs that of heroism. I do not believe that the left-leaning US media, which discusses gay issues all the time, would have any political or moral reason for choosing not to cover this story. It is unfortunate that it hasn't received much coverage...but it has nothing to do with the couple being lesbian.
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But isn't the POINT of the article to bring up the question as to WHY this story isn't being talked about more? If it is an accurate description of what occurred, it should have been all over the news as it is quite heroic. So the author questions WHY isn't/wasn't it all over the news? The author is asking if it is because it was a lesbian couple, which I think is a fair question. While it could simply be that the media didn't know of the story before, it remains a fair question.
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I do agree that the media does trend towards the tragic over the heroic. That said, it is odd that a story like this would escape the media.
Man, in the US they'd be all over the talk circuit by now. That dude who tackled the wrong guy after Giffords was shot, because he had a gun, was on all the news shows and he didn't even save anybody from anything at all. He was just willing to do anything necessary to stop something that had already been stopped.
Showing up too late nets you coverage in the US. I can't imagine why these ladies aren't all over the news in Europe.
Showing up too late nets you coverage in the US. I can't imagine why these ladies aren't all over the news in Europe.
Even better. Or is homosexuality looked down on worse there than here?