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Republicans arent gonna be happy about this one...
07/14/2016
01:02 pm
JamesMichael Nichols
Queer Voices Deputy Editor, The Huffington Post
Republican National Convention-goers are in for a big surprise.
Planting Peace, the non-profit organization behind The Equality House, a rainbow-colored house that sits across the street from Westboro Baptist Church, is calling out Donald Trump and the Republican Party in a massive billboard that went up on Thursday in Cleveland, Ohio, where the RNC will take place next week. The billboard, below, shows an illustration of Trump poised to kiss Ted Cruz beside a caption that reads Love trumps Hate. End homophobia.
In the eyes of Aaron Jackson, President of Planting Peace, this high-profile move is intended as a direct response to the Republican party and the messages of hate it sends to marginalized groups ― particularly the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.
What Donald, Ted and the Republican party either fail to realize, or realize and just dont seem to care about, is that their words and actions toward our LGBT family―especially LGBT children―have meaning and impact, Jackson told The Huffington Post. LGBT children hear these messages telling them they are nothing but second class citizens and are left feeling broken or less than.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-cruz-billboard-rnc_us_57869167e4b03fc3ee4efde4
http://www.plantingpeace.org/
Wounded Bear
(58,799 posts)Paladin
(28,290 posts)ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)rurallib
(62,492 posts)ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)LuvNewcastle
(16,869 posts)Ilsa
(61,721 posts)Have to change their britches after getting so upset from seeing it.
Fritz Walter
(4,292 posts)Front?
Back?
Both?!?
Wednesdays
(17,502 posts)Response to Ilsa (Reply #5)
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TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)Is this what he meant?
Chakaconcarne
(2,486 posts)I can really appreciate the message here (not so much the visual) but this is going to infuriate a lot of unstable people who might direct their hatred toward the movement behind this message, ie gays, democrats, etc. In potentially violent ways and be able to justify it in their own sick ways. I don't know this is terribly effective and will achieve the desired result. Is this really going to sway someone on the fence? Not so sure.
LakeArenal
(28,896 posts)Sounds a little more like a Westboro type of thing. The fight fire with fire philosophy I guess. Also, it would be horrible if it is right by a neighborhood. Driving by it everyday. Twice a day.
lindysalsagal
(20,803 posts)I think it's exactly what they deserve: Show them their own hate.
Saviolo
(3,284 posts)I certainly think it's going to rile up the more adamant anti-LGBTQ base of the GOP who are at the convention, but more than that, it's basically a schoolyard taunt of "you guys are fags, lol!" and as a gay man, I've heard enough of that in my lifetime.
The idea behind it is sound, the intention is good, but really isn't there a better way to do it than an image inferring that Trump and Cruz are gay? The anti-LGBTQ crowd are just going to assume it's an insult, because to them, "gay, homo, pansy" are all insults. There has to be a better way to get this message across than a billboard-sized gay joke.
Midnight Writer
(21,883 posts)What is the point here? They are gay? They may be closeted gay? That is a 'bad thing"? An insult?
It is already a right wing bigot talking point that Hillary Clinton is lesbian. Is this really the level of debate we are searching for? Is this good for anybody?
Will we now see a Clinton-Warren billboard? Or a Clinton whoever the hell her VP is billboard? Shall we stop with a kiss, or should we go more explicit? And how many folks are going to see this and stop and reflect on their own views? Isn't it far more likely that folks will just dismiss the message out of hand and dig in their heels even deeper on their own preconceptions?
turbinetree
(24,745 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)I feel sorry for the artist.
gopiscrap
(23,768 posts)connecticut yankee
(1,728 posts)LynneSin
(95,337 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)Trump just couldn't resist Cruz's itty bitty teeth and oversized gums. And the halitosis they still talk about at Princeton.
Mendocino
(7,533 posts)"Call me booger"
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)...you know that is going to be vandalized.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)smooching in front of the camera, especially sports figures etc.. let's all start kissing each other.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)meow2u3
(24,778 posts)Zambero
(8,982 posts)That would certainly put a damper on the moment.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)caraher
(6,279 posts)Especially after RFRA should have destroyed forever Pence's viability on a national level
sarae
(3,284 posts)Trump and Pence.
Trump and Paul Ryan.
Trump and Christie.
Trump and Gingrich.
Sarah Palin and Jan Brewer. lol
meow2u3
(24,778 posts)You owe me a keyboard!
Zambero
(8,982 posts)at being overlooked in favor of Ted Cruz.
calimary
(81,612 posts)Ouchez-vous! Well-deserved, though. Serves 'em right. They sure earned this one.
Initech
(100,155 posts)Daemonaquila
(1,712 posts)Two of the grossest human beings (I use the term loosely) on the planet smooching... Ew.
liberalnarb
(4,532 posts)kairos12
(12,906 posts)japple
(9,850 posts)What a brave group of people.
George II
(67,782 posts)AntiBank
(1,339 posts)It reminds me of this mural of Trump and Putin:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/15/politics/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-mural/
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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,509 posts)He loves him some Putin
Mendocino
(7,533 posts)speaking in tongues.
forest444
(5,902 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,803 posts)47of74
(18,470 posts)drm604
(16,230 posts)it looks like Cruz's tongue is pierced.
Person 2713
(3,263 posts)DemonGoddess
(4,640 posts)I can see exploding Rethug heads already!
Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,509 posts)jalan48
(13,921 posts)We need more of this.
Akamai
(1,779 posts)Last edited Fri Jul 15, 2016, 09:58 AM - Edit history (1)
of Cruz's long war against dildos.
As Texas's Solicitor General, he bravely fought the sale of dildos in that state declaring that the constitution did not protect the right to pleasure one's genitals. (I wonder if he checked with his wife before he launched that crusade.)
Sure Trump is narcissistic, thoughtless, etc., but he doesn't have the monopoly on crazy -- Cruz sure got a full share of crazy from his evangelistic father.
See: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/04/ted-cruz-dildo-ban-sex-devices-texas For the story.
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)What good would adding another one do?
I kid, I kid. I would never seriously compare those two assholes to dildos. Dildos are both fun and functional, while Republicans are very rarely either.
Akamai
(1,779 posts)Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)Audacious people to make and fund a huge billboard like that.
But you know what? It will get people to talk about, which is the point.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)czarjak
(11,346 posts)Don't blink, Donald.
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krispos42
(49,445 posts)That person had to spend hours staring at a screen to make that image.
ewwwwww