Comments on Advance Indiana™: Gay Rights Activist Registers Domain Name Of Indiana Lawmakers To Extort Support For Civil Rights Protection

Anything that doesn't fit Gannett's agenda...

2015-04-23T11:19:51.188-05:00

Anything that doesn't fit Gannett's agenda never happened.

So why are The Star's reporters silent on this...

2015-04-23T11:14:49.842-05:00

So why are The Star's reporters silent on this extortion scheme?

How soon will a GoFundme page be set up on behalf ...

2015-04-23T10:33:45.613-05:00

How soon will a GoFundme page be set up on behalf of this ignorant lawmakers? Let them fleece the rubes for enough money to start their own super PAC

I am getting old now. But I remember well my gran...

2015-04-23T08:53:40.288-05:00

I am getting old now. But I remember well my grandmother, a Hoosier since the earliest days of the State, from a family living here well before the civil war, who often said there was nothing worse than a bible thumper, even though she was considered quite a biblical scholar to her friends, and and was an educated woman who often read the bible well into the night for inspiration. She marked this passage, and I thought I would share it with you, because she often said Christians were hypocrites about their own sins, particularly on the subject of divorce, and she liked the passage about eunuchs, which she often felt included gays and transgendered people.

“When Jesus had finished saying these things, he left Galilee and went into the region of Judea to the other side of the Jordan. Large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.
Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?”
“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
“Why then,” they asked, “did Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?”
Jesus replied, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning. I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.”
The disciples said to him, “If this is the situation between a husband and wife, it is better not to marry.”
Jesus replied, “Not everyone can accept this word, but only those to whom it has been given. For there are eunuchs who were born that way, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others—and there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.”

ANON 8:06 what "moral and ethical behavior&qu...

2015-04-23T08:47:09.382-05:00

ANON 8:06 what "moral and ethical behavior" are you referencing??

One extortionist giving another set (politicians i...

2015-04-23T08:44:25.351-05:00

One extortionist giving another set (politicians in the crony world) a taste of their own medicine. I like neither but this version of extortion at least doesn't make me pay for soccer stadiums and basketball arenas.

Interesting use of the word Extort. If young Kon...

2015-04-23T08:41:36.859-05:00

Interesting use of the word Extort.

If young Konrad had a few million dollars in his pocket to set-up some sort of PAC, contribute to political campaigns, hire people on his behalf, or even hire members of our General Assembly or family members and funnel money to them via the their "Day Jobs" he would be called a Lobbyist.

If Young Konrad had enough influence and political clout from Lobbying he might be able to stand behind the Governor with a big smile on his face as the Governor signed Konrad's Bill into Law.

"The means justify the ends" is what app...

2015-04-23T08:06:31.472-05:00

"The means justify the ends" is what apparently intended by Anon 7:28... where the religion of left liberal Democrat policies takes precedence over moral and ethical behavior.

"Especially creative"... seriously?? Internet squatting has occurred for years and in many cases has been condemned or sometimes outright banned. Go look it up, it's true.

Anon 7:28 is typical of the hysterical, emotion based left liberal Democrats where common sense and a clear, cogent line of thinking is intentionally absent... where one has to willingly suspend disbelief to get through the diatribe of nonsense in the comment. As a gay person, I find the lack of truth and clarity in the moonies of the left liberal Democrat religion an aberration rather than the norm.

REPEAL THE LAW IN IT'S ENTIRETY; END OF STORY ...

2015-04-23T07:52:41.310-05:00

REPEAL THE LAW IN IT'S ENTIRETY; END OF STORY FOR THE LGBT AND IT'S FIGHT AGAINST INDIANA.

Completely legal. Especially creative. And lets ...

2015-04-23T07:28:04.159-05:00

Completely legal. Especially creative. And lets be honest. Its a token statement in a political world where the elephant in the room is an Indiana General Assembly with a supermajority. Not only are the Indiana house and senate completely dominated by conservative Republicans, but Indiana has a governor who claims to have never had a gay friend. Indiana has an extremely small gay population. Probably around 4% according to the most recently published Gallup poll, considered the best. Let the minority speak. People who hate the minority so virulently, they just don’t understand that there will soon be necessary, federal protections for this minority. Indiana’s supermajority slamming them over and over again, calling them horrible names, impugning their rights as human beings, it just leads the rest of the country to support protections, and it hurts the reputation of Indiana. Go on, scream how rfra doesn’t have anything to do with discrimination. But every time you really get conservatives talking, they claim its necessary to protect business from having to do business with “people” they don’t want to do business with. Everybody else calls that discrimination. Don’t call it extortion when small potatoes guys like Konrad decide to use internet tools like domain names to raise awareness. Its a gimmick. But its the only way the minority has to express its plight. A march here. An op-ed there. One or two business leaders speaking out on behalf of the minority. This isn’t a Koch brother throwing a billion dollars behind a cause. Its a boy, spending $35 a pop on domain names nobody wants to make a political statement against a huge government supermajority. The gay community needs some legal protections. Indiana’s supermajority doth protest too much.

In a word: reprehensible. As a member of the &quo...

2015-04-23T07:09:09.593-05:00

In a word: reprehensible. As a member of the "out" Hoosier LGBT community, I am utterly ashamed that LGBT "activists" would use extortion as does this political agitator. The recent heightened level of Hoosier LGBT intolerance, hatred, bigotry, and bullying like little children to get their way when they fail at the ballot box or in legislative bodies is truly sad and highly disappointing. This behavior is more representative of the early 1900's leftist in tzarist Russia or despotist Germany than in America than in a Constitutional Republic. Oh, wait... the Constitution... something Congress and the White House ceased to be obligated to about a century ago...