Straight Pride Parade Fail

Blogger Anthony Rebello, known for calling gay marriage a “cry for attention,” was the sole participant in a straight pride parade he created and held at Seattle’s Capitol Hill on Saturday.

Rebello wrote a blog post on June 27, a day after nationwide marriage equality passed, for his website Smile Me A River calling same-sex marriage a distraction and money ploy:

"I think it’s a trend. A cry for attention. From your government, a distraction. For $. I have previously stated how I feel about marriage in this post: MARRIAGE I have also created an event: Heterosexual Parade Gay Mafia? Maybe animals should be allowed to get married? Would they govern and tax them too? While they’re at it, how about equal rights for insects? In my opinion, there is a difference between a man and a woman. If you can’t appreciate those differences, you can’t enjoy those differences. I don’t agree with boys turning into girls, and I don’t agree with girls turning into boys. The word/meaning of ‘Pride’ doesn’t belong to the gay/lgbt community, it belongs to everyone. That includes us good old fashioned straight people. The way I see it, in my opinion, some boys never turn into men, and some girls never turn into women. What a shitshow. ‘Welcome to the other side of the rainbow’ Really? No thanks.”

Although Rebello managed to get 169 participants to say yes to an initial Facebook invite of the event, Rebello was the only one marching on Saturday, holding black and white balloons along with a straight pride sign.

Poor bigot…

Link: http://www.towleroad.com/2015/07/straight-pride/

Thoughts?

Well, why not?

I wasn't aware animals could give consent =0

LOL straight pride parade. Reads like something from The Onion

@Ace_of_Spades90:

Well they aren't all rapists.

Odd how straight pride is entirely about homosexuals.

My thoughts exactly. We all know people like him are only doing this to try and counter the progress made.

lol So much ridiculous nonsense from a bigot. Animals getting married? Equal rights for insects? Straight pride parade? This guy needs to find another job because his comedy is terrible.

It really must be tough being straight this day in age.

i'll never understand the rage of person A at person B finally being granted something person A has had all their life

Obviously because person B getting something A has diminishes its value. It's like, science, or something.

:| Covering up what he says by claiming its a money ploy.

hahaha I thought it was going to be an article from The Onion.

What an asshat.

or something

And this is why we fail.

I don't think we require consent to slaughter animals for food, nor do I think they consent to pharmaceuticals using them as guinea pigs. In fact, we don't require animals to consent to whatever we choose to subject them to. So please, let's retire the consent inanity when it comes to bestiality.

Technically we are all animals.

I take it you have no problem getting it on with a mutt?

Slaughtering an animal doesn't require signing a legal contract. Marriage on the other hand is nothing but a legal contract.

Oh I see. So this is about the legality of marrying a horse, not about bestiality, got it.

Well yes, it's the first post in this quote chain. Look, I'll even bold and underline it for you.

Best quote I've seen on the idea of "Straight Pride"

"Gay Pride was not born of a need to celebrate being gay, but our right to exist without persecution. So instead of wondering why there isn't a 'Straight Pride' movement, be thankful you don't need one."

-Byshop

Guess he did'nt want to lose face by backing down ;)

Exactly.

Heard about this on the radio this morning. It's hilarious.

Which would be considered animal abuse.. IN which the person could be charged and/or have the animal taken away from him..

Lol

So either his girlfriend didn't show up or he doesn't have one. Hmmm...

Nah. This is why he fails.

Very wise response to straight pride.

So is being straight viewed as an abnormality now in this day and age? Bruh....

Especially if you are a straight white Christian. Then you are super oppressed in the United Nazi Gay Socialist States of Soviet America.

Why would I need to be thankful for being straight and therefore not needing a "pride" movement? This isn't the first time Byshop adduces this quote, nor is it the first time it receives the kind of approbation that suggests it has a profound meaning while being in fact a flat quote.

I'm straight, therefore, I'm in harmony; I'm the status quo and I'm statistical prevalence. I need not be thankful for having been allowed to exist. I understand how from the homosexual point of view I'm supposed to be thankful for the privilege, but I'm not.

What's amusing is how the progressive pundits of this forum rationalize the distinction between marrying an animal and bestiality. Instead of rejecting both as one, they stoop to discussing the legality of marrying a dog, which in a way opens the door for a discussion on whether fucking your pet is an acceptable practice so long as you don't attempt to marry it.

I never bought the conservative argument of "if we allow gays to marry, next thing we know we'll be allowing people to marry their dogs" - I always thought it's barren and banal. But this sort of rationalization unfortunately legitimates an otherwise bankrupt and moronic argument and view.

Which one, marrying a horse or fucking it? Either way, we can always regulate it.

Are you intentionally trying to twist it's meaning or do you seriously not understand it?

Gay pride parades exists because gays are an oppressed group of people. Straights are not oppressed so they don't have straight pride parade. It's pretty simple.

It's neither actually; I'm simply illustrating the flaw in a flat quote gratuitously celebrated as the pinnacle of epigrams.

What's pretty simple is how straights don't have to be thankful for not being an oppressed group.

It's not a flaw. Why would anyone not be thankful for not being oppressed? Do you want to be oppressed? Nobody is saying your life must be perfect, but it sure as hell could be worse.

One ought to be thankful for not being oppressed only when there's ground for such oppression to begin with. There is no ground for oppressing a straight person, hence the absence of gratitude. It's no privilege for a straight person not to be oppressed, it's his only mode of existence.

And being gay is the only mode of a gays persons existence. Nobody should face oppression, unfortunately some people do.

You seem to think being thankful means actively expressing gratitude. In this context it doesn't, it simply means stop being a bitter arsehole and move on with your life.

And that brings back the point :

I'm the status quo and I'm statistical prevalence.

When you have a majority, the minority will be oppressed. One way or the other.

The attitude you are describing is "privilege". "Why should I be thankful for something I'm supposed to have?" is the assumption that you are supposed to have/deserve something by virtue of just who you are.

But even if we buy that logic, there are no grounds for oppressing homosexuals yet it happens (and even things much worse than just "oppression") all the time.

-Byshop

Doesnt change the fact that homosexuals are not oppressed on a serious scale in the west. At least they have the right to exist without being thrown in jail, or worse, killed.

And such a thing is worthy of celebration, the right to be yourself.

And why are we arguing this again?

Pride parades are a silly thing anyway. I don't really see why people should be proud of their sexual preference/orientation. It's not really an accomplishment. Some guys like other guys, some guys like women with big feet and small boobs, it's not exactly something to be proud of, supposedly it's just a trait that people are born with. Now I understand the whole idea behind these things being that "well gay people have been discriminated against for a long time and straight people haven't blah blah blah, so there's no reason for a straight pride parade", but then maybe they should call them "dignity parades" or "rights parades" not pride parades.

Because that is the point of gay pride parades. To celebrate how they arent being oppressed. Gays are, under the law, equal to those of straight men.

The lack of oppresssion is why this straight pride parade was so redundant and unneccessary. What exactly was he parading about? There was no need for it.