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I get the feeling WND doesn't like gay people

November 27, 2009 2:55 pm ET by Jamison Foser

Someone get the smelling salts.  WorldNetDaily is gonna need them:

Now, I won't pretend to be surprised that WND is outraged at a "'gay musical,'" when they presumably wouldn't think twice about a "'straight' musical."  

But I am curious about one thing: why does WND repeatedly put the word gay in quotes?  Do they think the musical isn't really gay?  

Anyway, WND uses the musical as an excuse to hawk this charming little book:

Why have Americans come to tolerate, embrace and even champion many things that would have horrified their parents' generation? Get David Kupelian's "The Marketing of Evil" at the WND Superstore.

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    • Author by ReasonAndResolve (November 27, 2009 3:19 pm ET)
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      Hooray for evil!
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    • Author by bruce1ace (November 27, 2009 3:42 pm ET)
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      Sounds like more of a pedophilia musical. Daddy's kissing boys?

      Two enthusiastic thumbs up to the education system....not.
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      • Author by loonz (November 27, 2009 3:52 pm ET)
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        I'm gonna venture it has nothing to do with pedophilia. People sometimes use boys/men interchangeably especially kids.
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        • Author by A Rational Thought (November 28, 2009 2:49 am ET)
             
          "People sometimes use boys/men interchangeably especially kids. "

          And, more especially...pedophiles.

          Figures this wingnuts would think pedophile when they hear 'daddy's kissing boys'....Hey, wingnuts, ever heard of platonic love? yea, didn't think so.
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      • Author by pete592 (November 27, 2009 4:32 pm ET)
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        When cherry-picked from one composition in a very long long and intricate production, perhaps it does. Anyone who bothers to familiarize himself with the song, its subject matter and the overall story will plainly see that it has absolutely nothing to do with pedophilia whatsoever. But don't encourage the World Nuts to do that, they've got scaring to do and books to sell, so characterizing this school musical production as the front line in a gay war to destroy Thanksgiving as we know it is crucial to their marketing.
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        • Author by bruce1ace (November 27, 2009 6:41 pm ET)
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          It's a poorly worded lyric. Whoever wrote it should have known that.
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          • Author by pete592 (November 27, 2009 7:31 pm ET)
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            Whoever wrote doesn't cater to the taste of homophobes.
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            • Author by Don Hussein Fabuloso (November 28, 2009 9:36 pm ET)
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              Bruce is still upset about the promotion of inflatable love toys in Guys and Dolls.
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              • Author by juliajayne1 (November 29, 2009 4:53 pm ET)
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                I bet he may be chagrinned about the possibility of that hoochie ma, Lady Luck, blowing on some other guy's "dice" as well. So untoward! ;-)


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          • Author by MeanMrSpicyMustard (November 30, 2009 1:01 am ET)
               
            Bull. If the lyric was "Daddy's kissing girls," you'd have said nary a thing.
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      • Author by juliajayne1 (November 28, 2009 10:55 am ET)
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        Even while I think this play might be a skosh too sophisticated for a HS production (although let's face it, these kids have probably seen far more provocative fare on the teevee), you need to give some artistic license. I'm guessing the author of the song wrote the lyric with rhyming in mind, other than anything like what you're suggesting.

        And as Pete said, if you familiarize yourself with the play, it's content, and it's eventual outcome, it definately has nothing to do with pedophilia. It actually is a coming together of a family in support of a man who lost his lover to AIDS.
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      • Author by mk3872 (November 28, 2009 11:12 am ET)
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        Why would you say that? Is it a Catholic musical?
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    • Author by neff (November 27, 2009 4:28 pm ET)
         
      Near as I can tell from reading the site, they use scare quotes on "gay" because they regard it as slang, while "homosexual" is the <i>real</i> word.
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    • Author by oscar the grouch (November 27, 2009 5:12 pm ET)
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      Will the same school put on a "Christmas" musical? Or will it have to be a "Holi"day program.
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      • Author by mrhebert74 (November 28, 2009 11:30 am ET)
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        Who gives a red rat's rear?
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      • Author by ForTheLoveOfEllipsis... (November 28, 2009 11:45 am ET)
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        Will the same school put on a "Christmas" musical? Or will it have to be a "Holi"day program.

        Cue the annual "war on Christmas" in 3...2...1...
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      • Author by angels4light (November 30, 2009 9:53 am ET)
           
        Our constitution kinda says they have to make it a Holiday program, since Christianity is the only establishment of religion that gave us Christmas.
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    • Author by rwmacdonald2091 (November 27, 2009 5:59 pm ET)
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      "embrace and even champion many things that would have horrified their parents' generation?"

      Things like this:

      Colored only drinking fountains?

      Segregated schools?

      Segregated armed forces?

      Can't marry out of your race?

      Sweat shops?

      Children working 60 hours a week?

      Unsafe workplaces?

      I could go on and on. I for one really don't want to go back to the "good old days".

      Sweat


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      • Author by A Rational Thought (November 28, 2009 2:52 am ET)
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        "I could go on and on. I for one really don't want to go back to the "good old days"."

        Agreed!

        The thing I would hate most would be being expected to take care of myself and being held personally accountable or responsible for my life.

        I like the new way much better.

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      • Author by angels4light (November 30, 2009 9:56 am ET)
           
        Marry out of your "race" - my favorite of the bunch, since in my opinion they are part of the human race, just with a different skin tone, or eye shape, or hair type or color, or facial structure, etc. In dogs, cats, horses, etc., we call that breed (or mixed breed), not race.
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    • Author by mhr0000 (November 27, 2009 6:03 pm ET)
         
      i actually asked their moderator once. he/she said it's because gay was a word stolen from straight people and they refuse to let them keep it. you know how liberals are conspiring to change the dictionary and all.
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    • Author by mhr0000 (November 27, 2009 6:05 pm ET)
         
      i asked their moderator once, he/she said that it was because homosexuals stole the word and they are strict dictionary fundamentalists that won't let evil liberals succeed in their conspiracy to brainwash every one through funk n wagnails
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    • Author by phredicles (November 27, 2009 6:53 pm ET)
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      When I was in high school I thought all musicals were pretty darn gay.

      I've grown up. I see WND hasn't.
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      • Author by foghornleghorn (November 28, 2009 12:58 pm ET)
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        All the musicals may not have been gay, but most of the guys in my high school who were in the musicals probably were.

        Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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      • Author by TripleD30 (November 29, 2009 11:07 am ET)
           
        Well said phredicles! I was the same way. How many kids in H.S. think all plays are "gay?" probally 80% of all the students, and probally a few in the theater. Ur supposed to grow up and mature with age. Apparently, most conservatives still have the mind of a 10 yr old
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    • Author by tangaroa (November 27, 2009 10:53 pm ET)
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      "Why have Americans come to tolerate, embrace and even champion many things that would have horrified their parents' generation?"

      If WND had left the comment at that sentence I'd have to agree with them. I can just imagine what my late father would have had to say about those obnoxious teabaggers, the people who booed and mocked the couple who lost their daughter-in-law and grandchild, the people who marched around with guns at an Obama appearance, and the daily insane pronouncements of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. Society is indeed tolerating a great deal of gawd-awful behavior.
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      • Author by A Rational Thought (November 28, 2009 2:57 am ET)
           
        So true.

        Why can't the teabaggers take a lesson from the G-20 and WTO protesters and learn how to behave in a non-obnoxious manner?

        Why can't those people who booed and mocked the couple who lost their loved ones take a lesson from the war protesters who picket the funerals of fallen soldiers?

        Why can' those gun-marcher-arounders take a lesson from gun control activists who want to prevent law abiding citizens from having access to guns?

        Why can't Glenn Beck and Rush take a lesson from Olberman and Maddow and understand what fair and balanced, non-biased journalism really is?

        Gawd-awful, I tell you.
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    • Author by princeofwheels (November 28, 2009 1:15 am ET)
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      Next month the headline will read.."Popular Christmas Song Detrimental to Children" Young Carolers sing to the public.."I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" obviously, mom is cheating on dad, she must be a liberal.
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    • Author by tbone (November 28, 2009 10:21 am ET)
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      Why have Americans come to tolerate, embrace and even champion many things that would have horrified their parents' generation?

      Evolution?
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    • Author by fantagor (November 28, 2009 8:05 pm ET)
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      Gay musical? You couldn't possibly get more redundant.

      Randy
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    • Author by MickD (November 29, 2009 9:42 am ET)
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      I love how they put 'gay' in quote marks as if they'll writing the story in 1965.
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    • Author by Boxer1979 (November 29, 2009 12:03 pm ET)
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      Someone get the smelling salts. WorldNetDaily is gonna need them:

      No need. Leave them knocked out.
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