dawnowar on Tumblr, replied to my post: Do you agree with Obama's War on Religion? Rick Perry does so much he invented it. >_and report it for hate speech against gay people. thats a choice in the dropdown.
Ooo, EXCellent point! Thanks to the inadvertently brilliant guy on Perry's campaign who is in charge of his YouTube page, the copy from the TV spot is in the caption to the video--so we can easily see the part that could probably be called bigoted:
...there's something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can't openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school.
Well, I don't know if I'd call that "hate" speech, so much as I'd call it "dislike" speech. I mean, it's not like he's saying he hates gays. He is saying having gays in the military is as bad as prayer not being allowed in school.
Of course, YouTube defines hate speech as:
speech which attacks or demeans a group based on race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, and sexual orientation/gender identity
Hm, is this TV spot attacking or demeaning gays in the military? I'm not sure. It certainly does single them out as being as "bad" as no prayer in schools.
Well, here's the link to his video again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PAJNntoRgA
It's up to you: go flag it for hate speech or just dislike it like I did. Either way, we all need to remember that when you're the President of the United States of America, you're the President of the gays of America, too.
