Showing posts with label Pennsylvania. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pennsylvania. Show all posts

10.15.2009

Everyone, Attack the Atheist! [Movie Transcript]



Jaimie:
This one time I wore a pentacle, which is a star inside a circle, around my neck and two people who worked for my high school asked me if that meant I was Jewish! (laughter) And with derisive tones, as if because it meant I was Jewish, that was a bad thing. I'm like, "You're preparing to discriminate against me for being Jewish because I'm wearing a Wiccan pentacle?!"

And here, as an Atheist, I've felt things too. Every time I'll make a comment about--even trying to get religion on the table to discuss, especially religous affiliation in terms of Anti-Gay behavior/using
The Bible for things--immediately, I'll be attacked for that. Without even saying anything negative, without even getting there, y'know? I wasn't even given the chance to say something negative! (laughter) So definitely, there is religous discrimination here.

9.06.2009

ODD MAN OUT: My Family Doesn't Condone Homosexuality (DeLue)

Ah family. My family is huge and rather estranged. My parents are divorced with my father's side of the family scattered from New York to Louisiana and New Jersey to California. My mother's family is small and living in PA, Montana and Oklahoma. I don't confide much in any of my family and we're not very close.

None of my family is very supportive of the idea of homosexuality. My dad and stepbrother regularly make very childish jokes that I find quite irritating. My mom knows that I recently moved into the Allies house for the second semester, as do my grandparents. Only my grandparents know that I'm the VP of allies now.