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Houston, Texas elects first openly gay mayor

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I don't have a link yet, but I will soon. It has just been announce that Annise Parker has become the first openly gay mayor in Houston history. Quite a surprise, and Parker will be an excellent mayor. As Houston City Controller, she did a superb job.

Just goes to show you that Houstonians are not the stereotyped hillbillies they are made out to be.

I will post a link as soon as I can get one.

So, what does everybody think?

EDIT: This from the New York Times, showing Parker with a slim lead, but the election is now over. Will have a better link as soon as it comes in.

EDIT2: And here it is. Gene Locke, Parker's opponent, has conceded.
 
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Annise Parker just cracked me up big time with her acceptance speech.

She said "Here is the news you have been waiting for. I am proud to be the first..........."

**Long pause**

"...graduate of Rice University to become Mayor of Houston, Texas". :rofl
 
This happened in Texas? I think that just shows that gay issues are all but a sure thing in the near future.
 
This happened in Texas? I think that just shows that gay issues are all but a sure thing in the near future.

Or maybe that people are beginning to not give a **** about something that doesn't define a person :D HOORAY FOR ACTING LIKE GROW'D UPS!
 
Or maybe that people are beginning to not give a **** about something that doesn't define a person :D HOORAY FOR ACTING LIKE GROW'D UPS!

Do you think before you post? If people don't care about gays, then gays have won, and will be able to do things like marry and serve in the military. The whole reason for those two issues is because people do care about gays, and see gay people as "other".
 
Do you think before you post? If people don't care about gays, then gays have won, and will be able to do things like marry and serve in the military. The whole reason for those two issues is because people do care about gays, and see gay people as "other".

And my point is, maybe they don't care about "being gay" when voting for a Mayor. They are realizing that partaking in homosexual activity doesn't make you different. HUZZAH!
 
And my point is, maybe they don't care about "being gay" when voting for a Mayor. They are realizing that partaking in homosexual activity doesn't make you different. HUZZAH!

Now go back and read what I wrote. if being gay does not matter to people, gays win. Reading comprehension FTW!
 
Now go back and read what I wrote. if being gay does not matter to people, gays win. Reading comprehension FTW!

They 'win' an asinine 'conflict' that exists within the boundaries of people's minds? (yes, it has spilled over, sadly, into our political and societal thought processes) Being gay does not make you different, people are coming around to this.
 
Props to Houston.
 
This happened in Texas? I think that just shows that gay issues are all but a sure thing in the near future.

People near Houston are more progressive ... We don't have that many bible thumpers here..... . :) I am happy about that too.



Props to Houston, for voting in a person based on their skills, and not their sexuality.
 
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They 'win' an asinine 'conflict' that exists within the boundaries of people's minds? (yes, it has spilled over, sadly, into our political and societal thought processes) Being gay does not make you different, people are coming around to this.

They win the right to marry and serve in the military if this process continues. Those are real, tangible things.

By the way, if you check the research, gays are different than strait people in the structure of their brains. The question is whether the difference is worthy of defining them different legally.
 
People near Houston are more progressive ... We don't have that many bible thumpers here..... . :) I am happy about that too.



Props to Houston, for voting in a person based on their skills, and not their sexuality.

More progressive than where?
 
They win the right to marry and serve in the military if this process continues. Those are real, tangible things.

By the way, if you check the research, gays are different than strait people in the structure of their brains. The question is whether the difference is worthy of defining them different legally.

Gays are different in the structure of their brains? Interesting. Are they, say, different in the structure of their brains than people with other fetishes or sexual preferences? Or what about mental illnesses or conditions? Not being sarcastic here, would like some info on this. Google is failing me. Essentially, how so are the brains different.
 
What about bisexual brains?
 
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Can someone explain to me what's up with those weird little areas that aren't shaded red (and therefore aren't part of Houston) that are completely surrounded by Houston?
 
Or maybe that people are beginning to not give a **** about something that doesn't define a person :D HOORAY FOR ACTING LIKE GROW'D UPS!

LOL You gotta love when the liberals just don't get it :rofl
 
I have some friends living in Lubbock. Isn't there some place called Cadillac Ranch out there?

It's in Amarillo, about a 100 miles north of Lubbock.
 
I knew it was somewhere in that square-esque part of Tehas. I need to get less nomadic friends. :D

Lubbock is a dry town too. They have a warehouse sized liquor store outside the city limits.
 
Gays are different in the structure of their brains? Interesting. Are they, say, different in the structure of their brains than people with other fetishes or sexual preferences? Or what about mental illnesses or conditions? Not being sarcastic here, would like some info on this. Google is failing me. Essentially, how so are the brains different.

Essentially, gay women have the brain structure of strait men, and gay men have the brain structure of strait women. There is a link to the study in the thread on the NY gay marriage vote.
 
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