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Way Past Anger

By Kleinheider Posted on July 25, 2009 at 11:35 am

Gay activist Chris Sanders explains why he hasn’t had much to say about the travails of the “pro-family” Paul Stanley:

You see, we had our fit when the policies that attacked ourselves and those we love were introduced. Anger about policy isn’t a compelling story, though. It takes a 22-year old intern, lurid photographs, and blackmail to generate real (meaning loud but fake) outrage. It’s the kind of outrage that people who used to watch Jerry Springer might enjoy.

So “Should I stay or should I go now?” Stanley asks himself. If he left, I wouldn’t miss him. But another self-righteous busy-body would probably take his place.

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2 Responses to “Way Past Anger”

  1. Donna Locke writes
    July 25th, 2009 3:28 pm

    Would be great to have Republicans — and Democrats — who are for both gay equality and immigration enforcement/demagnetization. Seems we should have, since those positions describe most people I hang out with or run into. In fact, I talked with yet another one in Kroger last night.

  2. Donna Locke writes
    July 25th, 2009 4:25 pm

    Strange. I looked over at the “Recent Comments” list and saw “Donna Locke on Way Past Anger” and wondered if that is so.

    The type of anger I feel has long since rewired my brain and settled in. Sadness and sorrow dominate, but the anger is always there. Yet, in a way I can’t explain, it is not a destructive kind of anger, not destructive to me personally. Rather it is an informing impulsion.

    I have sat in a courtroom and in a parole hearing a few feet from an unremorseful killer who took someone precious from my family, a victim who was almost my twin, we were so close in age — I sat there and felt more sadness, more pain, than anger. But the anger is always there, and the day it is not would be a day I began to worry.

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