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Re: Michelle Shocked shocks fans with anti-gay rant
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2013, 07:48:31 pm »
Nice to see everyone walked out on her.
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Re: Michelle Shocked shocks fans with anti-gay rant
« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2013, 07:51:47 pm »
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Another Twitter user posted that Shocked “said she lives in fear that the world will be destroyed if gays are allowed to marry.”

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Re: Michelle Shocked shocks fans with anti-gay rant
« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2013, 07:54:20 pm »
So...does this mean the Westboro Baptist Church doesn't need to produce its own homophobic song parodies?

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Re: Michelle Shocked shocks fans with anti-gay rant
« Reply #4 on: March 18, 2013, 08:44:24 pm »
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Michelle Shocked, an alt-folk singer who had success in the 1980s and ’90s...

Looks like she's kinda become irrelevant.  That could be why the name didn't ring an immediate bell.  Meh.  I have to admit that she must have had some sort of fanbase.  Maybe it wasn't my thing, but I guess she still did gigs, at least.

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In that same 2008 interview she confessed to some “inconvenient truths,” like how the Bible teaches homosexuality is immoral. “But homosexuality is no more less a sin than fornication,” she said. “And I’m a fornicator with a capital F.”

Well, she may be a bit of a hypocrite, but at least she's an honest one.

You know, I'm not gay (more "bi-curious," which some would argue is more perverse).  If I was I doubt I'd care what some 80's/90's has-been says about my sexuality.
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Re: Michelle Shocked shocks fans with anti-gay rant
« Reply #5 on: March 19, 2013, 07:24:48 am »
Am I the only one thinking, "Who?"?

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Re: Michelle Shocked shocks fans with anti-gay rant
« Reply #6 on: March 19, 2013, 07:25:32 am »
Am I the only one thinking, "Who?"?
Nope.

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Re: Michelle Shocked shocks fans with anti-gay rant
« Reply #7 on: March 19, 2013, 10:37:53 am »
Definitely not. I read the title and immediately thought it meant Michelle Obama, and I wondered why she was railing against Teh Gays (TM).
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Re: Michelle Shocked shocks fans with anti-gay rant
« Reply #8 on: March 19, 2013, 10:54:49 am »
Am I the only one thinking, "Who?"?
Nope, I have no clue who this nutjob is. I guess she started out relatively sane and then went full-Mustaine on everyone.

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Re: Michelle Shocked shocks fans with anti-gay rant
« Reply #9 on: March 19, 2013, 11:34:36 am »
Am I the only one thinking, "Who?"?
Nope, I have no clue who this nutjob is. I guess she started out relatively sane and then went full-Mustaine on everyone.

Exactly (holds back a sniffle). I was a big fan of Shocked back in my pacifist anarchist days in the eighties. She was part of the southern indie rad folk/rock activist scene. She was actually very cool and completely NOT this zombie brain washed for jayzuz fucking pod person. I am SHOCKED, really, Michelle....:(

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Have a listen to her before she went bug-fuck xtian. If you like Neko Case, you'll probably like Shocked's first album in the link...
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Re: Michelle Shocked shocks fans with anti-gay rant
« Reply #10 on: March 19, 2013, 11:38:13 am »
Am I the only one thinking, "Who?"?
Nope, I have no clue who this nutjob is. I guess she started out relatively sane and then went full-Mustaine on everyone.

Well, that is a problem when people do become "born-again", they tend to go off the deep end.
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Re: Michelle Shocked shocks fans with anti-gay rant
« Reply #11 on: March 19, 2013, 12:18:19 pm »
Am I the only one thinking, "Who?"?
Nope, I have no clue who this nutjob is. I guess she started out relatively sane and then went full-Mustaine on everyone.

Exactly (holds back a sniffle). I was a big fan of Shocked back in my pacifist anarchist days in the eighties. She was part of the southern indie rad folk/rock activist scene. She was actually very cool and completely NOT this zombie brain washed for jayzuz fucking pod person. I am SHOCKED, really, Michelle....:(
Reminds me of Jello Biafra's "Invasion of the Mind Snatchers":
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Re: Michelle Shocked shocks fans with anti-gay rant
« Reply #12 on: March 20, 2013, 11:49:35 pm »
Definitely not. I read the title and immediately thought it meant Michelle Obama, and I wondered why she was railing against Teh Gays (TM).

That's exactly what I thought as well and was wondering why Michelle Obama suddenly turned anti-gay.
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Re: Michelle Shocked shocks fans with anti-gay rant
« Reply #13 on: March 20, 2013, 07:48:45 pm »
Definitely not. I read the title and immediately thought it meant Michelle Obama, and I wondered why she was railing against Teh Gays (TM).

I saw something about this on FB and had the same thought.
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Re: Michelle Shocked shocks fans with anti-gay rant
« Reply #14 on: March 22, 2013, 12:08:01 pm »
I think the reason this is getting attention (despite Ms. Shocked being basically a forgotten has-been) is because how unlikely it sounds. This gal has a serious rep as a "Progressive/Lefty/Anarchist/Bi or Lesbian/Anti-Establishment/Fight The Power" sort of person with a prominent LGBT fan-base.

It's like seeing Pat Robertson becoming a Wiccan & supporting the most flamboyant Gay Pride parades while marrying a Feminist Athiest Black Woman & becoming a Communist.