Massachusetts Catholic mother inundated with gays - Stacy Trasancos' missive on gay families
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A Massachusetts stay-at-home mother of seven wrote a very plaintive missive on the internet this week.
In a blog post on her website she outlined how the disgusting spectacle of gay families enjoying a nice day out a local public pool has left her terrified to the point she is now afraid to leave her own home.
'I find myself unable to even leave the house anymore without worrying about what in tarnation we are going to encounter,' wrote Stacy Trasancos. 'We are responsible citizens. We live by the rules, we pay our taxes, we take care of our things. I'm supposed to be able to influence what goes on in my community, and as a voter I do exercise that right. But I'm outnumbered. I can't even go to normal places without having to sit silently and tolerate immorality. We all know what would happen if I asked two men or two women to stop displaying, right in front of me and my children, that they live in sodomy.'
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Since she's a mother of seven small children she admits she doesn't get out much, other than to Mass and the public pool. But now, thanks to those immoral sodomites, even that's been spoiled.
And what were they up to, these infernal sodomites? Why, two men who had brought their kids to the park were 'effeminately rubbing elbows' she gasps. Another gay couple had hugged in a way that was 'clearly not friendly.'
How too, too terribly terribly utterly utterly utter.
Reading this, at first I thought it must be satire. I mean who on earth still says tarnation, for example? And, if gay people make you feel - that - uncomfortable, why would you live in the state of Massachusetts at all (one of the most avowedly progressive in the nation)?
The level of her hostility and terror raised alarm bells. It seems so over the top. In my own life, after all, I've witnessed all manner of heterosexual displays involving physical affection (and a good deal more, frankly) since I was a boy. I've emerged pretty much unscathed. So why can't Stacy Trasancos?
Understandably, her rant has gone viral now. And in the main people have remained respectful, whilst informing her she's a massive heel and trying to illustrate to her how close her fundamentalism is to that of the Taliban's.
Some nutters have even posted some truly hateful, threatening words (but they're a small minority of the respondents she has received and she has, she says, recorded their IP's). It's unlikely, given the tone of the debate, that either side will cede an inch.
But the point, for me, is that this unusual lady finds gay people actively unpleasant simply for being gay. That's before she even speaks to or comes to know them. Their very existence offends her, in fact.
That's an unsettling level of bigotry. She'd prefer they didn't exist rather than give her offense. Her final solution is to stay home and lock the door.
As for Massachusetts, in the past it took plenty of stick for abolishing slavery and for integrating its schools and for permitting gay marriage - but it also led the way, and the country followed. I think it'll survive her displeasure.
Stacy Trasancos can lock her doors and raise her children to dislike and judge gay people, but she can't legislate them out of existence because their existence offends her faith.
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eiriamach | Sep 17, 2011, 11:51 PM EDT
Jethrobodine, you will find accurate statistics at the dot-gov sites, like the bureau of crime statistics. Your stats are wildly off the mark. But that happens when you get your "info" from the white supremacists. While you're looking up rape statistics by race of victim and rapist, be sure to note also that 99% of all rapes are committed by men, and 90% of rape victims are women. Shall we blame federal legislation for that huge statistical imbalance? An African-American is twice as likely to be the victim of a violent crime than a white person, and in case you haven't noticed, the entire nation has been royally screwed by white white-collar criminals who brought down the economy from their cozy enclaves on Wall St., not Washington DC.
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Pyroteknik | Sep 17, 2011, 11:07 PM EDT
Seriously, her opinions are not unlike white racists that thought the world was falling apart because black people were eventually allowed various freedoms. Lock your doors and shut out the real world if you must, but it is you and your children that will suffer in the end. Love is love, and more understanding, not less, is what we require in this world.
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Colliegirl | Sep 17, 2011, 04:05 PM EDT
Why is this article, which has nothing to do with Ireland or Irish Americans, on this website? Oh wait, I understand, the woman is Catholic and "homophobic", two things that will attract the ire of the writer. And she had the gall to express an opinion that a public display of affection by gays makes her uncomfortable and is confusing to her children. She thinks that sexual activity outside of marriage between a man and a woman is sinful. That's a pretty basic Christian teaching about a man and woman forsaking all others and cleaving only to each other. But hey, how dare she expect Americans to accept Christian values or practice common courtesy in public places? At least she should keep her unwanted Catholic opinions to herself and remember that freedom of speech only applies to those who agree with the writer of this article.
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eiriamach | Sep 15, 2011, 09:07 PM EDT
JamieLM, I'm guessing you're a psychologist or have lived in an area with sexual exhibitionists as I did for some years. I once chatted with a police officer about the couple who liked to do it in the beautiful swimming pool at my apartment complex. He told me to call the police next time and they'd try to get there before the couple had finished because if the police did not witness the act, they could do nothing about the 'public indecency.' I never did call because I couldn't figure out what to tell them: "Get here fast! They're doing it in the pool again"? That sounds prurient to me. It's a difficult situation, no easy solutions, though I found out that a flashlight shining in their faces will break up a noisy late-night jacuzzi orgy.
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eiriamach | Sep 15, 2011, 08:41 PM EDT
Oldwildrover, writing equality into law is not "catering to" a minority. We are changing laws (removing discrimination) for a small percentage of the population because we've learned the hard way the lessons of 'majority rule.' For example, the majority in southern states wanted slavery and protected it by law, then segregation and 'Jim Crow,' anti-'miscegenation,' exclusion of women from the professions and juries, prohibition, Japanese internment, and much more. Such unequal treatment was imposed by the will of the majority on an unwilling minority, and problems (like the organized crime that came with prohibition), protests, sometimes war followed until we changed such laws to guarantee the rights of the minorities. (Women were a minority with regard to power before we had the right to vote.) Federal guarantees of equal treatment under the law cannot be over-ridden by 'states rights.' We just don't go there any longer. Sometimes it's called 'the tyranny of the majority.' That's why. @helmut365, no prob, com boxes sometimes look like chaos, and truth to tell, I used a few harsh words.
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helmet365 | Sep 15, 2011, 06:35 PM EDT
erinmach, opology, my post was meant for mimimcd.
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eiriamach | Sep 15, 2011, 05:03 PM EDT
Helmut, what "outburst" do you have in mind? Are you sure you're looking at my posts? If my words are an "outburst," there's some far-out flip outs going on elsewhere below.
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helmet365 | Sep 15, 2011, 02:47 AM EDT
eiriamach, Your outburst shows how threatened you are after reading a post,one thing you do not have is peace of mind. Consider this,if horses had a God it would be a horse. That is why humans with their limited intelligence think God is a man.Do you understand now, God has not manifested himself or herself to anyone on earth.Its a man made thing. Think about it, And believe it and you will find peace of mind.P.S. good news,there is no judgement or hell. Hope this helps.
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mimimcd | Sep 14, 2011, 10:51 PM EDT
Once again Irish(?) Central you've proven yourselves to be a totally biased liberal, anti-catholic, anti-truth so-called paper. Freedom of expression - as long as we express the views you approve of. Have the smsm to email me with what your decision was based on, but i won't hold my breath. Is there any recourse to be taken against such communistic tactics....i'll be in contact, in a legal way/forum using your tactics against you.
thanks for the challenge
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JethroBodine | Sep 14, 2011, 09:00 PM EDT
Revulsion is the natural reaction of the sexually normal to displays of homosexuality; your libtard boilerplate response can never change that.
Personally, I despise all forms of blatant public affection: it's nothing more than showing off. If you just can't keep your hands & your lips off each other, get a room - or a closet.
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mimimcd | Sep 14, 2011, 08:05 PM EDT
hey cahir,
why did you and your team knock my e-mail out - again? Afraid of people finally getting the facts about the corruption in The Church and how it is deliberately taken billions of souls to hell...laughing all the while? it's become so very obvious that you're part of the infiltration of The Church and Ireland. You've allowed people on this site to call for the death of traditional minded catholics and their church without blinking an eye, enjoying every minute of it, but not factual info? Many thanks to proving how terminally cancerous one of the many 'unbiased' entities really is.
eiri, holla, etc. i'll keep trying to respond...but i don't expect i'll be allowed.
FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE, NO EXPLANATION IS NECESSARY..
FOR THOSE WHO DON'T, NO EXPLANATION IS POSSIBLE!
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krissangel | Sep 14, 2011, 01:38 PM EDT
Yikes! I'm shocked at the vitriol herein...from both the woman in MA and the responders. jesus taught us to love one another, love our neighbors as ourselves, and to love our enemies. I don't think he'd be swayed by either side's hatred - he'd be disappointed. Tolerance, love, acceptance, everyone.
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eiriamach | Sep 14, 2011, 01:07 PM EDT
About 30 years ago, a minister told me about a long conversation he had with his son in a park. The two men were sitting on a bench. At one point, when the father spontaneously reached over and hugged his son, they had to endure bigoted comments yelled at them by passersby who assumed the two men were gay. Now the course of history has changed, and men-- heterosexual or homosexual-- as well as women--heterosexual or homosexual-- can follow a spontaneous impulse to rub elbows or hug in public. Fine! There's much less suffering for all now. But mimimcd thinks that having to endure the sight of two men showing affection for each in public is tantamount to being fed to the lions in the Roman Coliseum, being martyred for Christian beliefs. Wow! And mimimcd thinks "the good suffering at the hands of evil being the one, best thing that overcomes the evil itself." Yes, that minister worked for equality for LGBTs and helped overcome the evil of homophobia, while mimimcd's Church still fights against human rights. I do not think that minister "will live eternally with the flames of hate enveloping" him. Where there was hatred, he sowed love; where there was darkness, he brought light. Too bad he could not have known mimimcd. He might have saved mimimcd from the Christian-devouring lions of today that populate the imaginations of haters who think they're martyrs.
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conorsmom | Sep 14, 2011, 01:05 PM EDT
Holy ____! mimimcd are you a little angry! If you can place you anger/hatred aside long enough to think back to the fact that what He taught us, you will realize that He wants us to love one another..... You might want to go to Church and not listen to the priests but READ what Jesus was actually saying! Please, have a peace filled day... Oh, and more importantly get help!!!
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