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Dallas-based radio host Kellie Raspberry is under fire today after coming out against marriage equality on the popular nationally-syndicated morning show, Kidd Kraddick. Details follow.
During a discussion of this week's Prop 8 ruling, Kidd Kraddick co-host Kellie Raspberry launched into a homophobic tirade.
It all started with Kellie's thoughts on NOH8 participants. "I will tell you this: I think the majority of people with those fabulous NOH8 pictures with the tape over their mouths and airbrushed to perfection don't even know what they're taking a picture for. They just want a real pretty picture of themselves. I bet half of them couldn't even tell you what NOH8 means. You have never heard of one of these people stand up for marriage but they've got a smoking hot picture."
Radio Host Kellie Raspberry In The Hot Seat After Coming Out Against Marriage Equality On Air
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"I'm not gay, I've got a lot of friends that are gay. We don't talk about it much. But I don't really ... the way I was raised, marriage is between a man and a woman. We're all coming from different places with it. It's really an issue. I still fall on the side that marriage is between a man and a woman. If you really love someone can you marry anyone? There's a fine line. A lot of people look at marriage as a religious thing, so we don't ever really talk about it because it's dividing and complicated. And I love my gay friends, though."
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#1 - Mon Feb 13, 2012 3:38 PM EST
That ol' "I have a lot of friends who are _________" argument sways me EVERY time I hear it.
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Marriage is a legal contract and a religious contract... let anyone have the right to draw up a legal contract with any consent worthy adult they want and shuddap.... That is capitalism at it's finest, no?
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A lot of people look at marriage as a religious thing
I.e., that's what "a lot of people" think. What is fact is that it's a government contract. That's why the government issues "marriage licenses" and "marriage certificates." If couples want to have a religious ceremony, they can, but it's neither necessary nor sufficient for a legal marriage. In other words, your religious slant on the issue is noted, but irrelevant.
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Soph, THANK YOU for sharing this! As a long time listener of the show I was shocked that she came out against SSM. I mean, I always knew she was very conservative. I just never thought she would be against marriage equality for a group that she claims to support. I was wrong.
Now I'm convinced that her "support" was in the form a paid hosting gigs.
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#2 - Mon Feb 13, 2012 3:42 PM ESTI've got a lot of friends that are gay.
Seriously? The "some of my best friends" line?
[shakes head]
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#3 - Mon Feb 13, 2012 8:09 PM ESTSadly some of her gay friends enjoy oppression because they are sticking up for her.
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Or it's fun being a token? Or maybe she's their dom after dark?
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Kellie Rasberry courted a minority group, appearing at LGBT events, benefiting from that public exposure. And then she goes and blithely, and rather inarticulately, dismisses the rights of that group. Her remarks, disparaging marriage equality, have reinforced to her listeners that the rights of LGBT citizens do not matter. She has spread social poison, and is too busy playing the victim to care.
- 4 votes
#4 - Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:58 AM ESTNot only did she tip her hand on marriage equality, but she denigrated a whole group of activists from the NOH8 camapign by impugning their character, insulting their intelligence and questioning their motives.
And it shocks her that people are cheesed at her. Poor thing.
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Kellie Rasberry does have a right to her opinion, as much as she has a right to expect counter-opinions. Just as I think any assertion that her detractors are "hating hypocrites" is an over-simplified generalization which ignores the very real feelings of betrayal, of being used as props, that many in the gay community share after hearing her very hurtful remarks. To be called a shallow, airbrushed and uninformed diva - as she essentially referred to the NOH8 campaigns models - does not make me feel like I am valued as a person, as a woman, and certainly not as a lesbian wanting equal rights.
I think what we saw here was a lesson in how not to use a big microphone. In my opinion, she didn't just reveal herself for being duplicitous, she said hurtful things about very real people she didn't know. Well, she got the favor returned - in spades. And, if the sting of the whirlwind she reaped has only a deleterious effect on her opinion about gay marriage, as many seemed "concerned," then she likely wasn't ever really listening to begin with.
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