{"id":1034,"date":"2007-03-02T14:14:02","date_gmt":"2007-03-02T21:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2007\/03\/02\/this-lawsuit-is-so-gay\/"},"modified":"2007-03-04T09:39:31","modified_gmt":"2007-03-04T16:39:31","slug":"this-lawsuit-is-so-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2007\/03\/02\/this-lawsuit-is-so-gay\/","title":{"rendered":"This Lawsuit is so Gay"},"content":{"rendered":"
A friend of mine is a Young Men leader and has invited me to a couple of Xbox LAN parties which exposes me, on a limited level, to the current trends in Mormon teen slang (at least for males in Southern Alberta). The winner for the most used politically incorrect statement is, “That’s so gay”.<\/p>\n
Does this shock you, gentle reader? Should it? Come to think of it, it probably wasn’t a lot different than what my friends said as teens.<\/p>\n
Apparently LDS teens in southern Alberta aren’t the only ones that consider it acceptable to throw the phrase around. Back in 2002, at a California high school, when freshman Rebekah Rice was teased about her LDS upbringing by the question, “Do you have 10 moms”, she quipped back, “That’s so gay”.<\/p>\n
She found herself in the principal’s office with a warning and a notation in her file and as a result of her punishment, her parents have filed suit.<\/p>\n
The MSN news article<\/a> brings up a good question, “When do playground insults used every day all over America cross the line into hate speech that must be stamped out?”<\/p>\n I never mentioned my annoyance at the young men’s continuing use of the phrase, but it did make my skin crawl. I am not the Young Men leader, so I didn’t feel like stepping on anyone’s toes to give them moral guidance, and if no malice is meant by the phrase, does that make it OK?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A friend of mine is a Young Men leader and has invited me to a couple of Xbox LAN parties … Continue reading This Lawsuit is so Gay<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-gay"],"yoast_head":"\n