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RudynJack

(1,044 posts) Sat Mar 30, 2013, 07:30 AM Mar 2013

Michelle Shocked doubles down on crazy

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_22895145/singer-michelle-shocked-sits-at-canceled-show?source=most_viewed

SANTA CRUZ, Calif.—Face covered and mouth taped shut, alternative folk and rock singer Michelle Shocked staged a sit in outside a Santa Cruz nightclub that canceled her show because she made an anti-gay slur at a San Francisco club earlier this month.

The tape across her mouth said "Silenced By Fear." When asked a question, Shocked shook her head vigorously and strummed her guitar while seated on the ground outside popular music venue Moe's Alley. She pointed to a sign inviting people to pick up a Sharpie marker and write on the white disposable safety suit she was wearing.

Earlier in the day, she had tweeted her plans: "Moe's in S Cruz tonight ok? Its an art project 'My Summer Vacation' I want your autograph. Bring Sharpie."

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No, Michelle, you're not being silenced by fear. You've lost your tour, and probably your career, through bigotry. You're still free to say whatever the hell you want. But no one is obligated to provide you a stage and a microphone. So welcome to the rest of your life - strumming guitar outside venues that no longer welcome you.

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Michelle Shocked doubles down on crazy (Original Post) RudynJack Mar 2013 OP

K&R idwiyo Mar 2013 #1

Wow, she's really lost it kdmorris Mar 2013 #2

She hasn't been "silenced," it's just that no one is interested LuvNewcastle Mar 2013 #3

WHAT projection. Fear? That would be you, Michelle. You're the only one in fear. JaneyVee Mar 2013 #4

Never hear of Michelle Shocked. nt Lucky Luciano Mar 2013 #5

this is your mind on god. datasuspect Mar 2013 #6

I hope you'll consider deleting this. Ms. Toad Mar 2013 #9

no datasuspect Mar 2013 #12

Big thread already on the DU front page. Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2013 #7

As I wrote in another thread on this same topic... Javaman Mar 2013 #8

At first I thought she was just crazy evangelical sweetloukillbot Mar 2013 #11

hahahahhahahahahahahaha Blue Palasky Mar 2013 #10

"You people are intolerant of my bigotry" TeamPooka Mar 2013 #13

This is how much I like your comment... Shampoobra Mar 2013 #14

Yep, it's fine. You can put a drop shadow on it to make it stand out more though. n/t cui bono Mar 2013 #15

idwiyo

(5,113 posts)

1. K&R

Reply to RudynJack (Original post)

Sat Mar 30, 2013, 07:40 AM

Mar 2013

kdmorris

(5,649 posts)

2. Wow, she's really lost it

Reply to RudynJack (Original post)

Sat Mar 30, 2013, 08:05 AM

Mar 2013

Doubling down, indeed...I thought she was super liberal the couple times we'd seen her in concert...she actually made the Republicans in the audience leave with her support of Obama (In Ft. Pierce, FL)

She has truly lost her way... and her mind.

LuvNewcastle

(16,846 posts)

3. She hasn't been "silenced," it's just that no one is interested

Reply to RudynJack (Original post)

Sat Mar 30, 2013, 08:08 AM

Mar 2013

in what a pathetic loser has to say about anything.

JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)

4. WHAT projection. Fear? That would be you, Michelle. You're the only one in fear.

Reply to RudynJack (Original post)

Sat Mar 30, 2013, 08:20 AM

Mar 2013

Lucky Luciano

(11,257 posts)

5. Never hear of Michelle Shocked. nt

Reply to RudynJack (Original post)

Sat Mar 30, 2013, 09:02 AM

Mar 2013

datasuspect

(26,591 posts)

6. this is your mind on god.

Reply to RudynJack (Original post)

Sat Mar 30, 2013, 09:12 AM

Mar 2013

Ms. Toad

(34,074 posts)

9. I hope you'll consider deleting this.

Reply to datasuspect (Reply #6)

Sat Mar 30, 2013, 10:27 AM

Mar 2013

There are many people whose minds are on God who support gay rights
The faith group I belong to joined in an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in support of striking down DOMA.

The list of signatories on that brief:

Bishops of the Episcopal Church in the States of California, Connecticut, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont, and Washington, and the District of Columbia
The Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Manhattan Conference of the Metropolital New York Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
The Rabbinical Assembly
The Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
The Union for Reform Judaism
Unitarian Universalist Association
United Church of Christ
The United Church of Christ
The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
Affirmation Covenant Network of Presbyterians
Friends for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Concerns
Methodist Federation for Social Action
More Light Presbyterian Welcome
Reconciling Ministries Network
Lutherans for Full Participation
Religious Institute, Inc

Amici curiae (“Amici”) represent a broad range of religious groups, organizations, and leaders who support equal treatment for same-sex couples affecting state-regulated civil marriage. While Amici come from faiths that have approached issues with respect to lesbian and gay people and their families in different ways over the years, they are united in the belief that, in our vastly diverse and pluralistic society, particular religious views or definitions of marriage should not be permitted to influence who the state permits to marry or how legally married couples are treated by the federal government. Such rights must be determined by religiously neutral principles of equal protection under the law.

http://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Amicus-Brief-of-Bishops-of-the-Episcopal-Church-on-Merits-for-Windsor.pdf

The American Jewish Committee filed a separate brief in the California case:

The American Jewish Committee, a national organization of more than 125,000 members and supporters with 26 regional offices, was founded in 1906 to protect the rights of American Jews. AJC has long believed that one of the most effective ways to achieve that goal is to ensure that all citizens enjoy the equal protection of the laws and equal rights of citizenship. These equal rights include the right to marry

http://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Marriage-Cases-AJC-Brief-Final.pdf

datasuspect

(26,591 posts)

12. no

Reply to Ms. Toad (Reply #9)

Sat Mar 30, 2013, 02:02 PM

Mar 2013

i will leave you with some bakunin quotes:

A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.

A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.

Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty - by ceasing to exist.

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,002 posts)

7. Big thread already on the DU front page.

Reply to RudynJack (Original post)

Sat Mar 30, 2013, 09:48 AM

Mar 2013

Javaman

(62,530 posts)

8. As I wrote in another thread on this same topic...

Reply to RudynJack (Original post)

Sat Mar 30, 2013, 09:50 AM

Mar 2013

Meh, this is part of her new, "trying to be relevant" tour.

she fucked up, won't own up to it and now conflates it into a rights issue.

drama, isn't not for breakfast anymore.