State rep’s proposal would exclude gay-themed productions from tax credit
The Associated Press
7:43 AM EST, March 8, 2010
TALLAHASSEE
Movie and TV productions with gay characters could be ineligible for a tax credit being considered in the state House. Current state law grants tax credits on productions considered "family friendly" — with no smoking, sex, nudity or profane language. The proposal by Republican Rep. Stephen Precourt of Orlando would increase the credit and expand the field of disqualified productions as those that include any "exhibit or implied act" of nontraditional family values and gratuitous violence. Precourt says he's not targeting the gay community but that shows with gay characters would not be something he'd want "to invest public dollars in." Florida Together director Ted Howard says "instituting 1950s-style movie censorship does nothing to support real-life families."
It's amazing! They have no problem taking my tax dollars to educate their stupid little, brain washed, spoiled children. None of their churches pay any tax whatsoever, yet they want to inject their toxic religious values into every single facet of my life.
Mark and I cannot get legally married. We cannot legally adopt children. We are treated as much less than equal citizens and scorned by all the holier than thou, right wing-nuts who don't want 'those people' included in any of their tax largess. There are a lot of things I don't want my tax dollars spent on, but I don't get much of a say in that. The fact is that we all pay taxes with the knowledge that the money will be spent on things that don't directly benefit us. What I hate is knowing that I pay taxes on things that I know will be targeted to hurt me directly, because of who I am personally.
This is not 'Politics', this is about me.
And now another news item.
Roy Ashburn: "I am gay"
BY CHRISTINE BEDELL, Californian government editor
| Monday, Mar 08 2010 12:05 PM
State Sen. Roy Ashburn
State Sen. Roy Ashburn said he was feeling "numb" mid-morning Monday after announcing to his constituents that he is gay. Ashburn, R-Bakersfield, came out Monday morning in an interview with talk radio host Inga Barks of AM 1180 KERN. The veteran Kern County lawmaker was similarly tight-lipped about the circumstances surrounding his drunken driving arrest early last Wednesday morning in Sacramento.
A Sacramento television station quoted unnamed sources last week as saying Ashburn had been at a gay night club. The California Highway Patrol reported a man it didn't identify was in the state-owned, black Chevrolet Tahoe Ashburn was driving when he was pulled over.
Ashburn has taken heat in the last week for having been both closeted and a consistent vote against gay-rights related legislation. In the interview, Ashburn repeatedly argued he voted the will of his constituents in his conservative 18th Senate District, which includes much of Bakersfield.
This is a big problem....when a gay man denies rights to others in order to stay in the closet there is little chance that we can move the small-minded and bigotted to do what is right. I especially hate it when a gay politician is outed due to a sex-scandal, that just gives the holier-than-thou more ammunition.
State Sen. Roy Ashburn
This is a big problem....when a gay man denies rights to others in order to stay in the closet there is little chance that we can move the small-minded and bigotted to do what is right. I especially hate it when a gay politician is outed due to a sex-scandal, that just gives the holier-than-thou more ammunition.
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