Thread:Comments:Internet security firm to donate revenue to charity after Anonymous protest of Westboro Baptist Church/Does no one see that WBC is the good guy in this story?/reply (21)

Queer in regards to sexuality still has fairly negative connotations, it has never meant a regection of marriage norm. The use from the LGBT community is an attempt to 'retake the word,' much like some in the african american community are trying to do to nigger. The problen is that the word does not really apply to the use they have, they are literally trying to change the actual meaning.

Anyway, the reference to the marriage norm assumes such a thing exists, which it does. Problematically, it is diffrent for every subculture. So declaring something as opposing the norm assumes that you know what the norm is and that is is a constant. It evolves as the cultures/subcultures evolve, any declaration of a constant simply shows a lack of understanding of society.

And, honestly, why? Why should we deem certain sexual behaviors acceptable or not? What gives the uninvolved the right to say that that act over there is immoral? As long as the rights of the participants are not being violated, unwillingly, why shouldn't they be allowed to do whatever they like?

Oh, and this is not a First Amendment issue, the Bill of Rights declares that, quoting from wiki, "prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances." Anonymous is not congress, they are making no laws. If congress declared it illegal to picket, then the amendment would be relevent. Unless it would fall under the same provision as yelling fire in a theatre, which in this case it would. If they go to these funerals and hold up their signs and scream about how they deserved this to the parents who have just have their children murdered, they will be attacked. Not with words or mockery, their picketing of anime/gaming conventions gives them plenty of that. But physically assaulted and possibly killed. And, honestly, nobody will mourn for them. If someone walks up to a tiger and kicks it in the head you don't feel sorry for them, you feel sorry for the tiger who may be put down.