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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
 Posted - 03/21/2010 : 11:41:01
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Welp. This is news.
James Randi comes out as gay on the For Good Reason podcast hosted by D.J. Grothe for the JREF.
| James Randi comes out as gay. He discusses his life as a closeted gay man, and why he is now at age 81 coming out, and why he hasn’t been publicly open about his sexuality sooner. He describes the possible impact his coming out may have on his tireless work advancing skepticism and critical thinking. He discusses his atheism, and whether it, or his sexual orientation, influences the mission of the James Randi Educational Foundation. He talks about gay rights issues such as marriage equality. He discusses his detractors and what they might make of the news of his homosexuality. And he explores the relevance of gay rights to the skeptical movement. |
Also, from today’s Swift:
How To Say It? by James Randi
| … This declaration of mine was prompted just last week by seeing an excellent film — starring Sean Penn — that told the story of politician Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California. I’m in excellent company: Barney Frank, Oscar Wilde, Stephen Fry, Ellen DeGeneris, Rachel Maddow, are just a few of those who were in my thoughts as I pressed the key that placed this on Swift and before the whole world… |
So there you go. I’m happy that he came out and only slightly worried about the inevitable attacks on his character.
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Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 03/21/2010 : 12:02:26 [Permalink]
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| Well, good for Randi for getting that load off his back. Otherwise, this is of trivial importance, having almost nothing to do with his remarkable life's work. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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the_ignored
SFN Addict
2562 Posts |
Posted - 03/21/2010 : 12:06:35 [Permalink]
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Doesn't matter to me, but boy oh BOY, I can't wait to see the Rapture Ready/Religious right crowd go nuts.
In fact, I bet they're already on it. |
>From: enuffenuff@fastmail.fm
(excerpt follows):
> I'm looking to teach these two bastards a lesson they'll never forget.
> Personal visit by mates of mine. No violence, just a wee little chat.
>
> **** has also committed more crimes than you can count with his
> incitement of hatred against a religion. That law came in about 2007
> much to ****'s ignorance. That is fact and his writing will become well
> know as well as him becoming a publicly known icon of hatred.
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> Good luck with that fuckwit. And Reynold, fucking run, and don't stop.
> Disappear would be best as it was you who dared to attack me on my
> illness knowing nothing of the cause. You disgust me and you are top of
> the list boy. Again, no violence. Just regular reminders of who's there
> and visits to see you are behaving. Nothing scary in reality. But I'd
> still disappear if I was you.
What brought that on? this. Original posting here.
Another example of this guy's lunacy here. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 03/21/2010 : 12:55:14 [Permalink]
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Okay, so....?
Perhaps we are beginning to approach the day when calling someone gay is not an accusation but a simple statement. I too, await the reactions from the usual suspects, many of whom, one speculates, are so far back in the closet that they've found great grandpa's evening gown.
Good for Randi! He's never been accused of being short on courage by anyone with any credibility, and I doubt he ever will be.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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the_ignored
SFN Addict
2562 Posts |
Posted - 03/21/2010 : 17:21:28 [Permalink]
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| Well, one religious right guy has made his views known. |
>From: enuffenuff@fastmail.fm
(excerpt follows):
> I'm looking to teach these two bastards a lesson they'll never forget.
> Personal visit by mates of mine. No violence, just a wee little chat.
>
> **** has also committed more crimes than you can count with his
> incitement of hatred against a religion. That law came in about 2007
> much to ****'s ignorance. That is fact and his writing will become well
> know as well as him becoming a publicly known icon of hatred.
>
> Good luck with that fuckwit. And Reynold, fucking run, and don't stop.
> Disappear would be best as it was you who dared to attack me on my
> illness knowing nothing of the cause. You disgust me and you are top of
> the list boy. Again, no violence. Just regular reminders of who's there
> and visits to see you are behaving. Nothing scary in reality. But I'd
> still disappear if I was you.
What brought that on? this. Original posting here.
Another example of this guy's lunacy here. |
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The Rat
SFN Regular
Canada
1370 Posts |
Posted - 03/21/2010 : 19:08:50 [Permalink]
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| Meh, it might qualify as the worst kept secret in the world. Good on ya Jim,and don't let the bastards use it against you. HA! As if he ever would! |
Bailey's second law; There is no relationship between the three virtues of intelligence, education, and wisdom.
You fiend! Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! Have you ever considered a career in the Church? - The Bishop of Bath and Wells, Blackadder II
Baculum's page: http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=3947338590 |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 03/22/2010 : 01:21:13 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by The Rat
Meh, it might qualify as the worst kept secret in the world. Good on ya Jim,and don't let the bastards use it against you. HA! As if he ever would!
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I was going to say.... that was a secret?
Now that he has gone "public", nothing changes does it? He's still a brilliant man and worthy of the respect he has earned.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 03/22/2010 : 02:14:38 [Permalink]
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| Hell, I didn't know. I'm not in the loop for such inside info. Not that I ever cared enough to ask anyone about a major skeptic's private affairs. The only circumstance in which I'd think sexual orientation is important would be if someone who is gay were persecuting other gays. Like some GOP pols I could mention. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
| Edited by - HalfMooner on 03/22/2010 02:15:14 |
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astropin
SFN Regular
USA
970 Posts |
Posted - 03/22/2010 : 09:38:49 [Permalink]
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| I had no clue either.....but could care less either way. |
I would rather face a cold reality than delude myself with comforting fantasies.
You are free to believe what you want to believe and I am free to ridicule you for it.
Atheism:
The result of an unbiased and rational search for the truth.
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R.Wreck
SFN Regular
USA
1191 Posts |
Posted - 03/22/2010 : 15:17:04 [Permalink]
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The only sane reaction to this announcement is "meh", or something along those lines. It really is trivial.
Some of the comments in the link are really disgusting, though they do reveal the depths of stupidity these morons have sunk to.
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The foundation of morality is to . . . give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibliities of knowledge.
T. H. Huxley
The Cattle Prod of Enlightened Compassion
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James Randi comes out
