"Homosexuals stole the rainbow from God!!"

Princess Alice

For as often as you see this said, I'm surprised we haven't seen some fundie publish a faux cease-and-desist letter for the news media to inexplicably dignify with coverage

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Cue people linking me to examples of this already having happened

glennmagusharvey

fox news wants peta to be angry if they get mercilessly skewered into oblivion

DYRE

By this reasoning, isn't using any symbol for any purpose stealing it from God?

Obā-san

please let god have it back

Obā-san

let the demiurge devour it and crawl back into the cave from which it came

Tatterhood

The Gays Stole The Rainbow From The Leprechauns And Now They're Embezzling All The Gold

Calica

Besides God is obviously gay

glennmagusharvey

Calica said:

Besides God is obviously gay

i don't think God is very happy with the current state of the world, so i can't say that he's gay

Fossilmaiden

glennmagusharvey said:

Calica said:

Besides God is obviously gay

i don't think God is very happy with the current state of the world, so i can't say that he's gay

Now look what you've done. You've killed it. Murdered it dead. Didn't anyone ever teach you that murder is wrong? :|

glennmagusharvey

Reminder that Larry Craig is not happy.

Bee

I...don't think I've actually ever heard this.  Is this an Ohio thing?

Imipolex G

no Pennsylvanians say it too

glennmagusharvey

probably a conservative christian's generic throwaway insult sort of thing

vtk

It's that like "Lenny Bruce is not okay"?

Alduin

Fossilmaiden said:

glennmagusharvey said:

Calica said:

Besides God is obviously gay

i don't think God is very happy with the current state of the world, so i can't say that he's gay

Now look what you've done. You've killed it. Murdered it dead. Didn't anyone ever teach you that murder is wrong? :|

The Gay Science (1882)

Yarrun XIX

Like Prometheus stealing fire from the heavens for the Greeks

Lunate

Christians stole the Jesus fish from Neptune.

glennmagusharvey

Yarrun XIX said:

Like Prometheus stealing fire from the heavens for the Greeks

Prometheus is a messianic figure.

Aliroz

I really must admit, though, it is a little obnoxious how the rainbow is so associated with one thing.

It makes it a bit awkward to use it for anything else.

Maybe I'm just biased because I liked to doodle rainbows in middle school, and people gave me crap for, "supporting the gay agenda", when 11-year-old me just wanted to draw some nice color sequences.

glennmagusharvey

Aliroz said:

I really must admit, though, it is a little obnoxious how the rainbow is so associated with one thing.

It makes it a bit awkward to use it for anything else.

Maybe I'm just biased because I liked to doodle rainbows in middle school, and people gave me crap for, "supporting the gay agenda", when 11-year-old me just wanted to draw some nice color sequences.

Agreed, though I blame this problem om those people who do this associating, for being insufficiently open-minded and skeptical of their own presumptions.

Klinotaxis

Aliroz said:

I really must admit, though, it is a little obnoxious how the rainbow is so associated with one thing.

It makes it a bit awkward to use it for anything else.

mario kart is a good thing to be associated with though

glennmagusharvey

also i personally associate a rainbow with...

well, a rainbow.  and rain, and sunlight, and optics.

also a nice photo of my college campus that features a rainbow.

i mean, i _know_ that the rainbow flag is used as a symbol for the LGBTQ rights movement, but that's not the first thing I think of, and if that is the first thing you (general "you", not anyone here specifically) think of and that bothers you, then you should spend more time thinking about optics and prisms and weather since that's where the thing originally comes from.

Fossilmaiden

Klinotaxis said:

Aliroz said:

I really must admit, though, it is a little obnoxious how the rainbow is so associated with one thing.

It makes it a bit awkward to use it for anything else.

mario kart is a good thing to be associated with though

Counterpoint: Rainbow Road is garbage.

Obā-san

rainbow road is fine i have no clue why people have an issue with falling off the edge

glennmagusharvey

rainbow road is only awesome when you CAN fall off the ledge

mk64 rainbow road is boring because you can't

see, it's gotta be both gloriously pretty and awesome-looking but also the most difficult track in the game; that's what makes it worth it

Imipolex G

the gayest karting track

Fossilmaiden

it's a bad track, bront

Lunate

glennmagusharvey said:

rainbow road is only awesome when you CAN fall off the ledge

mk64 rainbow road is boring because you can't

see, it's gotta be both gloriously pretty and awesome-looking but also the most difficult track in the game; that's what makes it worth it

On the other hand:

Princess Alice

I approve of this derail

Also, if I'm a queer Avenue, does that make me a Rainbow Road?

Bee

I totally didn't realize until watching that video that your guy in SNES kart would actually look around as you passed someone.

Also you could definitely fall off the track in 64 Rainbow Road.  There was a huge skip you could do by jumping off the first big downhill and landing halfway through the track, but you had to aim it really well because it was a LONG drop.

Klinotaxis

it wasn't as common tho.

Calica

rainbow road, it's where you go, when you die

Fossilmaiden

There was a British Nintendo magazine that mentioned that song, which had a line that went something like "about going to Rainbow Road when you die (presumably of boredom if you're playing the N64 version)".

glennmagusharvey

Imipolex G said:

the gayest karting track

hooooooly SHIT.

and that's not even using bowser or dkjr!

Imipolex G

I always chose Koopa Troopa back in the day.

Hell, I chose Koopa Troopa just last week.

glennmagusharvey

Imipolex G said:

I always chose Koopa Troopa back in the day.

Hell, I chose Koopa Troopa just last week.

I did that for normal races but then I could barely get anywhere in 100cc special cup.

I used Bowser for my personal record times in time trial.

Bee

glennmagusharvey said:

Imipolex G said:

the gayest karting track

hooooooly SHIT.

and that's not even using bowser or dkjr!

Honestly I doubt they could have pulled that off.  That hinged entirely around keeping full throttle around those hairpins.

Imipolex G

I beat the 150cc Special Cup using Koopa Troopa back in the day.

I am not making this up

vtk

glennmagusharvey said:

 you should spend more time thinking about optics and prisms and weather since that's where the thing originally comes from.

This is a sentiment I can totally get behind.
Yesterday my sister told me she thought she drove under a rainbow once. I was like, rainbows do not work that way.