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"contents": "<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 14px;\"><em>I must admit, this sounds like a publicity stunt on the part of these two lesbians.</em></span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 14px;\">Oh, no doubt. No doubt. Reputable heterosexual scientists have found that the “publicity-seeking gene” is spliced atop the “lesbian gene” whenever DNA is sequenced. Every lesbian learns early in this life that there are only three surefire routes to achieve the publicity that is their genetic compulsion:</span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 14px;\">1. Be denied access to some constitutional right, and talk about it.</span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 14px;\">2. Buy a blazer and become a wisecrackin’ talk-show host.</span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 14px;\">3. Win Wimbledon.</span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 14px;\"><em>I cannot be a monkey and send my monkey child to a tiger school in order for him to grow up to become a tiger, get my drift.</em></span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 14px;\">Shoot me if I’m wrong, but isn’t this the plot of <em>Life of Pi</em>? I fell asleep when they were on the boat.</span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 14px;\"><em>Regardless of opinions marriage is between a male and female now perhaps we can coin a different phrase for gay people something to the tune of gayridge. </em></span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 14px;\">A “gayridge”, you say? Like “marridge”, but gay? Too gaydorable! And at the gayremony, all the gayple will be so gayppy when the gayriest gayrries the gays!</span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 14px;\"><em>Homosexuals deliberately target Christians to “prove” how homophobic they are.</em></span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 14px;\">I’ve got to hold my hands up here on behalf of the gays and say: guilty! We do. It’s a kind of sport for us, because you’ll only let one of <a href=\"http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/magazine/news/20130429/jason-collins-gay-nba-player/\">us</a> play NBA basketball. We have a sparkly league table back at Gay HQ (Green Point). But you guys gotta make it more of a challenge! I have 7.5 million league points so far and we’re only four months into the year. At this rate we’ll have to change to poker. *wink*</span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 14px;\"><em>You get on my private property and trust me I will bigot you to pieces.</em></span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 14px;\">Thanks for the invite! Friday, six-ish? I’ll bring salted nuts and a grammar textbook.</span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 14px;\"><em>Why dont they now intern respect the rights of others to practice their religious values.</em></span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 14px;\">One issue could be that it’s hard to find good interns these days.</span></p>\r\n<ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 14px;\"><em>I think the 2 mothers were treated pretty harshly, but it would have been even more confusing for the child when the child starts learning Genesis. </em></span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 14px;\">True story, brother! Talking snakes? Apples of all knowledge? Trip-peee!</span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 14px;\"><em>The gay men should marry in a place where they are welcome, and I can’t understand why they make a song and a dance about it.</em></span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 14px;\">Um, a song and a dance is kind of the <em>whole point</em> of a gay wedding.</span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 14px;\"><em>Well done to the </em>[winefarm owners], <em>sodomites want to demand rights which GOD will never give them, only foolish governments and their opposition parties.</em></span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 14px;\">Here’s an idea! You bring the rights that God gave you, I’ll bring the ones the foolish government gave me, and we’ll arm-wrestle in the Constitutional Court!</span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 14px;\"><em>Marriage is the binding together of a man and a woman. If gays want to be “bound together”, then call it something else and have a knotting ceremony or something.</em></span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 14px;\">In-ter-ess-ting. INTERESTING. I’m not sure, but I think I love it. Talk me through it? So the idea is that two gays get tied together – maybe back-to-back? With a stake of wood in the middle? And a circle of people standing around cheering? It’s very… Mississippi-chic.</span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 14px;\"><em>Why get married if you aint gonna have babies?</em></span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 14px;\">This is awkward, but <em>someone’s</em> going to have to ask Nelson and Graca.</span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Diemerskraal Wine Estate has EVERY right to reserve the right of admittance. . . . if they decided to refuse admittance to a Cat Owner's Convention or anything else for that matter</em></span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 14px;\">Just a tip for the future: the guest lists for “lesbian wedding” and “cat owners’ convention” can often be usefully combined to slay two gays with one stone.</span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 14px;\"><em>the reason fags are picked on... is because they are SO melodramatic about EVERYTHING!!!... uptight nancy’s... just walk away and have your stupid wedding in a gay friendly establishment... oh yes.. and to my 2 gay mates... you’re legends...lets grab beer soon!! you don’t behave like these idiots..</em></span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 14px;\">I spoke to your two gay mates<em>. </em>They said they don’t want to grab beer until you calm down, dear.</span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 14px;\"><em>Some people are phobic of gays... they must get over it ... ok hmmmnnnn… Some people are phobic of spiders... try telling a phobic person to get over being scared of spiders...</em></span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 14px;\">Perhaps we could arrange for some sort of “exposure therapy”, where a very small gay person walks over your wrist without harming you.</span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 14px;\"><em>Gambia have come up with a Therapy, if a gay is cornered they put him in a colony of women prisoners and give him a cell without a door and.....</em>[comment ends]</span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 14px;\">Annnnd… they all discuss the urgent need for penal reform, given the high rates of recidivism?</span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 14px;\"><em>Find them a little gay volkstaat, where they can do as they please without harassing normal people.</em></span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 14px;\">Gayzania? Will Homo Affairs issue us passports? <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">DM</span></strong></span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 14px;\">Read more:</span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 14px;\">● Discrimination is illegal. When will we learn this? By Pierre de Vos, in <a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2013-04-30-discrimination-is-illegal-when-will-we-learn-this/\">Daily Maverick</a></span></p>",
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