NEWS: Which Creeps Run Your State?

POLITICS: Which Creeps Run Your State?

National Elections are up and coming in November. They will be here before you know it. While doing some research online about local issues I continuously ran across an organization known as Citizens for Community Values (CCV) based out of Cincinnati, Ohio.

I finally decided to research them a little bit, considering they are a major force in Ohio politics. I started browsing their site and reading up a little bit on what they consider "Community Values".

It made me want to stab my eyes out.

I scrolled across the Issues menu selection and Homosexuality appeared, with another side menu that said Where do we stand?

I began reading and was pretty much just started rubbing my eyes when I got to this part:

"Destructive Behavior" was the first thing that caught my attention. I am not quite clear on how being Homosexual is considered destructive behavior. Being with the person you love and desire to spend time with never really seemed destructive to me.

But hey! They said this:

"Trapped in this behavior"? So they don't have problems with homosexuals, they just don't want you to be homosexual and will help you do whatever you need to do to repress your homosexuality in so much that you gain a stomach ulcer, go bald, grow old and unhappy, join a right wing organization and then enforce ignorant policies on the rest of the citizens of your state. They have to get members somehow, right?

After reading (and chuckling) a little more about Homosexuals being an outright threat to the decency of my life, and realizing that they could have summarized the whole page with one sentence that read, "God hates fags!", I headed back to the Issues tab and found how billboards are harmful to our children. According to CCV, billboards should not:

I agree with that one! (it was one of very few things I agreed with on this site)

No penis on our billboards please. Errr, uhm "male genitalia". We definitely don't want our children knowing that men have penises. Actually teaching them about this would be too much, rather than talk to our kids, we should just remove all ads for men's underwear.

Tits and ass are just unacceptable. While I have yet to see a billboard with a giant vulva, giant boobs, or a giant ass on it yet, it's probably because I am doing better things than running around checking to make sure that the billboards are free of tits and ass.

Mostly, because even as a single-father, I just don't care. If my daughter saw a scantily clad man or woman advertising something, and she asked me about it, I would actually talk to my daughter and explain it to her, not hide her from it.

Ha! Wait. WTF? Uhm. Beyond a couple low-talent hack DJ's in our area that might attempt something like this, I am pretty sure we don't need to worry about seeing people do this on a billboard. The majority of the billboards around here are owned by bigger corporations, that just wouldn't want the hassle from people beyond CCV.

To tell you the honest truth, there are so many billboards around here that I have for the most part, zoned them out. I don't really even pay attention to them. So technically, I could drive past a billboard with two people defecating on each other and not even know it. Actually, probably not, because the majority of the billboards around here are for McDonald's anyways.

Then I finally found the Holy Grail on their site. Pornography. Seeing that SuicideGirls could be deemed soft-core porn or art, depending on who you talk to, this caught my eye:

Damn you SG for sending me straight into Satan's lair! I knew this subscription was a bad idea, now I am going to have to suffer in the after-life burning in Hell while being poked and prodded with a giant pitch-fork by an over-sized red guy in a loin cloth who has hooves and horns.

CCV prides themselves on their site for cleaning up the Cincinnati area. They speak proudly of having removed strip-clubs from that area, and how they helped get stricter stripper legislation passed in all of Ohio. They have even gone as far as launching a "Dancer Hotline" in which you can call to help an exotic dancer leave the industry that is supposedly killing them.

They're patting themselves on the back for keeping gambling and casinos out of Ohio. Pennsylvania, Kentucky, West Virginia, Michigan, Indiana, all the states that border Ohio have casinos. But not in Ohio!

Thank you CCV for protecting the decency of my life by preventing companies that could potentially supply thousands of jobs for Ohioans from coming here. Thank you for saving me from that evil money that is spent at casinos, and driving it out of Ohio to the surrounding states. Thank you for protecting me from the deviant homosexuals and strippers. I feel much safer.

While CCV continues to battle these issues and congratulate themselves on removing jobs from Ohio, wonderful blogs and articles like this one continue to come out.

So while Ohioans are attempting to find work, the CCV does everything it can to prevent jobs from coming into the state, and are destroying jobs that are still in Ohio.

I strongly suggest that if the CCV wants to improve things, that they start within their own community before preaching to me and pushing legislation on how I should live my life.

What's the point of all this? While states like Oregon, which elected an openly gay mayor and California which legalized gay marriage take huge strides forward with organizations that promote self awareness, states like Ohio continue to take huge strides backwards with organizations that continue to oppress people due to their lifestyle choices.

CCV strongly backed Mike Huckabee, but since he dropped from the race, it seems they will continue to support Republican candidate John McCain, while attempting to get him to change his policies and views in order to keep the organization backing him

It is almost like extortion.

The 2008 Election will be historical, regardless of the winner. I just hope that the religious fanatics, racists, sexists and otherwise ignorant people don't make up the majority of the United States. Regardless of who people vote for, I hope that people base their decision on issues that matter rather than issues that don't, like race, gender or sexual orientation, I am just not sure it's possible.

I hope this helps explain Ohio a bit better politically. While it's no excuse, it may help you scratch your head less when trying to figure out what the population of the state is thinking.

DevilsReject went through 12 years of Catholic School and no longer believes in religion or God, but is highly amused by Raptor-Jesus

The creeps that run my state don't hide their evilness under clicks on websites. They print them on t-shirts.

Are there any groups out there anywhere with some combination of the terms "citizens" or "values" in their names that aren't evil assholes?

I got one extra we had kindergarten. Can you believe 4 years perfect attendance in high school? 13 years of that have turned me into a born again atheist. Looking now from outside in, it's unbelievable how hypocritical these people are.

You pretty much answered the question for me

I happen to think that most Christians are wonderful, kind, loving people who exemplify the purity that the Lord Christ Jesus represented during his time on this Earth.

Is that shit for real or is that a joke?

Wonder what he suggests I do with my wife, who's a goth mother?

It is 100 percent real.

Aren't they wonderful?

I love you.

The guy is %100 repressed homosexual. Guaranteed.*

*The above statement is not meant to be degrading to homosexuals, just assholish fucktards who try to cope with their own hypocrisies by lowering everyone else in order to raise themselves up. I could care less what combination of penis, vagina, anus, mouth and any other body part combination you prefer for your sexual pleasure. Guarantee void in West Virginia.

Whoops!

Oooh, you're in twubble.

Pwomise to spank me weely hard?

phew! i was reading that site and it actually scared the shit out of me that someone would spend all that much effort on it.

I got kicked out of my catholic high school junior year. pre-school through sophomore year were at a catholic school, junior and senior were at a public school.

Doh!

I was a total goody two-shoes. Altar boy, choir, minister. They had me hook line and sinker. Till I left home for college and was actually able to think for myself for the first time.

I was skeptical when entering high school and we were forced to take religion classes. I continuously asked questions that disturbed my religion teachers, they weren't offensive, just questioning the religion and they couldn't come up with a suitable answer other than "because we said so".

Finally the vice principle called me into his office after my mom had written a note about me being late that was false. He blatantly called my mother a sinner and a liar to my face to which i responded with a threat of physical violence.

They frown on that

Parts of this article kind of made me feel like beating my head into a concrete wall...and those were the high points...with everything that is going wrong here- and no doubt in Ohio too...there is an entire group policing fucking BILLBOARDS!!!!
I'm pretty offended by the billboard here that has around 10 Cops staring down at you that says something about how if you speed you are are going to get caught...and I know one of them!!! ( and she is showing the fact she has breasts in the picture...by the bulge in her uniform)
Has this entire country gone insane?
Is Ohio damn near as bad as Iowa?( at least we still have strippers!!!! )
And they may be the only people making good money right now....

we still have strippers, but if the club or is open between midnight and 6 am they have to tape their nipples (i think).

that way their nipple is covered and i don't actually get aroused? who the fuck knows.

My parents are super Christian but they're the bizarre kind of Christian that nobody hears of anymore: the tolerant kind. Growing up they were sort of like, "Hey OSO, here's the Bible. We like it. We hope you like it too. But if you don't, that's cool. But we like it."

those exist?!? they're like bigfoot and Call of Cthulhu characters that last for more than two game sessions: i'm sceptical.

I'm for serious. They are real. I talked to one of them this morning.

My folks are the same. Me, the wife and kids are actually going on vacation with them next week (first one in 4 years!!! YEAH!!)

They know I'm and atheist, and that's how I'm raising my children. They don't have any problem with it. Actually, I think I'm winning them over. They are going to be retiring and moving away from all their friends and their church, so we'll see how that plays out then.

Even when I was a believer going to Catholic church, it was never like the religious insanity that you see today. We believed in (and were taught in Catholic school) evolution, scientific method, the true age of the universe. I really don't understand this fundamentalism and the reversal of progress it is bringing with it.

That's what I remember too. Granted, I was a lot younger when I was going to church and catechism on a weekly basis, so maybe I don't remember all of the craziness, but I think at one point we were relatively "normal"...maybe?

I am noticing that every single person I run into who is like "yeah...I used to practice, but I am an atheist/agnostic now" used to be Catholic. Maybe I just don't know many people from other religions, but it makes me wonder if the Catholic church has gone coo-coo bananas and is forcing out their members.

I kind of wish some of these nutjob organizations would realize that the large majority of grown people do not need or want them to be our moral compasses. All they do is annoy the piss out of me when I see yet another group of intolerant assholes running around and dipping their fingers into the way my government is run.

Christian hippies turned me on to Crowley.