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What's the Matter With Kansas?

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Link: What’s The Matter With Kansas? | MetaFilter.

This past week, the residents of the small town of Atwood, Kansas voted 984 to 113 to deny gay couples any rights for their relationships (including hospital visitation). Now, the man who set up the town’s newspaper website has not only left Atwood, but taken down the website and posted a (mostly) measured response to the town in place of it. Will putting a human face on those being discriminated against ever change the minds of some people, or is one passage in the bible enough for some people to keep justifying their bigoted ways?

The MeFi link doesn’t appear to work. Here’s the google cache of the article.