No More New York State Retards

As of July 13, 2010, the Great State of New York no longer has an “New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (OMRDD)” — and that is great, historic, news.  The New York State days of officially propagating the “Ugly Laws” are over.

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Up from the Hate Box: The Homo Retard Prom

Every day some sort of hate mail arrives in my Inbox and quickly gets filtered into the “Hate” label and away from my immediate eye. Two of the most popular triggers for an email to be filtered into the “Hate” pile are “homo” and “retard” and in a single message yesterday, both of those cue words landed in the heap.

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