Freedom is irrelevant. Assimilation is inevitable. Resistance is futile.
Yes, it’s pretty funny that the Family Research Council continues to believe that The Homosexual Agenda is all-powerful and all-consuming—a steamroller of epic proportions, crushing all Christianity out of our culture by our stealthiness
Read the crazy-*ss paranoia of FRC blogger Cynthia Hill, who believes that the success of Victory Fund candidates on June 8th signals armageddon for America.
Americans should take a cold, hard look at the consequences of significant wins by openly lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender (LGBT) candidates in last night’s races. This is the fruition of that community’s methodical efforts to further homosexualize America. Their efforts, combined with this administration’s appointments of key federal positions of at least 101 LGBT aficionados, have largely been under the radar, but could predict critical damage to our rule of law. Think of it – we are electing people who ultimately see the Christian world view as the single, final barrier to their ultimate goal of acceptance and implementation of the homosexual agenda. If and when they dominate the legislatures, those who espouse Biblical principles then become the enemy and will surely be on the wrong end of law-making.
Um, does somebody have some domination fantasies maybe? Anyway, it’s always drama with these people–the “final barrier” to their “ultimate goal” of dominating the legislatures!
Reality check: There are about 7,000 state lawmakers in the U.S., and about 80 of them are openly gay or lesbian or bisexual–about 1% of the total. So chill out, Cynthia Hill. You’ll be fine. For now.
parallels to the black civil rights movement and 2) angry that the LGBT online community isn’t walking in lockstep and happy with the rollout of the Democratic/Obama agenda.
Kaufman takes a crack at several bloggers, movement commentators, including yours truly, for our
alleged
cheering and crowing about Scott “Cosmo” Brown’s win in Massachusetts. I never supported Brown or cheered him on; in fact we ran fundraising links for Coakley. And note Kaufman links to nothing on my blog—he can’t find anything of the sort. From the Huff Post piece, “LGBT Leaders and Spokespeople Undermining the Cause.”
The schadenfreude surrounding Scott Brown’s Massachusetts Senate win is the final confirmation of the current LGBT leadership’s betrayal of 50 years of progressive politics. It began within minutes of Coakley’s concession speech: A volley of “I told you sos” by her haughty Carolina highness, Pam Spaulding. Mock-shock and caustic concern from the dirt-dishers over at Queerty. Dispassionate dispatches from those “just-the-facters” Towleroad, Joe.My.God and the AMERICAblog. And finally—a muddled, misanthropic, self-serving and—obvi!—Obama-bashing brief from David Mixner.
That Brown won should have come of little surprise to these LGBT “leaders” or their devoted fan base. After all, Spaulding, Queerty, Mixner and Co. practically cheer-led the former Cosmo-hunk to this critical triumph. Having officially turned on their president, these netrooters have conceded the greater good for their own shortsighted image-inflating. Well aware of the monumental consequences of a Republican win, Gay-stream media nevertheless continued their Dem-dissing and Obama-bashing with little concern for its election-day implications.
I like that I have earned yet another keen endorsement - “her haughty Carolina highness.” That’s NORTH Carolina highness if you’re nasty…
Anyway I’d love to see where Kaufman could find any pro-Brown posts on here, but why bother when you can generate incoherent pablum like that. What’s even more outlandish is that our criticism of the slow-go, no-go, run-from-timetables strategy of this administration and Congress when it comes to LGBT civil rights, is seen by Kaufman as endangering the entire progressive agenda.
Health care is at risk following the loss of the Democratic Senate majority. Additional Democratic senate seats are vulnerable to attack by an emboldened Republican party. Progressive White House initiatives may now be scaled back as Obama is forced to downsize his populist platforms. And—most crucially—the very LGBT issues these leaders triumph have never been more threatened by political rollbacks and the potential for voter-led regressive propositions. Our very economic, civil and physical liberties are imperiled—and all Spaulding can dish up is an “I told you so”. All Mixner can muster is yet another MLK-mooching missive on HuffPost.
What are we homos, 3%-7% of the population? And how many of us are bloggers of note? What in blazes is Kaufman smoking, because we all needed that to get through the eight years of Bush.
I do love that I’ve been endowed with so much power that I can topple prospects for a Dem-controlled Congress. Might Obama, Rahm and Nancy and Harry have a little to do with the state of things right now, David? The essay is again, so misguided that it’s not hard to imagine that Kaufman is either: 1) on the payroll of the Obama admin (btw, that would be a raw deal) or 2) has extreme hostility issues that he needs to deal with unrelated to the topic at hand.
The one part of the essay that is actually worth addressing because of its offensiveness is Kaufman’s obsession with declaring that the LGBT community, which includes black gays, has no business even discussing the relevance, for instance, of Loving v. Virginia and how it will play a role when marriage equality goes before SCOTUS.
Unrepentantly racist and race-bating on the White side; complicit, silent and homo Tom-like on the Black. Steeped in anger whilst mired by impotence. And shamelessly borrowing from earlier civil rights movements with zero respect or understanding of what they were truly about.
In fact, it’s time to stop with the niceties and simply tell it like it is: Enough with the Loving v. Virginia references and its “Blacks got their rights too” reductivism. End the Mixner-styled “Gay Apartheid” hysterics and endless take-downs of the Black church. It’s boring, it’s tired, it’s obnoxious and it’s offensive.
Wake up, David - the homo-Tom jive is getting stale. Loving v. Virginia is relevant, and the homophobia of the black church is a political impediment that is worthy of discussion. Look no further than the loud, proud ignorance of carpetbagging NOM-tool Bishop Harry Jackson in his quest to stop marriage equality in DC as the black face of white fundamentalist groups like the Family Research Council.
There are mini-me Bishop Jacksons all around the country willing to shill bigotry from the pulpit with the backing of well-funded white evangelical organizations. And way too many of these pastors in the pulpit are not protecting the sanctity of their own marriages.
And as someone who is also a multiple minority, I nearly fell out of my chair laughing at this bold ego stroke:
I am American, mixed-race, Jewish and Gay. I am, you could say, an ultimate minority.
And this means what? That opposing White House strategy—after promises Candidate Obama made, not something that was extracted out of him—and calling out for accountability, is tantamount to revoking your black and progressive cards? Wow, if you want blind followers, file over to the other side of the aisle. Yawn.
You need better aim than that, David. Try again, with a little less mood-enhancement.
Wow—the teabaggers, birthers and know-nothings waited for hours for Bible Spice to sign copies of Going Rogue, and they weren’t happy when her highness basically took the money and ran… (Rumproast):
Teabaggers just aren’t happy about anything these days. I guess the Noblesville, Indiana Going Rogue book signing didn’t go very well yesterday because 300* or so of the 1000 people with wristbands were asked not to tread on Sarah Palin and then she tried to make a getaway with Baby Trig and several duffel bags full of cash but wingnuts have learned to protest about everything these days, so they were having none of it. This is the best thing you will see about horrible, horrible Sarah Palin on the internets all day and until the end of time.
Even better, the “fans left behind” left behind not-so-kind messages on the former VP nom’s Facebook page.
Lu Paletta Part I: No Sarah Palin wristband yesterday. Got a bookplate w/fake signature; was told it was as good as a band. Part of overflows that was next in line; group had real camaraderie in cold/rain for >15 hours. Folks from all over with 1 goal, see someone who speaks for us. The bus arrived, a crowd of 500 outside, 1000s inside. A roaring welcome, Gov Palin & Trig, a few remarks, few pictures and on to Barnes&Nobles;.
Lu Paletta Part II: 30 mins after being let in, told leave or be escorted out. Showed bookplates; told they had no value. B&N blamed cutoff on Palins who had to go to Ft Wayne. It is 3 hours away, a next day signing; she couldn’t stay for fans who waited in rain/cold all day? B&N ticked me off; returned all books. Governor: You have the people’s ear; you are scaring Washington. But, please acknowledge people that wait for hours to see you. We are reaching out to you and need you to reach back.
Gary Conner Sarah,
You angered and disappointed over 300 families in Noblesville tonight. I attended Mike Huckabee’s book signing yesterday. He had pre-signed book in case he would be unable to sign all the books for people who qualified. His books would be exchange one for one with any one whose book he could not sign
First, you should work to make this right. Second, you need to make sure that it never happens again!
Jordan Harris I just spent 9 hours of my day, $40 of my hard earned money on two of your books, and took the whole day off work to watch you jump on a bus and throw a half-heated wave to the crowd you were avoiding.
I have never felt so disrespected. How can you claim that you are different? You aren’t. You are just as selfish as everyone else in Washington. It breaks my heart. I thought you might be the answer to the turmoil this country is under but you aren’t. You just slapped hundreds of Hoosiers in the face. The hard working type of people that you claim to represent.
You say in your book that you chose to sleep well over eating well. At the end of the day I know that you don’t care that you wasted the whole day of some 20 year old college student who lives on their own. I understand that all that matters is that I spent my money on two of your books. I’m sure your eating well. You certainly have no reason to be sleeping well.
And there are many more comments collected over at Rumproast., including one man who said “We gave up our entire workday, stayed in the cold. My kids were crying,” said one man. “They went home with my wife. She was out here in the freezing cold all day. I feel like I don’t want to support Sarah.”
When you’re on the road (dealing with big ups and downs on life’s roller coaster), this kind of hilarious flaming horsecrap is entertaining.
If only I had the juice (and cash) of sick, bloviating, untethered-from-reality-and-the truth Glenn Beck! The New York Times Opinionator Tobin Harshaw compares my call to shut down the gAyTM to the radical, racist, bigoted diatribes of Glenn Beck. His reasoning?
”We know that hard-line conservatives are riled up. But so are hard-left Democrats and their gay allies.”
“Let’s just say that a little leaked email proves LGBTs are seen as the easy gAyTM to the DNC that can be manipulated, ignored, and pickpocketed as mob rule strips us of civil rights without a finger being lifted to help at the eleventh hour,” adds the influential gay blogger Pam Spaulding of Pam’s House Blend. “It’s worse - stripping resources at the time of need.”
She offers a call to arms along the lines of MoveOn’s:
I don’t know about you, but at the very least, it’s a peek at the kind the two-timing that goes on in national politics with constituencies they find “troublesome” or a perceived “liability” (save the $$$, of course). The difference is that the peek inside makes you realize how easily you’ve been had …
Shut the gAyTM down; only give directly to candidates and organizations you believe are truly working in your best interest. Not a penny to the DNC; it’s the only leverage you have as an average citizen. The big donors in our community have to take a stand on this kind of nonsense, otherwise, they are enabling this kind of treatment of our community. It’s party-building at our expense each and every time …
Pam, you may not like to hear it, but that last line could just as easily have come from Glenn Beck. Just goes to show: it may be entertaining to watch your enemies rip themselves apart, but you might just want to keep an eye on the guy to your left.
WTF? It’s time to lay down the crack pipe, Tobin. Let’s see, how do you equate a call for spending one’s donation dollars wisely and directly to a candidate that supports your issues to, say, riling up teabaggers to show up in DC waving racist/Nazi signs with the President’s image, calling for a revolution, stoking the fears and anxieties of the working class who are losing their jobs and homes because of the massive f*ckups of the last eight years by the man who took off in the helicopter this January as the crowds cheered “Na na na na…hey hey hey…goodbye.” Please.
At least the folks in the comments had a good time shredding the comparison. A snippet below the fold.
The new GOP.com launched today. Within the past twelve hours, they’ve managed to post all the admin info on the site and launch Michael Steele’s blog, which is not-at-all-insultingly-named “What Up?”, because Michael Steele is apparently your black neighbor on an 80s sitcom.
You too can land a radio show gig by sending pervy IMs to young men who are serving their country as Congressional Pages.
Mark Foley, the Florida Republican who left Congress in 2006 amid accusations he sent lurid e-mails to male House pages, is credited with helping to sour the electorate’s view of the Grand Old Party in a year when Nancy Pelosi and the Dems swept into power.
In the years since, he’s been in real estate investment, contemplating a return to politics.
Tonight, he makes his debut as a radio talk show host. “Inside the Mind of Mark Foley,” billed by the station as a program that “will expose the inner workings of Washington, D.C.,” airs at 6 p.m. EST on WSVU-AM (960) out of North Palm Beach, Fla. It can also be heard at www.seaviewam960.com.
Is this the kind of inner workings that Mark will share with listeners?
Maf54: You in your boxers, too?
Teen: Nope, just got home. I had a college interview that went late.
Maf54: Well, strip down and get relaxed.
Another message:
Maf54: What ya wearing?
Teen: tshirt and shorts
Maf54: Love to slip them off of you.
And this one:
Maf54: Do I make you a little horny?
Teen: A little.
Maf54: Cool.
The language gets much more graphic, too graphic to be broadcast, and at one point the congressman appears to be describing Internet sex.
Watch felon Tom DeLay get in touch with “his feminine side” (his reference) during his debut on Dancing With the Stars. See him learn how to shake his ass so that he can adequately do the Cha-Cha to “Wild Thing.” Once in touch with his frisky ass-motion, he is apparently so proud of himself that he turns and shakes his thang at one of the judges. Hmmm.
ROTFLOL. In the you can’t make this sh*t up category, Pink Visual owner Allison Vivas received a congratulatory fax from Newt Gingrich’s American Solutions for Winning the Future (ASWF). What was unusual about this was that Pink Visual’s business—honored for stimulating the economy—is a porno DVD superstore. Think Progress obtained a copy of the knee-slapping missive.
Newt would like to arrange a private dinner with you at the historic Capitol Hill Club on the evening of October 7, 2009 in Washington. You’ll dine privately with Newt at this exclusive venue and he’ll take the occasion to present you with your well deserved award and have your photo taken together.
This tremendous honor is a testament to your success in building your business and recognition of the risks you take to create jobs and stimulate the economy. As an award winner, you’ll be on the ground floor as Newt and his Council begin the work to turn this country around. … Newt is looking forward to hearing your ideas on getting the economy moving again and getting your feedback on his plans over dinner.
Heh heh heh. The crown prince of adultery will certainly be listening carefully. Oh wait—maybe not—when ASWF was alerted of the line of business Pink Visuals was in it retracted the awardsaying it inadvertently sent it to Vivas. She (and anyone with a synapse firing) called BS on that front.
Allison was disappointed to receive a call this morning from an ASWF representative stating that the fax had been sent to her ‘inadvertently,’” Boyer told AVN.com. “We’re not entirely clear on how one ‘inadvertently’ sends a fax to the right person at the correct fax number, so our sense is that this is damage control on the part of a group that is having second thoughts about either recognizing the excellent work of a porn company entrepreneur in light of their own conservative political and social orientation, or having second thoughts about their promotional methodology and communication protocols.”
Surf over and read more at TP, including Newt’s commitment in 1995 to restrict access to pornography.
The steam must be blasting out of Sarah Palin’s ears right about now as Levi Johnston, the father of her grandchild, sat down with Vanity Fair and described what it was like to live with the Jerry Springer guests Palin family for two months after the election. Johnston, who was clearly exploited by the failed GOP Veep candidate, says that parading him around the stage in Minnesota as the soon to be married proud papa was not the diva of the right wing’s Plan A to handle the pregnancy issue.
Protect thy keyboards…
Sarah told me she had a great idea: we would keep it a secret—nobody would know that Bristol was pregnant. She told me that once Bristol had the baby she and Todd would adopt him. That way, she said, Bristol and I didn’t have to worry about anything. Sarah kept mentioning this plan. She was nagging—she wouldn’t give up. She would say, “So, are you gonna let me adopt him?” We both kept telling her we were definitely not going to let her adopt the baby. I think Sarah wanted to make Bristol look good, and she didn’t want people to know that her 17-year-old daughter was going to have a kid.
These spine-free Dems need to take a page from the Massachusetts Congressman and lay the verbal beat-down on these beyond-know-nothings and fearmongers. At a Barney Frank town hall meeting in Dartmouth, MA, this exchange occurred:
Wingnut: Why do you continue to support a Nazi policy, as Obama has expressly supported this policy, why are you supporting it?
The Honorable Barney Frank: When you ask me that question, I am gonna revert to my ethnic heritage, and answer your question with a question. On what planet do you spend most of your time?...You want me to answer the question? As you stand there with a picture of the president defaced to look like Hitler, and compare the effort to increase health care to the Nazis, my answer to you is as I said before, it is a tribute to the 1st Amendment that this kind of vile, contemptible nonsense is so freely propagated. Ma’am, trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table - I have no interest in doing it.
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You know some conservative think tank will buy a buttload of copies to give away to pump up the sales, but I seriously doubt the teabaggers are going to line up to read this ghostwritten POS. WingNutDaily‘s fawning coverage reads like a parody, however we did get an idea of Joe’s relationship with the Man Upstairs and politics.
Asked if he has plans to run for public office, he replied, “I hope not. You know, I talked to God about that and he was like, ‘No.’”
Andy Cobb turns the actual writings of homophobic right-wing bleater Glenn Beck into a hilarious, if gut-churning video. It’s safe to say that the Faux News talking head has some…serious issues.
No really, this is Glenn Beck’s actual written-down, published work…Beck justifies it as part of a larger lesson about “teh gey iz bad,” (I’m paraphrasing here), but cm’on. Plenty of people are homophobes without also being sister-licking weird about it.
Even if you dont think of Beck’s “Casper the friendly hatemonger” pasty egg-shaped form engaging in this stuff, its enough to haunt your dreams. It’s the rare work of literature where labeling the author a “motherfucker” would be a kind of lateral move—but he’s a rare talent.
DRILL BABY DRILL, THE SERIES: From contraception to homosexuality, Conservatives seem to think they know how folks should behave in the bedroom.
Well, what do they say about sex? How do they, y’know, talk sexy? The answers may surprise you. They may also make you throw up in your mouth a little bit.
There is a preview at the end for the next video in Andy’s series…a look at Billo’s proclivities.
Gavin provides a handy reference to help the Activist Right keep the Activist Left straight according to relative perniciousness. Notable if only because Jesse and Wanda Sykes appear under the same heading, as God intended.
There is so much stupid in the world; all I can do is hope to bring it to light. Today, we shall analyze three works of dumb, each with its own particular je ne sais quoi that makes it worthy of mockery and ridicule.
A general conservative blogger method of reading statutes, laws or anything relating to how things actually work will generally fall prey to two undeniable canons of non-comprehension:
1.) They cannot read.
2.) This is compensated for by picking out the few trigger words which spark babbling outrage and then copying only those words in an effort to feel like they actually can read, like a high schooler who only read two pages of the English assignment but tries to make everything revolve around the one phrase he remembers if he gets called on.
Case in point: Cassy Fiano. In Texas, HB 3318 is being offered as a method of sentence mitigation for mothers convicted of murdering their infant children while suffering from post-partum depression.
Please note what I just said. Because it’s what the bill says. Then note what Fiano says.
Of course, leave it to a rabid pro-abortionist like Jessica Ferrar to see otherwise. She’s a Texas state representative, recently honored by Planned Parenthood and the proud owner of a 100% NARAL approval rating. She’s currently trying to force through a bill that would make Catholic hospitals be required to dispense the morning-after pill. Her latest bright idea? To decriminalize infanticide.
But…what? Huh? The bill explicitly says that “the offense is a state jail felony”. There is a criminal sentence. Is there a meaning of “decriminalize” that includes prison time for a criminal offense? Did I go to sleep and wake up in Ari Fleischer’s head?
Are you sick to your stomach yet?
Yes, but not for the reasons you think.
Right now, murder of a child under the age of six in the state if Texas is capital murder. And this evil woman, Jessica Ferrar (who, by the way, calls herself a Catholic — yeah right), wants the punishment for murdering an infant to be little more than a slap on the wrist. And why? Because if the child is under a year old, they’re worth less than a child aged 1 - 6?
No, because some women provably suffer from often crippling depression brought on by birth in the first year following said birth.
Incidentally, the way that sentence will be perceived by Fiano? “Cripple women following birth. Obama’s depression makes gay babies.”
You knew it was only a matter of time before another thing that Maggie Gallagher’s pious National Organization for Marriage touches blows up in its face. Nude photos of Miss Pageant-Paid-for-Jugs-for-Jesus have surfaced and the devoted “Christian” is forced to explain herself. Of course she’s just a victim, right? Even a bible-beating homophobic gal’s got to make a living. (PopCrunch):
Alicia Jacobs, Entertainment Reporter at KVBC in Las Vegas, has seen all six of the photos and says some are much more revealing. Alicia believes the flicks may have been taken after Carrie’s pageant-financed breast augmentation about six weeks ago.
Hmmm…These explosive pictures could be devastating for Miss California, whose anti-gay marriage campaign recently resulted in a partnership with the National Organization for Marriage and helped to make her increasingly popular with right-wing conservatives.
“I am a Christian, and I am a model. Models pose for pictures, including lingerie and swimwear photos. Recently photos taken of me as a teenager have been released surreptitiously to a tabloid Web site that openly mocks me for my Christian faith. I am not perfect, and I will never claim to be. But these attacks on me and others who speak in defense of traditional marriage are intolerant and offensive. While we may not agree on every issue, we should show respect for others’ opinions and not try to silence them through vicious and mean-spirited attacks.”
Mr. Homo-Toms
The schadenfreude surrounding Scott Brown’s Massachusetts Senate win is the final confirmation of the current LGBT leadership’s betrayal of 50 years of progressive politics. It began within minutes of Coakley’s concession speech: A volley of “
”We know that hard-line conservatives are riled up. But so are hard-left Democrats and their gay allies.”
Maf54: You in your boxers, too?
ROTFLOL. In the you can’t make this sh*t up category, Pink Visual owner Allison Vivas received a congratulatory fax from Newt Gingrich’s American Solutions for Winning the Future (ASWF). What was unusual about this was that Pink Visual’s business—honored for stimulating the economy—is a porno DVD superstore. 
The steam must be blasting out of Sarah Palin’s ears right about now as Levi Johnston, the father of her grandchild, sat down with 
Honest to god, how soon will “
You knew it was only a matter of time before another thing that Maggie Gallagher’s pious National Organization for Marriage touches blows up in its face.