"Look, I'm quite happy to say I come out of a tradition, which is several thousand years old, that says marriage is between a man and a woman. And I'm prepared to defend that tradition. And I happen to believe it. And I think I have as much right to my belief as you have to yours." - Newt Gingrich
Please lets not forget that he left his first wife while she was suffering from cancer for his mistress. He married the mistress and started cheating on her. He is now working on the third "Traditional Marriage". Maybe the definition of "Traditional Marriage" should be amended to state that "as long as each marriage is between one man and one woman at a time". I thought being a Serial Adulterer was against the top 10.
You can keep your traditional marriage just let me have mine .
News and Commentary About My Gay World
Thursday, February 3, 2011
SPLC Alert: Anti-Gay Christian Group Lies In Fund-Raising Letter About Hate Crimes
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center's HateWatch column, the Traditional Values Coalition is raising money by claiming that the 2009 passage of the Matthew Shepard Act outlawed the Bible as "hate literature."
The Christian Seniors Association (CSA), a front group of the TVC, recently sent out a fundraising letter claiming that the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act (HCPA) of 2009, which added sexual orientation to the classes protected by federal hate crime legislation, “makes the Bible illegal ‘Hate Literature.’” The letter further claims that “under this law, criticism of homosexuality is deemed discrimination – just like racism,” and ultimately, the intent of the law is to “outlaw Christianity.” Scary stuff. Except that none of it is true.The SPLC points out that the good Christians at the TVC have a long track record of shady fundraising, including one mailed campaign that pretended to be from the federal government.
The CSA – which bills itself as “America’s Christian alternative to the far-Left AARP” – has a history of fundraising letters that prey on unfounded fears and, in some cases, even mimic government documents. In 2006, the CSA mailed out bogus “U.S. Taxpayer Census” forms. The packet included a survey about Social Security and dark warnings about politicians raiding the program for personal gain. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the mailing did not explicitly point out that money donated to the CSA would go directly to the TVC.The head of the CSA is married to Andrea Lafferty, the daughter of Lou Sheldon, who is the founder of the certified hate group, the Traditional Values Coalition. Just keeping that ill-gotten money in the family.
Just So We're Clear....
Award winning blogger Joe Jervis at joemygod.com
Just So We're Clear....
Gay boycott = radical homosexual intimidation.
Christian boycott = taking their business elsewhere.
Everybody got that?
Howard Stern on the word "Fag"
I was never a big fan of Howard Stern but I have listened to him over the years. . My son had me sit and watch his movie a while back and I have to say I was surprised. I have a greater respect for him and what he does because of the film. Thank you Howard for this sound bite. I am sure it will make it around the net and change some minds. Nice picture too.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
SOUTH DAKOTA: Republican Lawmaker Proposes Mandatory Gun Ownership
Read this short piece from jomygod.com then read what I think after.
South Dakota Tea Party-backed GOP state Rep. Hal Wick has proposed a bill that would require every adult in the state to by a gun "sufficient to provide for their personal self-defense."
I understand what Rep. Hal Wick is trying to do and why but I think he has a point.
I have never owned or carried a firearm. I know plenty of people who own guns and have shot a large variety of them. Thanks to my brother John, I have been schooled in safety
and maintain sidearms.
I think every child from K-12 should have several classes each year on safety so when they turn 21, they are required to carry some sort of sidearm.
Why should the bad guys be the ones with the guns? If every person was packing, no one would pull a gun.
I believe there would be a decrease in crime when everyone knows that everyone else has firearms.
I hate to refer to a gun as a weapon because it is only a weapon when it is in the hands of the bad guy. It would even the playing field between us and the bad guy.
There will be some casualties at first. People who did not pay attention, drug users, drunks, and ass holes to name a few.
I figure if we can't get rid of them, then everybody should have one. For most of our history as a nation we all had a gun. A rifle was a tool for hunting, competition, protection from unwanted creatures, and bumps in the night.
The bad guys take the chance you may be armed but the odds are you are not so they have the advantage. Take away the advantage and the odds change dramatically. Now they have to take the chance you don't know how to use it but education will fix that.
I know this sounds like a strange thing for me to say because I am all about compromise and warm fuzzy bunnys but I believe that knowing every person is armed and ready would force people to work out their differences and try harder to keep the peace rather than resort to violence.
South Dakota Tea Party-backed GOP state Rep. Hal Wick has proposed a bill that would require every adult in the state to by a gun "sufficient to provide for their personal self-defense."
The bill, which would take effect Jan. 1, 2012, would give people six months to acquire a firearm after turning 21. The provision does not apply to people who are barred from owning a firearm.Nor does the measure specify what type of firearm. Instead, residents would pick one “suitable to their temperament, physical capacity, and preference.” The measure is known as an act “to provide for an individual mandate to adult citizens to provide for the self defense of themselves and others.”Wick's bill, of course, is meant to mock "Obamacare" as being as equally unconstitutional as mandating gun ownership. Over at Salon, however, Alex Pareene points out that there's nothing unconstitutional about a state requiring one to purchase a gun.
No one expects the bill to become a law, but these guys are just trying to make a point, and that point is that they don't even understand conservative talking points about the individual mandate. The argument against the individual mandate is that the federal government doesn't have the power to compel people to purchase private insurance. It is not about what states can and can't do. That's kind of the fundamental issue, actually. The role and powers of the federal government.
I understand what Rep. Hal Wick is trying to do and why but I think he has a point.
I have never owned or carried a firearm. I know plenty of people who own guns and have shot a large variety of them. Thanks to my brother John, I have been schooled in safety
and maintain sidearms.
I think every child from K-12 should have several classes each year on safety so when they turn 21, they are required to carry some sort of sidearm.
Why should the bad guys be the ones with the guns? If every person was packing, no one would pull a gun.
I believe there would be a decrease in crime when everyone knows that everyone else has firearms.
I hate to refer to a gun as a weapon because it is only a weapon when it is in the hands of the bad guy. It would even the playing field between us and the bad guy.
There will be some casualties at first. People who did not pay attention, drug users, drunks, and ass holes to name a few.
I figure if we can't get rid of them, then everybody should have one. For most of our history as a nation we all had a gun. A rifle was a tool for hunting, competition, protection from unwanted creatures, and bumps in the night.
The bad guys take the chance you may be armed but the odds are you are not so they have the advantage. Take away the advantage and the odds change dramatically. Now they have to take the chance you don't know how to use it but education will fix that.
I know this sounds like a strange thing for me to say because I am all about compromise and warm fuzzy bunnys but I believe that knowing every person is armed and ready would force people to work out their differences and try harder to keep the peace rather than resort to violence.
Check out the ART !!!!
Google has launched Art Project, an interactive site allowing users to wander around the world's great museums and zoom in on masterpieces with great detail.
This is awesome! The zoom is amazing. You can create your own gallery of favorites.
A MUST SEE.
This is awesome! The zoom is amazing. You can create your own gallery of favorites.
A MUST SEE.
Our History
Gays and our struggle are not part of American history and few schools teach anything about it. Our young people want and need to know our history and how we have contributed to the fabric of our nation. These kids have questions and seek answers.
This is the first in a series about our gay history. "Coming Out in the 1950s," including an interview with Phyllis Lyon, who speaks about how she met her wife, Del Martin. Phyllis and Del were the first couple to get married in DC. Their commitment to each other and the gay community makes them icons. Sadly, about a month after they were married, Del passed away but she left her mark on us as a leader and lover of life.
This is the first in a series about our gay history. "Coming Out in the 1950s," including an interview with Phyllis Lyon, who speaks about how she met her wife, Del Martin. Phyllis and Del were the first couple to get married in DC. Their commitment to each other and the gay community makes them icons. Sadly, about a month after they were married, Del passed away but she left her mark on us as a leader and lover of life.
LGBT protest Thursday morning at 'The Family's' National Prayer Breakfast
For those of you who are just becoming aware of "The Family" and the horrors in Uganda, please read and go to the link below for more details about the "The Family" on C street. Scroll down the page at "The Family" link to see and read background stories. Rachel Maddow has good info on these people as well. (click on "Unganda Be Kidding Me" from the menu on the left.) She has been doing stories on the C street house and it's occupants for over 2 years. What they have hidden, done, and how they live will suprise you.
Crosspost from Americanblog
On Thursday, much of official Washington, from the President to Supreme Court Justices to Members of Congress to Cabinet Officials to Ambassadors will flock to the Washington Hilton to attend the National Prayer Breakfast. Sounds relatively innocuous, but it isn't. The event is sponsored by “The Family":
Elected officials need to explain why they're attending an event sponsored by "The Family." We've reached a point where enough people know this event is hosted by haters. Attendees must be aware of the role played by "The Family" in Uganda.
The President shouldn't be there. Nor, should any member of Congress or the Judiciary. But, instead of letting people know this breakfast is hosted by haters, too many of our elected officials scurry to this creepy event to curry favor with the right-wing religious types. It's sickening. By legitimizing "The Family" and its hate agenda, everyone who attends has blood on their hands.
Here's some background via Press Release from GetEQUAL:
Crosspost from Americanblog
On Thursday, much of official Washington, from the President to Supreme Court Justices to Members of Congress to Cabinet Officials to Ambassadors will flock to the Washington Hilton to attend the National Prayer Breakfast. Sounds relatively innocuous, but it isn't. The event is sponsored by “The Family":
This fringe group uses the visibility and support from the National Prayer Breakfast (attended by many politicians and business leaders) and other events to further its world-wide campaign against LGBT individuals. Associates of “The Family” continue to promote a proposed law in Uganda that would imprison for life and murder LGBT people — just for being who they are — while also criminalizing knowing an LGBT person without reporting them.On Thursday morning, GetEQUAL is holding a protest outside of the Hilton: "Breakfast without Bigotry."
“The Family” has invested much in mentoring current and future world leaders, including David Bahati, a Ugandan legislator and author of the Ugandan anti-homosexuality bill (a.k.a. the Ugandan “Kill the Gays” bill).
Elected officials need to explain why they're attending an event sponsored by "The Family." We've reached a point where enough people know this event is hosted by haters. Attendees must be aware of the role played by "The Family" in Uganda.
The President shouldn't be there. Nor, should any member of Congress or the Judiciary. But, instead of letting people know this breakfast is hosted by haters, too many of our elected officials scurry to this creepy event to curry favor with the right-wing religious types. It's sickening. By legitimizing "The Family" and its hate agenda, everyone who attends has blood on their hands.
Here's some background via Press Release from GetEQUAL:
On Thursday, February 3, GetEQUAL -- a national direct action lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization -- in partnership with multiple LGBT and human rights organizations will host a “Breakfast Without Bigotry” protest outside of the National Prayer Breakfast. The National Prayer Breakfast is an annual event, keynoted by the President and attended by many politicians and business leaders, that is organized by a secretive religious group called "The Family" and is tied to the Ugandan lawmaker who authored the “Kill the Gays” bill in the Ugandan legislature.
In front of the Washington Hilton Hotel (1919 Connecticut Avenue, NW) from 6:00am – 8:00am (ET), civil rights activists, faith leaders, human rights organizers, and LGBT advocates will gather during the National Prayer Breakfast to ask that both Democratic and Republican Members of Congress and our President stand against the hatred and bigotry that the National Prayer Breakfast organizers have promoted worldwide. Groups joining GetEQUAL in this event include the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Unitarian Universalist Association, Soulforce, and others. (An updated list will be available at www.getequal.org on the day of the event.)
In the wake of the murder of Ugandan gay activist, David Kato, and the pending deportation of Brenda Namigadde from the UK back to Uganda, organizations across the country are uniting to make sure that “The Family” is exposed for their influence on world affairs, including the annihilation of LGBT people worldwide. "History has proven time and again that the kind of hatred, bigotry, and prejudice promoted by 'The Family' cannot be allowed to go unchallenged. 'The Family' already has blood on its hands, and must be stopped before it can kill again in even greater numbers. Uganda today serves as a lethal preview of what 'The Family' hopes to accomplish worldwide," said Michael Dixon, a lead organizer for GetEQUAL DC.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Iowa House Bans All Gay Unions
This is sad if it goes thru.
By a GOP-led vote of 62-37, today the Iowa House voted to strip all legal recognitions for LGBT couples.
If passed through both legislative bodies in two consecutive General Assemblies, the issue could be on the ballot as soon as 2013. “The proposed amendment devalues families and divides Iowans,” said One Iowa Executive Director Carolyn Jenison. “The Constitution is meant to protect the freedoms and liberties of all Iowans. It is inappropriate to use the political process to single out and deny a group of Iowans of their constitutional protections.” “This goes beyond politics,” said Iowa City resident Katie Imborek. “This is about our family and the ability for Paula and me to care for one another and our two children. At a time when so many Iowans are struggling just to make ends meet, I don’t understand why legislators would choose to take up this issue.”
The only person standing between the national anti-gay groups and fairness is Iowa Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal (D), who has vowed not to allow the issue to come up for a vote. However Democrats maintain only a slim two vote majority in the state Senate and should a vote somehow be forced, it's unclear what the result might be.
PhoboQuotable - Peter Sprigg
This is another mouthpiece for the farrrr right.
We do not make having children a requirement for marriage. Str8 people also use other methods of creating or aquiring babys. We are supported by the American Pedeactric Society as just as good as str8s. We ALREADY have kids and NEED the SAME support of government recognision as str8s now. It is proven that children do better when their parents are married.
How hard is it to understand?
Crosstpost from joemygod.com
"Opposite-sex relationships are the only type capable of producing children through natural intercourse and the only ones assured of providing children with both a mother and a father. Affirming only opposite-sex relationships as 'marriage' thus makes perfect sense. But affirming same-sex relationships as 'marriages' makes no sense. These relationships are incapable of producing children through their sexual union."And while some homosexual couples do raise children (most of whom were conceived in previous heterosexual relationships), such arrangements by definition deprive a child of his or her birthright to be raised by both a biological mother and father. Maryland may choose to tolerate and even protect such unconventional childrearing by allowing adoption by homosexual partners or couples. But it has no obligation to actively affirm and celebrate (through 'marriage') the deliberate creation of permanently motherless or fatherless families." - Family Research Council spokesbigot Peter Sprigg, in an editorial published in today's Baltimore Sun.
RELATED: Today Sprigg couches his tired bigotry in the reich-wing's worn out "won't somebody PLEASE think of the children" meme, which the haters have learned plays better with the increasingly indifferent public. That wasn't the case last year when Sprigg's smarmy mask briefly slipped off in that moment when he called for the United States to criminalize homosexuality and suggested that all gay people should be "exported" out of the country.
ALSO RELATED: Why is the Baltimore Sun granting editorial space to somebody from an SPLC-certified hate group? We look forward to a Stormfront editorial denouncing Black History Month.
MINNESOTA: Lesbian Couple Enters School Party To Cheers From Fellow Students
A lesbian couple who successfully fought to attend their Minnesota high school's Snow Days party as members of the royalty court were greeted with cheers from their classmates as they entered the room last night. Sarah Lindstrom and Desiree Shelton wore matching black suits with pink ties and held hands as they entered the Snow Days Pep Fest at Champlin Park High School in Minneapolis' northwest suburbs. The reaction came as a relief to the couple and school administrators. The district has been stung by criticism of its policies toward homosexuality and the alleged bullying of a gay student who killed himself. "It felt amazing," said Shelton, adding that she was too nervous to notice dozens rise to give her a standing ovation as she walked in with Lindstrom. "I think we were too focused on getting to the stage."After the pair was elected to the court, school officials changed the rules that previously had couples enter the party in boy-girl pairs. The new rules required each student to enter accompanied by a parent or teacher. The school relented after lawsuits from the SPLC and the National Center for Lesbian Rights. Christiantist activists have worked to prevent anti-bullying legislation in the district.
CALIFORNIA: Vandals Rip Out "Equality" From Gay-Friendly Church Banner
Crosspost from joemygod.com
Vandals have literally ripped out equality from the banner of a gay-friendly church in California.
Vandals have literally ripped out equality from the banner of a gay-friendly church in California. Rev. Kathy Cooper-Ledesma, a senior pastor at the church, said church leaders are asking the congregation to pray for those who defaced their banner. "Our belief that hate is not a Christian value remains firm," she said. "And while they can take the 'equality' out of the banner, they can't take it out of our understanding of the Gospel." The iconic church, located on the corner of Franklin and Highland avenues, is over 100 years old, and has been fighting for marriage equality for years, said Chad Darnell, a marketing coordinator for the church. He said this was the second time that a banner was vandalized this month. The first banner was stabbed multiple times and this was the replacement banner.The church has hosted video shoots for the NOH8 campaign. Police are investigating.
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