Monday - September 18, 2006
Grumpy Old Men
The question on everyone’s minds nowadays is: what happens to homosexual men when they grow old? Well, maybe it’s not on your mind (mine either) but the Washington Post took a look at “The Village” in New York and was surprised to find that the “gay” men have turned into grumpy old men who frown on the younger homosexual crowd’s behavior.
Yes, it seems the homosexual crowd in Greenwich Village are now rich, retired and mad as hell at the young whippersnappers wandering the streets at night raising hell. I’m sure an often heard phrase there is “back in my day we were better behaved” ... followed by “dude, can you spare me a dime bag of weed - I’m low?”. Some things never change ....
Race, Class and Sex Breed Contempt in Greenwich Village
A Neighborhood Grown Older and Wealthier Is Tired of Today’s Rowdies
NEW YORK (WASHINGTON POST) - Monday, September 18, 2006
A pair of shapely legs in low-slung jeans strut through Greenwich Village, sequined rainbows stitched onto the back pockets jiggling from side to side. A lanky teenage girl with red-dyed braids, wearing baggy red basketball shorts, gazes at the rainbows and yells, “I like your jeans.” The rainbow-wearing girl yells back: “I like you .”
The girls trade flirtatious smiles and rejoin the nightly parade along Christopher Street, past Village Pleasure with its inventory of gay erotic toys, past a church, and a gay bar with an older black and Latino clientele, and another frequented by white gays. Just beyond is Badlands, once a notorious leather bar and now a triple-X video shop.
They stroll toward the Hudson River and the action on Pier 45, where the gay teenage crowd practices vogue moves (runway poses immortalized by Madonna), flirt and gossip. But at 1 a.m., when the pier shuts down, the crowd that looks and oozes fabulous chic strolls back up Christopher Street. Their screaming and music drives the locals nuts.
“The young people . . . are raising holy hell,” said David Poster, 68, president of the Christopher Street Patrol, a neighborhood watch group. “We pray for rain and snow.”
Forget the image of the Village as gay haven; forget the gay liberation movement that rose from its cobblestone streets. The scene has moved north to Chelsea, and what’s left in the Village is a gay neighborhood gone older, wealthier and stodgier. Some in the area of $4 million townhouses and lofts says it is under siege by gay kids of color who bring loud talk, drug dealing and prostitution.
It is a conflict, thick with issues of race and class within the gay community, that is now coming to a head. “They didn’t want black faces on the street,” said Bob Kohler, who is white, explaining the outcry against the pier crowd. Kohler, a longtime Village resident and former business owner on the strip, took part in Gay Liberation Front that organized some of the first gay rights protests.
He remembers the methadone-clinic houseboat docked at the piers. And the junkies who shot the real deal through their veins and nodded out on brownstone stoops. That generation now visits the gay senior center where Kohler regularly gets into heated arguments about the teenagers. “Those kids . . . get them off the street,” says Kohler, feigning the whining voices of seniors at the center. “They come here and mess up the Village. They steal.” Then he adds wearily, “Meanwhile, these old men are trying to score for pot.”
- More silliness in the Village at WAPO ...
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Permalink • Friday - August 04, 2006
Defense: Children can give consent
Phillip Distasio is a sick man. Very, very sick. But I have no sympathy for the admitted pedophile. Article is here.
Ohio Man Claims Right To Have Sex With Boys
Admitted Pedophile Says Children Can ConsentPOSTED: 6:52 am EDT August 3, 2006
CLEVELAND—It was probably not a defense the court had heard before.
A suburban Cleveland man accused of sexually assaulting nine disabled boys told a judge Wednesday that his apartment was a religious sanctuary where smoking marijuana and having sex with children are sacred rituals protected by civil rights laws.
The admitted pedophile offered a surprising defense Wednesday to 74 charges of rape, drugs and pandering obscenity to minors.
I’m already surprised at the religious sanctuary defense.
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Permalink • Wednesday - July 26, 2006
Amerika the Gay
For me to say anything would be redundant.
Our precious kids in the new world of sexual fascism
Linda Harvey
(The following is excerpted from a speech given to the Illinois Family Institute)
What were you like at age thirteen? At age eleven? At age seven?
Every one of us should stop for a second and remember. Put yourself, if you can, in your own shoes at the tender ages of 7, 11, and 13. What was your perception of the world? Of your future? Of right and wrong?
Then, if you can, imagine this. At age thirteen, you are told to make a decision that will dramatically change the entire course of your life. You are not advised to wait, but you are urged to rush forward. You are told by those whom you trust to start down a road that is blaringly adult. It’s a road that has grave health risks, but the grown-ups don’t tell you about this. It’s a road that may horrify your parents, but the whisperers say, “Go ahead-- your parents don’t understand.” It’s a road that has been rejected and condemned by most cultures and most civilizations since the dawn of creation, but these adults beckon you on, oblivious to the disaster that awaits you.
Walking this road will very likely shorten or cripple your life, and it’s one that will guarantee you will never parent a child produced by you and the person you love.
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Permalink • Friday - July 21, 2006
Most Ridiculous Item Of The Day
Get real! You have to be kidding me!
Jerusalem Gay Parade Called Off Due To War
(Y-Net News) - July 21, 2006
Open House announces cancellation of parade, which was scheduled for August 10, but says other gay pride events will take place as planned. ‘We are determined to fight for our right to march in Jerusalem this year,’ organization’s director says
The Open House Organization announced Friday that the World Pride parade, which was scheduled to take place on August 10 in Jerusalem, has been called off due to the war in Lebanon.
However, the other gay pride events will take place as scheduled, the group said in a statement. “This is not the time for celebrations,” Open House said. “The parade, which requires extensive security, will not take place due to the situation.” The organization said the parade will be held with the improvement of the security situation in the country.
“The gay pride events will take place as scheduled in a format that is sensitive to the situation and as part of the continued democratic struggle for a free Jerusalem,” the statement said. “These events, along with the conventions, exhibits, performances and film festival will all take place as planned.”Open House Director Hagai Elad said, “we are determined to fight for our right to march in Jerusalem this year; we will not succumb to the violent incitement against our community and against all the proponents of democracy in Jerusalem.”
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Permalink • Monday - July 10, 2006
Married Without Children
Rick McKee - The Augusta Chronicle (GA)
As you may know by now, the high courts in both New York and Georgia produced a major setback to the homosexual quest for “gay marriage” laws in those states. Both courts said that marriage is between a man and a woman. Period. Always has been, always will be. To me that is just common sense and the only real surprise is that the liberals in New York feel the same way as the conservatives in Georgia. Now there’s an odd couple.
I really think it’s time to put this silliness behind us. If homosexuals want to live together, I could care less. What they do is their business. I think it’s abnormal but that’s just my opinion. However you may stand on the issue of homosexuality, it’s important to remember that what’s going on here has nothing to do with discrimination or a violation of anyone’s “civil rights” - which is how the Left tries to paint it. Obfuscation by any other name would still smell as bad.
This becomes evident when you actually listen to the homosexual arguments for “gay marriage”. The editorial below from the Los Angeles Times (where else?) is a case in point. I came across it while researching this story and, try as hard as I can, I just cannot seem to come to grips with the thinking behind the author’s obvious anger.
How on Earth can anyone refer to rulings like this as moving “in the opposite direction of history and justice”, “adding insult to injury”, “odiously racist” and “challenge to heterosexual monopoly”? That last one makes my brain hurt. Even worse is the last paragraph where racism is brought into the argument in a comparison to this decision that defies reason. Homosexuals playing the race card? You have to be really desparate to prove your point when you get that far out in left field.
The final argument below about “someday we’ll look back on the anti-gay-marriage hysteria with the same revulsion” is almost too much to bear. What our writer out in California fails to realize is that it’s not “hysteria” ... it’s hysterical. The attitude and arguments presented below are merely laughable, to say the least.
Setback For Marriage Justice
The highest courts of New York and Georgia last week moved in the opposite direction of history and justice on same-sex marriage. By a 4-2 vote, the New York Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the state Legislature’s limitation of marriage to heterosexual couples was a “long-accepted restriction” not based solely on “ignorance and prejudice against homosexuals.”
Adding insult to injury, an opinion signed by three of the judges in the majority ruled that it was rational for the Legislature to ban same-sex marriage in the interests of protecting children. Noting that “an important function of marriage is to create more stability and permanence in the relationships that cause children to be born,” Judge Robert S. Smith wrote that the state could “offer an inducement — in the form of marriage and its attendant benefits — to opposite-sex couples who make a solemn, long-term commitment to each other.” Never mind that childless heterosexual couples also receive legal benefits from civil marriage — or that many gay couples are raising children.
The Georgia Supreme Court decision, also handed down Thursday, was narrower but still disappointing. The court rejected technical objections to a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage that was approved by state voters in 2004. Neither of these decisions is binding on the courts of other states, any more than was the famous 2003 ruling by Massachusetts’ high court that gay marriage couldn’t be prohibited. So there’s still hope that California’s Supreme Court will take a more enlightened view of the issue when it next hears a challenge to heterosexual monopoly on civil marriage. Advocates of same-sex marriage have turned to the state courts since Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ill-advised veto of a same-sex-marriage bill last year, but hopefully the Legislature will keep trying.
Gay-rights activists shouldn’t underestimate the challenge ahead. In Georgia, the ban on same-sex marriages upheld last week passed with 76% of the vote. Meanwhile, even politicians who support gay rights consider it political suicide to mention the M-word. And conservatives continue to score points with the fallacious argument that legalizing same-sex marriage would make heterosexual marriage less attractive or, even more absurdly, damage the religious sacrament of matrimony. It took the Supreme Court until 1967 — 1967! — to strike down odiously racist anti-miscegenation laws. Someday we’ll look back on the anti-gay-marriage hysteria with the same revulsion. Until then, with a high court seemingly disinclined to address marriage, states such as California should take the lead.
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Permalink • Monday - June 26, 2006
Most Ridiculous Item Of The Day (so far)
These folks crack me up. Unlike Reverend Phelps and his satanic spawn of evil who believe homosexuals are gonna cause all of us to go to hell, I just think it’s funny as hell. No, not the fact that they’re homosexual. What has me rolling on the floor laughing every year when they have these parades is how ridiculously silly it all looks. From the “Dancing Dorothys” to the “Bouncing Buckaroos” (don’t ask) you can’t help but laugh.
Take the exquisite irony exhibited in paragraphs three and four below. In paragraph three one of the marchers states, “for one day in New York, you can be free and not feel ashamed or embarrassed.” Then in the very next paragraph we are treated to this description, “a bearded man wearing a white lace miniskirt and fishnet stockings sang Madonna’s “Like a Virgin.” A half-dozen men dressed in underwear and top hats danced behind him.” Embaressed? Ashamed? Somebody call the Fashion Police ASAP!
BWAH-HAH-HAH-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA ....... 
I mean, how can you not die laughing at that? I think if they want to be homosexual, that’s perfectly dandy but there is no excuse for being patently stoopid (and badly dressed in clashing colors). Seriously, I can just never seem to take anything the homosexual “movement” says at face value as long as they carry on like this.
Why not spend “Gay Pride Day” cleaning up a public park, helping out at a nursing home, collecting money for the Red Cross or other charities? That would show me they have “pride” and civic responsibility. Then I might be able to take them seriously when they push for “gay marriage”. Until then, it’s all just a joke to me.
June 26, 2006, 6:03 AM EDT
NEW YORK (AP)—Drag queens in knee-high boots, kids with two dads and New York City’s first openly gay city council speaker were among hundreds of thousands attending gay pride parades across the nation, weeks after a vicious attack on a popular gay singer and the 25th anniversary of the start of the AIDS epidemic.
Tens of thousands of spectators lined Fifth Avenue on Sunday for the city’s annual parade, withstanding intermittent rain and turning the route into a sea of rainbows with colorful floats and lavish costumes.
“Everyone else has a chance to express their affection freely, and for one day in New York, you can be free and not feel ashamed or embarrassed,” said 42-year-old Roberto Hermosilla, from Miami, attending his ninth gay pride parade.
On San Francisco’s Market street, thousands of festively dressed people looked on as marching bands, dancers and floats bearing corporate logos streamed by. On one float, a bearded man wearing a white lace miniskirt and fishnet stockings sang Madonna’s “Like a Virgin.” A half-dozen men dressed in underwear and top hats danced behind him. The parades also had a political message, with parade-goers bearing slogans about gay marriage, AIDS, and discrimination.
“It’s to have a good time, but also to remember the issues out there,” said Jane Woodman, 26, in San Francisco. “There’s still a lot of work to be done,” she said, noting the national debate raging over whether gays should have a legal right to marry.
The New York parade marked the very public and triumphant return of singer Kevin Aviance, who rolled down Fifth Avenue atop a fake pachyderm and a circus-themed float just weeks after the drag queen was viciously beaten and suffered a broken jaw. Police have charged four young men with assaulting the artist while yelling anti-gay slurs.
The theme of New York’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride March was “The Fight for Love and Life,” but there was plenty of talk about hate following the Aviance attack. The New York Police Department said reports of anti-gay bias crimes totaled 25 through mid-June—compared with 19 over the same period in 2005. “A few hateful homophobes will not set us back,” said City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who marched in the parade. In January, Quinn became the first woman and first openly gay person to lead the council.
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Permalink • Saturday - June 24, 2006
Opinion: Homosexual Adoption
Before I begin, let me state quite clearly for the politically correct crowd out there that I am not a homophobe. I could care less what other people do in their bedroom. With that said however, I do not think homosexual couples should be allowed to adopt children. In spite of the fact that I ignore their sexual habits, I still think the behavior is abnormal ... in much the same way that picking one’s nose at the dinner table is abnormal - harmless overall but disquieting, to say the least.
One can possibly ignore the nose-picker ... unless he or she prepared the dinner. Get the picture? In a similar manner, I don’t believe homosexuals should be allowed to raise and care for adopted children. It just isn’t right. For starters, every child absolutely needs a male and a female parent to keep things in balance during the learning years. This is most clearly evidenced by the rise in youthful offenders and criminals who were raised in single-parent homes. Having two parents of the same gender creates a similar imbalance. There are things that mothers do that fathers don’t (and vice versa) in raising children. Children need that balance.
There is also the problem that the child faces with his or her peers, whose parents are mostly heterosexual couples. The child can become alienated from his or her group of friends in adolescence and that creates a whole new world of problems. In case you haven’t figured out my stance yet, it all comes down to this: I don’t give a damn what the grownups want to do - what is best for the child?
In addition to all that, there is the problem of child abuse. I don’t know whether there is a prevalence of that type of behavior among homosexuals. I seriously doubt it. Sexual predators come in all shapes and sizes. I would however, have to cast a wary eye on homosexual couples wanting to adopt young children. I’m sure some truly want to be good parents, in spite of the arguments I presented above - and they may even be good people of good character. Then again, there are couples like the one below ...
Jailed For Abusing Foster Children
Saturday June 24, 2006
LEEDS - UK (GUARDIAN) - An independent inquiry is to be held into how a gay foster couple duped social services over photographs of young boys in their care whom they abused. They were jailed at Leeds crown court yesterday by a judge who accused them of wholesale betrayal of trust once their “ridiculous” reason for taking a picture of a foster-child urinating was believed.
Craig Faunch, 32, was sentenced to six years and his partner Ian Wathey, 41, to five. Judge Sally Cahill QC accused them of showing no remorse, empathy with their victims or responsibility in the role of foster parents. The couple, who were convicted at an earlier trial, targeted boys from difficult backgrounds. Judge Cahill said one 14-year-old victim suffered from autism while another had a background of drug-taking and sexual and physical abuse.
Referring to one teenager singled out by Faunch, she said: “You saw him as the ideal victim. You then chose to victimise and abuse him, showing the very depths of what you are prepared to do.” The court heard that Faunch and Wathey, from Pontefract, West Yorkshire, had abused four boys fostered to them by Wakefield, after checks showed that they had no police record and met all the council’s requirements. Suspicions were raised when the photograph was found by the child’s mother. But the court heard that staff had decided that the men had been “naive and silly”, accepting their explanation that they used the picture to embarrass boys into closing the toilet door.
Judge Cahill said: “Once you realised social services would not take any action and believed your ridiculous story about why you had taken the photograph, you went on to abuse others in your care, believing yourself safe from the authorities.” Both men were convicted of multiple charges of sexually abusing 14-year-old boys. Wathey was cleared of two charges of having sexual activity with an eight-year-old.
Kitty Ferris, Wakefield’s director for children in need, said that internal procedures had been reviewed pending the independent inquiry. But “correct procedures had been carried out at every stage”, including unannounced house visits. She said: “Allegations were referred to the police as quickly as possible. The council has offered support to children who have been affected.” Both men have been banned for life from working with children and will remain on licence for three years after release.
(-- Hat tip to Brit reader LyndonB for the lead on this story --)
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Permalink • Friday - June 16, 2006
Words You Cannot Use: Deviancy
Your Attention, Please! You are hereby required to remove from your vocabulary the following word as it pertains to persons of alternative lifestyle, also known as homosexuals. It seems they are offended by the term and have alerted the Politically Correct Police to that fact. The PC Police are herewith ordered to arrest and imprison anyone using the word in public. Punishment may include either 200 hours of community service or having to watch an entire season of “Queer Eye For The Straight Guy” and write a report on “The Benefits of Homosexuality” of no less than twenty single-spaced typed pages, describing in detail how you think homesexuals have truly benefited mankind over the course of history.
de·vi·ant
adjective: Differing from a norm or from the accepted standards of a society.
noun: One that differs from a norm, especially a person whose behavior and attitudes differ from accepted social standards.
[Middle English deviaunt, from Late Latin dvins, dviant-, present participle of dvire, to deviate; see deviate.]
devi·ance, devi·an·cy n.
-- American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language
Deviant behavior is behavior that is a recognized violation of social norms. Formal and informal social controls attempt to prevent and minimize deviance. Crime, the violation of formally enacted law, is formal deviance while an informal social violation such as picking one’s nose is an example of informal deviance. It also means not doing what the majority does or alternatively doing what the majority does not do. For instance, behaviors caused by cultural difference can be seen as deviance. It does not necessarily mean criminal behavior.—Wikipedia
So why are we bring this to your attention? Read the news story below from the Washington Post and learn why another word has been expunged from your dictionary. We urge you not to deviate from this new verbal proclamation in any way shape or form.
Metro Board Member Fired for Comment on Gays
Friday, June 16, 2006
Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. yesterday fired Robert J. Smith, his appointee on the Metro transit authority board, for referring to gay people as sexual deviants on a cable television show. “Robert Smith’s comments were highly inappropriate, insensitive and unacceptable,” Ehrlich (R) said in a statement less than five hours after the controversy erupted during a Metro board meeting. “They are in direct conflict to my administration’s commitment to inclusiveness, tolerance and opportunity.”
At the Metro meeting, board member Jim Graham, who represents the District, had called for Smith to disavow his remarks or apologize or for Ehrlich to remove him. “As someone who cares deeply about human rights, and as an openly gay elected official . . . I cannot remain silent in the face of these comments,” Graham said, reading from a prepared statement. Smith acknowledged after the meeting that he had referred to homosexuals as “persons of sexual deviancy” during a political round-table discussion on a Montgomery County cable show that was shown on Sunday.
“Homosexual behavior, in my view, is deviant,” he said. “I’m a Roman Catholic.” Smith said his comments had been part of a discussion about a proposed ban on same-sex marriage. “The comments I make in public outside of my [Metro board job] I’m entitled to make,” he said. His personal beliefs, he said, have “absolutely nothing to do with running trains and buses and have not affected my actions or decisions on this board.”
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Permalink • Saturday - June 10, 2006
Commie Comedy
Les Fwench Commies are outraged that their Russian counterparts discriminate against Les Pacquiers du Fudge. They claim the Russkis have “betrayed the ideals of Marxism.” Sacre Blew! Some stories just seem to write themselves.
Communist Party Because Of Gay Scandal
June 9, 2006 (PRAVDA)
The world communist movement is currently facing a major scandal. The relations between the Russian and the French communist parties have been practically ruined. The reason of the conflict lies in the negative attitude which the leader of the Russian communists, Gennady Zyuganov, expressed against the recent gay pride parade in Moscow.
The outcome of the “free love parade” in Moscow is history now. Young communists and patriots violently attacked the homosexuals and defamed them. Delegates of the French Communist Party, who took part in all events organized by the Moscow gay movement, did not hesitate to express their reaction to that.
The French communists harshly reproached their Russian colleagues of being homophobic and betraying the Marxism-Leninism ideology. The Socialistic Party of France (the country’s second largest party) supported the communists of France too. Unlike for the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the struggle for social justice implies the protection of class interests, as well as people’s rights and freedoms, including the right to choose a sexual orientation.
That is why the French communists described the Russian Communist Party as a homophobic and anti-communist organization. A member of the political bureau of the French communist organization Richard Sanchez said that they simply could not make up with such an idea. “It is nonsense for European communists. Being a communist and a homophobe at the same time is so typical of the Communist Party of Russia,” said he. Another spokesman for the French communist party said that the CPRF was a non-communist party, which still had the communist rhetoric, but betrayed the ideals of Marxism.
“The French comrades” also criticized Russia’s communists for their aspiration to form the real opposition in Russia. “The Russian Communist Party has actually been the government of the country for almost 80 years. Therefore, they simply do not know what it means to be a real opposition. They think of themselves as the opposition, but they do nothing that an opposition organization would do. It’s all about declarations, that’s all,” Sanchez said. Richard Sanchez thinks that Russia needs to have the real leftist movement, but not the CPRF which views itself as an opposition organization.
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Permalink • Monday - May 22, 2006
Jersey Jerk
Argh! After reading this, I had a strong urge to go take a bath. I feel slimey and dirty just reading this cretin’s words. I was also strongly reminded of Bill Clinton while reading. Clinton wasn’t homosexual (as far as I know) but he was just as sleazy. I read this and other news about US Representative William Jefferson (D-LA) taking $100k in bribes and wonder what the connecting thread is between these three politicians.
Oh yeah, they’re all Democrats. You know, that party who claims to be fighting corruption in the wake of the Abramoff scandal - which allowed them to tar the Republicans as “corrupt”. The party of Teddy “Lifeguard” Kennedy. You know the bunch. This Jersey jerk is just more of the same. The fact that he is homosexual is of minor consequence and really doesn’t count for a hill of beans. The fact that he is a sleaze does. Case closed.
May 22, 2006, 9:51 AM EDT
NEWARK, N.J. (AP)—Former Gov. James E. McGreevey once resorted to anonymous homosexual trysts at highway rest stops, according to recently released excerpts from his memoir being released later this year.
McGreevey—who proclaimed himself “a gay American” in 2004 while announcing his impending resignation as governor - describes his long struggle with his homosexuality in the book “The Confession.”
According to the excerpts published Sunday in The Star-Ledger of Newark, McGreevey engaged in the secret encounters because he feared having a relationship with a man would ruin his chances of success as a politician.
”So, instead, I settled for the detached anonymity of bookstores and rest stops—a compromise, but one that was wholly unfulfilling and morally unsatisfactory,” McGreevey wrote. The excerpts do not mention whether the activities extended into his time as governor.
ReganBooks, a division of HarperCollins, is paying the 48-year-old McGreevey up to $500,000 for the 384-page memoir. He made an appearance Saturday at BookExpo America in Washington, D.C., where he told the newspaper his book is “painfully honest.”
“A lot will resonate with readers,” he said. The excerpts do not detail his two marriages, or even the scandal, which became public knowledge during an August 2004 televised news conference in which McGreevey acknowledged a gay affair and said he would resign in coming months.
The excerpts also do not mention the former aide whom sources close to McGreevey have identified as the man he had an extramarital affair with. According to the excerpts, McGreevey said he also became “as avid a womanizer as anybody else on the New Jersey political scene.”
”I knew I would have to lie for the rest of my life - and I knew I was capable of it,” McGreevey wrote. ”The knowledge gave me a feeling of terrible power.” He said he became an avid student of human behavior during his rise from the state Parole Board to Woodbridge mayor to governor, and that allowed him to keep up the charade.
”I studied the moves, figured out what worked and what didn’t, practiced and perfected my perfect inauthenticity,” he wrote.
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Permalink • Thursday - May 04, 2006
As The World Turns
Homosexuals to Howard Dean: “You don’t love us enough!” - Howard Dean to Homosexuals: “You’re fired!” - Homosexuals to Howard Dean: “Ooh, you’re such a meanie! I hate you, I hate you!” - Howard Dean to Homosexuals: “Blow me!”
Don’t you just hate it when lovers quarrel in public? Do you need any further proof that the Democratic Party is the party of whiners, complainers, losers and idjits? Stay tuned. This bunch will probably be on Jerry Springer next week.
Dean Fires Dems’ Gay Outreach Chief
Shakeup follows criticism by partner; Bond named replacement
May 3, 12:31 AM
WASHINGTON—Democratic Party Chair Howard Dean on May 2 fired the party’s gay outreach advisor Donald Hitchcock less than a week after Hitchcock’s domestic partner, Paul Yandura, a longtime party activist, accused Dean of failing to take stronger action to defend gays. Dean immediately hired gay former Democratic Party operative Brian Bond to replace Hitchcock, according to DNC spokesperson Karen Finney, who called Bond a “proven leader.”
Bond served from 1996 to 2003 as executive director of the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, a bipartisan national group that raises money and provides training to help elect openly gay candidates to public office. “It was not retaliation,” Finney said of Hitchcock’s dismissal. “It was decided we needed a change. We decided to hire a proven leader.”
Hitchcock declined comment Tuesday night except to confirm that Dean informed him May 2 through a surrogate that he had been terminated. He said he was considering consulting an attorney to decide whether to contest the firing. “This is retaliation, plain and simple,” said Yandura. “This shows what they think about domestic partners.”
Yandura said Tuesday night that Dean was using Hitchcock as a “scapegoat” for problems of Dean’s own making. “All I did was ask questions about what the party and Dean are doing about its GLBT constituency, Yandura said. “I have yet to see any answers.”
Hitchcock’s dismissal came after Yaundura created a stir among party activists, both gay and straight, by sending an open letter on April 20 to gay Democrats criticizing Dean and the party for not getting involved in state ballot measures seeking to ban gay marriage.
Yandura charged that the DNC failed to counter efforts by Republicans to promote the anti-gay ballot measures as a wedge issue to win elections. He suggested that gays withhold donations to the Democrats until the party formally addresses issues he raised.
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Permalink • Tuesday - March 14, 2006
Mission: Implausible
Your Mission
Your mission today, should you choose to accept it, is to carefully glance through all of the articles below in the ongoing controversy at Ford over homosexuals and consider Ford’s rapid descent into oblivion. After reading the articles, you will examine the advertising logo at your right, briefly consider the cosmic irony of the phrase used and come up with a new slogan for Ford.
Timing is critical in this important mission and all precautions must be taken to avoid any hint of homophobia. Should you be apprehended or have your cover blown during the course of this mission, the Skipper will disavow all knowledge of you and your team. This post will self-destruct in five seconds. Good luck .... 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1 ....
- February 1, 2005: “Ford Makes Record Donation To Gay Community Center In Michigan”
- June 1, 2005: “Christian Activist Group Goes After Ford Motor Co. Over Gay Ads”
- December 3, 2005: “Jaguar, Land Rover Ads Halted In Gay Media, Ford Confirms”
- December 7, 2005: “Gay Advocates Blast Ford’s Pulling Of Ads”
- December 15, 2005: “Ford Reverses - Ads Will Run In Gay Media After All”
- January 24, 2006: “Ford to Ax Up to 30,000 Jobs, Close Plants”
- January 31, 2006: “Ford - Now It’s Easy Being Green”
- March 13, 2006: “19 Groups to Reinstate Boycott of Ford”
- March 13, 2006: “Ford’s Stock Downgraded Even Deeper Into Junk Status”
- March 14, 2006: “Kia To Build $1.2 billion Auto Plant In West Point, Ga.”
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Permalink • Tuesday - February 21, 2006
Biker Buddies
Reverend Fred Phelps is a piece of work. He and his congregation at the Westboro Baptist Church make the Democrats look positively sane. The man is a loon and it’s a wonder God hasn’t slapped a lightning bolt down on his ass yet.
What we’re talking about here is the polar opposite of the Liberals’ embracing of the homosexual lifestyle and ramming it down everyone’s throat. Phelps thinks homosexuals are evil and God is punishing us by killing US troops overseas because there are so many homosexuals in our country. I kid you not. I have never felt so alone, stuck in between these two groups of insane people. I object to the Liberals’ homosexual agenda but I positively detest Phelps.
I am glad to see there are decent people like the Patriot Guard Riders who are willing to stand up to Phelps and his miserable minions and shield the families of fallen heros from these madmen. I sometimes wonder if freedom of speech is worth having to put up with people like Phelps. There has to be a way to silence madmen like him without giving up our freedom to say what we want. In the good ol’ days there was. It was called “tar and feathers” and usually sufficed to keep the noise from jerks like Phelps down to a minimum.
February 21, 2006, 6:11 AM EST
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP)
Wearing vests covered in military patches, a band of motorcyclists rolls around the country from one soldier’s funeral to another, cheering respectfully to overshadow jeers from church protesters. They call themselves the Patriot Guard Riders, and they are more than 5,000 strong, forming to counter anti-gay protests held by the Rev. Fred Phelps at military funerals.
Phelps believes American deaths in Iraq are divine punishment for a country that he says harbors homosexuals. His protesters carry signs thanking God for so-called IEDs—explosives that are a major killer of soldiers in Iraq. The bikers shield the families of dead soldiers from the protesters, and overshadow the jeers with patriotic chants and a sea of red, white and blue flags.
“The most important thing we can do is let families know that the nation cares,” said Don Woodrick, the group’s Kentucky captain. “When a total stranger gets on a motorcycle in the middle of winter and drives 300 miles to hold a flag, that makes a powerful statement.” At least 14 states are considering laws aimed at the funeral protesters, who at a recent memorial service at Fort Campbell wrapped themselves in upside-down American flags. They danced and sang impromptu songs peppered with vulgarities that condemned homosexuals and soldiers.
The Patriot Guard was also there, waving up a ruckus of support for the families across the street. Community members came in the freezing rain to chant “U-S-A, U-S-A” alongside them. “This is just the right thing to do. This is something America didn’t do in the ‘70s,” said Kurt Mayer, the group’s national spokesman. “Whether we agree with why we’re over there, these soldiers are dying to protect our freedoms.”
Shirley Phelps-Roper, a daughter of Fred Phelps and an attorney for the Topeka, Kan.-based church, said neither state laws nor the Patriot Guard can silence their message that God killed the soldiers because they fought for a country that embraces homosexuals. “The scriptures are crystal clear that when God sets out to punish a nation, it is with the sword. An IED is just a broken-up sword,” Phelps-Roper said. “Since that is his weapon of choice, our forum of choice has got to be a dead soldier’s funeral.”
The church, Westboro Baptist Church, is not affiliated with a larger denomination and is made up mostly of Fred Phelps’ extended family members. During the 1990s, church members were known mostly for picketing the funerals of AIDS victims, and they have long been tracked as a hate group by the Montgomery, Ala.-based Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project.
The project’s deputy director, Heidi Beirich, said other groups have tried to counter Phelps’ message, but none has been as organized as the Patriot Guard. “I’m not sure anybody has gone to this length to stand in solidarity,” she said. “It’s nice that these veterans and their supporters are trying to do something. I can’t imagine anything worse, your loved one is killed in Iraq and you’ve got to deal with Fred Phelps.”
Kentucky, home to sprawling Fort Campbell along the Tennessee line, was among the first states to attempt to deal with Phelps legislatively. Its House and Senate have each passed bills that would limit people from protesting within 300 feet of a funeral or memorial service. The Senate version would also keep protesters from being within earshot of grieving friends and family members.
Richard Wilbur, a retired police detective, said his Indiana Patriot Guard group only comes to funerals if invited by family. He said he has no problem with protests against the war but sees no place for objectors at a family’s final goodbye to a soldier. “No one deserves this,” he said.
On the Web:
Patriot Guard Riders: http://www.patriotguard.org
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Word For The Day: Homotainment
Why must the entertainment industry keep force-feeding this crap to us? My response to all this homogenda is increasingly becoming anger at the repetitious nature of the assault on my personal beliefs. I have no homosexual desires and there is no “inner woman” inside me waiting to come out. So give it a rest, OK .... ?
Willie Nelson, Stern Release Gay Cowboy Song
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Country music outlaw Willie Nelson sang “Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys” and “My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys” more than 25 years ago. He released a very different sort of cowboy anthem this Valentine’s Day. “Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly (Fond of Each Other)” may be the first gay cowboy song by a major recording artist. But it was written long before this year’s Oscar-nominated “Brokeback Mountain” made gay cowboys a hot topic.
Available exclusively through iTunes, the song features choppy Tex-Mex style guitar runs and Nelson’s deadpan delivery of lines like, “What did you think all them saddles and boots was about?” and “Inside every cowboy there’s a lady who’d love to slip out.” The song, which debuted Tuesday on Howard Stern’s satellite radio show, was written by Texas-born singer-songwriter Ned Sublette in 1981. Sublette said he wrote it during the Urban Cowboy craze and always imagined Nelson singing it.
Someone passed a copy of the song to Nelson back in the late 1980s and, according to Nelson’s record label, Lost Highway, he recorded it last year at his Pedernales studio in Texas. Nelson has appeared in several western movies and sings “He Was a Friend of Mine” on the “Brokeback Mountain” soundtrack.
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Office for Film and Broadcasting changed gave “Brokeback” a rating of “O” for “morally offensive,” and was pulled from a Utah theater. Several Christian fundamentalist groups, such as Concerned Women for America and Focus on the Family, have lambasted the film. Several pundits, including commentators Bill O’Reilly, John Gibson, and Cal Thomas, accused Hollywood of pushing an agenda with the movie.
New ‘Allah’ Doc Ready To Raise A Ruckus
Dubowski vows to screen pic in every Muslim nation
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Sandi Dubowski, who won the Teddy gay and lesbian award in 2001 for his controversial doc “Trembling Before G-d,” may cause an even bigger stir with “In the Name of Allah,” which explores the struggles of homosexual Muslims. Gay Indian Muslim helmer Parvez Sharma is directing the pic, which looks at gay, lesbian, and transgender Muslims across the Muslim and Western worlds.
“The world right now needs to understand Islam, and these are the most unlikely storytellers of Islam,” Dubowski said, who is producing ‘Allah.’ Doc will undoubtedly prove an even thornier film to export than “Trembling.” Sharma and Dubowski plan to submit the pic to all major festivals in the Muslim world as well as in the West, but if it’s rejected, Dubowski said, “We’ll find ways of screening it in every Muslim nation, even if it’s underground.”
Dubowski already faced problems with the international release of “Trembling Before G-d.” Pic faced protests and bans in South Africa, Mexico and Baltimore. But Dubowski has managed to open doors in the Hasidic and Orthodox communities in Israel, U.S. and U.K. and has toured the world over the past five years doing 800 live events with diverse religious and secular groups.
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