Tag: LGBT Issues

2011 Anal-Ocity #25

Once again I have found an idiot in elected position that just cannot go without showing their ignorance…….since 9/11 people have comparing everything they are against to terrorism….and this one is just the most recent piece of moronic statements…..

This one is from Oklahoma state rep Sally Kern (R)……….

“And you know, every day our young people, adults too, but especially our young people, are bombarded at school, in movies, in music, on TV, in the mall, in magazines,” she continued. “They’re bombarded with ‘homosexuality is normal and natural.’ It’s something they have to deal with every day. Fortunately we don’t have to deal with a terrorist attack every day, and that’s what I mean.”

So to this woman being gay is somehow like being a terrorists….I could say a lot about this type of thinking……but why?  I will let her moronic ramblings speak for themselves…..

I want to remind all my readers that in December I will nominate 10 anal statements and I would like my readers to vote for the one that they think is the most anal of the past year…….and the winner will be announced the last of December….please join in…

Homophobic Clergy

Sunday and my last day of  Zen before I return to the world of politics….I thought I would do a religious post for today….I do so few…..trying to change (good luck with that)……

We have been embroiled in a debate about the rights of gay people as compared to what we call “straights”….can they marry?……and other freedoms that are normally extended to everyone else in our society…..churches come out against anything gay (all the while priest are porking alter boys)….politicians come out either pro or con, depending on where they want the voters to go (all the while some are having affairs or chasing pages)……and then there are the people that are just plain scared of gay people……

But today I will post on some bishops that have , in my opinion, overextended their so called authority………

An association of Catholic bishops is battling a pending regulation that would ban discrimination against anyone based on “sexual orientation or gender identity” in federally funded housing projects. The rules would force some religious groups to compromise their beliefs or quit the housing programs, argued lawyers for the US Conference of Catholic Bishops.  “Faith-based organizations should retain the freedom they have always had to make housing placements in a manner consistent with their religious beliefs,” said a statement from the lawyers.  Gay discrimination in the housing market is a major problem, and as many as one in five transgender individuals are homeless because of housing discrimination, according to recent findings that concern HUD officials. “In considering the mounting evidence of violence and discrimination against LGBT persons, the department is concerned that its own programs may not be fully open to LGBT individuals and families,” HUD said in a statement earlier this year.  The Catholic church collects millions in public dollars for building and operating federally funded housing across the nation. For more on the controversy, check out the Daily Kos here.

I am personally, sick of these types of people that think they speak for the country….first of all….they do NOT….second, these people need to clean up their problems with their priests before they try to tell the rest of the people how or where they can live……..in other words….BUTT OUT OF PEOPLE’S BUSINESS!

DADT–The Game

On December 18, 2010, the Senate voted to end debate on S.4023, the Senate’s bill identical to H.R.2965, via a cloture vote of 63-33. Prior to the vote, Sen. Lieberman gave the final argument in favor of repealing DADT and Sen. McCain argued against repeal. The final Senate vote was held later that same day, with the measure passing by a vote of 65-31.   President Obama is expected to sign the repeal into law on December 22, 2010.

Finally, it has been signed and now all the hard work that has been done by so many will pay off…..the problem is that the Pentagon has to come up with a plan and in 60 days or more before it will be officially over…..DADT will remain in force until then….

I personally did not think that this would happen in this Congress….that gays would have to wait for a more liberal time……I was mistaken….with that said……

The game is afoot!

Just yesterday I had a comment on a fdriend’s blog, Why We Worry, (blogroll will get you to this good and informative site) that I expect the GOP to play games with the repeal…and I did not have to wait long, at all…….

Delegate Robert G. Marshall said the Constitution reserves states with the authority to do so and that he’ll introduce a bill in the state General Assembly next year that ensures the “the effect of the 1994 federal law banning active homosexuals from America’s military forces will apply to the Virginia National Guard.”
“With the repeal of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell,’ President Obama seeks to pay back his homosexual political supporters,” the Prince William County Republican said, echoing a sentiment shared by many of the repeal’s most ardent opponents. “This policy will weaken military recruitment and retention, and will increase pressure for a military draft.”
“The Constitution never would have been ratified if states were not [guaranteed] unqualified control of the militia, now called the National Guard,” he said.
I knew that it would not be as easy as the prez signing it into law…….I knew that games would be played and so they begin!

Prop 8 Goes To SCOTUS

Meanwhile…back at the Constitution………

Prop 8 for those who may have been under a rock looking for the representative is that same sex marriage ballot initiative in California that would have not allowed same sex partners to wed….well, it seems that a federal judge has thrown out the prop 8results and has set up a showdown on same sex marriage in the Supreme Court this Fall…..

First of all, I want to say that I do not normally comment on things of a moral nature because it is none of my business….what people do in the privacy of their home is none of my business and definitively none of the government’s business…..but I will make an exception this time because we will be dealing with the Constitution of the United States….

Basically this is what Judge Walker had to say about the ban on same sex marriage:

Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage license. Indeed, the evidence shows Proposition 8 does nothing more than enshrine in the California Constitution the notion that opposite-sex couples are superior to same-sex couples. Because California has no interest in discriminating against gay men and lesbians, and because Proposition 8 prevents California from fulfilling its constitutional obligation to provide marriages on an equal basis, the court concludes that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional.

Unconstitutional?  This is the issue that will send this to the Supreme Court….the constitutionality of the ban.

It seems you cannot make a ruling that does not apply to all Americans….it is called equal protection under the law…..and the states that have passed referendums on banning same sex marriage could be struck down because state law cannot undermine federal law……

And yes it will be a civil rights thing……not to compare it to the marches of the 1960’s….I am referring to the concept of denies rights to a group of Americans in favor of another group…….and again “equal protection under the law”……

It will be fascinating to see how this will play out in the Supreme Court….will the referees of our political system use the rules and laws of the country to settle a dispute or will they do what they are accused of doing…..being activists and disregard the Constitution?

2010 Anal-Ocity #22

There seems to be NO end to the bullsh*t people will say to change the thought process….we call those anal-ocities or anal statements, those statements that come from the butt, not from the brain…….

The House has voted to basically repel Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell all the controversy has proven to be nothing, a fart in the wind, if you will and when all else fails….trot out those damn Nazis!

This statement comes from the head of the American Family Association, Bryan Fischer………(sorry it is a bit wordy but it all had to be shown)…and then echoed by John McCain……apparently good commonsense no longer applies to McCain……

So Hitler himself was an active homosexual. And some people wonder, didn’t the Germans, didn’t the Nazis, persecute homosexuals? And it is true they did; they persecuted effeminate homosexuals. But Hitler recruited around him homosexuals to make up his Stormtroopers, they were his enforcers, they were his thugs. And Hitler discovered that he could not get straight soldiers to be savage and brutal and vicious enough to carry out his orders, but that homosexual solders basically had no limits and the savagery and brutality they were willing to inflict on whomever Hitler sent them after. So he surrounded himself, virtually all of the Stormtroopers, the Brownshirts, were male homosexuals.

What can one say?  To begin with…there is NO proof that Hitler was gay….second, the stormtroopers and the brownshirts were not the same thing….next……Hitler had the brownshirts arrested and killed and then Rohm, their leader was also killed and he was most likely gay…….this is just more lies from the hysterical Right….and the saddest part is that John McCain has signed on to this lunacy…he is desperate to find voters to help him win re-election…even to the point of siding with liars and morons.

While the statement was made by someone else, John McCain will get the nod….because he should be smarter than that….and he is trying to seal some support for his election.

What Utter Bullsh*t!

Daily Agitator

Normally, I do not post on the gay thing because I believe that it is a personal choice that is made by consenting people and in that it is NONE of my business and definitely NONE of the government’s business….but from time to time there are stories that need to be exposed for the ludicrous crap that it is……

This one comes from the state that I live in…Mississippi…a cultural wasteland to begin with….but all kidding aside….a state that is still living,  for the most part,  in the 1950’s……

The AP is reporting:

A lesbian student who wanted to take her girlfriend to her senior prom is asking a federal judge to force her Mississippi school district to reinstate the dance it canceled.

The district’s decision Wednesday came after the ACLU demanded that officials change a policy banning same-sex prom dates because it said it violated students’ rights. The ACLU said the district violated McMillen’s free expression rights by not letting her wear a tux.

Same-sex prom dates and cross-dressing are new issues for many high schools around the country, said Daryl Presgraves, a spokesman for GLSEN: Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, a Washington-based advocacy group.

Southside Baptist Church Pastor Bobby Crenshaw said he’s seen the South portrayed as “backwards” on Web sites discussing the issue, “but a lot more people here have biblically based values.”

Itawamba County is a rural area of about 23,000 people in north Mississippi near the Alabama state line. It’s near Pontotoc County, Miss., where more than a decade ago school officials were sued in federal court over their practice of student-led intercom prayer and Bible classes.

Interesting?  Being gay in Mississippi is a damnable sin, at least in the minds, the little minds, of the people in control.  the reality is that the kids could care less about another’s sexual orientation….it is the old farts that control the schools and local government that are dictating their values to the kids……homosexuality is NOT as big a deal to 15 year olds as it is for 50 year olds that are still living in the past…..

Maybe a suggestion for those in control….”try minding you own business and let others lived their own lives without your interference”…..just a suggestion….I am sure it will fall on deaf ears….especially in the state of Mississippi…

Yoga Can “Cure” Gay

Everybody has their opinion on the fact that there are homosexuals in the world and I saw this piece while surfing……A piece of absurdity……

INDIA’S top television yoga expert has challenged a landmark court ruling legalising gay sex, claiming it is a “disease” that can be cured by yoga.

Swami Baba Ramdev filed the petition on the grounds that the Delhi High Court “erred” in decriminalising “unnatural sex acts” last week and that homosexuality was an illness which could be treated, according to the Indian Express newspaper.

“It can be treated like any other congenital defect. Such tendencies can be treated by yoga, pranayama (breathing exercises) and other meditation techniques,” he said in the challenge filed in the Supreme Court.

Under the Indian legal system, any person can challenge a court decision in a higher court.

An astrologer, Suresh Kumar Kaushal, has also filed a petition against the high court decision, arguing that if gay sex is legalised, “tomorrow people might seek permission for having sex with animals”.

See…..really dumbass people are everywhere….you cannot get away from them.

2009 Anal-Ocity

Just when you thought the RNC was gonna be silent for awhile and would spend their time trying to retool the party before the 2010 elections.  NO….just wishful thinking.

The AP reported that Michael Steele, chairman of the RNC, recently tied same sex marriage to small business by using health care.

Steele said that was just an example of how the party can retool its message to appeal to young voters and minorities without sacrificing core conservative principles. Steele said he used the argument weeks ago while chatting on a flight with a college student who described herself as fiscally conservative but socially liberal on issues like gay marriage.

“Now all of a sudden I’ve got someone who wasn’t a spouse before, that I had no responsibility for, who is now getting claimed as a spouse that I now have financial responsibility for,” Steele told Republicans at the state convention in traditionally conservative Georgia. “So how do I pay for that? Who pays for that? You just cost me money.”

Does this also apply to “traditional” marriage also?  Does that mean that if I marry Betty Lou that it will be a drag on the business?  What crap!  The employee pays for the right to have his/her spouse on the company policy.

When will Repubs finally see that this guy is an idiot and they need to find someone who can lead the party into the future.

2009 Anal-Ocity

Joe the Plumber has been allowed to speak again  (why?)  and as usual whatever he says is good for an “Assie” Award, besides the fact that he is a wannabe that has no idea what he is speaking on.

In an interview with Christianity Today our boy Joe was asked about same sex marriage and his response was this:

“At a state level, it’s up to them. I don’t want it to be a federal thing. I personally still think it’s wrong. People don’t understand the dictionary–it’s called queer. Queer means strange and unusual. It’s not like a slur, like you would call a white person a honky or something like that. You know, God is pretty explicit in what we’re supposed to do–what man and woman are for. Now, at the same time, we’re supposed to love everybody and accept people, and preach against the sins. I’ve had some friends that are actually homosexual.   And, I mean, they know where I stand, and they know that I wouldn’t have them anywhere near my children. But at the same time, they’re people, and they’re going to do their thing.

You must love this guy, he is a wealth of anal statements.

When Marie Osmond Speaks……

Will the LDS church be listening?  Marie Osmond talks openly about her daughter, her faith and gay marriage.  Her 21 year old daughter is openly gay.

And her comments do seem to suggest she supports what the LDS Church does not.  “I believe everyone should have the right to share homes and finances with somebody that they care about. You know, on those types of things, I am very supportive. When it comes to marriage, you know, I think civil rights need to be for all.”

“Everybody has a right to believe what they believe. But I do think everyone has a right to have civil rights.”

Marie seems to go against her brother, Donny, as well as the LDS Church, but she shows courage and a sense of reality.  She has grown out of that “Donny & Marie” days and has become a woman with a mind and courage.  Kudos…Marie!