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The Bad and Some Good ... Monday May 16, 2022

These really are the easiest posts to compile because there are dumb people everywhere and it seems they are all trying to out-dumb one another with fear and loathing, but there were a couple of semi-bright spots … so here goes:

KENTUCKY

A homework assignment given to several middle-schoolers at Christian Academy of Louisville [CAL] encouraged them to persuade an imaginary friend to reject homosexuality.

Not so much as Don’t Say Gay, as Don’t Be Gay. Screenshots show the assignment required students to write a letter to a hypothetical friend "struggling with homosexuality" and persuade them "God's design for them is good”:

"Assume that you have known this friend since kindergarten, that you go to the same church and that you have been pretty good friends over the years until now … The aim of your letter should be to lovingly and compassionately speak truth to the person you’re talking to in a way that does not approve of any sin. Instead, TRY TO PERSUADE THEM OF THE GOODNESS OF GOD’S DESIGN for them."

CAL School System Superintendent Darin Long said the assignment had been given as “part of a unit of study which discusses 'What are humans and where is their identity, and how a person could discuss homosexuality with a friend from a biblical perspective with compassion and love.

You’re sinning; you’re wrong: that doesn’t reek of compassion and love. Judgement. Not so Christ-like, CAL.

KANSAS

It seems the GOP’s newest strategy to win votes it to trot out that old ‘Gay Is Bad’ mantra that helped George W Bush take the White House in 2000. And Kansas’ junior senator, Republican Roger Marshall, is taking his culture war fight to Hollywood and cartoons.

Marshall sent a letter to the board of the TV Parental Guidelines asking it to update its criteria for the warnings it puts on children’s programming citing “parents raising legitimate concerns on sexual orientation and gender identity content on children’s TV shows.” When asked for a list of the offensive LGBTQ+ programming, Marshall spoke of Netflix’s “She-Ra and the Princesses of Power” and Nickelodeon’s “Danger Force” and the idea that normalizing these cartoons will turn kids gay.

I used to watch Bugs Bunny slap on a wig and squeeze into a pencil skirt to pull one over on Elmer Fudd and it didn’t turn me trans.

I also watched plenty of cartoons that were decidedly straight and they didn’t turn me hetero.

As Popeye said, 'I yam what I yam,' and it ain’t no cartoon’s fault..

TEXAS

Governor Greg Abbott and other GOP state lawmakers shifted about $1 billion in federal Coronavirus aid to help pay for their campaign to arrest migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.

We just passed a million COVID deaths in this country and the GOP is using money that could have helped a COVID patient in a publicity stunt.

But, hey, immigrants bad.

AMERICA

Retired Army Lieutenant General, disgraced ex-National Security Advisor and QAnon High Priest Loon Michael Flynn is now spouting another ridiculous lie … that COVID vaccines contain “dormant pathogens” that will be triggered into action when 5G towers issue an 18 gigahertz signal for one minute causing the IP36 gene deletion among the vaccinated to be activated and turning them into zombies.

Looks like Flynn’s brain has already been eaten by the undead.

GOOD

TEXAS

The state Supreme Court has ruled that neither GOP Governor Greg Abbott nor GOP Attorney General Kern Paxton had the authority to order child abuse investigations of families that provide certain medical treatment for their transgender children.

The downside is that the court did not go so far as to order a blanket ban on all such investigations, saying that decision was up to the Department for Family and Protective Services [DFPS].

Still, it’s a step …

FLORIDA

Lyman High School students were upset after school officials announced that they would cover up any yearbook photos that displayed any part of a “Don’t Say Gay” student-led walkout last March, causing a delay in yearbook production so the book could fit in with homophobic school board policies.

But the yearbook controversy has ended and Lyman High School students will receive a complete yearbook, without covered photos and captions, after the Seminole County Public Schools board voted unanimously to put disclaimer stickers in the yearbook instead of covering three … three … photos from that student walkout.

The photos in question? Students holding Rainbow flags and a “Love is Love” sign, along with quotes from students sharing their views on the legislation and why they participated in the protest.

A small win, but I’ll take it.

As I said, not a lot of good this week but that means We The People have to make the Good News happen by speaking up and standing up and shouting out and voting to remove those people from office who are out to harm women in their quest to take this country backwards.,

CAST A GODDAMNED VOTE!

Random Musings

It’s been snowing here in Smallville for two days now, and there are threats of ice storms, sleet, freezing rain — which, I think, are all about the same — before this is over tomorrow.

It’s bad, I guess, but what’s worse is that Carlos and I have been trapped in the house together for two days now and one of us just might kill the other.

And I don’t wanna go to prison.

Not.Again.

I’ve been listening to this whole he-said-she-said, Woody Allen, Dylan Farrow mess, and I just wish they’d both shut up.

I don’t know if Woody molested Dylan; no one knows except Woody and Dylan, but the fact that that family, all of them, both sides, keeps airing their laundry in public makes me ill.

It serves no purpose other than making all of them look bad.

In a show of solidarity with the LGBT community, the towns of Newfoundland and Labrador will begin flying the Rainbow Flag over City Hall during the Sochi AntiGay Games. St. John's Mayor Dennis O'Keefe said council voted unanimously to support the initiative:

"Flying the rainbow flag during the Olympics is really a sign of support for people in other countries, in this case in particular in Russia, the people who have been denied their liberties as individuals, and people who are being persecuted because of their sexual orientation. This is something we're very proud to be a part of, because it reinforces our position that all people in society have a right to realize their potential."

In addition, Rainbow Flags are for sale for half-off for people to display at their own homes during the games.

Thanks Canada.

After being gone from the show for a few years, Hugh Jackman, and his Huge Ackman, will be back this year to host The Tony Awards.

Nothing is hotter than Hugh.

Nothing is gayer than The Tony's.

I'm so there, though I'll miss NPH and his sense of humor, as evidenced by his Tweet though I will refrain from the triangulation of "Hugh Jackman, " "NPH," and "Suck it":

So, Michael Sam is gay?

And lotsa folks have an opinion; a quick glance at Twitter and you read some of the most heinous, offensive, bigoted crap. And there are a few nice ones.

You turn on a TV and they are all kinds of people debating the subject: Should he have said something? Should he have kept quiet? Will the NFL hate him? Will the NFL love him? Can I sit in the locker-room while he showers?

Okay, that last one was mine, but … on Dale Hansen’s Unplugged show, on a local TV station in Texas, of all places, he just splayed it all out, and it’s braziliant.

Last week the Dilbert comic strip outed Asok, the long-running Indian intern character Asok, in a series of cartoons criticizing India's recent recriminaliztion of homosexuality. Not all newspapers, however, were keen on running the comic strip …

The Sandusky Register wrote about the substitution:

Today and Saturday, the syndicate distributing “Dilbert” — in an unusual move — sent the Register two sets of comic strips. The main strip, intended for publication, features topics such as homosexuality, war and politics. The alternative strips exclude any talk of these matters. A two-day series essentially mocks a recent Indian Supreme Court decision to make homosexual behavior illegal. The Register decided to print the strips with controversial themes — the ones [Dilbert creator Scott] Adams and others intended for publication.

Good on them. And Scott Adams wrote about the flap on his blog: 

Today Asok the intern came out. Tomorrow he’ll have some things to say about the so-called government of India. Cue the inevitable cries of “Stop being political! You’re ruining Dilbert!” Allow me to address that right now. It’s only political if there’s someone on the other side of the debate. In this case, no one favors a government deciding which sexual acts among consenting adults in the privacy of their own homes are allowed and which are punishable by jail. If I am wrong, and you favor the government restricting what kind of sex you can have with another consenting adult, please proudly state your case. I’m listening. Cue cricket sounds…

Snap.

And two snaps up to Nevada’s Republican Governor, Brian Sandoval, who now apparently agrees with his Democrat Attorney General, Catherine Cortez Masto, that the impact of the 9th U.S. Circuit's recent decision declaring that sexual orientation requires heightened scrutiny means that the state will almost certainly lose its defense of its law banning same-sex marriage and so he has decided not to proceed with said defense.

Masto issued an order "respectfully requesting the 9th U.S. Circuit allow her to withdraw her previously filed brief" defending Nevada's discriminatory marriage law on Monday and then Governor Sandoval was quoted as agreeing with her:

"Based upon the advice of the attorney general's office and their interpretation of relevant case law, it has become clear that this case is no longer defensible in court."

In other words, he knows he’d lose, because same-sex marriage in Nevada, hell, everywhere, is inevitable.

But thanks Governor, anyway.

And PS He's kinda hot, no?

So, W Magazine created this whole series of People Tweets, with celebrities in bed.

There were a lot of them that were women, which is okay if you swing that way, and just as I was getting bored … Bam … Joe Manganiello.

Oh, he is definitely a person I’d, um, tweet?

Or let him tweet me.

Last week Gary James, the owner of an Oklahoma restaurant called Gary’s Chicaros, declared that he does not serve, ahem, “freaks,” “Faggots,” the disabled, or people on welfare.

Well, as you can imagine, some folks took umbrage to his policies and took to Facebook to complain and then he basically said, “F**k you.”

 So, the stakes were raised and now there is an online campaign to declare Gary’s Chicaro the “Best Gay Club” in Oklahoma City!

One voter declared that Gary’s place was the “[b]est place for hot man sex!”

Another reviewer said “Gary doesn’t serve tube steak. He asks for yours when you walk in the door. But don’t ask to use his backdoor, he saves that for minorities.”

Gays 1, Gary’s 0.

I used to watch Good Morning America anchor Josh Elliott kinda kid and joke with weatherman Sam Champion and I used to ponder the idea that maybe Josh was a kinda lunk-headed adorkable gay.

Turns out Josh wondered the same thing. And it all started back when Josh was thirteen and his father came out as gay to him:

"My first feeling when my father told me was loyalty, thinking, I guess I have to be gay too. Maybe I'm gay. It’s a lot to work through as an eighth-grade boy."

Two years later, his father died from cardiomyopathy and Elliott says:

"The night before he died, I fell asleep on his couch, and he put a blanket over me. I grabbed his hand and for some reason said, 'Dad, I just want you to know I love you.' … For two years, I got to see him complete and out and proud. I got to see him as a man fulfilled and a man in full."

Josh Elliott was the recipient of a 2012 GLAAD Media Award for his ABC World News segment "Battle Against Bullying".

I used to think he was gay, now I just think he’s a kinda lunk-headed and adorkable. 

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