Minute Rant: Six GOP Presidential Hopefuls Sign Anti-Gay Plegde

At the last democratic debate, Hillary Clinton closed by saying that if a Republican took the White House in 2016, we’d lose … a lot.

We’d lose Planned Parenthood; we lose LGBT rights, including, some GOP candidates have said, the right to marry; we lose in women’s rights, in healthcare and in Social Security. So it would behoove anyone who is voting to remember that the GOP is ant-women, anti-healthcare, anti0LGBT, anti-Social Security, anti- … well, just anti-.

And that isn’t made any less clear that then press release issued by Maggie Gallagher — apparently unable to reprise her role as Jabba the Hutt in the new Star Wars — which states that six GOP presidential candidates have signed a pledge to sign the First Amendment Defense Act [FADA] into law within the first 100 days of their administration.

What is FADA, you ask? Well, it’s a law that would bar the federal government from acting against anyone who discriminates against LGBT Americans in the guise of “religious liberty.”

So, anytime anyone wants to fuel their anti-gay hate, all they have to do is say the Baby Jeebus made ‘em so it and it’s legal under a President GOP.

The pledge was orchestrated by Jabba’s, er, Gallagher’s American Principles Project, the Family Research Council, and the Heritage Foundation, all of your basic hate groups.

And the six signees are not so surprising, but are Ted Cruz, Carly Fiorina, Mike Huckabee, Ben Carson, Rick Santorum, and Marco Rubio.

Jabba, er, Maggie said:

“It has become clear that the First Amendment Defense Act is rapidly becoming a signature issue that unifies the GOP. Three out of the four top contenders for the nomination — Carson, Cruz, and Rubio — have pledged to prioritize passing FADA in their first 100 days of office. Additionally, Bush, Graham, Paul, and now for the first time, Donald Trump, have publicly expressed support for FADA. Real, concrete protections for gay marriage dissenters appear to be just one election victory away.”

To be fair, the chances of FADA being passed by Congress are extremely slim, and these Hate Groups know it, but there are still Hate Groups out there trying to set us back, and still some candidates out there willing to do their bidding.

And do we want to go back to the way things were?

I Didn't Say It ....

Sean Hayes, on going back into the closet when he hit it big on Will and Grace:

"I was so young. It made me go back in the closet [with the media] because I was so overwhelmed at 26 or 27. I didn't want the responsibility, I didn't know how to handle the responsibility of speaking for the gay community. I always felt like I owed them a huge apology for coming out too late. Some people in the gay community were very upset with me for not coming out on their terms. They don't stop to think about what's going on in somebody's personal life, and the struggles that they're having. It was all very scary. We got death threats. It was a really rough time for me, but I was also having the time of my life."

Sean Hayes eventually came out publicly in March 2010.

I was one “Those Gays” that was annoyed by his refusal to be open — even though I know it’s his choice. I felt he did a great disservice to LGBTQ youth by not being out, open, and himself.

It’s nice to see him come to that understanding.

Maggie Gallagher, basically waving the anti-equality White Flag:

"I believe the Supreme Court is going to impose gay marriage in all fifty states within the next two years. I think the battle's going to shift to religious liberty and we're gonna need politicians with backbone. What happened first in the gay marriage issue is liberals used their dominance in the mainstream media to persuade GOP pundits that they should be silent on the issue and retreat."

A couple of things, Mags:

Number 1: put your tongue in your mouth you’re no Miley Cyrus.

Number 2: Please whine some more about religious liberty because I have yet to see one case of a gay couple suing a religious group demanding that the church perform their wedding. It.Doesn’t.Happen.

Number 3: STFU.

Chely Wright, openly lesbian country star, to openly gay country singer Steve Grand:

“This is uncharted territory, as you know. I came out after having been in the business for years. He’s trying to get into the business. The fact that he’s openly gay prior to getting a record deal will likely be tough for him. That said, there is progress every day and I think it takes a tremendous amount of courage for him to identify as gay when he did. Very brave! It’s a new day, and I hope that someone on Music Row will give him a chance. He’s clearly motivated and honest. That’s what country music is supposed to be about—honest people telling honest stories about life. He’s certainly doing that. Stay strong, Steve!”

Chely paved the way for Steve Grand and he might have, might have, an easier path because she came first. And if he does, then maybe, maybe, she’ll regain the acceptance that Country music showed her before she came out.

Steve Grand, openly gay singer, on the rumor of undergoing "conversion therapy":

"I want to make it clear that it’s been misrepresented that I went through what most people know as conversion therapy. I saw a Christian therapist who, among many other beliefs, believed I’d be happier in a straight life. He didn’t shame me for being gay. Most of the focus, we weren’t even talking about my sexuality. But certainly his belief that I’d be living a happier life as a heterosexual was indeed harmful. In no way, shape, or form—I can’t even believe I have to clarify this—do I condone ex-gay therapy. I think it’s a horrible practice. There’s no scientific basis for it. A person’s sexuality is a part of who they are. And I certainly suffered for not having my sexuality affirmed."

More proof, as if anyone with a brain firing on all cylinders needed it, that gay Conversion Therapy doesn’t work.

You can’t turn a gay person straight nay more than you can turn a straight person gay.

We are all born the way we are born.

Lance Bass, who got engaged to boyfriend Michael Turchin, on their upcoming wedding to be aired on a "particular network":

"I love a party. It's going to be nice and big and over the top. The network offered us a big wedding special. Knowing myself in the 1980s growing up a gay kid in Mississippi, I would loved to have seen something on TV I could relate to and go, 'Oh, my gosh, I could do that!' ... I don't know if we will even have groomsmen or bridesmaids. Since there's no wedding dress and half the excitement of a wedding is to see the wedding dress and what it looks like ... we're wanting all of our guests to come completely over the top, high fashion like you're heading to the MET Ball or the Royal Wedding."

Leave it to Bass to make a circus out of a same-sex wedding, which is just the thing that the rightwingnuts will jump on: the idea of The Gays making a mockery of marriage.

I mean, if he wants an over-the-top wedding, go on have one, but do we really need to see it?

I don’t, but then TV does come with an ‘Off’ button.

Tony Perkins, tired of all The Gays clutterin' up his DVR:
"When Gallup asked people to guess how many Americans were homosexual, most said 25%. Turns out, they were about 22% off. And while gays and lesbians make up about 3.4% of the population, they seem to get 100% of the consideration when producers write and cast new television shows. The debate over same-sex 'marriage' has been perfectly scripted by Hollywood. Television shows are full of lovable gay characters, whose dangerous lifestyle is just another funny footnote. Unfortunately for America, those make-believe people are having a real-life impact. It's no accident that almost 20% of Americans credit television with changing their minds on same-sex 'marriage.' It's time for families to let networks know that what they gain by being pro-homosexual doesn't compare with what they'll lose. And that's viewers."

Hmm, gays get 1005 of the consideration when producers write and cast shows?

Then, Tony, where are all the gays? I mean, I see some, Ellen and NPH and Sean, and there are others, but if The Gays are getting all the jobs I ain’t seeing it.

Maybe you’re just suffering from wishful thinking because you’d love see more gay shiz on TV?

I Didn't Say It ... On The End Of DOMA And Prop H8

President Obama:

“I applaud the Supreme Court's decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act.  This was discrimination enshrined in law.  It treated loving, committed gay and lesbian couples as a separate and lesser class of people.  The Supreme Court has righted that wrong, and our country is better off for it.  We are a people who declared that we are all created equal -- and the love we commit to one another must be equal as well. This ruling is a victory for couples who have long fought for equal treatment under the law; for children whose parents' marriages will now be recognized, rightly, as legitimate; for families that, at long last, will get the respect and protection they deserve; and for friends and supporters who have wanted nothing more than to see their loved ones treated fairly and have worked hard to persuade their nation to change for the better …. The laws of our land are catching up to the fundamental truth that millions of Americans hold in our hearts:  when all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free.”

Melissa Etheridge, openly gay singer:

"I look forward to exercising my American civil liberties and getting fully, completely and legally married this year to my true love of over three years, Linda Wallem. Once again our constitution stands strong. All men, and women, and everything in between are created equal."

Tony Perkins, FRC hellhound:

"By a single vote, five unelected justices determined that they know better than God and struck at the heart of marriage in America. It was a powerful rebuke of a law FRC helped develop, the Defense of Marriage Act, but not the final blow. Fortunately, conservative leaders across our country aren't about to let that happen. In interview after interview, tweet after tweet, the message echoed from Governor's mansions to congressional floors: we are not giving up. It started with Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) and flooded the wires since then. Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-KS) vowed to lead the fight for a Federal Marriage Amendment. Governor Mike Pence (R-IN) said he would use today's rulings as motivation to work even harder for a state marriage amendment. Are these rulings demoralizing? Definitely. But we will not let a court's definition of marriage define us." 

Chuck Hagel, Defense Secretary:

"The Department of Defense welcomes the Supreme Court's decision today on the Defense of Marriage Act. The Department will immediately begin the process of implementing the Supreme Court's decision in consultation with the Department of Justice and other executive branch agencies. The Department of Defense intends to make the same benefits available to all military spouses - regardless of sexual orientation - as soon as possible. That is now the law, and it is the right thing to do. Every person who serves our nation in uniform stepped forward with courage and commitment. All that matters is their patriotism, their willingness to serve their country and their qualifications to do so. Today's ruling helps ensure that all men and women who serve this country can be treated fairly and equally, with the full dignity and respect they so richly deserve."

Maggie Gallagher, NOM lapdog:

"The Supreme Court has just abandoned 7 million voters, giving us no justice and no access to the courts.  The California Supreme Court made it clear that the proponents of Prop 8 are delegated the right to defend the law if state official refuse to do so.  But after accepting standing in DOMA because. . .well because it wanted to, the majority of the Supreme Court justices simply punted unable to recognize a clear injustice in kicking out of court people who have devoted thousands of hours to the democratic process –and $3 million to the defense of the law–that the Court today treats as beggars with no interest in the outcome."

Bill and Hillary Clinton, a former President and a future President:

“By overturning the Defense of Marriage Act, the Court recognized that discrimination towards any group holds us all back in our efforts to form a more perfect union. We are also encouraged that marriage equality may soon return to California. We applaud the hard work of the advocates who have fought so relentlessly for this day, and congratulate Edie Windsor on her historic victory.”

Jerry Brown, Governor of California:

"After years of struggle, the U.S. Supreme Court today has made same-sex marriage a reality in California. In light of the decision, I have directed the California Department of Public Health to advise the state's counties that they must begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in California as soon as the Ninth Circuit confirms the stay is lifted."

Judy Shepard, LGBT advocate and mother of Matthew:

"After Matt came out to me, he once asked me if I thought gay couples would ever be allowed to get married. I told him I didn’t think it would happen in my lifetime, but it probably would in his. It’s so sad and ironic that it turned out the other way. But this case warms my heart, to think that his dream is still coming true. Dennis and I look forward to the day when loving, committed couples are able to marry in every state.”

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Catholic spokesbigot:  

“Today is a tragic day for marriage and our nation. The Court got it wrong. The federal government ought to respect the truth that marriage is the union of one man and one woman, even where states fail to do so."

RuPaul, Supermodel of the World:  

"I'm sending you both home. #DOMA and #Prop8, sashay away!"

Michele Bachmann, quitting Congressoman:

"Marriage was created by the hand of God. No man, not even a Supreme Court, can undo what a holy God has instituted. For thousands of years of recorded human history, no society has defended the legal standard of marriage as anything other than between man and woman. Only since 2000 have we seen a redefinition of this foundational unit of society in various nations," she continued. "Today, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to join the trend, despite the clear will of the people's representatives through DOMA. What the Court has done will undermine the best interest of children and the best interests of the United States."

Nancy Pelosi, US Senator, when asked about Bachmann's statement:

"Who cares?" 

NOM Is Losing Power As Donations Fall

The National organization for Marriage [NOM] likes to think, and act, like they have the support of most Americans in their goosestepping against marriage equality rights around the country, but it seem like that really isn't the case.

In fact, NOM saw a huge decline in the amount of money it raised in 2011--down from $9.1 million in 2010, to $6.2 million in 2011. Now, that may seem like a lot of money, and it may seem like a lot of folks are supporting the hate group, but just two donors are responsible for 75% of that $6 million; those two donors gave NOM $2.4 million each.

Human Rights Campaign Vice President of Communications Fred Sainz:

“The National Organization for Marriage continues to push the notion that there is some sort of grassroots support for their discriminatory anti-gay agenda [but] last week, that notion was soundly rejected by voters in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, and Washington State. Now, NOM’s own financial records are serving as the latest proof that support for LGBT equality is common-sense and mainstream. NOM is nothing more than a conduit channeling the anti-gay agenda of a few secretive, wealthy donors.”

The sharp drop in funding is especially lovely, considering that the group, founded in 2007 to fight for H8 in California, saw revenues increase every single year, until 2011. Just a little thing I like to call Proof That The Tide Is Changing regarding Marriage Equality.

In addition to illustrating that almost $4.8 million of NOM’s total $6.2 million in donations came from just two mysterious--i.e. too chickenshit to have their names listed--new documents also reveal some interesting information about NOM’s closest affiliates. For example, NOM paid $870,000 to CC Advertising--a group the Human Rights Campaign [HRC] recently filed an FCC complaint against for spamming unsuspecting cell phone users with anti-gay, anti-Obama text messages. The organization also paid nearly $375,000 to Frank Schubert, their ad guru who makes his living largely off of promoting anti-LGBT propaganda.

NOM spent upwards of $5.7 million on attempts to prevent marriage equality in Maine, Maryland, and Washington; write discrimination in Minnesota’s constitution; and politicize Iowa’s judicial system, and yet voters in all five states soundly rejected their bigoted message. 

Like I said, the times, they are a'changing, and NOM is feeling that in their coffers, and they are feeling it in their, lack of, numbers. One day soon, NOM, Maggie Gallagher, and Brian Brown, will just be footnotes of hatred in a failed attempt to keep some Americans as less than.

And I'm loving it!

via HRC

I Didn't Say It ....

President Barack Obama, in his 2012 Victory Speech:

"What makes America exceptional are the bonds that hold together the most diverse nation on earth. The belief that our destiny is shared; that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations. I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting....I believe we can keep the promise of our founders, the idea it doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or who you love. It doesn’t matter whether you’re black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or poor, able, disabled, gay or straight, you can make it here in America."

That pretty much sums up why he won.

One party sought to keep us all separated, while Obama seeks to bring us together.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson, kissing off his so-called “fans”—the anti-LGBT ones—on Facebook:

"As an actor I have learned that I have to develop a thick skin but as a HUMAN I am having a harder time. The amount of vitriol I have received in the past few days over my stance on marriage equality could kill an adult horse! The majority of my fans have been amazing & supportive. But I am in shock and ashamed of many of my 'fans' who are standing firm in their stance that I am 'less than' them because of my sexual orientation. To those who feel this way: I gladly show you the door and wish you well on your journey."

You have the right to your opinion, but if your opinion is discrimination, well, just move along …..

Joy Behar, on GOProud:

"I don’t understand the GOProud people either. Why are they voting for someone who’s against gay marriage, gays in the military? The Republican platform wants to roll back into 'don’t ask, don’t tell.' I mean, that is completely retro. It’s not all about your pocketbook, guys. I guess they feel their money will protect them from homophobia. A lot of people felt that way, in like Germany, for example."

I can understand conservatism, but I cannot understand anyone supporting any party that practices discrimination of any kind.

I guess, for me, money isn’t everything.

Donald Trump, on President Obama not stooping to his level of idiocy:

“For President Obama not to accept five million dollars (or much more) for his favorite charity can only mean one thing – the records are very bad.  Obviously he wasn’t born in this country or, if he was, he said he wasn’t in order to receive financial aid and in order to have a clear and very easy path into a college or university.  Only a very stupid person would believe otherwise. There can be no other reason that so much money would not be so easily and routinely collected for charity."

Or, maybe he realizes you’re just a host of a “reality” show and why even bother to acknowledge you?

You’ve lost it, Ronald McDonald Trump. You have officially jumped the shark, your dead rat scarcely moving from your head.

Luke Robinson, "Pastor", on the cause of Hurricane Sandy being New York City mayor, Mike Bloomberg, and his donation to marriage equality in Maryland:

"So here was the mayor of New York giving a quarter of a million dollars, coming down to Maryland discussing the matter. While he’s here somebody whispers in the ear, you better go back home and protect your stock because God is sending judgment. The thing came through the area. You have to understand the season and the time. It’s almost the end of hurricane season, but God sent one of the biggest hurricanes ever. The storm came through here, but for the glory of God the storm didn’t tear us up because we got that hope for us.  So with all of your money you still can’t win if God says he’s on our side."

Um, “pastor”? And I use that term loosely.

Maybe “God” sent the hurricane to shut the likes of you up? Maybe God sent the hurricane to warn you that a change is coming to this country and you best get with the program.

Or, maybe it was just bad weather.

Ass.

Maggie Gallagher, NOM Hellhound, on the smackdown the voters gave them regarding marriage equality:

"The Obama electorate defeated marriage. I’m guessing we lose at least three of tonight’s four races, and maybe four of the four. We were outspent eight-to-one—and no one was willing to speak for marriage, while the whole Democratic establishment and Hollywood campaigned for marriage. Last night really is a big loss, no way to spin it."

The spending doesn’t matter, Maggie.

What matters is that you’re wrong, hateful, divisive and deluded, and the country is tired of you and Little Boy Brian.

Now, be gone before someone drops a house on you.

Ari Fleischer, former W spokes-tool, on how the GOP can come back:

"The big issue that Republicans are going to have to wrestle with is the Hispanic issue. It's not the social issues. You're not going to make the party pro-choice and pro-gay rights and think you've made the Republican party the party that's the popular party. We have a party like that. It's the Democratic Party."

This is why the Democrats won, Ari.

The GOP stayed back in the 1950s, discriminating against The Gays, the Latinos, and deciding they, and only they, should be able to tell a woman what to do with their bodies.

The GOP better change soon, or else they’ll be losing more often.

Chris Kluwe, Minnesota Viking punter and LGBT-advocate/ally/hero, on Minnesota’s same-sex marriage ban going down in flames, and on marriage equality:

"Together, we made a statement that America is tired of division. America is tired of discrimination, of exclusion, and of unthinking oppression—the belief that people have to live their lives according to someone else's views rather than their own free will. Together, we made sure that the world our children will grow up in is one step closer to tolerance, love, and equality; a world where our children can make their own choices instead of being shackled to dusty hate from the past."

It’s always been baby steps, but Tuesday we took several baby steps all at once.

It’s a good feeling.

I Didn't Say It ....

Dan Savage, on Tony Perkins and the FRC and LGBT suicides:

"Tony Perkins and the Family Research Council—First of all, they tell, Tony Perkins tells parents whose kids come out to reject them. Tony Perkins tells the parents of queer kids to do what Tony Perkins damn well knows drives those kids to suicide—doubles their already quadruple rate of suicide. Why would someone who calls themselves a Christian do that? Because every dead gay kid is a victory for the Family Research Council. They argue that the gay lifestyle is sick and sinful and dangerous and they point to the suicide rate, and then they turn around and do everything in their power to make sure that suicide rate does not come down and to drive it up. Tony Perkins sits on a pile of dead gay kids every day when he goes to work—and he calls himself a Christian. I don’t understand how real Christians let that little fucker get away with that."

As usual, Dan doesn’t mince words, and as usual, he’s right.

I don’t care if you think being gay is wrong, or being gay is a sin, or being gay is a One Way Direct Flight to Hell, but when you keep saying that, all the while praising yourself as a good Christian, and you watch young LGBT youth kill themselves rather than live in a world of hate, you are not of God.

You are disgusting. You are to blame.

Harry Jackson, “Bishop,” who says he prayed a newspaper into bankruptcy:

"One night I walked past one of those newsstands. As I was walking past it, I looked at that newsstand and they had some article about same-sex marriage and all that blasphemous stuff. And I laid hands on that newsstand and I said, 'In the name of Jesus, I CURSE THIS PAPER!' Less than two months, that paper went bankrupt. It was part of a six-newspaper chain! It went bankrupt! It went out of business! IT WENT UNDER! It did!"

It appears that Harry was taking about the Washington Blade, which did file for bankruptcy, but then resurrected itself and remains in business three years after Jackson's failed "curse." 

But, this begs a bigger question, if Harry Jackson’s prayers are answered why are gay folks still here? Why are they still getting married in DC?

Why is Obama still president?

Ann Romney, putting another nail in Mittsy’s chances of being elected:

"You know, I think my biggest concern, obviously, would just be for his mental well-being....I have all the confidence in the world in his ability, in his decisiveness and his leadership skills, in his understanding of the economy, in his understanding of what's missing right now in the economy - you know, pieces that are missing to get this jumpstarted. So for me I think it would just be the emotional part of it."

Seriously? Is she saying he can do the job, that he has the skills necessary to do the job, that he’s the best man for the job, but he’s just not emotionally prepared to do it?

Wow. For once I agree with Ann; her husband is not now, nor ever will be, emotionally equipped to lead this country.

Maggie Gallagher, on marriage equality:

"If marriage really were dead, people would not respond so powerfully to the idea that marriage matters because children need their mom and dad. If you despair, I respect that, but why try to get others who have hope to despair? Do the things for which you have hope. But you may be wrong about the future. Do not discourage others who have hope from acting on it.  Our 'traditional' view of marriage was won by the Church over several hundred years of argument with pagan philosophers. What we did once, we can do again."

No, Maggie, you can’t do it again, because we no longer live in the Dark Ages where your kind of fear mongering pays off.

You’re on the wrong side, Maggie, so best for you just to sit down and be quiet.

Matt Barnes, Los Angeles Clipper forward, apologizing for using a gay slur [f**king faggot] against a police officer who arrested him last year:

"I would like to apologize for the unfortunate language I used.  I know that certain words are extremely hurtful. I meant absolutely no disrespect to anyone.  This comment, spoken in the heat of a difficult moment, does not accurately reflect my actual point of view."

Um, Matt, asshat? If you know certain words are hurtful, then why do you use them? And you did disrespect a group of people, and, well, if the words fall from your lips in the heat of the moment that means the words are always in your head.

You meant it; you’re just trying to save face for getting caught.

Try this apology, next time, and I’m sure there will be a next time: “I’m sorry to be such a dick. I am going to work to erase that word from my brain. I will never, ever, say that word again. I’m sorry, I’m a dick.”

Madeleine Albright, on Mitt Romney:

"He is so two-dimensional. I mean, up close and personal, there's just nothing going on.  It's the sense that I've had throughout the campaign that it's unclear what [Romney] really believes in. I think when you contrast him with President Obama, who also gave a speech later there, and President Clinton, who spoke several times there, there is not, kind of, a sense of depth."

He’s cardboard. He’s nothing. He says whatever needs to be said to whatever audience to whom he is speaking. He’ll do and say anything to get elected so, yeah, we have no idea who Mitt Romney really is.

Except for being a failed presidential candidate, again.

Janice Fountaine, co-founder of the New Independent Christian Party:

"The practice of homosexuality and self-pleasure, are age old systems, being recharged and reorganized for end-time warfare. It is being orchestrated from the diabolical realms of the supernatural and manifested on earth, with the overall intention, to silence the church forever. These actions, by Satan, is an all out declaration of victory, as the church finds itself caught off guard and intertwined in his evil end-time warfare, strategies and systems.”

First off, Janice, I don’t “practice” homosexuality, I was born this way so it just comes naturally.

And are you really saying that two men having sex, or two women, or me, say, um choking my chicken, is a weapon in the battle?

Yeah, sign me up for that army.

Rachel Maddow, on the 2007 Jeremiah Wright tape that was dragged out by right-wing as an attempt to paint Obama as some kind of race-baiter:

"See this is supposed to make you think that in this tape from before he was President Barack Obama he's revealing his secret plan to be way more Black than he seems to you now. This is how he snuck into the White House. People actually didn't know he was this Black and if they had known he was this Black they never would have elected him. That's the idea here, right? The efforts to make President Obama's race sound like new news and to make it seem shocking are now ramping up aggressively."

It’s the GOP rightwingnut, Teabaggin’ answer to Mittsy’s secret tapes where he tells all of us that he doesn’t care about half of us.

That dog won’t hunt.

Dan Cathy, of Chick-fil-A-hole, still hating The Gays:

"Families are very important to our country. And they're very important to those of us who are concerned about being able to hang on to our heritage. We support Biblical families, and they've always been a part of that."

Um, Dan, you dipshit? Gay families exist. Gay parents exist. Children of gay parents exist. And for you to somehow say that we don’t matter, that those of us who are gay and choose to be Christian, somehow don’t matter, is oh-so-very Christ-like.

Seriously, when Jesus comes back, his first stop will be at Burger King.

He doesn’t like Chicken Roasted in Hate.

Paul Ryan, on what a Romney presidency will do about marriage equality:

Ryan when asked his thoughts about marriage:

"First of all, Mitt Romney and I—I’ll just say it, it’s worth repeating—we believe marriage is between one man and one woman, that’s number one. Number two, you know where I come from we had one of those amendments in Wisconsin, I was a big supporter of it and we passed it like you say, where it’s put on the ballot it passes. The second point is, President Obama gave up defending the Defense of Marriage Act in the courts, I mean, not only is this decision to abandon this law the wrong decision, it passed in a bipartisan manner, it is very troubling because it undermines not only traditional marriage but it contradicts our system of government. It’s not the president’s job to pick and choose which laws he likes. A Romney administration will protect traditional marriage and the rule of law and we will provide the Defense of Marriage Act the proper defense in the courts that it deserves."

There you have it, straight from the horse's ass: if you are gay, have a gay relative, friend, or neighbor, and vote Romney/Ryan, you are voting for discrimination to be written into the US Constitution.
Discrimination is not an American value, no matter how many times Hound Dog Eyes tries to spin it.

I Didn't Say It....

Beau Biden, Delaware Attorney General and, well, hottie, on his father, Joe Biden's, support of marriage equality:

"My dad spoke from the heart. I'm incredibly proud of what he said. I'm even more proud of what the president said as it relates to making sure that this is a fundamental civil rights issue. It's a civil rights issue. It's something that people in my state, in Delaware, and everywhere I go are incredibly proud of the stance that the president has taken on a matter of equality. At a moment we're sending people to defend our nation – whether they be gay or straight – to not allow them to have the same rights that we all have on the home front just doesn't make sense."

Word.

Bill Donohue, Catholic League spokesdouche, on the legal wedding between NYC mayoral Candidate, Christine Quinn, and her partner, Tina Caputo:

"The people who go know they are not witnessing a wedding. I will be at a bar [on Saturday] watching the Preakness. The horses are a lot more fun - and it's real."

Um, Bill, you delusional dumbfuck.

It is a real wedding. Same-sex marriage is legal in New York. So, go, drown your sorrows in alcohol you pitiful loser.

Matthew McConaughey, on what he might do if one of his children was gay: "There’s nothing in me that can understand disowning your child because they’re gay. You deal with it, you support them, and you also help prepare them for how some people in the world will treat and think of them."

I still get an icky vibe from McConaughey, but, hey, he seems to be pretty cool if he had a gay kid, so maybe….maybe…..I’ll remove a couple of Ick Points.

Audra McDonald, on marriage equality: 

"I've been a real loud active voice in the movement to get marriage equality. And I had gone up the month before to Albany, when they were days away from that historic vote, to rally and to see who I could talk to, and just be another face out there saying let's do the right thing here....I had read a beautiful story in The New York Times about the couple who were getting married, and that Mayor Bloomberg was going to preside over their wedding at Gracie Mansion. And my friend called me and said, 'They'd love to have you come and sing.' And I was floored. I was so honored. And I cried like a baby at that ceremony. And I brought my daughter. And it was a very moving moment and a very teachable moment having my daughter there. And as far as she was concerned, it was just another wedding. She doesn't really see the issue, which is great. So that's how it came about. It was a beautiful day."

That’s the deal about same-sex marriage.

The younger generation doesn’t see the problem.

Love is love. Two consenting adults want to make a commitment.

What is the big deal?

Ken Bennett, Arizona Secretary of State, on keeping President Obama off his state's November ballot:

"First of all, I’m not playing to the birthers, I’m not a birther. I believe that the president was born in Hawaii, or at least I hope he was. Hawaii has a special provision in their law that allows other government officials from other states to request what’s called a verification in lieu of a certified copy of a birth certificate. So I’m not asking for the certified copy of the birth certificate at all. I was frankly expecting that they would very quickly and very simply say ‘yes.’ Eight weeks later, they haven’t. I can’t seem to get them to say yes."

Ken, you are a birther. This question has been asked and answered almost non-stop since 2008 and yet you GOP douchebagging, wingnutting, asshatting morons keep bringing it up.

Enough already. Arizona has tons more issues to deal with than this nonsense. 

Bill Owens, "Reverend", of the Coalition of African-American Pastors, asking Obama to devolve on same-sex marriage:

"A 50-year-old can only read about the struggles and protests of the civil rights era, but some of us who are older have the battle scars to prove it. And the rights we fought so hard to acquire did not include same-sex marriage. We ask President Obama to stand with the black church, on the Word of God and evolve again back to the common sense biblical view that marriage is the union of husband and wife."

Marriage rights are Civil Rights, “Reverend”, no matter how many times you say they aren’t.

Civil Rights aren’t a black, brown, yellow, white, male, female, gay, straight issue.

They are a human issue.

Alveda King, NOM ally and the niece of Martin Luther King, Jr., on the NAACP's support for marriage equality:

“Neither my great-grandfather, an NAACP founder, my grandfather Dr. Martin Luther King Sr., an NAACP leader, my father Rev. A. D. Williams King, nor my uncle Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. embraced the homosexual agenda that the current NAACP is attempting to label as a civil rights agenda. In the 21st century, the anti-traditional marriage community is in league with the anti-life community, and together with the NAACP and other sympathizers, they are seeking a world where homosexual marriage and abortion will supposedly set the captives free.”

Honey. You need to sit down.

Your Uncle is ashamed of you.

Welton Gaddy, Reverend and President of Interfaith Alliance, on "Pastor" Charles Worley's sermon which suggested gays and lesbians be rounded up, put in electrified pens, and left to die:

"In one fell swoop this angry minister managed to discredit from his pulpit both the Constitution of the United States and the compassion that we find in the bible, and additionally he did a very dangerous thing by planting seeds of hatred in sick minds that in the right circumstances can act on them and do the kind of violence that has no place in our world."

I think his sermon is Hate Speech, and I think if one of his delusional flock acts on his “sermon” then he should be brought up on charges of inciting Hate.

50 Cent, on marriage equality: 

“I think everyone should be happy. I think a fool is going to go against same sex marriage at this point.....Look how long it took [Obama] to say he was for same sex marriages. You understand? I’m up for it. If everyone else is for it, then hey, to each his own. I don’t have personal feelings towards it because I’m not involved in that lifestyle. I want people to be happy. It makes for everything to be better.... {but} we need organisations for straight men. We do. We need organisations for straight men in the case you’ve been on the elevator and somebody decides they want to grab your little buns.”

Really, Fiddy? We need an organization to protect straight men from having their asses grabbed by gay men?

You started off real good there, in your little speech, like it was all equality, and then you turned it into a stereotyping asshatted moronic statement.

I wouldn’t grab your ass if it was the last ass on Earth.

Douche.

Maggie Gallagher, NOM's Hellhound, dismissing polls showing no effect from Obama's marriage equality support...and, in that same article she cites polls that feed her delusions:

"Polls are just static snapshots....Obama, by endorsing gay marriage, has broken through the media silence imposed on those who oppose gay marriage, generating new, unexpected and highly visible expressions of opposition. All of a sudden, pastors across America are preaching against gay marriage. Conservative talk radio shows are addressing it. People are hearing that their friends and neighbors disapprove. A new dynamic is in play, set in motion by Obama's misjudgment: He believed the pundits and chose the money over the voters. That's almost always a bad bet for a president. In November, unless he evolves again, he will find out just how bad a bet that was."

Maggie. Maggie. Maggie.

You delusional hypocrite.

Your fat behind is on the wrong side of history and I cannot wait until Marriage Equality is the law of the land so I can watch your fat, cheese-filled head explode.

Colin Powell, General and former Secretary of State, on marriage equality:
"I have no problem with it...As I’ve thought about gay marriage, I know a lot of friends who are individually gay but are in partnerships with loved ones, and they are as stable a family as my family is, and they raise children. And so I don’t see any reason not to say that they should be able to get married."


It looks like everyone is evolving.
Evolution is good.