Maggie Gallagher, NOM High Priestess of Hate, on Dan Savage's "sexual ethic" of valuing honesty over fidelity and the disaster that, she says, will be his upcoming MTV show:
"There was a thoughtful analysis of [Savage's] sexual ethics in the Washington Monthly recently, for folks who want to get a taste of what he writes. The essay, by a Lutheran Minister, ends by pointing out where Savage ethics lead. A young man, in love with his girlfriend, with whom he has had a rather open and satisfying sexual relationship, but is tempted by more "sexual variety" asks how he can ask for that without ruining his relationship, which he values. Savage, who for all his experience, does not know what women are like, advises him to tell her openly and honestly what he wants, because otherwise the young man will just cheat on her. The Lutheran minister, wiser in the ways of men and women, suggests that this young man is going to get pretty lonely looking for another woman able to give him all this young woman does--and who doesn't mind his playing around on the side. The possibility of taming one's sexual desire for the sake of another, or of a vow, is not in the Savage moral imagination. Libido will have out, and honesty about that is the best policy. He brings, in other words, the best of gay sexual ethics and experience to a straight audience, with potentially disastrous results."
And Maggie thinks we should take our moral cues from either her, or a Lutheran minister, about sexual ethics.
Maggie, those who can, do; those, like you, who can't, try to impose their limited worldview on the rest of us.
Dan Savage, responding to Maggie Gallagher:
"I do not intend to 'educate your college students,' Maggie. Your college students—the offspring of NOM supporters—are being 'educated' at Brigham Young, Liberty University, Bob Jones, Seattle Pacific University, and other Christianist madrassas. My college tours typically take me to secular institutions of higher learning where the kids were hooking up and having sex long before my visit to campus. I know what women are like. I may not know what women taste like—I've never gone down on one—but I do know what women are like. My mother was a woman, my sister is a woman, my aunts are women, my favorite bartender is a woman, lots of my friends, neighbors, and coworkers are women. And as someone who sleeps with men and is a long-term relationship with a man, I know what (straight) women have to put up with. I'm not the first gay man that women have turned to for advice about love and sex, Maggie, and I won't be the last. And aren't you a practicing Catholic? Not knowing what women are like (or taste like) has never stopped the Pope from offering his unsolicited advice to women—no birth control, no abortions, no oral, no anal, no handjobs—and it's hypocritical of you to suggest that I'm not qualified to advise women, since I won't fuck 'em, without first telling that old fag in Rome to STFU already."
Again, Dan, Brazilliant!
Glenn Beck, on his cancellation, er, "transition" out, of his FOX News program:
"I took the job two years ago because I thought I had something important to share. I really thought that if I could prove my case that something wicked this way was coming, something in America was wrong, America would listen. And, they have. I'm surprised at both the number that have and haven't even with all of the facts....When I took this job I didn't take it because it was going to be a career for me. Paul Revere did not get up on the horse and say 'Hwaa I'm gonna do this for the rest of my life!' He didn't do it. He got off the horse at some point and fought in the revolution..."
Difference is, Glenn, your ignorant fuck, is that Revere got off the horse of his own free will. He wasn't pushed off because he was a moronic gasbag out of touch with the real world, and pandering to the lowest wingnuts he could find.
Diane Gramley, head of the Pennsylvania chapter of the American Family Association, announcing a new campaign against the repeal of DADT:
"We are undermining our military [with this policy] and thus undermining our national defense, so we are encouraging them to get into the thick of the battle because that's what it's going to take to get this terrible law thrown out. If we allow this implementation to go forth, then it will destroy our military, and there's no doubt about that. So we're encouraging Pennsylvanians to contact Congressman Bill Shuster and Congressman Mark Critz and ask them to protect our military."
So, um, Diane, honey?
Equality undermines people?
Treating everyone the same is bad for our national defense?
You need to dig your fugly mug out of the sand and realzie that equality for any oif us is eqaulity for all of us, and only works to make things better.
And seriously, honey, a little blush and some eyeliner would do wonders.
Former Australian High Court judge Michael Kirby, on how he wants marriage equality, but would probably never take advantage of it with his partner John van Vloten:
"After all our engagement has gone on for 42 years so it's getting a bit late in the day. But it ought to be there for those who want it. Religion should butt out of this. This is a matter of the civil rights of fellow citizens and it's really not acceptable to deprive fellow citizens on the grounds of the religious views of some."
Nicely put, but it's never too late to tell your friends and neighbors, and countrymen, and the world, of your love for your partner, and your commitment to your partner, and your desire to be seen as a legally wed couple, no matter how many years are under your belts, like everyone else.
American Family Association's Bryan Fischer, proving again why his little group is listed as a hate group:
"Welfare has destroyed the African-American family by telling young black women that husbands and fathers are unnecessary and obsolete. Welfare has subsidized illegitimacy by offering financial rewards to women who have more children out of wedlock. We have incentivized fornication rather than marriage, and it’s no wonder we are now awash in the disastrous social consequences of people who rut like rabbits."
Wow, just when you thought he was rabidly anti-gay, you find out he's a big old sheet-wearing-cross-burning-job-denying-stereotyping racist.
Virginia wingnut Governor Bob McDonnell, on opposing a proposed regulation to ban discrimination against adoptive gay parents:
"I don’t think we ought to force Catholic Charities to make that part of their policy or other similar situated groups. Many of our adoption agencies are faith-based groups that ought to be able to establish what their own policies are. Current regulations that say you can’t discriminate on the basis of race, color or national origin I think are proper. I think previous efforts to expand that to a number of other classes are going to have very strict scrutiny to make sure that we don’t inhibit the very fine work some faith-based organizations are doing."
Yes, let's keep the kids in foster care and in orphanages instead of allowing them to be placed in the homes of people, who just happen to be gay, who want to raise a child, and nurture a child, and love a child.
That would be horrific, and so un-"christ"-like.
Bob Smith, comedian and author, on Facebook:
"Read that Arizona Gov. Brewer wants to tax obese people because they cost more for health care. If the Republicans take this national, then Rush Limbaugh, Gov. Christie, Haley Barbour, Roger.Ailes, (head of Fox News) and Huckabee's sons could pay off the national debt. These guys aren't right-wing, they're right Buffalo wing dipped in blue-cheese dressing."
Too bad Brewer doesn't want ignorant racist delusional fucks to pay higher taxes, because she could pay off the debt all by her lonesome.
Still, "right Buffalo wing dipped in blue-cheese dressing" is high-larious.
Bill Maher, on how the Democrats should get tougher:
"Republicans don't run from unpopular stances and they stand by their convictions. Stupid, ignorant, world-destroying convictions based on disproven economic fantasies, and ancient books filled with primitive morality and magic people, but convictions nonetheless."
Maher's right.
The Republicans keep saying the most hateful, and wrong things over and over again and then people start to believe them--well, at least irrational people.
Prime example: Michelle Bachmann, who wouldn't know the truth if it knocked her in the head and straightened out her crazy eyes.
The Dems need to get tough, and stay tough, and stand up, and fight.
And the GOP will implode on their own inconsistencies.
Teabagger wingnut, and complete moron, Louie Gohmert, a Republican from Texas, on how the US action in Libya is actually a false flag operation meant to exhaust the military's resources so Obama can call up his super-secret army as authorized in the health care reform bill:
"It's a bad bill. And then when you find out that the prior Congress not only passed that 2,800 page bill with all kinds of things in it, including a new president's commissioned officer corps and non-commissioned officer corps. Do we really need that? I wondered when I read that in the bill. But then when you find out we're being sent to Libya to use our treasure and American lives there, maybe there's intention to so deplete the military that we're going to need that presidential reserve officer commissioned corps and non-commissioned corps that the president can call up on a moment's notice involuntarily, according to the Obamacare bill."
Point proven.
The GOP, and it's Hounddogs From Hell, making completely fabricated statements as though they were the gospel.
And we all know how members of the GOP follow the tenets of the gospel.
See, the Ready Reserves Corps of medical personnel created in the health care reform bill, are meant to serve in national emergencies, like, say, Katrina, but Gohmert and his ick, er, ilk, say they will actually be an army of Obama's private henchmen.
Gohmert also fails to mention that the concept of the Ready Reserves Corps was first put forward by the Bush administration after 9/11. He also fails to mention that he makes these claims from the podium of an empty House chamber.
Yes, no one was listening, and no one has the chance to call him on his asshattery.
Crazy Eyes, Michele Bachmann, who selectively forgets that these tough economic times started under the Bush regime, the regime that started an illegal war for oil, based on lies and fear:
"I think that the agenda that we have seen - we know that sixty-three percent of all households have seen a major decline in their personal wealth, a decline in their personal income, and an increase in their debt level. That's all attributable directly to Barack Obama's principles. I don't think it's by accident we're seeing people struggling and we're seeing redistribution of wealth. I think Barack Obama is getting exactly the outcome that he hoped for. All of us, I think are perhaps giving the President too much credit thinking, well, he probably just doesn't understand that liberalism actually makes people poorer. I actually think that this is what the President wants. I believe that he wants to see redistribution of wealth because if you ever notice, the President seems to be angry and irritable and sarcastic about people who have succeeded in the United States and job creators. Those seem to be the two sectors that he most wants to punish."
There are no words.
Bachmann will make this her new mantra no matter how many times she's proven wrong.
She's either a crafty little liar, or a completely delusional asshat.
I think it's both.
Donald Trump, on why he's opposed to marriage equality, and how he thinks Obama will come out in favor of it:
"I just don't feel good about it. I don't feel right about it. I'm against it. And I take a lot of heat because I come from New York...I'm opposed to gay marriage...We have other problems in this country. I don't think a president should be elected on gay marriage or not gay marriage...Based on everything I see, I think Obama is going to come out in favor of gay marriage."
Trump.
Using his money and his ample hair, to pander to the lowest common denominator.
He "just doesn't feel good" about marriage equality.
But he's felt good enough about traditional marriage to have done it three times.
Montana GOP Representative, and bar owner, Alan Hale, speaking out against a bill that would stiffen the state's DUI laws:
"These DUI laws are not doing our small businesses in our state any good at all. They are destroying them. They are destroying a way of life that has been in Montana for years and years. These taverns and bars in these smaller communities connect people together. They are the center of the communities. I'll guarantee you there's only two ways to get there: either you hitchhike, or you drive, and I promise you they're not going to hitchhike."
Ladies and gentle-ladies, I give you the future of the GOP.
Blind to facts.
Deaf to reason and logic.
But most of all, Dumb.
Donald Trump, again, riding the Birther Train:
"A lot of the so called birthers, these are great people, these are really great American people. These are hard working, unbelievable, salt of the earth people. I'm proud to be, I mean I'm very proud of it. I don't like the term 'birther.' I think it is a demeaning term to the people that believe that he should have a birth certificate, that some people believe he was not born in this country. And when people ask me that question I just can't be sure because nobody knows. I have a birth certificate. People have birth certificates. He doesn't have a birth certificate. He may have one but there is something on that birth certificate — maybe religion, maybe it says he's a Muslim, I don't know. Maybe he doesn't want that. Or, he may not have one."
It's demeaning to call them birthers, but it isn't demeaning to question a president, for the first time in history--and oddly enough the first Black president--about his birth certificate.
It's racism, Trump, and you'rte pandering to it.
Sinead O'Connor, on the Pope and the epidemic of Catholic clergy sexual abuse scandals:"There should be a full criminal investigation of the Catholic hierarchy of any country in which this has been an issue. There should be a full criminal investigation of the Vatican. There should be a full criminal investigation of the pope. The pope should stand down for the fact that he did not act in a Christian fashion to protect children, and for the fact that his organization acted to preserve their business interests decade after decade rather than be concerned about the interests of children, and for showing so much disrespect for Christ, God, the victims, the rest of us, their own clergy. . . . The Vatican and the pope need to get on their knees and confess the full truth in the same language they make us use in Mass. . . . They need to get on their knees, open everything up, be transparent, tell the truth, ask the people for forgiveness and prayers."
James Cameron on Glenn Beck:"Glenn Beck is a fucking asshole. I've met him. He called me the anti-Christ and not about 'Avatar.' He hadn't even seen 'Avatar' yet. I don't know if he has seen it...I think, you know what, he may or may not be an asshole, but he certainly is dangerous, and I'd love to have a dialogue with him...He's dangerous because his ideas are poisonous. I couldn't believe when he was on CNN. I thought, what happened to CNN? Who is this guy? Who is this madman? And then of course he wound up on Fox News, which is where he belongs, I guess...[The right wing are] just people ranting away, lost in their little bubbles of reality, steeped in their own hatred, their own fear and hatred. That's where it all comes from. Let's just call it out. Let's have a public discussion. That's what movies are supposed to do, you know, you can have a mindless entertainment film that doesn't affect anybody. I wasn't interested in that...Anybody that is a global-warming denier at this point in time has got their head so deeply up their ass I'm not sure they could hear me."
Barney Frank on the anti-gay slurs used by Teabaggers during the health care debate:"There was a great deal of shouting, you know, waving of fists and signs, and sort of people getting very close and yelling. And a number of the comments were homophobic.... What occurs to me is, there are kids all over the country watching this, not as a game but as real life. And watching so-called respectable politicians cheering them on. And that was just discouraging, that at this point in our history, we couldn't have a rational debate with these kind of thug tactics that were being used.''
Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin on DADT and ENDA:"Certainly there are members of Congress who are nervous because of the economy, the rate of joblessness. Across the country, people are agitated. On the other hand, my constituents want to see bolder and quicker change, and so I actually see positive signs to follow through [on DADT and ENDA]."
Carmen Electra, on her breast implants:"I had breast surgery over 10 years ago…which took a bit of time to get used to. I didn't want to go as big as that. It's nice that I don't have to wear a push-up bra any more, but I could have left myself alone."
Magician James Randi, known as 'The Amazing Randi', coming out of the closet:"Well, here goes. I really resent the term, but I use it because it’s recognized and accepted. I’m gay. From some seventy years of personal experience, I can tell you that there’s not much “gay” about being homosexual. For the first twenty years of my life, I had to live in the shadows, in a culture that was--at least outwardly--totally hostile to any hint of that variation of life-style....Gradually, the general attitude that I’d perceived around me began to change, and presently I find that there has emerged a distinctly healthy acceptance of different social styles of living--except, of course, in cultures that live in constant and abject fear of divine retribution for infractions found in the various Holy Books...In another two decades, I’m confident that young people will find themselves in a vastly improved atmosphere of acceptance....I'm in excellent company: Barney Frank, Oscar Wilde, Stephen Fry, Ellen DeGeneres, Rachel Maddow, are just a few of those who were in my thoughts as I pressed the key that placed this on Swift and before the whole world…"
Drag Queen Joan Collins on real men in Hollywood:
"There's a big difference between the male stars of bygone years and today's slightly metrosexual-looking actors. Johnny Depp, Leonardo Di Caprio and Sean Penn are all wonderful actors, but they are chameleon-like when it comes to their place on the masculinity meter. As for today's TV stars, to me they seem just like ordinary, faceless men cut from the same male cookie-cutter. I don't recognise most of them, and in any case their star doesn't burn brightly for very long on TV nowadays. Viewers are fickle and shows are cast off the networks faster than old bait."
Former Australian High Court Justice, and out gay man, Michael Kirby, from a book of essays about justice issues: "Openness about sexuality helps to destroy the foundation for prejudice and discrimination. One day there will be a big parliamentary apology to gay people for the oppression that was forced on them and the inequalities that were maintained in the law well beyond their use-by date. Just like the delayed 2008 apology to the Aboriginal people of our country."I also do not doubt that, in a comparatively short time, Australia will move towards same-sex civil unions and gay marriage. No one has satisfactorily explained how my 40-year loving relationship with my partner Johan in any way affects (still less undermines) heterosexual marriage. If Australians are now more homophobic than racist, as some recent public opinion polls suggest, this is because Australians have lacked good leadership on this issue." 
Lt. Dan Choi on his arrest for chaining himself to a White House fence:"There was no freer moment than being in that prison. It was freeing for me, and I thought of all of the other people that were still trapped - that were still handcuffed and fettered in their hearts. And we might have been caged up physically, but the message was very clear to all of the people who think that equality can be purchased with a donation, or with a cocktail party, or with tokens, that are serving in a public role. We are worth more than tokens. We have absolute value. And when the person who is oppressed by his own country wants to find out how to get that dignity back - being chained up and being arrested - that's how you get your dignity conferred back upon you. And so I think that by actions, my call is to every leader - not just talking gay leaders - I'm talking any leader who believes in America, and the promises of America can be manifest. We're gonna do it again. And we're going to keep doing it until the promises are manifest. And we will not stop. This is a very clear message to President Obama and any other leader who supposes to talk for the American promise and the American people. We will not go away."
Huffington Post blogger and military veteran Rob Smith, on Dan Choi's protest:"Dan Choi will always be that rock star activist that handcuffed himself to the gates of The White House. Of course Dan Choi jumped the shark, and he did it in his military uniform for all the cameras to see. You know what, though? I think what we needed was to see something like this to light a fire under each and every one of us that cares as deeply as he does about Don't Ask, Don't Tell repeal, and about full equality in general. This movement needs him as much as it needs me, or Jarrod Chlapowski, or Lt. Col Victor Fehrenbach, or any of the other gay veterans who share our past of silent service knowing that it reflects the present of thousands of gay soldiers currently serving. Maybe it's time to act up all over again. Maybe the rumblings of this being a part of a more coordinated activist effort are true. Maybe it is time to Get Equal."People keep wondering who's going to be the Martin Luther King of the gay rights movement, and that I still don't know, but I think yesterday's actions may have put us one step closer to finding our Malcolm X."