Chris Matthews: Obama gives me a woody
From Newsbusters:
During MSNBC’s live coverage of Tuesday’s presidential primary elections, after the speeches of Barack Obama and John McCain had aired, Chris Matthews expressed his latest over the top admiration for Obama’s speaking skills as the MSNBC anchor admitted that Obama’s speech created a “thrill” in his leg: “It’s part of reporting this case, this election, the feeling most people get when they hear Barack Obama’s speech. My, I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don’t have that too often.” Minutes later, Brian Williams poked fun at Matthews’ confession: “Let’s talk about that feeling Chris gets up his leg when Obama talks … That seems to be the headline of this half hour.”
Barry O opens his cakehole, and it becomes high noon on Chris Matthews’ sundial. I mean, “Not that there’s anything wrong with that”, right?
Brits: Hey, let’s not say “mother” and “father” in school, m’kay?
Euros have decided it’s both presumptuous and offensive to attribute two heterosexual parents to a schoolchild…even if 99% of them do indeed have a mother and father. From the UK:
Teachers should not assume that their pupils have a “mum and dad” under guidance aimed at tackling anti-gay bullying in schools.
It says primary pupils as young as four should be familiarised with the idea of same-sex couples to help combat homophobic attitudes.
Teachers should attempt to avoid assumptions that pupils will have a conventional family background, it urges.
It goes on to suggest the word “parents” may be more appropriate than “mum and dad”, particularly in letters and emails to the child’s home.
Well, we’d certainly hate for Little Nigel’s fathers to get their #ssless chaps in a bunch, now wouldn’t we? Why, if Little Jane’s mommies get word that “parents” was used in school, they’d have her out of there lickety split!
Thanks to PabloD for the tip.
Trannies gather in Gainesville
Wonder no more why I refer to UF’s town as Gaysville! From Hogtown’s fishwrap:
City Hall was buzzing Monday night with both protest and support for a proposed city ordinance that would include gender identity as a class of people protected from discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodation.
The auditorium had standing-room only, as did the entryway where a large crowd watched the decision on closed-circuit television. The vast majority of those who spoke on the issue were against the ordinance.
Those in favor of the ordinance lauded it as a step toward increased human rights for transgender individuals, who some said are marginalized in society.
The ordinance would add gender identity as a category of people protected from discrimination. Discrimination based on race, religion, sexual orientation and gender are already outlawed in Gainesville.
City officials defined gender identity as a situation where people have an inner sense of being a gender other than their gender at birth.
Like I said before, this issue is simple: if you’re born with a schlong, you’re male, and if not, you’re female. Glad I could clear up such a complex scientific problem.
University of Michigan to teach class on how to be gay
Take heart, Ohio State Buckeyes! While you may have lost the national title game to LSU, at least you’re not as messed up as your rivals in Ann Arbor. From Ace:
How To Be Gay
—Ace
A new course at the University of Michigan. Seriously. That’s what it’s called.
ENGLISH 317. Literature and Culture.Section 002 — How to be Gay: Male Homosexuality and Initiation.
Credits: (3; 2 in the half-term).
Instructor(s): David M Halperin (halperin@umich.edu)
Course Description:
Just because you happen to be a gay man doesn’t mean that you don’t have to learn how to become one. Gay men do some of that learning on their own, but often we learn how to be gay from others, either because we look to them for instruction or because they simply tell us what they think we need to know, whether we ask for their advice or not.
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In particular, we will examine a number of cultural artifacts and activities that seem to play a prominent role in learning how to be gay: Hollywood movies, grand opera, Broadway musicals, and other works of classical and popular music, as well as camp, diva-worship, drag, muscle culture, taste, style, and political activism. Are there a number of classically ‘gay’ works such that, despite changing tastes and generations, all gay men, of whatever class, race, or ethnicity, need to know them, in order to be gay? What is there about gay identity that explains the gay appropriation of these works? What do we learn about gay male identity by asking not who gay men are but what it is that gay men do or like? One aim of exploring these questions is to approach gay identity from the perspective of social practices and cultural identifications rather than from the perspective of gay sexuality itself. What can such an approach tell us about the sentimental, affective, or subjective dimensions of gay identity, including gay sexuality, that an exclusive focus on gay sexuality cannot?Didn’t we just used to watch Lost in Space to know all this crap?
My sources (genuine and checked against CBS News memos) say that the Village People will be special guest speakers, and that the final exam is oral.
Headline of the day
Headline: “Homosexuality Turned On and Off in Fruit Flies”
Exit questions: (1) How are scientists able to determine that an insect is gay? Do they have Village People posters, #ssless chaps, Indigo Girls ticket stubs, or cats?; (2) if gayness is disabled in “fruit flies”, does that mean they simply become “flies”?
We ask the tough questions here, my friends! 
Iranian weirdbeards kill the last Iranian homosexual
When Ahmanutjob remarked recently there were no gays in Iran, he didn’t know there was one left. So Iran went ahead and killed the remaining homo.
Finally, Iran has their queer-free panacea, and if they had to be a little barbaric and savage to achieve it, then (a) it’s no different than the many other acts of Islamic barbarity we’ve seen; and (b) the bloodthirsty camelhumpers felt it was well worth it.
UPDATE: Hillary’s garden
UPDATES AT THE END THIS POST.
Shrill-ary, Shrill-ary, positions contrary, how does your garden grow?
Not only has Her Highness had a problem by planting questions at her own debates, but now she’s resorted to using plants at the other party’s debates. From Townhall:
It turns out that Keith Kerr, retired Colonel., U.S. Army; retired Brigadier General, California National Reserve, who submitted a YouTube question about gays in the military, is actually a member of Hillary Clinton’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transexual Americans For Hillary Steering Committee. He’s also part of a film production crew trying overturn the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.
CNN’s retort?
In the final seconds of the post-debate coverage, Anderson Cooper acknowledges that CNN messed this up and states that CNN did not know that Kerr has a position within the Clinton campaign and that had they known, they would have disclosed the association.
Uh-huh. Just an honest mistake, I’m sure. It’s not like CNN has been embarassed before for not “weeding” before debates. Oh, wait…yes, they have.
CNN’s “vetting” process allowed many more “undecided” questioners in. By “undecided”, I mean “people who are already campaigning for Obama or Edwards”…you know, that kind of “undecided”? Nope…no liberal media bias!
UPDATE (11/30/2007 – 07:39 a.m. EST): This thing keeps getting progressively (pun intended) screwier and humiliating for CNN. We’re now seeing that a CNN producer last week swore that the GOP debate would have leftist plants weeded out, and that he wanted the debate to be a debate of the GOP party…which, as Allah puts it, would “explain the six different Democrat questioners”, right? Yep…two more Democrat plants!
As if that weren’t bad enough, CNN then admits that they never should have used General Limpwrist’s question (on account of him working with the Shrillary campaign). But if they really felt that way, why then did they get defensive thusly?
“It’s interesting to see our critics really focusing on the questioners, but not really focusing on the questions. You haven’t heard them say that these were not useful questions.”
Dude, make up your freakin’ mind, already! If the questions are legit and the questioners irrelevant, why say that you never should have used General Cornholer’s question?
As to the question of “Does it matter who asks the questions, if the questions are legit?”, Allah puts it best:
As I said, it matters when they’re affiliated with a campaign and the affiliation isn’t disclosed because then you’re left to wonder (a) if they were there secretly at the campaign’s behest to try to force an issue into the other party’s nominating process for political advantage, and (b) what CNN’s motive might be in not vetting and disclosing the affiliation. All they had to do with Kerr was mention he was with the Clinton campaign.
But why would they want to do that? That would require journalistic competence and integrity, both of which are sorely lacking at CNN. No wonder Fox News continues to kick their pinko #sses.
UPDATE (11/29/2007 – 01:35 p.m. EST): Byron York makes an excellent point here. Remember when the Dems refused to debate on Fox News due to charges of bias? If anyone should have boycotted a network’s moderation of a debate due to bias, it should have been the GOP boycotting the Clinton News Network…
Democrats would not even appear for a debate on Fox News, where they would have been questioned by experienced and respected journalists like Brit Hume and Chris Wallace. But Republicans went ahead with the CNN/YouTube show, where they were questioned by…well, some questionable characters.
As Ace quips:
It made for sharp questioning and good drama. But if that’s the name of the game, let me suggest to CNN that they allow a paralyzed veteran with limbs missing due to an IED attack similarly grill the Democratic candidates on whether they support the Democratic Congress’ determination to choke off all monies needed for the military’s anti-IED program. Give him the mic, live, and let him harangue the Democrats on the viciousness of IEDs, and the viciousness of them putting soldiers’ lives, and limbs, in jeopardy to appease their netroots base.
UPDATE (11/29/2007 – 12:30 p.m. EST): How about this? This queer general (Kerr) that CNN supposedly didn’t know was part of the Hillary camp was flown to the debates, put up in a hotel room, and given free transportation to and fro…by CNN!
According to General Limpwrist, Kerr told FOX News that CNN “never asked” him if he is a Clinton supporter so he “never told.” I thought dude was against “don’t ask, don’t tell”?
I agree with MSNBC host Joe Scarborough: CNN’s contention that they “didn’t know” about Kerr (or any of the other plants) is “total crap”!
Memphis trannies raise hell at Mickey D’s
Not one of the more flattering national headlines from my hometown. From Dan Riehl:
Three cross dressing Black males have been arrested after an assault on the staff of a Memphis McDonald’s. According to reports, after not getting a clerk’s attention by tapping on a drive up window, the men took off their earrings and high heels, picked up a tire iron and went inside to confront the employees.
McBrawlersThree cross-dressing customers who attacked a McDonald’s staff late Sunday evening have been, um, dragged off to jail after police captured them yesterday afternoon. (If you somehow managed to miss this Memphis moment, get the details here.)
Dacorian Greer, Danny Mitchell, and Lynn Gillespie, all in their late 20s, were charged with assault and damage of property over $500 after their unladylike behavior, which included smashing the drive-thru window and peeling off accessories to better teach the workers a lesson in customer service.
As any good cross-dressers would, the three began to kick off stiletto boots (to better keep their balance while swinging), remove hoop earrings (no danger of having them yanked out), and take off their jackets (less restriction of movement) in order to deliver a McWhoopin’ on the staff.
Next time, get the queens their Big Macs post haste! “Two snaps up in a circle!”
Hillary shares same taste in women with Bubba?
Not to be outdone by her hubby’s “bimbo eruptions”, Her Highness may have some of her own: From Drudge:
The TIMES of London starts ‘The Ugliest Month’ with a full page photo takeout on Hillary Clinton and her beautiful personal assistant.
“Hillary Clinton has been accused of having an affair with Huma Abedin,” reads the caption.
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The splash stunned British readers and angered campaign insiders.
“This does not even qualify as tabloid trash… it’s ridiculous and reckless,” a Hillary confidante explained over the weekend.
Taking the whisper from the underground to the overground, the paper made no claims to knowing any truth of the relationship between Hillary and Huma, in its story headlined: “Snarls, smears and innuendo as attack dogs get ready for the fray.”
The current campaign promises to become one of the dirtiest in modern history.
We’re not even into the full swing of the primary season quite yet, and stuff like this pops up. Maybe we should do like CBS and just accept this innuendo as fact…you know, “too good to check”?
San Fransicko to issue ID cards without gender identified
Next year, San Francisco will issue municipal identification cards showing the usual name, birthdate and photo.
What the card won’t include: gender.
When other cities considered issuing ID cards without regard to legal status, the debate was over illegal immigrants. In San Francisco, where the Board of Supervisors approved such an ID on Tuesday, transgender activists added gender to the discussion.
“Transgender” is a broad term for people who do not identify with their birth sex. Those who refer to themselves as transgender include cross-dressers and transsexuals.
“The card really makes gender a non-issue,” says Kristina Wertz, legal director of the Transgender Law Center in San Francisco. …
Here’s an intemperate and highly politically incorrect observation: your gender is determined by how you are born. Born with twig-and-berries? You’re male. Born with a vertical smile? You’re female. Period. Sorry if you’re arrogant enough to believe that God screwed up.
If you want to dress in the opposite sex’s clothes, be my guest. Just don’t complain when I gawk at you. If you want to shell out your own money to get your body’s plumbing re-routed, have at it. But just because you have a doctor slice off your schlong and give you a bush doesn’t make you a female…it makes you a schlongless male with a bush.
Also, read that again: trannies are “people who do not identify with their birth sex.” In other words, they’re delusional and in denial. “Stop calling me a man! I’m not Carl…I am Carol!” Normally, if someone in our society is delusional like that, we give them meds. In San Fransicko, they give them ID cards.
I don’t know why, but I’m always amazed at just how much lower San Fransicko can sink every time they do something like this.
Iranian weirdbeard: Gays should be tortured, er, killed
Obviously, when Ahmanutjob said there were no gays in Iran, he was right: they kill gays in Iran. Don’t be hatin’…they’re just listening to Allah. From the UK’s Times:
Homosexuals deserve to be executed or tortured and possibly both, an Iranian leader told British MPs during a private meeting at a peace conference, The Times has learnt…
Minutes taken by an official describe a meeting between British and Iranian MPs at the Inter-Parliamentary Union, a peace body, in May. When the Britons raised the hangings of Asqari and Marhouni, the leader of the Iranian delegation, Mr Yahyavi, a member of his parliament’s energy committee, was unflinching. He “explained that according to Islam gays and lesbianism were not permitted”, the record states. “He said that if homosexual activity is in private there is no problem, but those in overt activity should be executed [he initially said tortured but changed it to executed]. He argued that homosexuality is against human nature and that humans are here to reproduce. Homosexuals do not reproduce.”
Before any of you try and retort with the lame yet predictable “Christianity says the same thing”, let me retort in advance: No, it does not!
The Bible is clear on homosexuality: it’s an abomination in the eyes of God. But guess what? So is heterosexual fornication, theft, lying, murder, coveting, and a whole slew of other things. No one of those is any worse in the eyes of God than the other. God does not incite us to commit an act of violence against those who engage in any of those sinful activities.
“Oh yeah?”, you ask, “what about Leviticus 20:13? It says ‘If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them. ‘? That’s an incitement to murder if I’ve ever heard one!” Regardless of what that Democrat cretin Fred Phelps might say, any references in the Bible to “must be put to death” are speaking of spiritual death imposed by God (i.e. Hell), since obviously killing another human being would clearly contradict the “Thou shalt not kill” commandment. Being an unrepentant limpwrist won’t get you to Hell any faster than being an unrepentant liar or thief. Judgment is His, not ours.
Don’t believe in God? Not my problem. Believe in God, but not the “thou shalt not be a pillowbiter” part? Not my problem. You want to be a polesmoker? Be my guest. But one thing you can’t ignore is that nowhere in the Bible does God command anyone to torture, kill, or harm gay people. Period. According to Iran, Islam cannot make that claim.
Brits try to outlaw gay jokes
They must have officially run out of problems in Eurotrashland, so they’re turning to this:
The right to crack jokes or be rude about homosexuals could fall victim to new government laws to stamp out “homophobic” behaviour, Rowan Atkinson, the Blackadder star warned yesterday.
Atkinson, who mounted a successful campaign in 2004 to water down legislation aimed at criminalising expressions of religious hatred, has returned to the fray to defend the art of gay leg-pulling.
His concern is that Labour ministers are so obsessed with creating laws to stop people being rude about each other that they are putting in danger the right to free speech and, equally dear to his heart, the comedian’s craft.
In a letter to a newspaper he accused ministers of filling their legislative programme with measures that have “serious implications for freedom of speech, humour and creative expression”.
Atkinson was referring to measures in the Criminal Justice Bill, currently passing through Parliament, which could mean people who stir up hatred against homosexuals being put in prison for up to seven years.
He said the Government measures, which could be expanded to cover hatred against disabled or transgendered people, seemed to be “infinitely extendable”.
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Atkinson added: “The devil, as always, will be in the detail but the casual ease which some people move from finding something offensive to wishing to declare it criminal – and are then able to find factions within government to aid their ambitions – is truly depressing.”
Free speech is cool…unless it is used to offend queers. Then it sucks (pun intended).
Exit question: if the Euros were to outlaw Christian jokes or other derogatory remarks about Christian, don’t you think the howls of outrage would be louder than Barney Frank at a Chippendale’s show?
Phelps smacked with multimillion dollar verdict, plus MSM sloppiness
The loathsome Fred Phelps of the “God hates fags” and “let’s go taunt families of fallen soldiers at their funerals” klan got his just desserts yesterday. Happy Halloween, bitch! Allah has more:
The sweetest part? The punitive damages, which is where the real money is, are still to come.
Albert Snyder of York, Pa., the father of a Westminster Marine who was killed in Iraq, today won his case in a Baltimore federal court against members of Topeka, Kan.-based Westboro Baptist Church who protested at his son’s funeral last year.
The jury of five women and four men awarded Snyder $2.9 million in compensatory damages. The amount of punitive damages to be awarded has not yet been decided. The jury deliberated for about two hours yesterday and much of today…
Specifically, he charged that they violated his privacy, intentionally inflicted emotional harm and engaged in a conspiracy to carry out their activities. The jury decided in Snyder’s favor on every count.
This will open the floodgates for the other families who’ve been protested by Phelps to sue and put him in the poorhouse, if the verdict stands on appeal. That’s the real test here. The tort of intentional infliction of emotional distress that Snyder won on hinges on “outrageousness”; a standard example is prank-calling someone to tell them their spouse or child was killed in an accident. It’s up to the jury to decide if the offending behavior is so beyond the pale that the perpetrator should actually have to atone by paying the victim money. Given the parties involved here, a sympathetic verdict was a foregone conclusion. The question on appeal will be whether the First Amendment protects Phelps from the IIED claim, with the Falwell case, which also involved IIED, sure to be cited as precedent. In that case Larry Flynt’s editorial cartoon about Falwell was ruled to be protected speech, but only because Falwell was a “public figure” for First Amendment purposes, which the Snyder family likely is not. The Court’s reasoning was that people have to be free to criticize public figures in order to engage in public debate; otherwise they’d live in fear of being hit with an IIED suit every time they said something harsh. Whether they need the same freedom to criticize the war by holding “God Hates Fags” signs outside a soldier’s funeral is another matter. Phelps will point to this language in the opinion in his defense:
“Outrageousness” in the area of political and social discourse has an inherent subjectiveness about it which would allow a jury to impose liability on the basis of the jurors’ tastes or views, or perhaps on the basis of their dislike of a particular expression. An “outrageousness” standard thus runs afoul of our longstanding refusal to allow damages to be awarded because the speech in question may have an adverse emotional impact on the audience.
If you take that seriously, all IIED claims should be unconstitutional on First Amendment grounds. The Court evidently doesn’t believe that’s true, though, because it declined to rule that way in Falwell, limiting its decision instead to cases involving public figures. Phelps’s only chance is to ask them to extend that ruling and now declare all IIED claims flatly unconstitutional or to argue that the Snyder family are limited purpose public figures for purposes of the analysis, which would strengthen the First Amendment defense. With a conservative Supreme Court and public sentiment overwhelmingly in the plaintiff’s favor, they’ve got a tough haul.
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Update: Like I said, the big money’s in the punitives.The jury first awarded $2.9 million in compensatory damages. It returned later in the afternoon with its decision to award $6 million in punitive damages for invasion of privacy and $2 million for causing emotional distress.
Interesting that the lion’s share comes from the privacy claim, not the IIED claim. It’s my understanding that the Phelps people followed the law and kept their statutorily mandated distance from the funeral itself. I wonder if that’s going to affect these damages on appeal.
For those on the left who want to try and tie Phelps to the right, you’re out of luck: he’s a Democrat. Heck, he even campaigned on behalf of the Goron. Sorry, that’s your loon, and you can keep the scumbag.
By the way, as Allah also shows, the MSM got predictably lazy and sloppy on the matter. Since most everyone knows that the Phelps cockroaches are the shameful “God hates fags” people, the MSM just assumed the following about the fallen soldier in question:
Someone apparently tipped them off to their laziness, because the “erroneous” gay angle went down the memory hole a little later. Asks Allah: “How ill-informed must they be not to know that the ‘God Hates Fags’ crap is SOP for Phelps?” Though a rhetorical question, I’ll answer: incredibly ill-informed. Like I’ve stated before, the MSM has gotten so lazy, sloppy, and agenda-driven that they don’t even bother to do basic research and editing anymore.
Nope…no liberal media bias!
Euros take away foster child because parents won’t endorse homosexuality
This would be impossible to believe, were it not in Eurotrashland. From Hot Air:
The boy’s been placed now with a kindly atheist family that’s promising to teach him well “the ways of teh ghey.” No no, kidding. He’s languishing in a youth hostel — after having lived with the couple for two years.
It seems they didn’t love thy neighbor quite enough to suit British law.The devastated couple, who have three grown up children of their own, became foster parents in 2001 and have since cared for 28 children at their home in Chard, Somerset.
Earlier this year, Somerset County Council’s social services department asked them to sign a contract to implement Labour’s new Sexual Orientation Regulations, part of the Equality Act 2006, which make discrimination on the grounds of sexuality illegal.
Officials told the couple that under the regulations they would be required to discuss same-sex relationships with children as young as 11 and tell them that gay partnerships were just as acceptable as heterosexual marriages.
They could also be required to take teenagers to gay association meetings…
Mr Matherick, a 65-year-old retired travel agent and a primary school governor, said: “I simply could not agree to do it because it is against my central beliefs.
“We have never discriminated against anybody but I cannot preach the benefits of homosexuality when I believe it is against the word of God.”…
Religious campaigners say the couple are the latest victims of an equality drive which puts gay rights above religious beliefs.Muslim groups are complaining too, so maybe Christians can ride the coattails of “Islamophobia” to eventual victory here. Exit question: With Britain needing an extra 8,000 foster parents to meet demand, is it time for Britain to do something daring and consider religious families?
We are reminded of the last time the Euros caved in to queer political correctness: pedophile foster parents sexually abused children in their care because of a P.C. fear of offending gays. Absurdity abounds in Eurotrashland.
Shortage of foster parents? Cool, the Euros have an answer: make the number even smaller. Bloody brilliant, Limeys.
News bytes
I’m busier than Israeli bombers over a Syrian nuke plant today, so here’s some reading to tide you over:
In CA, “Mom”, “dad”, “husband”, “wife” are sooooooo yesterday!
From Neal Boortz:
According to this story from WorldNetDaily, California government schools have banned the words “Mom,” “Dad,” husband,” and “wife.” Well .. at least that’s the argument from the Capitol Resource Institute, and since we’re talking about California here … they may not be too far off. All it will take now is a lawsuit or two to get things rolling. Governor Schwarzenegger signed the bill which also orders government schools to allow boys to use girls’ restrooms and locker rooms and vice versa.
One of the bills signed is SB777, which ban anything that could be interpreted as negative toward homosexuality, bisexuality and alternative lifestyles. Another is AB394 which targets parents and teachers with “anti-harassment” training.
Any text, reference or teaching aid that alludes to the idea of marriage as only between a man and a woman is banned. Any materials that say that people are born as either male or female – and does not offer an ‘in between’ option – is officially banned. Any sources that do not include transsexual, bisexual and homosexual historical figures can no longer be used. And sex education materials must offer the option of a sex change.
Moving on, homecoming kings can no longer be limited to just males. The same goes for homecoming queens. And students can choose which restrooms and locker rooms they want to use, the restrooms that correspond to what they believe their sexual orientation to be.
This same bill will promote these issues by using taxpayer money to create publications, postings, curricula and handouts for students, teachers and parents. It also says that parents who refer to marriage by only its “traditional” terms in the presence of a gay teacher could be convicted of harassment. And students who believe that you are born just male and female could be reported as a harasser.
Analysts are afraid that this legislation will affect schools across the county. This is because textbook publishers must cater to their largest purchaser … and that is often-times California. It would be too expense (sic) to have separate editions of textbooks for other states.
Californiastan…who knew?
Trannys ticked off at Barney Frank
Talk about biting the hand that feeds you. From the AP:
Rep. Barney Frank, a leading gay rights champion in Congress, on Thursday urged fellow gay rights advocates not to let their dispute over protecting transgender workers doom a job discrimination ban that could mark a major civil rights advance for gays in the workplace.
The debate over including transgender people has sharply divided gay rights activists, many of whom are trying to kill a stripped-down bill without protections for transgender workers that Frank and Democratic leaders hope will win House passage this year.
“We’re not going to be split off this way,” said Matt Foreman, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. “We’re driven by principle. No civil rights movement has ever left a part of its community behind – and we’re not about to be the first.”
Frank, D-Mass., one of two openly gay members of Congress, supports transgender protections, but said they don’t have the votes.
“Politically, the notion that you don’t do anything until you can do everything is self-defeating,” he said.
Frank said the public has more awareness because gay activists began educating people about the unfairness of prejudice based on sexual orientation a long time ago.
“These things take awhile,” Frank said. “The transgender issue is of relatively recent vintage.”
Congressman Prostitution Ring has a modicum of sense here. He knows fully well that if you put in that provision for “gender identification”, the bill is deader than Ted Kennedy’s liver.
Political correctness steals innocence of children
Congrats, Euros. Your fear of “offending” someone and of being “insensitive” caused this to happen (hat tip to Michelle Malkin):
A homosexual foster couple were left free to sexually abuse vulnerable boys in their care because social workers feared being accused of discrimination if they investigated complaints, an inquiry concluded yesterday.
Craig Faunch and Ian Wathey were one of the first homosexual couples in the country to be officially approved as foster parents. They looked after 18 children in only 15 months. With no previous convictions, they came across as respectable men who simply wanted to help boys with a variety of problems. In reality, they were paedophiles, who repeatedly abused the children in their care.
Even when the mother of two of the children reported her suspicions to the council, officials accepted the men’s explanations and did nothing. Instead of banning children from staying with Faunch and Wathey, they sent youngsters with more serious problems to them. Between them, the couple abused four boys aged between eight and 14.
In a scathing report published yesterday, Wakefield Metropolitan District Council was condemned for treating the men as “trophy carers”. The children’s charity Kidscape said those in charge of overseeing the safety of children in the care of Faunch and Wathey had allowed political correctness to override common sense.
The report, following an independent review of the case, said: “One manager described the couple as ‘trophy carers’ which led to ’slack arrangements’ over placement.
“Another said that by virtue of their sexuality they had a ‘badge’ which made things less questionable.
“The sexual orientation of the men was a significant cause of people not ‘thinking the unthinkable’.
“It was clear that a number of staff were afraid of being thought homophobic.
“The fear of being discriminatory led them to fail to discriminate between the appropriate and the abusive.”
There’s more, like the fact that one of their victims was a 14-year-old autistic boy. But I don’t think you need to read the whole thing in order to get the idea here: political correctness is horrific and dangerous.
Quote of the day
More like “snark of the day”, from Larry Craig:
“I am not gay!”
Of course not. Why is it that in this society of ours, we think that a man who likes to boink other men necessarily must be gay? I mean, just because he gets off on dudes doesn’t mean he’s queer, right?
Wait a minute…yeah, it means exactly that. OK, never mind.
GOP Senator caught in gay “lewd act”
Those of you who know me or who have been around here long enough know that I don’t like hypocrisy, regardless of from which side it originates. Therefore, I have no qualms about whacking a Republican when he/she has it coming to him/her. Right Wing Nut House reflects my sentiments here:
I have made no secret on this blog of my distaste for the Republican strategy of pushing opposition to abortion and gay marriage as litmus tests for GOP candidates and as “wedge” issues to use in campaigns.
While I acknowledge there are many millions of sincere, devout Christians (and other social conservatives) who see these issues as vital to the moral fiber of the nation and thus worthy of standing them up front and center as the party’s main identity, from a personal standpoint, I strenuously disagree. (This isn’t the part where I agree, but he’s leading up to it. – Ed.)
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Another time I might make the argument that they are not even conservative issues but such a post is not in my pen tonight. Instead, I want to talk about the regularity with which conservative Republicans seem to get themselves into trouble over sex. The latest is Idaho Senator Larry Craig who was arrested in a Minneapolis restroom for “lewd conduct.”“At 1216 hours, Craig tapped his right foot. I recognized this as a signal used by persons wishing to engage in lewd conduct. Craig tapped his toes several times and moves his foot closer to my foot. I moved my foot up and down slowly. While this was occurring, the male in the stall to my right was still present. I could hear several unknown persons in the restroom that appeared to use the restroom for its intended use. The presence of others did not seem to deter Craig as he moved his right foot so that it touched the side of my left foot which was within my stall area,” the report states.
Craig then proceeded to swipe his hand under the stall divider several times, and Karsnia noted in his report that “I could … see Craig had a gold ring on his ring finger as his hand was on my side of the stall divider.”
Karsnia then held his police identification down by the floor so that Craig could see it.
“With my left hand near the floor, I pointed towards the exit. Craig responded, ‘No!’ I again pointed towards the exit. Craig exited the stall with his roller bags without flushing the toilet. … Craig said he would not go. I told Craig that he was under arrest, he had to go, and that I didn’t want to make a scene. Craig then left the restroom.”The conduct doesn’t seem lewd to me and the whole story reeks of something very fishy. But the fact is, the Senator pled guilty and probably thought that it would stay out of the papers if he didn’t make a fuss.
The point really isn’t whether he’s guilty or innocent. The point is that this sort of thing becomes a huge issue because of the way the party talks about gays and the way many GOP stalwarts like Reverends Robertson and Dobson talk about sex. The perception that Republicans are a bunch of bigoted blue noses stuck in the 19th century with Victorian sensibilities about the bedroom turns off a lot of voters – especially the young.
A brief look at this eye popping poll that shows the vital 18-29 year old group turning up their noses at Republicans is very significant. I was in that age group when I became a Republican and many of my fellow Reaganites were also young, eager conservatives who drank in the enormous intellectual ferment that bubbled up from dozens of places in Reagan’s Washington. We were on the cutting edge and we knew it.
Nowadays, I don’t blame young people for turning off the GOP. The corruption, the hypocrisy, the sanctimony, and the tired old men pushing tired old ideas to an ever shrinking number of wealthier, whiter, men has the GOP in deep, deep, trouble. If I were that age again, I probably wouldn’t support Republicans either.
Perhaps the predicted disaster in 2008 will wake a few people up. Not likely based on what happened in 2006. As the left did for 30 years, the push will be for more ideological “purity,” more fealty to what passes for conservative issues today.
Just at the moment that our country needs the right’s commitment to fight a war against an implacable, unyielding foe, our own stupidity is going to allow the milquetoast left to ascend to power. For that, our children and grand children may curse us for our folly.
One of RWNH’s commenters observes that in order for the GOP to excel, it needs this kind of “internal examination” of people like Craig, Foley, etc. I don’t disagree with that.
Look, I see absolutely nothing wrong with a gay Republican. You don’t have to dig chicks to see the damage that liberalism inflicts on the body politic. However, if you’re going to campaign on “traditional family values” and what a big “family guy” you are, it probably wouldn’t be a bad idea to avoid public bathroom sexual hookups (especially with other dudes), now would it?
By the way, Craig was part of Mitt Romney’s campaign team, but not anymore.
Quote of the day
You gotta love that Silky Pony! From the Des Moines Register:
Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards squeezed into a pair of Spandex bike shorts today and pedaled on the RAGBRAI route with champion cyclist Lance Armstrong.
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“This is actually not hard, this is fun,” Edwards said as he climbed a hill on County Road T16 on a black Trek road bike he borrowed for the day. “The biggest problem is my butt hurts. Is that normal?”
Must…resist…juvenile…gratuitous…homo…reference!
Arafat died of AIDS
Karma…it’s not just for breakfast anymore. God forgive me, but this made me laugh harder than Bill Clinton does whenever taking an oath (marital oath, oath of office, oath to tell the truth in court, etc.). From Moonbattery:
It’s official: terrorist Nobel Peace Prize–winner Yasser Arafat died of AIDS. As Mark Steyn notes, this wasn’t a big surprise to everyone:
[Arafat having died of AIDS was] pretty much an open secret in diplomatic circles. I’m in Madrid at the moment, and it prompted many knowing chortles among political types I mentioned it to today, along with fond reminiscences about Yasser’s corps of hunky blond Scandinavian bodyguards — an odd bunch of chaps to find in Ramallah, but presumably they were doing the jobs Palestinians won’t do. (Although I bet the Nobel prize committee would do it! – Ed.)James Lewis observes that the Western media must have known all about it, but kept it quiet for fear of damaging the postmortem reputation of their favorite terrorist. He accuses Arafat of being a Typhoid Mary of AIDS, knowingly spreading the deadly disease as he indulged his homosexual lusts. This would hardly be out of character for a malignant narcissist like Arafat, who has made it obvious that other humans exist only for his own pleasure and enrichment; their suffering means nothing. Look what he did to Israelis with his terror wars, and to Palestinians by deliberately holding them in poverty, resolutely scuttling any chance of peace and squirreling away Western aid in his own Swiss bank accounts.
This is the kind of guy who gets awarded the Nobel Peace Prize nowadays, thanks to moonbattery.
What do the bloodthirsty camelhumping jihadists who idolzed him think of such un-Islamic (and punishable by death) behavior? Prediction: “It’s a Zionist lie! Let’s riot and blow stuff up! Le-le-le-le-le-le-le-le-le-le!“
Robo-potties in South FL?
OK, this is actually a non-partisan (though definitely a political) post that I just had to pass on. From South Florida, via WND:
Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jim Naugle says his city has a problem with “homosexual activity” in public restrooms and he has a plan to stop it – robotic toilets that allow occupants to stay inside for only a short time before the door automatically opens. …Fort Lauderdale police officials said male sex in public restrooms is no longer a problem, but Naugle insists the practice persists and has used recent public meetings and e-mails to constituents to raise the issue. …
Naugle said the proposed location for the city’s first experimental unit is “the rainbow parking lot” at a local beach considered by some to be the area’s “gay beach.”
“The homosexual newspaper said it’s the ‘gay parking lot.’ That’s not me saying that,” Naugle told the Sun-Sentinel, “that’s what they said. I don’t use the word ‘gay.’ I use the word ‘homosexual.’ Most of them aren’t gay. They’re unhappy.”
OK, I don’t care to debate whether gays are happy or not (but if you guys want to do so, I shan’t interfere). I just have two points to ponder:
1. Exactly how much time is “enough time” to lay cable? You definitely get an idea of how heavy-handed Big Guvmint is getting when it determines what an appropriate amount of time to pinch a loaf would be. Guys, don’t take that newspaper or magazine into the stall, lest ye have the doors fling open for all the world to see (and, presumably, to smell)!
2. The Fort Lauderdale cops who actually work the beat say that male sex in public restrooms is no longer a problem. Mayor Naugle insists the practice persists. Intemperate question…how would he know?
Cops: “It’s not going on!”
Naugle: “Yes, it is! (pauses) Uh…I have ‘sources’ that tell me it does. I mean, it’s not like I’ve been around it! Just, uh, trust me already, OK???”
Wingnut alert: Yet another "God destroys Earth ‘cuz of gays" comment
When it’s not that deplorable media whore Fred Phelps, it’s some other “man of God” who purports to know why God hits the planet with floods, famine, plane crashes, etc. From the UK:
The floods that have devastated swathes of the country are God’s judgment on the immorality and greed of modern society, according to senior Church of England bishops.One diocesan bishop has even claimed that laws that have undermined marriage, including the introduction of pro-gay legislation, have provoked God to act by sending the storms that have left thousands of people homeless.
While those who have been affected by the storms are innocent victims, the bishops argue controversially that the flooding is a result of Western civilisation’s decision to ignore biblical teaching.
The Rt Rev Graham Dow, Bishop of Carlisle, argued that the floods are not just a result of a lack of respect for the planet, but also a judgment on society’s moral decadence.
“This is a strong and definite judgment because the world has been arrogant in going its own way,” he said. “We are reaping the consequences of our moral degradation, as well as the environmental damage that we have caused.”
While it’s without question that society’s moral fabric has been decaying, it is beyond ludicrous to say that innocent people (including children that don’t even know the words “gay” or “lesbian”, much less practice that lifestyle) are being killed by God because of the Almighty’s distaste for queers.
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: The Bible is clear on homosexuality, and no amount of spinning changes that. However, to assert that God will snuff out innocent human life simply because he’s mad at people not even around or near the innocent (in this case, non-gay and people who oppose gay marriage laws) is sheer lunacy. I mean, one would think that God possesses a much better aim than that, right? “Adam and Steve are biting the pillow, so I think I’ll wipe out their entire street. That’ll show ‘em!” Idiots.
Elizabeth Edwards supports same-sex marriage
From San Fran-istan:
Elizabeth Edwards, starring at the kickoff event of San Francisco’s signature Gay Pride Parade, came out in support of legalized gay marriage today — taking a position which she acknowledged is at odds with her husband, presidential candidate John Edwards.“I don’t know why somebody else’s marriage has anything to do with me,” she said. “I’m completely comfortable with gay marriage.”
Of course she’s “completely comfortable” with same-sex marriage…she’s in one right now! I mean, “not that there’s anything wrong with that”…
"Gay Groups Decry Surgeon General Nominee"
Who would have thought that the job of Surgeon freakin’ General would attract such attention? Then again, considering what an embarrassment Jocelyn Elders was, I suppose it’s fair game to scrutinize them. From My Way News:
President Bush’s nominee for surgeon general, Kentucky cardiologist Dr. James Holsinger, has come under fire from gay rights groups for voting to expel a lesbian pastor from the United Methodist Church and writing in 1991 that gay sex is unnatural and unhealthy.
Two observations right off the bat here: (1) the church should, under no circumstances, allow a practicing and unrepentant avowed homosexual to serve as clergy, as the Bible is crystal freakin’ clear on the issue; and (2) gay sex IS unnatural and unhealthy. If consenting adults want to engage in it, I for one don’t care and don’t think that the government should get involved AT ALL; however, it doesn’t change the fact that it’s not natural, and no amount of P.C. arm-twisting makes it so.
Continuing:
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Holsinger served as Kentucky’s health secretary and chancellor of the University of Kentucky’s medical center. He taught at several medical schools and spent more than three decades in the Army Reserve, retiring in 1993 as a major general.His supporters, including fellow doctors, faculty members and state officials, said he would never let his theological views affect his medical ones.
“Jim is able, as most of us are in medicine, to separate feelings that we have from our responsibility in taking care of patients,” said Douglas Scutchfield, a professor of public health at the University of Kentucky.
In announcing Holsinger as his choice for America’s top doctor May 24, Bush said the physician will focus on educating the public about childhood obesity.
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Scutchfield said Holsinger has advocated expanded stem cell research, in opposition to many conservatives, and also has shown political courage in this tobacco-producing state by supporting higher cigarette taxes to curb teen smoking.Gov. Ernie Fletcher commended Holsinger for working to fight obesity and other health problems in this Appalachian state, which ranks near the bottom in many categories. “He helped get the ball rolling and focusing on healthy lifestyles,” Fletcher said.
Fighting childhood obesity and smoking. Sound like good ideas. Just not from this guy ‘cuz he’s ticked off the gays, right? Continuing:
Sixteen years ago, he wrote a paper for the church in which he likened the reproductive organs to male and female “pipe fittings” and argued that homosexuality is therefore biologically unnatural.“When the complementarity of the sexes is breached, injuries and diseases may occur,” Holsinger wrote, citing studies showing higher rates of sexually transmitted diseases among gay men and the risk of injury from anal sex.
I’m sorry, but the “pipe fittings” analogy, however offensive or politically incorrect, is 100% correct. Think back to the children’s toys where you had pegs that were round, square, and triangle, and you had to push the pegs through their respectively shaped holes. Would it be correct to get a jar of petroleum jelly, grease up the square peg, and force it through the round hole? Of course not.
This guy MUST be on some kind of evangelical witch hunt! Well…not exactly:
Phyllis Nash, who worked under Holsinger for nine years as vice chancellor at the medical center, said the views he took in church appear at odds with his professional actions.She recalled a women’s health conference that Holsinger helped organize in 2002 that included a session on lesbian health. Despite complaints from some lawmakers, Holsinger insisted the session go forward, she said.
“His reaction in support could not have been any stronger,” Nash said. “He said, as health care providers, we have to be prepared to meet the health needs of anyone who walks into the door.”
Sounds to me like he’s a doctor first and foremost. For the post of Surgeon General, that seems like the most important qualification to me. The guy could be an atheist for all I care, just as long as he performs his job honorably and effectively.
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