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Promoting equality, as illustrated by the aptly named Equality House below, is truly American. I not only “Liked” that Facebook page, I loved it.
Screen grab from video of Topeka, Kansas house across from the Westboro Baptist Church.
It’s nearly 2013, yet some people can’t seem to stop living in the past. And by past I mean 2012. Same-sex marriage is about to become legal in Maryland, but discrimination trumps equality and apparently, income. Specifically, the owner of Discover Annapolis Tours has decided to forgo $50,000 a year because his “Christian convictions” somehow make him believe that icky gay people getting hitched will somehow affect straight couples. Or something.
He’d rather shut down a source of income and avoid legal hot water (and legal gay married people) than allow any loving couple– gay or straight– to ride on his Straight Love and Lifelong Monogamous Commitment Only wedding trolley cars. Waving good-bye to revenue works better for him than allowing married gays and lesbians to enjoy a wedded bliss jaunt on his anti-gay rights, anti-civil rights wedding vehicle.
Via the L.A. Times:
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — A company whose old-fashioned trolleys are iconic in the city’s wedding scene has abandoned the nuptial industry rather than serve same-sex couples. [...]
While most wedding businesses across the country have embraced the chance to serve same-sex couples, a small minority has struggled to balance religious beliefs against business interests.
Frank Schubert, the political strategist who ran campaigns against same-sex marriage in Maryland and three other states, said, “The law doesn’t protect people of faith. It simply doesn’t.”
Protect them from what exactly? Gay cooties? Same-sex couples’ magic ability to abruptly turn opposite sex partners gay?
Discover Annapolis Tours owner Matt Grubbs:
“The law exempts my minister from doing same-sex weddings, and the Knights of Columbus don’t have to rent out their hall for a gay wedding reception, but somehow my religious convictions don’t count for anything.“
Don’t be silly. Your religious convictions count for a lot! Like seeing some people as less equal than others, f’rinstance.
Prospective client Chris Belkot responded to Grubbs:
“It is your right to run your business any way you see fit, but let’s be honest here, you drive a trolley up and down a street. Not exactly God’s work.“
Target is on the right side of this one. Kare11 is reporting that the anti-gay organization Minnesota for Marriage is coming down hard on the chain for next month’s “Wear it with Pride” tee shirt promotion. The proceeds from sales of the tees will be donated to groups that are against a constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage.
There are now a bevy of shirts with pro-gay themes on Target’s website (and yes, I just wanted to say “bevy”). I wonder if they come with guarantees that the people who wear them won’t magically turn gay or cause divorces among straight couples. Probably not.
The Deputy Campaign Manager for Minnesota for Marriage is accusing Target of now “trying to make nice” with supporters of marriage equality to compensate for their donations of a couple of years ago to a not-at-all-gay-friendly gubernatorial candidate (see video). Target got a whole lot of flak for that; and by flak I mean boycott efforts galore, among other things.
Target responded to Minnesota for Bigotry Marriage in a statement in which they referenced their ” inclusivity and diversity” and their “long history of supporting the LGBT community.”
Well, except for that whole contributing to the bigoted candidate thing.
H/t: My pal Jeff Wilfahrt, who you can read about here.
Sam Youngman (@samyoungman), a campaign correspondent for Reuters, tweeted thisyesterday. I’ve been so snowed under, I’m just getting around to sharing:
That’s right, Rick Santorum is encouraging discrimination and bullying, because men associating with anything pink is bad and a man should especially never be caught “on camera” using any inanimate pink object, because that is a very, very bad thing and could turn a guy gay.
I’m not sure how that happens, exactly. Mr. Laffy wears pink shirts, and somehow maintained his straightitude. His gay-immune system must be highly resistant to gay colors.
What exactly are gay colors?
And do gay men who wear “non-gay” colors turn straight?
I always love watching Lizz; the entire panel nailed it.
Below is the letter explaining why Indiana State Rep. Bob Morris (R-Fort Wayne) is against honoring the Girl Scouts on their 100th anniversary:
Nonetheless, abundant evidence proves that the agenda of Planned Parenthood includes sexualizing young girls through the Girl Scouts, which is quickly becoming a tactical arm of Planned Parenthood… “membership in the Girl Scouts could carry the danger of making their daughters more receptive to the pro-abortion agenda.”
A Girl Scouts of America training program last year used the Planned Parenthood sex education pamphlet “Happy, Healthy, and Hot.” The pamphlet instructs young girls not to think of sex as “just about vaginal or anal intercourse.” “There is no right or wrong way to have sex. Just have fun, explore and be yourself!” it states. Although individual Girl Scout troops are not forced to follow this curriculum, many do. Liberal progressive troop-leaders will indoctrinate the girls in their troop according to the principles of Planned Parenthood, making Bishop Conley’s warning true.
Many parents are abandoning the Girl Scouts because they promote homosexual lifestyles… Of the fifty role models listed, only three have a briefly-mentioned religious background—all the rest are feminists, lesbians, or Communists. World Net Daily, in a May 2009 article, states that Girl Scout Troops are no longer allowed to pray or sing traditional Christmas Carols. Boys who decide to claim a “transgender” or cross-dressing life-style are permitted to become a member of a Girl Scout troop, performing crafts with the girls and participate in overnight and camping activities — just like any real girl. The fact that the Honorary President of Girl Scouts of America is Michelle Obama, and the Obama’s are radically pro-abortion and vigorously support the agenda of Planned Parenthood, should give each of us reason to pause before our individual or collective endorsement of the organization.
Here is the entire letter:
What a radical group of unAmerican heathens. Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to buy a few hundred boxes of Girl Scout cookies.
You’ve heard of the gift that keeps on giving? This is the stink bomb that keeps on stinking: Welcome to Ron Paul’s racist newsletters, part two, but never fear, Paul says, “probably ten sentences out of 10,000 pages” were cringeworthy. Besides, he says, he didn’t write ‘em, someone else did. But you know what, Ron? You allowed those someone elses to write them under your name..
[A]s TPM has reported and a new collection of Ron Paul newsletters posted by The New Republicconfirms, racism, homophobia, and fringe conspiracy theories seem more like the newsletters’ raison d’etre than a rare aberration. In fact, even short promotional letters for the publication name-checked many of the most toxic passages.
One newsletter warns “honest Americans” to be “armed” and ready for all that violence by all those evil dark-skinned people.
“Today, gangs of young blacks bust into a bank lobby firing rounds at the ceiling,” one issue read, continuing: “We don’t think a child of 13 should be held as responsible as a man of 23. That’s true for most people, but black males age 13 who have been raised on the streets and who have joined criminal gangs are as big, strong, tough, scary and culpable as any adult, and should be treated as such.”
Another issue from 1993 defended Marge Schott, who used to own the Cincinatti Reds, after she notoriously referred to her players as “million-dollar niggers.”
And don’t get me started on the anti-gay rants. Key to all of these is irrational fear, which is what drives the despicable messages, warnings, hatred, and lies.
Read about all of that as well as conspiracy theories and more irrational concerns here.
Our posts on the first batch of stinky newsletters here.
To those “progressives” who see Ron Paul as a reasonable alternative to President Obama, please take a good long look at this story. His tacit approval speaks volumes.
Maybe that explains why he did so well in last night’s debate in South Carolina at which the audience was, well, rabid (h/t: @Starfleets). He’s their guy:
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Security staff at Lamont Library said in a report filed with campus police on Friday that it appeared someone poured urine on the books [about lesbian and gay issues] on Nov. 24. An empty bottle was found nearby.
Let’s think about this. Someone actually peed into a bottle just so they could sneak it into a Harvard University library and vandalize gay-oriented reading material, all because they are hateful, bigoted homophobes.
That is nauseating on so many levels. The hatred is what sickens me most, but to visualize what they did, how they did it, and what it took comes in a very close second.
Watch out, Amurka, them librul colleges turn people all queer and stuff. So, what’s a surefire way to put that to a screeching halt? Urinate on books.
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