DC gay marriage vote eminent.

The Washington DC City Council is close to voting on same sex marriage rights. You can watch the live feed here and hopefully catch some good old fashion bigotry by screaming bat shit crazy Barry.

After watching the live feed, it really is obvious why politicians never get anything done. All of the long and pointless speeches and back patting is tiresome and dull. Whatever the case, something is coming, let’s hope it’s what we all expect and deserve.

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Man gets fired for homophobic remarks and poorly manicured eyebrows.

This poor guy, life is just so hard for a bigot these days.

Peter Vadala was fired from his job at Brookestone for making homophobic remarks and is now claiming religious intolerance was his downfall. When confronted about the incident on Fox & Friends (whatever the hell that is) he made his case exponentially worse by having a poor understanding of the English language. He incriminated himself several times and admitted he called a fellow employee a deviant after informing her that God had asked him to alert her to his displeasure with her and her “lifestyle choice”. Oh and he had some crazy eyebrows too.

During the interview Peter laments being a victim of religious intolerance after he told a woman that he felt her lifestyle was immoral and that she shouldn’t speak about it in the work place. He makes several remarks about her “supposed” fiance, as if because he has a problem with her partner or homosexuality, the lesbians relationship is somehow no longer valid. What makes matters worse is that he feels the need to go and pray about it during his lunch break and there he decides that he has to confront the woman and tell her to discontinue talking about her life because it personally offends him.Whoops. The lesbian co workers response?

“She laughed in my face and told me to keep my opinions to myself and to go see the human resources department.”

After watching the clip, his cries of “so called” victimization are shut down by his “supposed” non gay looking face. Seriously though, major gay face.

When the host reads a statement from Peter’s former employer and asks him if he plans on bringing suit against the company, he launches into a poorly worded tirade in the hopes of coming across as the victim one last time.

Let’s try and reword this for those who may not be following fully.

Black Woman “I love my new husband, he is so great. Sure, things are tough sometimes because he is white, but we enjoy each other.”

Peter “I went to the church and prayed and god told me to tell you that your lifestyle choice is a sin and your “so called” husband is a perversity to god.

Black Woman “That is incredibly racist and offensive and I am pretty sure this company does not tolerate that kind of language.”

Peter “No, as a Christian I can be intolerant of whomever I want as long as I claim religious freedom. You should take the day off, nigger.”

Hopefully that cleared up any misconceptions we had. In short, this pencil neck got everything he deserved.

Fox no longer allows people to embed their clips, mainly because they do such a horrible job at being “fair and balanced” that they get slammed all over the Internet and they are tired of being the butt of everyone’s joke. However, you can click here to watch the clip.

Pay close attention to the “questions” that are placed in the lower 1/3 of the screen. Things like ‘freedom under fire?” or “Religious expulsion?” don’t really read as fair and balanced, especially considering none of them say anything along the lines of, “grown man acts like jackass and gets what he deserves?”

Fox News, you really do lower the bar on everything.

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America’s Harry Potter stands up for gay rights.

10 year old Arkansas student,  Will Phillips, has refused to say the pledge of allegiance until all people are treated equally.

In this clip you will see young Will with his father, explaining his reasons for feeling this way and the thought process that led up to it.  If you notice, he looks like Harry Potter just a tad bit and that makes this clip even better.

Am I nerd?

Screw you.

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Gay American Heroes, sans the tights.

Gay American Heroes, looks to be a non profit group dedicated to remembering the victims of lgbt related hate crimes. The site has a video that is circulating around the Internet and has popped up a few times today on my Facebook account.

According to their website, they travel around the country with a mobile memorial that contains the names of hate crimes victims. A great and honorable cause… however, I have a few problems with this and they are strictly visual.

Why does EVERYTHING have to be rainbows? As a gay man, when did we all vote that rainbows represented us all? Why not something cool like an alien with lasers shooting out of his eyes, while he is screaming, “FUCK YOU, I AM GETTING MARRIED!”

Sure, we would turn some people off, but wouldn’t that be exponentially cooler than a a rainbow? Rainbows seem weak and ineffectual. Not only are they overly used in the gay community, but in that vein they are used for everything when it comes to design. I long for the day when I can see the word gay and it’s no where near a rainbow.

I hope I am not murdered this year, because I would hate to be involved with such a great project, only to have my face plastered next to a fuchsia wall panel.

Their website needs some major work as well and I am tempted to email  them and offer my services for free, just so that they can look as professional as their cause deserves.

Visual disagreements aside, this seems to be a great cause and there needs to be more attention drawn to anyone murdered or persecuted for their sexuality.

This guy is too good looking to be so sad.

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Catholic Church- “We either get to hate the gays or kill the homeless. Your call!”

Catholics, you never cease to amaze me. Now, before some of you go on about how you don’t agree with many of the churches standards, but still consider yourself a Catholic… well you are just as bad. It would be the same thing if I joined the KKK and contributed to the cause, went to the meetings, but openly told my friends that I felt lynching was archaic and tacky. You support it, you are responsible for it’s practices. The same thing goes to you gay Mormons. Yes, there are several of you that I am looking at. (point point)

Finger pointing aside.

The Catholic Church of D.C. has stated that if the same sex marriage bill is passed, they will no longer be able to keep their contracts with the city, effectively terminating their social services work. In a stunning upset, from a usually compassionate and logical… oh no wait. I was thinking about that Yo Gabba Gabba show.

So, if I gather this correctly, the church is planning on punishing thousands of innocent and destitute people because the queerosexuals may be getting married? Well as long as we don’t forget the teachings of Jesus Christ.

Under the bill, headed for a D.C. Council vote next month, religious organizations would not be required to perform or make space available for same-sex weddings. But they would have to obey city laws prohibiting discrimination against gay men and lesbians.

Fearful that they could be forced, among other things, to extend employee benefits to same-sex married couples, church officials said they would have no choice but to abandon their contracts with the city.

“If the city requires this, we can’t do it,” Susan Gibbs, spokeswoman for the archdiocese, said Wednesday. “The city is saying in order to provide social services, you need to be secular. For us, that’s really a problem.”

Several D.C. Council members said the Catholic Church is trying to erode the city’s long-standing laws protecting gay men and lesbians from discrimination.

I honestly don’t have much to say on this subject at the moment, but for those of you who may be curious as to why I despise religion, take note.

“Lets say an individual caterer is a staunch Christian and someone wants him to do a cake with two grooms on top,” said council member Yvette M. Alexander (D-Ward 6), the sponsor of the amendment. “Why can’t they say, based on their religious beliefs, ‘I can’t do something like that’?”

After the vote, the archdiocese sent out a statement accusing the council of ignoring the right of religious freedom. Gibbs said Wednesday that without Alexander’s amendment and other proposed changes, the measure has too narrow an exemption. She said religious groups that receive city funds would be required to give same-sex couples medical benefits, open adoptions to same-sex couples and rent a church hall to a support group for lesbian couples.

Peter Rosenstein of the Campaign for All D.C. Families accused the church of trying to “blackmail the city.”

“The issue here is they are using public funds, and to allow people to discriminate with public money is unacceptable,” Rosenstein said.

Rosenstein and other gay rights activists have strong support on the council. Council member Phil Mendelson (D-At Large), chairman of the judiciary committee, said the council “will not legislate based on threats.”

“The problem with the individual exemption is anybody could discriminate based on their assertion of religious principle,” Mendelson said. “There were many people back in the 1950s and ’60s, during the civil rights era, that said separation of the races was ordained by God.”

Catania, who said he has been the biggest supporter of Catholic Charities on the council, said he is baffled by the church’s stance. From 2006 through 2008, Catania said, Catholic Charities received about $8.2 million in city contracts, as well as several hundred thousand dollars’ worth this year through his committee.

“If they find living under our laws so oppressive that they can no longer take city resources, the city will have to find an alternative partner to step in to fill the shoes,” Catania said. He also said Catholic Charities was involved in only six of the 102 city-sponsored adoptions last year.

Terry Lynch, head of the Downtown Cluster of Congregations, said he did not know of any other group in the city that was making such a threat.

Read the entire article at The Washington Post

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Mormons grant gays the right to exist in rare move of non douchebaggery.

It’s official everyone! The Mormons have blessed us by coming down from the mountain top and have allowed us the honor to live unfettered and free. Of course, we still can’t  get married and they plan on continuing their witch hunt and vile diatribe against us, but hey, they said we can work without fear of being fired for our sexuality! …or at least they support such a thing, but they don’t plan on spending millions on such a ballot measure. I don’t know about you but… THAT’S AWESOME! Nothing says, “Sorry for shitting on your rights with our crazy underwear religion” than extending the olive branch of common fucking sense.

Sarcasm aside, this was an arrogant and foolish move. I can only imagine they are still suffering backlash from prop 8 and are worried that the new Prop 8 documentary will continue the blood loss. The problem with this is that they are continuing their member exodus by driving another wedge down the middle of their church. After reading the comments on the Deseret web site, there are plenty of Mormons who are upset or even furious with this move. Apparently their are Mormons who feel we should, not only be treated like a second class mother in law, but that we are not even worthy of equal housing protection. It’s bad enough that they design such gaudy and ugly temples for God, but now they can’t even appease the nuts at their base. I suggest a massive influx of magical underwear and polygamy, STAT!

I am hoping this is just the start of something grand and we continue to see the church suffer from a lack of civic responsibility and constitutional understanding. I would say it’s about time that we revoke their tax exempt status, but in the United States of Jesus Land, faith speaks louder than fact and bogeymen are quickly made into gods.

In a rare public appearance before Salt Lake City lawmakers Tuesday night, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints supported two proposed ordinances protecting gay and lesbian residents from housing and employment discrimination.

An LDS Church representative read a supporting statement at a public hearing before the Salt Lake City Council regarding the ordinances proposed by Mayor Ralph Becker.

“The church supports this ordinance because it is fair and reasonable and does not do violence to the institution of marriage,” said Michael Otterson, managing director of the LDS Church’s public affairs office.

Otterson added that the statement of support is consistent with the church’s prior position on such matters, as well as its stance on marriage. Both are found in the church’s August 2008 statement titled “The Divine Institution of Marriage.”

That statement, released prior to California’s Proposition 8 vote last year on a constitutional amendment defining marriage, says the LDS Church “does not object to rights regarding hospitalization and medical care, fair housing and employment rights, or probate rights, so long as these do not infringe on the integrity of the family or the constitutional rights of churches and their adherents to administer and practice their religion free from government interference.”

And in his comments Tuesday night, Otterson underscored the LDS Church’s position on marriage.

“The church remains unequivocally committed to defending the bedrock foundation of marriage between a man and a woman,” he said.

I must have misunderstood the purpose of marriage and for that, I should be severely punished. I was always under the impression that the bedrock of marriage was commitment, love and support. Apparently all a marriage requires for a solid foundation is the presence of a penis and a vagina.

This explains Donny and Marie.

Read the entire article at The Deseret News

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The futility of fight

A great article about the futility of fighting social change. After Maine, it’s nice to read intelligent discussion about the fulfilment of social change, in the face of stone aged idealism.

Our forms of prohibition are more sins of omission than commission. Rather than trying to take away longstanding rights, they’re instances of conservative laws failing to keep pace with a liberalizing society. But like Prohibition in the ’20s, these restrictions have become indefensible as well as impractical, and as a result are fading fast. Within 10 years, it seems a reasonable guess that Americans will travel freely to Cuba, that all states will recognize gay unions, and that few will retain criminal penalties for marijuana use by individuals. These reforms are inevitable—not because politics has changed, but because society has.

The chief reason these prohibitions are falling away is the evolving definition of the pursuit of happiness. What’s driving the legalization of gay marriage is not so much the moral argument, but the pressures from couples who want to sanctify their relationships, obtain legal benefits, and raise children in a stable environment. What’s advancing the decriminalization of marijuana is not just the demand for pot as medicine but the number of adults—more than 23 million in the past year, according to the most recent government survey—who use it and don’t believe they should face legal jeopardy. What’s bringing the change on Cuba is not the epic failure of the 49-year-old U.S. embargo, but the demand on the part of Americans who want to go there—whether to visit relatives, prospect for post-Castro business opportunities, or sip rum drinks on the beach.

For similar reasons, there isn’t likely to be any retreat on the right to have an abortion or own a gun. Popular demand for an individual right is simply too powerful to overcome. The Internet has been a crucial amplifier of all such claims. With pornography and gambling, the Web itself became an irrepressible distribution tool. When it comes to gay marriage, it has accelerated the recognition of a new civil right by serving as an organizing tool and information clearinghouse. More broadly, the freest communications medium the world has ever known has raised expectations of personal liberty. In a world where everyone has his own printing press, restrictions on personal behavior become increasingly untenable.

Read the entire article at Newsweek.com

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DNC lies to gay community, whoops.

Here is a great piece from AmericaBlog. Well worth the read and the analysis.

I think we just caught the DNC lying to the gay community about the election in Maine. And an email from DNC Treasurer Andy Tobias, which we quote below, proves it.

Joe broke the news on Monday that the DNC’s “Organizing for America” group, formerly known as “Obama for America,” contacted Mainers by email, urging them to vote on Tuesday, but without mentioning what the election was about, nor which way to vote. Among the measures up for a vote was ballot measure 1, the repeal of gay marriage in that state. A number of us were concerned as to why the DNC wouldn’t inform gay voters that 1 was on the ballot, let alone not urging them to vote “no.”

Shortly thereafter, a second Mainer received another email from the DNC’s OFA. This one urged her to call five people in New Jersey, in order to help Jon Corzine’s re-election for governor. This was disturbing for a number of reasons. First, why would the DNC ask Mainers to help out in New Jersey, while not asking Mainers to help on “1″ or any other ballot measures in their own state? Second, the email was proof that the DNC was in fact doing more than sending generic “get out the vote” messages to advocate. In states they deemed worthy, they were actually organizing for specific things on the ballot. Marriage in Maine simply didn’t pass muster.

Read the entire article at AmericaBlog.

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