The gay and lesbian community of Minnesota has issued a letter of apology to recently resigned Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch for ruining the institution of marriage and causing her to stray from her husband and engage in an “inappropriate relationship.”
“On behalf of all gays and lesbians living in Minnesota, I would like to wholeheartedly apologize for our community’s successful efforts to threaten your traditional marriage,” reads the letter from John Medeiros. “We apologize that our selfish requests to marry those we love has cheapened and degraded traditional marriage so much that we caused you to stray from your own holy union for something more cheap and tawdry.”
I agree with DougJ– we need more of this kind of thing happening. We need to punch back at these hypocrites and frauds.
Brachiator
This is actually quite witty.
Punching back, however, means winning political victories. Savage … wordplay … is not even a stinging jab, let alone a punch.
And this is still the contemporary definition of courage. Not even knowing that your effort will do anything, not knowing what bigger fire your actions will spark.
Lit a match. With a hell of a punch.
SiubhanDuinne
Wonderful! Good for them!
MikeJ
@Brachiator:
You first.
Egg Berry
@Brachiator: So are you suggesting the LGBT community should light themselves on fire to protest?
Brachiator
@MikeJ: It’s the holidays. And so, I will let you go first.
But I promise to blog snarkily about it.
Satanicpanic
I’d rather not DIAF
Litlebritdifrnt
OT – while I know that many many people have problems with poverty in this country, I would like to point out that there is a fucking ad on my TV for Latisse (or however it is spelled) for women with “inadequate” eyelashes. Think about that for a second. We live in a country where a drug company is spending millions of dollars to market an “eyelash thickening” drug to a bunch of women with such low self esteem that they would risk their sight (when you hear the side effects) for the sake of thicker fucking eyelashes while denying the use of their other drugs to poor people who cannot afford to a) go to the doctors to get a prescription or b) fill the prescription once they have been diagnosed.
If there is one thing that you can point to that is truly rotten in this country then it is a fucking “eyelash thickening” drug. That and the fact that “Party Suppliers” is still in fucking business.
El Tiburon
@Egg Berry:
Red on top; fire in the hole.
But yes, metaphorically speaking we need those willing to light themselves on fire for the cause – Dan Choi, the OWS protestors who get arrested, Bradley Manning…the list goes on.
It is obvious people are becoming more emboldened. Look at the guys who keep telling Newt Gingrich to go fuck himself.
I would love to pass Thom Freidmann in an airport or somewhere and yell at him “hey SUCK on this!”. These pieces of shit need to feel the flame of discontent whenever they get out of their bubble.
Martin
@Egg Berry: No, but strongly worded letters have no value. They don’t force any action. Now, if someone stood up in a GOP primary debate and apologized to Newt on behalf of all gays for causing him to run out on his marriage with his cancer-stricken wife, that would force some kind of action – that would at least have some value.
Raven
@Litlebritdifrnt: Is this the hill you want to die on?
kdaug
@Litlebritdifrnt: And current shortages of low-profit, non-trademarked lifesaving drugs.
Free market, bitches.
Nutella
Koch’s partner in adultery is rumored to be one of her legislative staff. I am amused by PZ Myers’ comment on the rumor:
Linnaeus
In related news, Rick Snyder in Michigan signed a bill banning domestic partner benefits for public employees.
It’s definitely a step back for LGBT equality, and the governor is trying to rationalize it by saying it’s necessary to save money, in keeping with his “business Republican” image. Bullshit, I say. He threw a bone to the radicals from western Michigan who control the state’s GOP.
matryoshka
This is what you get when gay sailors win the first-kiss lottery.
Silver
@Egg Berry: If Sullivan lit himself on fire, the world would be a better place. Sure, it would be an accidental incident involving a joint, but a kid can dream, no?
John O
Never underestimate the power of ridicule. Beautifully done.
amk
what, nothing on this, on bj ? Obama wins once again.
Litlebritdifrnt
@Raven:
No. I am just sickened by how much money is being spent by the drug companies on advertising for a vanity drug and how much that money could help people dying for lack of drugs. Who gives a fuck what your eyelashes look like for fucks sake when kids are dying cause they can’t afford fucking insulin. WTF.
Captain Haddock
Fucking brilliant. The power of snark and sarcasm cannot be underestimated.
4jkb4ia
This is particularly true because this first wave of gay couples getting married didn’t expect to get married. So they didn’t have the social pressure, and were able to create good, loyal relationships that are characteristic of an ideal marriage all by themselves, and heterosexual couples can learn from them.
Lojasmo
@Nutella:
Bordkorb is the vilest bit of shit in Minnesota. Think of a slightly less unattractive kkkarl rove.
Thoughtcrime
And speaking of classy midwest Republicans:
http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/136060223.html
I love this part:
4jkb4ia
@amk:
It’s the post below this one.
dmsilev
@amk: Look one thread down.
Roger Moore
@amk:
You mean other than the previous fucking post? You might want to look at the front page before criticizing the blog for what is or isn’t there.
wobblybits
O/T: I was over at Politico (yeah, mistake number one) and was reading the comments on an article that was written on the FLOTUS. Holy cow, talk about putrid and vile comments about her body, face, etc. Almost all of them men and all of them looked like they fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down. I need a glass of wine now.
gbear
What a perfect response. 2012 is an important election in MN because voters will be deciding if we need a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. It’s kind of a toss-up right now. I wish this would have happened a little closer to the election, but it’s great now too. Maybe we’ll get to use it again before November…
amk
@4jkb4ia: @dmsilev: Thanks. Missed it.
@Roger Moore: Keep your fucking shirt on. It was just a fucking question, not a fucking criticism…. Yes, I do get the irony of my post.
Shawn in ShowMe
@Litlebritdifrnt:
Every year about this time a lot of these same drug execs and their families attend a theatrical production of a Christmas Carol. I’m told it’s a 19th century fairy tale of a heartless capitalist who finally starts to care about a kid who is dying ’cause of a lack of basic health care. Then the execs go back to work and tell all the Bob Cratchits that their Tiny Tims can go pound sand.
joeyess
@Brachiator:
wait…. what? Ok, I call bullshit. So self-immolation or something as radical is the only appropriate course of action toward the tyranny of hypocrites?
Raven
@Litlebritdifrnt: You can drive yourself nuts with that line of thinking.
burnspbesq
@Nutella:
She’s nothing to write home about, either.
Raven
@burnspbesq: Hey, is that big white pup you posted yours?
Villago Delenda Est
@Thoughtcrime:
The only apology FLOTUS should entertain from the slimemold Sensenbrenner is a Captain Needa apology.
Rafer Janders
@Thoughtcrime:
WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?
Mark K
That was a great response to the Minn. GOP hag.
Imo, this was not a great response to the scumbag Chicago catholic Cardinal who compared LGBT march to the KKK
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/22/catholic-cardinal-warns-gay-pride-parade-could-morph-into-ku-klux-klan/
I’d bet 100/1 odds that cardinal is a closet queen
Hill Dweller
@gbear: Yeah, I made the mistake of reading the comments section under an article over at Real Clear Politics. There were plenty of vile and disgusting comments about the First Lady.
I can almost understand not liking the President policies, and that affecting your view of him as a person, but the First Lady has done nothing wrong, and she seems like a nice person. The level of hate for her by some wingers is crazy.
Litlebritdifrnt
@Raven: Yeah I know, but you have to remember from where I hale, you know a country that cares more about its citizens health care than it does about how many fucking cruise missiles it can wave in front of its enemies while screaming “let me just whip this out”. I was having a conversation with my boss during the Libya crisis and he was talking about “Britain running out of cruise missiles” he said “if you are getting into a war you better not be running out of missiles” to which I responded “so you have a bunch of missiles but your people are dying for the lack of health care – I know which one I would choose” he didn’t know what to say. Isn’t it time that the US stopped waving its big dick at the world and started taking care of the kids who are starving and dying due to lack of health care?
Shawn in ShowMe
@Rafer Janders:
I mean her butt it’s so ..big. I can’t believe it’s so… round. It’s just … out there. Gross.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v9at5RlFu4
WaterGirl
@Raven: How’s your pup?
S. cerevisiae
@kdaug: There’s no profit in that. The same reason they never seem to actually cure anything – years of expensive treatments are much better for the bottom line.
srv
To paraphrase Jim Jones –
If we had hated them more, just a little bit more, we would have had a lot less trouble.
lol
@Thoughtcrime:
A fat fuck like Sensenbrenner is pretty much in no position to talk… The man has visible layers of lard rolling off his face. WTF? Michelle Obama? Fat? Where the hell did even this start? Complete and total projection here.
S. cerevisiae
@Hill Dweller: I don’t get the wingnut hate for her either. Well, there is one obvious reason – a smart, beautiful and accomplished black woman goes against their Bell Curve inspired stereotypes. But no, they’re not racist, no sireee.
edited for a typo.
amk
Don’t mess with this frog.
Villago Delenda Est
@Rafer Janders:
Michelle Obama is near. She’s in the White House.
One need no other reason for such visceral hatred.
Raven
@WaterGirl: Totally fine, false alarm. . .knuckle head!
Fifi
Well, at least, Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch’s youthful indiscretion was a manly God fearing vagina perpetrator, right?
dead existentialist
Who’s this woman think she is having an affair with a staffer? Newt? Talk about being a sucker . . . .
Triassic Sands
I never realized until just this minute that the gays ruined my marriage (not the fact that my wife wasn’t interested in anything but herself and her own priorities to the exclusion of all else). This has got to stop. First, me, well not first, but twenty years ago, and now poor Amy Koch, yet another victim of the gays’ mission to ruin all that is good in the world.
Rubbing people’s faces in their own hypocrisy is unforgivable; hypocrites, at least Republican hypocrites, deserve a pass no matter how profound their hypocrisy. Otherwise, we could eventually end up with people being held accountable for their own behavior, something that should be avoided at all costs in a true meritocracy like ours.
Gays: Stop ruining marriage for the rest of us.
[Note: I recently watched a small British film called “Made in Dagenham” about the struggle of women machinists (think sewing machines more than lathes) in Great Britain to receive equal pay for equal work. It was a reminder of how nice it is when societal tides are moving in the right direction. I’d almost forgotten how nice that feeling is.]
josefina
Triassic Sands, I share your love of meritocracy and your demand for personal accountability. Each and every one of the thieving scoundrels who destroyed your marriage should be whipped until they bleed. Because that’s what we do, when we can.
Thanks for the “Made in Dagenham” tip.
Brad
@gbear: This. This. This. Snark is fun, but what matters in MN is the upcoming vote on the constitutional amendment. While all the polling trends favor gay marriage in the long run, having to repeal a constitutional amendment would throw a spanner in the works for a few extra years at least.
TooManyJens
@Fifi: Vagina perpetrator?
::crosses legs::
Fifi
@TooManyJens
Ooops, it makes it even sinister. Spell check error. The original was “Penetrator”, courtesy of Andy Cobb
Nancy Irving
Hilarious, but what about the bi- and transgender folks? Don’t they deserve some of the blame, too?
Tonybrown74
@Brachiator:
What purist bullshit!
So, we gays have to do something akin to lighting ourselves on fire in order to gain equal access to our civil rights?
How about the thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of us who have been beaten, maimed and even killed for simply living our lives openly in hostile territory?
We all know about Matthew Shepard, but there have been hundreds before him and there have been hundreds after him.
There was one guy in Mississippi who was murdered and his body tossed on a pile of burning tires.
Or another guy in Tennessee, stabbed multiple times, and then locked in a car. When his kidnappers realized he was still alive dumped him on the road and ran him over repeatedly.
Or the the 15 year old girl living openly in New Jersey, who, when she refused the advances of some man on the street, was stabbed to death.
Despite your thinking about Western civilization, it takes a hell of a lot of courage to live openly as a queer person.
And FSM knows the bullshit Transgendered people have been maimed or killed for bucking gender norms.
You and your high horse can go fuck each other!
Jerzy Russian
This is the most awesome thing I have seen in many months. I hope this goes nation wide.