In their hateful quest to save straight people from the horrors of homosexual life, Rick Scarborough and Peter LaBarbera decided to take matters into their own hands and sue homosexuality.
Who is “Big Gay?” you might ask. We’re not sure, obviously it includes organizations like Logo, folks like Anderson Cooper, and shows like ABC’s Modern Family. Is Lady Gaga on their list? How about rainbows? Or IKEA? Bert & Ernie are surely on that list, but so are chairs, parades, hats, hybrid cars, and the Sun.
Also on today’s #TWiBRadio, #TeamBlackness discussed the lasting effects of childhood, President Obama caught a diabetic, pregnant lady who fainted during his speech yesterday, and Rand Paul’s Lying Liar Show … For Liars.
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This morning on #amTWiB, The Morning Crew discussed legal marijuana for $1, breaking bad with jolly ranchers, and no one can tell L.Joy that scrubbing her tub isn’t exercise.
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And on Sportsball today, our resident sports fans discussed the $8,000 Chiefs tickets? Parenta’s love of Yankees relief pitcher’s knee socks, and Don Lemon is still an asshole.
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Wally Ballou
I hope the Paul Lynde estate have good lawyers on retainer.
me
Who will they serve the complaint on? Dan Savage?
LanceThruster
I hope this doesn’t force Big Gay Al to stop being “Super!”
Mnemosyne
Okay, now they’re just fucking with us.
aimai
Oh, so we’ve reached the King Canute stage of syphlitic dementia? Sooner than I thought. (Apologies to King Canute who was simply trying to demonstrate something to his people).
ranchandsyrup
Gotta forum shop with these sorts of suits. The proper court would be the food court at the creationism museum. Good luck collecting or enforcing any injunctive relief, crazy people.
Amir Khalid
Oh, to be there in the room, when the lawyer explains to the would-be plaintiffs that “gayness” is not a party you can sue …
shelly
When I first saw ‘ Scarborough,’ I thought, “Squinty, from MSNBC’s’ Morning Joe?’ “‘ But alas, it’s not that entertaining. What is, is the news that the Tea Party is disavowing him and his lawsuit. Wow, if you’re that unhinged that you’re freaking out the Teabaggers……that’s saying something.
Yatsuno
@Amir Khalid: A lawyer will do whatever the client pays them to do. If that means turn the law on its ear so they can ignore those funny feelings they get when the neighbour’s boy mows the lawn then by Gawd and Jeebus that’s what he needs to do.
Ash Can
Crap. Now they’re gonna sue my neighbors’ downstairs bathroom, and they’re not even gay.
Alison
If they can sue me for being queer, can I sue them for being stupid?
Seems just as immutable, sadly.
SFAW
Isn’t that one of Dead Angry Breitbart’s (who’s still dead, by the way) lesser-known web properties? Or was it just one of his own lesser-known properties?
ETA: Which would not necessarily be a bad thing, of course. As long as he Behaved Himself.
SFAW
@Alison:
I like the way you think.
Ash Can
Lindsay Graham better be lawyering up.
YellowJournalism
What do they plan to do, sue the dancing shoes off Ellen?
Roger Moore
@Yatsuno:
Not necessarily. A good lawyer tries to talk his client out of doing something that won’t work; I would suggest that trying to convince you not to sue when it’s sure to fail is a plausible dividing line between good lawyers and shysters. To help enforce this, lawyers can be sanctioned for pursuing suits that don’t have a good basis in law. Honestly, though, the whole thing sounds more like some idiot talking out his ass in an attempt to impress the rubes than a serious threat.
Villago Delenda Est
@Yatsuno:
Aye, this LaBarbera guy is just screaming “I love musical theater” from the back of his very deep closet.
maya
Perhaps they mean to sue Ben Gay after they both rubbed his man-creme on their groin areas without reading the label.
kc
Good grief:
LaBarbera: Yeah I think that’s great. I would love to see it. We always wanted to see one of the kid in high school who was counseled by the official school counselor to just be gay, then he comes down with HIV. But we never really got the client for that.
scav
Oh, if only their Lawyer turns out to be a boy named Sue. . .
The Other Chuck
We the jury find the defendant fabulous.
jenn
@Alison: Seriously.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@kc:
I certainly am shocked that LaBarbera never managed to find a “test case” of a situation he completely made up inside his own head. Shocked, I tell you.
Trinity
Wait…what?
Kac90b
I’d think they’d have a bit of a problem finding a court to certify this class action suit. It would be much easier to certify their stupidity.