Atrios and some of you in the comments have noted that Rob Portman is now supporting gay marriage after his son came out. Good for him. Perhaps if we could get the Republican caucus to adopt gay, black hispanic illegal immigrant children, who will grow up to be denied insurance due to pre-existing conditions, we’d make some more social progress, because that seems to be the only way a motherfucker can get some empathy from those heartless fucks.
Gay Rights are Human Rights
Profiles in Leadership
While everyone is focusing on another bigoted organization, the Boy Scouts are trying to extract themselves from their position on homosexuality. Rather than make a decision and stick to it, they’ve decided to poll their membership:
“For instance, should the lesbian mother of a Tiger Cub be allowed to serve as den leader if the pack is chartered to a church that teaches that homosexuality is not wrong? Should a gay youth minister be allowed to serve as a Scoutmaster? Should a boy with the qualifications for Eagle Scout be denied the award if he reveals he’s gay at his board review?”
I have no idea what they think they are going to accomplish doing this, and this was not a very well thought out idea. What happens if 75% of their membership vote in favor of gay-bashing? That should be a doozy of a press release- “We thought about changing our discriminatory policies, but it turns out the majority of our members are bigots.”
That’s a real winner. And did no one at Boy Scouts do a little thought experiment to get an idea how their survey looks to non-neanderthals. Try this on for size:
“For instance, should the
lesbianBLACK mother of a Tiger Cub be allowed to serve as den leader if the pack is chartered to a church that teaches that race-mixing is not wrong? Should a BLACK youth minister be allowed to serve as a Scoutmaster? Should a boy with the qualifications for Eagle Scout be denied the award if hereveals he’s gay at his board review?BLACK?”
Had one person thought this through, they would have scrapped this idea right quick.
Open Thread: So “Gay Patriot” Is Another Unfunny “Satire” Site, Like the Daily Currant?
Because surely this stunt, as reported by Wonkette‘s Evan Hurst, has to be an Andy-Kaufmanesque prank, right?
Homosexual Wingnut Wants Lindsey Graham’s Seat
… [T]he oh my god, just as racist as any Free Republic-reading mouthbreather, self- loathing, faux-masculine, tinfoil-hat-wearing, misogynistic “think of de unborn babiezzz!” gay wingnuts. These are the folks that broke off from the Log Cabin Republicans to form GOProud, the organization that just this year finally decided to make a half-assed attempt at supporting marriage equality. They have, shall we say, issues. Their internet home is called Gay Patriot, and a large percentage of their posts are about how everybody hates them and they can’t get dates or something, because they’re wingnuts. This is when they’re not defending anti-gay social conservatives against those hateful gays who actually want equality. None of those social conservatives have ever personally beat the shit out of them, therefore they must be better than the mean boys who won’t dance with them at the club.Today, their leader, Bruce Carroll, announced that he is leaving his post on the board of GOProud to go show that paragon of tough guy butchness Lindsey Graham who’s really South Carolina’s biggest gay wingnut, in the Republican Senate primary…
Well, the founder/editor/one of two writers at the Daily Currant told Dave Weigel that “The Daily Currant’s faux scoops get shared at basically the same rate whether they spill into the mainstream or not” so at least we don’t need to worry about Very Serious News media mistaking… OMG, GOProud punked the Washington Post!
Errant Pecker Chronicles
Homophobe Scottish Cardinal Keith O’Brien is, unsurprisingly, a closeted homosexual who has been accused of sexual misconduct against other priests going back 30 years. He confessed yesterday and will retire, which is more than enough punishment, and we should leave him alone because he’s asked forgiveness from those he “offended”. Luckily, his retirement occurred before the vote for a new Pope, and we know that all the other Cardinals have no history of participating in, covering up or otherwise tolerating bad sexual behavior, so they’ll be free to elect another old man who can explain exactly why God hates fags, why sluts shouldn’t have birth control and why pregnant, bleeding women should die in Catholic hospitals while doctors are forced to wait to make sure their fetus is really, truly dead.
Speaking of wandering penises and brass balls, dedicated hiker Mark Sanford asked his ex-wife to manage his House campaign, saying “I could pay you this time.”
Early Morning Open Thread: Be of Good Cheer
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There’s still plenty of stuff on the internets that won’t make you hate the human race. Via commentor SRV, in the NYTimes, Peter Mercurio explains how “We Found Our Son on the Subway“:
The story of how Danny and I were married last July in a Manhattan courtroom, with our son, Kevin, beside us, began 12 years earlier, in a dark, damp subway station.
Danny called me that day, frantic. “I found a baby!” he shouted. “I called 911, but I don’t think they believed me. No one’s coming. I don’t want to leave the baby alone. Get down here and flag down a police car or something.” By nature Danny is a remarkably calm person, so when I felt his heart pounding through the phone line, I knew I had to run.
When I got to the A/C/E subway exit on Eighth Avenue, Danny was still there, waiting for help to arrive. The baby, who had been left on the ground in a corner behind the turnstiles, was light-brown skinned and quiet, probably about a day old, wrapped in an oversize black sweatshirt.
In the following weeks, after family court had taken custody of “Baby ACE,” as he was nicknamed, Danny told the story over and over again, first to every local TV news station, then to family members, friends, co-workers and acquaintances. The story spread like an urban myth: You’re never going to believe what my friend’s cousin’s co-worker found in the subway. What neither of us knew, or could have predicted, was that Danny had not just saved an abandoned infant; he had found our son….
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Shouldn’t I Have This
It’s hard to believe that a wedding magazine would let homophobia get in the way of making a buck, but the editor at Weddings Unlimited Unveiled rejected this ad from photographer Anne Almasy:
The name of the magazine isn’t “Weddings in Depends”, so presumably their demographic is the same young one that supports gay marriage by 2:1, but instead of running this ad, they’re getting shit from Dan Savage on Twitter.
I remember the first time I saw a passionate kiss between two women – it was sometime in the 80’s on a college campus, and two women were making out in front of a auditorium doorway just as a movie was getting out. They went out of their way to make a statement during a time when all same-sex affection was in the closet. Thirty years later, this ad is anything but a statement: it’s just a slice of everyday life, and if you’re too much of a fossil to recognize it, you either need to get to work on your time machine, or find another line of work.
Cruisin’, On a Sunday Afternoon
Ahh, repression:
A self-proclaimed “ex-gay” blogger who wrote extensively for the Christian Post about “coming out of the homosexual lifestyle” was recently discovered seeking the companionship of other men on the popular gay geosocial networking app Grindr.
In a lengthy missive penned for the Post last year, Matt Moore discussed his ongoing struggles with homosexual urges following his “conversion experience.”
***Though the fact that the Grindr profile used the same photo of Moore found on his Christian Post page left room for equivocation, Moore himself quickly confirmed to Jones that it was truly him on Grindr, and that he had once again strayed from the Righteous Path.
“Creating a grindr profile and talking to guys on it was major disobedience on my part,” he told Jones, “disobedience to Christ.”
How many people are out there torturing themselves like this?