I Didn't Say It........

Cynthia Nixon, clearing things up:
"My recent comments in The New York Times were about me and my personal story of being gay. I believe we all have different ways we came to the gay community and we can't and shouldn't be pigeon-holed into one cultural narrative which can be uninclusive and disempowering. However, to the extent that anyone wishes to interpret my words in a strictly legal context I would like to clarify: While I don't often use the word, the technically precise term for my orientation is bisexual. I believe bisexuality is not a choice, it is a fact. What I have 'chosen' is to be in a gay relationship."


Like homosexuality, bisexuality is not a choice.
The choice lies within bisexuality when you choose which gender to whom you are attracted. And you have the choice, as a bisexual, to switch that up.
Bisexuality isn't a choice, but what you do with it is.

Sarah, home-schooled fourteen-year-old, on Maryland and marriage equality:
"Today is my 14th birthday and it would be the best birthday present ever if you would vote NO on gay marriage. I really feel bad for the kids who have two parents of the same gender. Even though some kids think it's fine, they have no idea what kind of wonderful experiences they miss out on. I don't want more kids to get confused about what's right and okay. I really don't want to grow up in a world where marriage isn't such a special thing anymore...It's rather scary to think that when I grow up the legislature or the court can change the definition of any word they want. If they could change the definition of marriage then they could change the definition of any word. People have the choice to be gay, but I don't want to be affected by their choice. People say that they were born that way, but I've met really nice adults who did change."


Isn't it cute how little Sarah's teachers, er, parents, er, teachers, give her this special homework assignment--and the proceed to give her an 'A' grade for it?
I mean, what's the point of having children and homeschooling them if you can't use them as pawns in your own personal bigotry?
And they think same-sex parents are a bad thing.

Joey Barton, professional footballer, on homophobia in sports:
"It's a subject quite close to my heart because my dad's youngest brother, the youngest of my uncles, is gay. And I didn't know for a long, long time. He thought because of the society that we were brought up in, which was quite working class, that it would be frowned upon or that we would disown him. So for a lot of years he was in turmoil and was resenting himself for the fact he had these feelings. I was like, 'I love you for you — not for the fact that you are straight or bisexual or all different manner of things. I love you because you're you.'"


I've said it before, and will keep saying it: to change people's minds on the LGBT community, everyone needs to come out.
If some of us live our lives in secrecy and shadow, it makes us look like we live in shame.
And there is no shame in being gay.
Only fabulousness.

Newt Gingrich, still riding the one-man-three-women marriage train:
"It's pretty simple: marriage is between a man and a woman. This is a historic doctrine driven deep into the Bible, both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament, and it's a perfect example of what I mean by the rise of paganism. The effort to create alternatives to marriage between a man and a woman are perfectly natural pagan behaviors, but they are a fundamental violation of our civilization."


Notice how Newt has quietly slipped away from calling it one man and one woman marriage. I mean, why draw any more attention to the fact that you are a serial adulterer who would fuck anything and everything just because?
And, if elected--and I giggle at that because it's a joke--he would serial fuck this country, too.

Elizabeth Warren, running against Republican Scott Brown for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, on lobbyists:
"The people who are sucking up the real resources in this country are the people who can hire the lobbyists, and unfortunately America's middle class doesn't have lobbyists fighting for them."


Maybe this is how we change the government.
Get a PAC going for We The People.
Get some lobbyists for WE The People.
I mean, isn't that how it's done in DC?

Brad Pitt, who has repeated numerous times since 2006 that he and Angelina Jolie would not marry until gay people can, now says he might tie the knot after all:
"We'd actually like to, and it seems to mean more and more to our kids. We made this declaration some time ago that we weren't going to do it till everyone can. But I don't think we'll be able to hold out. It means so much to my kids, and they ask a lot. And it means something to me, too, to make that kind of commitment."


I appreciate Pitt and Jolie's commitment to marriage equality, but their own relationship needs to take priority.
Call me old-fashioned, but if your kids are asking you to marry mom, maybe you should.
And you could still fight for equality.
And still be way hot. Just sayin'

Cory Booker, Newark mayor, on Governor Chris "Krispy Kreme" Christie's plan for a marriage referendum:



Maybe the eloquence of this mayor is what made that ginormous tub of butter-cream in the governor's mansion apologize for being an asshat.
Maybe Booker should be governor, and Christie could be, oh, i dunno, food taster?

Allen West, Florida congressman, telling Obama and progressive leaders to "get the hell out" of America:
"This is a battlefield, that we must stand upon. We need to let President Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and my dear friend the chairman of the Democrat National Committee, we need to let them know that Florida ain't on the table. Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else. You can take it to Europe, you can take it to the bottom of the sea, you can take it to the North Pole, but get the hell out of the United States of America...Yeah, I said 'hell'"


Um, Allen, you delusional misinformed wingnut?
Obama won Florida in '08.
And here, in America, you delusional numbnut, people are allowed to disagree and not to worry about being removed form the country.
So, take your decades old, America: Love it or leave it, rhetoric and STFU.

Stacey Campfield, Tennessee political asshat, proving his utter stupidity:
"Most people realize that AIDS came from the homosexual community. It was one guy screwing a monkey, if I recall correctly, and then having sex with men. It was an airline pilot, if I recall."


How does a man who is so innately, and publicly, stupid, get elected to public office?
Oh, it's Tennessee.

Roberto Miranda, "pastor", on New England, marriage equality and 9/11:
"Satan has warred mightily against this region, and has effectively neutralized it through the influence of principalities of rationalism, humanism, intellectual pride and spiritual arrogance. Massachusetts, as well as all of New England, has become a cemetery of churches, a breeding ground for heretical doctrine, and intellectual furnace energizing attitudes of godlessness, rational arrogance and secularism. It is no coincidence, of course, that something as dramatically distant from the Christian worldview as gay marriage would be originated in this region. Is it exaggerated to see prophetic significance in the fact that on September 11, 2001 Boston served as the point of departure for the deadly forces that spread so much destruction and havoc in this nation and all over the world? What took place at the material level is now being carried out at the moral and spiritual level, as the virus of homosexuality and gay marriage begins to spread dramatically all over this nation and perhaps the world."


This pastor supports Mitt Romney.
Mitt Romney praises this pastor for his support.
A man who blames 9/11 on homosexuality. And New England.

Matt Heinz, openly gay Arizona state representative, on running in the special election to replace Rep. Gabrielle Giffords:
"Moving forward I believe the best thing that we can do is to honor her strength, and conviction, and her leadership, by getting somebody, quickly, because we don't have much time, into that seat who is going to carry forward in the tradition of moderate, bipartisan, common sense governance that she did so well for Southern Arizona."


I think Gabby would like this idea.
Run, Matt, run.