"I
will say and I actually haven't mentioned this, the only thing that did kind of
annoy me and actually it annoyed my mom who brought it up to me, Star Jones of
all people....I haven't thought about Star Jones in I don't know how long. I
was unaware she was even on TV still ... but she apparently shows up on a
morning show....If I was wanting to boost ratings, I would have waited to
announce it on 'A Very Special Episode' that would have been promo'd for weeks
and weeks and there would have been commercials ... 'Anderson's Huge
Announcement. [And] as memory serves, in terms of boosting ratings, I seem to
recall [Star] hocking her wedding every single day to get free products when
she was on 'The View' and I seem to recall her lying about her gastric bypass surgery
and making everybody else lie about it as well. So for her to suddenly emerge
out of the shadows and suddenly attack me for this, I couldn't believe
it."
Pot.Kettle.Star Jones.
Paul Tagliabue, former NFL commissioner, donating $100,000 at a Maryland
marriage equality fundraiser:
"We
had the privilege of raising our family in Maryland. We have the privilege of
now living in the District of Columbia. We’ve lived in New York where they
passed marriage equality. We spend time in the summer in Maine, where they are
fighting it again. I think this is the time to view this not as an expense, but
as a capital investment in our nation’s infrastructure. At some point the
tide has got to turn. You got to stop the litigation. You got to demonstrate
that the litigation is not—the second guessing at the ballot box is not going
to overcome the will of the legislature. At some point you’ve got to
demonstrate that people who support this are going to be re-elected, and not
get punished for supporting marriage equality. And I think right now is the
time."
Tagliabue has a gay son, but
it’s nice when our straight allies step forward, not just with a check, but
their words.
Actions + Words = Change
Rick Santorum, endorsing
Mitty’s call to defund PBS, and proving yet again that he is unfit for any
public office:
"I've voted to kill Big
Bird in the past. So, I have a record there that I have to disclose. That
doesn't mean I don’t like Big Bird. I mean, you can kill things and still like
them, maybe to eat them, I don’t know.”
Seriously.
Stop talking.
"As my teenagers would
say, he has some issues. He is a man with some real deep-seated issues ... and
Dan Savage is nowhere near, he's a hundred and eighty degrees from the
positions that we have taken. It's wrong and I will tell you this, we are
pursuing everything possible to deal with him because he is out of control.
This is the bottom line, Mike: is that if you don't embrace and celebrate
homosexuality and everything associated with it, then you are intolerant. And
the truth of the matter is, let's just be very, very truthful, and that's what
we deal in is the truth, that even is society embraced homosexuality, there
would never be that sense of self-fulfillment because it's outside the way God
created man and woman. And that's the bottom line. They cannot erase that, even
if they get every law on the books changed, it will never change that."
No one, no one, is asking Tony Perkins to “celebrate” homosexuality. I
think we’re just asking for equality under the law. I think we’re just asking
to be treated like everyone else. But Tony Perkins, in his zeal to see that
inequality stands, denigrates gay people at every turn, and that trickle down
theory hits LGBTQ youth sack in the face, perhaps making them feel less than,
and see suicide as an alternative to living in a Tony Perkins world.
"Sue
me, Tony. I'd love to see you talk about my 'issues' on a witness stand. I
realize that this isn't how you think the world is supposed to work, Tony. You
believe—and you're old enough to remember a time when—people like you were free
to say vile and disgusting things about people like me without anyone
objecting. Certainly people like me weren't allowed to call people like you
out. You still believe you should be free to lie about me and other LGBT people
with absolutely impunity—we're all pedophiles and terrorists and Satanists—and
that we should have to shut up and take it because... well, I'm not sure why
you think we're not allowed to respond when you lie about us. Maybe that's
something we could get to the bottom of during the depositions."
I’d love to be on that jury.
"I never imagined in a
million years that I would be on a stage kissing my male partner, spouse —
husband, Thomas is saying — in front of my father. I never thought that would
be the case. And to be able to do that and have not just my father but my whole
family be proud of me, that’s something special."
The times, they are a’changing.
"All
that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the Big Bang Theory,
all that is lies straight from the pit of Hell. And it’s lies to try to keep me
and all the folks who were taught that from understanding that they need a
savior. You see, there are a lot of scientific data that I’ve found out as a
scientist that actually show that this is really a young Earth. I don’t believe
that the Earth’s but about 9,000 years old. I believe it was created in six
days as we know them. That’s what the Bible says. What I’ve come to learn
is that it’s the manufacturer’s handbook, is what I call it. It teaches
us how to run our lives individually, how to run our families, how to run our
churches. But it teaches us how to run all of public policy and everything in
society. And that’s the reason as your congressman I hold the holy Bible as
being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington, D.C., and I’ll
continue to do that."
So he votes The Bible?
Vote him out.
And, for the record, and another sign as to what’s wrong with
Washington, Paul Broun is a physician who sits on the House Science, Space and
technology Committee.
Oh, but he does.
Matt Bomer, along with his partner
Simon Halls, accepting GLSEN's Inspiration Award, and talking about his own experience
growing up gay:
"When I was in high
school, there was no safe haven, there was no outlet for you to speaking your
mind. So I did what any self-preserving 14-year-old would do—I signed up
for the school play and also the football team to cover my tracks. When
that happens, when you aren't allowed to speak about who you are, one of the
most authentic parts of who you are, which is who you love or is who you're
attracted to, [one] feels invisible."
And if you’re invisible, no one will notice if you aren’t
there.
This has to change.
Sam Champion, on GMA, talking about his upcoming weeding to Rubem Robierb:
“I have met the most wonderful, giving, loving, caring person. I am so, so lucky to have someone like this in my life. I felt like we lived in a small town… I was born in Paducah, Kentucky, and to me that’s exactly what it felt like. We walked out on the street and everyone was like, ‘Hey, congratulations.’ Thank you for the tweets, and the Facebook and just coming up on the street and saying the most wonderful things.”
Best wishes, though all this ringing endorsement might have come earlier had Champion decided not to stay clsoeted for so long.
But....better late than never, eh?
Sam Champion, on GMA, talking about his upcoming weeding to Rubem Robierb:
“I have met the most wonderful, giving, loving, caring person. I am so, so lucky to have someone like this in my life. I felt like we lived in a small town… I was born in Paducah, Kentucky, and to me that’s exactly what it felt like. We walked out on the street and everyone was like, ‘Hey, congratulations.’ Thank you for the tweets, and the Facebook and just coming up on the street and saying the most wonderful things.”
Best wishes, though all this ringing endorsement might have come earlier had Champion decided not to stay clsoeted for so long.
But....better late than never, eh?
I was watching Anderson (while unpacking a box) and was stunned. It was both a nod to the type of media mongering that over hypes a show's "shocking" subject, AND he took on that bitch. That he had that adorable Andy Cohen on as his guest host. What's not to love?
ReplyDeleteRick Santorum was here in WA to speak in opposition to ref 74.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE your juxtaposition of h8 speech and love speech in this post.
ReplyDeleteh8ers gonna h8, but love will conquer them all. or put them back under the rocks from whence they came. h8ers are outnumbered by the lovers!
Broun is, for lack of a better word an idiot. To be an MD you certainly must have a grounding in the sciences, especially chemistry etc. Plus you know the human reproductive as well as other systems rather well.
ReplyDeleteSo for Broun to say crap like this exposes him as a religious bigot.
It's funny - I've met a few Jesus freak MD's and find it sad. Instead of the God Complex they should have they instead submit to God. It's ridiculous.
Upon reading your final comment on Sam Champion and his fiance, I am once again amazed that any of us who have come out later in life ever do...
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