Fox News Hires Another Bigot: Alveda King

In the ‘Is This really Surprising or Is it Just Fox Being Fox’ department comes the news that Fox News president Roger Ailes has announced the hiring of viciously anti-gay activist Alveda King as a commentator:

“Alveda has brilliantly carried the legacy of the King family to the next generation and has been a source of inspiration for many Americans. Her passion and mission for social change will be a valuable contribution to our network.” 

Huh. ‘Carried the legacy of the King family to the next generation’?

King has been married three times but says marriage is between one man and one woman.

King has had three abortions but is against reproductive rights.

King calls herself Dr. Alveda King, even though hers is an honorary degree from a wee Catholic school in rural New Hampshire.

Yeah, she’s totally Fox material: a liar, a bigot, a homophobe and a hypocrite.

I Didn't Say It ....

Michelangelo Signorile, on Congressman Matt Salmon’s anti-marriage equality stance while being father to a gay son:

"My head is going to explode if I hear someone say one more time that a parent can unconditionally "love" his or her child while still not 'accepting' the fact that the child is gay, and can even oppose rights for the child. Yesterday several callers to my radio program accused me of being unreasonable, and even hateful, for saying that we are now well past the time when such thinking is acceptable. If you're working against rights for your own children in the name of your religious faith, even while claiming that you love those children, then you are selfish and pathetic, actually loving yourself and your beliefs more than you love your own kids."

I think Michelangelo says it exactly how I feel. How can a parent say ‘I love you’ and then work to deny their children equality?

That ain’t love.

Matt R. Salmon, defending his father's, Arizona Congressman Matt Salmon, anti-marriage equality stance: 

“He doesn’t see it as not allowing his son to be with the person he loves, because he knows that regardless of where marriage is, I’m going to be with the person that I love. Whether I can legally marry in Arizona or not, it’s not going to change that fact and my father knows that and he accepts my desire to be with the man that I love. As far as it goes with marriage, for him it’s a matter of what marriage means to him — to him marriage is defined as between a man and a woman. It has nothing to do with the way he views a person’s relationship, and that’s the thing that I think is hard for people to understand.”

Matt, maybe your dad realizes that you can ‘be’ with the person you love but he doesn’t think you have the right to ‘marry’ the person you love. He’s saying you aren’t as equal as is he, and that’s where I have the issue.

Rand Paul, Teabagging Senator from Kentucky, on working to keep the marriage equality battle at the state level because they won’t win at the federal level:

"I think right now if we say we're only going to [have] a federally mandated one man, one woman marriage, we're going to lose that battle because the country is going the other way right now. If we're to say each state can decide, I think a good 25, 30 states still do believe in traditional marriage, and maybe we allow that debate to go on for another couple of decades and see if we can still win back the hearts and minds of people."

Rand, you moron, people won’t go backwards. If people move progressively toward same-sex marriage acceptance, they won’t suddenly switch back in ten years.

I mean, did I miss that whole period where we tried, after legalizing interracial marriage, to work to overturn it?

We won’t go backwards.

David Letterman, on marriage equality and anti-LGBT discrimination:

"I'm just sick and tired, and I think it has really crossed the line of being nonsense. This ongoing, politically nuanced, religiously nuanced discussion of gay marriage, gay rights. It is absolute stupidity....Humans have the right to do what humans do, that’s it. End of story. There’s no argument. There’s no exceptions. Humans have rights and they get to do what humans get to do. Case closed. Good night."

Word.

Alveda King, three-times divorced, who had two abortions and tried to get a third but didn't have the money, on abortion rights and marriage equality:

"We are told by abortion advocates that it is 'unjust' that some women cannot afford to abort their babies, so tax dollars must be used to finance the killing of those children. We are told by same-sex 'marriage' advocates that it is 'unjust' that men cannot marry other men and women cannot marry other women, so 2,000 years of wisdom must be abandoned. And yet, the Bible tells us that human life is sacred. We are thereby to choose life over abortion. The Bible teaches us that natural marriage between one man and one woman is part of the procreative process. We are thereby compelled to choose holy and procreative matrimony. In forgetting our heritage, in distancing ourselves from God's moral rules, we are doing Uncle M. L. a disservice, and we are in danger of coming face to face with disaster. So, in remembering Uncle M. L. today, I urge America and the world to remember that he was a servant of God who, though imperfect, tried to point people to the truth." 

Honey, the truth is that you cannot stay married and yet you think you can tell other people that they don’t have the same rights. The truth is you have had abortions and now you want to tell other women that the Bible says they can’t? Where was the Bible when you were aborting what you call a ‘scared life’?

Boyd Packer, Latter Day Saints Apostle, telling Mormons to be careful about softening the church's stance on 'anti-family' issues, presumably homosexuality and same-sex marriage:

"The family, The fundamental organization in time and eternity is under attack from forces seen and unseen...We need to be careful of the tolerance trend, so that we do not swallow it up and get swallowed up in it...The permissiveness afforded by the weakening of the laws of the land to tolerate and legalize acts of immorality does not reduce the serious spiritual consequence that is the result from a violation of God’s law of Chastity.”

Yes, let’s be careful of being tolerant of those who might be different from us.

Those are some lovely teachings you got going there Boyd.

Bret Lockett, New York Jets safety, on gay players in the NFL:

"I think it's interesting and I think it's going to happen sometime soon now. It will definitely stir up a crazy controversy among the media and everybody else, but I don't have a problem with it. I support everybody. Everybody has a right to do what they want. I don't have a problem playing with anyone who would be gay. At the end of the day, as long as they're a great football player, that's all that matters."

Isn’t that what any player would do? Play the game? Why is that straight players can play well, and do their jobs on the field, while gay players would be too busy cruising the showers?

Dave Hagstrom, Montana Congressman and a Republican of course, explaining his ‘No’ vote to repeal the state’s ban on The Gays having sex:

“I don’t think that homosexual sex is necessarily not deviate. Bad word? Deviate simply means it’s not normal, it’s not typical....This pen has two purposes. The first purpose, of course, is to write. The second purpose is to retract, so that it doesn’t leave a stain on your shirt or your purse. So it has two purposes, but one is primary and the other is secondary. To me, sex’s primary purpose is to produce people, that’s why we’re all here. Sex that doesn’t produce people is deviate. That doesn’t mean that it’s a problem. It just means it’s not doing its primary purpose. So I’m just speaking to the bill and I encourage people to vote red.”

Wow.

And this nutcase got elected to office?

But let’s take one little part of his wack-a-doody comments: sex’s primary purpose is to produce people.

Then no one, no one, should be allowed to have sex for any reason other than to produce children, and by Hagstrom’s own lunacy, should be charged with a felony is their schtupping doesn’t result in babies.

I Didn't Say It....

Beau Biden, Delaware Attorney General and, well, hottie, on his father, Joe Biden's, support of marriage equality:

"My dad spoke from the heart. I'm incredibly proud of what he said. I'm even more proud of what the president said as it relates to making sure that this is a fundamental civil rights issue. It's a civil rights issue. It's something that people in my state, in Delaware, and everywhere I go are incredibly proud of the stance that the president has taken on a matter of equality. At a moment we're sending people to defend our nation – whether they be gay or straight – to not allow them to have the same rights that we all have on the home front just doesn't make sense."

Word.

Bill Donohue, Catholic League spokesdouche, on the legal wedding between NYC mayoral Candidate, Christine Quinn, and her partner, Tina Caputo:

"The people who go know they are not witnessing a wedding. I will be at a bar [on Saturday] watching the Preakness. The horses are a lot more fun - and it's real."

Um, Bill, you delusional dumbfuck.

It is a real wedding. Same-sex marriage is legal in New York. So, go, drown your sorrows in alcohol you pitiful loser.

Matthew McConaughey, on what he might do if one of his children was gay: "There’s nothing in me that can understand disowning your child because they’re gay. You deal with it, you support them, and you also help prepare them for how some people in the world will treat and think of them."

I still get an icky vibe from McConaughey, but, hey, he seems to be pretty cool if he had a gay kid, so maybe….maybe…..I’ll remove a couple of Ick Points.

Audra McDonald, on marriage equality: 

"I've been a real loud active voice in the movement to get marriage equality. And I had gone up the month before to Albany, when they were days away from that historic vote, to rally and to see who I could talk to, and just be another face out there saying let's do the right thing here....I had read a beautiful story in The New York Times about the couple who were getting married, and that Mayor Bloomberg was going to preside over their wedding at Gracie Mansion. And my friend called me and said, 'They'd love to have you come and sing.' And I was floored. I was so honored. And I cried like a baby at that ceremony. And I brought my daughter. And it was a very moving moment and a very teachable moment having my daughter there. And as far as she was concerned, it was just another wedding. She doesn't really see the issue, which is great. So that's how it came about. It was a beautiful day."

That’s the deal about same-sex marriage.

The younger generation doesn’t see the problem.

Love is love. Two consenting adults want to make a commitment.

What is the big deal?

Ken Bennett, Arizona Secretary of State, on keeping President Obama off his state's November ballot:

"First of all, I’m not playing to the birthers, I’m not a birther. I believe that the president was born in Hawaii, or at least I hope he was. Hawaii has a special provision in their law that allows other government officials from other states to request what’s called a verification in lieu of a certified copy of a birth certificate. So I’m not asking for the certified copy of the birth certificate at all. I was frankly expecting that they would very quickly and very simply say ‘yes.’ Eight weeks later, they haven’t. I can’t seem to get them to say yes."

Ken, you are a birther. This question has been asked and answered almost non-stop since 2008 and yet you GOP douchebagging, wingnutting, asshatting morons keep bringing it up.

Enough already. Arizona has tons more issues to deal with than this nonsense. 

Bill Owens, "Reverend", of the Coalition of African-American Pastors, asking Obama to devolve on same-sex marriage:

"A 50-year-old can only read about the struggles and protests of the civil rights era, but some of us who are older have the battle scars to prove it. And the rights we fought so hard to acquire did not include same-sex marriage. We ask President Obama to stand with the black church, on the Word of God and evolve again back to the common sense biblical view that marriage is the union of husband and wife."

Marriage rights are Civil Rights, “Reverend”, no matter how many times you say they aren’t.

Civil Rights aren’t a black, brown, yellow, white, male, female, gay, straight issue.

They are a human issue.

Alveda King, NOM ally and the niece of Martin Luther King, Jr., on the NAACP's support for marriage equality:

“Neither my great-grandfather, an NAACP founder, my grandfather Dr. Martin Luther King Sr., an NAACP leader, my father Rev. A. D. Williams King, nor my uncle Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. embraced the homosexual agenda that the current NAACP is attempting to label as a civil rights agenda. In the 21st century, the anti-traditional marriage community is in league with the anti-life community, and together with the NAACP and other sympathizers, they are seeking a world where homosexual marriage and abortion will supposedly set the captives free.”

Honey. You need to sit down.

Your Uncle is ashamed of you.

Welton Gaddy, Reverend and President of Interfaith Alliance, on "Pastor" Charles Worley's sermon which suggested gays and lesbians be rounded up, put in electrified pens, and left to die:

"In one fell swoop this angry minister managed to discredit from his pulpit both the Constitution of the United States and the compassion that we find in the bible, and additionally he did a very dangerous thing by planting seeds of hatred in sick minds that in the right circumstances can act on them and do the kind of violence that has no place in our world."

I think his sermon is Hate Speech, and I think if one of his delusional flock acts on his “sermon” then he should be brought up on charges of inciting Hate.

50 Cent, on marriage equality: 

“I think everyone should be happy. I think a fool is going to go against same sex marriage at this point.....Look how long it took [Obama] to say he was for same sex marriages. You understand? I’m up for it. If everyone else is for it, then hey, to each his own. I don’t have personal feelings towards it because I’m not involved in that lifestyle. I want people to be happy. It makes for everything to be better.... {but} we need organisations for straight men. We do. We need organisations for straight men in the case you’ve been on the elevator and somebody decides they want to grab your little buns.”

Really, Fiddy? We need an organization to protect straight men from having their asses grabbed by gay men?

You started off real good there, in your little speech, like it was all equality, and then you turned it into a stereotyping asshatted moronic statement.

I wouldn’t grab your ass if it was the last ass on Earth.

Douche.

Maggie Gallagher, NOM's Hellhound, dismissing polls showing no effect from Obama's marriage equality support...and, in that same article she cites polls that feed her delusions:

"Polls are just static snapshots....Obama, by endorsing gay marriage, has broken through the media silence imposed on those who oppose gay marriage, generating new, unexpected and highly visible expressions of opposition. All of a sudden, pastors across America are preaching against gay marriage. Conservative talk radio shows are addressing it. People are hearing that their friends and neighbors disapprove. A new dynamic is in play, set in motion by Obama's misjudgment: He believed the pundits and chose the money over the voters. That's almost always a bad bet for a president. In November, unless he evolves again, he will find out just how bad a bet that was."

Maggie. Maggie. Maggie.

You delusional hypocrite.

Your fat behind is on the wrong side of history and I cannot wait until Marriage Equality is the law of the land so I can watch your fat, cheese-filled head explode.

Colin Powell, General and former Secretary of State, on marriage equality:
"I have no problem with it...As I’ve thought about gay marriage, I know a lot of friends who are individually gay but are in partnerships with loved ones, and they are as stable a family as my family is, and they raise children. And so I don’t see any reason not to say that they should be able to get married."


It looks like everyone is evolving.
Evolution is good.