I Didn't Say It ...

Ted Cruz, on this election and the Baby Jeebus:

“Nothing is more important in the next 18 months than that the body of Christ rise up and that Christians stand up, that pastors stand up and lead. In this last election, 54 million evangelical Christians stayed home. If we can simply bring Christians to the polls – is it any wonder we have the government we have – we have the leaders we have if believers stay home and leave electing our leaders to unbelievers. We get exactly what we deserve and nothing is more important that having people of faith stand up and just vote our values, vote biblical values and that’s how we turn the country around.”

Vote our values?

Like sending out a fraudulent mailer trying to get votes through fear tactics?

Like calling people, evangelicals, and lying to them about Ben Carson leaving the race and urging them to vote Ted Cruz?

Like taking money from an openly gay man—albeit a Homocon—while promising to roll back same-sex marriage and LGBT rights?

The values of lying and pandering? Those values?

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James David Manning, the Harlem Hate Pastor, on the idea that the Ali Forney Center might buy his bankrupt church:

“This is the lord’s house! This ain’t no damn bathhouse! It ain’t no fag house! And before you can ever own this property – hook or crook – men who are fags with testicles will be carrying babies in their testicles and giving birth to them through their anus. That’s how impossible it is for you to get this house. When you start carrying a baby in your bags and birthing that baby through your ass, THEN you can own this house! But until I see you pull a baby out your ass, you ain’t gonna pull this church out from underneath us. And boom shaka-laka goes right there! And all you fags can go to hell! I’m James David Manning, everybody. I’m the LORD’S servant!” 

Yes, he says he’s a man of God.

God, however, begs to differ.
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Carl Siciliano, Ali Forney Center founder, in response:

“I imagine we are going to hear a lot of ranting and raving from Rev. Manning until the auction. And he has good cause to be ranting. The Ali Forney Center has been overwhelmed with support since we announced our bid to site a housing program for LGBT youth,  thus far raising $130K, well over $30K a day, in our quest to win his foreclosed building at auction. I have no interest in birthing babies, only in providing safety for New York City’s homeless LGBT youth.”

Out of the ashes of hate, perhaps something good can come.

Plus, it’s fun to see Manning go even more nuts … I never thought that was possible.
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Kato Kaelin, on his part in American Crime Story: The People v. OJ Simpson :

“I have often said that the media made me out to be a bigger player in this drama than I ever was, and American Crime Story: The People v. OJ Simpson couldn’t pass up on that either. Whether it be for comedic relief or getting the most bang out their buck for that god-awful wig, (anyone remember Dana Carvey playing Garth from Wayne’s World?) there’s too much Kato Kaelin in this series — even for Kato Kaelin’s taste!”

You were, and still are, a huge embarrassment, and a hypocrite, since you are live-Tweeting each episode and giving reviews to the Daily Mail.

You should take your own advice and sit down.
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Donald [t]Rump, on whether or not a [t]Rump presidency would mean more forward motion on equality for the LGBT community:

“Well, you can. And look, again, we’re going to bring people together, and that’s your thing and other people have their thing. We have to bring all people together and if we don’t we’re not going to have a country anymore. It’s gonna be a total mess. It’s a mess right now, it’s gonna be worse…I’m gonna bring people together.”

Funny, because just the other day he said he’d consider appointing justices to the Supreme Court who would vote to overturn marriage equality.

Doesn’t sound like forward motion at all; it sounds like [t]Rump is a lying, pandering, playing to the crows GOP asshat.
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Catherine Zeta-Jones, on her real beauty:

“You don’t have to be a beauty queen to be an actress. The roles that are coming my way are different and more interesting. But I’m not anti-plastic surgery at all. Contrary to public opinion, I have not been under the knife…yet, is what I say! If I feel like it, I’m going to go ahead and do it! If (surgery) makes you feel better, who am I to tell someone that it’s wrong?”

Sure, maybe she has had any surgeries, but clearly this woman never met an injectible  or a filler that she didn’t love.

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I Didn't Say It....

Andrew Sullivan, Obama's coming out for equality:

"[T]oday Obama did more than make that logical step. He let go of fear. He is clearly prepared to let the political chips fall as they may. That's why we elected him. That's the change we believed in. The contrast with a candidate who wants to abolish all rights for gay couples by amending the federal constitution, and who has donated to organizations that seek to 'cure' gays, who bowed to pressure from bigots who demanded the head of a spokesman on foreign policy solely because he was gay: how much starker can it get? My view politically is that this will help Obama. He will be looking to the future generations as his opponent panders to the past. The clearer the choice this year the likelier his victory. And after the darkness of last night, this feels like a widening dawn."

Just like in that ad, where Obama makes the call to take out bin Laden, this is the kind of tough call—politically, not personally—that we want our presidents to make.

And, of course, we always knew it would be Barack Obama as the first president to say it.

I’m still grinning about it, and don’t think I’ll stop for a very long time.

Brian Brown, NOM president, challenging Dan Savage to a debate:

"Let me lay down a public challenge to Dan Savage right here and now: You want to savage the Bible? Christian morality? Traditional marriage? Pope Benedict? I'm here, you name the time and the place and let's see what a big man you are in a debate with someone who can talk back. It's easy to make high-school girls cry by picking on them. Let's pick on someone our own size! I'm here, any time, any place you name, Dan Savage. You will find out how venal and ridiculous your views of these things are if you dare to accept a challenge."

Dan Savage debating Brian Brown will be like shooting bigots, er, fish in a barrel.

Savage has the wits and the intelligent and the ability to make cogent thought, while Brown is just a self-loathing closeted flaming foot-stomping goosestepping moron.

Mitt Romney, on the departure of Richard Grenell:

"We select people not based upon their ethnicity or their sexual preference or their gender. But upon their capability. He was a capable individual. We’re sorry to have him go and actually a whole series of the senior people on my team and my supporters called him and encouraged him to stay. But he expressed a desire to move on and I wish him the very best."

This is another one of those times when I think Romney is an inveterate liar.

First off, how long did it take him to comment on Grenell’s departure? Days?

Second off, any fool who thinks they didn’t hire Grenell because he’s gay, and thought that would make Romney seem LGBT-friendly, is, well, I already said it, a fool.

Barney Frank, on Mittsy Romney:

"Any gay or lesbian person with any self-respect should not be voting for any of the Republicans, including Mitt Romney, who made the degrading comment in one of the recent debates about how he kept Massachusetts from being the Las Vegas of gay marriage, kind of cheapening this very profound thing for us. This is a faker who in 1994, when he was trying to beat Ted Kennedy in a different era, said 'Oh, I’ll be better than him on gay rights,' and of course he’s been outrageous....In fact in 2004, when the Massachusetts Supreme Court had ruled in favor of gay rights, there was an effort in the state Legislature to overturn it. Mitt Romney led a fight against a whole lot of legislators who had courageously voted with us to uphold gay marriage, and he tried very hard to defeat them. I think he gave the business I’m in a bad name. He is the most unprincipled, dishonest, intellectually flexible guy I’ve seen. There does not appear to be any public policy to which he’s committed."

Mitt.

Flip.Flop.

Anti-gay.

Anti-woman.

Anti-middle class.

Carl Siciliano, executive director of New York City’s Ali Forney Center, an LGBT homeless youth shelter, on Mayor Bloomberg’s new budget which cuts $7 million to the city’s Runaway and Homeless Youth Services:

“Mayor Bloomberg's plan to throw 160 homeless children out of their shelter beds and into the streets is cruel, reckless and contemptible. These cuts create an even bigger crisis for the LGBT teens who are thrown out of their homes and forced to endure homelessness on the streets of our city. The LGBT community needs and demands political leaders who will protect our children. Instead, Mayor Bloomberg has proposed eliminating more than half of their shelter beds. The Ali Forney Center, and all those who work with and care about LGBT homeless youth, will not be silent in the face of this decision, which offends us as a community and needlessly puts our young people in harm's way.”

Take a young gay man or woman, already tossed aside by their own family, and then, when they finally find a place that will take them in, cut the budget so they are kicked out of a second home.

So, so compassionate.

Joe Biden, Vice President, on marriage equality:

"Look, I am Vice President of the United States of America. The president sets the policy. I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women and heterosexual men marrying women are entitled to the same exact rights. All the civil rights, all the civil liberties. And quite frankly I don’t see much of a distinction beyond that."

Maybe Biden said it first—and I thank him for that—but Biden has always spoken off the cuff [Anyone remember Big Fucking Deal-gate?].

If this spurred the president to make his announcement, maybe before he really wanted to, then, Thanks again for that Joe.

It’s time all the politicians who teetered on the edge of equality finally announced their true beliefs.

Chad Griffin, incoming HRC president, on Biden's statement:

"Only in Washington and in politics could someone attempt to parse the words of what the vice president of the United States said on Meet the Press today. His words speak for themselves -- and they send an incredibly important message outside Washington to the young LGBT teenager hearing the vice president of the United States talk about his belief in marriage equality and the fact that he or she can grow up and have the same dreams and aspirations as their friends, their colleagues, their parents."

It was always clear what he said, and anyone who didn’t hear it right, was, as usual, not really paying attention.

Bryan Fischer, AFA spokesbigot, railing against Mittsy for letting Richard Grenell resign, after spending weeks asking for Mittsy to remove him [hypocrite, say what?]:

"... if Mitt Romney can be pushed around, intimidated, coerced, co-opted by a conservative radio talk show host in Middle America, then how is he going to stand up to the Chinese? How is he going to stand up to Putin? How is he going to stand up to North Korea if he can be pushed around by a yokel like me?"

He’s not going to stand up against you, Bryan.

Mitt will kow-tow and bow to whichever interest he thinks might be best able to help him.

That’s why we’ve called him a flip-flopper for so long.

Funny, now you’re finally realizing it, too.

[Note: Romney is now back in Fischer’s good graces after standing firmly against LGBT rights in the aftermath of Obama’s marriage equality support announcement.]\Fischer is a flip-flopper, too.

Ken Hutcherson, Washington state anti-gay "pastor" wants the word 'gay' back:

"Seriously, I am the gayest guy I know...My frustration is that some groups have taken words and symbols away from the Church and from society in general. When I say I'm 'gay,' what I mean is that I am happy, that I am joyful and that I love people. That is precisely what a Christian ought to be so in my opinion we just need to be as gay as we can. Dan Savage says he is gay. He's not gay, not anywhere close. Yeah, he may be a homosexual but he certainly doesn't appear to be happy or joyful when he stands up in front of a classroom and uses profane language. Nope, nothing gay about that."

Ken, you can’t have a heart filled with hate and fear and loathing of anyone and call yourself gay, or happy, or joyful.

You are hate, and there’s nothing gay about it.

PS We aren’t giving up the rainbow.

Cher, on, Mitt Romney, via Twitter:

 "If ROMNEY gets elected I don't know if I can breathe same air as Him & his Right Wing Racist Homophobic Women Hating Tea Bagger Masters"

Now, to be fair, she has since deleted this Tweet and apologized for some of the wordage, but stands behind her loathing of Mittsy and his pandering Tea Party Flying Monkeys.

And, of course, once again, the quote to end all quotes:

President Barack Obama, on marriage equality:

“I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors, when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together; when I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage, at a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married.” 

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

Amber Heard, out actress, saying gay celebrities need to come out:
“You can’t respect yourself if you’re afraid to be who you are. It requires bravery to do something no one else around you is doing. But the risk was outweighed by the possibility of playing into this horribly detrimental lie that some in Hollywood perpetuate.”

And not just Hollywood. The world, too.
If every gay person came out, to everyone, everywhere, think of the difference it would make. 
Everyone would have a gay family member, gay friend, gay neighbor, and then all this intolerance and bigotry and homophobia would be less hard for them to justify.
Plus, it's just better being yourself.

Newt Gingrich, on gay being a 'choice':
"I don’t believe in genetic determinism and I don’t think there is any great evidence of genetic determinism. There are propensities. Are you more likely to do this or more likely to do that? But that doesn’t mean it’s definitional. Look, people choose to be celibate. People choose many things in life. You know, there is a bias in favor of non-celibacy. It’s part of how the species recreates. And yet there is a substantial amount of people who choose celibacy as a religious vocation or for other reasons."

Hmmm, I wonder though, if Newt isn't genetically predetermined to be a lying, cheating, money-grubbing adulterer with the moral compass of a.....a......Newt Gingrich.
Celibacy, Newt, which is something you know nothing about because you've stuck little Newt everywhere you could, is not a sexual orientation, so it can be a choice.
When did you choose heterosexuality, Newt? Since sexuality is a choice....when did you choose to be straight? Was it when all the hot gay guys told you to fuck off?

Mittsy Romney. not being anti-gay:
"I do not believe in discriminating against people based on sexual orientation. There are some people who do. I had a member of my administration, my Cabinet, who was gay. I didn't ask justices that I was looking to appoint, rather people who are applicants for the job, what their sexual orientation was. I believe as a Republican, I had the potential to fight for anti-discrimination in a way that would be better than Sen. Kennedy, the Democrat who was expected to do so. At the same time...in 1994, and throughout my career, I said I oppose same-sex marriage. Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. My view is...protect the sanctity of marriage, protect the sanctity of life."

He doesn't discriminate.
He just denies gay people the opportunity to be equal because we're gay.
Flip-fucking-flop.

Michele Bachmann, on how she'll get rid of the federal judiciary:
"I hold a biblical view of law. If you look at the original constitution and the founding documents of our country, it was clear that the founders wanted to separate power, they wanted to separate the presidency from the Supreme Court and from the Congress, because they thought that the Congress should be the most powerful of all the people’s voices because the people would have the ability to change out the members of the House every two years, originally the state legislatures would chose the Senators and they would have the state’s interest in mind, and the President was meant to execute the laws that Congress would put into place. The courts had a relatively minor function, it was to take current facts and apply it to the law that Congress had passed. So it was really a beautiful system that set up but it’s been distorted since then, and that’s what we need to do, get back to the original view of the Founders because it worked beautifully."

First off, wingnut, your Bible has no place in our laws.
Separation of church and state ring a bell in that empty melon you call a head?
And, um, its' three equal branches of government you dipwad.
The Congress, just because the asshats in your district were fool enough to elect you to it, does not run the country.
Get an education,
And then shut up.

Marcus "Ladybird" Bachmann, on what his agenda might be should his wife be elected President: 
“I’ve decided my cause is not going to be happy meals....We are going to be the message-givers....We are going to get this message across. Marriage is between one man and one woman. We are going to promote families.”

First off, you fat flamer, lay off Michele Obama, m'kay.
Second off, you closeted, self-loathing homo, you will never be First Lady.
Third off, your own marriage is between one woman and one glitter-bombing-Liza-loving-boa-wearing-disco-dancing-man-loving-closeted gay man.
Give that a litt;e hand jive, Marcie.

Rosie O'Donnell, on Rick Perry's "Strong" ad: 
"Watching someone who is going to run for president saying that gays are not equal blows my mind in 2011. That this man who considers himself a man of God, that he feels he has the right to say this, and that it will help him get elected -- it's shocking to me, shocking."

It is sickening to hear a man openly say that, if elected....and I giggle because he has no chance of that.....he would revert to LGBT discrimination, even when the majority of the country is going the other way.
Plus, haven't you heard, he's queer, dear.

Carl Siciliano, Executive Director of the Ali Forney Center, on LGBT homeless youth:
"Is there a more terrible expression of homophobia in our times than tens of thousands of teens being cast out of their homes and made homeless in our streets? How horrible it is that kids are made to experience such brutal abuse, just for being who they are? I believe that these youths are, without ever intending to be, unsung heroes of the LGBT movement. They are heroic because of the terrible price they pay for their honesty."

How anyone can throw their own child out of their home for being gay is beyond me.
Home was always a place of unconditional love for me, and to think that just saying the words "I'm gay" could get you kicked out......
It isn't just school kids bullying LGBT youth, sometimes it's their own families.

Rick Santorum, on why any gay person would vote for him:
"Well, look, I have nothing against gay people. They have rights of every other citizen. But what they did in Iowa and what some are trying to do, not all gays, but some are trying to do is change the laws of this country with respect to what the definition of marriage is. But if there are differences, I’m certainly going to speak out on those differences when I think it’s in the best interests of our country to have laws that reflect having men and women raise children and form solid marriage bonds."

I have nothing against gay people, but it's the same thing as fucking dogs.
That's Rick Santorum.
And what Rick Santorum doesn';t remember, because he has the IQ of a pencil, is that, oh, back int eh 1960s, the definition of marriage was changed to allow for interracial marriages.
But, then he 's probably against those two.
Frothy Mix.

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

New York's Senate Minority Leader John Sampson, on marriage equality:

"I hope our Republican colleagues will join us on the right side of history by giving the votes needed to finally pass marriage equality into law. Let our journey toward equality be a powerful example of what is possible when people lay aside partisanship and work together to do what is right and just. New York is closer now than it has ever been to fulfilling the promise of equality for all our people so our actions finally match our best intentions. The final step is before us. To my Republican colleagues – I urge you to do what is right and join us in supporting marriage equality to give all New Yorkers the more equitable and just future they deserve."

Sounds well and good, on paper, but I don't see a majority of Republicans changing their anti-gay, pandering to the TeaBaggers, goosestepping with the homophobic "christians" any time soon.
And that's a shame, because when marriage equality becomes the law of the land, all of the land, what will they be saying then?

Former NY Giant David Tyree, NOM's latest anti-equality spokesbigot, on same-sex marriage:

“Marriage is the only relationship that actually mirrors a relationship with God — it’s very unique in that way...If they pass this gay marriage bill...what I know will happen if this does comes forth is this will be the beginning of our country sliding toward...anarchy...That will be the moment our society loses its grip with what is right...I don't believe that truth is subjective...If you redefine [marriage...it changes the perception of what is good, what is right, and what is just..."

Oh, David Tyree! How many hits did you take while playing football?
This seems like you are just spewing the NOM rhetoric, so I imagine that Maggie Gallagher has her hand shoved far up your ass and is using you as her puppet.
Read my lips, you thick-necked moron.
Marriage is constantly being redefined. Just a few decades back you, as a black man, were not allowed to marry outside your race. But then we redefined marriage.
Moron.
Get your head checked and get Maggie's hand out of your ass.

Joseph Farah, on how Obama caused the Joplin tornadoes:

"Bible prophecy may have a bad name in the light of Harold Camping's misguided date-setting, but the biggest sign of the end may have been overlooked in all the rapture hysteria of the May 21st weekend. Once again, we saw the U.S. hit with a series of deadly superstorms following Barack Obama's pledge to return Israel to pre-1967 borders. Just days after Obama insisted Israel must give up lands it won through military victory with its enemies, some 200 people were killed by a tornado in Joplin, Mo. There's a pattern here. We saw it in Katrina, when George Bush forced Israel's withdrawal from Gaza. In fact, as everyone from Israeli rabbis to U.S. senators have noted, it seems to happen every single time the U.S. pressures Israel to divide the land."

So, God kills people in Missouri because of something Obama said about Israel?
And that same God tore the roof off my house in Miami, and decimated New Orleans, because of something W said?
How, may I ask, then, would anyone want to worship a god who kills innocent people, and mangles their lives, because of something a US president said?
Why is your god always so evil and hurtful?
Oh, that's right she isn't. You just say that to strike fear into your like-minded minions.

Carl Siciliano, Ali Forney Center executive director, on Tracy Morgan's homophobic rant:

"If Tracy Morgan is truly sorry for what he has done, then he should make the effort to learn the damage that is caused by homophobic parents and help to educate others about the terrible harm caused by parental rejection. He heard the crowd cheering him on. What if one of them has an LGBT child? I would advocate that his employer, NBC, join in this effort. Their power to reach millions is obvious. There is no more valuable effort that can be done for LGBT youth than to work to help them be loved and protected in their own homes."

I must give Tracy Morgan credit.
He has agreed to meet with GLAAD, and he has apologized again, and again, and again, for the idiotic things he said.
If he meant those things, then we've changed his mind, and can change other minds as well.
If he didn't mean those things, then he's learned that some things just aren't funny.

Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro, on Illinois Catholic bishops and their lawsuit demanding exemption from anti-discrimination laws:

"The Catholic Church has often affirmed that here is no 'right to adopt.' It is a privilege and responsibility to be granted only to those married couples who can demonstrate, through their loving, permanent commitment to each other, their ability to make a lifetime commitment to raising a child in the best environment possible. May God bless these shepherds, their flocks and their work, and continue to grant them strength as they weather the storm which will certainly follow their bold leadership. We gladly welcome this clear, public stance for truth, religious freedom, and for children."

So, only married couples can adopt?
Sorry all you single Illinois-y people. You don't get the privilege of raiding a child. And the child doesn't get the privilege of a loving home.
Not to mention you Illinois-y gay folks.
No one except those straight married couples get the privilege, even though nearly half of their marriages end in divorce, and yet the Catholic Church isn't fighting that.
Catholicism is just plain homophobic bigotry masquerading as a religion to make money to keep the Pope in red Pradas.

"Pastor" Jim Romen, on Gay Pride celebrations:

"I'm ex-gay. And so when I hear people celebrating, 'Oh, we're doing the LGBT month,' and those types of celebrations, I want to ask the question: 'Well, when does the state, when does the county of Los Angeles respect those who are ex-gay? When do we celebrate ex-gay month?' We've gone down this road -- it's not good -- and we've changed our lives. When does the state recognize that?"

This reminds me of when I was a kid and Mother's Day rolled around and I asked why there was a Kid's Day.
My father, and mother, would always say, "Every day is kids day."
Well, Pastor, "Every day is straight celebration day. And since you have dubbed yourself ex-gay because you no longer have sex with men, well, then, I guess you call yourself straight."
And when you so-called ex-gays can actually prove you're 'ex' and not just self-loathing homosexuals shoving themselves back into the closet, or bisexuals simply ignoring that one impulse, well, then maybe, maybe, you can have a day.

Gary Cass of the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission, on the gay pride t-shirts Old Navy is selling:

"Old Navy is promoting a lifestyle that is in complete rebellion against God. Rather than just focusing on giving good products to their customers, they want to use their products now to advocate for a very controversial topic, much less a very immoral and very deadly topic. Unfortunately we have to do the hard work of communicating our outrage, our frustration -- and then following that up with some kind of practical expression such as taking your business elsewhere."

Oh Gary, you ass.
It's a life, not a lifestyle.
It's not even a style. It's just a life.
And if you want to boycott Old Navy, go right ahead.
The gays and the gay-friendlies will be happy to pick up the slack.
Have fun shopping......at Target.