I Didn't Say It ....

Michelle Obama, video-posting about marriage equality:

"This is an important issue for millions of Americans, and for Barack and me, it really comes down to the values of fairness and equality that we want to pass on to our girls. These are basic values that kids learn at a very young age and that we encourage them to apply in all areas of their lives. And in a country where we teach our children that everyone is equal under the law, discriminating against same-sex couples just isn’t right. So it’s as simple as that."

How anyone can teach their child to discriminate against anyone is beyond me.

Discrimination is discrimination and it's wrong.

Jane and Joseph Clementi, Tyler Clementi's parents, rejecting Dharun Ravi's "apology" as insincere:

“As to the so-called ‘apology,’ it was, of course, no apology at all, but a public relations piece produced by Mr. Ravi’s advisers only after Judge Berman scolded Mr. Ravi in open court for his failure to have expressed a word of remorse or apology. A sincere apology is personal. Many people convicted of crimes address the victims and their families in court. Mr. Ravi was given that opportunity but chose to say nothing. His press release did not mention Tyler or our family, and it included no words of sincere remorse, compassion or responsibility for the pain he caused.”

Here's how this should have worked, Dharun. You look the Clementi's in the eye and tell them you're sorry. You don't make the apology about you and the kind of person you say you are, but you simply say, 'I'm sorry.'

Is that so hard? No, no for a person who actually shows remorse, which you do not.

David Caton, still up in arms over Disney's Gay Days, and comparing LGBT people to gang members:

"Dozens of gang members visiting Disneyland in California have been evicted after entering the park wearing gang colors according to Kenneth Green, Director of Corporate Communications. He said the company was concerned the groups might intimidate or invoke fear in the hearts of regular patrons. So, Disney can see where a dozen people wearing gang colors might be offensive to regular families but not thousands of same-sex revelers wearing shirts that flaunt and promote homosexual, lesbian and transgender behavior."

LGBT people in red shirts are the same as gang members?

Well, then all those religious wingnuts like Caton who show up in public wearing their Bible-thumping attire should be drummed out of Disney, too.

The LGBT community is not a gang. We don't intimidate or invoke fear by existing.

Unlike your ilk. Asshat.

Kelly Clarkson, on what she will not do for her career:

''I don't want to wear no stiletto. I am not a model and I am not Beyonce. It is not going to happen. This is such a funny industry. Sometimes I turn on awards shows and pop stars are wearing alien costumes. I'm like, 'That's cool for you, but ain't no way in hell someone is going to convince me to wear that on stage.''

Here's the deal: some people just sing, because they can. 

Other people need fireworks and scantily clad backup dancers and wind machines and big hair because, seriously, they cannot sing without the use of autotone or a tracking vocal.

Kelly doesn't need any of that mess.

Greg Louganis, on triumphing over his bullies:

"I almost want to thank all the bullies in my life: the ones who called me 'n*gger,' 'retard,' 'sissy boy,' and 'f*ggot'; those who threatened to throw punches at me and took my lunch money at the bus stop; those who actually threw punches at me and rubbed my face in asphalt; my dad, who whipped me with his belt until I did a dive I was too scared to do in my regular practice; the coaches who belittled me and intimidated me into pushing myself beyond what I thought I was capable of; and the man who raped me at knifepoint, whom I then stayed with for another six years."

There are all kinds of bullies and all kinds of bullying.

No matter your age, your talent, or your success in life.

It has to stop.

Queen Latifah, still ALLEGEDLY n the closet, saying she did not come out at long Beach Pride even while saying she was glad to be "among her people":

“That definitely wasn’t the case. I’ve never dealt with the question of my personal life in public. It’s just not gonna happen.....To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year’s Eve in San Francisco. Tupac happened to be in town, so he came to kick it with me. This was the early ’90s. And the boys were like, ‘Take your shirt off, Tupac!’ He wasn’t doing that. But we had a blast in there.”

It's a shame she feels that way.

Sad that she has to put that wall up when she does interviews and demand that no one ask about her personal life.

Sad that she can't, or won't, come out, because,. if she did, she'd do wonders for lots of Black LGBT youth.

But she chooses to live in fear and denial and masking it by saying she wants to keep her private life private. if that were truly the case, then why does she talk at all?

Peter Tatchell, British activist, on the Queen's alleged homophobia:

"While I doubt that Elizabeth II is a raging homophobe, she certainly doesn't appear to gay-friendly. Not once in her 60-year reign has she publicly acknowledged the existence of the LGBT community – or gay members of her own royal family. The Queen has turned her back on queens. While she has spoken approvingly of the UK's many races and faiths, for six decades she has ignored LGBT Britons. Judging from her silence, it seems that we are the unspeakable ones – the people she cannot bare to acknowledge or mention in public. Why the double standards? Regardless of whether these omissions are a reflection of the Queen's personal views or the result of advice from her courtiers, as monarch she bears ultimate responsibility. Her silence sends a signal of exclusion and disrespect." 

Wow. Sixty years and not a word about The Gays.

And we were all up in arms over Obama's evolution on marriage equality?

The Brits have felt that sting for sixty-effing-years!

David Mixner, on the evangelical call to kill gays: 

"The temptation, of course, is for thinking people to cross these preachers of hate off as right wing religious crazies. Their attempt to be the moral police of America is more like the Taliban than a thoughtful discussion taking place in a democratic setting. Not taking them seriously, however, would be a mistake."

All it takes is for the wackadoodle words of one of these "men of god" to be put into action and then we'll all feign shock at how this could happen.

Martin Short, on Mitt Romney: 

“I’m sure he’s a very nice man. I’ve never met him. I find it fascinating, though, for a party that seems to fear gays as much as they do, that now the Republicans have fallen head-over-heels for a big stiff one.”

I know Short is joking, but I'm not so sure Mittsy is a nice man. 

I think he's coldly calculating and working toward keeping the rich rich, and the poor poor.

I Didn't Say It ....

Dan Savage, on the homophobic church hymn:

"The Apostolic Truth Tabernacle is in Greensburg, Indiana. That's the town where Billy Lucas was bullied to death for being perceived to be gay by his classmates. I wonder if they stood up and cheered at Apostolic Truth Tabernacle when Lucas died—hey, another homo in hell. I wonder if any of Lucas's tormenters attend services at Apostolic Truth Tabernacle. And remember: I'm an anti-Christian bully for pointing out the connection between what straight kids are taught about 'homos' in the shithole mega-churches they're dragged to by their parents and what they turn around and do to 'homos' they encounter in classrooms. And what if that precocious little four-year-old singer is gay? Praise the Lord and pass the barf bags."

I wonder how long until that church posts pictures of children with their “God Hates Fags” signs, because you know that’s where this is headed.

And bigots like those think the LGBT community is trying to indoctrinate children.

Pot.Kettle.STFU.

David Caton, head of the Florida Family Association, on Disney's Gay Days being a chance for "The Gays" to get their hands on your children:

"There will be perhaps as many as 18,000 same-sex revelers in the Magic Kingdom pretty much all day long. The event is pretty much a celebration of their lifestyle, and they target Disney on the first Saturday of summer because that's when they've known in the past that the most children are in the park."

Keep spinning the lies, Davey, until you get caught at Gay Days in a Men’s Room with your pants around your ankles.

Mitt Romney, presumptive GOP presidential nominee, on how he isn't good at sports so he'll run for president instead:

“I mean, you know, I can’t compete in competitive sports very well, but I can compete in politics, and there’s the—what was the old ABC ‘Wide World of Sports’ slogan? ‘The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat....The only difference is victory is still a thrill, but I don’t feel agony in loss.”

Well, then, I won’t feel so badly for you in November when you go crawling back to your pandering asshatted loser cave.

Tony Perkins, of Family Research Council, forgetting what he said last year about gays serving openly in the military and how all the soldiers would flee the armed services:

"Yesterday I was interviewed by a Voice of America reporter who obviously had a perspective on this that was different than mine and said ‘we heard all of this talk about this was going to be horrible for the military and the military was going to be decimated by this, and here we are 12 months later and we haven’t seen the military fall apart yet,’ and I said, excuse me, but adopting a policy and changing a policy of this nature, you don’t see the total effect of a 12 month period. Now, let’s talk in about, 10 years."

Here’s the deal, Tony.

Not everyone on the planet is as bigoted and homophobic and, well, obsessed with The Gays, as you.

Most people, in fact, and look at any number of polls showing increased support for equality, don’t have a problem with The Gays but they do have a problem with you.

Curtis Knapp, “pastor” of New Hope Baptist Church in Seneca, Kansas, on how the US government should Kill The Gays:

"They should be put to death. That's what happened in Israel. That's why homosexuality wouldn't have grown in Israel. It tends to limit conversions. It tends to limit people coming out of the closet. — 'Oh, so you're saying we should go out and start killing them, no?' — I'm saying the government should. They won't but they should. [You say], 'oh, I can't believe you you're horrible. You're a backwards Neanderthal of a person.' Is that what you're calling scripture? Is God a neanderthal backwards.. in his morality. Is it his word or not? If it's his word, he commanded it. It's his idea, not mine. And I'm not ashamed of it."

God isn’t a Neanderthal, Curtis; that would be you.

And don’t you love how he says “we shouldn’t Kill The Gays” but that the government should do it.

Scary part is, Curtis and Chucky Worley, have congregations filled with the anti-LGBT Kool Aid drinking morons.

Jerome Corsi, World Net Daily lead birther, from Hawaii, where he and Arizona's Sheriff Joe Arpaio are searching for evidence of the president's birth because a birth certificate is not enough:

"If Obama wins, we do not have a First Amendment, we won't have a Fourth Amendment, we won't have a Bill of Rights, people like you and me we'll be in thought education camps - if they allow us to live, our families will be destroyed, private property will be confiscated. People think this is radical. All the plans are laid out and signed in executive orders." 

Um, the idea of someone like Corsi being sent to an Education Camp, or any kind of school where he might receive an education, is appealing.

His blatant racism, and fruitless search for evidence that Obama is un-American, as well as his fearmongering, has no place in the national dialogue.

Dharun Ravi, former Rutgers student, apologizing for the first time as he begins his 30-day jail sentence for eavesdropping on Tyler Clementi which ended with Clementi’s suicide:

"I accept responsibility for and regret my thoughtless, insensitive, immature, stupid and childish choices that I made on Sept. 19, 2010, and Sept. 21, 2010. My behavior and actions, which at no time were motivated by hate, bigotry, prejudice or desire to hurt, humiliate or embarrass anyone, were nonetheless the wrong choices and decisions. I apologize to everyone affected by those choices.”

Um, I might buy his apology, except for the fact that, to me, it’s a little late. And for the fact that he says he didn’t intend to embarrass Clementi, or humiliate him, or hurt him.

Why then, videotape anyone in a personal private moment and then stream it on the web if the idea wasn’t to humiliate, embarrass or hurt?