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?

Random Musings

Well, The Next Food Network Star is back again, and again, I'm hooked. They've changed the format this year, breaking it into three teams, each with a Food Network mentor: Giada De Laurentiis, of the blazing white teeth and oh so perky personality; Bobby Flay, arrogant douche; and Alton Brown, who, and call me crazy, I find absolutely adorkable.

He’s nerdy; he's cute; he's very smart, very nice, and wears bow-ties.

OMG....he's Carlos!

That explains that.

I thought this had already happened, I mean, it's the 21st century and all, but this week Adam Lambert's new album "Trespassing" debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top 200, and #1 on the Billboard Digital Albums Chart. 

It's Lambert's first #1 debut, and also the first time ever, that an openly gay singer has had an album debut in the top spot. Elton John and George Michael, each had top spot records, but not before they came out, and, oddly enough, they haven't had a top spot record since coming out.

So, congrats to Adam Lambert for another first.

Lots of gossip this week about former Cosby Show cute kid Raven-Symoné being a lesbian and living in NYC with her girlfriend. It was all over the Twitter and the Facebook, until Raven came out, pardon the pun, to say that her private life is her private life and she will not comment on whom she is dating or with whom she might be living.

So, is she gay? I dunno. If she is, good for; but bad for her for staying in the closet because a lot of young Black girls, who are struggling with coming out could be helped by Raven's story.

If she isn't gay, well, good for her, too.

Speaking of Is she gay or is she straight....

Queen Latifah performed at the Long Beach Gay Pride last weekend and apparently told the crowd that she was proud to be among "her people."

Instructing her audience "to conquer hate with love" and to "let their inner light shine in the world," Latifah, long rumored to be a lesbian, admitted, "I’ve been waiting to do this for a long time."

But she didn't say those two words, I'm gay, that people have expected. So, is she testing the waters? Is she just gonna go Jodie Foster or Jim Parsons and be known as a gay celebrity until one day it's just mentioned in passing.

Again, if Latifah came out she'd certainly be helping a lot of people struggling with coming to terms with their orientation.

So, Forbes magazine named JLo as the Most Powerful Celebrity in the world. Seriously. JLo.

I guess being on Idol, selling Fiats, hawking her “clothing line” at Kohl’s, being a spokesperson for hair color and makeup and, well, anything else, plus schtupping a backup dancer young enough to be her son, is Forbes definition of power.

Sadly, Oprah toppled from the top of the list, though she is rumored to have made $165 million last year.

But her network, OWN, which I’m not sure she really OWNS reportedly lost another $330 million.

So, even if she OWNS a third of OWN she took quite fall.

I caught a bit of The View this week and again I am wondering: Isn't it time for Babs to retire?

See, they were discussing the wedding of Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, to his longtime girlfriend, And the discussion turned to the fact that the marriage took place after Facebook went public, and how Zuckerberg might have planned it that way because if he and the new missus get a divorce in the future, his earnings from before the marriage are untouchable.

Okay, so maybe he did it that way and maybe he didn't. No one really knows except the Zuckerbergs. But, Batty Babs Walters claimed that Zuckerberg did plan to marry after the stock went public so he wouldn't have to share that pot of gold. She claimed it as gospel.

Funny, but, how does she know that? I mean, the first status updates Babs ever made was etching into a cave wall: Today Daddy dragged home a brontosaurus for dinner.

Someone make her retire already.

Dharun Ravi, the former Rutgers student who, with friend Molly Wei, pushed Tyler Clementi toward suicide because they videotaped him having sex with another man, was sentenced to thirty days in jail this week.

Now, I understand that he was actually charged with eavesdropping, and not murder, but when your eavesdropping leads to someone killing themselves, maybe thirty days is the wrong sentence?

Just sayin'.

Battleship. The movie.

B-one. G-seven.

Seriously? 

I mean, the alien bullets are shaped like the peg pieces from the actual game.

And, really? Rihanna?

Are there no new ideas anymore?

Did no one learn from Clue: The Movie?

You gotta love a politician who says it like it is.....

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, long rumored to be a potential vice presidential candidate alongside Mittsy, wasn't mincing words when he was asked about it yet again: “If I thought that call was coming, I would disconnect the phone,” Daniels said in an interview with Fox News.

And last week former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty told the Minnesota Star Tribune: “I'm going to take my name off the list, so if ... you're a journalist, an observer, remove my name from the list,” It gives me the giggles that more people are saying Don't pick me than are saying I'll do it.

In fact, only loons like Santorum and Gingrich seem interested.

Poor Mittsy, your own party doesn't think you have a shot.

Flipping channels I caught some of the American Idol finale last night.

Such a trendy show.

Neil Diamond!

Chaka Khan!

Reba McIntyre!

And Idols dressed in white like an old episode of The Brady Bunch, when they tried to be like The Partridge Family.

Yikes.

Dharun Ravi Charged With Hate

RIP Tyler Clementi

Dharun Ravi, that former Rutgers University freshman, who used a webcam to spy on his roommate's same-sex encounter, which then lead to the roommate, Tyler Clementi, killing himself, has been charged with a hate crimes, and accused of deleting tweets and texts to cover his tracks. If convicted of the most serious bias charge, Ravi could face five to 10 years in prison.

See, a hate crime doesn't always involve a bat or a beer bottle or steel-toed shoes or fists. Sometimes a camera and the internet are the weapons.
 

Dharun Ravi has already faced invasion of privacy charges, along with another Rutgers student, Molly Wei. Prosecutors believe Dharun Ravi used Molly Wei's dorm room computer to activate a webcam on a computer in his room in order to view, and live stream, Clementi's encounter. Prosecutors also say Dharun Ravi did this twice to Tyler Clementi, the last time being the day before Clementi's suicide.

Charges against Molly Wei weren't presented to the grand jury, and it isn't clear if charges will ever be filed against here, or whether she helped prosecutors in the case against Ravi. Molly Wei's attorney declined to comment.

Dharun Ravi posted a message on his now-closed Twitter account on September 19 that read: "Roommate asked for the room till midnight. I went into molly's room and turned on my webcam. I saw him making out with a dude. Yay."

Two days later, he again Tweeted: "Anyone with iChat, I dare you to video chat me between the hours of 9:30 and 12. Yes it's happening again."

The indictment against Dharun Ravi states that the sexual encounter was viewed by others, and accuses Dharun Ravi of targeting Tyler Clementi and invading his privacy, knowing Clementi would be intimidated because of his sexual orientation.

The indictment also suggests Dharun Ravi tried to cover up his actions; he allegedly deleted his Twitter post in which he let his followers know about the second encounter, and replaced it with a false Tweet. Dharun Ravi is also accused of deleting text messages sent and received by witnesses, and giving false information to police.

Almost worse than all this, is that Tyler Clementi had apparently complained to the university about his roommate, and Rutgers officials have said they did all they could.
After that second video, Tyler Clementi left a note on his Facebook page: "Jumping off the gw bridge sorry."  Clementi was a promising violinist--and out to his parents. He took his own life during his first weeks of college.

So you see, it isn't fists and boots and bottles, it's words, it's actions, it's Twitter. It's hate.

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