I Didn't Say It....

Andrew Sullivan, on President Obama's endorsement of marriage equality:

"It's hugely important and to tell you the truth, I didn't realize how important it would be until it happened. Beforehand, I was kind of steeled. I was like, 'I don't care, he's going to disappoint us again.' And then I sat down and watched our president tell me that I am his equal, that I'm no longer outside, I'm fully part of this family and to hear the president who is in some ways a father figure speak to that, the tears came down like with many people in our families, to be included....I never understood the power of a president's words until that day, really. I thought, all that matters is the states and the Congress and the Defense of Marriage Act and I had all this in my head and suddenly this man saying, 'I'm with you, I get it, you're like me, I'm like you, there is nothing between us, we are the same people and we are equal human beings and I want to treat you the way you treat me.' That -- that was overwhelming. That's all I can say. I was at a loss for words."

I think we all felt the same way.

Reince Priebus, Republican National Committee chair, on whether or not marriage equality is a civil rights issue:

“I don’t think it’s a matter of civil rights. I think it’s just a matter of whether or not we’re going to adhere to something that’s been historical and religious and legal in this country for many, many years. I mean, marriage has to have a definition. And we just happen to believe it’s between a man and a woman....People in this country, no matter straight or gay, deserve dignity and respect. However, that doesn’t mean it carries on to marriage."

Typical GOP goose-stepping moron.

He actually lumps religion and legality in the same sentence even though the two have no place together in law.

How can we expect the GOP to evolve on equality when they can’t even understand the Constitution?

Bristol Palin, single unwed mother, high school graduate, and reality show whore, on Barack Obama's methods of raising his children:

"While it’s great to listen to your kids’ ideas, there’s also a time when dads simply need to be dads. In this case, it would’ve been helpful for him to explain to Malia and Sasha that while her friends parents are no doubt lovely people, that’s not a reason to change thousands of years of thinking about marriage. Or that – as great as her friends may be – we know that in general kids do better growing up in a mother/father home. Ideally, fathers help shape their kids’ worldview."

I love how the girl who got knocked up out of marriage is suddenly the Marriage Expert.

That’s like having Bristol Palin be an Abstinence Expert and….

She is?

Wow, the stupid apple not only felt out of the stupid tree, it hit every single stupid branch on the way down, and then landed on a pile of stupid called Levi, and then fucked him.

R. Clarke Cooper, Log Cabin Republican head, on Mittsy's marriage equality lack of evolution:

"Governor Mitt Romney's statement in opposition to not just marriage but civil unions jeopardizes his ability to win moderates, women and younger voters, especially as a large majority of Americans favor some form of relationship recognition for their LGBT friends and neighbors. Ultimately, the response of the Republican candidates this election cycle will determine not just endorsements by Log Cabin Republicans, but the votes of millions of Americans who are simply tired of the culture wars."

Good luck with that.

Your presumptive nominee and even the head of your committee disagree.

Oh, well, you can try again in 2016.

Steny Hoyer, Democratic House Minority Whip, on marriage equality:

"I have believed that the phrase ‘civil union’ was an appropriate definition of a relationship that is both different and the same between two people of the same sex. And I have believed strongly that such couples must be treated equally under the law. Because I believe that equal treatment is a central tenet of our nation, I believe that extending the definition of marriage to committed relationships between two people, irrespective of their sex, is the right thing to do and will not, in any way, undermine the institution of marriage so important to our society nor impose a threat to any individual marriage. It will, however, extend the respect due to every one of our fellow citizens that we would want for ourselves and our children."

And the Evolution continues……

Michele Bachmann, withdrawing her dual citizenship in America and Switzerland, roughly five seconds after it was announced she was accepting dual citizenship in America and Switzerland, Ladybird's land of origin:

"I sent a letter to the Swiss Consulate requesting withdrawal of my dual Swiss citizenship, which was conferred upon me by operation of Swiss law when I married my husband in 1978. I took this action because I want to make it perfectly clear: I was born in America and I am a proud American citizen. I am, and always have been, 100 percent committed to our United States Constitution and the United States of America. As the daughter of an Air Force veteran, stepdaughter of an Army veteran and sister of a Navy veteran, I am proud of my allegiance to the greatest nation the world has ever known."

Pandering delusional, married to a homosexual, moron.

Howard Stern, new America's Got Talent judge, on fellow celebrity judges Britney Spears, and Jennifer Lopez:

"Well, I think it's a wonderful decision [on the $15 million deal Spears just signed to become The X Factor judge]. Britney still thinks the earth is flat. I don't anticipate great opinions from her. I think she's gonna sit there like J.Lo, 'Oh, you're wonderful, you're terrific. You think I can get a perfume endorsement out of this?' As far as any real criticism, I think Simon Cowell and L.A. Reid will do that. I think Britney will sit there and eat a lollipop and wear a sexy outfit. I'll tune in to see what kind of train wreck she is, absolutely." 

Snap!

Rick Santorum, bigot, homophobe, moron, failed presidential candidate, on wanting Mitt Romney to talk up his anti-gay values:

"This is a very potent weapon, if you will, for Governor Romney if he’s willing to step up and take advantage of a president who is very much out of touch with the values of America...Hopefully Governor Romney will continue to stand tall for his position on this issue and understanding how detrimental it would be for society for it to have this changed."

Like Romney needs to amp up his fear and loathing of the LGBT community.

Like he needs the help of Frothy.

He’s enough lying, flip-flopping, pandering hatred for the whole party, all by himself.

James Lankford, Oklahoma Republican Congressman, on his support for legislation making it okay to fire someone for being gay....oh and how being gay is a choice:

"Well, you’re now dealing with behavior and I’m trying to figure out exactly what you’re trying to mean by that. Because you’re dealing with — race and sexual preferences are two different things. One is a behavior-related and preference-related and one is something inherently — skin color, something obvious, that kind of stuff. You don’t walk up to someone on the street and look at them and say, “Gay or straight? I think it’s a choice issue. Are tendencies and such? Yes. But I think it’s a choice issue."

Oh Jimmy. I know its Oklahoma but it doesn’t have to be stupid.

See, your being stupid is a choice. Your being a homophobe is a choice. My thinking you’re an idiot is a choice.

My being gay is an orientation.

Bob Staake, artist, on his art piece for the recent cover of The New Yorker:

“I am honored to be doing this cover. It’s a celebratory moment for our country, and that’s what I tried to capture. (I don’t especially like those rainbow colors, but they are what they are—I had to use them.) I wanted to celebrate the bravery of the President’s statement—a statement long overdue—but all the more appreciated in this political year. We are on the right side of history.”

I think his art should become life. I’d like to see the columns lit up in Rainbow colors next year as we celebrate Obama’s second term, and LGBT Pride.

Amirite?

I Didn't Say It....

Alan Grayson, former Congressman, on what the 'Occupy Wall Street' protests are about:
"They're complaining about the fact that Wall Street wrecked the economy three years ago and nobody's been held responsible for that. Not a single person has been indicted or convicted for destroying 20% of our national net worth accumulated over the course of two centuries. They're upset about the fact that Wall Street has iron control over the economic policies of this country, and that one part is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wall Street and the other party caters to them as well!"


There you have it.
Plain and simple.
Leave it to Grayson to just spell it out without the rhetoric.

Michael Keegan, head of People For The American Way, on Mitt Romney's condemnation of Bryan Fischer--even while never mentioning Fischer by name:
"Mitt Romney clearly realized that his presidential campaign couldn’t ignore the bigotry of Bryan Fischer and the American Family Association. I’m glad that he saw fit to put at least a small distance between himself and the hate speech regularly pushed by Fischer, even if he couldn’t bring himself to call Fischer out by name. Since he began running for President, Mitt Romney has bent over backwards in a desperate attempt to make himself palatable to the extreme right. At least we’ve seen that there are some things he’s willing to speak out against, no matter how tepid his condemnation may be. It’s disappointing that none of the other candidates have been willing to go even that far."


Maybe Mittsy is finally realizing that hate is hate. I mean Bryan Fischer hates Mormons as much as he hates the Gays.
And the Jews.
And the Muslims.
And the Black community.

Andrew Sullivan, on MGB not running for president:
"So she's bowing out. Call it cowardice; call it a rare example of sanity; call it a bizarre end to an even weirder game of hide and seek for the past few months. But the bottom line is: we can stop worrying about the threat she posed to this country. That is all I really cared about: the insane gamble with the world that John McCain foisted on us, with no vetting and no reason but desperation and cynicism. It is hard to describe the relief of this awful person finally going away."


The sad fact, however, is that she won't ever really go away because she thinks some folks want to hear her asinine opinions, and watch her asinine shows, and follow her asinine family.
She quite because she can make more money being an ass, which is a sad commentary on our country.

Neil Patrick Harris, on how to survive in Hollywood:
"Actually, the secret to surviving Hollywood is fairly obvious. Costar in a major motion picture with Whoopi Goldberg, accept the leading role on a television at 16, disappear for a while, surfacing only for the occasional TV movie or animated children's series, send up your image in a cultish stoner movie, play a womanizing scoundrel on a hit TV show, come out of the closet to millions of people, become a father of twins, and then take over the world. Sounds pretty simple to me...."


And I think he's on the right track to total NPH domination.
Woo! Hoo!

Ben Stein, Teabagger and hasbeen actor, on Occupy Wall Street:
"The next step, I am sure, by the way, for the Occupy Wall Street crowd is for Anderson Cooper, Bill Maher, and Jon Stewart, the trifecta of conventional wisdom's failed liberalism, to come down to Wall Street and join the masses in demanding more of our tax money so they can all be supported as novelists and movie directors. You poor kids. You are basically asking to be supported and taken care of by Mommy and Daddy. Wake up, kids. Wall Street is you, with all of your wants and needs and wishes, only they have the balls to go out and work for it. Sometimes they are crooks and sometimes they are fools -- but you know what? So are all of us. Listen to Mr. Cain. Shut up and get to work."


Blame the havenots for not having, while banks and brokers become multi-billionaires on their backs.
I guess it's okay to steal and rob from the poor because you, um, worked at it.
You're an asshat, Mister Stein.

R. Clark Cooper, head of the Log Cabin Republicans, responding to Herman Cain's assertion that homosexuality is a choice:
"If Herman Cain truly wants to see the science proving that sexual orientation is not a choice, Log Cabin Republicans would be happy to show it to him. The claim that a person chooses to be gay or lesbian has been discredited by every major professional medical organization, starting with the American Psychological Association and the American Medical Association. An individual’s orientation is no more a choice than the color of his skin or whether he is left-handed, and too many people have been hurt because of failed attempts to change the way they were born."


Herman Cain is that typical Republican, like Bachmann and Perry before him, and the asshats that will surely follow, who won't believe anything that doesn't suit their political agenda and aspirations, even with evidence right under their nose.
You cannot teach an old stupid GOP dog a new trick.

Rachel Maddow, on gay marriage:

"I feel that gay people not being able to get married for generations, forever, meant that we came up with alternative ways of recognizing relationships. And I worry that if everybody has access to the same institutions that we lose the creativity of subcultures having to make it on their own. And I like gay culture."


I kind of disagree with Maddow here.
i don't think fighting for the right to be married means we must all get married. It simply means we have the same rights as everyone else.
To form some sort of traditional marital bond, or do as Maddow has done, find a new way to have her relationship recognized.
We don't have to get married, but we do have the right to do so if we choose.

Courtney Love, on how she might react if Kurt Cobain came back to life:
"Mad? Ya think?! If he came back right now I’d have to kill him, for what he did to us. I’d f–king kill him. I’d f–k him, and then I’d kill him...He tried to kill himself three times!...He OD’d at least five times. I was the fucking E.M.S. I was always sticking pins in his balls. I carried around Narcan!”


She's quite the victim of Cobain's addictions, and the hero of them as well.
Love likes to rewrite history.
The sad thing is that even after she rewrites it, she rewrites it again and again so you'll never know what she actually means.

Mat Staver, head of Liberty Counsel and dean of Liberty University’s law school, on the "gay threat":
"We are facing the survival of western values, western civilization. And I think those survival, whether they win or lose, what will the future of America be will be determined in our lifetime…. One of the most significant threats to our freedom is in the area of sexual anarchy with the agenda of the homosexual movement, the so-called LGBT movement. It does several things, first of all it undermines family and the very first building block of our society, but secondly, it’s a zero sum game as well and it’s a direct assault on our religious freedom and freedom of speech."


So, in order to protect your freedoms, Mat, you work to denigrate, demoralize, and humiliate the LGBT community?
You work to deny us our freedoms in order to, in your words, protect yours?
STFU asshat.

Barney Frank, firing back at Newt "Serial Adulterer" Gingrich, after Gingrich said he should be jailed:
"I wish I knew that he was willing to listen to my advice, I would have given him some: I would have told him not to impeach Clinton, I would have told his successors not to go to war with Iraq, and I would have told DeLay not to go on the dance show. He’s been having a bad year, you know — this self-styled intellectual leader of the free world struggling to stay ahead of Michele Bachmann in the polls is unsettling him so he talks even sillier than he sometimes does."


Poor Newt, nothing going for him, no chancre at ever being elected to public office again, a possible divorce in his future--let's face it, he's a three-time loser at marriage--so he has to make idiotic statements just to get noticed.
Must be hard for Newty, realizing a pizza-maker, a Minnesota wingnut, and a Texas Bush 3, get more press.

Anita Perry, saying that her husband is being targeted for his devout faith:
"It’s been a rough month. We have been brutalized and beaten up and chewed up in the press to where I need this today. We are being brutalized by our opponents, and our own party. So much of that is, I think they look at him, because of his faith. He is the only true conservative – well, there are some true conservatives. And they’re there for good reasons. And they may feel like God called them too. But I truly feel like we are here for that purpose."


Oh Anita, you think it'd get any easier if your idiot husband was prewsident.
Delsuional? Meet Anita.
And, um, Anita, nealry all the recent front-runners of the GOP presidential field say that God called them to be president, so either God can't make up her mind or she's playing a coloosal joke on y'all.

I Didn't Say it.......

David Barton, Founder and President of WallBuilders, a national pro-family organization,on NOM's plan to unseat pro-marriage New York state senators:
"I want to see pro-family guys scared straight that are squishy on this issue, and if we can’t take out these four Republicans and the Majority Leader in New York, we will have opened a huge door for Melhman and his kind to come in and start rewarding these guys for going against pro-family stuff, and you just can’t let that happen.No disrespect to our Native American friends, but this is where you hang a bloody scalp over the gallery rail. You hang these four Republican scalps over the Senate rail and every other Republican senator looks up and sees those scalps and says, ‘my gosh, I’ll be hanging up there beside them if I don’t stay with this pro-family stuff.’ And that’s exactly what has to happen."

So, he wants to scalp the GOP members of the New York state legislature who voted for equality for all New Yorkers.
Scalp them; though he doesn't want to offend Native Americans with his metaphorical use of scalping.
He does however, want to offend every single gay American, and every single politician who realizes that the time for equality has come.
Gay families are like every other family, asshat, so you aren't pro-family at all.

Rick Santorum, and his a napkin is a napkin and marriage is marriage analogy:
"I can call this napkin a paper towel. But it is a napkin. And why? Because it is what it is. Right? You can call it whatever you want, but it doesn't change the character of what it is. So when people come out and say that marriage is something else — marriage is the marriage of five people, five, 10, 20. Marriage can be between fathers and daughters. Marriage can be between any two people, any four people, any 10 people, it can be any kind of relationship and we can call it marriage. But it doesn't make it marriage. Why? Because there are certain qualities and certain things that attach to the definition of what marriage is."

But, um, Frothy? What is the napkin has changed? I mean, it still looks like a napkin, and works like a napkin, but it's a little different.
You know, it wasn't sold to another napkin to make the other napkin stronger. It was allowed to choose which napkin it liked. It was allowed to be with napkins of a different color; napkins of a different brand, if you will. But it's still a napkin.
See, just like that, marriage will still be marriage, but it will be more open, and accepting, unlike you, who are actually a piece of toilet tissue and we know where you belong.

Linda Harvey, of the SPLC-certified hate group Mission America, securing her place as the Anita Bryant of the 21st century:
"Kids should not be put in the confusing position of having a teacher they like and respect in many ways who’s also known to be practicing homosexual behavior. Of course that’s where many of our children in public schools today find themselves because the National Education Association not only allows but applauds and defends openly homosexuality and even transvestite teachers. The fact is that no homosexuality should be in our schools, period. When people leave that behavior behind, then they might be qualified for a job involving children. Out and proud homosexuals should not have jobs that involve children. I know that’s not the current policy in many schools but it should be."

First off, Linda, we don't "practice" homosexuality, because we are born homosexual. Maybe you "practice" heterosexuality, but what you do in your bedroom is none of my business, like what i do in mine is none of yours.
You can take your bigoted, homophobic, hate-filled speech and go stand by Anita Bryant, in obscurity, as a footnote in history.
Just a footnote.

Randy Roberts Potts on his grandfather, Oral Roberts:
“Homosexuality and the Bible have never mixed in the eyes of Evangelical Christians. It comes from a deep-seated prejudice. They can’t relate to it, like you and I can’t relate to sleeping with a girl; it’s a little gross. There’s a natural prejudice they have to overcome.”

I don't have any problem with people using their religion to talk about their homophobia. If they want to believe that God or Jesus or Buddha, or whatever God they name, is against me because I'm gay, then they don't know what the essence of God is: Love.
So, you can say God hates me, that Jesus died for me, but you cannot use your bigoted narrow-world-view to legislate against me.
M'kay.
That said, I love that Oral Robers'grandson is a mo, and standing up to speak out againt religion-based homophobia.
We're here. We're queer. We're the granchildren of bigots.

Queen Latifah, in what some are calling her first official acknowledgement of being gay:
"I just like ladies who have class. Period. And if it’s 'T and A' you’re sellin’, that’s fine, as long as that’s what you’re selling. But you don’t have to show everything, you know? You can hold some back and just be yourself and let your personality shine and let your individuality show. To me, that’s sexier. A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion."

I don't know if this is the onset of a coming out movement, or just a woman saying what she finds sexy in another woman.
Latifah might be gay; hell, she probably is gay. But until she goes all Ellen and utters those two little words....I'm gay...she can play all the word games she wants.
I'm over her and her inching out of the closet.

Frank Bruni, New York Times columnist, on Rick Perry's prayer rally:
"With the stock market floundering and our credit rating downgraded and millions of Americans stranded in unemployment and Washington frozen in confusion, the temptation to look for one summary prescriptive — for certainty, even miracles — is strong. We’d be wise to resist it. To get us out of this mess, we need a full range of extant remedies, a tireless search for new ones and the nimbleness and open-mindedness to evaluate progress dispassionately and adapt our strategy accordingly. Faith and prayer just won’t cut it. In fact, they’ll get in the way."

Seriously, do the people who believe in God really think she has the time to get us out of this financial mess? That she's gonna start a little job creationism?
Or is she busy healing the sick? Sending the locusts?
Prayer is nice. I've prayed a time or two, but how about praying that your elected officials stop screwing around with all their overblown egos and get down to the business of doing what they said they were gonna do.
Pray for that, if you wanna.

R. Clark Cooper, Log Cabin Republicans head, on the announcement of Ann Coulter being named GOProud's Honorary Chair and Gay Icon:
"Ann Coulter is not a serious part of the conservative movement -- her positions are a throwback and do more harm than anything else. Her remarks endorsing the widely outdated and profoundly harmful idea of 'reparative therapy,' alleging that one can 'pray the gay away,' are not only demeaning to gays and lesbians, but are offensive to all people of faith. While her position on this matter is off base, it is exacerbated by her claim that the armed forces should bring back 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' a failed policy which impedes military readiness. Servicemembers who put their lives on the line deserve respect, not such clownish behavior."

Ann Coulter wants to sell books, which is why she says the things she says.
She isn't about conservatism, or being anti-gay, or anything like that. She's about Ann Coulter and making a lot of money by pandering to some and incensing others.
She really isn't worth the time it take to type Ann Cou.....

Allen West, Florida congressman, on being able to change one's sexual behavior:
"You cannot compare me and my race to a behavior. Sexuality is a behavior. I cannot change my color. People can change their sexual behavior. I've seen people do that. I grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. So Ive seen a very different perspective on human behaviors. That's where I'm coming from with that. Everyone has the same basic rights. And no one is telling people in the gay community that they don't have the same basic rights that anyone in America has."

No, people can't change their color.
Their skin color or their eye color.
Their height, no. Their weight, sure. their hair color, always.
But, like skin and eyes and height, one cannot change their sexuality.
i mean, c'mon, Allen, could you be gay if you wanted? i mean, if I have all the power to change, how come you don't?

Allen West, Florida congressman, on whether gay people should change their sexual behavior:
"No. I don't think that. You know, I like chocolate chip ice cream. And I will continue to like chocolate chip ice cream. So, there's no worry about me changing to vanilla. I like to, you know, ride my motorcycle. What do you want me to do, change my behavior and ride a scooter?"

So, backpedaling Allen says we can change but that we don't have to change.
We're wrong in every way imaginable, but we can keep on keepin' on, I guess.
But Allen, you dimwit, you could change to vanilla ice cream if you wanted. You could start riding a scooter, if you wanted.
But you couldn't change being straight, and an asshole. You were born that way.

Allen West, Florida congressman, on how his remarks were taken out of context, and how we should not repeal DADT:
"I think that what I said was that is behavior. And so what I talked about is, I prefer, I like chocolate chip ice cream. And I'm not going against what someone prefers as their behavioral preference in their life. But when you start to understand about the United States military. The United States military serves one mission and that is to fight and win our nation's wars and if we start to take the military and try to conform it to individual behaviors no matter what those individual behaviors are we're going to lose the essence of what the United States military is."

Allen, honey, it isn't a preference.
Your love of chocolate chip over vanilla ice cream is a preference.
My attraction to men is an orientation, just like your attraction to women, and it cannot be changed.
And, WTF? Sexual behavior to ice cream and scooters to DADT?
Grrrl, you know how to make an illiterate leap in thought.
You ought to think about changing that.