I Didn't Say It ....

Martin Cizmar, the arts and culture editor of Portland Oregon's Willamette Week, on returning his Eagle Scout badge to the Boy Scouts in protest of the group's anti-gay policies:

"I am not gay. However, I cannot in good conscious hold this badge as long as the BSA continues a policy of bigotry. Though I didn't know at the time, I was acquainted with a number of gay scouts and scouters. They were all great men, loyal to the scout oath and motto and helpful to the movement. There is no fair reason they should not be allowed to participate in scouting."

Nice when more and more straight people step up as allies against LGBT discrimination.

Bravo, Mr. Cizmar, Bravo!

Frank Bruni, NYT columnist, on Michelle Bachmann’s hate:

“Does it encourage gratuitously divisive condemnations of Barack Obama as ‘anti-American,’ one of many incendiary phrases in her attacks against him in 2008? And does it compel a war against homosexuality waged with the language and illogic she uses? She has said that gay men and lesbians are dysfunctional products of abuse and agents of ‘sexual anarchy,’ and when the singer and songwriter Melissa Etheridge was battling breast cancer years ago, Bachmann helpfully chimed in: ‘This may be an opportunity for her now to be open to some spiritual things, now that she is suffering with that physical disease. She is a lesbian.’ Bachmann’s concept of Christian love brims with hate, and she has a deep satchel of stones to throw. From what kind of messiah did she learn that?”

Bachmann is the queen of masking her hate of LGBT people in a cloak of Christianity, as she is a master of hiding her loathing of a Black president in the guise of politics.

Dan Cathy, president of Chick-fil-Antigay, spouting his homophobia as the word of god [little g]:

"I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at Him and say 'we know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage' and I pray God's mercy on our generation that has such a prideful, arrogant attitude to think that we have the audacity to define what marriage is about."

Um, how does his bigotry fit into Christianity? How does it work in Christian love? And which part of the Bible asked him to hate?

Tony Perkins, AFA bigot-in-chief, on Chick-fil-Antigay, to his minions:

"Last week, Chick-fil-A's CEO Dan Cathy told the Baptist Press of his company's steadfast support for marriage and family. This simple affirmation of biblical truth has sent homosexual activists into a frenzy. Chick-fil-A may be a private company, but that doesn't mean its executives have to surrender their beliefs. Under the First Amendment, they are just as entitled as any American to speak publicly about their views. Those of us who share Chick-fil-A's commitment to the biblical definition of the family need to show them that we stand with them (whether or not we're chicken connoisseurs!). Please join thousands of others and 'Like' our Facebook post supporting Chick-fil-A's stand. Leave a comment in support, or share the post on your page. Join FRC and eat at Chick-fil-A on Wednesday, August 1 for Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day - an effort started by Gov. Mike Huckabee to show that Americans stand with them."

I love how the LGBT community is portrayed as hateful because we call into question a fast food chain that takes its customers money and funnels it into hate group—um, like the AFA.

Chick-fil-Antigay can do whatever they want to do with their money, just like I can do whatever I want to with mine.

And it won’t be buying sammiches at a hate food store.

Tony Perkins, AFA bigot-in-0chief—aftar saying Chick-fil-Antigay ha the right to fund whatever hate they choose, on Google being LGBT-friendly:

"Thanks to a new campaign, Google's approach to traditional values is to search—and destroy. The web giant just kicked off a worldwide push called 'Legalize Love,' aimed at breaking down the barriers to homosexuality around the globe. Their biggest targets? Countries that have moral objections to same-sex relationships…. After watching Target and J.C. Penney take a financial hit after endorsing same-sex marriage, Google should know better. They can push to 'Legalize Love,' but they shouldn't be surprised by the blow back. Because when it comes to Google, political neutrality is what most users are searching for."

Not only does Miss Tony not see his homophobia, his bigotry, his hate, for the LGBT community, he cannot even see what a hypocrite he is; if funding hate is A-OK for Chick-fil-Antigay, then funding love is A-OK for Google.

Asshat.

Randy Thomasson, head of Save California, whining that California's Gay Education Bill won’t be repealed”

"Parents and grandparents who don't want their children and grandchildren sexually indoctrinated with unnatural and unhealthy 'lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender' role models must decide now to exit the immoral, imploding, dysfunctional government school system and place their children in church schools or home schools. This is no time to be indecisive, since you only have one chance with your child's education. Because of SB 48 and seven other homosexual-bisexual-transsexual indoctrination laws, California K-12 government schools have become radical sexual indoctrination agencies."

Funny, all those years I spent in school, having no access to gay education, just the straight kind, and I went all gay. By Thomasson’s own “logic” I should have been indoctrinated into heterosexuality. Oh, but I guess The Straights don’t have the ability to turn people straight; that’s a power for The Gays.

Phyllis Schlafly, on Obama’s non-religion:

“Every time he quotes from the Declaration of Independence, he omits the word ‘Creator.’ That's very strange; we all know what the Declaration says and he just omits that….You were talking a minute ago about Arlington Cemetery; if you haven't been there, I'm sure you've seen pictures of all the crosses there and I just wonder if the day is going to come when they want to take down all those crosses."

Yes, Obama will run across the Potomac and start digging up crosses in a cemetery because he’s not the right kind of Christian.

And by that I mean a white Christian.

Debbie Wasserman-Shultz, Democratic National Committee head, on her belief that marriage equality will be on the national party platform:

“I expect marriage equality to be a plank in the national party platform. President Obama has declared his support for it ... Now, our platform committee process is a people-powered process. We have a platform committee and the platform is developed by our Democratic activists and the platform committee members, so they’ll go through a process. I hope that marriage equality, and expect that marriage equality, will be part of our platform. "

Put it out there.

It’s equality, and it’s for everyone.

It’s about effing time.

Matt Barber, hate group honcho, on Hilary Clinton’s remarks about AIDS:

"Shame on Hillary Clinton. In choosing to ignore the reality that in the United States people are primarily infected with AIDS through deviant homosexual behavior, she has essentially postured with a false air of resolve while cowardly refusing to address the real cause of AIDS in the U.S. and that’s homosexual behavior. We all know better and so should Hillary Clinton. She missed a real opportunity here to show courage and discourage people from engaging in the high-risk behavior of homosexuality that spreads AIDS."

Yup. The kid who contracted HIV through tainted blood was a deviant. The mother who contracted the virus while giving birth to a child is a pervert. People having sex are not deviants.

We should all avoid high risk behaviors that might lead to contracting the virus. Wear a condom; don’t have unprotected sex; get yourself checked; don’t share needles.

But we aren’t deviants, we’re people, and it’s disgusting Barber doesn’t see that.

He is the reason there is still a stigma about HIV and AIDS; he's the problem, not any kind of solution, much less compassion.

I Didn't Say It........A Day Later

Chuck Woolery, hasbeen game show host--and doesn't that say it all--on the idea that we don't need civil rights:
"Majority rules. We were born with natural rights. We don't need civil rights. [African-Americans] don't need civil rights. They don't need them. They have inalienable rights granted by God in the Constitution. I mean, I'm discriminated against all the time. I don't care. It doesn't bother me. [I'm discriminated against] because I'm old. I'm too old to get a job as a game show host. They say, well, the guy's 71 and in five years he'll be 76. And I’m a one per center, and I'm absolutely discriminated against as a one per center."

Um, Chuck, you dipwad. The Constitution didn't protect African-Americans. They were thought of, literally, as less than a man.
Gay folks, likewise, are thought of as less than.
And you're not discriminated against in the "game show host" profession because you're old, it's because you're a right-winging, goosestepping douchenozzle.
I think.

Andrew Sullivan, on contraception and the Catholic church:
"I'm sorry but I find the protectors of child rapists preaching to women about contraception to be a moral obscenity. When all the implicated bishops and the Pope resign, their replacements will have standing to preach."

Seriously, he's right.
When rapists and their allies sit in judgement of anyone, and use their bullying pulpits to preach, it's a sad commentary on our times.
Arrest them all, and start from scratch, Then maybe we'd have a Catholic Church we can trust with children.

Daniel Radcliffe, on if he's ever considered that he might be gay:
"No. I can quite happily say someone is handsome, good-looking, and I can see why someone would want to f**k them, but I've never felt that way about a man myself. There is that moment in your late teens when you ask yourself the question, 'Am I?' but I wasn't...Well, this year I have a talent crush on Ryan Gosling. I think he's fantastic and....you know he'd be nice afterwards. He seems smart. If I was gay, I would go for a smart man."

I'm so with you, DanRad.
On Gosling and going for smart men.

Bryan Fischer, American Family Association spokesbigot, on JCPenney and Ellen turning women into lesbians:
"Will America’s young women be just a bit more likely to experiment with lesbianism now that JCPenney is mainstreaming it? Too any objective observer, the answer must be yes. Is this a good thing? To any objective observer, the answer must be no. Research has indicated that lesbians suffer from increased levels of depression, suicidal ideation, substance abuse, breast cancer and vaginal diseases compared to heterosexual women. Thus what JCPenney has done, by increasing, even if ever so slightly, the chances that young women will experiment with this behavior will turn out to be a tragic thing for some. JCPenney will have to share some culpability for that."

How can anyone listen to what people like Fischer say and not burst out laughing.
He seriously people women will become lesbian because Ellen is shilling for JC Penney.
And, when all these women suddenly turn gay for the JCP, they will end up depressed and suicidal.
Seriously? What a delusional fuck.

Randy Thomasson, Save California head bigot, endorsing Newt "Chucky" Gingrich's promise to arrest federal judges that don't rule to his liking:
"Judicial activists like Stephen Reinhardt and Michael Daly Hawkins need to be reined in like Newt Gingrich has been saying about judicial activists. Marriage is not in the United States Constitution, so this case should never have gone to federal court. Now it will be appealed to the nation's high court, with Anthony Kennedy being the deciding vote. Fortunately, in past rulings favoring homosexuality, Kennedy has written against redefining marriage, making it likely that he will affirm California's right to reserve marriage licenses for a man and a woman."

What's funny, or scary, is that people like homophobe, bigot, asshat, fuckmonkey wingnuts like Thomasson, think that any judge who disagrees with them is an activist, legislating from the bench.
And they want to install their own brand of activist judges.
Pot.Kettle.STFU.

Ken Hutcherson, "pastor", on how God will kill The Gays and America because of The Gays:
"Do I think God brings judgment on a society that encourages homosexuality? I do. And since I am a pastor and God has commanded me to love everyone, I will do what it takes to love them. That does not mean I will accept that they stay the way they are. Unrepentant sin destroys you and will kill you. So if I believe the word of God, that He will bring judgment on a people, then I would be a very bad shepherd not to warn those people."

Um, "pastor"--and I use the term pastor loosely--if God was going to strike down civilization because of The Gays she would have done so at so many other times throughout history.
And, why just America? Does "your"god only hate America and not any other place on the globe that has realized equality is the way to go.
You need to sit down pastor, your ignorance is showing.

Mitt Romney, pandering, mindless, flip-flopping fuck, promising to defend DOMA and amend the Constitution to ban same-sex marriage:
"I fought to have a stay on that decision, then pushed for a marriage amendment to our Constitution. We lost by only one vote in the legislature. And I successfully prohibited out- of-state couples from coming to our state to get married and then going home. On my watch, we fought hard and prevented Massachusetts from becoming the Las Vegas of gay marriage."

Oh, Mittsy. What was it. the losses to Frothy that have sent you scurrying to the dark side?
I mean, all through your campaign you've quietly talked about your belief in traditional marriage, but when it looks like Rick Santorum is besting you, you sudden;y flop over to the Evangelical crazy side of the GOP.
Anything to get the nomination, eh, Mittsy?
Pandering fuck.

Cal Thomas, conservative columnist and FOX pundit, on Rachel Maddow debunking the right-wing argument on contraception: 
"I’m glad that you played the Rachel Maddow clip because I think she is the best argument in favor of her parents using contraception. I would be all for that. And all of the rest of the crowd at MSNBC, too, for that matter."

How clever. Cal.
How FauxNews like, Cal.
Ignore the topic and make a personal, stupid attack on your opposition.

Chris Christie, on the NJ legislature vote on marriage equality:
"They’re gonna be nowhere near the votes to override in either chamber. And so hopefully we can move on from this issue. If they pass it on Thursday and send it to my desk, believe me I will take very swift action on the bill and then we can move on to the things the people of New Jersey say are most important to them, which is creating jobs, lowering taxes and continuing the New Jersey comeback and not the last month that we spent, which really is an act of theater on their part because they know it’s not going to happen."

You're fa.....sorry Froggy.....full of yourself.
And stupid.
And think far too much of yourself, and far too little of the NJ legislature and the people of New Jersey.
Have a donut seat and shut up, Chris.

Armistead Maupin, on the GOP candidates for president and their homophobia:
"I’m outraged that there are currently major candidates for President of the United States who are using homophobia to rally their base. I’m pissed off at my Republican family back in North Carolina, several of whom came to my wedding, but who went right back and are voting for homophobes and acting like it doesn’t matter. It does matter and it’s time for the queers in this country to start saying so to their families. I think we’ve all cut them too much slack for far too long."

Just say 'No' to all of them.
The politicians, the friends, the family members, who would see to deny the LGBT community equality.
It's time to stand up and Just say, 'Enough.'

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

Zachary Quinto, writing on his website of how Jamey Rodemeyer's suicide as the result of bullying, was the impetus for his own public coming out:
"when i found out that jamey rodemeyer killed himself - i felt deeply troubled.  but when i found out that jamey rodemeyer had made an it gets better video only months before taking his own life - i felt indescribable despair. i also made an it gets better video last year - in the wake of the senseless and tragic gay teen suicides that were sweeping the nation at the time.  but in light of jamey's death - it became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it - is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.  
our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay lesbian bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.  gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.  parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance.  we are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world.  we are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.  i believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.  jamey rodemeyer's life changed mine.  and while his death only makes me wish that i had done this sooner - i am eternally grateful to him for being the catalyst for change within me.  now i can only hope to serve as the same catalyst for even one other person in this world.  that - i believe - is all that we can ask of ourselves and of each other.

'Nuff said, eh?

Allan Hubley, Kanata South Councillor, on his son Jamie's suicide:
"Recently, when Jamie tried to start a Rainbow Club at his high school to promote acceptance of others, the posters were torn down and he was called vicious names in the hallways and online. We had meetings with officials at the school and were working with them to bring an end to it but Jamie felt it would never stop.
We will not say that the bullying was the only reason for James’s decision to take his own life but it was definitely a factor. As his family and friends or even if you never met him but want to help, we must do whatever we can to wipe out bullying for any reason in our society and especially in our schools. Young people are very vulnerable and have enough pressures in life to have to deal with aside from the stress of being bullied. My family’s wish is that no more families have to suffer the unbearable pain of losing a child. No child should have to deal with depression or feel hated because of their beliefs – that is not the Canadian way of treating others."

How horrible to lose a child, but far worse when you realize that one of the factors that lead to Jamie's suicide--the bullying--could have and should have been stopped.
Schools need a Zero Tolerance policy on bullying.
Bully someone and you're out.
That's it.

Kelsey Grammer, on how he feels about the Tea Party stance on gay marriage:
"I wouldn't sign on to that. Absolutely. I played several [gay characters]. I guess I'm more Libertarian in that way. I think marriage is up to two people that love each other. And if you find the church that you want to get married in you go right ahead ..In my mind the state of marriage is something that has been endorsed by the idea that it is a sacrament within the context of a faith...the word marriage comes out of the religious side of our experience and our history. So I tend to think our government shouldn't be involved in any way..."

Kelsey's kind of a right-wing douche, but he knows how his bread is buttered.
He works in an industry populated by LGBT men and women, and to come out as a marriage-equality hating teabagger would serve him no good at all.

Kelly Clarkson, on stalking Adele:
"I want to stalk Adele so she'll sing with me. I love her voice and I really want to sing with her. She knows that. We were on 'Divas' together and I cornered her in her room and said, 'I really want to sing with you!' I just love her voice. I saw her performance on the VMAs and the EMAs. All these performers came out and did a great job, but then this girl comes out and she's just standing there with a microphone and there's a piano and she just kills everyone! She was the most memorable act of the night. She's just so talented."

I dunno about the rest of you, but I think Kelly and Adele would sound great together.
That's an album, er, that makes me sound old.
That's a CD, er, again....old.
That's a download I'd do.
And that just sounds nasty.

John Smid, former head of Exodus International, on "ex"-gays:
"So often people will say someone needs to 'repent' from homosexuality. It is something that actually cannot be repented of! People are, or they are not, homosexual. It is an intrinsic part of their being or personally, my being. One cannot repent of something that is unchangeable. I have gone through a tremendous amount of grief over the many years that I spoke of change, repentance, reorientation and such, when, barring some kind of miracle, none of this can occur with homosexuality."

Take that, Missus and Missus Bachmann.

Randy Thomasson, anti-LGBT activist and 'Save California' head, on the fact that the effort to repeal SB48 [aka the LGBT History Bill] won't make the ballot this year:
"The government's schools are no longer for the parents. They're anti-parent. I believe in God's schools and the Devil's schools, and if you want your children in God's schools, you've got to get them out and put them into home schooling..."
Schools that teach the accomplishments of, or contributions to society made by, LGBT people are Devil Schools, while schools that refrain from mentioning any LGBT people are God's schools?
Oh, Randy, you douchenozzle, you got it backwards.

Duncan Hunter, GOP congressman, on how The Gays will take over the military:
"This is exactly what we knew would happen. We’re not especially clairvoyant, we can’t see into the future, but the homosexual lobby isn’t simply pressing to have equal status in the military with people that are heterosexual. They would like a military takeover by the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender community, and that’s what they’re going to keep pushing for until it happens."

Yes, our plan is to take over the military so we can turn it into the biggest Circuit Party in the world.
I mean, what else does Duncan think we do in the military?
Fight wars? Protect America?
Silly Duncan.
We just wanna get laid.

Betty White, on being a gay icon: 
“Throughout my career, I've always portrayed characters that were humorous, but also weren't afraid to speak their minds, especially when it came to racy or controversial topics. I think this struck a chord with the LGBT community. We both also share a very strong love for animals. When you combine the two, it's a very strong match.”

Well, yes, we does likes our strong funny ballsy brash women who say whatever they want. But, Betty, i think it boils down to the fact that you are simply faboosh!

David Pocock, Australia rugby union player, on his support of marriage equality:

"I don't see what the big deal is with the whole gay marriage debate in Australia. Being brought up in a Christian home and still identifying as Christian, I get pretty annoyed with the Christian lobbies around the world who say gay marriage destroys the family and all that kind of rubbish. They claim to follow someone who always stood up for the oppressed and marginalised. I guess it is a fear of the unknown - if you talk to someone who doesn't like gay people you can almost guarantee that they don't know too many. These are the prejudices that you have to challenge and break down. Emma and I decided not to get legally married until our gay friends could do the same."

He's right you know.
Real Christians wouldn't have a problem with marriage equality, because they know that two men, or two women, marrying, doesn't affect their marriage.
it's just love.
And how is that suddenly unChristian?

Sally Kern, Oklahoma political asshat, telling Christian radio that The Gays might kill her:
"I have to be honest with you Rick, when I was sitting there in my car that day and when she told me that those emails were coming from homosexuals, honestly, fear gripped by whole body, because I was very aware of the homosexual lobbyists and the power that they have. And people say, ‘oh you’re so brave, so heroic,’ but I’m not, I’m just a sinner saved by grace and I was gripped with fear that day. I just said, ‘Lord, what have I done?’ It entered our mind but honestly, and I mentioned this in the book, the Saturday night when my husband and I sit down and really talked about this and prayed about it, when we asked ourselves the question, are we willing to even lose our lives over this?"

Oh, Sally.
The Gays don't want you dead, we want you enlightened.
Failing that we just want you to shut your bigoted homophobic yap and stop spreading lies.
Is that so wrong?

Mark Driscoll, "Pastor" of Seattle's Mars Hill Church, who says masturbation makes one a homosexual:
"Masturbation can be a form of homosexuality because it is a sexual act that does not involve a woman. If a man were to masturbate while engaged in other forms of sexual intimacy with his wife then he would not be doing so in a homosexual way. However, any man who does so without his wife in the room is bordering on homosexuality activity, particularly if he's watching himself in a mirror and being turned on by his own male body."

Good news!!!
Everybody's gay!!!
Pride is gonna be a blast next year!!

I Didn't Say It.....

Randy Thomasson of Save California, on Harvey Milk Day:

"Wake up, parents. Public schools are no longer for the public. They're government institutions that think that you're children are their children -- and they are going to turn them into homosexual, bisexual, transsexual political activists. Just wait now until Harvey Milk is on a weekday next year, and it's going to be what? Anything goes. It could be gay pride parades on campus; it could be mock gay weddings on campus; it could be essays, mandatory homework saying why Harvey Milk, a bad guy, was a great guy. I mean, this is in-your-face stuff."

Oh Randy, you delusional fuck.
You can't "turn" people gay. People are born this way. Haven't you been listening to Gaga?
I kid.
But, Randy, you delusional fuck, tis true you can't make people gay, or even gay activists. What you can do, and what you are doing, is turning people into haters.
And really, Randy? Gay pride parades on campus? That would be so horrible?
And for the record, you douchenozzle, Harvey Milk was a hero, to the LGBT community and anyone else who felt disenfranchised, and less than. He wasn't working for gay equality, he was working for equality for everyone.
You.Delusional.Fuck.

Dan Savage, on WeinerGate:

"A reporter asks if Weiner was drinking or using drugs—if he has a problem—because only a man who has a drinking problem or a drug problem could get caught up in something like this. Do reporters know what men are like? (And lots of women too?) This desire to pathologize behavior that isn't sick—that is, indeed, very common and human and completely and instantly understandable—is itself pathological. Weiner does not have a problem. He has a computer. The whole world has Weiner's problem: same old horniness, brand new box."

Once again, Dan cuts through the crap.
You don't need to be high to email your junk to strangers. You don't have to be drunk to sext someone.
You need to, if you';re a man like Anthony Weiner, to have lost your mind for a moment to think that your sexting exploits and your brief pictures, would not come out. Haven't we learned by now that the story always comes out?

Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy, on the transgender anti-discrimination bill he intends to sign:

“This bill is another step forward in the fight for equal rights for all of Connecticut’s citizens, and it’s the right thing to do,’’ he said in a written statement issued shortly after the vote was taken. “It’s difficult enough for people who are grappling with the issue of their gender identity, and discrimination against them has no place in our society.’’

You don't know what it does for me to hear a politician, any politician, speak out and tell you exactly how they are feeling, and exactly what they mean.
No sidestep. No shuffler. No mindless rhetoric to confuse people.
Malloy is for equality for everyone in his state and he makes no bones, or excuses, for it.

Erica Diaz, lesbian granddaughter of anti-gay NY Senator Ruben Diaz, on her appearance at his Bronx hate rally last month:

"I was so nervous that morning that I threw up. I spoke against him across the street, directly within his view. But then I approached a police officer who escorted me to the podium where he spoke. My grandfather introduced me to the crowd and kissed me on the forehead. 'This is my granddaughter," he said. 'She chose her way of life, but I chose God's way, but I love her.' Grandpa even called me after the rally, to say that he was proud of me for 'respectfully speaking up for what you believe in.' You cannot tell someone that you love them and stay silent when people call for their death. 'Love' is empty when you say someone's life isn't natural. He could quietly vote 'no' if that's what he believes is right. But I want him to know that every word he utters hurts his own blood."

How can Diaz profess to love his granddaughter and then stand up and say she doesn't matter?
How is that love?
Not to mention, how can anyone, these days, still utter the old "chose that lifestyle" bull?
Ruben chose hate.
Erica was born gay.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates, on ending DADT:

"The reality is that you don't all agree with each other on your politics, you don't agree with each other on your religion, you don't agree with each other on a lot of things," he added. "But you still serve together. And you work together. And you look out for each other. And that's all that matters."

That's all that matters.
Can you help protect your country? Then it doesn't matter if you're gay.
Can you play basketball better than most/ Then it doesn't matter if you're gay.
Can you teach children like they've never been taught before? Then  it doesn't matter if you're gay.
It.Doesn't.Matter.

Teabagger pin-up boy, Rand Paul, on profiling radical anti-government protesters, as long as they are of the Muslim variety:

"I’m not for profiling people on the color of their skin, or on their religion, but I would take into account where they’ve been traveling and perhaps, you might have to indirectly take into account whether or not they’ve been going to radical political speeches by religious leaders. It wouldn’t be that they are Islamic. But if someone is attending speeches from someone who is promoting the violent overthrow of our government, that’s really an offense that we should be going after — they should be deported or put in prison."

See, if you protest the government you should be deported or put in prison.
But, um, Rand, what about all your Teabagger friends who stand with their guns and threaten to take back the country by ballot or bullet?
Should we lock them up?
Me thinks Rand Paul needs to stop and think before he opens his illiterate yap.
Like, say, stop and think for about thirty years, until you catch up with the rest of us.

NFL Hall of Famer Warren Moon, on having gay teammates:

"I think I have played with a couple of players who have been gay. I know of a couple of players, who I won’t mention their names because they have not made it public yet. It really doesn’t bother me what your sexual preference is as along as you don’t bring in your sexual preferences to the locker room. I think that should be for homosexuals and heterosexuals. That’s a personal part of your life you should deal with in that way. As long as your coming to the football team and bringing a positive influence, that’s all that matters to me."

Back to Robert Gates.
It doesn't matter.
i seriously doubt a professional athlete of the gay variety, worked that hard to get that far in his sport, just so he might get some play in the locker room.

Tony Perkins, of the Family Research Council, on religion and The Gays:

"The so-called Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Union Act has already done more harm to religious freedom than good. The Roman Catholic diocese in Rockford has announced that it will close its doors on the church's adoption program before subjecting children to placement in homosexual homes. Like it did in Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., the Catholic Church refused to violate its convictions. Unfortunately, it's only a matter of time before other dioceses follow suit. For the church, this is an act of self-defense. Without a religious exemption, the law makes programs like this one vulnerable to lawsuits or state budget cuts. Much to the frustration of the bill's own sponsor, the state refused to carve out special protections for the religious organizations like this one. And now the state's neediest children will be paying for it."

The state's neediest children will be paying for it because churches like the Catholic Church refuse to accept that gay people are here, and that we deserve equality and that we can, and do raise children ourselves and do just as good a job of it as straight people.
Remember, Tony, if being gay is such a horrible thing, why not question the parents of gay people. Most of them are straight, so how can they be good parents if they raised gay children?
They can be good parents because they loved and nurtured their children and made them feel safe and protected. And if a gay couple, or gay man or woman, can do that for a child, it's not very Christ-like to deny them that option.

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

Sarah Palin, on Obama's decision not to defend DOMA:

"I have always believed that marriage is between one man and one woman. Like the majority of Americans, I support the Defense of Marriage Act and find it appalling that the Obama administration decided not to defend this federal law which was enacted with broad bipartisan support and signed into law by a Democrat president. It’s appalling, but not surprising that the President has flip-flopped on yet another issue from his stated position as a candidate to a seemingly opposite position once he was elected."

Oh, you stupid, confused, narcissistic, pandering gasbag.
Obama hasn't flip-flopped, you fool.
He campaigned for, and won the presidency on the desire to repeal DOMA.
So, you keep lying, and pandering, and playing to your base, while saying the most incredibly inaccurate and stupid things ever.
Just when I think you can't be more of a total wingnut, you prove there's a whole sub-basement to your idiocy.

AfterElton's Michael Jensen, on Josh Brolin and Javier Bardem's kiss and dance at the Oscars not being shown--instead we were treated to a cut-away to Penelope Cruz:

"Viewers saw the two men walk out onto stage where they engaged in an apparently impromptu dance, though viewers only saw a flash of that before the camera jumped to an extended shot of Penelope Cruz...So why the cut away? On one hand, it seems unlikely that ABC would find a kiss between Bardem and Brolin to be something needing to be censored. After all, back in 2006, the Oscar telecast included a Brokeback Mountain spoof featuring Jon Stewart and George Clooney in bed. On the other hand, the cutaway to Cruz seemed awkward and clearly lasted until the two men had stopped dancing."

I think it has to do with the Oscars not being the Tonys, where men kiss, and women kiss, and people thank they same-sex lovers and partners regularly in acceptance speeches.
Oscar needs to grow up.


Bruce Cohen, an openly gay man, attempts to explain ABC's cut-away from the kiss and dance between Brolin and Bardem:

"It [the dance and the kiss] was unscripted, and the plan in the truck was always to cut to Penelope in the audience applauding Josh's and Javier’s introduction, so that is what happened, just as they were starting to dance. Josh and Javier’s moment (I saw them start to dance, but, to be honest, I have no idea if they kissed — that’s the first I’ve heard of that) would have made a great TV moment, but since no one knew it was coming, we cut to the gorgeous Mz. Cruz as planned. By the time we cut back from her close-up, James and Javier were walking to the podium."

Hmmm, sounds a little shady to me, because, in the nanosecond that the dance appeared, when they made the decision to cut to Cruz, they could have easily made the decision to cut back to Brolin and Bardem.

Randy Thomasson, Save California's leading bigot, homophobe, hater and liar, on AG Eric Holder not defending DOMA in court:

"It's downright frightening to hear U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder suggest that moral disapproval of homosexual marriages is somehow unconstitutional. What's next? Federal lawsuits against states with man-woman marriage laws -- and federal investigations of individuals who believe that marriage is only for a man and a woman? Barack Obama lied when he said he'd defend marriage for only a man and a woman. And now Obama is following in the footsteps of another liar -- that's Jerry Brown of California. We need to pray for justice to be done. We need to pray for protection from God because America is going down the toilet morally because of its disobedience to God. And we need to ask for God's mercy, something we certainly don't deserve.""

Um, Randy, God has nothing to do with the laws of this country.
The Bible has nothing to do with the laws of this country.
If they did, we'd have a lot more pressing things to worry about.
Like Red Lobster and their heathen practice of serving shrimp.
Like Calvin Klein and his blasphemous use of mixed fabrics.
Yeah, let's start a protest over that.

Alan Keyes, on DOMA:

"Government doesn't endow people with the ability to procreate the species. The Creator takes care of that. Like all unalienable rights, those associated with the natural family exist in consequence of this endowment. A couple that cannot, by nature, procreate has no claim to those rights. Nor can government grant them a semblance of it without impairing the claims of one or both of the parents biologically implicated in the physical conception of the child. The DOMA simply makes more explicit the government's obligation to secure the Creator-endowed unalienable rights of the natural family. This obligation precludes government from fabricating other rights that impair them. In this respect, granting homosexuals the right to marry is like granting plantation owners the right to own slaves."

You're right, asshat.
Government doesn't enable people to create life, but God doesn't run the government, now does she?
Marriage is a legal, civil institution, not a religious one. Please understand, you moron, that when two people, male and female, male and male, female and female, marry in this country, they are not legally married unless the government says so.
The churches have no say in the matter after they perform their rituals.

Mike Huckabee, fucktard and presidential hopeful--that makes me giggle because there is no way Huckabee will ever be president--on same-sex parents:

"I believe that we're in denial about potential problems as we see more and more homosexual couples raising families. Essentially, these are experiments to see how well children will fare in such same-sex households. It will be years before we know whether or not our little guinea pigs turn out to be good at marriage and parenthood."

Mike, you dumbass.
You keep mentioning the "problems" associated with gay couples, or gay people, raising children, and yet you never explain further.
If you are so concerned about children being raised by heterosexual couples only, then why aren't you fighting heterosexual divorce?
Seems to be that if you cared about children and parents, you'd be working to keep heterosexual couples together.
I guess it's just easier to gay bash.

Aaron Schock, the turquoise belt-wearing not-gay Congressman, on DOMA:

“I would say it’s disappointing he is unilaterally making that decision when a bipartisan Congress passed a law into effect. It was supported by Democrats and Republicans and was signed into law by then-President Clinton.”

Let's see....just because some law had bipartisan support doesn't mean it's fair and equitable.
I mean, were that the case, we might still own slaves in this country, because a couple of hundred years ago everyone was for it.
Woman might not have the vote because it used to be the law.
Oh, Aaron, hony, I think that when you finally get a boyfriend, and finally come out, you'll change your mind.
And you'll make a beautiful bride.

Mike Huckabee [AGAIN!], on how Obama grew up in Kenya--and he actually said that...as if it means anything:

"And I have said many times, publicly, that I do think he has a different worldview and I think it is, in part, molded out of a very different experience. Most of us grew up going to Boy Scout meetings and, you know, our communities were filled with Rotary Clubs, not madrassas."

Oh he's trying to kill two birds with one stone.

First, he's feeding Teabagger frenzy about Obama being born in Kenya--even though, after he first said Kenya, he said he misspoke and meant Indonesia.

But the use of "madrassas" is also interesting.

See, in English, the term madrassas, or madrasah, usually refers to the specifically Islamic institutions, that offer two courses of study: a hifz course teaching memorization of the Qur'an; and an 'alim course leading the candidate to become an accepted scholar in the community.

See, Mike Huckabee doesn't have the balls to say it out loud, he just wants people to think Obama was born in Kenya and he's a Muslim.

Huckabee was born in America and he's a fucktard.