Just A Thought: Even Fido Gets It

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Another One: Zachery Gray .... And Another One ....

Zachery Gray was 18-years-old when he tried to kill himself as a result of being bullied; well, as a result of being called "fag" and "Gay Zach" and "queer" on a daily basis, even though he was straight and had a girlfriend.

After enduring yet another day of constant bullying, Zach, who’d been suspended for pulling a prank on a teacher, headed home. That afternoon, he tried to hang himself with a dog chain in a shed behind his home, but neighbors, his mother and paramedics were able to save him.

Zach was set to graduate from Zephyrhills High School this year but now suffers from brain damage and requires 24-hour care at a local medical center. He can no longer walk or talk.

And now his family is speaking out, saying the school did not do enough to stop the incessant bullying of Zach. Under Florida law, school officials must report bullying incidents and "develop plans for ending harassing behavior," but now, citing privacy concerns, the school is refusing to comment. In fact, Zach’s father says school officials won’t even return their phone calls.

A young boy tried to kill himself and the officials cannot pick up a phone. But, oh, it gets worse.

It seems that Zachery Gray complained of the teasing and the taunts; students had been making fun—and we really shouldn’t call it ‘making fun’ anymore--of his weight and sexuality, by  calling him "heavy" and "Zach Gay" during a field trip. And Zach did what he was supposed to do; he complained to the teacher on that field trip, Brenda Carlson,

Carlson told investigators that she asked Zach: "If someone calls you a tree, are you a tree? And if someone calls you gay, does that make you gay?"

And that’s all she did. She didn’t report the incident and didn’t even bother to speak to the students who were taunting Zach. In fact, after Gray’s suicide attempt, she told investigators "she did not have any concerns that Zach was being bullied." 

Even.Though.He.Told.Her.

Brenda Carlson no longer works for the district. Which is a little convenient.

"Her job was to come to me, tell me, go to the principal, go to authorities," said Lynn Gray. "She did nothing."

And now a boy cannot walk or talk.

And then.....

In Detroit, a 14-year-old girl peered through the keyhole of a locked door and found her brother hanging from a bunk bed with a belt around his neck.

She screamed for her mother and called 911. Her mother and a neighbor broke through the door of the boy's room, took him down and called 911, but it was too late.

He was seven.

His mother said her son, whose name is not being released, had been depressed about being bullied by other kids at school and in his neighborhood, and about his parents' recent separation.

Detroit Police Chief Ralph Godbee Jr. said he was told the boy had expressed a desire to harm himself, and the mother told him that her son was being counseled by the family's pastor to help him cope.

The boy's family does not want to comment.

A seven-year-old is dead.

The two cases are as different as they are the same.

One young man told officials he was being bullied and they did nothing to stop it.

One young boy talked to his pastor and tried to work though his parent’s separation and the fact that he was bullied.

But the bullies were never confronted and so the bullying never stopped.

Until Zach Gray tried to kill himself and a young boy in Detroit tied a belt around his neck.

When are people, and by people, I mean the parents of the bullied, the parents of the bullies, teachers, school officials, politicians, going to realize that this is a problem and do something about it.

How many more kids have to die, or permanently scar themselves for life, before someone says ‘Enough.’

Zach’s school district needs to accept responsibility. Brenda Carlson needs to stop teaching and accept her role in this. I wonder, if she’d said anything to anyone might the bullying have stopped, and might Zach be graduating in June instead of lying in a hospital bed?

I wonder….

Zachery Gray

A Seven-Year-Old Boy

A Memorable Memorial Day: After DADT

from left: gay midshipmen  Caitlin Bryant, Kay Moore, Nick Bonsall, and Andrew Atwill   

Last year, Andrew Atwil's roommate at the Naval Academy joked that Atwill was gay, and Atwill told him to cut it out; because he is gay. And because, last year, Atwill could have jeopardized his military career if anyone know.

This year, though, it's a different story at Annapolis. Now, with DADT repealed Atwill says the academy has changed, and that now, talking about his sexual orientation is no longer a reason to be drummed out of the military. In fact, most in the academy now come to the defense of its gay and lesbian cadets.

Andrew Atwill:  "Pretty much everybody in my company knows now, [and] they actually stand up for me." 

As it should be.

Eight months after the repeal, midshipmen both gay and straight describe a quiet but significant transformation at the Naval Academy. Gay midshipmen are seeking recognition for a student club, and, just last month, for the first time, faculty members and staff openly attended an off-campus dinner that had been organized secretly every year by and for gay midshipmen.

And this year, Andrew Atwill and his boyfriend, classmate Nick Bonsall, are going to Saturday’s Ring Dance, a formal ball held each spring for third-year midshipmen.

"It's been really great, actually," says Nick Bonsall. "Everyone has been really accepting of us."

As it should be.

The experience at Annapolis this year mirrors those across the country at the other service academies, but some future officers worry about what might happen upon graduation. While their generation might be accepting, the majority of military personnel is still made up of people of all ages and backgrounds, and some senior officers say privately that they won't come out for fear of jeopardizing their careers.

Even Andrew Atwill, while aware of this new level of understanding and tolerance, wonders what life will be like after leaving Annapolis and joining the fleet: "For me, personally, it's still a concern. When I become an officer, I'm kind of worried about whether or not my sailors will take it the wrong way if I give them a pat on the back or, you know, happen to be in the bathroom at the same time as them. I'm afraid that if they know that I'm gay, that if I was even to look at them wrong, they may end up somehow turning that against me."

But not everyone sees any problems arising. Caitlyn Bryant, a second-year midshipman, says, "In the fleet, it will be good, you don't have to worry about what they might think your orientation is. You can just focus on being a leader….People have accepted it."

As it should be.

And Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, however, doesn’t foresee a problem. He says the repeal of DADT is going very well: "It's not impacting on morale. It's not impacting on unit cohesion. It's not impacting on readiness."

As it should be.

And change is coming to all branches. Gay cadets at the U.S. Military Academy and the Coast Guard Academy are forming clubs, while gay alumni at the Air Force Academy hosted their first football tailgate last fall, and Air Force Academy and West Point gay alumni held their annual dinners on campus for the first time.

Kara Yingling, a fourth-year midshipman , who is not gay, says the majority of the student body "didn't make a big deal" of the policy change: "We have seen more openly gay people, and I think that's good for them, because they no longer have to live their lives in fear that something's going to happen just because of their sexuality."

This Memorial Day will be, if possible, more memorable, because of this new openness and honesty and acceptance.

As it should be.

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Say 'Thank You' ......

Sunday Funnies .... And A Milestone

Well, here it is, unbelievable as it sounds, but this Sunday funnies also marks my 4000th post.
Dear baby Jeebus. Four.....waitforit.....thousand posts. I'm a chatty little bastard, eh?
But, I'll take a moment to say thanks for the follows, the comments, and the blogs y'all have created, that inspire me, make me, laugh, make me think, make me wonder.......

Now, onto to the next 4000.....

Lindsay Lohan IS Elizabeth Taylor!

So, you know Lohan is set to appear in the destined-to-be-craptastic Lifetime movie Liz & Dick, right?
Well, this is an actual picture of Liz, followed by a picture of Lohan trying on a costume for the role, and I must say, the resemblance is astounding! I mean, I didn't think it was possible but Lohan looks like a perfect fit for the part of.......................................................................

....wait for it.........................................................

....Liz Taylor's Betty Ford Center crackheaded roommate!
Type.Casting!

I Ain't One To Gossip, But ....

Ah, TravoltaGate, Day 134. I kid, it just seems like it's been months and months. But there is some new stuff out there, like....

Masseur #1 and Masseur #2--both dropped by their original attorney--have run panting to Gloria Allred, media-whore-attorney, so you just know it's gonna be a circus. 

And then we have the story of two more men who were groped by Johnny T--one man from Seattle and one man from Miami--along with another masseur--what is it with Travolta and masseurs?--who claims he had a night of passion with Johnny back in 1997 after Travolta had flashed him during a massage. 

Miami Masseur, AKA Jeff-Not-His-Real-Name, is breaking his Groping Silence to tell his story of One Night with Johnny: "[Travolta] was putting his hands where he wanted me to work and kind of grinding on the table."

Then he reached over and put Jeff’s hand on his, um, well, the papers are calling it Travolta's 'Bathing Suit' area, and Jeff pulled away, but then continued the massage, until Johnny again tried to guide Jeff's magic fingers back to the crotch-a-tory region. Then, Johnny started putting his butt up in the air. 

Jeff: "I was just trying to do whatever I could to distract him but he started getting aggressive and grabbed my hand again.” After the massage, Travolta began jerking off and told Jeff he could do it, too, saying, "No one’s going to know.”

ALLEGEDLY.

Now, Seattle Man has a different tail, er, tale to tell. He's not a masseur, just a regular hotel employee in Seattle, where an event for Travolta was held by Qantas; Travolta is their "amb-ass-ador" or some such. 

Anyhow, Seattle Man Not Masseur, was cleaning up after the gig, and says Travolta accosted him: “He came up right behind me and grabbed my ass… I turned around and saw that his....bathing suit area....was out of his pants.”

ALLEGEDLY.

And Marty Singer, Travolta's lawyer, keeps trying to spin the story, er, stories. He claimed a week or so ago that Masseur #1 and Masseur #2 had dropped their suits without settling, or being paid by Travolta. Not so much, really; they dropped their attorney, and then both men hired Allred.

So, there's that.....

And Allred has now officially “reached out” to Marty Singer, meaning settlement negotiations have now begun, basically. That brings the total to seven different men who say they are victims of TravoltaGrope, and TravolatBathingSuitAreaGate.

So, y'all know about the Will Smith is gay stories, right? I mean, they've been out there since he was the Fresh Queen, er, Prince.

And they won't go away any time soon as long as Will reacts to man-on-man action the way he did in Moscow.

Will was at the Moscow premiere of Men In Black III--seriously, Three?--working the red carpet like a whore on Hollywood Blvd when a Ukrainian reporter shakes Will’s hand, then kisses one of Will’s cheeks, then twists around and kisses the other cheek, and then moves in for a mouth-to-mouth kiss. 

Little Willy freaked.

He shoved the guy away, and starts to walk to the next reporter, but then stops, turns, reaches back, and smacks the reporter in the face.

At the next reporter, he nervously giggles, and says, “He’s lucky I didn’t sucker punch him.” 

Then he muttered something about how he shouldn't have said that, and then continued down the carpet, smiling, signing autographs, posing for pictures and so on.

No big deal? Well, maybe not except the video has gone viral, you know, because of all the Will is gay stuff.

But I think he way overreacted. I mean, pulling back and saying "Not cool." is one thing, but to turn away, then turn back, and smack the guy, smacks of something a little more like shame.

And, before you say it was a guy trying to kiss him, remember, Will's a "married" man. If that guy tried to kiss his wife and she slapped him, would that be the same? If it was a female reporter who tried to kiss Will and he slapped her would you think the same?

It smacks of homophobia, and maybe even self-loathing closeted homophobia.

Just a thought.

I don't watch The X Factor, but, well, if it becomes the trainwreck Howard stern seems to think it might, it might just be DVR-worthy.

Apparently the people closest to Britney Spears worry The X-Factor opportunity will be just another rise before a fall--and this time it'll be live in front of millions of viewers.

A source--and it might be Xtina--says, “Doing X Factor may lead her back into meltdown territory. She gets extremely nervous and anxious. She’s hard on herself and not very confident. For her, it’s all input as stress. This is a lot of change at once for Britney. She’s coming undone.”

And it hasn't even aired yet.

But friends and handlers, okay, maybe they're all handlers, are worried about Britney's loopy behavior, and the fact that she seems to go from laughing to crying in the space of a minute. But, those same handlers seem to be pretty pleased by the $15 million paycheck Brit-Brit is bringing home.

But even home is not all sanity. At a friend’s crawfish-boil party, Britney showed up sporting cutoffs, a cropped top and no shoes, and then and proceeded to ignore the other guests while muttering obscenities to herself! Hanging out alone by the food, a source says, “she would sort of say to no one, ‘F–k it, I’m eating whatever I want. I don’t care.’ Everyone was wondering what was up.”

What's up is that Britney doesn't do well around people. Neighbors who live near her $25,000-a-month, five-bedroom mansion in the private Sherwood Country Club says she is very private and rarely, if ever leaves the home. makeup and hair people come to her; restaurants deliver; trainers come by. Britney almost never goes out, and now she's set to be on TV in front of millions.

It don't look good, y'all.

Katie Holmes--TommyGrrrl Cruise's robot-wife--isn't looking too good these days.

Recent photos show the formerly perky sometime-actress, sometime-fashion designer, looking a little, as we say down here in horse country, rode hard and put away wet.

I mean, look at the eyes. It’s as if the light bill hadn't been paid and Scientology flipped the switch. And the gray hair.

Careful Katie, you're looking more like Tommy’s Mama than his Missus these days.

But, maybe there's more to the story. Sources--and by sources, I mean, Suri--are saying Katie is feeling the strain of her arrangement, er, marriage and is “devastated” that she’s not “living the charmed life Tom Cruise vowed to give her.” 

Plus, she's no Nicole Kidman.

And she's not even Mimi Rogers.

Apparently, this tiny insider says Katie is also upset that her arrangement, er, marriage, to Tommy hasn't resulted in a boost to her career, and she's really upset that Tommy won’t even do a film with her--even though he did a few with the last Missus Cruise, Nicky Kidman.

Ouch.

She also is upset that Tom leaves her alone to go off and make his movies, and get that plastic surgery, and visit his home planet, but that makes me wonder: wouldn't a woman be happier with Tommy Gone than Tommy Home.

He seems like he'd be exhaustively self-involved and dull, but she literally signed up for this, and the lawyers have the papers to prove it.

Allegedly.

I can't help but laughing at this one. I mean, she used to be BIG....well, she's still BIG, and getting bigger, but she's not as popular, and maybe not as rich, as the old days.

Who's that you say? Oprah!

Oprah’s troubled OWN network is floundering in the red, to the tune of being some $330 million dollars in debt. Oh the humanity! Think of all the cookies and cakes she could have had for 300-mil.

In fact, a Businessweek media analyst says OWN may go down as the “most successful failure in television today.” 

Ow! And Oprah has sunk lower than, well, Oprah in a swimming pool, going so far as to beg people, LITERALLY, to watch her channel, and now she’s pleading with her A-list friends to help her out. 

That should be fun, eh? According to the National Enquirer, Oprah has been begging Scientologists John Travolta, Will Smith, Kirstie Alley and Tom Cruise to star in reality shows.

John Travolta in FingerGate!

Tom Cruise in How's My Beard!

Kirstie Alley in I'm Still Fat, But It Pays The Bills!

Will Smith in Don't Kiss Me On Camera, Here's My Room Key!

Apparently, Oprah has finally realized that C-listers like Rosie O’Donnell won't save her OWN sinking ship, so she's trying to call in favors from the Scientology clan and promises never, ever to ask them about their "religion."

So far, all Oprah’s 'friends' have said, “We’ll think about it!” 

Better hurry, I hear every thought costs Oprah another million bucks!

Let's drop in on Lohan, and Liz.

Lifetime’s Liz & Dick begins production in a few weeks, and there's still no dick, er, Dick. And Lifetime has been combing their stable of Lifetime men, like Eddie Cibrian, to play the part.

Eddie.Cibrian. Let's let that one rest for a minute because, well, I'm puking a little in my mouth.

They also seem to want Wilmer Valderrama who never met a syllable he couldn't mush mouth, and they even thinking.....wait for it......Charlie Sheen. 

OMG. Train, followed quickly by, wreck.

Luckily, or not, Lindsay has gone into full diva mode and wants to handpick her dick, er, Dick, herself. So, choices for Richard Burton have been narrowed down to Gossip Girl star Matthew Settle, Sean Maguire, and CSI 's Craig Robert Young, but after watching the audition tapes last weekend, “Lindsay declared that none of the actors were the right fit and that she wanted to go to London to look for a possible Burton actor there.”

I think Lindsay heard you can buy prescription meds easier in the UK.

A source--and you know it's Dina, sipping chardonnay right out of the box--says, “Lindsay is being an absolute nightmare about who should play Burton. She believes Matthew Settle is too old to play the role, and she wants a major A-list star to be her co-star. However, her salary for the role took up a major portion of the budget, and the Burton gig will likely only pay $200k, max. The producers don’t need to get Lindsay’s approval of who will play Richard Burton, but they want to keep her happy.”

Lindsay wants an A-list star?

That's the most high-larious thing I've heard today. I mean, her last acting gig was three lines on Glee, followed by a two-day bathroom break, and she's gonna demand a star!?!?

Look, this thing is gonna be a mess no matter who they get, so I suggest they get a famous TV star, who could draw big numbers to the net.

I'm thinking Homer Simpson?

Chris Brown was at the Billboard Music Awards last weekend, lip-synching and dancing and grabbing his Little Chris Brown. But this isn’t about that, this is about Chris the night before....

Chris Brown’s infamous temper flared up again when he angrily confronted a stranger over a group of girls in a top Vegas club. According to witnesses, Brown spent more than two hours Saturday night at Haze at Aria charming a group of young women and buying multiple bottles of Champagne.

But one witness--and I’m thinking Rihanna--said, “Brown got visibly upset when the girls moved on to the next table. Brown approached the guys in the group and started getting visibly agitated. Brown stood up, and looked like he was about to start a fight when club security stopped him.”

Now, Brown’s representative said this isn’t true, like he said that whole beat Rihanna thing wasn't true either, but the source goes on: “He got in the guy’s face and was cursing at him, and saying, ‘Are these girls with you or with me?’ The guy was stunned by it. Things were close to getting extremely ugly. Then Chris’ security and club security escorted him out.”

And even a Haze representative said there was an "incident" involving Brown but declined to give details, saying only that “Haze has a zero tolerance policy for violence.”

This guy needs serious help.

And maybe a singing lesson; or at least a singing live lesson.

I like Sharon Stone. years ago she said, on a red carpet, about gossip sites, "If you haven't got anything nice to say about someone, come sit by me."

I like that.

But now, she might be rethinking. See, the Los Angeles Times is reporting that Sharon Stone is being sued by Erlinda T. Elemen, a former nanny. 

The nanny, a Filipino woman, claims that she was fired by Sharon Stone for “accepting overtime pay and repeatedly subjected to derogatory comments about her Filipino heritage and religious beliefs.” 

I'm gonna let the racism allegation slide for a moment: Elemen says she was fired because she "accepted" overtime pay? Um, if you're Workin' Overtime--not to be confused with an 80s Diana Ross record--you accept the pay, right?

Still, Elemen also says Stone told her not to speak in front the children because Sharon didn’t want them to “talk like you.” And Elemen ALLEGES that Stone used to tell her that Filipino people were “stupid”, and ALLEGEDLY mocked and criticized Elemen’s religious beliefs, church attendance and Bible-reading.

In fact, Elemen actually says Stone forbid her from even reading the Bible.

I'm not sure I'm buying this at all, because even Elemen says that, after she was fired, Stone invited her “to come back in the future to say goodbye to the children she once cared for.” 

And, Stone said Elemen was terminated without cause and even signed an email "Best Regards, Sharon Stone — See me for a letter of reference. SS.” 

Stone paid Elemen about $1000 a week, but since being fired, Elemen says she cannot find full-time work and......

Oh, she can't find work, so let's file a suit.

Plus, Elemen was fired 18 months ago, and is just now filing suit and saying she was racially attacked and belittled. And in that 18 months she filed claims for disability and worker's compensation, both of which were denied, so the next obvious step is a wrongful termination suit.

Good News Friday: Faith Over Fear

Dominic Sheahan-Stahl is a former student at Sacred Heart Academy, and this year his younger brother was graduating. Dominic was thrilled to have been asked to be the keynote speaker for the graduation, until....

He was un-invited when school officials learned he was gay.

And the SHA 2012 graduating class wasn't at all happy about the decision either, and made sure the community knew what was happening by voicing their anger over the school’s decision to cancel Sheahan-Stahl’s speech.

But Sheahan-Stahl wasn’t so angry, and he wasn't about to be stopped.

He still gave his keynote speech, but in a different place, where bigotry doesn't set the rules.

He spoke to some 700 people packed into Warriner Hall on Central Michigan University’s campus Sunday afternoon and the graduating class from the Sacred Heart Academy were the first ones to enter.

Sheahan-Stahl explained what it felt like to be asked to be the Sacred Heart Academy graduation speaker: “You know those moments in your life that don’t happen often. But the moment when something happens it starts in the pit of your stomach and creeps into your heart and it fills your whole body? I felt that feeling when I got my first professional job and I felt that feeling the moment I was asked to be the commencement speaker of the 2012 graduation class of SHA....I want you to know that feeling has never ever left me.”

Sheahan-Stahl mentioned how proud he was to be speaking at his younger brother’s graduation:  “It’s amazing that’s it’s the end of three generations of Sheahan’s at SHA and I think that it is a wonderful tradition.”

During his speech, Sheahan-Stahl made sure his message got across. “I choose faith over fear always,” he said with conviction.

At one time Sheahan-Stahl, who works as an actor in New York City, compared himself to his friends who were getting jobs on Broadway, and wondered if he was a failure, but he soon realized that,  “To compare is to despair. My life, like your life, is my own and it has its own direction, time and pace.”

“Never ever, ever forget that because every single one of you in this room and every person in this world was put on this earth for a reason. You’re all wonderful, you’re all amazing and you all matter....“the world needs what I have to give.”

He received a standing ovation.

And, interestingly enough, his being a gay man never once came up because it was a graduation speech; it was about life, and growing up, and learning and becoming. All things the officials at Sacred Heart apparently didn't want their students to hear.

Faith over fear.

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Just A Thought

blatantly stolen from Iced Tea and Sarcasm ....

I Didn't Say It....

Beau Biden, Delaware Attorney General and, well, hottie, on his father, Joe Biden's, support of marriage equality:

"My dad spoke from the heart. I'm incredibly proud of what he said. I'm even more proud of what the president said as it relates to making sure that this is a fundamental civil rights issue. It's a civil rights issue. It's something that people in my state, in Delaware, and everywhere I go are incredibly proud of the stance that the president has taken on a matter of equality. At a moment we're sending people to defend our nation – whether they be gay or straight – to not allow them to have the same rights that we all have on the home front just doesn't make sense."

Word.

Bill Donohue, Catholic League spokesdouche, on the legal wedding between NYC mayoral Candidate, Christine Quinn, and her partner, Tina Caputo:

"The people who go know they are not witnessing a wedding. I will be at a bar [on Saturday] watching the Preakness. The horses are a lot more fun - and it's real."

Um, Bill, you delusional dumbfuck.

It is a real wedding. Same-sex marriage is legal in New York. So, go, drown your sorrows in alcohol you pitiful loser.

Matthew McConaughey, on what he might do if one of his children was gay: "There’s nothing in me that can understand disowning your child because they’re gay. You deal with it, you support them, and you also help prepare them for how some people in the world will treat and think of them."

I still get an icky vibe from McConaughey, but, hey, he seems to be pretty cool if he had a gay kid, so maybe….maybe…..I’ll remove a couple of Ick Points.

Audra McDonald, on marriage equality: 

"I've been a real loud active voice in the movement to get marriage equality. And I had gone up the month before to Albany, when they were days away from that historic vote, to rally and to see who I could talk to, and just be another face out there saying let's do the right thing here....I had read a beautiful story in The New York Times about the couple who were getting married, and that Mayor Bloomberg was going to preside over their wedding at Gracie Mansion. And my friend called me and said, 'They'd love to have you come and sing.' And I was floored. I was so honored. And I cried like a baby at that ceremony. And I brought my daughter. And it was a very moving moment and a very teachable moment having my daughter there. And as far as she was concerned, it was just another wedding. She doesn't really see the issue, which is great. So that's how it came about. It was a beautiful day."

That’s the deal about same-sex marriage.

The younger generation doesn’t see the problem.

Love is love. Two consenting adults want to make a commitment.

What is the big deal?

Ken Bennett, Arizona Secretary of State, on keeping President Obama off his state's November ballot:

"First of all, I’m not playing to the birthers, I’m not a birther. I believe that the president was born in Hawaii, or at least I hope he was. Hawaii has a special provision in their law that allows other government officials from other states to request what’s called a verification in lieu of a certified copy of a birth certificate. So I’m not asking for the certified copy of the birth certificate at all. I was frankly expecting that they would very quickly and very simply say ‘yes.’ Eight weeks later, they haven’t. I can’t seem to get them to say yes."

Ken, you are a birther. This question has been asked and answered almost non-stop since 2008 and yet you GOP douchebagging, wingnutting, asshatting morons keep bringing it up.

Enough already. Arizona has tons more issues to deal with than this nonsense. 

Bill Owens, "Reverend", of the Coalition of African-American Pastors, asking Obama to devolve on same-sex marriage:

"A 50-year-old can only read about the struggles and protests of the civil rights era, but some of us who are older have the battle scars to prove it. And the rights we fought so hard to acquire did not include same-sex marriage. We ask President Obama to stand with the black church, on the Word of God and evolve again back to the common sense biblical view that marriage is the union of husband and wife."

Marriage rights are Civil Rights, “Reverend”, no matter how many times you say they aren’t.

Civil Rights aren’t a black, brown, yellow, white, male, female, gay, straight issue.

They are a human issue.

Alveda King, NOM ally and the niece of Martin Luther King, Jr., on the NAACP's support for marriage equality:

“Neither my great-grandfather, an NAACP founder, my grandfather Dr. Martin Luther King Sr., an NAACP leader, my father Rev. A. D. Williams King, nor my uncle Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. embraced the homosexual agenda that the current NAACP is attempting to label as a civil rights agenda. In the 21st century, the anti-traditional marriage community is in league with the anti-life community, and together with the NAACP and other sympathizers, they are seeking a world where homosexual marriage and abortion will supposedly set the captives free.”

Honey. You need to sit down.

Your Uncle is ashamed of you.

Welton Gaddy, Reverend and President of Interfaith Alliance, on "Pastor" Charles Worley's sermon which suggested gays and lesbians be rounded up, put in electrified pens, and left to die:

"In one fell swoop this angry minister managed to discredit from his pulpit both the Constitution of the United States and the compassion that we find in the bible, and additionally he did a very dangerous thing by planting seeds of hatred in sick minds that in the right circumstances can act on them and do the kind of violence that has no place in our world."

I think his sermon is Hate Speech, and I think if one of his delusional flock acts on his “sermon” then he should be brought up on charges of inciting Hate.

50 Cent, on marriage equality: 

“I think everyone should be happy. I think a fool is going to go against same sex marriage at this point.....Look how long it took [Obama] to say he was for same sex marriages. You understand? I’m up for it. If everyone else is for it, then hey, to each his own. I don’t have personal feelings towards it because I’m not involved in that lifestyle. I want people to be happy. It makes for everything to be better.... {but} we need organisations for straight men. We do. We need organisations for straight men in the case you’ve been on the elevator and somebody decides they want to grab your little buns.”

Really, Fiddy? We need an organization to protect straight men from having their asses grabbed by gay men?

You started off real good there, in your little speech, like it was all equality, and then you turned it into a stereotyping asshatted moronic statement.

I wouldn’t grab your ass if it was the last ass on Earth.

Douche.

Maggie Gallagher, NOM's Hellhound, dismissing polls showing no effect from Obama's marriage equality support...and, in that same article she cites polls that feed her delusions:

"Polls are just static snapshots....Obama, by endorsing gay marriage, has broken through the media silence imposed on those who oppose gay marriage, generating new, unexpected and highly visible expressions of opposition. All of a sudden, pastors across America are preaching against gay marriage. Conservative talk radio shows are addressing it. People are hearing that their friends and neighbors disapprove. A new dynamic is in play, set in motion by Obama's misjudgment: He believed the pundits and chose the money over the voters. That's almost always a bad bet for a president. In November, unless he evolves again, he will find out just how bad a bet that was."

Maggie. Maggie. Maggie.

You delusional hypocrite.

Your fat behind is on the wrong side of history and I cannot wait until Marriage Equality is the law of the land so I can watch your fat, cheese-filled head explode.

Colin Powell, General and former Secretary of State, on marriage equality:
"I have no problem with it...As I’ve thought about gay marriage, I know a lot of friends who are individually gay but are in partnerships with loved ones, and they are as stable a family as my family is, and they raise children. And so I don’t see any reason not to say that they should be able to get married."


It looks like everyone is evolving.
Evolution is good.