AFA Stands For Asshatted F**king Asshats

Republicans, conservatives, the wacknut Christians, the American Family Association [AFA] and even failed presidential contender Ted Cruz, have resorted to fear tactics, and outright lies, to fight Target’s transgender-inclusive policy is saying that the ladies room is a dangerous place for children because … men in dresses.

And they have proven that to be true, and in a desperate attempt to prove their lies, the AFA has been sending men into the ladies’ rooms at Target to, ahem “test the policy.”

Yesterday on Breitbart News Daily, host Stephen Bannon interviewed AFA spokesbigot Sandy Rios and said that Target is “trying to exclude people who are decent, hard-working people who don’t want their four-year-old daughter to have to go into a bathroom with a guy with a beard in a dress,” to which Rios replied:

“I think there’s no question that when you say that there are no barriers in the bathroom and that if men or women feel like they are men or women, the opposition of however they are equipped, and you have no restrictions, the net effect will be that people will not be stopped. We’ve already had people testing this, going into Targets and men trying to go into bathrooms. There is absolutely no barrier.”

So, let’s get this queer:

The AFA says if we allow transgender people to use the bathroom that suits their gender identity then men will say they feel like women and use the ladies room to molest young girls, and to prove their point the AFA sent men into ladies rooms inside Target stores.

All fo that has me wondering who is the biggest threat to the safety of our children? The trans woman who just wants to pee, or the AFA-influenced and supported man who is given a free pass into the women’s bathroom?

And so I ask, how will the AFA help all those traumatized women and children who happened to be in the ladies room when the AFA sent their experiment inside? And they think trans people are a danger.

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Another Target Boycott ... This Time From Anti-Trans Wingnuts

Sheesh! I take a couple of weeks off and suddenly there’s another Target boycott. Only this time it isn’t an LGBT boycott of the retailer over the company’s habit of endorsing anti-LGBT political candidates, it’s a group of bigots and haters and transphobic asshats boycotting the store over Target’s transgender bathroom policy.

The American Family Association [AFA], a conservative so-called “Christian” activist group says it has gathered more than a million signatures from people pledging to boycott Target because the company refuses to give in to hate and fear. The AFA says Target’s bathroom policy encourages sexual predators and puts women and young girls in danger because "a man can simply say he 'feels like a woman today' and enter the women's restroom."

Except then the man is not transgender, he’s a sexual predator — and quite likely a Christian like Josh Duggar, or a conservative like Dennis Hastert, or a Republican like Larry Craig — so go after the predator not the trans woman who just wants to pee.

AFA President Tim Wildmon says the viral nature of the protest — and those “millions” of signatures … much like One Million Moms actual number being about seventy thousand — is because “everybody knows who Target is, and it’s an easy-to-understand issue." Wildmon says Target stands "to lose a lot of customers who won't come back."

Yeah, except Target isn’t budging:

"We certainly respect that there are a wide variety of perspectives and opinions. As a company that firmly stands behind what it means to offer our team an inclusive place to work — and our guests an inclusive place to shop — we continue to believe that this is the right thing for Target." — Target spokeswoman Molly Snyder

She also added that hundreds of Target stores "have single-stall, family restrooms for those who may be more comfortable with that option."

This whole bathroom kerfuffle came to light in a Target blog post last week when the company stated that it welcomes “transgender team members and guests to use the restroom or fitting room facility that corresponds with their gender identity." Sounds quite simple, but then folks, like the AFA and governors in a few states, decide to use fear as a weapon against something they do not understand, so, again, I’ll put it as simply as I can:

A trans female is not a “Man in a dress;” a trans female is a female and simply wants to walk into the women’s restroom, enter a stall, shut the door, do her business, and get out. That’s it.

Now, about that idea that a million people have signed the AFA petition … yeah, not so much; from what we hear, because the AFA doesn’t verify, or prove, the number, they are simply using this story as a means to get press and publicity and money for their Hate Agenda. And, to do that, the AFA listed several scary stories on their website — including one about a non-transgender man who had been arrested for illegally filming women in restrooms — to shore up their warped opinion. However, there is one list you won’t see on the AFA site: the names of those ALLEGED one million people who signed the Hate Petition.

So, to prove the AFA is lying, the good folks at ThinkProgress successfully “signed” the petition three different times from the same web browser using the names “I disagree With this,” “I really think this is stupid,” and “This isn’t A real email.” All that the AFA petition required was using a different email address each time, though, as the last name suggests, it was possible to sign the pledge using a non-existent email address.

Still, this petition, or pledge to boycott Target as the AFA calls it, is having an impact. Last week, the city of Oxford, Alabama passed a law banning transgender people from using public restrooms, and anti-LGBT conservatives in Texas, like Lt. Governor Dan Patrick and state Representative Matt Shaheen—both Republicans, of course—have stated their intention to boycott Target; Shaheen even said he would help Target pack up its stores, vow to “die on this issue politically. I am going to bat for my wife and my daughters.”

Fearmonger.

In response to the wingnuts, the “Christians,” the Republicans using fear as a weapon, MoveOn has launched a #StandWithTarget petition to counter the AFA pledge:

“I pledge to support Target and any other business that stands up for transgender rights and accommodates transgender people in their restroom use.”

You can sign HERE. When I signed there were over a hundred thousand real names on the list.

Stand with Target, and stand with and for our trans brothers and sisters.

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ISBL Asshat of the Week: Sandy Rios

Sandy Rios, Fox News contributor and certifiable loon, has suggested that the sexuality of Brandon Bastion, the engineer of the Amtrak train that derailed in Philadelphia earlier this week, was “a factor” in the crash.

Oh, yes she did.

But let’s be clear, this is nothing new for Rios, who is also the governmental affairs director at the anti-gay hate group, the American Family Association, made the claims on her radio show:

“I’m not inferring that this accident happened because he was gay, but I do think it’s an interesting part of the story and you can bet it would be edited out. I think it’s a factor and I doubt you will hear it anywhere else.”

She’s not saying it’s a factor but she wants everyone to know he was gay because, well, gay people want to kill straight people and especially Christians, so maybe this train accident was the first part of our Evil Plan to destroy anyone who isn’t gay; or something.

Rios then said Bastion, who says he no recollection of the crash, might have been “going through some confusion that has to do with the very core of who they are”:

“Someone I know who worked for a very large airline started taking hormone shots and put his entire plane at risk because he had an emotional, angry outburst to something that happened.”

So, again, she isn’t saying this happened because he’s gay, and she isn’t saying he was taking hormone shots, but she is saying that this could be the case because she’s a pandering, lying, asshatted, bigot.

And the ISBL Asshat of the Week.

Gary Glenn's Anti-Gay Agenda

Let me get this queer: in Indiana, the GOP-controlled House and Senate, along with the GOP governor, Mike Pence, have decided that religious “freedom” means telling The Gays you don’t want their business. Sick, that, but in Michigan one GOP State Representative, Gary Glenn, doesn’t even want a gay man to get a new job.

See, Glenn has issued an "Agenda Alert" all over social media in response to news that his hometown newspaper, Midland Daily News, has :::gasp::: appointed Tony Lascari, an openly gay man, to the position of news editor.

Most folks think, and I tend to agree, that Glenn’s use of the phrase “Agenda Alert” is in direct reference to a supposed “Homosexual Agenda” that, except for the idea of full equality under the law, doesn’t really exist. But Glenn insists that the community has a right to hold the newspaper accountable and to question anything that could influence how they "represent our community's values" because, you know, the values of The Gays are in direct contradiction to the values of Glenn and his ick, er, ilk:

"I posted the paper's own report — without comment or criticism — except to alert readers to the reasonably observed possibility that this new position might be used to promote a political agenda or bias that's at odds with our community's values." — Gary Glenn

Tony Lascari, for his part, has said he has not been contacted by Glenn, though he’s seen Glenn’s “alert” on social media:

"I am aware that Michigan Rep. Glenn has issued an 'agenda alert' on Facebook and Twitter to let his supporters know about my marital status. I welcome him to contact me to speak about any topic at any time. In my new role as news editor at the Midland Daily News I look forward to helping my team produce quality stories that are accurate, interesting and important."

Isn’t it funny … though, really, it’s not … that the gay man wants to sit and talk to the bigot, but the bigot just wants the gay man not to have that job? But Gary Glenn, who believes that Tony Lascari might turn the paper gay, issued this Tweet:

The sad/funny/stupid thing is that if you follow that link, it takes you back to the Midlands Daily News article announcing Lascari’s appointment, along with all of his qualifications for the job and, there, right there near the very end of the piece, you learn that Tony Lascari lives in Midland with his husband Mark, and there you have the ALLEGED agenda.

Glenn likes to point out that in 2004, Midland County "voted overwhelmingly in favor" of the statewide proposal amending the Michigan Constitution to define marriage as between "one man and one woman" only and so the idea that a gay man, a gay married man, be allowed to have a job in that county is, well, it’s just too much. And because of that, Glenn says, he can question how the sexual orientation of a newspaper editor relates to the community's values.

"When it comes to holding people in positions of public influence accountable, the more public awareness, the better," he said.

Tony Lascari, however, published a column in the Midland Daily News, in response to Gary Glenn:

“As a professional news reporter, I have always worked to keep my articles balanced and accurate as I report on people in our community, no matter their views. I respect people’s right to hold their beliefs and to share them as they see fit. If Glenn wants to post alerts about me, that’s fine. But, I don’t see why having a political science major and a husband are an issue. No one else in Midland has ever brought up my marriage as a concern to me. Nearly 200 of our friends, family and coworkers joined me and Mark at our reception at a Midland hotel, with a cake from a Midland bakery and flowers from a Midland florist. I live a pretty average life in this community, and have for 10 years. I work hard and am involved in the community, as is the Midland tradition. I don’t think my marriage is worthy of an ‘Agenda Alert.’”

And let’s look again and see who really has The Agenda:

Gary Glenn is a Republican, and we know that most of the GOP is not at all gay-friendly, or marriage equality friendly.

Gary Glenn also serves as president of the American Family Association of Michigan; the AFA is a conservative religious organization that opposes the so-called "homosexual agenda."

Gary Glenn is also one of two co-authors of Michigan's Marriage Protection Amendment, which in 2004 enshrined a ban on same-sex marriage in the state's constitution.

Gary Glenn frequently voices his opposition to same-sex marriage and has stood against attempts to add sexual orientation and gender identity to protected classes in anti-discrimination laws and policies across the state.

It doesn’t seem like Tony Lascari has an agenda, unless it’s to be a good newspaper editor, while Gary Glenn seems to work overtime being a bigot and a homophobe … with a Hate Agenda.

Consider yourselves alerted.

story/photo: mLive
also: Lascari: My Marriage is a Non-issue in Midland

Are Christians Being Bullied In Mississippi ... Or Is it The Other Way Around?

The ironically named American Family Association has decided to take on the 'If You're Buying, We're Selling' grassroots movement that sprang up in  Mississippi after Governor Bryant signed into law the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which allows Christian business owners to refuse service to gay customers and avoid lawsuits for doing so.

The 'If You're Buying' campaign then produced decals for Mississippi businesses that don’t believe in discrimination to place in their windows so that people, every day customers, gays and straight alike, will know which businesses do not believe in discriminating against anyone.
And that act is being called "bullying" by the AFA. 

See, a Christian business owner who refuses to provide their service to a gay customer is just fine to the AFA, but a business owner who touts themselves as being non-discriminatory against anyone, is bullying Christians, 

And the AFA goes even further by listing every single business in Mississippi that has joined 'If You're Buying' on their website, you know, so good Christians, who hate The Gays and The Gay Friendlies — or just people who believe in equality — will know where to shop.

Seriously, who is the bullied party here?

What I suggest people do is visit the AFA page and find that list of businesses that don’t encourage, condone or promote discrimination of any kind, and make a beeline to those shops and do a little buying.

And then send along a little note to the AFA for their help in pointing you in the right direction.

The AFA Page

The If You're Buying Page

Random Musings

Earlier this week I went to bed relatively early. Carlos was back on the computer and as I do, I asked that he not stay up late because he gets up early, and then I went to bed.

I awoke at about 12:15 AM and he was not in the room, and, as my mind always goes to morbid places, I wondered if maybe he was dead in the house somewhere. I was about to get up to check but, well, I was tired and, yeah, I kinda fell back asleep.

But, just before drifting completely away, I heard him come into the bedroom, so I knew he wasn’t dead, and knew I wouldn’t find his body slumped over the office desk in the morning and then wonder who was going to make coffee, so it was all good.

Except … I dreamt that Carlos got into bed and began torturing me, poking, pinching, tickling, and I got so angry that I said I was sleeping in the guest room.

The next morning I was so angry at the way Dream Carlos treated me that I didn’t speak to Real Carlos.

I call that Rational Irrationality, and luckily I explained it to him so he could see my point of view … as he called the local psychiatric hospital and tried to have me placed on a 5150 hold.

Earlier this week Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie announced that he would call a special session of the state Legislature next month to consider marriage-equality legislation: 

"This is now the 20th year of discussion that has taken place on the issue and associated issues with it. I feel very, very strongly that the votes are there to pass this because it is time for marriage equity to take place."

The special session would likely last four to five days and Abercrombie said the bill, which includes a religious exemption, would pass both houses of the Legislature. Hawaii Attorney General David Louie said, if approved, the bill as proposed would allow for same-sex nuptials to begin as soon as November 18.

Do it Hawaii.

So, after we came back from vacation, I noticed that there was a small puddle of water underneath the sink in the master bathroom. I looked around for a leak, ran water in the sink, felt up the pipe — not nearly as fun as it might sounds … feeling up pipes — and found no drips. I cleaned up the water, cleaned up under the sink, and left it at that.

The next day, no water; same for the next day after that. But on Sunday, naturally, the leak was back and Carlos, who fancies himself a plumber without the butt crack, found that the leak was in the supply line from the hot water line; he felt it was beyond his area of expertise … I giggle ... expertise … and he began calling plumbers.

One wanted $115 for an emergency call plus $75 drive time, plus whatever the repair cost, so I figured this guy would get us for $300 or more. Another guy said $85 plus repair costs and labor, which I figured might be $200.

But it got me thinking … what if I advertised myself as a plumber, charged $115 emergency call fee, plus $75 drive? I could come out, say I couldn’t fix it, and pocket an easy $190 for nothing. A few calls like that per week and I’d be rolling in it.

I may have found a new career ….

PS We called a guy who’s done work on the house in the past to ask if he could recommend a plumber and he came out instantly, found the leak, bought the new parts, fixed the leak, and charged $80.

PPS That's not the actual plumber who came out to the house. I mean, if that was the guy, I'd gladly shell out the $300-plus!

This one just makes me smile.

The American Family Association [AFA] has been boycotting Home Depot for over three years because of the company’s support for LGBT groups and Pride celebrations, and this week the group announced that it would be ending the boycott, because according to Randy Sharp, the AFA director of special bigot projects, Home Depot has changed its behavior:

“We’re glad to report that we are suspending the boycott of The Home Depot. After monitoring the company for several months, we’re satisfied that the company has withdrawn its major financial contributions to gay activist groups and to their activities. … We certainly do expect The Home Depot to deny that they have turned back their contributions to gay activist groups, but AFA has monitored the company – and actions speak louder than words.”

Sharp has no specifics about how they “monitored” the Home Depot and offered no proof that they changed their evil ways, but I guess if he says it’s true then it’s …

Huh? What? Home Depot spokesman Stephen Holmes offered a response to Sharps statement and it goes something like this:

“We haven’t made any changes to our policies for inclusion and respect of all people, regardless of their sexual orientation. We have not directed our associates to discontinue participation in Pride or other community events, and have no intention of doing so.”

The AFA caught in another lie.

This one makes me giggle.

When formerly closeted, now openly gay tennis legend Billie Jean King was interviewed by Stephen Colbert, he asked all sorts of questions about her career, and her game, but the question, well, actually, the question and answer that I loved best was when Colbert asked her if, since she was in the closet while she played professionally, if she ever got upset when the line judge, yelled "Out!"

"Yes," she said.

Love.It.

The AFL-CIO [American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations] has added transgender employment protections to its constitution.

The decision to ban transgender discrimination at its 2013 convention followed the decision of several unions within the federation who have already adopted those changes.

And here's the new language: 

“To encourage all workers without regard to race, creed, color, sex, national origin, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression to share equally in the full benefits of union organization.”

Bravo, AFL-CIO.

The march goes on.

I caught the new season of The View this week and I am officially over the show unless they have a truly watch-worthy guest on.

Sherri Shepard is as dumb as a box of rocks, and Jenny McCarthy has just a few more active brain cells than that. Barbara Walters showed up on Monday with a new face that was pulled tighter than Star Jones in an Herve Leger bandage dress, which only leaves Whoopi as the rational one.

But, no matter how much I loves me some Whoopi, I cannot wade through the idiocy for her any longer.

Well, Sir Patrick Stewart is officially a taken man. The 73-year-old got married last weekend to his 35-year-old girlfriend, Sunny Ozell, and then took to Twitter to make the announcement with the most adorable wedding photo ever:

AFA's Ray Rooney: The ‘Problem’ With The Gays Is We Like To Talk About Our Sex Lives

It’s pretty safe to assume that I am not a fan of homophobic, anti-gay American Family Association [AFA] and its spokesbigot Bryan Fischer, but sometimes, sometimes, you gotta look at them, and him, and just laugh. I mean, no one, not even LGBT rights groups, spend more of their and effort talking about The Gays and sex than the AFA, so either they’re really interested, or they’re taking lessons.

But the part that makes me laugh about the AFA today is a blog post by one of their minions, Ray Rooney, who says the problem with The Gays is that we want to talk about how we have sex, and with whom, and how we do it, and how often.

That came as news to me, but I’ll ask you, dear readers, to take a moment — and you may need more time — to peruse this blog thingy for all the times I’ve discussed how I have sex with Carlos, the, um, in-and-outs, as it were, of our sexual relationship. I’d say I’ll wait, but there’s no need to look for I have never discussed our sex life because it’s nunya bidness, as they say. And then head over to the Human Rights Campaign or Freedom To Marry or GLAAD or any other LGBT rights group and see how often they mention gay sex.

Still, this week AFA blogger Ray Rooney Jr. penned a column entitled “The Real Problem With Homosexuality” in which he says that the real reason homosexuality is wrong is because The Gays want everyone to know that they have sex with someone of the same sex:

“What I find perverse about homosexuality is the insistence from the gay community that I should know about their sexual proclivities. Normal people understand that sex is an extremely intimate and therefore private act. I would find it troubling, if not disgusting, for anyone to talk publicly about what kind of sex they like to practice. Normal people do not want to broadcast to the world the details of their sex lives. There is something wrong with those who want complete strangers to know who they like to have sex with.

Medical statistics tell me homosexuality is unhealthy. My Christian faith teaches me it is unrighteous. Common sense tells me it is unfruitful and unnatural. But none of that is why I am fed up with the gay community. I’m just sick of hearing about how one group of people demand that everyone in the world accept who they want to have sex with!

I wonder if all the stories making the news today about bakers and florists being forced to cater to homosexuals would be stories but for people announcing who they like to have sex with? I mean, did the offended customers come in and ask for a wedding cake or flowers for their wedding and were denied service because they looked like homosexuals? Or did the customer come in and announce their sexual preference and then demand service? I suspect the latter.

I believe homosexuality is wrong. Just like I believe adultery and sex outside of marriage is wrong. But even though I believe I have good reasons for opposing homosexuality as a normative lifestyle based on science, medicine, and faith, that is not why I strongly oppose it. I believe anyone who insists everyone know what they do in their bedroom and with whom is perverse. Normal people do not define themselves solely on the basis of who they are sexually attracted to.”

Wow, what a delusional asshat, because, if I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard or seen straight folks having sex — like nearly every night on my TV — I’d be rich as Donald Freaking Trump, only with better, real, hair.

Sure some gay folks talk about their sex lives, and even discuss it in detail, but so do straight people, and, for the record, Ray Rooney, being gay isn’t just sex, it’s about attraction, and compatibility and love and togetherness and sex; the same exact things as being straight, except we’re attracted to people of our own gender. We actually aren’t any different from straight folks, except in one key area: we are attracted to members of our own sex.

And that’s that. The people who seem to want to discuss The Gays and how they have sex, and why they have sex, and with whom, really seem to be those anti-gay groups. They seem to think that if they discuss what we do—or at least what they imagine we do when they are home alone, under the covers, with a jar of hand lotion and a c*m rag—that straight people will join their fight.

The Gays don't demand that you accept the people with whom we have sex, we actually could give a rat's behind about acceptance; we'd just like to be treated equally. It's not about sex for us, it's about equality, but people like Rooney and Fischer and the AFA don't get that. They'd rather talk about sex than equal rights, even though most straight people could care less what we do behind closed doors, just like we could care less what they do.

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Bryan Fischer: Using Religion To Advocate Kidnapping

I am basically a ‘live and let live kind of guy. I believe what I believe and you may agree, or not, and that’s okay. That’s how I think about religion, too; I’m not a big believer, but if you are, well, that’s your right. I won’t try and change your mind, please don’t try and change mine. 

The one problem I do have with religion is those people that use their faith in God to practice hate, and I’m not just talking about the ‘God Hates Fags’ Westboro Baptist Church people. I don’t mind those people, actually, because you know what you’re gonna get from them. 

But I do have an issue with those people who use the Bible to tell me that God doesn’t want me to marry Carlos, or that God thinks I’m not capable of parenting a child; or that God thinks I shouldn’t be able to live there or work there, or walk down that street, or, sadly so, even be allowed to live. 

I have a problem with those ‘love the sinner, hate the sin’ people who say they don’t hate but then work overtime trying to prove otherwise.

People like Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association; that’s one of those oh-so-sweet sounding groups that seek to deny me my rights because God said so. Bryan Fischer hates gay people, and he can’t mask it as a Biblical belief. It’s hate. It’s fear. It’s loathing. It might even be self-loathing, because Fischer spends an awful lot of his time thinking about gay men and sex, and then runs to his computer to Tweet about it.

Like this week when he Tweeted that we—well, not me because I’m, apparently, the problem—need a sort of “Underground Railroad to deliver innocent children from same-sex households.” Now, it seems that he was referring to the story of Lisa Miller, a so-called ex-gay, kidnapped the daughter she had with her same-sex partner and disappeared. Miller is still being track by federal authorities for kidnapping, but people like Fischer call her a hero.

But then Fischer takes his theory of kidnapping children from gay parent households further, by including the story of one Robert Oscar Lopez, who blames all the ills of his life on the fact that he had two moms. Lopez thinks he wouldn’t be an outcast in the world today if he’d grown up in a “normal” home. Lopez thinks that his own sexual orientation issues are his mothers’ fault.

And both of these stories have lead Bryan Fischer, that self-proclaimed man of God, to suggest that the children of same-sex parents should be stolen from them, and taken through some kind of Anti-Gay Underground Railroad to safety in the arms of a one-man/one-woman home. He is equating the children of same-sex parents with slaves, and equating same-sex parents with slave owners.

He is using God to promote hate. He is using God to advocate criminal behavior. Remember that if you ever hear one story about the child, or children, of a same-sex couple being kidnapped. Think of who to blame.

Think of Bryan Fischer and his special brand of God Hates Fags.

via ThinkProgress LGBT

Home Depot Won't Go Neutral

When I hear of a retailer with gay-unfriendly policies, or gay-unfriendly standards, I boycott those stores, and I make a point of telling people about those stores, and I blog about it, too.

Yeah, I'm lookin' at you, Target??

But what about those stores and businesses that are gay-friendly, and those stores and businesses that doesn't buckle under to demands that they be less than gay-friendly.

Case in point: Home Depot. It seems that for the last year or so--and I think it's longer--the inappropriately named American Family Association [AFA] has been begging, demanding, urging Home Depot to stop publicly backing, and at times appearing at, gay events, like Pride parades and such. But, for the last year or so--and i think it's longer--Home Depot has ignored the AFA. And they deserve a big gay round of applause. 

And they deserve our dollars, because the fight rages on, and the AFA isn't giving up; Randy Sharp, spokesbigot: "AFA focuses primarily on one boycott at a time. A successful boycott can take two or three years."

Well, then, maybe it is all over, since this one has about run it's course and Home Depot ain't budging: "Our response on this has been and continues to be that we respect the diversity of all people and maintain an inclusive culture. This is what [Chairman] Frank [Blake] told the AFA publicly at our annual shareholders meeting earlier this year." Suh-nap!

Now, I was gonna end there, but in reading the article further--and that's the link down there--I was floored to read that the AFA brags on its website that it has been on "the frontlines of America's culture war" since 1977, and the AFA insists that it has nothing against gays.

Seriously. it has nothing against gays, but it wants corporations to stop supporting the LGBT community, to stop marketing to the LGBT community, and stop coming to our parties. The AFA wants corporations to go Switzerland, that is, become neutral on LGBT issues. But Home Depot, and others, as you will see, won't go neutral. The Home depot, which i lovingly call The Homo Depot, realizes that there is a market out there, and it's called the gay community, and they want our business, and they should get it.

And so will Macy's, whose stores and logo have made annual appearances in New York's Pride parade. And so will Absolut, who has been advertising in gay publications for the last thirty.....yes thirty...years. And so will American Airlines, which has a Web page offering deals geared toward the LGBT traveler. And so will Subaru, who has been marketing their product to the gay community for the last decade, and was one of the first corporations to create custom commercials for LGBT channel, Logo.

But what about those gay-unfriendly corporations?

Well, Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel, who issued a public apology last year for their $150,000 donation to a Minnesota anti-gay group--a donation that angered Lady Gaga, who nixed a deal to sell a special edition of her albums through the chain--now says Target will stay "neutral" on the gay marriage debate.

Stay neutral. I'll shop elsewhere. Like Home Depot and Macy's, before getting in my Subaru and heading to the airport for my trip on American Airlines, where I'll have an in-flight Absolut and cranberry.


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Bigotry Reacts

American Family Association Asshat-in-Chief, Tim Wildmon, wants Judge Vaughn Walker impeached:

"This is a tyrannical, abusive and utterly unconstitutional display of judicial arrogance. Judge Walker has turned ‘We the People’ into ‘I the Judge.' It’s inexcusable for him to deprive the citizens of California of their right to govern themselves, and cavalierly trash the will of over seven million voters. This case never should even have entered his courtroom. The federal constitution nowhere establishes marriage policy, which means under the 10th Amendment that issue is reserved for the states....It’s also extremely problematic that Judge Walker is a practicing homosexual himself. He should have recused himself from this case, because his judgment is clearly compromised by his own sexual proclivity....That’s why the people and elected officials accountable to the people should be setting marriage policy, not a black-robed tyrant whose own lifestyle choices make it impossible to believe he could be impartial."

Brian Brown, Maggie Gallagher's lapdog, of NOM:

“Big surprise! We expected nothing different from Judge Vaughn Walker, after the biased way he conducted this trial. With a stroke of his pen, Judge Walker has overruled the votes and values of 7 million Californians who voted for marriage as one man and one woman. This ruling, if allowed to stand, threatens not only Prop 8 in California but the laws in 45 other states that define marriage as one man and one woman....Never in the history of America has a federal judge ruled that there is a federal constitutional right to same sex marriage. The reason for this is simple – there isn’t!”

And, from NOM"s minister of hate, Maggie Gallagher:

“The ‘trial’ in San Francisco...is a unique, and disturbing, episode in American jurisprudence. Here we have an openly gay federal judge substituting his views for those of the American people and of our Founding Fathers who I promise you would be shocked by courts that imagine they have the right to put gay marriage in our Constitution. We call on the Supreme Court and Congress to protect the people’s right to vote for marriage.”

Concerned Women for America:

“Judge Walker’s decision goes far beyond homosexual ‘marriage’ to strike at the heart of our representative democracy. Judge Walker has declared, in effect, that his opinion is supreme and ‘We the People’ are no longer free to govern ourselves. The ruling should be appealed and overturned immediately....Marriage is not a political toy. It is too important to treat as a means for already powerful people to gain preferred status or acceptance. Marriage between one man and one woman undergirds a stable society and cannot be replaced by any other living arrangement....Citizens of California voted to uphold marriage because they understood the sacred nature of marriage and that homosexual activists use same-sex ‘marriage’ as a political juggernaut to indoctrinate young children in schools to reject their parent’s values and to harass, sue and punish people who disagree. CWA stands in prayer for our nation as we continue to defend marriage as the holy union God created between one man and one woman.”

Get Thee To Home Depot

The ironically named American Family Association--it's ironic because they are unAmerican and anti-family--has launched their boycott of Home Depot, because the Depot is a gay-friendly company, both to it's LGBT employees and the LGBT community at large.

The AFA wants you all to stop shopping at Home Depot, and lists a slew of reasons why:


Well, I say STFU AFA.

And to you, I say, Why drop a letter of appreciation to Home Depot for their continued support of ALL Americans, not just the heterosexual ones.

Go HERE and tell Home Depot that you appreciate them. And then get thee to a Home Depot and buy something.

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Get Thee To A Homo Depot

Carlos and I loves us some Homo Depot; it's kind of a homo away from home, and we make the pilgrimage once a week or so. Which is why this story has raised my ire.

The God-fearing-Homo-Hating folks at the American Family Association have decided to attack Home Depot because the "fix-it giant" hosted a crafts workshop for kids at Southern Maine Pride.

Home Depot was helping kids.

That's bad, because it was at a Gay pride event, and we all know homos only want kids around for one thing: indoctrination so we can take over the world, paint it lavender, and make everyone have same-sex-sex.

Damn the AFA for spoiling the plot!

From the AFA:

Home Depot is basically encouraging the attendance of children at events which openly expose them to transvestites, cross-dressers, and homosexual activists.
Unfortunately, Home Depot's participation in the Southern Maine Pride Festival
doesn't stand alone. It has also sponsored and participated in the 2010 Boston
Gay Pride parade. Homosexuals often exploit young children in their desire to
'normalize' their gay lifestyle. Gay pride events have a long track record for
offensive public displays of homosexual conduct. Obviously, Home Depot is OK
with the idea of exposing children to an unhealthy and risky environment. So
much so, it is willing to also celebrate it by participating in its promotion.
Send an email to let Home Depot know you are sickened by their support and
approval of children at homosexual events. If you are a customer, please add an
additional personal line to our prepared letter to Home Depot. After sending
your email, make an extra effort to protect children by calling Home Depot
personally. Brad Shaw is the Vice President of Public Relations. His direct
number is 770-384-5350.

But rather than bothering Brad with your hate speech, you can tell him how much you appreciate The Home Depot for it's tolerance and acceptance of all people by calling him at the same number, or email the Home Depot at consumeraffairs@HomeDepot.com.

thanks to Joe.My.God. for the story.

Quote Of The Day: Bryan Fischer

Bryan Fischer, one of the homophobes and haters at the American Family Association [AFA], on Elena Kagan maybe being a :::gasp::: lesbian:

"One qualification for public office is personal character, and nothing speaks to character more than the choices one makes when it comes to sexual conduct. Bill Clinton convinced an entire generation of America's youth that oral sex isn't really sex, and as a result we've seen an explosion among millenials in cancers of the throat and head caused by the HPV virus, which is spread through oral-genital contact. It's time we got over the myth that what a public servant does in his private life is of no consequence. We cannot afford to have another sexually abnormal individual in a position of important civic responsibility, especially when that individual could become one of nine votes in an out of control oligarchy that constantly usurps constitutional prerogatives to unethically and illegally legislate for 300 million Americans. The stakes are too high. Social conservatives must rise up as one and say no lesbian is qualified to sit on the Supreme Court. Will they?"

Hey Bryan? You moron. Why must you equate the "sexual conduct" of gay men and women as somethjing immoral? You don't liek having sex with men, then don't do it? It isn't sexual conduct, it's sex.


And, all I can say is Wow about Bill Vlinton and the power he wields. I mean, he says oral sex isn't sex and suddenly everyone's doin' it? I mean, no one ever had a blowjob before?> Or gave a blowjob before? Or, um, you know, went down....there? Seriously? People have been giving one another the pleasures of oral sex since, well, probably, Adam and Eve. And Adam and Steve. And Madam and Eve.


But it's that last line that gets me. "[N]o lesbian is qualified to sit on the Supreme Court"? So, no matter her education, experience, talents, the simple fact that she might be....MIGHT BE....gay automatically disqualifies her for the job?


And you say you aren't haters and homophobes?


If it quacks like a homophobic fucktard..........

Lock Up The UnGodly...Like Bryan Fischer

You know, it's funny, and sad, too. Just when you think people can sink no lower, a door is opened to reveal they have an entire subbasement of hate for the LGBT community.

Case in point, wingnut, asshat, fucktard, and American Family Association radio host Bryan Fischer, in answering a letter regarding homosexuality, HIV/AIDS, and the Bible, believes homosexuals should be locked up. in prison. To undergo some sort of gay detox.

Fischer:

It might be worth noting that what I actually suggested is that we impose the same sanctions on those who engage in homosexual behavior as we do on those who engage in intravenous drug abuse, since both pose the same kind of risk of contracting HIV/AIDS. I'd be curious to know what you think should be done with IV drug abusers, because whatever it is, I think the same response should be made to those who engage in homosexual behavior.

If you believe that what drug abusers need is to go into an effective detox program, then we should likewise put active homosexuals through an effective reparative therapy program.

And, Bryan, what would suggest we do with the children who are HIV+? The straight women and men? is it just "The Gays" you want to lock up because, well, we all know "The Gays" are here simply to spread AIDS to the world.

Fischer:

Secondly, I'm afraid you're simply wrong about the Bible's perspective on the law and homosexuality. Paul lists quite explicitly in 1 Timothy 1:8-11 the actions and behaviors that are the proper concern of the law:

"Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully, understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine..."

The bottom line here is that, biblically, those "who practice homosexuality" should come under the purview of the law just as much as those who take people captive in order to sell them into slavery.You express a belief in the Scriptures, and I trust your confidence in Scripture is not selective. If you believe all Scripture is inspired, then you are compelled to accept that legal sanctions may appropriately be applied to those who engage in homosexual behavior.

Interestingly enough, Fischer just pulls out the words "men who practice homosexuality" as those he deems unworthy of walking free. Yet, according to Bible verses he quoted, those punishable by law are also the unholy and the profane, people who hit their parents--those parents who hit their children are apparently safe--liars, and perjurers.

I think if Bryan Fischer were to take that Bible verse literally, and all of it, not just the pieces that apply to his own sense of hatred for the gay community, we'd have more prisons in this country than we have homes.

But then wingnuts like Bryan Fischer don't take the entire Bible seriously; they only take the few sentences that talk about homosexuality to heart. For the people like Bryan, I might suggest that if you want to live by the word of the Bible then live by all the words, not just those that you deem appropriate.