Showing posts with label Alan Cumming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alan Cumming. Show all posts

Friday, August 01, 2025

I Didn't Say It ... Alan Cumming

Alan Cumming, Bisexual actor, guest-hosting  Jimmy Kimmel Live and using the platform to speak out for transgender rights:

“America? How are you doing? No, really, how are you doing? I mean, how are you doing aside from being a country that’s just reintroduced concentration camps, taken health care away from 17 million people to give billionaires a tax cut, and also to finance an armed militia of masked men that commits heinous assorted kidnappings and crimes against humanity on a daily basis. Aside from all that, are you okay? I wouldn’t have thought so … I split my time between New York City, here in the United States and Scotland, my homeland … Yes, I am an immigrant from Scotland. Are you scared of me? I am taking an American’s job right now. But don’t worry, according to ICE I’m one of the good ones … Tonight’s show is all about superheroes. Not only are the Fantastic Four here as I said, but some of you may also remember me as Nightcrawler from the X-Men.

Of course, these superhero movies are only pretend, but I happen to believe there are actual superheroes in real life who walk among us. And these superheroes are called trans people, because just like superheroes trans people are both with something special and magical about them, and they often have to hide what’s special and magical about them from other people. Like superheroes they grow up in a society that doesn’t understand them, that makes them the other and often hates them. Like superheroes, trans people just want the world to be a safer place. And they believe we should protect each other and live our lives in peace. Like superheroes, evil billionaires want to get rid of trans people for no fucking reason whatsoever. And just like superheroes, trans people are not new. They’ve been around forever and they’re not going anywhere, no matter how much this administration tries to make you fear them.

There is no evidence that trans people are a threat to women. There is, however, ample evidence that the President of the United States publicly brags about barging into beauty pageant dressing rooms and grabbing women by their pussies. Wake up, America! Come on, millions of Americans are obsessed with his idea that trans people are attacking women in bathrooms. Do you know what trans people do in the bathroom? They poop and they pee. And I’m sure they always wash their hands afterwards. And why on Earth, this is what gets me, why on Earth would a rapist go to the bother of pretending to be trans in a country that actually treats rapists better than trans people?

Do think anyone in [The Felon’s] Administration could actually name two trans people … here in America the amount of hate crimes against trans people has risen hugely in the last year. And in Los Angeles, they’re up by 125%. Another surprising statistic? Our sitting president is a million percent more likely to be on the Epstein list than any trans person. So let’s not pretend that we’ve got our eye on the ball when it comes to sexual violence, OK, America? And how dare this president make random, unfounded accusations of sexual criminality against trans people when he was literally ordered to pay $83 million to a woman who accused him of sexual assault. It’s the pot calling the kettle black after trying to grab its handle in the changing room of a T.J. Maxx.

Trans people are far more likely to be victims of sexual assault or violence than be the perpetrators. Now, I know that some of you don’t want to look at trans people but, please America, at least force yourselves to look at the facts. There is no epidemic of attacks committed by trans people. But do you know how many people are killed every year by gun violence in this country? Over 46,000. And you’re worried about pronouns. Everyone in this country’s pronouns should be gun and control … [And] to people who repeatedly attack the trans community, why; why do you care so much? Why are you so upset by what other people do to their bodies in order to be happy? If it’s okay for the Kardashians and Elon Musk, shouldn’t it be okay for trans people? …

Even as an atheist I am a big fan of Jesus, I really am. I mean, what’s not to like? A tall, gorgeous man with great abs and flowing hair getting his feet washed by prostitutes and encouraging people to love their neighbors, all the while slaying in a loose caftan. And Jesus was an immigrant, by the way, let’s not forget. Jesus would have loved trans people. He changed water into wine. Is that not itself an act of transition? And you know how I know Jesus would have loved trans people? Because he loved people. He loved all people. And so of course he would love trans people and all queer people. I mean, Jesus was followed around at all times by twelve hot single guys. All of them also sporting caftans. You do the math. Jesus loved The Gays, America, deal with it. The only thing our current president has in common with Jesus is that they both owe their careers to their dads.

But seriously, just take a moment to realize what it must feel like to be a trans person in America today. Our government has legislated that trans people do not exist. It is trying to erase them completely. Imagine having to stockpile your essential life-saving medicine because your president might cut off access to it for no other reason than it makes him look strong to his base. If a government is going to declare that a whole group of people shouldn’t exist why can’t it be a truly dangerous group of people like those who take their socks and shoes off on airplanes and then go into the bathrooms? Why can’t it be people that use leaf blowers at unearthly hours of the morning? Why can’t it be unkind people? Which brings us back to Jesus.

Jesus just wanted us all to be kind. That’s all. So, for once America, I beg you, let’s all really try to give kindness a go. Like my little mom says it doesn’t cost anything to be kind. And I guarantee that any situation you find yourself in will go a little better with kindness. Now, speaking of kindness, despite this government’s slashing of funds for all things LGBTQ+, there are a number of great organizations out there still helping the queer and trans community, including The Trevor Project, P-Flag National, and Trans Lifeline. Please  call them if you need them and support them if you’re able. Thank you so much for listening.”

I saw this at Debra’s She Who Seeks when she posted a YouTube video of Cumming’s monologue. It was heartfelt and heartbreaking, funny and sweet , harsh and kind.

I’ve been thinking of it all week and going back to one though: be kind. What difference does it make in your life is a person is trans? Who is getting hurt by a trans person? No one; but many are hurting the trans community for no other reason than ignorance and fear spread by the current regime.

We need to stand with our trans brothers and sisters and let the tares know that, once again, they are on the wrong side of history, of life, of kindness, of Jesus, of faith, of spirituality, of hope.

Check out Alan’s full monologue at Debra’s blog—click the link above—and hear the entire speech. It’s worth it.

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Friday, July 11, 2025

I Didn't Say It ...

Alan Cumming, actor and The Traitors’ host, receiving a Doctor of Laws (LLD) in recognition of his multi-decade service to the arts from the University of St Andrews in Scotland:

“Last week St Andrews University made me a Doctor of Laws (LLD). I sat on the stage of the Younger Hall and watched hundreds of students as they stepped up to receive their degrees and saw pride and achievement and fear flicker across their faces. It made me think of my graduation from drama school forty (!) years ago and so I decided to say something to those students that I wish I’d heard all those years ago. I told them to always keep learning, that their formal education may now be over but to try to always stay open to the possibilities and experiences that life is going to fling at them. I told them to always be curious. I see people in life stop being curious and they just stop in general; they atrophy before your eyes. And I told them to always protest! Protesting is a part of your education too! It’s taking what you have learned and analyzed and combining it with your passion and then sharing it with the world. Always be curious! Always keep learning! Always be open to new people and new things. And always protest!”

Never stop learning; otherwise it all just stops.

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Gavin Newsom, California Democrat governor, telling voters that they "have the power" to end his disastrous presidency during the mid-term elections:

“It’s not what happens to us, it’s how we respond to it. And our opportunity presents itself anew. In 18 months, you have the power to end [The Felon]’s presidency. We’ll have to deal with the tweets; we’ll have to deal with the attacks and the bullying. But the legislative agenda [will] effectively [be] over. You have that power in these midterms. [He] decided to send hundreds and hundreds of military troops into [MacArthur] Park, into the playground, in the middle of the day, where kids … were at summer camp. Not one arrest was made. But what he was doing—he wanted to make a point. Cruelty is the point. Cruelty is the point. I say this with love in my heart—with love in my heart—but love for my party and love for my country. Do you remember his response to the disaster in California? He blamed every single person [but]—not a peep of blame in Texas.”

Newsom got a rousing reception in … wait for it … it’s epic … Deeply Red rural South Carolina, by speaking truth, simple basic truths about The Felon.

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Pete Buttigieg, former Secretary of Transportation, on the GOP’s "big, beautiful" federal budget bill:

“We’re hearing that the House has passed the megabill after it got through the Republican Senate. Now it’s on its way to [The Felon]’s desk, and he’s going to sign it. When he does, he will create some of the biggest tax breaks for billionaires in history, even more wealth to the wealthiest Americans. And the way they’re paying for it is to cut health care for working-class Americans, to cut food that would go to veterans and children in this country. To shut down rural hospitals and make an entire generation worse off. And they’re managing to increase the national debt and deficit while they do it. This is the decisive, once and for all answer to what the president and his party are about. You know, it was fashionable for Washington commentators for a while to say that this was a new, different, populist, working-class Republican Party. Now it has been demonstrated decisively that that was all bullshit. That they’re still all about making the wealthy even wealthier at the expense of working Americans. If there’s any good news in all of this, it’s that this is still a democracy. Even now, even with all of the damage that [The Felon] has done to our republic, there is no king in this country, which means we the people will have the last word. And it is up to us, the American people, to respond politically and say that it is unacceptable to harm the majority of Americans to make the very wealthiest a little better off.”

The bill extends the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans yet slashes $1 trillion from Medicaid; it includes cuts to the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program [SNAP] which helps low-income Americans buy food, as well as the Children’s Health Insurance Program and Planned Parenthood. It will take health care coverage or subsidies away from an estimated 17 million people over the next decade, while adding $4 trillion to the national debt during that period.

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Zohran Mamdani, Democrat candidate for mayor of New York City, taking on The Felon’s bigotry and stupidity:

“Yesterday [The Felon] said that I should be arrested, deported, denaturalized … he said those things less so because of who I am and more so because he wants to distract from what I fight for … if this is what [The Felon] feels comfortable saying about the Democratic nominee for New York City, imagine what [he] says about immigrants whose names they don’t even know.”

He’s exposing the fear-based campaigning of The Felon and the GOP; many of whom are suggesting he be deported because he’s Muslim. It makes me have to repeat something I have been saying since 9/11: Muslims are not terrorists, terrorists are terrorists, and the terrorists are in power and rounding up people of color, and denying aid to the poorest among us, and keeping women subjugated to the will of white politicians.

The GOP and The Felon and his entire regime are the terrorists.

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Robert Garcia, out Democrat Representative from California, and member of the powerful House Oversight Committee announces plans to investigate The Felon’s pet fascist Stephen Miller:

"Essentially dehumanizing immigrants so that they’re less than human is Stephen Miller doing what he loves to do, which is be, essentially, the biggest piece of shit in this country. Stephen Miller should be ashamed of the way he is acting. I can’t even believe he’s from our state. One thing I’ve told people is that you can rest assured that if you are right now causing the level of harm that the Stephen Millers of the world are, that these ICE agents are, you are going to be held accountable. We’re not going to forget the harm that you’re causing to people and our government, and these folks are going to be held accountable. What’s happening right now, it’s so inhumane and gross. As an immigrant myself, who came here as a young kid, it’s just not the America that so many immigrants come to, to actually be a part of, to fight for, to fight for citizenship. We’ve got to continue winning in the courts, and that’s going to continue. And the other piece of it, people’s reaction, the protesting, the anger, the rising up against these actions also is having an effect. And you’re seeing that, I mean, what’s happening in LA, which was widely, as you know, mostly peaceful. The protests are energizing the population and the public to stand up against us, and we are seeing the impact it’s having on the Republicans electorally."

If Democrats take back control of the House in the midterm elections, Garcia will have even more power to hold these monsters accountable. Keep up the pressure, protest, and vote!

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Harvey Fierstein, accepting his 2025 Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement at The Tony’s last month:

“Don't make Mommy cry. Oh, thank you so much. You gorgeous people, I have to tell you, since I got that call, something's been on my mind. This has all happened by accident. See, if it had gone to plan, I should now be a retired high school art teacher. But what happened was my freshman year of High School of Art and Design, this kid in my class said that his mother was starting a community theatre in Brooklyn and needed kids to come and make posters. I figured, ‘Why not?’ I don't know if it was the fumes from the magic markers, but I entered the basement of a Unitarian church in Flatbush, Brooklyn, and I found my community. Here were people, mostly adults, who saw this odd, chubby, recently bar mitzvahed boy (who'd put a towel on his head and lip sync Broadway show tunes into his bedroom mirror) and without hesitation or judgment just welcomed him in. I painted scenery, I ran lights, I pulled curtains. And by the age of 15, I was on the board of directors of The Gallery Players, a theatre that still exists in Brooklyn. From there, I moved to the world of experimental theatre in La MaMa, then Off Broadway. By then, I was writing and acting in my own shows, and I was always, always accepted just as I was. And then suddenly, well, not so suddenly, but you can get the rest of the story from my best-selling New York Times autobiography, I Was Better Last Night, at your favorite bookseller. So suddenly, I found myself on Broadway with Torch Song Trilogy. It was only then that I was cautioned, ‘If you want a career, keep your personal life to yourself.’ My answer was, ‘Have you seen Torch Song Trilogy?’ It was 1982 and not only did I arrive on Broadway, but so did AIDS. This was no time to hide. We needed to go to war, and it was a war that cost us much too dearly. I might never really understand how I survived those years, or the years that led me to be standing on this stage accepting a Lifetime Achievement Award. But what I find most humbling is the thought that somehow my journey means something to you. There's no way to really thank even a tiny percentage of the people responsible. No one does theatre alone, but I must call out my mother, who dragged us to opera and ballet and Broadway as often as she could afford. And my brother, who's sitting over there, used my shows as a personality test for his dates: If they freaked out seeing his drag queen brother, they were history. But I'd like to leave you with this thought, as many of you know, there is nothing quite like bathing in the applause of a curtain call, but when I bow, I bow to the audience with gratitude, knowing that without them, I might as well be lip syncing show tunes in my bedroom mirror. And so I dedicate this award to the people in the dark and offer my most profound thanks to all of you, my community.”

It’s all community, and we when stand with one another, and work with one another, and support one another, we win.

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Friday, March 16, 2018

I Didn't Say It ...


Kevin Swanson, the Kill The Gays Pastor, ranting about the Best picture Oscar winner… seriously:

“The Academy Award ceremonies this week provided the best film and best director Oscar to a violation of the worst possible sexual sin mentioned in Leviticus chapter 18. Maybe I’ll just leave it there, I don’t want to defile the ears of my listeners. But this was another milestone in the moral degradation of Hollywood and the nation itself.  What it did was it presented the ultimate sexual depravity—and, again, I don’t want anyone thinking what this is—but the ultimate sexual depravity as presented in Leviticus 18 is presented in this movie as a tender and romantic and a beautiful thing. Even saying that is just disgusting. God says, ‘Be careful, I might just bring this to you if you violate my law to the level of egregiousness contained in the moral commands in Leviticus 18.’ It’s these abominable practices that are being committed in this nation today and glorified at the highest echelons of the nation.”

Cuz a woman fell in love with a sea creature and Kevin’s brain goes right to bestiality. Of course, this is the same man who blamed female gymnast’s outfit for Larry Nassar sexually abusing them.
Seth Meyers, on the allegations that Stormy Daniels make have _____’s dick pic:

“So we are looking at the very real possibility that Donald _____ sent Stormy Daniels a dick pic. Can you even imagine? Oh, you can, and that’s why you’re making those awful noises. It would look like a flaming-hot Cheeto sitting on a Brillo pad.”

Now how am I supposed to scrub my brain of that mage?
Elizabeth Porter, Florida State Republican, because, of course, Representative, downplaying the recent activism by the students at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School:

“We’ve been told that we need to listen to the children and do what the children ask, are there any children on this floor? Are there any children making laws? Do we allow the children to tell us that we should pass a law that says ’no homework’? Or you finish high school at the age of 12 just because they want it so? No, the adults make the laws because we have the age, we has [sic] the wisdom, and we have the experience.”

Oh, you stupid, stupid woman. These ‘children’ will be voting as early as next year and I hope to everything hopeful they come gunning for your stupid, illiterate ass.
Shepard Smith, Fox New host, on _____ caving to the NRA:

“There is broad-based support for raising the gun age limit. There is a limit of 21 on handguns and they’re talking about doing it for everyone else. The President said to the kids at Parkland, ‘I’ll go strong on this, I’ll work on this age thing.’ He came up to the general public and said to the Congress, ‘The NRA has a lot of pressure on you, but not on me so much.’ And then he met with the NRA. So what happened this time is what happens every time. It’s what happened after Newtown, it’s what happened after Florida, after Pulse nightclub, it’s what happened after Las Vegas. It’s what happened when Luke Woodham, way back in the day before there was a Columbine, when Luke Woodham went shooting up the place in Pearl, Mississippi, same thing. It happens every time. The NRA gets to them, and that’s that. You can like that or not like it, but that’s the fact of what happened. That’s exactly what happened.”

I do so enjoy seeing even Fox news pundits calling out _____’s hypocrisy and the terrorism of the NRA and cowardice of the GOP.
Joe Scarborough, on Morning Joe, on _____’s Hate Speech:

“The booing is getting stronger by the day whenever he goes out there and whips up like it’s a Mussolini rally. Yes, that’s what I said. There is certainly nothing American about what Donald _____ did in Pennsylvania when he tries to turn an entire audience, whether it’s against Katy Tur or Chuck Todd and this weekend he went after Maggie Haberman. When you’re in rallies like that and you whip your supporters into a frenzy, there are real life consequences to that. Threats follow, often death threats.”

Words matter.even those that spew forth from an Illegitimate President.
Alan Cumming, whose new show Instinct premieres this week, talks about playing openly gay former CIA operative and making network TV history:

“It’s the first time on a network drama that there’s been a gay character in the leading role, [but] it’s like the fourth or fifth thing of the characteristics of this person is that he’s gay and married and a happy solid marriage. And actually, what I think is really amazing is that most of the time, especially on network TV when someone is gay, when there’s a gay character it’s like, ‘they’re gay gay gay’ and it’s all about their sexuality and usually in a negative way. But the fact that this has a character whose gayness is way down the list of things that are most important about him is a positive thing and also the fact that when you do see his same-sex life it’s in a really positive way and that’s two things I don’t think are represented enough in this country.”

I said this last week about "gay skater Adam Rippon" being a skater who is gay; and I saw it again, over at The Gay Almanac, in a post where writer Edward Albee said he was a writer who was gay and not a gay writer.
Don't limit us to being one thing.
Ellen DeGeneres, opening up about one of the most tragic losses in her life:

“My girlfriend was killed in a car accident when I was like 20 years old. And I wasn’t doing comedy, I think I was probably waitressing someplace at the time. I was living with her when she was killed. I couldn’t afford to live where we were living together and so I moved into this tiny little basement apartment … I was sleeping on a mattress on a floor and … I just thought it would be amazing if we could just pick up the phone and call up God and ask questions and get an answer. It just unfolded, I just wrote the entire thing and when I finished, I read it and I thought, ‘Oh my God, that’s hilarious. I’m going to do this on Johnny Carson and I’m going to be the first woman in the history of the show be asked to sit down.’”

Fast forward to 1986, Ellen appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and became the first ever female comedian to be invited to sit down on Johnny’s couch after a stand-up routine based on that Phone Call to God.

Friday, January 12, 2018

I Didn't Say It ...

Adam Schiff, Democratic congressman on the House Intelligence Committee, on the investigation into the Clinton Foundation:

“It’s not because there is some new evidence that has come to light. It’s because they’re being badgered by the White House to do it. You simply cannot explain it, I think, any other way.”

Wait, so the foundation with the A-ratings is being investigated at the behest of the guy who’s charitable foundation was shut down?
That’s our _____!
Ellen DeGeneres, on Eric _____’s assertion that she is part of the “Deep State” along with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton:

“Have you heard of the Deep State, anybody? I hadn’t either. I found out Deep State is supposed to be a group of people they believe are trying to undermine Donald _____. Which is ridiculous because no one has undermined Donald _____ more than Donald _____. I am sorry to disappoint you. I am not part of the Deep State. Even if somebody wanted me to be involved I don’t have that kind of time. I’ve got my gay agenda meetings on Mondays. I’ve got, on Wednesday Beyoncé and I host an Illuminati brunch. And then Portia and I on the weekends are desperately trying to have a baby, so I can’t. I don’t have time.”

I can vouch for Ellen, I see her at the Gay Agenda meetings all the time!
Sarah Huckleberry Sanders, presidential liar, on anyone who says _____ is mentally unfit:

“Look, I think it’s absolutely insane to think all of these individuals, reporters and others, who suddenly have a medical degree and think that they can diagnose somebody, many times who they’ve never even had a conversation with. It’s absolutely outrageous to make these types of accusations, and it’s simply untrue, and it’s sad that people are going and making these desperate attempts to attack the president. What I think is really mentally unstable is people that don’t see the positive impact that this president is having on the country. The economy is booming, we’re crushing ISIS, day after day things are getting better for Americans all over this country. And I think it’s really sad that these people don’t see that, and that they’re not celebrating and trying to join in the president’s efforts to turn our country around.”

The economy, right now, is thanks to Obama, and I don’t see ISIS being crushed, and I don’t see things getting better every day.
I see hate, vile hate, and racism coming from the top and trickling down to minions like SHS.
I’ll celebrate when the Fat Bastard is out of office and SHS is out of a job and back to asking me if I’d like fries with that.
Shepard Smith, Fox News most sane pundit, on _____’s announcement that he wants to overhaul the “very unfair” libel laws:

“For clarity, because we’re in the position to report facts here, all of that about libel laws—that was just a word salad of nothingness, because none of that means anything, except ‘look over here’. He couldn’t change the libel laws if he wanted to change the libel laws, he couldn’t change ’em if he got the Congress in there. These are state laws. He’s not a dictator. He’s not a king. He can’t change the libel laws. That’s preposterous.”

He’s a dick, not a dictator, and just a whiny little dick at that.
Alan Cumming, set to become network television’s first gay lead character in an hour-long drama on CBS’s Instinct, on the _____ administration’s attacks on LGBT people:

“I applaud everyone at CBS for having the courage to put that (Instinct) on, in the climate that might not be the best time to do it. The President is actively condoning—by his silence—violence, and persecution against the LGBT community.”

Silence = Death.
And that’s what we get from this president … for now.
Linda Harvey, Christian loon, on the need to “re-horrify” Americans about The Gays:

“So many of these groups are predators. I believe that the homosexual clubs in schools are just red flags for predators. I think that they exist there as an audience to continue to fast track kids into the lifestyle, network with adults—I mean, who knows what goes on there. How do we re-horrify people about the sin of homosexuality? People are becoming so comfortable with this, even people on our side. We need to re-horrify them.”

Actually, Linda, you re-horrifying people to your so-called faith, because if faith is used to influence hate against anyone, then your faith is not in God because She would be so pissed at you right now.
Ryan Murphy, creator of American Horror Story, Glee, American Crime, Scream Queens and the upcoming Pose, on being beaten with a belt by his father when he came out as gay:

That happened to me. That was my coming-out experience with my father. [Now] I can’t believe my life and can’t believe that things have changed so radically in my lifetime. If you asked me then if I would be allowed to be married and have children like you, I never would have believed it.”

We’ve come a long way, but, as evidenced by some of these other quotes, we know that the march goes on …
Sebastian Gorka, former _____ senior advisor, seeming to dispute the White House claim that no one talked with Michael Wolff:

“Unless we had a preexisting relationship, I didn’t trust any journalist. And if you came from an outlet that belonged to what President _____ calls #FakeNews, I really wasn’t interested in becoming your friend. To those few persistent journalists from news organs like the Washington Post who wouldn’t give up, I was upfront: Sorry, I don’t do ‘deep background’ and I’m using my phone to record this conversation. As a result, you’d never see Jim Acosta coming out of my office or Maggie Haberman buying me an espresso at Peet’s around the corner from the West Wing.  So, when I met Michael Wolff in Reince Priebus’ office, where he was waiting to talk to Steve Bannon, and after I had been told to also speak to him for his book, my attitude was polite but firm: ‘Thanks but no thanks.’ Our brief encounter reinforced my gut feeling that this oleaginous scribe had no interest in being fair and unbiased.”

And yet Wolff was in the White House with Priebus and Bannon and others so … yeah, his story is true.

Friday, February 21, 2014

Would You Hit It?

Star of film, television and Broadway, and openly gay Scotsman, Alan Cumming.

And one simple question:

Would.You.Hit.It?

Yes or No.

Friday, December 20, 2013

I Didn't Say It ...

Kevin Swanson, “Pastor Jazz Hands”, who thinks the US should follow the lead of India and recriminalize homosexuality:

"What I think the homosexuals are doing is pressing into every nook and cranny of civil society. [We must] impose God’s laws upon our systems, especially our political systems.  God’s laws require that we prosecute homosexuals who are caught in the act of homosexuality or the act of sodomy on the basis of two or three witnesses. If Christians would do that, if Christian pastors would do that then we would be able to hopefully press back the line upon those who are impressing their rights upon Christians who really need that religious freedom."

As my father would say, “Dipshit.”

We have a Separation of Church and State in this country, “pastor”, which keeps us from imposing God’s laws on everyone.

And, I beg of you, since there are so many different religions in this country, which God do we follow, because I imagine you’d have a fight on your hands if you said yours.

And lastly, “pastor”, I’d be very careful if I were you about “catching” homosexuals in the act because, if there was a contest, I think you might be voted “Most Likely To Be Captured In The Act.”

Just sayin’.
Tim CookApple CEO, on ending  racism, upholding equality, eliminating anti-LGBT discrimination, and ENDA:

"These values have also recently guided us to support legislation that demands equality and nondiscrimination for all employees regardless of who they love. This legislation, known as the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. I have long believed in this and Apple has implemented protections for employees even when the laws did not. Now is the time to write these basic principles of human dignity into the book of law."

Word. And if we have to do it company by company, job by job, workplace by workplace, one day we might see an America where you cannot be fired for simply being yourself.
Andy HummGay City News reporter and Queer Nation member, on the Pope being the newest media darling and everyone’s Person of the Year:

"This is just about the most pathetic, self-hating bowing down to a bigot that I've read in my 40 years of gay activism. Francis is doing good public relations in the service of propping up the patriarchy — an infantile style of governance that sees the 'leaders' as parents and the members as children. Catholics need to grow up and govern their own church if they want to avoid continued scandal. The fact that so many are in a thralll to this man — who has not changed one iota of anti-gay, anti-woman doctrine—is pathological."

I could not agree more. For me, Pope Frankie’s words are just propaganda; if he’s really gay-friendly, then have him demand, demand, that the Catholic Church stop blaming The Gays for their pedophile scandal; have him demand that women become equals in the Church; have him demand that all people are equal in the Church.

Until then this is all just talk.
Alan Cumming, on his actual sexual orientation:

"I still define myself as a bisexual even though I have chosen to be with Grant. I’m sexually attracted to the female form even though I am with a man and I just feel that bisexuals have a bad rap."

Bisexuals are The New Gay. It used to be that bisexuals were thought of as homosexuals who were afraid to come out or afraid to make up their minds.

Sexuality is a spectrum and we all fall along the spectrum at some point. Cumming falls more in the middle, that’s all.
Tony Perkins, on homophobic bakers refusing to bake for The Gays:

"Within the last week, the American people have witnessed two serious consequences of redefining marriage: a Colorado baker is risking jail if he refuses to obey a court order to bake a cake for same-sex 'weddings' in contradiction to his Christian faith and now a federal judge cites same-sex marriage in his decision striking down Utah's law against polygamy. This court ruling altering over a century of established public policy once again warns Americans that same-sex marriage is less about the marriage altar than it is fundamentally altering America's moral, political and cultural landscape. This decision is a real war on women and children as polygamy is a practice that has historically devalued the role of women and undermined the equality of a husband and wife that has become the standard in Western Civilization."

Again, Tony, no one says the baker can’t be Christian, we’re just saying he can’t discriminate against any member of the public in his public business.

And secondly, you delusional wingnut, the Utah decision does not make polygamy legal in any sense of the word.

Stop spreading hate, you closeted mother%$%@#er
Jennifer Lawrence, on the obsession with thin girls and their clothes:
“I just think it should be illegal to call somebody fat on TV. Why is humiliating people funny? I get it, and I do it, too. We all do it. [But] I think the media needs to take responsibility for the effect it has on our younger generation, on these girls that are watching these television shows and picking up how to talk and how to be cool. So all of a sudden being funny is making fun of a girl that’s wearing an ugly dress.”

First off, I love Jennifer Lawrence. I love people who speak their mind even when what they say might be kinda dumb.

But saying that calling someone fat on TV should be a crime? Seriously? Let me get Columbo on the case. Sure, maybe we shouldn’t call people fat or make fat jokes or whatever, but we do, we have and we will. The fact is that if you don’t like the shows where people, women, are ridiculed for their size or fashion choice, turn them off and then the networks will lose money and cancel the shows.

Now, on to Jennifer’s loathing of TV shows — namely The Fashion Police — making fun of a girl in an ugly dress. Where was your plan when The Fashion Police continually named you Best Dressed? I mean, it seems that only since you have been removed from their darling list have you become the champion of girls in ugly dresses and the hosts who bash them.
Rachel Maddow, on the news that President Obama was sending a delegation to the Sochi Olympics and would not attend himself:

"The combination of having openly gay people in the delegation and pointedly not sending any high-ranking, high-profile people from our government does seem at least like a particularly satisfying snub. I'm not sure if that's exactly how they meant it, but that's sure how it feels. Mmm."

Good.

It’s a message sent that being gay is not a crime, and is not wrong. Once again, this president has proven himself an LGBT-ally.