I Didn't Say It....

Morning!
Carlos and I are off to North Carolina for the day, where he will be speaking at an HIV seminar, so posting will be light. Actually, this is the post for today.
See you all tomorrow.
Now, what are people saying this week.......

MGB®, on her "canceled" bus tour:

"As I said myself at the end of the east coast leg of the tour, the summer is long, and I’m looking forward to hitting the open road again," she wrote on Wednesday. "The coming weeks are tight because civic duty calls (like most everyone else, even former governors get called up for jury duty) and I look forward to doing my part just like every other Alaskan."Command Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, Michael Barrett, on DADT:


This makes me giggle.
She announced the summer long bus tour and then stops not quite halfway though. Where ahs she done that before?
Then I giggle some more when she calls herself a former governor--see, I think you can't call yourself 'former' if you never finished the job--and says she's been called to jury duty.
'Cuz you know she ain't gonna be on no jury. It's just another attempt to keep herself in the spotlight, even though even she realizes that no one really cares about her anymore.
She just figured she'd crawl back to Alaska and whimper in private.
 
New York state Senator Ruben Diaz, again, on marriage equality:

"If gay marriage advocates honestly believe they have a super-majority of New Yorkers in their corner, they should join with us to agree to permit a referendum to decide this issue. If they do not, their claims to represent the majority will ring rather hollow. This gay-marriage bill is not in the best interests of New York, it is not the choice of New Yorkers, and it is decidedly against the interests of the Republican party. The last time the Republican party caved on a deeply important social issue — abortion — it destroyed the party’s prospects for years."
 
Um, Ruben? You douchenozzle?
In America we don't let the majority vote on the rights of the minority--or at least we try not to.
But g'head, have your little vote. Support for marriage eqwuality is on the rise, asshat, and you'll be left in the dust while the rest of us progress.
 

"Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution is pretty simple. It says, 'Raise an army.' It says absolutely nothing about race, color, creed, sexual orientation. You all joined for a reason: to serve. To protect our nation, right? How dare we, then, exclude a group of people who want to do the same thing you do right now, something that is honorable and noble? Right? Get over it. We’re magnificent, we’re going to continue to be. Let’s just move on, treat everybody with firmness, fairness, dignity, compassion and respect. Let’s be Marines."

Wow.
Talk about plain speaking.
Talk about doing what's right.
Get over it.
I.Love.It.

New Jersey Democratic Senate President Steve Sweeney has apologized for his anti-marriage equality vote back in Ott-Ten:

"Seventeen months ago, I stood up here and made the biggest mistake of my legislative career. I made a decision based purely on political calculations not to vote in support of marriage equality. I failed in my responsibility as majority leader of this house of government to actually lead. I was wrong. To my fellow colleagues, to staff, and to those watching upstairs, let me tell you: never, ever again will I allow that to happen. The time for political calculations is over."

Very nicely put.
It isn't about politics or political parties or forming allegiances or making deals.
It's about equality.
Everyone, every single politician in every state house in the country, needs to read this and reassess their own politics.

Former NY Giant David Tyree is still talking about how anti-marriage equality he is, and how he'd give up his Super Bowl win to stop same sex marriage:

"Honestly, I probably would. Nothing means more to me than that my God would be honored. Being the fact that I firmly believe that God created and ordained marriage between a man and a woman, I believe that that's something that should be fought for at all costs. So I'll lay down everything I am to preserve the honor and integrity of the God that I serve."

David, honey, you're kinda hot, but the stupid makes you look real homely.
God did not create marriage between one man and one woman. Back in olden times, dear, a man could marry as many women as he wanted. Or a man took a woman, usually against her will because she had none, so that he could gain land, money, or power.
Used to be one didn't marry outside one's faith. That's changed.
Used to be one didn't marry outside one's race. That's changed.
Since the first couple said 'I do' marriage has been evolving, and if you wanna live in the Dark Ages, go for.
And snuggle up to that Super Bowl ring that means almost as much to you as your god.
Wingnut.

Family Research Council spoksebigot Robert Morrison, on how marriage equality is going to ruin absolutely everything:

"There is a lot of talk about bullying these days. We have a massive outlay in federal funds to address the issue of bullying. Growing up on Long Island, I had a sure defense against bullying–my Pop. So did most of the boys I knew. Divorce was rare then and out-of-wedlock birth rarer still. Abortion was against the law. We kids grew up feeling safe, protected in our tender years. One of George Washington’s great contemporaries, Edmund Burke, wrote of something called 'the cheap defense of nations.' Fathers in the home were surely a part of that cheap defense. Without fathers in the home, there won’t be enough money in the U.S. treasury or all the treasuries in the world to guard the young against bullying. New York State, my home state, is on the verge of abolishing fathers in the home. They say they are only 're-defining' marriage. They’re not. They are ending it. And with the end of marriage, will come the dissolution of the state. Gone will be the cheap defense of nations. And no one will know what it means 'to sleep with my fathers.'"

WTF??!??!!
Um, Fucktard? May I call you fucktard?
Please to explain how, allowing gay couples to marry, will decrease the numbers of fathers in homes?
And, while you're at it, please explain how allowing gay couples to say 'I do' will end marriage?
All you right-wing goosesteppers, hate-filled homophobes use fear to state your issue, and yet you back up none of it.
You just say the words and strike fear into people who don't know better.
Well, following your lead, gay marriage will end global warming.
It isn't true, but I said it.
Just like you do.

Chris Brown, giving the crowds a free rant on homophobia and bigotry--to the paparazzi--after he talked a meter maid out of giving him a ticket:

"Y'all n----- is weak. Did you all call them to try and film me? Y'ALL N----- IS GAY."

Color me shocked.
Actually don't.
This is the kind of behavior I'd expect from a man who beats women, from a man who tosses a chair at a window because he didn't like the question he was asked.
I expect Brown to strap on his baby blue bowtie and go on another Apology Tour.
I'm sick to death of these overpaid, over-pampered celebrities and athletes calling people names and then asking us to believe they didn't mean it.
You meant it, you fucking douchebag.
Just like I meant  that.
It's started:

Total respect for the gay community?
Nice try asshat, but I ain't buying it.
You're a dick, but I have total respect for the dick community.

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

New York's Senate Minority Leader John Sampson, on marriage equality:

"I hope our Republican colleagues will join us on the right side of history by giving the votes needed to finally pass marriage equality into law. Let our journey toward equality be a powerful example of what is possible when people lay aside partisanship and work together to do what is right and just. New York is closer now than it has ever been to fulfilling the promise of equality for all our people so our actions finally match our best intentions. The final step is before us. To my Republican colleagues – I urge you to do what is right and join us in supporting marriage equality to give all New Yorkers the more equitable and just future they deserve."

Sounds well and good, on paper, but I don't see a majority of Republicans changing their anti-gay, pandering to the TeaBaggers, goosestepping with the homophobic "christians" any time soon.
And that's a shame, because when marriage equality becomes the law of the land, all of the land, what will they be saying then?

Former NY Giant David Tyree, NOM's latest anti-equality spokesbigot, on same-sex marriage:

“Marriage is the only relationship that actually mirrors a relationship with God — it’s very unique in that way...If they pass this gay marriage bill...what I know will happen if this does comes forth is this will be the beginning of our country sliding toward...anarchy...That will be the moment our society loses its grip with what is right...I don't believe that truth is subjective...If you redefine [marriage...it changes the perception of what is good, what is right, and what is just..."

Oh, David Tyree! How many hits did you take while playing football?
This seems like you are just spewing the NOM rhetoric, so I imagine that Maggie Gallagher has her hand shoved far up your ass and is using you as her puppet.
Read my lips, you thick-necked moron.
Marriage is constantly being redefined. Just a few decades back you, as a black man, were not allowed to marry outside your race. But then we redefined marriage.
Moron.
Get your head checked and get Maggie's hand out of your ass.

Joseph Farah, on how Obama caused the Joplin tornadoes:

"Bible prophecy may have a bad name in the light of Harold Camping's misguided date-setting, but the biggest sign of the end may have been overlooked in all the rapture hysteria of the May 21st weekend. Once again, we saw the U.S. hit with a series of deadly superstorms following Barack Obama's pledge to return Israel to pre-1967 borders. Just days after Obama insisted Israel must give up lands it won through military victory with its enemies, some 200 people were killed by a tornado in Joplin, Mo. There's a pattern here. We saw it in Katrina, when George Bush forced Israel's withdrawal from Gaza. In fact, as everyone from Israeli rabbis to U.S. senators have noted, it seems to happen every single time the U.S. pressures Israel to divide the land."

So, God kills people in Missouri because of something Obama said about Israel?
And that same God tore the roof off my house in Miami, and decimated New Orleans, because of something W said?
How, may I ask, then, would anyone want to worship a god who kills innocent people, and mangles their lives, because of something a US president said?
Why is your god always so evil and hurtful?
Oh, that's right she isn't. You just say that to strike fear into your like-minded minions.

Carl Siciliano, Ali Forney Center executive director, on Tracy Morgan's homophobic rant:

"If Tracy Morgan is truly sorry for what he has done, then he should make the effort to learn the damage that is caused by homophobic parents and help to educate others about the terrible harm caused by parental rejection. He heard the crowd cheering him on. What if one of them has an LGBT child? I would advocate that his employer, NBC, join in this effort. Their power to reach millions is obvious. There is no more valuable effort that can be done for LGBT youth than to work to help them be loved and protected in their own homes."

I must give Tracy Morgan credit.
He has agreed to meet with GLAAD, and he has apologized again, and again, and again, for the idiotic things he said.
If he meant those things, then we've changed his mind, and can change other minds as well.
If he didn't mean those things, then he's learned that some things just aren't funny.

Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro, on Illinois Catholic bishops and their lawsuit demanding exemption from anti-discrimination laws:

"The Catholic Church has often affirmed that here is no 'right to adopt.' It is a privilege and responsibility to be granted only to those married couples who can demonstrate, through their loving, permanent commitment to each other, their ability to make a lifetime commitment to raising a child in the best environment possible. May God bless these shepherds, their flocks and their work, and continue to grant them strength as they weather the storm which will certainly follow their bold leadership. We gladly welcome this clear, public stance for truth, religious freedom, and for children."

So, only married couples can adopt?
Sorry all you single Illinois-y people. You don't get the privilege of raiding a child. And the child doesn't get the privilege of a loving home.
Not to mention you Illinois-y gay folks.
No one except those straight married couples get the privilege, even though nearly half of their marriages end in divorce, and yet the Catholic Church isn't fighting that.
Catholicism is just plain homophobic bigotry masquerading as a religion to make money to keep the Pope in red Pradas.

"Pastor" Jim Romen, on Gay Pride celebrations:

"I'm ex-gay. And so when I hear people celebrating, 'Oh, we're doing the LGBT month,' and those types of celebrations, I want to ask the question: 'Well, when does the state, when does the county of Los Angeles respect those who are ex-gay? When do we celebrate ex-gay month?' We've gone down this road -- it's not good -- and we've changed our lives. When does the state recognize that?"

This reminds me of when I was a kid and Mother's Day rolled around and I asked why there was a Kid's Day.
My father, and mother, would always say, "Every day is kids day."
Well, Pastor, "Every day is straight celebration day. And since you have dubbed yourself ex-gay because you no longer have sex with men, well, then, I guess you call yourself straight."
And when you so-called ex-gays can actually prove you're 'ex' and not just self-loathing homosexuals shoving themselves back into the closet, or bisexuals simply ignoring that one impulse, well, then maybe, maybe, you can have a day.

Gary Cass of the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission, on the gay pride t-shirts Old Navy is selling:

"Old Navy is promoting a lifestyle that is in complete rebellion against God. Rather than just focusing on giving good products to their customers, they want to use their products now to advocate for a very controversial topic, much less a very immoral and very deadly topic. Unfortunately we have to do the hard work of communicating our outrage, our frustration -- and then following that up with some kind of practical expression such as taking your business elsewhere."

Oh Gary, you ass.
It's a life, not a lifestyle.
It's not even a style. It's just a life.
And if you want to boycott Old Navy, go right ahead.
The gays and the gay-friendlies will be happy to pick up the slack.
Have fun shopping......at Target.