I Didn't Say It ....

Jacob Rudolph, a high school senior in Parsippany, New Jersey, coming out to his entire class at their awards ceremony as he accepted the award for Best Actor:
"Sure I've been in a few plays and musicals, but more importantly, I've been acting every single day of my life. You see, I've been acting as someone I'm not. Most of you see me every day. You see me acting the part of 'straight' Jacob, when I am in fact LGBT. Unlike millions of other LGBT teens who have had to act every day to avoid verbal harassment and physical violence, I'm not going to do it anymore. It's time to end the hate in our society and accept the people for who they are regardless of their sex, race, orientation, or whatever else may be holding back love and friendship. So take me leave me or move me out of the way. Because I am what I am, and that's how I'm going to act from now on."

Welcome out Jacob. Now you can quit acting and focus on acting.
And acting surprised when Homo HQ sends you the obligatory Coming Out Toaster Oven and a copy of The Gay Agenda.
Welcome out.
PS Jacob received a standing ovation after his announcement.

Ryan Gosling, on his abs and pecs:

"Anyone can get those if they work at it. It's just a lot of exercising. And it's really quite pointless, because you go to a gym and you lift a heavy thing so a muscle grows, but the only thing the muscle can actually do is to lift that heavy thing. After a while they're like pets because they don't do anything useful. But you have to feed them and take care of them otherwise they'll go away. I feel a bit goofy having them, to tell you the truth."

Well, if you ever need a pet sitter, Ryan, I am always available. I think I can find something useful to do with them.

Mitch McConnell, on Obama’s inauguration speech:

"One thing is clear from the president's speech: The era of liberalism is back. His unabashedly far-left-of-center inaugural speech certainly brings back memories of the Democratic Party in ages past. If the president pursued that kind of agenda, obviously it's not designed to bring us together, and certainly not designed to deal with the transcendent issue of our era, which is deficits and debt."

Funny, Mitch, what have you done to deal with the deficit and the debt, because, as I remember, you said your only goal was to make Obama a one-term president and you couldn’t even accomplish that.

The blame for this mess goes at the feet of the party of NO, the GOP.

David Beuhner, a so-called ‘pastor,’ on The Gays:

"If we embrace homosexuality, we'll destroy society, we'll destroy families, we'll destroy everything. It's not just that God hates homosexuals, there's a reason why he hates it. If you break natural laws-- you say you don't believe in gravity, you jump off a building, you're gonna die. Homosexuality has consequences and God designed those consequences. The word of god is quite clear. He's destroyed every culture that has embraced homosexuality. The sin is similar to that of cannibalism and child molestation in the sense that it's a sin against society. I'm calling for discrimination against adulterers, rapists, murderers, homosexuals. Yes, we must discriminate as a society. God's law to the civil magistrate in terms of homosexuality says you should remove the abomination from the land." 

Wow, I mean, I’d heard these kinds of wingnuts equate homosexuality to child molestation—even though 90% of child molesters are straight men—but I have never heard someone equate being gay with cannibalism.

Beuhner, honey, you are an asshat, and if you can find me the passage in the Bible that contains the words, the actual words, “God hates homosexuality” please send them on to me.

Chris Christie, New Jersey governor, on the NRA ad that attacks the Obama children:

"To talk about the president’s children or any public officer’s children who have, not by their own choice, but by requirement to have protection and to use that somehow to try to make a poetical point I think is reprehensible. They’ve got real issues to debate on this topic. Get to the real issues.  Don’t be dragging people’s children into this. It’s wrong and I think it demeans them [the NRA] and it makes them less of a valid, trusted source of information on the real issues that confront this debate."

They don’t have issues, so they’ll play the conservative/wingnut/birther/racist card for all it’s worth, though, I wonder how the NRA and its minions would have reacted had anyone, anywhere, ever placed an ad attacking the Bush children?

Paul Ferguson,  Arlington County Clerk of the Circuit Court, to the same-sex couples who appeared at his office to demand marriage licenses:

"I commend each of you that is coming forward today for your courage. I think you do realize that by law, the Commonwealth of Virginia does not allow me to issue those marriage licenses to you. I hope that if laws do change in the future, that you will choose to return one day to Arlington County to receive a marriage license.  Unfortunately, I am not able to grant that license by law." 

One day, Paul.

One day, Virginia.

Derek Nance, a program director at Mataguay Scout Ranch, on being gay and a member of the Boy Scouts of America organization:

"I am gay... I'm open to all my friends and family in real life, but the people I truly feel closest to, I've had to remain distant. Which is why I've chosen this moment to open up to them, and to every other staff member of the Boy Scouts of America who is in the same position I am in. The only way we will change the Boy Scouts' discriminatory policies is if those of us who are on the front lines representing them to thousands of scouts every single summer start engaging in some open dialogue on this issue. Lawsuits by the ACLU or confidential reviews by the Boy Scouts are not going to change policies. The first step to coming to an agreement on this issue is to drop the old pretenses and stereotypes and to start actually talking."

If those people in the BSA who are gay, and gay-friendly, would start talking, things would have to change.

Silence gets us nowhere.

Michelangelo Signorile, on the idea that Manti Te’o might be gay:

"If the Notre Dame linebacker at the center of the 'girlfriend hoax' story indeed constructed an elaborate cover story for his gay closet, as so many gay men do in worlds that demand they be heterosexual, the emotional jolt of humiliation and embarrassment at being exposed will be overwhelming. We've seen too many young people, particularly with backgrounds like Te'o's, growing up in the conservative, anti-gay Mormon church, pushed against the wall by homophobia and going to extreme lengths in denying their homosexuality, sometimes even harming themselves."

Is this the example we want to set? That people need to stay so deeply closeted that every aspect of their lives is a lie built on a lie built on a lie?

James Deen, Lindsay Lohan's co-star in The Canyons, on the sex scenes making Lohan uncomfortable:

“I can’t speak for her, but we were all hanging out, joking around, and it was the three of us naked in bed—and Lindsay was half naked—and then she all of a sudden was like, Could you guys put your clothes back on? I’m feeling really uncomfortable. And then we were like, Ugh, OK. So we put our robes back on, but she was still lying on the bed topless, and we were like, Well, what about you? And she was like, No! I can be naked, but you can’t be! We were like, All right … Whatever you need. … But, it was in her mind because everyone else on set was like, We’ve seen you in Playboy, we’ve seen crotch shots all over the Internet, so this is nothing new, but to her, it was something different. It was an escalating event where she tried to make it a big deal—no one cared—she tried to make it a bigger deal—no one cared—so then she just went around the corner of the room. She said, When Julia Roberts does topless scenes, she makes the whole crew shoot in their boxers! I want that! And the whole crew just rolled their eyes and was like, We’re not doing that. We’ll do that for fuckin’ Julia Roberts, but not you. Go find another crew; we’ll just leave.”

Oh LOLhan. You, sir, are no Julia Roberts. You might have been on your way, at one time, but arrests and rehabs and jail terms changed all that.

Sidenote: James Deen: Folks says you’re good in this more mainstream movie, but enough with the ‘like’, like, you know, like it’s, like, annoying.

Pat Buchanan, asshat for all seasons, on the President’s inauguration speech:

“This is a cross between a State of the Union speech with an agenda and a partisan rally given to the DNC. And so, I think, the president lost a real opportunity. Look, they usually talk about what? When I was a kid, Lexington and Concord and Bunker Hill. What was he talking about? Stonewall. That’s a barroom brawl in Greenwich Village in 1969, when cops were hassling gays in their bar, and the gays fought back and threw them all out. Does that belong in a presidential inaugural?”

Yes, asshat, it does, when it involves Americans being treated as ‘less than’ and when it involves Americans being harassed, beaten and arrested simply for being gay.

And just because you stood on the cold ground at G. Washington’s inauguration and heard tell of Revolutionary War Battles means nothing.

Times have changed Pat, now you need to catch up.

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

Rosie O'Donnell, on the virulently anti-gay GOP:
"We’re a backward nation in many ways. That’s one of the ways most evident nowadays especially with the election--to think you can turn on the presidential debate and you can have people actually say they think being gay is wrong is shocking in 2012. It’s shocking to me. I remember being at home and announced we were engaged and being in Chicago and getting overwhelming support from everyone and watching [the Perry anti-gay] ad saying I don’t believe you people have the same rights as other people in this country. That’s not what America was founded on. It was hurtful and shocking. In the wake of teen suicides and gay bullying, I don’t understand why politicians or anybody thinks they can get away with that.”

The fact is, they can't get away with it. Support for marriage equality is on the rise. DADT is dead, and DOMA will soon follow. The GOP and goosestepping, jackbooted asshats like Perry and Santorum, are merely pandering to the vocal fringes.
They'll soon learn how out of touch they are, and will come pandering back this direction.

Andrew Sullivan, on Obama's critics:
"Under Obama, support for marriage equality and marijuana legalization has crested to record levels. Under Obama, a crucial state, New York, made marriage equality for gays an irreversible fact of American life. Gays now openly serve in the military, and the Defense of Marriage Act is dying in the courts, undefended by the Obama Justice Department. Vast government money has been poured into noncarbon energy investments, via the stimulus. Fuel-emission standards have been drastically increased. Torture was ended. Two moderately liberal women replaced men on the Supreme Court. Oh, yes, and the liberal holy grail that eluded Johnson and Carter and Clinton, nearly universal health care, has been set into law. Politifact recently noted that of 508 specific promises, a third had been fulfilled and only two have not had some action taken on them. To have done all this while simultaneously battling an economic hurricane makes Obama about as honest a follow-through artist as anyone can expect from a politician."

Word.
Repeat every time someone says he's done nothing.

Ethan Sabo, a 22 year-old self-described homocon, on "those" gays: 
“Here’s my main thing with gays. You want people to accept you, you want people to give you rights, and you want people to be nice to you. And yet when I go out in public, you guys are the most sickest, nastiest people I’ve ever seen. You make sure you flaunt your gayness in front of everybody. I’ve never met a gay person on the right that goes to a gay pride parade, gets naked, or puts little bootie shorts on and walks around. Never seen that. You wonder why people hate you, you wonder why people don’t like you, you wonder why people spit on you and beat the living crap out of you all. You wonder why? That’s why."

Wow.
Self-loathing much?
Um, Ethan, you mindless fuck. Not every gay man is like you described, on the left or on the right. We are all kinds of people, with all kinds of experiences, morals, values,. ethics, and for one of our own to label us as such, and to infer that if we get beaten or spit upon it's somehow our own fault, is reprehensible.
Mindless, little, self-loathing fuck.

Bill Maher, on Rick "Frothy Mix" Santorum's fixation on gay sex: 
"This guy thinks about gay sex more than any gay man in America. There's a guy down in West Hollywood working down at Dorothy's and Dildos who does not think about gay sex as much as Rick Santorum."

Seriously.
I mean, I'm a big flaming queen and I don't think about gay sex all the time, or talk about it all the time.
Methinks maybe Frothy wants an experience, but I cannot imagine a single homosexual willing to take that on.

Nancy Pelosi, on gay Republican taunting of Barney Frank: 
"Oh, but what about them? He chooses a party that supports his values. They've chosen a party that supports their income--a party that denigrates them and treats them with disrespect."

At a New year's Day party, one topic of conversation was the LCR. And not one person, of the gay or straight variety at this gathering, could understand being a gay Republican.
I understand being conservative. I'm far from it, but I understand it. But to wish to team up with a party that basically stomps on you every chance they get makes absolutely no sense to me.

Mitt Romney, playing the Don't Hate Me Cuz I'm Rich card:
"You know, I think it’s about envy. I think it’s about class warfare. When you have a president encouraging the idea of dividing America based on the 99 percent versus one percent — and those people who have been most successful will be in the one percent — you have opened up a whole new wave of approach in this country which is entirely inconsistent with the concept of one nation under God. The American people, I believe in the final analysis, will reject it."

Here's my take: I don't begrudge Mittsy for being rich. What I begrudge is his John  McCain-esque sense of entitlement about the White House, in that he thinks because he's run so often for office he somehow deserves it.
I resent his statements about being unemployed like a lot of Americans when he's worth $250 million. I resent him acting as though $375,000 in speaker's fees is "not much" when it takes a lot of people ten to twenty years, YEARS, to make that much.
I resent that his wealth has made him so out of touch.
And such a dick.

Suze Orman, on marriage equality and the GOP:
“Obviously, it is no secret that I’m gay. So it is very difficult for me to look at any Republican nominee and go, ‘that’s who I want in office.. My social issue affects my financial issue. And the reason why it affects my financial issue is that if I die, Kathy [Travis]--my partner--is going to lose 50 percent of what I have because we can’t be married."

Again. This is what I mean about the LCR.
They cannot have the best interests of the LGBT community in mind when they turn to the GOP.
They just can't.

Pat Buchannan, on why MSNBC fired him:
“Look, for a long period of time the hard left, militant gay rights groups, militant — they call themselves civil rights groups, but I’m not sure they’re concerned about civil rights — people of color, Van Jones, these folks and others have been out to get Pat Buchanan off T.V., deny him speeches, get his column canceled.”

I love how he gets fired because he's a racist, homophobic pigfucking douchenozzle, and then he gets all racist and homophobic and pigfucking and douchenozzle-y trying to explain how he isn't a racist homophobic pigfucking douchenozzle.
Bye Pat. Pigfucker.

Dan Savage, on the LGBT community and the GOP:
"America is waking up to the fact that we're not bogeymen, and we're not coming to do any harm, and that we're your daughters and sons and neighbors, sometimes your parents, your co-workers, friends, colleagues. The Republican party, in this desperate [nod] to its dying evangelical base, is just ramping up the homophobia, and they're doing themselves real long-term damage. What's interesting is that, you look at who's been doing the most hate speech: Bachmann? She's out. Herman Cain? He's out. Perry? He's all but out. Santorum? He's running fourth, he's trailing even in conservative South Carolina. It's not winning them the election anymore. It's not 1992; Pat Buchanan can't get up and give a 'gay rights never, family values forever' speech at the Republican National Convention anymore. Times have changed."

As usual, I agree with Dan.
The times are changing. People are beginning to see that marriage equality doesn't hurt anyone' that DADT was a hug mistake. That DOMA is discriminatory.
The tide is shifting people. Can you feel it?

Mike Reynolds, Oklahoma state lawmaker, on reinstating DADT for members of the National Guard:
"It doesn’t say if you are gay you can't join the military, if you are gay you can’t be in the military, what it says is don’t go out there and promote it. It was a policy that was in place for 16 years and nobody except a couple of radical activists found any harm in the policy and as a pay off for those radical activists for helping him become elected, President Barack Obama chose to reverse the policy.”

Nobody except a couple of radical activists found any harm in people being fired for being gay?
Oh, Mike, you're Sally Kern in a cheap suit.
Oklahom-ophobic asshats, both of you.

George Clooney, on marriage equality:
“It is astonishing that gay and lesbian Americans are still treated as second-class citizens. I am confident that, very soon, the laws of this nation will reflect the basic truth that gay and lesbian people--like all human beings--are born equal in dignity and rights......I think the world is changing and it's becoming less and less of an issue and I think it shouldn't be long now," Clooney said. "I think younger people are looking at this like, 'Who cares?' I do believe it's generational, much like the civil rights movement. Young people started taking to the streets and things changed. This really is the final leg of the civil rights movement."

This is what I'm most looking forward to, is the day when all of these folks fought against equality, realize they are on the losing side, and switch teams to act as though they always supported LGBT rights.
We have a long memory, bigots.

Bill Keller, televangelist AKA Christian used car salesman, on Mitt Romney and Mormons:
"Romney and Mormons will quote from the Bible to further their deception of being a Christian, but don't believe the Bible is the inspired, inerrant Word of God as Christians. Instead, they view the Bible as a flawed and incomplete book, using the writings of Mormon founder Joseph Smith, the Book of Mormon, the Pearl of Great Price, the Doctrines and Covenants, as their theological authority. Romney and Mormons also view Biblical Christians as inferior to those in their 'church.' Romney also believes in Smith's 'White Horse Prophecy' that states the nation will be in chaos, a Mormon will become President, and under the guise of saving the union set aside the US Constitution and enact a Mormon theocracy. These fantastical beliefs are why Romney and Mormons are no more a Christian than a Muslim is!"

Wow, one fell swoop and he denigrates Mormons and Muslims, all in the name of Jesus and God.
They would be so proud.

David Furnish, Elton's husband, still complaining about Madonna's Golden Globe win:
“I think it was a fluke . . . When this happens you have to question the integrity of the awards. Did Madonna get the Golden Globe because she attended the awards and agreed be a presenter? Can you sing Madonna’s song? Can you hum it? It’s a song nobody has heard, from a film few have seen. The award should have gone to Mary J. Blige or Elton. I like Madonna’s music, but not her movies. She should stick to what she is good at.”

Wow, is there anything worse than a queen with a grudge?
Let it go, David.
Build a big gay bridge and get over it.

Scott Lively, on the Southern Poverty Law Center calling his Abiding Truth Ministries a hate group:
"My prayer, as one who really does hate irrational prejudice, is that the Lord by His sovereign power will remove this dangerous, hate-spreading organization from our nation and cause its leaders and members to repent for their wickedness. I want to make clear that I am asking God himself to destroy their organization."

Does anyone else find it ironic that a man who fronts a group that has been designated as a hate group and tries to persuade the public that it's not a hate group, asks God to destroy something?
Oh, Scott, you are a hate group. You are.

Brian Brown, on 2012 being a "make or break year for marriage":
"Already this year, major new pushes to legalize same-sex marriage have erupted in Washington State and New Jersey. And with just days left before the South Carolina primary, we are at a critical moment in the race for the GOP nomination for president. NOM is committed to making sure voters have a marriage champion who will stand as a clear alternative to President Obama this November. Remember, we are fighting to stop a small group of zealots from discarding 3,000 years of human history and redefining our country's biblical traditions on sex and marriage as the equivalent of bigotry. If we lose, the result will be the absolute destruction of marriage in America...in your state, in my state, in all 50 states!"

Keep goosestepping Brian Brownshirt.
Like the Nazis, you are on the wrong side of history.

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

Tim Gunn, on Snooki's fashion:

“In the case of say, a Snooki, she looks at herself in the mirror for the first time in that getup and says, ‘Oh my god. Can I really go out in this?’ And then 20 minutes later, she’s still looking at herself and she thinks, ‘I don’t look so bad.’ At the monkey house, it would be, ‘Oh it doesn’t smell so bad anymore.’ Though when you first walk in it stinks, and after 40 minutes it doesn’t smell at all, and that’s when Snooki leaves the house.”

Tim got into some trouble this week when talking about Hilary Clinton's love of the pantsuit being a result of gender confusion, but he is right on about Snooki.
Though i think she still stinks like a monkey cage.

Dolly Parton, apologizing for an incident at Dollywood in which a lesbian was asked to reverse a T-shirt that said "Marriage is So Gay" on it:

"I am truly sorry for the hurt or embarrassment regarding the gay and lesbian t-shirt incident at Dollywood's Splash Country recently. Everyone knows of my personal support of the gay and lesbian community. Dollywood is a family park and all families are welcome. I am looking further into the incident and hope and believe it was more policy than insensitivity. I am very sorry it happened at all."

I'm glad Dolly stood up and didn't offer the standard non-apology apology, where the victim is basically blamed.

Dolly has long been a friend of the LGBT community and I know that when she says she's sorry she means it.

 

Pete LaBarbera, of Americans For Truth, on Dolly Parton's apology to that lesbian patron of Dollywood:

"The question is where can normal families go anymore to get away from the promotion of homosexuality? They can't go to the ballpark because they're promoting homosexuality. Apparently, family theme parks are now promoting homosexuality. Everywhere you go, people see the promotion of homosexuality -- and they don't think it's appropriate for their children, and they're tired of it."

First off, Pete, families with gay parents are normal families, too. And just because gay families go to Dollywood, or Disneyland or anywhere, doesn't mean those places promote homosexuality.
What they promote is business.
What they promote is understanding.
What they promote is equality.
And none of things are bad.

Nancy Pelosi, on Michele Bachmann and the gay teen suicides in her congressional district:

“I would think that if she wanted to be the President of the United States, she would understand that this is a larger issue than whether someone is gay or not, but as to whether someone is harassed and bullied to the point of seeing no way out. Obviously it’s an issue bigger than Michele Bachmann’s district, so maybe we should all be speaking out about it, and not just leaving it to her."

But, Nancy, her district is home to many suicides and this is something that, as a representative if the people in her district, she should be talking about.
But, because it;'s gay people who aren't frequenting her husband's barbaric Pray The Gay Away clinics, and lining her pocketbook, she doesn't give a flying fuck.
After all, it's just fags killing themselves, right Michele?

Oklahoma state Representative Sally Kern, promoting her new book on AFA Radio:

"To me what is hateful is when those people who say ‘you’re born this way, there’s no hope in change, you’re stuck in this, deal with it,’ that is hate. There’s no hope in that. We’re losing our freedom of conscience. And if the homosexuals get what they want, and as you said it’s not just homosexuality, its immorality or adultery, all of that, but in my opinion the homosexual movement is the tip of the spear. They’re the ones who right now are beating down the door, have their foot in the door, trying to tear down the moral fiber of America. We have to stand up to that. The reason it’s the tip of the spear you don’t see ‘Adulterers Victory Fund’ out there trying to promote adultery. God’s people got to stand up to this."

Sally, honey, I was born gay.
You, on the other hand, were taught to hate. You learned to be a bigot. You studied how to be homophobic.
I can't change, Sal, but you could.
If stupidity wasn't also part of your identity.

Former President George Bush, on his reaction to the news of the 9/11 attacks:

"My first reaction was anger. Who the hell would do that to America? Then I immediately focused on the children, and the contrast between the attack and the innocence of children. So I made the decision not to jump up immediately and leave the classroom. I didn't want to rattle the kids. I wanted to project a sense of calm. I had been in enough crises to know that the first thing a leader has to do is to project calm."

Hey Georgie?
Ever think of saying to the kiddies, "Sorry kids, I've got to get back to Washington. I'll see you again soon."?
Or, was your own thought to sit there with your eyes glazed over, and that Oh god, I am so fucked look on your face.
You weren't thinking of the children, you were thinking your little old job was about to get real hard.
Asshat.

Pat Buchanan, explaining how, when he calls President Obama a "boy" he doesn't mean it in a racist way:

"I was asked who was the big losers in this battles and the big winners, and I said one of the biggest losers, using boxing terminology, was 'your boy,' and I meant the president of the United States. Rev. Sharpton said my boy is the president of the United States and he is doing a rope-a-dope in the Ali fashion and he is going to finish off your crowd. Now this was taken, some folks took what I said as some kind of slur. None was meant, none was intended, none was delivered, for the record."

I got news for you, Pat. when you call a Black man 'boy', it's racist.
M'kay.
I mean, I've known that for, like, forever, and I don't make my living speaking to people.
I also don't make my living being an out-of-your-ass talking moron, though, too.
So maybe that explains your idiocy.

I Didn't Say It.....

Thomas McInerney, retired United States Air Force Lieutenant General, feeding the Birthers:
"For the foregoing reasons, it is my opinion that LTC Lakin's request for discovery relating to the President's birth record in Hawaii is absolutely essential to determining not merely his guilt or innocence but to reassuring all military personnel once and for all for this President whether his service as Commander in Chief is Constitutionally proper. He is the one single person in the Chain of Command that the Constitution demands proof of natural born citizenship. This determination is fundamental to our Republic, where civilian control over the military is the rule. According to the Constitution, the Commander is Chief must now, in the face of serious -- and widely-held -- concerns that he is ineligible, either voluntarily establish his eligibility by authorizing release of his birth records or this court must authorize their discovery. The invasion of his privacy is utterly trivial compared to the issues at stake here. Our military MUST have confidence their Commander in Chief lawfully holds his office and absent which confidence grievous consequences may ensue."

I'll say, over and over and over again.
Asked. And. Answered, you dumbass.

Matthew Mitcham, Australian Olympic Gold medalist diver, calling on footballers to come out of the closet:
"If their environment allows them to feel comfortable enough to come out, I see absolutely no reason why not. All the footy codes have been doing so much work to stamp out homophobia in their sports, and I think it's so brilliant and such a proactive thing on their part. It's a part of me that I love and enjoy and I like being known as gay. I see it as something positive, so it's just another positive thing to be known as."

Seriously, people don't care who you score with as long as you score for the team. And then go home and score one for yourself.

Miss Universe, Jimena Navarrete, of Mexico, on same-sex marriage:
"I believe that every person in this world has the right to profess the beliefs they have and I am in agreement. We have to respect what each human being decides to do with their lives, no? Clearly, there are limitations, of course, also, as there also are with heterosexual couples, no? Better said, there are limitations for any of the two - if they are heterosexual or homosexual - but I believe we have to learn to be respectful because they are people who are the same as us. There is no difference. And I don't believe it's just to discriminate somebody based on the gender they prefer, no? Based on the partner they choose to select, if it's a man or a woman. The truth is that I am absolutely against discrimination and, well, what can I say. I have many friends who are homosexual and I adore them. And they are equal folk: There is no reason we should want to set them aside, there is no reason why we shouldn't let them enjoy what they want to enjoy with their partner."

Mexico gets Jimena Navarrete and we got Carrie Prejean?
Seriously, which one is the progressive country again?

Mary Louise Parker. on Bill O'Reilly's dumbass comments regarding Jennifer Aniston and single parenting:
"Why is being a single mother destructive? Give me a break. He sounds like an idiot. Who is he again? Maybe he’s right, I don’t know. I don’t think you necessarily have to be part of a traditional nuclear family to be a good mother. A lot of children from traditional nuclear families have really unhappy childhoods, and they have dysfunctional, distant parents who don’t pay attention to them. Also, some people don’t plan on being single parents. It’s not like you’re sitting at home and thinking, ‘Wow, I’d really like to do this by myself. I’d love to wake up six times a night and change diapers and have nobody to help me. That’d be great!’ I certainly didn’t do that. I think that opinion is pretty narrow-minded. People like him - and I don’t even know who he is, so this is just a guess… they usually just say shit like that for attention. He probably comes from a nuclear family and didn’t get enough attention as a child."

What O'Reilly, and his ilk, fail to realize, is that children need love and nurturing, and they can get it from a two-parent, opposite-sex household, or a two patent same-sex household, or a single parent, male or female household.
Let's ask Bill to investigate all the screwups and fucktards that came from "traditional" two parent households, and see what he finds.

Jamie Lee Curtis, on Lindsanity Lohan:
"I just have compassion. I don't know anything about the facts of any of the cases. What I have is compassion that a young child is thrown into the public eye and then has the media onslaught attached to it. Now, she's made choices, I've made choices. We all have to live with our choices. But I feel empathy. These young people are thrust into a 24-7 camera and the thing that makes the press is the most exaggerated behaviors. So then they're thrown out there in this media circus - and I can never judge one of them because I don't know them, but I feel tremendous empathy for this overwhelming set of circumstances. I couldn't handle having a camera on me 24 hours a day."

Jamie is trying to be nice, but Lindsay Lohan and her fame-whoring mother, created these exaggerated circumstances, and feed off of them, and then act as though they're above the consequences.
They aren't.

Paris Hilton's hairstylist, Michael Boychuck, on Paris' latest drug arrest:
“Paris and I have been texting since her arrest. Poor girl; my heart goes out to her and I feel bad about what happened. She told me the cocaine they found did not belong to her. She expressed to me that her career is very important and she would never do drugs or anything else for that matter to destroy what she's worked so hard for. I’ve known Paris for 18 years and can honestly say I’ve never seen her use drugs. She's a sweet, hard-working girl and unfortunately she's in a bad position right now. But she will be fine and these bogus charges will be dropped.”

She doesn't do drugs because she has a career?
As what?
A drugged up globetrotting fame-whoring heiress?
And she needs a hairdresser to come to her defense?

Pat Buchanan, on Judge Vaughan Walker overturning Prop H8:
"Federal Judge Vaughn Walker is truly a visionary. Peering at the 14th Amendment, Walker found something there the authors of the amendment never knew they put there, and even the Warren Court never found there: The states of the Union must recognize same-sex marriages as equal to traditional marriage. With his discovery, Walker declared Proposition 8, by which 5.5 million Californians voted to prohibit state recognition of gay marriage, null and void. What the people of California voted for is irrelevant, said Walker; you cannot vote to take away constitutional rights. This is not just judicial activism. This is judicial tyranny. Walker says the only motivations behind Proposition 8 had been "biases" and "moral disapproval," and "moral disapproval ... has never been a rational basis for legislation." But what else is the basis for laws against polygamy and incest? What else was the basis for the Mann Act, which prevented a man from taking his girlfriend across the state line to a motel? What is the basis for prohibiting prostitution, a free exchange of money for sexual favors, if not "moral disapproval"? What the judge is saying with this opinion is that the majority cannot define morality, and, even if it does, it cannot impose it. We are defenseless against what we believe to be moral decadence."

Oh Pat, really? The gay card and the incest card and the polygamy card and the prostitution card? Isn't there a hurricane you can blame on us, too?
The majority cannot rule on the minority, you fucktard.

Governor Rick Perry, on not wanting to be president and what's right about Texas:
"I have no intention to go to Washington, D.C., except maybe to go to a museum, like the Smithsonian. There is still a land of opportunity, friends — it's called Texas. We're creating more jobs than any other state in the nation. ... Would you rather live in a state like this, or in a state where a man can marry a man?"

Rick? You're an idiot.
Some of those very jobs you are so proud of creating are going to men, who go home to other men; or woman, going home to other women.
And we'd all rather be in a state where our governor isn't a sanctimonious prick without the good sense god gave a longhorn.

Charlie Crist, on a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage:
"I feel the same way, yes, because I feel that marriage is a sacred institution, if you will. But I do believe in tolerance. I'm a live and let live kind of guy, and while I feel that way about marriage, I think if partners want to have the opportunity to live together, I don't have a problem with that. And I think that's where most of America is. So I think that you know, you have to speak from the heart about these issues. They are very personal. They have a significant impact on an awful lot of people and the less the government is telling people what to do, the better off we're all going to be. But when it comes to marriage, I think it is a sacred institution. I believe it is between a man and woman, but partners living together, I don't have a problem with."

Yes, Charlie, tolerate me. And then deny me quality.
How is that tolerant, especially coming from a Larry-Craig-Toe-Tapping-Ken-Mehlman-self-loathing kind of homo?
Come out already. Maybe you and Ken can share that new Chelsea loft.

Dan Savage, on Christians who favor LGBT equality:
"I have no beef with evangelical Christians who support full civil equality for gays and lesbians despite believing that gay sex is a sin. Heck, I'll personally mow the lawns of evangelical Christians who refrain from actively persecuting gays and lesbians. I've said that the gay rights movement shouldn't get into arguments about theology and that people have a right to their own beliefs. I frankly don't care if someone thinks I'm going to hell after death and I'm not going to argue with him for the same reason I'm not going to argue with someone who believes that I'm going to the lost continent of Atlantis after dinner. All gays and lesbians want from evangelical Christians is the same deal the Jews and the yoga instructors and the atheists and the divorced and the adulterers and the rich all get: full civil equality despite the going-to-hell business. (And isn't hell punishment enough? Do we have to be persecuted here on earth too? It's almost as if they don't trust God to persecute us after we die. Have a little faith, people!)"

I'm with Dan.Believe what you wanna believe--that I'm awful and going to hell for whom I love--but keep your god out of my government.
You: Praise Jesus.
Me: Praise Harvey.

Geoff Kors, head of Equality California, on late to the party, new gay, Ken Mehlman:
"One of the things I sincerely hope Ken Mehlman has done or will do is to explain to George W. Bush how denying LGBT people equality causes real harm and how the GOP's anti-equality platform and campaigns lead to teen suicides and hate crimes. I hope he explains how bigotry impacted him and that he has asked George W Bush to join his wife Laura in supporting marriage equality. If he can convince Bush to publicly change his position that would be powerful."And I hope he shares with the public how the GOP used animus towards gay people to pass anti-marriage state constitutional amendments, as that will bolster the federal Prop 8 case. What he does to undo the damage he caused can be a part of his legacy and working with AFER to help overturn Prop 8 is a good start. We all have to hope he goes all out and proves he is a talented political strategist -- this time on the side of equality."

Mehlman has his work cut out for him. I don't care how long you were in the closet, or what "process" brought you out, but you do need to explain your behavior and apologize for it.
It's bad enough that haters work to deny us equality, it's worse when one of our own leads the charge.

The Monday Morning Asshat

Pat Buchanan is flapping his lips again. About Elena Kagan. I understand that she's the hot topic of the day.

Is she or isn't she?

Did she or didn't she?

Will she or won't she?

But Pat Buchanan doesn't like the fact that she's a :::::gasp::::: Jew!

Buchanan:

Indeed, of the last seven justices nominated by Democrats JFK, LBJ, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, one was black, Marshall; one was Puerto Rican, Sonia Sotomayor. The other five were Jews: Arthur Goldberg, Abe Fortas, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan.
If Kagan is confirmed, Jews, who represent less than 2 percent of the U.S. population, will have 33 percent of the Supreme Court seats.
Is this the Democrats' idea of diversity?
But while leaders in the black community may be upset, the folks who look more like the real targets of liberal bias are white Protestants and Catholics, who still constitute well over half of the U.S. population.

With nothing better to occupy his time Pat went down to the Supreme Court and counted up the justices and found there is not one Protestant on the whole team!

Say whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?

I mean, were Pat to have his way, only rich, white, Protestant men could serve on the court, or in office, or as President. Lucky for us, Pat is just a blowhard with a microphone.