Should We Kill People Over Gay Marriage?

I ran across this on populistamerica.com and almost became ill.  OK PEOPLE!  WAKE UP!  THIS IS WHY WE NEED TO VOTE FOR OBAMA AND THIS IS WHY WE ALL HAVE TO BE ACTIVIST!

According to the article;

A few days ago, a couple articles written by the bestselling Card were forwarded to me, and they demand a response from all clear-thinking Americans. Why? What’s the big deal? Oh, nothing. just that Card is advocating a violent overthrow of the American government if it decides to support gay marriage.

He writes:

“Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and support marriage, and help me raise my children in a society where they will expect to marry in their turn. Only when the marriage of heterosexuals has the support of the whole society can we have our best hope of raising each new generation to aspire to continue our civilization..”

He then goes onto say;

“In the first place,” he writes, “no law in any state in the United States now or ever has forbidden homosexuals to marry. Any homosexual man who can persuade a woman to take him as her husband can avail himself of all the rights of husbandhood under the law. Ditto with lesbian women. To get those civil rights, all homosexuals have to do is find someone of the opposite sex willing to join them in marriage.”

And yet there is more;

“However emotionally bonded a pair of homosexual lovers may feel themselves to be, what they are doing is not marriage. they are not turning their relationship into what my wife and I have created, because no court has the power to change what their relationship actually is. They steal from me what I treasure most, and gain for themselves nothing at all. They won’t be married. They’ll just be playing dress-up in their parents’ clothes.”

Please go to populistamerica.com and read this.  It is the alarm, and it IS TIME TO WAKE UP!

Why The Religious Right Can’t Afford Not to Hate

In order to understand the coattail followers of Jerry Fawell including the American Family Association, Westboro (Fred Phelps), et. Al., and why they so vehemently hate and oppose the GLBT community, you first have to understand why Jerry Fawell was so anti-gay.

There was and is big money in being anti-gay. Jerry Fawell got his start as an Evangelical back when the South, including Fawell’s town of Lynchburg, VA (just look at the name) was still divided by legal segregation. He started his bible beating days preaching about how God did not want white and black people to cohabitate. This man used the bible to preach why our nation should stay segregated. He was using the bible to spread his brand of bigotry and hate. Being in the South, he gained recognition and of course wealth with his campaign against the government and desegregation.

When the civil rights movement finally began to see fruition, and racism was no longer spoken about so freely. After black people were given the right to attend schools, public restaurants and actually given the opportunity to exercise their right to vote, the money Jerry Fawell was receiving started to drop off. Racism was still alive and well in the South, but it was no longer good to publicly admit racism, so Jerry Fawell needed another way to get the financial support he wasn’t receiving based on racial bias.

This is about the same time the gay rights movement was building up steam…..and there it was, a sign from God. This is how Jerry Fawell would bring in millions upon millions of dollars, from those same bigots who were no longer visibly able to be racist. Jerry Fawell sent out tens of thousands of letters pleading with people to send money to help him rid the world of the abominable sin of homosexuality. He scared people into believing there was a “Gay Agenda” which included recruitment of all the little Johnnies and Susies in the world. He preyed upon the uneducated and the really uneducated that literally “bought in” to his way of thinking. Jerry Fawell built an evangelical empire from fear and hate.

This is another reason why the GLBT community cannot rest on its laurels. We need to be as proactive as possible, in an effort to stop being solely on the defensive and always reactive. Let’s stand together, and make the world better, one person at a time.

Lesbian Couple Jailed for Kissing on Dubai Beach

According to an article in the dailymail;

The Dubai Court of Appeal has found a lesbian couple guilty of kissing on a public beach.

The Appeal Court upheld the one-month jail sentence for the women, a 30-year-old Lebanese national and a 36-year-old Bulgarian who both pleaded not guilty.

The Dubai Public Prosecution charged the women with kissing, groping each other and indecent acts in public - the first case of its kind in the country.  The couple will be deported after serving thier term.

The Staying Power of the Ever Intolerant Christian Right

According to an article on progressive.org;

Issues such as the war in Iraq, “Islamofascism,” and immigration drew as much or more enthusiastic attention as abortion and gay rights. The event ended with a farewell speech by James Dobson, a Christian Right founder and icon. Dobson used the opportunity to rake his political allies across the coals for supporting Republican Presidential candidates who were too soft on issues such as abortion and gay rights, or whose personal peccadilloes suggested their moral values lacked a righteousness rudder. And this was before McCain emerged as the Republican front runner. Even then, liberal pundits were declaring the Christian Right fractured and fading.

But McCain has not written off the Christian Right as powerless. The same McCain who, in his last bid for the Presidency, labeled various Christian Right leaders as “agents of intolerance” has not only apologized and embraced those leaders (Robertson and the late Falwell), but initially accepted the endorsement of one of the worst of the bunch, John Hagee, who infamously called Hurricane Katrina an act of God against New Orleans for scheduling a gay pride event.

McCain Selects Anti-Gay Palin as VP Running Mate

Presidential hopeful John McCain has chosen the staunchly anti-gay, pro-life,  Alaskan Governor, Sarah Palin to be his running mate.

Palin, 44, who’s in her first term as governor in the second state to constitutionally ban gay marriage.

According to Ralph Reed, former head of the Christian Coalition, the “We Hate Gays” group started by Pat Robertson, the guy who has the power to heal;

“This is a home run. She is a reformer governor who is solidly pro-life and a person of deep Christian faith. And she is really one of the bright shining new stars in the Republican firmament.”

Some other right wing voices contend however that she is even to far to the right of John McCain on the environment.  They are also concernd that she has been the governor of a small population state for only two years and prior to that, she served as the mayor of a township of only 9,000 people.  These are NOT the credentials needed to serve as the president of the United States in the event something were to happen to McCain.

You can read more on this at cnn.com.

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