The Conservatives Didn’t Loose the Election, They’ve Lost Their Minds!

According to what I heard this morning on James Dobson’s Focus on the Family radio, the conservative and religious right didn’t loose the election…the Republicans simply didn’t have a conservative running. Now, I’m not to certain how anyone could say the McCain/Palin ticket with their anti-gay, anti-choice, anti-anything that doesn’t come out of a conservative church stance, anything but conservative, but…Focus on the Family seems to think they need a more conservative candidate before they can win an election.

Just about the time I was going to scan, to another station, mainly because Focus on the Family radio makes me feel ill and is not a great way to start out the day as a gay American, they brought up another subject which I just had to hear before turning the dial. The announcer stated how James Dobson, Tony Perkins, and many other of the anti-gay, anti-choice, anti-anything that doesn’t come out of a conservative church, religious Right-wing nuts are in full support of appointing Ken Blackwell as the Republican National Convention’s Chair (so much for separation of church and state). They claim their support is due to Blackwell’s strong stance against gay rights and equality, as well as his extremely conservative views on abortion.

I’m not sure, but I believe at least part of their support may come from the fact Blackwell is an African-American and they don’t want to be targeted as racist…since one of the other top contenders, Chip Saltsman, who has been rallying for the support of the Religious Right, released a CD (which debuted on Rush (convicted drug felon) Limbaugh’s show, with a song entitled, “Barack, The Magic Negro”. Other songs on the CD include, “We Hate the USA,” “John Edwards’ Poverty Tour,” “Wright place, wrong pastor,” “Love Client #9,” “Ivory and Ebony” and “The Star Spanglish banner.” (Is it just me, or do you fail to find the slightest bit of humor in this?)

Things like this bring me back to how bad I was ridiculed for claiming the right spews hate.  But anyway, even in light of this, I rest my case which I presented in an article I wrote entitled, “Examining Hate, Intolerance and Bigotry.”

Evangelicals Fire Rich Cizik for Supporting Equality

Those from the right who have been raving about the intolerance the LGBT community has shown towards the religious communities (especially after the passage of Prop 8 and Amendments 2 and 102 in California, Florida and Arizona respectively) have once again demonstrated their belief in double standards and hypocrisy.  According to a post on Religion Dispatches:

Rich Cizik has been no stranger to controversy during his long tenure at the NAE. In early 2007, a group of Christian Right leaders called for his resignation because they claimed his work to broaden the evangelical agenda to include the environment diluted an exclusive focus on opposing abortion and same-sex marriage. At that time, the NAE board responded by reaffirming its confidence in Cizik and its commitment to a broader “biblically balanced agenda.”

But this time, with Cizik publicly saying that his views had been shifting toward supporting civil unions, NAE president Leith Anderson asked for his resignation, declaring that “there was a loss of credibility for him clearly espousing our positions and values.” Other evangelical voices on the Christian Right were more forceful, asserting that Cizik himself had become un-evangelical. Tom Minnery of Focus on the Family declared, “He no longer represents the view of evangelicalism.” Charles Colson of the Prison Fellowship claimed that Cizik was “separating himself from the mainstream of evangelical belief and conviction.”

Focus on the Family Announces More Layoffs

James Dobson’s anti-gay group, Focus on the Family has announced that it will cut an additional 202 jobs which is about 20 percent of its workforce.

The cutbacks come just weeks after the group poured more than half a million dollars into the successful effort to pass Proposition 8, a gay-marriage ban in California.

Mark Lewis, a longtime Colorado Springs human rights activist stated: “If I were their membership I would be appalled.” He added, “That they would spend any money on anything that’s obviously going to get blocked in the courts is just sad. is guaranteed to lose, in the long run it doesn’t have a chance — it’s just a waste of money.”

In total, Focus on the Family contributed $539,000 in cash and another $83,000 worth of non-monetary support into Proposition 8, the measure to overturn a California Supreme Court ruling that allowed gays and lesbians to marry. The group was the seventh-largest donor to the effort in the country, and are not even based in California.

In addition Elsa Prince, the auto parts heiress who supports bigotry and hate and sits on the Focus on the Family board, contributed $450,000 to Prop. 8.

Stupid Things People Say About Gays - Part 3

In this issue of Stupid Things People Say About Gays, I’m going to focus a little more on the “Gay Marriage” issue which has obtained wide news coverage over the past couple of weeks.

Focus on Families, a purportedly Christian organization, has released arguments against Gay Marriage and publishes them on their website. The following Argument is taken directly from that site:

An even greater objective of the homosexual movement is to end the state’s compelling interest in marital relationships altogether. After marriages have been redefined, divorces will be obtained instantly, will not involve a court, and will take on the status of a driver’s license or a hunting permit. With the family out of the way, all rights and privileges of marriage will accrue to gay and lesbian partners without the legal entanglements and commitments heretofore associated with it.

This is obviously an argument of the desperate which has no fact basis whatsoever. Last I checked, Gay Marriage did not seek to overthrow heterosexual marriage. Certainly their have been many jokes thrown about stating that if gay’s can’t get married, heterosexuals should not be allowed to and thus the law would be equal to all parties. Regrettably, the consequences would be all encompassing - loss of jobs resulting from no Family Court system, no “wedding planners”, less use of the local VFW hall for receptions, etc… etc…

Read more at JaySays.com!

Dobson Never Backs Candidates - Except Now…Again

James Dobson, the leader of ultra right wing “we hate anyone who is not white, christian and straight” group Focus on the Family has been quick to point out that he never endorses candidates for office.  However, he did make an exception for McCain, because he likes Palin’s views on abortion and LGBT issues, and now yet another exception, he’s backing Erik Paulsen.

From Minnesotaindependent.com:

Dobson writes, “For one thing, [Paulsen]’s pro-life and has backed that up with a stellar record in the Minnesota House.”

He continues, “For another, Erik Paulsen believes that the institution of marriage is worth protecting, and he helped lead the effort in the legislature to pass a constitutional amendment to preserve marriage as the union of one man and one woman.”

Read the rest by clicking here.

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