Is marriage headed for a Hollywood ending? Hello, I’m Tony Perkins with the Family Research Council in Washington. The debate over same-sex marriage has been perfectly scripted by Hollywood. Television shows are full of lovable gay characters, whose dangerous lifestyle is just another funny footnote. Unfortunately for America, those make-believe people are having a real-life impact. In a new survey, almost 20% of Americans credit television with changing their minds on same-sex marriage. And that’s no accident. Homosexuals make up 4% of the population, but they’re a whopping 30% of TV characters and storylines. Liberals are using this barrage to desensitize America and viewers are buying it. Of course, producers don’t show you the reality of homosexuality: the men and women dying of AIDS, or the same-sex couples threatening Christian businesses. They don’t cast the Dan Savages bullying kids or the parents kicked out of school for opposing gay curriculum. Like most everything else on TV, it’s fiction. And the only way to fight it is knowing your role in speaking truth!
–Tony Perkins, Xristian Xrazie Leader of known hate group Family Research Council
Tony, here we go again: you can have your own opinion, but you cannot have your own facts. According to GLAAD, “LGBT characters account for 4.4% of scripted series regulars in the 2012-2013 broadcast television schedule.” And as for your implied 100% of LGBT people dying of AIDS, I guess you don’t get out to help out in hospitals, false Xristian.
…comes from Sports Illustrated: Why NBA center Jason Collins is coming out now
I’m a 34-year-old NBA center. I’m black. And I’m gay.
I didn’t set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. But since I am, I’m happy to start the conversation. I wish I wasn’t the kid in the classroom raising his hand and saying, “I’m different.” If I had my way, someone else would have already done this. Nobody has, which is why I’m raising my hand.
It’s a remarkable essay from a remarkable athelete, and professional male sports probably just changed forever. (Out lesbian atheletes have been around much, much longer.)
UPDATE 1:ESPN is not impressed. I’d say that Chris Broussard is not impressed and expressed his own, person Xristian Xrazie homophobia, except that he said it on the air and ESPN let him. You can contact ESPN here and let them know what you think, and please do.
“The federal government is classifying the bombs as a terrorist attack, but say it’s unclear if it’s of a domestic or foreign nature,” the release said. “Here’s a hint — GOD SENT THE BOMBS! How many more terrifying ways will you have the LORD injure and kill your fellow countrymen because you insist on nation-dooming filthy fag marriage?!”
“If the Republican Party abandons traditional marriage there is no Republican Party,” he said. “You drive the social conservatives out and throw them to the side of the road, there’s no republican party. They’ll go start a third party.”
–Brian Brown, president of NOM.
First off: do you promise me that, Brian?
Secondly, I’m fine with the GOP breaking into two separate parties that have absolutely no ability to elect anyone again. Please be right, Brian.
The CA Uncle Tom’s Log Cabin Club says that they have gone from hated to merely loathed:
At the party’s spring convention in Sacramento last weekend, nine Republican candidates for party offices or in upcoming statewide and local elections spoke at the board meeting of the California Log Cabin Republicans, a gay and lesbian political group. It was the most visits that Log Cabin members could recall at any of the group’s gatherings.
“It’s not so much is our hotel a mile and a half away from the main (convention) hotel (and) we’re fighting at the doors to get in. We’re here,” Moran said. “Those backroom conversations? We’re in the back room with them.”
“We’re 90 percent there as far as full acceptance within the party,” [Chris] Bowman said. “We’re not quite there yet, but the bulk of our battles are behind us.”
Greg Gandrud, who is gay and is on the top state GOP executive committee, said it’s not critical for him that the party back same-sex marriage.
“I’d just like to see us say we support equal treatment for everybody,” he said.
An ATM at a bar called El Ocho de Blanco in the Puerto Rican capital of San Juan returned a receipt with the message “we hate fags” written in English at the bottom, sparking an uproar among the island’s LGBT community this week, as a picture of the receipt burned through social media and the blogosphere.
And of course, now the ATM company is claiming that they were hacked, which, you know, makes one feel really great about ATM security.
Conservative talk show host and Xristian Xrazie Janet Mefferd looked to a public Indiana High school that has some kids who wanted to have a straights-only, Xristians-only Prom:
Everything is so upside down in our society now and right and wrong have completely switched where what is really wrong is to say you shouldn’t have two boys allowed to go to the high school prom. Now we can get into a big issue of the public schools are morally bankrupt at this point and we all ought to exit and just let them, let them do their thing, and that may be the ultimate answer; on the other hand, I feel for these Christian kids who are in a prom or kids who are at this high school who say, ‘you know something, do we have to go down this road?’ Whether the homosexual activists like it or not, and I know this isn’t politically correct to say this, but not everybody wants to see that. I know that that’s offensive to the activist crowd, they want us all to see it, they want us all to approve of it, they want us all to call it blessed and okay and rejoice and have parties and throw confetti in the air over this whole thing. But the fact of the matter is it’s a moral issue. You will always have Christians who will disagree with this and why should the rights of the activists trump the rights of Christians?
As Fran Lebowitz once said, “Your right to wear a mint-green polyester leisure suit ends where it meets my eyes.” The difference, of course, between fashion (and snarky humor) and kids being told that they are not worthy are vast.
What a sad ending for a grifter, an unwed mother (twice!) who figuratively leapt on the national stage by accepting a bribe from Chimpy to promote marriage, and then parlayed it into a career move to deny civil rights to gay people, squander donations from her dwindling fetus-fondling god-botherers and fellow Xristian Xrazies, and to attach herself, remora-like, to an under-aged pornstar wannabefinger-banging beauty queens.
But I will always be grateful to her for the worst commercial ever:
Famous unwed mother and ethics-challenged founder of homophobic National Organization on Marriage sounds like she is throwing in the splash towel, so to speak:
Noted homophobe and famous unwed mother Maggie Gallagher’s NOM now is claiming as a way to deny marriage equality that gay people are more likely to cheat on each other because they cannot have children.
And that explains why straight people with children stay blissfully married forever, and married elderly couples and people who for whatever reason decide to not have children are bed-hopping all the time, just stone-cold boning everything that moves.
Hey, you guys, remember that time when that GOP flat-liner Dean Chambers was so sure that damn commie liberals were cooking the polling numbers to show that The Kenyan Usurper Hawaiian Devil Baby was winning when clearly he IS NOT (because no one he knows is voting for him behind the gates of his gated community), so he came up with his own polling methodology that weighs GOP voters more than commie-marxist-socialist-bwanna devils? Me Neither!
But anyway, he’s come up with a new reason not to trust those damn Jeebus-hating liberal pollsters, like Nate Silver (at the FiveThirtyEight blog):
“Nate Silver is a man of very small stature, a thin and effeminate man with a soft-sounding voice that sounds almost exactly like the “Mr. New Castrati” voice used by Rush Limbaugh on his program.”
OK, aside from the rather blatant homophobic dog-whistle, what else have you got, Dean?
“He claims to have been highly accurate in predicting the 2008 election results, and perhaps he was. But it’s highly unlikely his current methods and projections will have the level of accuracy unless he changes then quite a lot between now and election day. The race has shifted profoundly in favor of Mitt Romney while Nate Sillver is still projecting an Obama win. Unless he changes that, the credibility he earned in 2008 will be greatly diminished after this years election.”
“[Marriage Equality that] you are fighting is the most important movement to win,” [Rick] Santorum added. He said it is even more important that the movement to block abortion in America. He warned that marriage will “disintegrate” along with the American family if same-sex marriage becomes legal.
So, I guess we can now go to the Abortionplex and use our 2-for-1 Groupons with Cardinal Frothy’s blessing?
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and surrogate for presidential hopeful former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA) John Bolton harshly criticized the Obama administration’s response to the violence in Benghazi, Libya earlier this month, calling the U.S. response “limp-wristed.”
Former UN Ambassador John Bolton, the’70s-era Plato’s Retreat Key-holder who thinks that all diplomacy begins with a bombing, knows his sexual slurs.
Noted Volcano scholar and boy exorcist Louisiana’s Governor Bobby “Bubba” Jindal is traveling today to Iowa today to tell the natives there how the law works and that’s why they should keep teh gays down, because when the Iowa Supreme Court did their job and ruled on the matter before them, well, it was beyond the pale.
Anyway Piyush is joined in Iowa with that mix of lube and fecal matter Frothy Santorum, so it should be a knee-slapping fun time as Iowans get a double scolding from two out-of-state Xristian Xrazies courtesy of hate group The Family Leader.
When I was in the Fifth Grade, learning about Civics, the concept of responsibility associated with Free Speech was presented that one’s right to swing his arms wildly ends where Charlie’s nose begins. I glanced at my pal Charlie who was definitely looking a bit more pale than usual to be singled out thusly, but the concept sank in.
Because now as an adult I’d rather be punched in my nose than in my sensibilities, the whole issue around Chick-Fil-A absolutely has my knickers in a twist.
So Lamestream Media, riddle me this: would you have covered Chick-Fil-A like a swarm of guests at Andrew Jackson’s cheese board if former Governor George Wallace had called for a Woolworth’s Lunch Counter Appreciation Day?
free-range homophobes at Chick-Fil-A decided to put their money where their mouths are and donate to and promote anti-gay bigotry. Hey, it’s their free speech, they are allowed to.
Anyway, their homophobic message went viral and the backlash started, also viral. People vowed to take their fast food dollars elsewhere. Also allowed.
Wingnuttia calls for Chick-Fil-A appreciation day to counter-act the terrible scourge of denying them their god-given right to diabetes and to hate gays. Allowed, but really?
The Jim Henson Company decided to terminate their future promotions with Chick-Fil-A because for 50 years they have stood for inclusiveness. Protecting their brand: allowed.
Chick-Fil-A retaliated against the muppets by (falsely) claiming that the toys were not safe and pulled them from the stores, and tried to deflect the blame for their disappearance. Ooo, boy. Trouble.
“Someone” created Facebook accounts solely for the purpose of defending Chick-Fil-A. Compound the trouble.
I think we can all see where this is going: Chick-Fil-A is going to challenge gays to a fight after school and/or threaten to stuff them into a locker before Algebra 1. OK, maybe not. But still! Immaturity, skeeziness, and absolute fail at social media. Is there anyone with 2 brain cells at Chick-Fil-A that can see that they’ve lost this PR battle?
Famous former fattie Mike Huckabee is so riled up at The Muppets for abandoning notorious diabetes-causing chain fast-food restaurant Chick-Fil-A that he is calling for all Jeebus-loving homophobes to come out in support of Fried Chicken and Waffle sammiches in a fight against Bert sleeping with Ernie:
“I have been incensed at the vitriolic assaults on the Chick Fil-A company because the CEO, Dan Cathy, made comments recently in which he affirmed his view that the Biblical view of marriage should be upheld. The Cathy family, let by Chick Fil-A founder Truett Cathy, are a wonderful Christian family who are committed to operating the company with Biblical principles and whose story is the true American success story. Starting at age 46 Truett Cathy built Chick Fil-A into a $4 billion a year enterprise with over 1600 stores. At 91, he is still active in the company, but his son Dan runs it day to day as CEO.It’s a great American story that is being smeared by vicious hate speech and intolerant bigotry from the left.
So got that? Vicious hate speech and intolerant bigotry in the name of faith is okay. But saying you won’t support someone because of their anti-gay stance is bullying. Oooo-kay…
I ask you to join me in speaking out on Wednesday, August 1 “Chick Fil-A Appreciation Day.” No one is being asked to make signs, speeches, or openly demonstrate.
That’s good because most of your radio followers cannot write. But I’m only guessing.
The goal is simple: Let’s affirm a business that operates on Christian principles and whose executives are willing to take a stand for the Godly values we espouse by simply showing up and eating at Chick Fil-A on Wednesday, August 1.
“I’m Gomer, and I approve this unpaid advertisment from one of my sponsors.“
Too often, those on the left make corporate statements to show support for same sex marriage, abortion, or profanity, but if Christians affirm traditional values, we’re considered homophobic, fundamentalists, hate-mongers, and intolerant.
Gomer, that is because your follower’s values are homophobic, fundamentalist, hate-mongering and intolerance. You are confusing cause and effect again.
This effort is not being launched by the Chick Fil-A company and no one from the company or family is involved in proposing or promoting it.
No, but you can sure bet that your radio ad salespeople will be shaking them down and reminding them of the free ad they got from you.
It’s the yahoo screaming, “That’s my boy!,” that finally clinched it for me and made me realize I had to post this vile thing. Honest to God, anyone still think that Xristian Xrazies love the sinner any more? What kind of person would coach a 4-year old kid to sing “Ain’t No Homos Gonna Make it to Heaven”?
When last we left infamous single mom and professional virgin Brisket® Palin, she was doing her terrible and fearsome monkey-dance of love…
Oh, no, wait, that wasn’t it. It might have been the failed book tour, the chin implant, the mysterious house in the desert, perhaps shacking up with the new dude (“trial marriage”), the Hannity interview, the endless slamming of Levi, you know all the things that receptionists in Wasilla are noted for doing that the national press likes to cover.
Anyway, for some reason, Brisket® has released a statement, following Obama saying that his daughters’ acceptance of friends with same-sex parents helped prompt his change in perspective:
“In this case, it would’ve been helpful for him to explain to Malia and Sasha that while her friends parents are no doubt lovely people, that’s not a reason to change thousands of years of thinking about marriage. Or that – as great as her friends may be – we know that in general kids do better growing up in a mother/father home. Ideally, fathers help shape their kids’ worldview.
“In this situation, it was the other way around. I guess we can be glad that Malia and Sasha aren’t younger, or perhaps today’s press conference might have been about appointing Dora the Explorer as Attorney General because of her success in stopping Swiper the Fox.
“Sometimes dads should lead their family in the right ways of thinking. In this case, it would’ve been nice if the President would’ve been an actual leader and helped shape their thoughts instead of merely reflecting what many teenagers think after one too many episodes of Glee.”
And so there you have it: Malia and Sasha Obama, who so far have not shamed their family in any way, need a father figure who will help them become better people, you know, like Taaaahd helped shape her to become the model of virtue that she is.
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