Monday, April 26, 2010

'Men hand-in-hand skipping down to adoption centers to 'pick out' a little boy for themselves'

A fellow barista at Pam's House Blend sent this to me via email.

It's by Eugene Delgaudio, a  District Supervisor in Sterling, Virginia:

Our children...

They’ve been the Radical Homosexuals’ target all along.

Now they’re finally going after what they’ve always wanted.

Just a few weeks ago, radicals in Congress led by openly homosexual Representative Jared Polis introduced H.R. 4530.

It is a bill to turn America’s schools into indoctrination centers ... its classrooms into social laboratories ... its playgrounds into homosexual breeding grounds.

Of course, they’ve disguised the bill’s wicked nature behind the innocent name “The Student Non-Discrimination Act.”

Sound harmless, right? Well, that’s key to their scheme.

Honestly, I can hardly imagine a law more harmful.

More appropriately, this bill should be called “The Homosexual Classrooms Act.”

. . .You see, the Homosexual Classrooms Act contains a laundry list of anti-family provisions that will:

* Require schools to teach sodomy and other appalling homosexual acts so homosexual students don’t feel “singled out” during already explicit sex-ed classes;

* Spin impressionable students in a whirlwind of sexual confusion and misinformation, recruiting and even pressuring vulnerable teens and pre-teens into the homosexual “lifestyle”;

* Effectively outlaw voluntary prayer in schools, and expose students who pray privately to lawsuits and even criminal prosecution for “religious intimidation”;

* Exempt homosexual students from punishment for propositioning, harassing, or even sexually assaulting their classmates, as part of their specially-protected right to “freedom of self-expression”;

* Force parochial schools to secularize and purge any reference to religion because radicals claim it creates a “hostile learning environment” for homosexual students.

Simply put, The Homosexual Classrooms Act will use schools as weapons to eradicate traditional values in the next generation of American students.

Well damn.  Someone call Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Delgaudio certainly has our number, although it would probably serve him better to have the number of a local psychiatrist. The bill Delgaudio is all up in arms about is one that would simply curb school bullying. Nothing more. No "indoctrination centers." No Clockwork Orange type torture techniques. No lesson plans on gay sex.

It's just a bill to ensure the safety of America's children, but apparently Delgaudio decided to forgo the truth for the time honored right-wing technique of lying through the teeth.

And it isn't the first time he has scapegoated the lgbt community. At a January meeting, he called transgender men and women "freaky."

And then there a portion of this recent fundraising letter, which further demonstrates that he doesn't particularly like lgbts. It's as if he took the most hysterical fears of all of the top religious right groups and combined them into one hot mess:
 . . .  the Radical Homosexuals are storming through Washington demanding passage of their agenda.

And with the passage of Thought Control last year, they say NOW is the time to push their perverse "life-style" on every man, women and child in America.

And they insist YOU actually support them.

The Homosexual Lobby played a major role in electing Obama and the majorities he enjoys in both houses of Congress.

I can only begin to imagine all the damage the Radical Homosexuals will do with their allies controlling the House of Representatives, the Senate and the White House.

As the President of Public Advocate of the U.S., I've devoted twenty-seven years to battling the radical homosexuals in Washington.

Backed by Hollywood celebrities, the media and millions of your tax dollars, the Radical Homosexuals have many Congressmen quivering with fear -- and they have a Radical Homosexual-friendly majority in control of Congress.

That is why pro-family Senators and Congressmen are counting on me to find out if you really support the Gay Bill of Special Rights and homosexual marriage as the radical homosexuals claim.

Please click here to complete the American Morality survey and prove to Congress that Americans oppose homosexual marriage and the Gay Bill of Special Rights today.

Frankly if you really do support the radical Homosexual Agenda -- or if you just no longer care enough to stand up for the family -- insiders in Congress say the entire Homosexual Agenda could pass in a matter of months.

*** Special job rights for homosexuals and lesbians. Businesses may have to adopt hiring quotas to protect themselves from lawsuits. Every homosexual fired or not hired becomes a potential federal civil rights lawsuit.

Radical homosexuals will terrorize day care centers, hospitals, churches and private schools. Traditional moral values will be shattered by federal law.

*** Same-sex marriages and adoptions. Wedding-gown clad men smooching before some left-wing clergy or state official is just the beginning.

You'll see men hand-in-hand skipping down to adoption centers to "pick out" a little boy for themselves.

*** Homosexual advocacy in schools. Your children or grandchildren will be taught homosexuality is moral, natural and good. High school children will learn perverted sex acts as part of "safe sex" education.

With condoms already handed out in many schools, Radical Homosexuals will have little trouble adopting today's "if it feels good do it" sex-ed curriculum to their agenda.

And to add insult to injury, lobbyists for the Homosexual Agenda are paid off with your tax dollars!

That's right, radical homosexual groups like the Gay-Lesbian Task Force and ACT-UP receive millions from the government.

 Now that letter was so hardcore that I hear Anita Bryant got angry over it.

Naturally in Delgaudio's letters are solicitations for money.  And personally, I would happily give Delgaudio any funds he desires so long as he invests them in a good long stay at a local mental hospital.

I don't know what disturbs me me more - Delgaudio's blatant homophobia or the fact that someone was dumb enough to elect him to public office.

Interestingly enough, Delgaudio's words are no different from what the lgbt community have heard from such so-called moral "leaders" like Andrea Lafferty, Matt Barber, and yes even Mike Huckabee.

The only difference is that Delgaudio decided to omit the "we love you but we hate what you do" lie in lieu of comparing us to the aliens who blew up the White House in Independence Day.

It certainly doesn't make his homophobic comments sound any better but it's nice to know exactly where we stand with Delgaudio.

Even if it is in a pool of quicksand.

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What if the tea party movement was black? and other Monday midday news briefs

SLDN launches 'Stories from the Frontlines: Letters to President Barack Obama' - An excellent idea and not just to President Obama but to all Americans. The stories need to be told over and over again to as many folks as possible.

What If the Tea Party Were Black? - Black folks already know the answer to THAT question and it's a good question.

Pro-Gay Article Sparks Smear Campaign in Yemen - THIS is persecution.

Ugandan LGBT Activists Denounce The Call Uganda, Call for Protests in Kansas City - This is good!


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Study: Bullies 'love' lgbt youngsters

Something to remember the next time someone on the right talks about how anti-bullying laws are a covert way to push the so-called homosexual agenda:

A groundbreaking new Harvard study has found that gay people are far more likely to be tormented as youngsters, often leading to years of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Researchers at Harvard School of Public Health and Children’s Hospital found that gays, bisexuals and heterosexuals who have had a same-sex partner are 1 to two times as likely to experience violence, especially in childhood, and have double the risk of experiencing PTSD as a result.

. . . Using data from a nationally representative sample of more than 34,000 adults, the researchers found that 45 percent of sexual minority women and 28 percent of sexual minority men had experienced violence or abuse in childhood, compared to 21 percent of women and 20 percent of men in the general population.

“I think people know there’s discrimination, but they don’t know the breadth or severity of it - or how lasting the impact is,” Roberts said.

The researchers hope the study, which will be published in the American Journal of Public Health, will raise the awareness of parents, teachers and health-care providers, as well as state lawmakers who are hammering out the final details of an anti-bullying bill in the wake of two high-profile suicides.

Related posts:

Constance McMillen's classmates learn the costs of gloating

American College of Pediatricians trying to work anti-gay web site into the schools

Fox News creates sloppy coverage of GLSEN's Day of Silence

Religious right 'Day of Truth' peddles same old lies to youth

Chelmsford threat demonstrates the need for GLSEN




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Saturday, April 24, 2010

When defending anti-gay lunacy, personal attacks are the order of the day

In my post earlier this week regarding the Traditional Values Coalition's Andrea Lafferty expressing pride with TVC being designated as an anti-gay hate group, I failed to detail what precipitated Lafferty's bizarre joy.

Earlier in the week, she penned a piece for Washington D.C.'s Roll Call about ENDA (the Employment Non-Discrimination Act), including mentioning negative anecdotes about transgender teachers in the school system- anecdotes which were fully refuted.

Lafferty's piece caught the attention of Dr. Jillian T. Weiss, an associate professor of law and society at Ramapo College of New Jersey and associate editor at the Bilerico Project, an LGBT political blog.

Weiss wrote Roll Call and was invited to pen a response, which she did. And it was an excellent response:

The Traditional Values Coalition is an anti-gay hate group on the watch list of the Southern Poverty Law Center. TVC raises money by scaring people about gruesome but unlikely events that will result from prohibiting discrimination. Its claims demean gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people and our lives and do nothing to help this Congress address the high level of job discrimination that puts many of us in the unemployment line.

ENDA is designed to redress the persistent job discrimination levied against people in this country based on their sexual orientation and gender identity, problems demonstrated by the many studies cited by experts in their fields at Congressional hearings on ENDA. Further, both the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association support passage of ENDA because ending discrimination is such an important goal.

So with the ball in Lafferty's court, so to speak, what do you think she would do - write a detailed refutation of Dr. Weiss's piece or attack her personally?

Let the headline of her answer piece on the TVC web page be your guide:


'Transgender' Man Attacks TVC

That's right. Lafferty chose to make a personal attack on Dr. Weiss instead of refuting her piece on ENDA:

Dr. Jillian Weiss is a man who has lived as a woman since 1997. This is a truly troubled individual. Whether he has actually gone through a complete surgical procedure to remove his genitals is a mystery. He may be living as a she-male hybrid. However, readers would never know he is a transgender based on his published bio. 

Lafferty's piece continues the offensive attack, making special note to use the incorrect pronoun of "he" when referring to Dr. Weiss.

So the irony is that in the same piece where Lafferty expresses pride in being called an anti-gay hate group, she demonstrates why the designation is right on the mark. Her comments were filthy, immature, and totally un-Christian.

I've never met Dr Weiss but her credentials and writing speak for themselves and frankly if she is the example that Lafferty wants to push as to why parents should be afraid of ENDA, then Lafferty should be careful.

Folks on her side of the argument are going to think that she is working for the lgbt community.



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Video: Gays are too promiscuous and disease-ridden to be 'worthy' of marriage



A Facebook  buddy of mine brought this video to my attention.

The video is homophobia under the guise of "being scientific" in reasoning why gays and lesbians are not deserving of marriage. To summarize, it says gays and lesbians are not worthy to be allowed to legally married because we are too concentrated on promiscuity and are therefore consistently disease-afflicted.

Watch if you want but here are the major problems with it:

The statistics are cited in it are irrelevant because none of the gays mentioned are married.

Also, many of the statistics are highly outdated, some coming from the 1970s. The most recent statistic seems to come from 2001.

And a major problem with this video: much of the research is taken from statistics about gay men afflicted with AIDS/HIV. This means that a huge segment of gays (those who don't AIDS) and lesbian are omitted.

The video is cherry picking at its worse and is the equivalent of racists using FBI crime statistics to denigrate African-Americans.

Now some have reported this video but I say let's not just do that just yet. The underhanded use of statistics is a tactic employed by a myriad of religious right groups and spokespeople.

Instead of allowing our anger or need to ridicule ignorance to rule, let's study and remember.

Chinese general Sun Tzu said in his book, The Art of War:

It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.


And if anyone thinks that the cause for lgbt equality isn't a war, they need to think again.


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Friday, April 23, 2010

Know Your LGBT History - Strange Fruit




Usually during my Know Your LGBT History segments, I talk about past images of lgbts in the media.

This one is not necessarily an old image but I consider it special. I saw bits and pieces of this movie, Strange Fruit (2004), this morning while getting ready for work.

And I was enthralled by it. It tells the story of a black gay successful attorney returning to his home town to solve the mystery of a long ago lynching of a friend.

I caught only a little bit of the movie, especially the ending.

And trust me when I say it's original, thought-provoking, and exactly the kind of antidote for movies like Soul Plane. It's about time a movie portrayed a black gay man as a human being and not a comedic prop.

I'm going to own this movie one day.

Past Know Your LGBT History postings

Know Your LGBT History - Designing Women

Know Your LGBT History - The Children's Hour

Know Your LGBT History - Sylvester

Know Your LGBT History - Once Bitten

Know Your LGBT History - The Boys in the Band

Know Your LGBT History - Christopher Morley, the crossdressing assassin

Know Your LGBT History - Midnight Cowboy

Know Your LGBT History - Dracula's Daughter

Know Your LGBT History - Blacula

Know Your LGBT History - 3 Strikes

Know Your LGBT History - Paris Is Burning

Know Your LGBT History - The Women

Know your LGBT History - Soul Plane

Know Your LGBT History - The Player's Club

Special Know Your LGBT History - Fame

Know Your LGBT History - Welcome Home, Bobby

Know Your LGBT History - Barney Miller

Know your lgbt history - The Jerry Springer Show

Know your lgbt history - Martin Lawrence and that 'gay guy' on his show

Know your lgbt history - The Ricki Lake Show

Know your lgbt history - Which Way Is Up

Know your lgbt history - Gays in Primetime Soaps

Know your lgbt history - Boys Beware

Know your lgbt history - The Boondocks

Know your lgbt history - Mannequin

Know your lgbt history - The Warriors

Know Your LGBT History - New York Undercover

Know Your LGBT History - Low Down Dirty Shame

Know Your LGBT History - Fortune and Men's Eyes

Know your lgbt history - California Suite

Know your lgbt history - Taxi (Elaine's Strange Triangle)

Know your lgbt history - Come Back Charleston Blue

Know your lgbt history - James Bond goes gay

Know your lgbt history - Windows

Know your lgbt history - To Wong Foo and Priscilla

Know your lgbt history - Blazing Saddles

Know your lgbt history - Sanford and Son

Know your lgbt history - In Living Color

Know your lgbt history - Cleopatra Jones and her lesbian drug lords

Know your lgbt history - Norman, Is That You?

Know your lgbt history - The 'Exotic' Adrian Street

Know your lgbt history - The Choirboys

Know your lgbt history - Eddie Murphy

Know your lgbt history - The Killing of Sister George

Know your lgbt history - Hanna-Barbera cartoons pushes the 'gay agenda

'Know your lgbt history - Cruising

Know your lgbt history - Foxy Brown and Cleopatra Jones

Know your lgbt history - I Got Da Hook Up

Know your lgbt history - Fright Night

Know your lgbt history - Flowers of Evil

The Jeffersons and the transgender community 



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Andrea Lafferty takes time out to pick on Muslims, and other Friday midday news briefs

Kentucky Supreme Court Nixes Public Aid To Religious School - Discriminate against gays all you want, but don't expect to get lgbt tax money for the courtesy.

DADT protesters are 'starved for attention', says he who only has attention b/c of his war on gays - Pot, meet kettle. I bet Matt Barber googles his name every night to see who is talking about him.

Graham's Disinvitation Proof That Our Military Is Run By "Fundamentalist Muslims and Homosexual Activists" - Say what you want but if you disrespect ANY our fighting men and women, you are not being persecuted for facing the consequences. Andrea Lafferty adds her two cents in this piece. I guess one can't pick on lgbts all of the time.

Kevin Keller debuts as first openly gay character in Archie's Veronica Comics - And silly me thought they would explore the Moose/Dilton friendship.

Karen Ocamb Offers Good Background on The Kooky Traditional Values Coalition - More info on the hate group the Traditional Values Coalition.



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