'Twitter HATES Kim Davis' & other Friday midday news briefs

The "People Court of Twitter" has found Kim Davis guilty

Kim Davis Goes On Fox News For Sympathy, Twitter Eviscerates Her (TWEETS) - Even Twitter despises Kim Davis. 

John Boehner To Resign From Congress At End Of October - My friends, anything this monumental happening in Congress will have repercussions for the lgbt community. Boehner has never been our friend, but I do feel sorry for him because in the end, it was the nuts in his own party who drove him crazy. He is merely abandoning The Titanic before it shoves off.

 Biphobia Is Hurting The Health Of Bisexual People - Read and understand.

  If You Think 'Straight-Acting' Is An Acceptable Term, You're An A**hole - PREEEEEACH! I am so proud to call Noah Michelson a friend and one of my mentors (only because he puts up with my Facebook wailings.)

Dear Todd Starnes, guess where you can put the Doritos . . .

Fox News' Todd Starnes

For all of his false bellyaching about the so-called persecution of Christians in America, Fox news personality Todd Starnes certainly doesn't come across as a Christian.

If you have read any of his tweets or heard anything he has said in general, I think you would agree he comes across as a lying, spineless, weasely bullying who talks tough when he is not called to defend what he says.

Take for example this situation regarding Frito Lay and its rainbow colored Doritos. The company is selling these doritos as a part of a team up with Dan Savage's charity, The "It Gets Better" project.  The "It Gets Better" project deals with the problems lgbt youth have with bullying and homophobia in general.

However, members of the anti-gay right, including Starnes, is attempting to raise a fuss and make the entire situation about Savage rather than his charity. Let's just say that Savage has more of a vocal history of challenging the homophobia coming from these folks than most. And they despise him for it.

Starnes has now declared that he is boycotting Frito Lay:

Starnes is particularly upset that proceeds from the limited run will benefit Dan Savage's "It Gets Better Project," which supports LGBT youth, declaring that he will not buy another Frito-Lay product until the company "stops giving money to a bunch of godless sickos who bash Christians." It appears that Frito-Lay would rather do business with the likes of Dan Savage than America’s good, church-going people. Look, it’s not my business where you dip your Dorito, but as for me and my house, I can promise you this, not a single Frito, not a single Cheeto until Frito-Lay stops giving money to a bunch of godless sickos who bash Christians. 

Don't be like that, Todd. At least buy the Doritos. That way, I can tell YOU where to stick them.

'Scalia still furious over SCOTUS marriage equality ruling' & other Thur midday news briefs

Book gives voice to black queer boys

Justice Scalia Is Still Hopping Mad Over The Gay Marriage Ruling - Dear Justice Scalia, kindly @!$*, with a BIG cherry on top. 

 Kim Davis to Megyn Kelly: “If I resign, I lose my voice,” proving everyone right - What the heck does THAT mean? As much good as Kim Davis is doing to harm that ridiculous cause of "religious liberty," she is beginning to get on the tip top of my LAST nerve. 
 

This Children’s Book Aims To Give Black Queer Boys A Voice - Cause one is WAAAAY overdue.

8 Questions to Stop Asking Bisexual People - AMEN! 

 Judges Rules Against Jail Whose Staff Systematically Sexually Harassed Trans Inmate - Wonderful news! 

 Gohmert: Confirming Gay Army Secretary Will Make Muslims Think We Approve Child Sex Abuse - Whaaaaat?!!! 

 Marriage Equality Opponents Need to Admit Actual Reason for Their Loss - My blog post made The Huffington Post so I am promoting that incarnation of it. Read the post and stay for the comment war. Apparently SOME folks didn't appreciate what I said. 

Photo by Kendrick Day

What you can expect from anti-gay hate group Family Research Council's summit next week

This week, the anti-gay hate group the Family Research Council will be holding its so-called "Values Voter" Summit in which we are probably going to hear all sorts of outrageous lies about lgbts, Muslims, and especially President Obama.

It wouldn't be such a big thing except for the fact that several Congressional leaders and Republican presidential candidates (including Donald Trump) will be speaking there. To me, that's scary that FRC has such influence.

While the following video is dealing with last year's summit, it is still relevant because the same folks in it are speaking there this year. So you can probably expect to hear the same junk this year:

'Why is the media coddling anti-gay group leader Tony Perkins?' & other Wed midday news briefs

There is absolutely no excuse for the media's light treatment of the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins. Point blank. He doesn't deserve the designation of a "Christian leader" nor does the Family Research Council deserve the designation of a "Christian organization."  Their lies about the lgbt community need to be addressed, not ignored. More here - How The Media Is Helping A Hate Group Leader Gain Political Power  

Huckabee: Obama Only 'Pretends To Be' A Christian - And so driven insane by the reality that no one in their right minds would want him as president, Mike Huckabee slowly went insane and began to think God picked him to designate who gets to be called true Christians . . . 

A Gay Pastor Faces The Damage Done By His Many Affairs - I LOVE the black church, but this is situation is symptomatic of the hypocrisy and the deliberate ignorance embraced by so many of my heterosexual African-American brothers and sisters when it comes to being an lgbt of faith.

 Why Kim Davis Isn’t Off The Hook Yet - Oh come on, y'all. You know it's not over yet . . .

  Barber: Criticism Of Kim Davis Reminiscent Of Sodom And Gomorrah, The Inquisition - And on that note, dear Kim Davis supporters, having someone like Matt Barber defend her is like THE WORST thing to happen to her cause. 

 Director Roland Emmerich Discusses “Stonewall” Controversy - And he addresses it by saying the MOST INAPPROPRIATE thing one could say in a situation like this. I don't see this ending on a positive not at all.

FRC's Tony Perkins - No religious liberty for Muslim-Americans

Tony Perkins, hypocrite

On the Family Research Council's webpage is a site called Free to Believe, which spotlights the horror stories of Christians who have allegedly been discriminated against because of their faith.

The website contains the following statement:

Freedom. It caused pilgrims to uproot and endure dangerous passage to the wild and unsettled land that was America. The promise of freedom from fear of government punishment or loss of livelihood is a hallmark of our nation. It 's enshrined in the U.S. Constitution as our first freedom, and it' s what makes America great.  . . . When Americans believe something, they back it up with their actions. Our core beliefs define who we are, and how we live. The freedom to believe and live according to those beliefs is the foundation for a civil society where people of differing beliefs can live and work together with mutual respect . . .

It such a nice sentiment, but it's very hypocritical, considering that Family Research Council President Tony Perkins does not believe that Muslims have the same rights.

According to Right Wing Watch:

On his “Washington Watch” radio program yesterday, Perkins repeated his claim that Islam is not protected under the U.S. Constitution. While discussing GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson’s recent statement that he would never support a Muslim candidate for president, along with the claims of Kim Davis’ critics that a clerk would never receive such praise from the Religious Right had she been a Muslim, Perkins railed against media commentators for “interjecting” Islam “into all of these discussions.” He said that the media is using Islam as a “wedge” to divide conservatives, suggesting that Kim Davis’ decision to impose her Christian beliefs onto her county office was different because Islam is not protected in the Constitution, while Christianity is. “Religious freedom and our liberty is ordered liberty under the Constitution,” Perkins said. “And as Dr. Carson pointed out, and I know this is driving the left crazy, that Islam is not just a religion, Islam is an economic system, it is a judicial system, it is a compressive system which is incompatible with the Constitution. That’s what Dr. Carson said and he happens to be correct.” Perkins said that the country is under no obligation to provide legal protections for people “who want to blow — I mean, when was the last time you saw a Baptist trying to blow something up?”

What actually drives sensible people crazy is the blatant hypocrisy of people like Perkins. His organization has a webpage complete with anecdotal stories of supposed violations against Christian religious liberty, while at the same time he is declaring, in essence, that Americans who practice Islam don't deserve any religious liberty protections.

And that last statement about Baptists ot blowing things up really galls me. The last time I checked, some "Baptists" are too busy murdering doctors who perform abortions to blow any buildings up. But I guess that doesn't count because they aren't  considered to be "actual Christians."

No doubt Perkins figures that the 60+ innocent Muslims who died on 9/11 (some sacrificing their lives during that awful day) weren't "actual Muslims" either.

 

'Kim Davis digs that hole even deeper' & other Tue midday news briefs

#KimDavis says it hurts most when people say "God doesn't love her." What Christians tell #LGBT kids every single day pic.twitter.com/KLRCpZWPiF

— Memeographs (@memeographs) September 22, 2015

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Kim Davis: ‘I Have Friends Who Are Gay’ Who I Denied Marriage Licenses - The "Cherry Sister" of anti-lgbt activism just refuses to go away. Y'all, I know you think we shouldn't pay her any attention, but I say let her talk. When your best weapon is your enemy's voice, let them use. Just interject yourself every now and then to let folks know what the REAL issue is about. In this case, it is one person attempting to keep gay couples from their legal right to marry. 

Watch: Kim Davis 'Sad' Gays 'So Unhappy' That They Don't Feel 'Dignified' Without 'A Piece Of Paper' - That comment is SO not going to help her. Gee, Kim. Why did you get that "piece of paper" four times? 

 Catholic Schoolteacher Who Was Fired For Being Lesbian Now Invited To Welcome Pope Francis - HA! 

 White House shrugs off criticism over LGBT papal invites - Double HA! 

 How Fox News Turns Transgender People Into Villains - Study these tactics. Before they went into their "we are simply trying to protect religious liberty" act, anti-gay groups used them on the entire lgbt community.  

GOP hopefuls silent as Huckabee attacks gay Army nominee - I guess they are too busy attacking Islamic-Americans and Planned Parenthood. Luckily, Huckabee has the homophobia angle covered.