The Joy of Being a Parent

Apparently our friend Peter and the folks at Americans for Truth (in name only) are having a sparse week.

The crux of their comments today seems to be against lesbian actress Sara Gilbert and her newborn child:

One of the more irritating things about Politically Correct culture is when the media pretend that abnormal is normal — and then expect the rest of us to play along. That’s sort of what being PC is all about, right? Nobody can judge anything — except the “judgers” (that would be us “religious right” folks). It’s perfectly OK for liberals and homosexual activists to slam us because, well, we’re so intolerant of things like Hollywood stars intentionally creating fatherless households and becoming lesbian “mommy” role models who are going to confuse the heck out of these children who, through no fault of their own, are now part of some bizarre social experiment called “same-sex parenting.”

It always amazes and irritates me when those who oppose lgbts expect us to govern our lives in accordance to their bullshit.

Peter further says:

We yearn for the good old days when lesbian radicals railed against “patriarchal” marriage and family, mocked “breeders” (heterosexuals with kiddos), and said the great thing about being a lesbian was that you didn’t have to reproduce.

I have no idea where Peter is coming from with this outrageous train of thought but here is what I do know:

The responsibility of being a parent should be available to those who have the maturity and means to have children. The desire to raise and nurture a child is something that is ingrained in all of us, regardless of sexual orientation.

In fact, despite the anti-gay industry's semantics of lies of gays raising children being an "untested social experiment," we are raising children at a high number. In fact over 300,000 of use are raising children in this country even as we speak.

This column is not to debase the importance of fathers or mothers or two parent homes. This coumn is to point out the reality of the sitaution.

The fact of the matter is that while two-parent mother and father home may be the desire for some, it is not the reality for many. Families encompass a wide defintion because there are many versions of family.

There are homes with a mother and father, grandparents, single mothers, single fathers, relatives and yes, even lgbts.

All of these families are valuable and all offer some form of love AND support.

Rather than chasing an Ozzie and Harriet image across the desert, Peter and his cohorts would do themselves well to support all families rather than just the ones fitting their definition.

In that way, they would be truly "pro-family," for a change.

My first radio interview!!

I am very pleased to announce that on Monday August 27, I will be appearing on The Agenda on XM Satellite Radio 120.

I will be discussing my upcoming book, Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters: Exposing the Lies of the Anti-Gay Industry.

Naturally I am excited and a little fearful. I am sure that last emotion will pass. And I am hoping that this interview will be the first in a long line of many.

When and How to Listen

Live Monday evenings from 6 - 8 p.m. eastern on XM Live channel 120

Rebroadcast Tuesdays from 4 a.m. - 6 a.m. eastern and Sundays 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. eastern on Take 5 channel 155

Saturdays from 12 p.m. - 2 p.m. eastern on Air America channel 133

Online24/7 on XM Online channel 134(New show posted at 10 p.m. eastern every Monday evening)

Also, I have a new webpage.

Stay tuned for more announcements.

Slowly but sure, it is all coming together.

Gay America, we are being played!!!!!

First there was the nonsense from Ft. Lauderdale Mayor Jim Naugle about "gay public sex."

And now this hot mess about fire fighters being sexually harassed during a pride parade in San Diego.

Call me paranoid is you want but I sense something brewing.

Today from One News Now, comes these lovely articles:

Bulk of homosexual campaign contributions going to Clinton's campaign coffer

San Antonio police chief encouraged to stop promoting homosexual causes

The connotation of the articles being no doubt:

San Antonio supports "nasty gay parades" like the one in San Diego

and

Hilary Clinton supports all gay lewdness

Meanwhile, some of my fellow gay bloggers are pratically spraining their wrists defending the fire fighters in the San Diego incident, even though they are not aware of all of the facts.

So is the Naugle incident and the San Diego fire fighter lawsuit mere coincidences?

Maybe.

But seeing how the anti-gay industry is connected and intertwined, I am suspicious about the proximity of both incidents.

Just how many other "coincidental" incidents and lawsuits are on the horizon?

How long will it be before Fox News manufactures a special entitled Has Gay Rights Gone Too Far?

Here are the facts as I see them:

We know that Jim Naugle is a grandstanding liar

We do not know the entire story behind the San Diego lawsuit

But here is what we should be aware of.

There is now a cloud the size of a man's hand above the lgbt community.

While we bitch over details, the anti-gay industry is yet again making us out to be sex fiends who, when not trolling for sex in public restrooms, go about sexually abusing fire fighters.

The anti-gay industry is crafting a new ignorant image of us just in time for the national election. And by all means do not think that their lies won't be used on a local level.

And the truth usually does not matter when it should. If you kick up enough smoke, you can obscure the truth until the time that revelation is futile.

The question is are we going recognize what the anti-gay industry and do something about it?

Or are we going to sit on our butts after it's all over and complain yet again about being lied on?

Cause that commotion, make that money

Apparently Jim Naugle is old news because the anti-gay industry has found another cause celebre.

Four firefighters in the city of San Diego are suing because of alleged harrassment they suffered during a gay pride parade from both pro-gays and those speaking out against homosexuality.

They also claim that they were "forced" to participate.

The only thing that is known for sure in this case is that these firefighters have filed a lawsuit and are aided by the Thomas More Law Center, another arm of the anti-gay industry just like the Allied Defense Fund.

But not having all of the facts is a relatively minor annoyance to the anti-gay industry and one that that they can ignore.

Concerned Women for America is already demanding that the fire chief (who just happens to be a lesbian - how conveeeniet) resign or stop her alleged "on-the-job activism."

And of course other press releases read in their headlines that these firefighters were "forced to participate" in the pride rally.

No doubt this is the story that will play up to rightwing blogs and phony "pro-family" sites like One News Now, despite the fact that all of the facts are not known.

Actor Gene Hackman once said in a movie that people aren't interested in truth, only headlines.

How very true. And very sad.

Lying and Misrepresenting in the name of God is still a sin

Apparently the anti-gay industry just won't let go of this Jim Naugle thing.

A group of them (the usual suspects) have began a coalition, Healthy Public Places, in which they will spin more propaganda about the lgbt community.

They even have a webpage. However the only thing on it is a press release.

Stay tuned for "studies" that will show that lgbts are more likely to want to have sex in public places.

Paging Paul Cameron!

I have an idea. How about including a statement from area police who have said repeatedly that "gay public sex" is a nonexistent issue in Ft. Lauderdale.

Meanwhile, I ran across something interesting and disturbing.

In 2006, the group Operation Save America began this huge effort to stop Charlotte NC lgbts from having their annual pride event.

This group claimed that all sorts of lewd things were happening during the event.

They tried, unsuccessfully, to get the local government to do away with the event.

I should add that since that time, Charlotte Gay Pride, had suffered from member burnout and it looked like there wouldn't be an event.

Naturally Operation Save America took credit. But they took it too soon. Charlotte Gay Pride went on as scheduled.

But back to my original point. There is a video online from Operation Save America from the 2006 fight. Apparently they and other groups with the same endeavors wanted to show the so-called "nasty gay agenda" they were fighting against.

The video shows members of various "Christian" groups making speeches in front of a committee. This is undercut with footage from the Charlotte Pride.

Pastor Flip Benham of Operation Save America accused drag performers of having sex acts with children, some as young as three and four years old.

However, the footage from the event does not show that. It shows children coming up and giving money to performers. There is nothing lewd about that.

And it does show a drag performer holding a baby in her arms. The performer is not doing anything lewd.

And there is a picture, not video, but picture of a drag performer and a child. But don't get alarmed. The child looks as if he is about the give the performer money.

However, add a little ominous music, it probably looks like the performer is about to eat the child.

I might point out that some of the footage looks edited. We do not see the beginning and ending of events in sequence. And much of the footage from the event are pictures (such as the drag performer and the child).

There was this quick montage of a man looking like he was wearing just a t-shirt. It is not known if whether or not he was wearing shorts. Apparently he may have been manning a table from a "nudist" group.

Then there was something interesting.

Someone puts up a book to the camera and this book shows nude men as the unidentified person turns the page.

However, it is not known whether or not the book came from the table, and the person turning the pages is never identified.

And they also show different books and pictures but nothing as lewd as they made things out to be.

But here is something I found troubling.

Former Mecklenberg County Commissioner Hoyle Martin is shown at the meeting
reading something that he said came from "gay activist Steve Warren."

It reads in part:

If all these things come to pass quickly, we will subject orthodox Jews and Christians to the most sustained hatred and Vilification in recent memory. We have captured the liberal establishment and the press. We have already beaten you on a number of battlefields. And we have the spirit of age on our side. You have neither the strength to fight us nor the will, so you might as well surrender now.

Martin paraphrased the last part of the statment but that’s pretty much word for word what he said.

But in the video, Martin omitted something crucial about the piece

It was published in 1987.

Apparently Warren was a member of Act-Up and as many of us know, 1987 was the year that marked the beginning of gay groups beginning direct action campaign to protest homophobia and the inaction regarding AIDS and HIV in the gay community.

Act-Up was heavily involved in these tactics.

The question I have is just what in the hell does Warren who, as far as I know, is neither a native of North Carolina nor a member of the Charlotte Pride planning committee, have to do with Charlotte Gay Pride?

What does his piece, written over 15 years ago, have to do with Charlotte Gay Pride?

Nothing unless you want to scare ignorant people of faith about an alleged "gay agenda."
It is relatively easy to take the writings of one person and generalize about an entire community.

You are not just appealing to the person's fear but also their egos. Some folks who believe that homosexuality is a sin unfortunately also believe other nasty things about lgbts and these things have nothing to do with Biblical interpretation.

Like gays want to have sex with children.

After all to them, God says homosexuality is bad. And that means lgbts are bad people. Why would God speak against them if they weren't "evil?"

Their God never lies.

I suppose with that mode of thinking, Oprah Winfrey words and life doesn’t mean a thing. And neither does Vernon Jordan or Martin Luther King, Jr.

After all, why not take the actions someone like Willie Horton and demonize the African-American for that?

And who cares about people like Cesar Chavez? Augusto Pinochet and Manuel Noriega will suffice to brand all Latino folks.

And since we are going waaay back, let forget Pinochet and Noriega. Let's talk Santa Ana.

The sad thing is that through out the entire video, Benham and the rest used words like religion, faith, and family.

So I suppose using out-of-date pieces and distorting Pride footage is okay if you are trying to "protect" religion, faith, and family.

And I suppose that continuing to highlight a nonexistent problem in order to create a moral panic is okay also.

I am confused. Just where did Jesus say doing these things are okay?

Finis

A short post today.

The final galleys for my book have been finished and approved. All there is to do now is wait for my author's review copy.

If all goes well (and I think it will) then my book, Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters: Exposing the Lies of the Anti-Gay Industry, should be out by mid to late September.

Janet Folger puts her foot in her mouth but it's nothing new to see here folks

In her zeal to brand lgbts as purveyors of public sex, the Weeping Willow of the Anti-Gay Industry, Janet Folger seems to have stepped in it.

In that recent column of hers which I have talked about, News flash! Sex in public still illegal, Folger said the following:

Dr. E. Fields, in his book "Is Homosexual Activity Normal?", reveals "41 percent of homosexuals say they have had sex with strangers in public restrooms."

Now just who in the heck is Dr. E. Fields? Well according to this blog:

Edward Fields is a chiropractor who has spent the last 55 years involved with various neo-Nazi organizations in the United States. The ADL has a few interesting details on "Dr" Edward Fields:

In 1952, still shy of twenty, he met the flamboyant racist J.B. Stoner while the two were attending law school in Atlanta, and joined Stoner's Christian Anti-Jewish Party (formerly the Stoner Anti-Jewish Party), a very small mass-mailing outfit in Atlanta. Stoner said he founded the organization to "out-Hitler Hitler," whom he called a "moderate"; his aim was "to make being Jewish a crime, punishable by death."

Fields eventually dropped out of law school, choosing instead to attend Palmer School of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa, in 1953.

The following year he and another student allegedly posted signs on storefronts in Davenport and two other towns reading, "This store owned by Jews" and "Anti-Jewish Week, Feb. 21-28" (in fact, the end of February had been designated National Brotherhood Week).

No charges were filed, but Fields was placed on probation. He remained undaunted, apparently; his schooldays continued to be marked by anti-Semitic and racist pickets, meetings and mailings. During this time he built networks across the American far-right underground. He attended Palmer until 1956, and thereafter referred to himself as "Dr. Fields" - a title that conferred prestige among hardcore racists.

To her credit, Folger acknowledged what she did:

Special note: In the original version of this column, there was a sentence where I referred to some research conducted by a Dr. E. Fields.

It has come to our attention that Dr. Fields subscribes to a number of racist views of which our Faith2Action ministry was unaware. The research had been previously cited by some seemingly unchallenged sources, which I'm sure were also unaware of his racist views and writings.

We sincerely apologize for this mistake. As Christians, we disavow all racism as sinful and would never knowingly promote an advocate of racism.

Faith2Action maintains that the problem of sex in public restrooms is a very serious one that Fort Lauderdale and other cities have every right and duty to confront. In the future, however, we will not refer to any research by Dr. Fields.

Now if only she would get others to do the same regarding Paul Cameron.

Really though I am not surprised by Folger's citing racist sources. Others in the anti-gay industry have done the same.

In April 2007, professional "ex-gay" Stephen Bennett was promoting a video from YouTube that talked about the supposed homosexual menace.

Thing is, however, the video was made by a person who created other videos such as:

The Black Death (about how Asians nearly killed Europeans by giving them the plague)

Keep America white- Hitler- Blacks are racist-

Mexican druglords and human sacrifice-

White Europeans are the first Americans (parts I, II and III)

Black Crime

Black Intelligence - which purports to be a discussion of how white people are smarter than black people, and which shows a bunch of dark Hollywood-stereotype African natives jumping up and down like monkeys. The video is one of the most racist things you have ever seen. I thought about not even posting it, but the lesson will not be learned until we call the religious right on their bigotry publicly.

Please bear in mind that I am not calling Folger or Bennett racist. I am merely pointing out how so strident members of the anti-gay industry are that they will use anything to demonize the lgbt community.

Their egos seem to tell them that in the long run, what they are doing is right in the eyes of God. That being the case, who needs to do things such as research and checking one's sources.

The real question is Harry Jackson paying attention.