Bewitched: It was Gay All Along?

 

This blog post features a change of pace, because even us so-called intrepid radical gay activists/Gay Mafia members need a light-hearted rest period. From a good friend of mine, Matt Baume, comes a very interesting expository on the famed television show Bewitched. Matt thinks Bewitched is one of the queerest shows he has ever seen. After viewing this video, tell me what you think.

'Anti-LGBTQ priest accused of sexual abuse to cure homosexuality' & other Tue midday news briefs

Anti-LGBTQ+ Priest Accused of Sexual Abuse to Cure Homosexuality - Lawd, hammercy!

Family Research Council Makes It Explicit: Attacks on Trans Youth Health Care Are 2022 Election Strategy - Must be time to fundraise. 

Hungary Bans LGBTQ Content From Schools, But Some Teachers Say They Will Defy It - This is what you called bravery. 

Theatre erupts into cheers as drag performer stops play to confront ‘d**khead’ who threw bottle - Do NOT mess with the drag queens. 

Netflix Documentary Goes Deep On ‘Gay Conversion’ Therapy Movement - Oh really?

Sloppy Bigotry - Family Research Council's attempt to blame gays for Boy Scout sex abuse is highly dishonest

The Family Research Council is blaming a 2013 decision to allow gays to participate in the Boys Scouts for sexual abuse which began decades before the decision was made.

Anti-LGBTQ hate group the Family Research Council never wastes an opportunity to blame the LGBTQ community for calamities and troubles. And it doesn't matter whether or not we had anything to do with said calamities and troubles.

A perfect example is the fall of the Boy Scouts. The organization had to declare bankruptcy last year because it faces thousands of child sexual abuse allegations going back decades. 

 According to an April 25, 2019 CNN article:

The Boy Scouts of America believed more than 7,800 of its former leaders were involved in sexually abusing children over the course of 72 years, according to newly exposed court testimony – about 2,800 more leaders than previously known publicly. The Boy Scouts identified more than 12,000 alleged victims in that time period, from 1944 through 2016, according to the testimony, which was publicized Tuesday by attorney Jeff Anderson, who specializes in representing sexual abuse victims. The numbers, Anderson said, come from what the BSA calls its volunteer screening database – a list of volunteers and others that the Boy Scouts removed and banned from its organization over accusations of policy violations, including allegations of sexual abuse. That 7,800 includes scout leaders and masters across the country accused of sexually assaulting “children under their charge,” Anderson said Tuesday at a news conference in New York.

Because of this, the group is working on an $850 million settlement agreement with lawyers representing over 60,000 victims of child sexual abuse. 

But guess who FRC is blaming for this scandal? It's a relatively easy guess when one reads the group's Washington Update:

After 100 years of teaching future presidents, explorers, and civil rights leaders to follow their moral compass, it's been sobering to watch the Boy Scouts lose their own bearings. And yet, the unhappy ending for one of America's proudest traditions was easy to predict once the organization started chasing the approval of critics it could never win. Now, eight years into this experiment in moral compromise, the country is watching one of the saddest "I-told-you-so" moments of a generation. Disgraced, bankrupt, unpopular, and on the edge of extinction, the Scouts' leadership is showing the world where cowardly conformity leads -- and it isn't where the culture promised. 

 For those who knew the Scouts in their heyday, the demise has been quick and painful. Since 2013, when the organization waved its first white flag on sexual orientation, the group that counted Martin Luther King, Jr., Buzz Aldrin, and George W. Bush as members has become barely recognizable. Ravaged by sexual abuse lawsuits and bleeding members, the road of moral surrender has not been kind to the 1910 institution. After years of successfully fighting to live by its moral code, BSA leaders gave into the lie that compromise would be their salvation. Nearly a decade later, the sad truth is: there's almost nothing left to save.

 "It's a shell of what it once was," Regent University professor Rob Schwarzwalder said mournfully. "At its peak, scouting in the United States had more than seven million members. Today, it's about a tenth of that." It's a dramatic decline, the former FRC senior vice president admitted on "Washington Watch," but a predictable one. Once the scouts walked away from 100 years of values, it was only a matter of time until the capitulation caught up with them. "They no longer are even able to define what they mean by things like honor and morality," Rob pointed out. Once headquarters opened the tent flap to LGBT members and scout leaders, their fate was sealed.

FRC and Schwarzwelder is referring to the 2013 decision of the Boys Scouts to allow gays to openly participate. Before 2013, gays banned from the Boy Scouts and the organization even won a Supreme Court case to that effect in 2000.

The Family Research Council have made the  false connection between pedophilia and the LGBTQ community numerous times in the past. And no matter how many times the lie is refuted, the organization continues to repeat it. 

But this time is flagrantly sloppy.

How can a 2013 decision be blamed for incidents which began decades before the decision was made? Or basically, how can anyone in their right mind blame a 2013 decision to allow gays to openly serve in the Boy Scouts for a sexual abuse scandal taking place between the years of 1944 and 2016?

You can't, but it's obvious that FRC is hoping that in this day and age of media oversaturation and the  unfortunate overstating of headlines (and the understating of nuances and details), it can get away with its latest scapegoating of LGBTQ people. 

No matter how basically tacky and dishonest the attempt may be.

'Caitlyn Jenner attended conservative conference. It did not go well for her' & other Mon midday news briefs

Caitlyn Jenner

Hecklers relentlessly deadname Caitlyn Jenner over an extremist-heavy CPAC weekend - Caitlyn, girlfriend. We all need a "meeting in the ladies room." Why are you trying blend in with these fools. They hate you for being trans. They will never like you. And the ones who aren't smiling in your face and pretending to like you are the honest ones. And that's the scary part. 

20 GOP Attorneys General Blast Biden's LGBTQ+ Policies - Just undermine Biden everywhere you can, why don't you? 

Violence Over a Transphobic Hoax Shows the Danger of Underestimating Anti-Trans Hate - In what's looking like a hoax regarding a naked trans woman, cis women, and children, we are reminded just how disgusting the religious right and TERFs are when combining their forces. Like a bunch of orcs from the JRR Tolkein books mixed with the Brood from the X-Men comic book series, and the parademons from DC universe. No use to anyone. A bunch of disgusting, misguided, frothing at the mouth, psychologically misshapen wastes of skin, bones, tissues, and cartilage. 

This is how the beautiful people of Augusta celebrated Pride. - Awwww! This is nice.

Anti-LGBTQ hate group leader caught trying to help overturn 2020 election

Michael Farris could talk for a long time about how God supposedly opposes homosexuality. But I bet he's silent on where God stands on his attempts to help overturn last year's presidential election.

I caught this item from LGBTQNation:

As the head of the hate group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), Michael Farris spends most of his time fighting LGBTQ rights. The ADF has been at the forefront of legal battles aiming to diminish LGBTQ protections by mandating religious liberty exemptions that would skirt nondiscrimination laws. But Farris has been expanding his repertoire lately.

 A recent report from Talking Points Memo (TPM) finds that Farris was advising the attorney general of South Carolina in November and December 2020 on how they could try and invalidate Joe Biden’s election.

According to the article, Farris was one of several right-wing lawyers attempting to overturn the election. The article also said:

Farris offered his legal expertise to state Attorney General Alan Wilson (R) while Wilson was pondering how he could challenge the national results. For the record, Donald Trump carried South Carolina by about 12 percentage points. The strategy at the time was for Republican-led states to challenge the results in states that Trump lost, an unheard of — and ultimately unsuccessful — approach. Farris sent Wilson a brief, and the attorney general followed up with a conversation with Farris. “Mike was very accommodating and knowledgeable about the legal issues raised in the pleading,” Wilson wrote in an email obtained by TPM. 

 Ultimately, SC joined the ridiculous and unsuccessful attempt by Texas to get SCOTUS involved.

ADF has been an anti-LGBTQ juggernaut, responsible for just about every recent attempt to undermine LGBTQ rights and health from bathroom bills to "religious freedom" to discriminate bills, to the recent attacks on trans youth athletes and adequate healthcare for trans youth.

Farris himself has been very outspoken against LGBTQ rights, from describing marriage equality as an "infection" to publicly defending laws outlawing gay sexual behavior.

Farris consistently brings up God when condemning LGBTQ people and our rights.  Strangely enough, he has been silent on where God stands about overturning a fair and safe election.

How convenient.

'Advocates slam Tenn law requiring transgender bathroom signs' & other Fri midday news briefs

TENN is in a fight over bathroom signs (sign pictured here is NOT sign in question)/

 ‘Not welcome’: Advocates slam Tennessee law requiring transgender bathroom signs - The law is idiotic in the first place. - UPDATE- the law has been temporarily blocked.

State officials say LGBTQ petition has too few signatures; should not be certified - Well damn. I'm not buying it. 

Anti-LGBTQ Hungary law takes effect - Ugh. I almost wish a religious right group or figure from America would vouch for this mess. I haven't went off good on someone in a long time. 

Florida parents sue Catholic school, question its teachings on race, LGBTQ community - A ridiculous lawsuit.

Repost - All of the 'evil and dirty' things that the gays do

Even in 2021, anti-gay memes and tropes still exist even after they have been refuted.

On Thursday, I wrote about a harmless, very funny video which was taken by a horde of ignorant people to believe that gays actually do 'recruit' children. Today, that video has me going back through past blog posts. The following is from  2014 and makes a very good point. If you looked at all of the things the religious right and anti-LGBTQ industry have accused gays of, there is a hilarious, yet fundamental flaw in their claims:

Yesterday, courtesy of People for the American Way's Right Wing Watch, I read Ohio anti-gay activist Phil Burress make a claim that gay men have "as many as 200 sex partners."

A day later, Burress' outrageous claim continues to haunt me not only for its inanity but because it brings to focus something which has been dwelling in my mind for a long time in little bits and pieces.

I've read and heard so accusations against the lgbt community by the religious right that I've now come to the conclusion that these folks are just sloppy with what they say. Seriously, it's as if they don't care that eventually, someone will demonstrate just how incoherent their claims are.

So with that in mind, bear with me here. The following are the claims made about the lgbt community over the years by religious right and anti-gay activists:

Gays are sick people:

 Their [gay] minds are perverted, they’re frankly sick people psychologically, mentally, and emotionally.” – Bishop EW Jackson 

 Yet almost all gays make lots of money:

 “You know, I saw yesterday how much -- how much money the homosexual community has. I mean, good gracious, the average homosexual makes four times more than I do . . . I mean, they're not -- these people are not in poverty or hurting or denied or anything else.” – Donald Wildmon, American Family Association 

Gays are only a small part of the population: 

“Relying on three large data sets: the General Social Survey, the National Health and Social Life Survey, and the U.S. census, a recent study in Demography estimates the number of exclusive male homosexuals in the general population at 2.5 percent and exclusive lesbians at 1.4 percent.” – Family Research Council in its inaccurate brief “Homosexuality and Child Abuse” 

 Yet gays “control” the culture: 

“Homosexual activists in many ways, drive our culture, they decide what’s going to be in a movie, we see all the portrayals, homosexuals are the most positively portrayed in the movies and on television.” – Peter LaBarbera, Americans for Truth 

 Gays “bully” all of those who oppose them: 

“Instead, what we have is the gay Gestapo who go out and try to intimidate morally, economically, professionally, and personally anyone who speaks out against the homosexual agenda.” – Jeffrey Kuhner, The Washington Times 

Gays “Recruit” children:

 “. . . Folks who cannot reproduce want to recruit your children. What we are facing is a radical force of people who want to change what America looks for the next twenty years . . .” – Bishop Harry Jackson 

And are plotting to either destroy or change America and “silence” Christians:

 “Those special gay rights would require Christians not to speak against –would require us Christians not to speak against homosexual rights . . . because if we did, we could be charged with bullying or censored for it.” – Buster Wilson, American Family Association 

“Through a carefully crafted, decades-old propaganda campaign, homosexuals have successful cast homosexuals - many of whom enjoy positions of influence and affluence - as a disadvantage minority” – Matt Barber, Unmasking the “Gay” Agenda 

And while generating all of this mayhem, gays still manage to find time to have all sorts of mind-boggling wild sex with multiple partners:

“One study determined that homosexual males have from between 20 to 106 sexual partners per year. It’s no wonder that homosexual men account for over 50% of all hepatitis cases, and still account for over 50% of all AIDS cases despite the fact that they only make up 1-3% of the population.” – Matt Barber, The Gay Agenda vs. Family Values, December 12, 2004 

“Homosexual activists claim their lifestyle, which in some cases includes thousands of sexual partners, should be sanctioned, protected, and granted special rights by society. Would you critique this stance?“ – a question on Dr. James Dobson's web page. Dobson is the former head of Focus on the Family.

Allow me to surmise.  According to the religious right, the lgbt community is comprised of sad and sick individuals who make a lot of money, who are only a very small of the population but yet control the culture, bully those who oppose us, recruit children, and work to silence Christians and alter America while finding the time to have lots and lots and lots of sex.

Wow! How do we find time to do all of that? How do we find time to be all of that?