To the religious right from the Gay Mafia - How dare you dump us over the COVID pandemic!

Dear Religious Right Groups (i.e. the Family Research Council, the Liberty Counsel, the American Family Association, et al),

As the official spokesman for the Gay Mafia, allow me to put on record that I am shocked, appalled, and hurt over how you have abandoned the LGBTQ community. Apparently our 40+ years together mean nothing to you. 

Remember the good times we had?  Our bizarre, yet very fruitful-for-you relationship? Remember how you used to accuse us of recruiting children, stuffing gerbils up our butts, and having lots and lots and lots of sex? Remember when you exploited the stereotypes about our lesbian sisters to make it seem that they liked beating each other up? And how you used religion to cover up your lies and basic prejudices? Weren't those times good enough for you? Didn't you scare enough people and make a lot of money via fundraising?

How dare you dump us for the COVID pandemic!

Don't lie. We  read what you have been saying about vaccines and masks and lockdowns. Our cousin's sister's baby daddy's niece told us everything. We heard all of the stuff you claimed about how President Biden and the Democrats are going to use pandemic to take away freedoms, especially from Christians. And about how they are going after the children in schools.

You modeled that argument strictly for us! How dare you use it on some slutty pandemic! That bitch!

Aren't we owed something? We gave you the best years of our lives. We made it easy for you to attain power by scaring people with lies about our health and habits. And just because some young and mysterious pandemic shakes its little tail in front of you, you gonna kick us to the curve?

Whatever happened to commitment? Whatever happened to stability? Were we the problem? Did we win too many cultural battles against you?  Are you angry at us because we knocked the sodomy laws, Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and won the right to marry and adopt? Are you still upset because those little victories you won, just as the Masterpiece case, turned out to be loses for you in the long run? Are you hurt because all of that stuff you continue to claim about the transgender community isn't sticking as much as you thought it would? Granted, your relationship with transgender Americans isn't over yet and you still tripping. But you won't be winning. We told you what would happen if you kept using the same tired and easy to refute lies. 

Well whatever. You and your hefa  COVID  can go your own way if you want. See if  talking about vaccines and masks can give you what we gave you when you talked about us having sex and putting Christians in jail. I'll give you six months before COVID dumps you.

When that happens, don't come back to us. We want a divorce and palimony. That's right. We want half. You will be getting the papers tomorrow. And don't even think about coming back. We've changed the locks.

And one more thing. You better tell COVID-19 that we better not catch its ass in the street.

With warm regards,

The Gay Mafia

P.S. - You nasty bastards!!

Editor's note - just in case you haven't figured it out yet, this letter should be taken strictly tongue-in-cheek while noting just how religious groups exploit the popular fears to amass money and power. These days, it's difficult for people to note satire.

''Team LGBTQ' earns 32 medals at Tokyo Olympics' & other Mon midday news briefs

'Team LGBTQ' earns 32 medals at Tokyo Olympics - I may be wrong but this was the most high-profile Olympic games for the LGBTQ community and I hope a sign of things to come. 

Texas governor once again orders GOP legislators to try banning trans youth from sports - Here we go again.

DaBaby Deletes Instagram Apology To LGBTQ Community Days After Posting - I cringe to think what may come next.

Congressional candidate’s campaign ad shows him being kicked out of the navy for being gay - Caught MY attention. 

Tucker Carlson praises anti-LGBTQ Hungary prime minister - Because Tucker Carlson is a mediocre trust fund baby.

Right-wing media attacked LGBTQ athletes during Tokyo Olympics

Olympic silver medalist Raven Saunders was one of the LGBTQ athletes targeted by the right-wing media.

 Along with the success of American athletes during the 2021 Olympic games came the success and high-profile visibility of various LGBTQ athletes. And unfortunately with that success came the ugly words and tweets of many in the right-wing media. 

According to Media Matters

Right-wing media are attacking LGBTQ Olympians competing at the 2020 Tokyo Games, including by misgendering, deadnaming, and calling individual athletes a “fascist woketard,” “pudgy, out of shape,” and “an anti-American piece of trash.” 

Media Matters also said the right-wing media especially targeted several specific athletes:

According to Outsports, there are at least 182 openly LGBTQ athletes at this year’s Olympics, “more than triple the number who participated at the 2016 Rio Games.” Several of these athletes have been subjected to right-wing media harassment, including New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard, U.S. women’s soccer team player Megan Rapinoe, Canadian soccer player Quinn, and American track and field athlete Raven Saunders.

I will spotlight two of  the four athletes who were the focus of the Media Matters article and give just a few examples of the ugly things said about them.

Raven Saunders:

Shot-putter Raven Saunders, who won a silver medal at the 2020 Olympics, made waves for her split-dyed hair, incredible performance, and gesture on the podium to represent “all people who are oppressed.” The gesture was being probed “as a potential breach of rules banning protests on medal podiums” but was suspended when her mother Clarissa Saunders died. Saunders tweeted, “My mama was a great woman and will forever live through me.” Right-wing pundits attacked Saunders during her time at the games, zeroing in on her protest and saying it “wrecks the games

.”Fox News’ Tomi Lahren attacked Saunders and other Olympians who protested at the games, saying their protests are a “attention-seeking display” and “crybaby, whiny, bratty stunts.” 

White nationalist sympathizer Michelle Malkin asserted that Saunders is “a sorry example of Olympic competition. You've got one job: win. If you can't cut it, find a different calling, and share your troubles with a therapist, not the world.” 

 Breitbart’s John Nolte called Saunders a “moron” and asserted, “​​These woketards are such woketards; they’re just making shit up now. At least she won a Silver.”

'Homophobic drama with rapper DaBaby yields educational opportunities' & other Fri midday news briefs

DaBaby

The recent homophobic controversy with rapper DaBaby may actually have positive repercussions:

National LGBTQ and HIV/AIDS organizations call for educational meeting with DaBaby in open letter 

Megan Thee Stallion Says 'It Is About Time' that Rap Tackle LGBTQ Hate: 'It Is Really Crucial' 

In other news:

LGBTQ family featured in ad for grocery store flees Russia after death threats - Talk about your ugly hot messes.

Coalition of Orthodox Jewish rabbis publicly flaunt their hypocrisy in opposing Biden's pick for religious freedom coalition - My post from last night. It's important to me because I am so tired of those on the right attempting to define religious freedom for the rest of us.

Milwaukee Marks 60th Anniversary of Pre-Stonewall Bar Uprising - Know your history. All of it.

Coalition of Orthodox Jewish rabbis publicly flaunt their hypocrisy in opposing Biden's pick for religious freedom coalition

Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum

And the award for blatant religious hypocrisy goes to:

A coalition that represents some 1,500 Orthodox Jewish rabbis condemned President Biden's move to nominate Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, a leader of the LGBTQ-focused Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, to the U.S. Coalition on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), saying it sends a "counter-productive" message amid threats to religious freedom.

 Kleinbaum is the spouse of American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten. 

"A person's sexual preferences should be a private matter, and certainly irrelevant to prayer. Kleinbaum, by contrast, leads a congregation that insists ‘LGBTQ’ is a matter of identity," Rabbi Yaakov Menken, the managing director at the Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), told Fox News on Thursday, ahead of Biden's Friday announcement. "At a time when religious people are persecuted worldwide for their personal, sincere beliefs that marriage is between a man and a woman, and gender is permanent, biological, and determined at conception, placing Kleinbaum on a commission devoted to ensuring religious freedom sends precisely the wrong message and could hardly be more counter-productive."

Rabbi Menken and the Coalition for Jewish Values underscore the hypocrisy of how religious freedom is popularly defined by those on the right. Some people of faith have a belief that the LGBTQ identity and religious beliefs are in two opposite camps, never to intersect. They see the LGBTQ identity as a sin. They have every right to believe this, however many others, including many LGBTQ people, don't follow that narrative. They have no problem with the intersection of the LGBTQ identity and religious beliefs. 

Don't they also have the right to religious freedom? 

And just what exactly gives Rabbi Menken and his coalition the right to define religious freedom for the rest of us?  What gives Rabbi Menken the right to define what is or isn't irrelevant to prayer? When did God give him the right to decide just what is or isn't a feasible subject for prayer?

It is Rabbi Menken and his group who are sending the wrong message about religious freedom. They throw around the phrase, but what they seem to want  is "religious supremacy" for themselves.  They seem to think that true religious freedom is all about their beliefs being placed upon a pedestal above other religious beliefs. This not only an ugly contradiction, but it's simply embarrassing for Rabbi Menken and his coalition to not recognize the stain of hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance it places on them. It's also embarrassing how they publicly flaunt their false sense of religious entitlement.

Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum has every right to be a member of the U.S. Coalition on International Religious Freedom as anyone else because her religious faith is just as valid. That's all there is to it.

'Lil Nas X continues chart success with 'Industry Baby'' & other Thur midday news briefs

Lil Nas X continues his chart success.

Five Burning Questions: Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow's 'Industry Baby' Debuts at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 - More success for Lil Nas X. One thing is certain. You cannot call him a one-hit wonder.

Shelters for LGBTQ asylum seekers on Mexico-US border ‘overwhelmed’ - Oh this is a problem . . . 

Russian TV Hosts Mocked LGBTQ+ Olympians With Wigs, Slurs - Losers make fun because they lack the skill and capacity to do anything else. 

'Misunderstanding' delays LGBTQ ordinance in Montgomery - Hopefully the misunderstanding will be handled.

Federal prosecutors declined to prosecute 82% of hate crimes - Why?

Video - Six Myths About Bisexuality

 

This blog doesn't talk about anti-bisexual lies and that's my fault. For that, I apologize. Myths about bisexual men and women are very prevalent and that includes in the LGBTQ community at large. I don't think I even gave it as much thought as I should have until watching this video. It features an online buddy of mine, Christian LGBTQ activist Justin Lee (or you can call him GeekyJustin) calling out six myths about the bisexual community. I bet you'll be surprised about how many you unconsciously believed or took for granted.