Sunday, April 12, 2015
Guess Who Is Running For President....
In a surprise move to absolutely no one, Hilary has thrown her wig into the 2016 presidential bid.
Let us now marvel at all the things she has accomplished for the gay community and equality....oh wait, there isn't any.
Think I'll save my vote and hope someone like Elizabeth Warren can be persuaded to run.
Rand Paul Is An Asshole
Appearing Sunday on CNN's State of
the Union, Kentucky Senator and presidential candidate Rand Paul
explained how his opposition to gay marriage does not contradict with
his libertarian ideology.
In an interview with Dana Bash, Paul
was asked about the apparent contradiction.
“In New Hampshire, you said, 'I will
fight for your right to be left alone.' I realize that you believe
gay marriage is a state issue, but why do you believe, just as a core
principle, as a libertarian, that people should be left alone but not
when it comes to their right to marry somebody they love?”
“I do believe people ought to be left
alone,” Paul
answered. “I don't care who you are, what you do at home or
who your friends are, where you hang out, what kind of music you
listen to. What you do in your home is your own business. That's
always been who I am. I am a leave-me-alone kind of guy.”
“But not when it comes to marriage,”
Bash said.
“I think there's a religious
connotation to this. I also believe people ought to be treated
fairly under the law. I see why if the marriage contract conveys
certain things, that if you want to marry another woman, you can do
that and have a contract. But the thing is that the religious
connotation of marriage that has been going on for thousands of
years, I still want to preserve that,” Paul said.
Paul went on to say that gay couples
could “have contracts.”
“You could have both the traditional
marriage, which I believe in and then you could also have the
neutrality of the law that allows people to have contracts with
another,” he said.
We don't need your permission Rand and fuck your contracts...that boat has sailed and assholes like you did your best to stop any form of gay union...only now, when it looks like marriage equality will become nationwide, do you Republican/Libertarians (really whats the difference?) want to "talk" of possibly offering civil unions or domestic partnerships.
No deal, shove your anti-gay, pseudo-religious quackery up you conservative twats.
Friday, April 10, 2015
Anti-gay Pope 'rejects' France's Vatican ambassador because he is gay
Pope Francis has reportedly refused to accept the nomination of the new French ambassador because he is gay.
Laurent Stefanini, a close aide of President François Hollande, was nominated in early January but the Vatican has yet to accept his credentials.
As envoys are normally accepted within six weeks, and as the Vatican does not explicitly refuse credentials, a prolonged silence is being taken as a rejection.
French media have widely reported that the rejection happened because of Stefanini's sexuality, with Le Journal du Dimanche quoting a Vatican inside saying it was 'a decision taken by the pope himself'.
Hollande put forward Stafanini as he considered him as 'one of our best diplomats'.
Pope Francis is wrongfully seen as taking a far less judgmental position on homosexuality than his predecessor Benedict XVI, who considered gay people a 'defection of human nature.'
But the leader of the Catholic Church is still opposed to gay marriage and adoption, and famously earlier this year compared trans people to nuclear weapons.
The Vatican has refused to comment.
Laurent Stefanini, a close aide of President François Hollande, was nominated in early January but the Vatican has yet to accept his credentials.
As envoys are normally accepted within six weeks, and as the Vatican does not explicitly refuse credentials, a prolonged silence is being taken as a rejection.
French media have widely reported that the rejection happened because of Stefanini's sexuality, with Le Journal du Dimanche quoting a Vatican inside saying it was 'a decision taken by the pope himself'.
Hollande put forward Stafanini as he considered him as 'one of our best diplomats'.
Pope Francis is wrongfully seen as taking a far less judgmental position on homosexuality than his predecessor Benedict XVI, who considered gay people a 'defection of human nature.'
But the leader of the Catholic Church is still opposed to gay marriage and adoption, and famously earlier this year compared trans people to nuclear weapons.
The Vatican has refused to comment.
Thursday, April 9, 2015
Obama Supports Bans On 'Ex-Gay' Therapy To Minors
The Obama Administration on Wednesday
announced its support for laws that prohibit therapies that attempt
to alter the sexual orientation or gender identity of LGBT youth.
“As a part of our dedication to
protecting America's youth, the administration supports the effort to
ban the use of conversation therapy on minors because there's
overwhelming scientific evidence that demonstrates conversion
therapy, especially when practiced on young people, is neither
medically, nor ethically appropriate and can cause substantial harm,”
Valerie Jarrett, senior adviser to President Barack Obama, told the
Washington
Blade.
The announcement is a response to a
White House petition posted following the death of Leelah Alcorn,
a 17-year-old Ohio teen who took her own life after her parents sent
her to therapy to alter her gender identity.
Her death fueled a movement for a
nationwide law banning conversion therapy to minors already in place
in California, New Jersey and Washington, D.C.
Jarrett said the administration was
putting “a spotlight” on “actions that are taking place in the
states” in hopes of building “some momentum for national
dialogue.”
“We believe that although a national
ban would require congressional action, we're hopeful that the
clarity of the evidence combined with the action taken by the states
will lead to broader action that the administration would support,”
she said.
Students Rally Behind Gay Teacher Told To Call Off Marriage Engagement Or Be Fired
Students, parents and staff at an Omaha
Catholic high school are rallying behind a gay teacher who was told
to call off his marriage engagement or be fired.
A Change.org
petition posted Tuesday calling on officials at Skutt Catholic to
reconsider their response to Matthew Eledge's engagement received
nearly 35,000 signatures in one day.
Upon learning about the engagement,
officials told Eledge, an English teacher and speech coach, that his
contract would not be renewed next year and that he would be fired if
he told students, according to Kacie Hughes, Eledge's assistant
speech coach and the petition's author.
She added that when Eledge asked
whether he could continue teaching if he postponed the wedding,
school officials responded that he would have to end the
relationship.
In her petition, Hughes pointed to the
school's double standard: “If they fire Mr. Eledge for engaging
in a same-sex relationship, they must avoid discrimination. They
will need to fire any single teacher who is living with their partner
or engaging in sexual activity, any divorced person who has remarried
without an annulment, or any married couple using contraceptives.”
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
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