Sunday, April 27, 2014
Christian Group Plans 40-Day Hunger Strike Against Marriage Equality
A Christian group is planning a 40-day
hunger strike with the aim of influencing the Supreme Court to uphold
state bans on gay marriage.
The “40 Days of Prayer, Fasting and
Repentance for Marriage” is being spearheaded by the Family
Foundation of Virginia, though the Christian conservative group is
calling on Family Policy Councils across the nation to join the
event.
“Our state and nation are mired in a
morass of confusion and post-modern thinking that does not believe in
absolutes nor that any truth can even be known,” the
group said. “Nowhere is this more evident than in the current
debate raging about what constitutes marriage. Pagan philosophies, a
secular humanist education establishment and an entertainment
industry that is absolutely determined in pushing the envelope on
decency and morality have all combined to turn this great land into a
country that our forefathers could not even begin to recognize.”
Next month, a federal appeals court
will review a lower court's ruling declaring invalid Virginia's
restrictive marriage ban.
This case joins similar challenges in
Utah and Oklahoma which have made their way to the appellate courts,
the last stop before the Supreme Court.
The group's 40-day fast ends on October
4, two days before the court opens its session.
“We fully expect [the Supreme Court]
to take a marriage case sometime in the next year,” the group
added. “In the natural, it looks like a David vs. Goliath battle.
The federal government, the news media, Hollywood, the public
education system and big business all are arrayed on the side of
same-sex 'marriage.' Only the church stands in support of God's
design for marriage.”
The Family Foundation of Virginia's
most recognizable leader is E.W. Jackson, who last year made an
unsuccessful bid for lieutenant governor of Virginia and who has a
long history of opposing gay rights.
Oh, come on, your not even trying, make this a global event and just to keep it fair and honest, all groups participating, should isolate themselves into specially selected churches then have the doors bolted shut allowing no one to enter or leave...then after 40 days and nights of fasting and prayer, we can load your weakened bodies into cargo ships and dump you in Uganda with the word *FAG* stamped on your foreheads and leave you to your well deserved fate!
Friday, April 25, 2014
Gay Pride Flag Planted On Uganda's Highest Peak
American Neal Gottlieb climbed Mount
Stanley to plant a rainbow flag in protest of Uganda's harsh anti-gay
law.
Gottlieb planted the flag on the
mountain's highest peak, known as Margherita Peak, the highest in
Uganda at 16,763 feet and the third highest in Africa, after
Kilmanjaro and Mount Kenya.
In an open letter to Ugandan President
Yoweri Museveni, Gottlieb told Museveni “If you don't
like said flag on your highest peak, I urge you to climb up and take
it down.”
“On April 16, 2014, after a 6-day
climb, I summited your country’s tallest peak, Mount Stanley’s
16,753 foot tall Margherita Peak, and mounted a gay pride flag at its
summit in protest of your country’s criminalization of
homosexuality,” Gottlieb
wrote in the letter. “Your country’s highest point is no
longer its soil, its snow or a summit marker, but rather a gay pride
flag waving brilliantly, shining down from above as a sign of protest
and hope on behalf of the many thousands of Ugandans that you seek to
repress and the many more that understand the hideous nature of your
repressive legislation.”
“The wiser of us understand that
humans possess certain inalienable rights. These rights include
freedom to express oneself, freedom to worship one’s god or none at
all and freedom to live and love as one is born.”
“If you don’t like said flag on
your highest peak, I urge you to climb up and take it down. However,
you are an old man and surely the 6-day climb through the steep muddy
bogs and up the mountain’s glaciers is well beyond your physical
ability. Your days are more limited than most. Do you want your
remaining days to be yet another blight on the history of your nation
or will you find the strength to reverse your actions and allow all
Ugandans to be free?”
In
comments to BuzzFeed, Gottlieb said he acted because “it is
very dangerous for Ugandans themselves to protest the
anti-homosexuality laws.”
Ugandan gay rights activist Frank
Mugisha applauded the move.
“For me, its a good thing and he is
showing support and solidarity , the LGBT movement in Uganda. Many
people will do so many things because they are concerned about the
fundamental human rights of Ugandan LGBT individuals and some
solidarity messages or gestures are simply out of passion and none
political like what this American man did at the peak of mountain
Rwenzori , I think it’s simply human,” he said.
Wuh, Ralph Reed Lied...Who Would Have Guessed
PunditFact has described Ralph Reed's
recent assertions against gay parenting as “false.”
Appearing Sunday on ABC's This Week,
Reed, the chairman of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, stated that
the social science against gay parenting was “irrefutable.”
“The social science on this is clear.
This isn't about Vladimir Putin. This is about what's best for
children here in the United States. The social science is
irrefutable. And it is that a child who grows up in a home without
the mother and father present – and they both play a very unique
procreative, nurturing and socializing role – they're 9 times more
likely to end up dropping out of high school, they're 5 times more
likely to end up in poverty, and they're 3 times … ,” Reed said
before political commentator Cokie Roberts interrupted to refute his
claims.
PunditFact found Reed's comments to be
“false.”
“Reed said there's 'irrefutable'
social science to show that children are better off being parented by
a mother and a father. That's not right. What studies really show
is that children are better off with two parents. Those studies do
not focus on gender,” the
site explained. “All reputable research so far indicates that
children brought up by gay parents are just [as] well off as those
brought up by straight parents.”
Thursday, April 24, 2014
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'Stone Cold' Steve Austin Tells It Like It Is!
Retired professional wrestler “Stone
Cold” Steve Austin has endorsed marriage equality while criticizing
anti-gay Christians.
The 49-year-old Austin said in a
podcast that he doesn't “give a shit about people's sexuality.”
“I believe that any human being in
America, or any human being in the goddamn world, that wants to be
married, and if it's same-sex, more power to 'em,” he said.
He also criticized churches which
oppose marriage equality: “Which one of these motherfuckers talked
to God, and God said that same-sex marriage is a no-can-do?”
“Okay, so two cats can't get married
if they want to get married, but then a guy can go murder fourteen
people, molest five kids, then go to fucking prison, and accept God
and He's going to let him into heaven? After the fact that he did
all that shit? See that's all horseshit to me. That don't jibe with
me,” he added.
‘Freedom to Dissent’ Pledge Attempts To Justify Anti-Gay Activism
Since Brendan Eich resigned as CEO of Mozilla because of his donation to the Proposition 8 campaign, many have continued to debate whether public figures should be held accountable for their anti-gay activism. A new effort under the banner of “Freedom to Marry, Freedom to Dissent,” which seems to be driven by pro-LGBT conservatives, argues that “disagreement should not be punished” because “disagreement is not, itself, harm or hate.”
The public statement compares Eich to Frank Kameny, an early gay rights activist who lost his job because of his sexual orientation, suggesting that those who celebrate Eich’s departure are engaging in the same kind of discrimination. “Like [Kameny],” the statement concludes, “we place our confidence in persuasion, not punishment.”
This “Freedom to Dissent” pledge essentially justifies anti-gay advocacy. Ilya Somin, writing for The Volokh Conspiracy at the Washington Post, ironically illuminates this reality while explaining why he felt he couldn’t sign it:
I felt unable to sign the petition when asked, because there are some parts that might be construed as claiming that it is never appropriate to fire people for their political views. For example, at one point the statement asserts that “the consequence of holding a wrong opinion should not be the loss of a job.” I think this is true in the vast majority of cases, but not always. For example, few would object if Eich had been fired for donating money to the KKK or a neo-Nazi organization – even if he had otherwise performed his duties well, and had never mistreated any of Mozilla’s black or Jewish employees. Despite some deplorable PC excesses, overall the effort to stigmatize racism and Nazism has produced some beneficial results.In other words, supporting racism and anti-Semitism would be deplorable, but supporting laws that discriminate against the gay community is forgivable. This double standard not only justifies homophobic thinking, but also placates the narrative put forth by opponents of equality that the LGBT movement consists of bullies.
For example, Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly claimed on his show this week that gay rights activists are threatening to “harm,” “hurt,” and “intimidate” marriage equality opponents, though he couldn’t cite a specific example of such tactics. The American Family Association sent a fundraising email this week highlighting “7 common careers Christians may no longer hold in America,” listing photographers, bakers, florists, journalists, counselors, innkeepers, and teachers as examples of professionals that the LGBT movement attempts to “ostracize and humiliate” for running their businesses “according to the dictates of their faith and conscience” — i.e., for blatantly discriminating against LGBT people. These tactics claim that those who engage in discrimination are the victims, not the actual victims of the discrimination.
Those supporting this “Freedom to Dissent” pledge are promising to tolerate intolerance, which is exactly what opponents of LGBT equality are demanding. It’s unclear how defending those who wish for LGBT people to remain second-class citizens constitutes “the only truly secure path to equal rights,” as the pledge claims.
I defy these self loathing homosexual apologist, to name one gay organization that put it's weight behind firing Brendan Eich, who, it turns out, also supported anti-gay politicians, something these trolls don't mention, because all the politicians are Republicans (like the homosexuals who signed this piece of anti-gay shit)
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
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