But it’s not Black people they’re seeking to oppress (unless you happen to be Black and gay).

According to a post on NECN:

The Republican majority on the House Judiciary Committee backed a plan that bars Missoula and other cities from establishing their own criteria for those protected from discrimination, sending the proposal to the full House floor with a decisive 13-7 vote.

The panel on Monday also voted against a plan backed by Democrats to add protections for “gender identity or expression and sexual orientation” to the statewide anti-discrimination law that forbids discrimination based on race, religion and several other factors.

The message is clear.  If you’re not white and straight, then Montana doesn’t want you!  Isn’t it grand to know that discrimination is still something that can be legislated!

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But it’s that very controversy that has been a catalyst to help change attitudes and make the world a more accepting place…even where you may least expect it.

According to a post on The Chronicle of Higher Education:

An open letter from 31 gay and lesbian alumni of Westmont College, a nondenominational Christian institution in California, and 100 fellow alumni who support them has created controversy on the campus.

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He wrote a song notorious for it’s anti-gay lyrics entitled “Boom Bye Bye” and now, according to a post in the TampaBay.com, the homophobic “artist” was found guilty on several charges in a federal court including possession of cocaine and may be going bye bye himself! (Justice and poetic justice served all at once)

A federal jury convicted Grammy-winning reggae artist Buju Banton Tuesday of participating in a drug conspiracy to purchase $135,000 in cocaine.Banton, who was convicted on three charges and acquitted of one, was immediately taken into custody at the federal courthouse in Tampa.

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According to TPM, our ‘creep of the week’ award goes to Duncan Hunter:

Gay servicemembers aren’t in the clear quite yet.

As the Pentagon begins its work to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, a process that is expected to take several months, a Republican congressman from California has introduced legislation that would likely delay the process.

More on this at: TPM!

According to a post on Focus on the Rainbow:

Remember that anti-gay dumbass bastard the Reverend Scott Lively who has been a hero to the dumbass anti-gay bastards in Uganda ? Well the idiot has opened a coffee shop of all things with God on the side in Springfield, MA.

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But even through all the anti-gay rhetoric spewed by members of the Republican party, some still pose the question; Exactly how anti-gay is the GOP?

According to a post on WGLB:

Homophobia is still more permissible in politics than anti-Semitism or racismn, however, at least according to Denis Dison, vice president of external affairs at the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund.

“You don’t see Fox News or CNN inviting white supremacists on the air to provide regular political commentary, but they often invite the leaders of viciously anti-LGBT groups like the Family Research Council to talk about employment non-discrimination, marriage, the military ban, etc,” Dison said. “Frank Rich wrote a column in which h e said homophobia was still at most a misdemeanor in Washington. I think that’s right.”

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According to a post on: Average Queer Guy -

The Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) reminds me of attention-craving teenagers who find the need to make a point. For awhile, they seemed to disappear–no one cared about them–than they picked Edward’s funeral and now their doing this! I can’t believe a cult/sect like this is even allowed to showcase their stupidity!

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According to a post at The Impudent Observer:

Many questions and complex answers. A central question is whether I have the right to work, join the armed forces, and live in your neighborhood if I am gay or a lesbian? There is a difference between me being who I am as against committing an action that prevents you from being who you are.

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According to a post on South Florida Gay News:

Unfortunately, Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth about Homosexuality wants to ruin everyone’s fun by raising the alarm on homosexual America’s nationwide TSA grope party.

Pointing out that “pat downs” on passengers are done by a TSA agent of the same sex, LaBarbera asks, “But what about homosexual TSA agents? Isn’t it just as inappropriate for a ‘gay’ male TSA agent to pat down male travelers as it is for a normal, heterosexual male TSA agent to pat down female travelers?”

I have to tell you Pete…If I were a TSA agent and you came through my line, the only thing you’d feel is me punching you in the face!  Does anyone actually take this fucking perv seriously?!  Better yet, does Pete actually think anyone…male or female wants to grope him?  GROSS!

Well, actually we do, but let’s face it, it could be worse as there are places where the type of ignorance that comes from such evil forces is actually embedded into laws that seek to imprison LGBT peoples.

According to a post on newKerala.com, Kenya is one of those places and their PM is the ring leader.

Odinga called on police forces to arrest anyone found engaged in homosexual practices and take ‘appropriate’ legal action against them.

“We will not tolerate such behaviors in the country,” Odinga said at a public rally in the Kamukunji area of his Kibera constituency in Nairobi. “The constitution is very clear on this issue and men or women found engaging in homosexuality will not be spared.”

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