I had the displeasure of attending your recent presentation at the CATO Institute in Washington, D.C. I was amazed to see that you don’t wear a wedding ring. No rings on any fingers. Where is your alleged husband? Why no ring??

Just last year, NOM proudly said it spent over $8 million in a dozen states in your recently released “Investor’s Report.”

That doesn’t even include the millions more in attorney’s fees and money raised through your 501©3 charitable fund.

You fight people’s happiness at the ballot box, state legislatures and through too many law suits to count.

Recently, NOM has lead the effort to undo the Washington, D.C., law through every means possible, including going to Congress, the courts, all the way up to the United States Supreme Court. Brian Brown’s angry email from Friday states, “Don’t believe the lies. It’s not over in D.C. by any means.”

I simply love Fred Karger for his relentless efforts to bring NOM to justice!

More of this open letter from Fred Karger to Maggie Gallagher at: SDGLN!

The court agreed Monday to consider whether the protesters’ message, no matter how provocative and upsetting, is protected by the First Amendment. Members of a Kansas-based church have picketed military funerals to spread their belief that U.S. deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq are punishment for the nation’s tolerance of homosexuality.

The justices will hear an appeal from the father of a Marine killed in Iraq to reinstate a $5 million verdict against the protesters, after they picketed outside his son’s funeral in Maryland.

More at: Targana Political News!

And yet while condemning a lifestyle or impeding advancement and making inflammatory comments about homosexuals, they are in a variety of ways themselves a part of the very lifestyle which they oppose or are participants in the darkest corners of illegality.

In 2006 Florida Republican Mark Foley, a six term Congressional representative, resigned over allegations he sent sexually explicit Internet messages to at least one underage male who was a former page at the Capitol. At the time ABC News reported that it had interviewed Foley, 52, about excerpts of instant messages provided by current and former pages under the age of 18. ABC reported that Foley, under the AOL Instant Messenger screen name Maf54, made repeated references to sexual acts and body parts.

More at: Focus On The Rainbow!

Perkins, the president of the Christian-based Family Research Council, is opposed to the president’s plan to repeal the law. His group also played a prominent role in repealing a gay marriage law in Maine last year.

Perkins told the Christian News Service (CNS) that he was dis-invited to a prayer luncheon this past Thursday on the Maryland base after he wrote an op-ed critical of President Obama’s call to end the policy in his first State of the Union address.

“At a time of enormous economic challenge, two on-going wars in which Americans are fighting and increased terrorist threats to Americans at home, President Obama seems untethered from that reality as he called on Congress to force the military to allow open homosexuality,” Perkins said in a statement published on his group’s website January 27. “As a veteran of the Marine Corps, the timing of the President’s call in the midst of two wars shows that he is willing to jeopardize our nation’s security to advance the agenda of the radical homosexual lobby.”

More at: On Top!

Anyway, I just want to outline a few things that the Rabbi had to say and respond to them accordingly:

He claims that the Obama administration is focused on repealing “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.” First of all, could you imagine a presidential administration that only focused on one problem at a time? How much MORE wouldn’t we get accomplished. There are hundreds of people inside any Presidential Administration and I am sure that they all have a specific job to do, so claiming that the Administration is “focused” on “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” is silly. I’m just thinking of how silly that statement is…
He also claims that repealing “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” and the acceptance of “homosexual misbehavior” is a rape of our military. How do you even respond to that?

Find out at: 3Sixty Degree Scouting!

Then what will they be doing on Thursday Feb 3 at the National Prayer Breakfast founded and sponsored by the notorious gay-bashing “The Family” fringe far right group? (I ask this as a practicing progressive Christian and repentant former religious right leader).

Yes, that’s the same folks who’s key members here and in Africa are mired in the Uganda kill the gays legislation!

Yes, that’s the same folks who long ago used their US government/hard right contacts to try and get the US Government to cozy up to fascist dictator-for-life Franco of Spain.

Yes, that’s the “C-Street” adulterers club in Wash DC that coddles far right philandering Republicans and protects them when they cheat on their wives, not to mention on their country by using their senator and congressmen members to export the worst of American fundamentalism abroad using quasi-governmental auspices.

These are the folks that the evangelicals and others have been in bed with for years at the National Prayer Breakfast.

Why?

It’s about access to power, stupid!

More at: Huff Po!

Matt Barber, who heads the Liberty Counsel, has been actively seeking a boycott of the event unless GOProud was dismissed as a co-sponsor.

“Among other things, GOProud advocates in favor of both ’gay marriage’ and ’civil unions,’ against pro-marriage constitutional amendments ; is pushing for the repeal of ’Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ and advocates in favor of federal ’partnership benefits’ for homosexuals,” LaBarbera quoted Barber as writing in an open email.

Now Focus on the Family has responded. Senior Vice-President Tom Minnery told right-wing site One News Now he has no problem with other CPAC co-sponsors disagreeing with Focus on the Family, including GOProud.

“We think we’ve got to engage the broader conservative movement and to be salt and light in that environment,” he said. “We believe that social conservatism, biblical Christianity has a lot to say to the political culture–and we want to be where the action is, so that’s why we’re engaging it.”

He opposes the boycott. Instead, he advocated coming to the conference “to counter the agenda of GOProud.”

On its website, GOProud wrote, “GOProud looks forward to continuing to work with the conservative movement to promote policies that will improve the lives of all Americans, including gays and lesbians.”

More at: Edge Boston!

In the ensuring controversy she refused to back down and went on to link gay people to child abusers.

More recently:

In a statement Mrs Robinson said that during a period of serious mental illness, “I lost control of my life and did the worst thing that I have ever done”.

Last month she announced that she had been suffering from mental illness and will stand down from both the Commons and the Northern Ireland Assembly.

“Over a year and a half ago, I was involved in a relationship. It began completely innocently when I gave support to someone following a family death,” she said today.

“I encouraged friends to assist him by providing financial support for a business venture.

“Regrettably, the relationship later developed into a brief affair. It had no emotional or last meaning but my actions have devastated my life and the lives of those around me.

“I am aware that I did not only hurt Peter, I hurt my family and friends.

More at: epolitix.com!

Those on the far-right totally recognize this popularity roller coaster for what it is. Frustration with the situation is exactly why Peter LaBarbera and Brian Camenker held a rogue “yes on 1″ presser after weeks of being denied by the Maine campaign. It’s why Maine’s most prominent anti-gay for the past many years, Mike Heath, wrote a blog post acknowledging the forced campaign exile that we had perceived months before. It’s also why Linda Harvey wrote a piece rebuking Stand For Marriage Maine for being so quick to throw the more anti-gay (read: unfiltered and therefore more truthful) voices under the proverbial bus. And it’s exactly why some of those on the far-right have written yours truly and confirmed my spot-on insight on this topic, and why some “pro-family” moderates have issued off-record comments that are not as much denials as they are justifications.

More at: Good As You!

We liked it better when he was making fun of Mariah Carey. Sounds like Eminem has something against Adam Lambert and gay performers in general in a new song, “Elevator,” leaked from his forthcoming album, Relapse: Refill.

Entertainment Weekly reports the track spouts offensive lyrics like, “Sorry, Lance, Mr. Lambert, and Aiken ain’t gonna make it / They get so mad when I call them both fake, it’s / All these f—in’ voices in my head, I can’t take it!”

More at: Planet Out!