02/06/2012
Video: Starbucks won't have Bob Vander Plaats to kick around anymore; Harumph
Of course Starbucks didn't really say that "God's design for marriage is bad for families." But that doesn't stop moral values guy Bob Vander Plaats from putting that direct quote in the company's mouth anyway:
Really, Bob? Starbucks "went so far as to say that" quote that you put in the company's java-loving mouth? Yeah? Alright, then show me where, big guy.
You can just send me that direct quote whenever you get a chance. I'll be at a Starbucks on West 57th St. drinking as many Venti drinks as I can stomach.
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02/06/2012
Prop 8 ruling tomorrow
And a random Tuesday in February just got much more interesting:
BREAKING: Ninth Circuit Prop 8 Ruling on Tuesday [Metro Weekly's Poliglot]
Whereas, the MN GOP might still see mileage in outdated political football games
In advance of tomorrow night's precinct caucuses throughout the state, the anti-equality Minnesota For Marriage group has created these scripts encouraging local party loyalists and/or delegates to adopt their discriminatory cause as part of the GOP's 2012 focus:
Audio: WA 'values' speaker invokes man/boy, church/state lies
Today in Washington state, longtime anti-gay lobbyist Bob Higley warned of the slippery slope between marriage equality and NAMBLA, as well as blatantly lies about Hawaiian churches' supposed burdens. Enjoy:
The NAMBLA thing? I'm not even going to acknowledge that. It's old school animus that even hostile groups like the Family Research Counsel no longer use. The desperate employment of that fear card in 2012 speaks more to the other side's desperation that it does to anything else.
But the claim that Hawaiian churches are forced to hold weddings or be penalized? FLAT-OUT LIE! What he's referring to is the far-right's attempt to trip up the state's civil unions law with a suit in which two churches claimed they would be forced to hold same-sex ceremonies on their property. A District Court judge dismissed the suit, seeing it for the meritless political game that it was. In fact, the whole thing was so far-fetched, one of the only places you can even find mention of it is on the American Family Association's One News Now site.
But hey, why should our "values" opposition care about facts. After all, they have a minority population to reduce to religion-hating child predators. With that full agenda, who has time to actually listen to gay people?
Audio: NOM's WA partner testifies; not sure if it was for our side or hers
Cindy Zapotocky is the Executive Director of the Washington Conservative Coalition, the group behind the Stand For Marriage Washington coalition. This is the coalition that counts the National Organization For Marriage as a member. This is the coalition that will presumably try to put marriage to a referendum, should an equality bill pass.
Now, in a particularly junk-science-filled piece of faith-driven hostility, listen in as this same NOM-connected Zapotocky proves how far beyond the subject of marriage its opponents really want to go:
Vote For Marriage NC vs 'the warped, infested, twisted, illusive imagery of the depraved gray matter of the homosexual community'
Despite his pattern of rabid comments, Rev. Ron Baity and his Return American group were masterminds behind the North Carolina marriage amendment. On multiple occasions, Rev. Baity organized rallies that brought out all of the major local conservatives , as well as national groups like FRC. The National Organization For Marriage also pushed Rev. Baity's efforts.
In fact, Rev. Baity remains such a major part on the current campaign to pass a discriminatory marriage amendment that the Associated Press just quoted him in a major piece on the effort. Local media has also noted his role. So before all else, you should know that this person cannot and should not be logically disassociated from the current "Vote For Marriage" NC campaign.
So what, exactly, does this major organizational voice of one of the state efforts against us say about us when he's not speaking to the mainstream media? Well, check out this snip from the most recent Return America newsletter:
The Fruit is Corrupt!
The Lord Jesus Christ, Perfect God, God incarnate in flesh, said while walking upon the earth He created, “Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.” (Matt. 12:33)is much fruit today filled with wormholes and rotten cores. Externally, it appears to veto the taste,upon close inspection is found to be full of putrefaction.Nowhere is this process more fully recognized than in the warped, infested, twisted, illusive imagery of the depraved gray matter of the homosexual community.TheSettled, Perfect, Inspired volume of Holy Writ encompasses and explains their darkened, twisted, immense depository of depravity when it describes them as changing “The truth of God into a lie.”(Romans 1:25a)Truth is, Biblical marriage is between one man and one woman.The lie is,“men with men, and women with women doing that which is unseemly,” yet being acceptable as normal in a supposed society of rational educated elites.
[Return America's January Newsletter]
PUT. IT. IN. YOUR. ADS.
Political football: Which NOM-repudiating state did you support?
Couldn't help but notice this weekend post:
New York or Massachusetts. Either way, a marriage equality state (even if the Giants technically play in civil-unions-only NJ).
Of course NY was the ultimate victor, and tomorrow in NYC, there will be a big parade in the streets of lower Manhattan. Just as there was last summer, when the giants of American equality triumphed over NOM's falsely patriotic discrimination.
Pro-equality Repubs commit political treason, suggests man who compared his governor to presidential assassin
Rev. Ken "Gov. Gregoire is like John Wilkes Booth" Hutcherson is personally offended by the recent marriage vote in his state's Senate. Why? Well, because the four Republicans who voted their consciences on the matter personally stabbed him in the back, natch:
THE HUTCH: I'm excited. I'm excited. But you still have… I gotta get you to pray for me, brother, like I said. We're fighting for our life up here. We had four Republicans stab me in the back up here, and they voted for same-sex marriage, bro, and we lost in the Senate. We've still got the House to go and that is just absolutely ridiculous of what's going on -- and, bro? We're gonna win.
RUSH [LIMBAUGH]: Did they lie to you?
THE HUTCH: We're gonna win, but these Republicans are never gonna be sitting again when we have our next election.
RUSH: Did they mislead you? Did they lead you to believe that they were not gonna vote the way they did?
THE HUTCH: Well, a bunch of them was going back and forth. Sitting on the fence, back and forth. Sitting on the fence, sitting on the fence, and we knew that we had one that was gonna go, which was probably gonna take 'em over, but we had three go. And if they woulda stayed we woulda won the Senate by one vote. And, people, we need you. You all need to be praying for us, if they want to keep up what I'm doing, I hope.
Ken Hutcherson, Rush Limbaugh, 2/3/12 [Rush.com]
Couple of things here. First off: When did any lawmaker start tithing to Rev. Hutcherson? Because I mean, to hear him tell it, these four Republicans owed him something, as if they work for the preacher and his faith, not the state and its constitution. Which is particularly odd, considering how reliably vicious Rev. Hutcherson is in his public engagement. I can imagine that even some conservative Republicans would be reluctant about aligning their careers with his demonstrated hostilities.
But what I really find telling is how Ken Hutcherson (I refuse to call him "Hutch") acts as if the Republicans in general have a duty to ban same-sex marriage, even as the national "protect marriage" movement continues to act as if this cause knows no partisan bounds. They can't have it both ways on this! If the "culture warriors" want to position the GOP as duty-bound to carry water for the anti-equality side of this issue and viciously threat the careers of any Republican who doesn't, then they need to start owning their partisanship and stop acting like this is a sweeping national conversation with equally-weighted political opposition!
But more than anything, I'm just thrilled that the Washington opposition movement is keeping Hutcherson in such a bright spotlight. He's about half a rhetorical land mine from handing us the easy win, that guy.
*Fun Fact: Ken Hutcherson performed Rush Limbaugh's (third) wedding ceremony. Yes, the same one at which Elton John performed.
