Brave Gays Target Elderly Woman

Restaurant Manager To Leave El Coyote Over Prop. 8 Controversy

Frontiers magazine learned Saturday Marjorie Christoffersen is stepping down as a manager at the Los Angeles restaurant El Coyote. Bill Schoeppner, a fellow manager at El Coyote who has been with the restaurant for 26 years, told Frontiers Christoffersen was also resigning as a member of El Coyote's board of directors.

“She no longer works here,” Schoeppner said on Saturday. “She just told me tonight.”

Christoffersen created a firestorm of controversy for the 77-year-old L.A. institution after local blogs broke the news she had donated $100 to the Yes on Proposition 8 campaign. Long a popular destination for the LGBT community for its cheap Mexican food and generous Margaritas, El Coyote found itself the target of boycotts and demonstrations after Christoffersen's donation went public. In a press conference hosted by the restaurant days after the news of the donation broke, Christoffersen tried to explain her donation did not have to do with animus for gay and lesbian people, but was instead tied to her Mormon faith.

I'm so proud of my brave fellow gays for bringing down Marjorie Christoffersen - that elderly pillar of homophobia. Way to go boys and girls! Putting a senior citizen out of work who donated $100 to support Prop 8 because of her religious beliefs should get us the right to marry quicker than a drag queen's snap.

Note to liberals... everything above was sarcasm.

As someone who would like to see the same legal benefits and duties of marriage extended to gays and lesbians I would like to kindly ask you to sit down and shut up if the only way you know to protest is by harassment and bullying.

Boycotting a business or event is an acceptable way to make your feelings known. Targeting individuals in the same hateful manner in which you claim to have been targeted is not.

Via NRO: Marjorie Christofferson's Courage

Marjorie is just one of 89 people who work for El Coyote. No matter. El Coyote welcomes gay employees and customers, and did so long before that was cool. No matter. El Coyote has just sent $10,000 to gay organizations to atone for Marjorie’s sins. No matter. Marjorie has many gay friends whom she has helped over the years. "When one of the guys died from AIDS, Marjorie paid for his mother to fly out for his funeral," noted one restaurant patron. That doesn’t matter either. [...]

You can see for yourself what kind of person Marjorie Christofferson is at a meeting with GLBT leaders on YouTube here. [...]

In the end, shaking and tearful, she expressed regret for the pain she had caused, but Marjorie also said, " I cannot change a lifetime of faith in which I believe in very deeply. I cannot and will not, no matter what, change my love and respect for you and your views."

Not good enough. [...]

I'm sure many ordinary gay-marriage supporters deplore what happened to Marjorie. But this is now the face of their movement: agree with us, or we will hurt you.

I am appalled at the way Marjorie has been treated. Again, I find myself compelled to apologize for the childish, brutish, and irresponsible actions of far too many of my fellow gay and lesbian citizens. And the thing that really hacks me off about this, is that 99.9% of the spoiled, self-centered American gays who are treating Prop. 8 like their own personal pogrom have never known one day of true discrimination or hardship in their lives.

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Gay Pride Shame & Political Childishness

Activists Target Mormons for Gay-Marriage Ban's Success in California

In the nearly four weeks since Election Day, gay activists and thousands of their supporters have rallied outside Mormon temples around the country, protesting the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints' support for California's Proposition 8, the ballot initiative to make same-sex marriage illegal in the Golden State.

There have been calls to boycott the annual Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah; some activists have called for a boycott of the entire state of Utah. Protesters have defaced some church buildings, and in Arapaho County, Colo., the Sheriff's Office is investigating a possible hate crime — the torching of the Book of Mormon on a church's doorstep.

Can you imagine, I mean even imagine the uproar if a group gathered on the steps of a gay community center and burned a copy of "Heather Has Two Mommies," "Daddy's Roommate," or "The Joy of Gay Sex"? Here's a tip for you ladies, throwing a collective temper tantrum isn't going to win you any friends.

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We Shall Overcome! Stomp On Your Face!

Phyllis Burgess learned first hand that the left's tolerance extends only so far as you agree with them. Go beyond that and you're open to being physically attacked:

The woman at the center of a disturbance that erupted on Friday at a protest against the gay marriage ban says she plans to press charges.

Phyllis Burgess alleges that she was assaulted as she carried a Styrofoam cross through the crowd at a No on Proposition 8 rally in front of Palm Springs City Hall.

As reported on mydesert.com, the 69-year-old Palm Springs resident originally declined to press charges when asked by police and joked that she felt lucky — that at least she didn't lose her wig in the tussle like Cloris Leachman did on “Dancing with the Stars.”

“I guess I didn't see the gravity of the whole thing and how it was being portrayed to the public,” Burgess said. “People are incensed. They seem to want some kind of justice.”

What was planned as a peaceful candlelight service took a hostile turn when the crowd began pushing and a cross was torn from Burgess' arms. The cross ended up in pieces on the ground.

The crowd chanted, “Go home!” “Nazi!” and “Shame on you!” as organizers pleaded with the crowd to ignore the woman. About 500 protesters attended the event, the largest in the county since 52 percent of voters approved Proposition 8, an amendment that banned same-sex marriage.

Don't you just love the lost irony? They were calling her a "Nazi" while they behaved like... well... Nazis. What part of "peaceably to assemble" don't they get? Here's the video:



Yes that's right. The gays aren't going to be bullied by ferocious little old Christian women anymore! Take that you elderly thug! It didn't end there either. When a reporter tried to interview Ms. Burgess later the same queens who attacked her earlier gave a repeat performance and they both had to flee for safety:


Oh those courageous homos! Stomping on crosses for equal rights! What also gets my dander up is that I know that 99.9% of the people protesting didn't take advantage of the right to marry and have no intention of doing so even if Prop 8 is overturned; including that charming gentleman in the white shirt. Here's a hint, a black shirt would be more slimming.

Now don't get me wrong, this is a contentious issue. After all, we're talking about changes to millennia of cultural tradition. I disagree with Ms. Burgess. I think think that people who want to get married should be able too; it's a matter of equal rights plain and simple. Personally I think the whole argument boils down to semantics, i.e. the word "marriage." Well fine, don't call it marriage. Exempt religious institutions from having to recognize it. As long as the rights, privileges, and duties are the same I don't care if we call it Blueberry Sherbet.

I wonder if Joe.My.God will share the outrage? No, no, of course not. He only gets his tits in a twist if someone says boo! to a gehy. Oh and circuit parties; he gets them twisted at circuit parties too.

The people responsible for this insanity do not speak for me, and the rest of you have my sincere apologies for my fellow gays' stupidity.

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Spanish Queens Unhappy With Spanish Queen

Spain's Queen Sofia Objects To 'Gay Marriage,' And Parades

"I can understand, accept and respect that there are people of other sexual tendencies, but should they be proud to be gay?" she says in the book by journalist Pilar Urbano, which is officially published on Sunday, her 70th birthday. "Should they ride on a parade float and come out in protests? If all of those who aren't gay came out to protest we would halt traffic."

She also objected to the term "gay marriage," although the Spanish parliament legalized same-sex marriages in 2005.

"If those people want to live together, dress up like bride and groom and marry, they could have a right to do so, or not, depending on the law of their country," she said, "but they should not call this matrimony, because it isn't. There are many possible names: social contract, social union."

While I'd probably disagree with Her Majesty on the jots and tittles of the issue of marriage, I've gotta say she's spot on about the gay pride parades. I've been to pride in Washington, Atlanta, New Orleans, and San Francisco. All of them were more vile than not, and embarrassing for the most part. Not that I'm ashamed to be gay, but I am ashamed of the way the fellow members of my orientation choose to misbehave in public. Whatever happened to these guys?

Note: no glitter, no dildos, fully clothed, they're not having sex on rejected floats from a highschool homecoming parade, and look... they want to be treated as individuals, not part of some special class of put upon and put down victims, and they're carrying an AMERICAN FLAG! Where'd we go wrong?

h/t: TowleRoad

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Real Violence Against Gays

Muslims Attack Gays In Bosnia

At least eight people have been injured in clashes during the opening ceremony of Bosnia's first gay festival in the capital Sarajevo, police have said.

They said dozens of (Muslim*) men attacked participants of the festival in front of the city's Academy of Fine Arts.

A foreigner and journalists were reportedly among the injured.

Homosexuality is very much a taboo issue in Bosnia and organisers of the Queer Festival have received death threats, correspondents say.

Anti-gay protesters attacked the festival participants as they were leaving the opening ceremony in central Sarajevo on Wednesday evening.

Many demonstrators chanted "Kill the Gays!" and "Allahu Akbar!" (God is Great).

But no, no - America is the real oppressor of gays & lesbians. Nary a word about this attack here or here. I'll give Joe.My.God a pass this time because of this post, thought it would have been nice for him to mention more about Islam and it's violent antipathy to homosexuals.

via Gay & Right

* Specificity added by QC

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Of Course The Gays Can Dance - But We Aren't Marching In Lockstep Anymore

Good post by Richard Miniter at Pajamas Media about the founder of a gay hook-up website being a donor to John McCain's campaign:

While observers of the scene are two-minded about the Gay cruising site, Manhunt.com, they are outraged that one of the site’s owners recently maxed out in a donation to the McCain campaign.

The donor defends himself by saying Obama shares McCain’s opposition to Gay marriage, but McCain will do a better job defending the country–giving Americans a chance to live and debate Gay marriage later.

As Miniter points out - the liberal overlords of the gay community are outraged. Just read some of the comments for proof. I'll leave the moral questions about such sites for others to mull, but I do think it shows one more chink in the pink political armor. The Democrat group-think plantation is getting smaller everyday.

The only people who get in my face and scream, yell and berate me for being a conservative are liberals. I can count on half the fingers of one hand the number of conservatives who've had a problem with my sexual orientation - and been anything other than polite about it.

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You Know The Really Offensive Thing About This Ad?

The implication that gay people would ever do something so ridiculously ungraceful!


Sorry straight people, speedwalking is all yours! (I kid! I kid!)

ht: Average Gay Joe

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Everyone Relax... Mayonnaise Won't Make You Gay - Just Tasty

There's a bit of a brouhaha brewing over a Heinz commercial being shown in the UK. The ad is for their new deli mayos and it shows two men kissing.



Let me explain this sloooooowly for the slooooow among us. The New York deli cook is supposed to be the mom, and that was not made clear (for Americans at least - I sort of imagine the Brits get it) which at worst makes it bad marketing, not a new front in the homosexual takeover of America. We don't want your condiments. For Americans to understand the ad, they would need to rework it so that right after the husband says "see you tonight love" the deli guy is replaced by the actual mom still with the New York accent.

Yeah, two men kiss. It's a mere smooch. You can see worse on the streets. Personally I find feminine hygiene commercials more offensive, but that doesn't make them wrong. In a world full of real problems, let's not focus on commercials.

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Thomas Beatie Redux

Just found this in the comments section here, regarding all the brouhaha over Thomas Beatie, the 'pregnant" man:

Okay, all of you "tolerant, open-minded, enlightened" college types...Let's try this once again:

A person who has a penis is a male.

A person who has a vagina is a female.

I've met grade-school kids who understood this....why don't any of you?

However, I would be willing to concede to your viewpoint...as long as you ALSO acknowledge the following:

1) Wearing black shoe polish on his face & singing "Mammy" meant that Al Jolson was an African-American.

2) Marcel Marceau REALLY DID pull on an invisible rope & walk against a strong wind whenever he performed on-stage.

3) Since he was always kissing Doris Day, Rock Hudson was a heterosexual.

As long as you continue to focus solely upon the esoteric superficialities to rationalize your egregiously contorted viewpoint, all of the above examples are as accurate as the claim that Thomas Beatie is a male.

Or, maybe, it's just like the saying: Being "open-minded" means you'll believe pretty much anything you're told...no matter how ridiculous it is.

Very good point...

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Hey! Michael Stipe Is GAY!?

Michael Stipe has come out of the closet.

In other news, Big Bird admits he's yellow.

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Let's Take A Pregnant Pause...

Thomas is not a pregnant man... He's a female who has taken testosterone which has emphasized masculine traits. He is not a pregnant man! There is no such thing. He is a pregnant woman with artificially hyper-emphasized masculine traits.

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OMG! He's A Republican!

Gay Republican Wins Doraville City Council Seat

The second try at elected office proved the charm for Brian Bates, who handily won a seat on the Doraville City Council in the Nov. 6 voting after losing a close race two years ago.

Bates, who owns a fund raising and communications consulting group, took 58.3 percent of the vote, or 420 votes, to Matt Harner's 41.4 percent, or 298 votes, according to unofficial results available at press time from the DeKalb County Board of Elections.

"We had looked at the 60 percent margin as where we were shooting for, so we're right where we wanted to be," an elated Bates said Wednesday morning.

Bates will take office Nov. 19 to hold the District 2 seat for the remaining two years of the term of Tom Hart, who resigned for an unsuccessful mayoral bid. With the campaign now behind him, Bates said he's ready to roll up his sleeves and get to work.

The elections on Tuesday raised Georgia's number of elected gay officials to nine.

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Thou Shalt Be Gay Above All Else! Or Else!

This has got to be the biggest pile of horse manure that Joe My God has ever thrown up on the internet. And that's saying something...

As Robbie at the Malcontent said:

I’m gay. So how much loyalty, exactly, do I owe other gay people? How much monetary loyalty do I owe other gay people? Is there a special queer tithe?

Reading a piece like this, I realize that gays aren’t really my people because I don’t feel this fierce, narrow partiality to such a niche political ideology. JMG is an excellent writer, but he is militantly gay and leftist. That’s a tiny subset of humanity. Hell, that’s a small subset of gay people. But an opinion like his betrays a radical who believes his fealty to a specialized way of thinking must apply to all gays, and any who betray it are simply rotten human beings.

Let's replace gay with a few other things and see what we get...

I’m not interested in whatever charities Merv Griffin may have supported. He did not support us, right handers, his people. Merv Griffin was successful singer. A successful TV personality. A successful entrepreneur. But as as a right handed man, as a human being, he was a failure.

I’m not interested in whatever charities Merv Griffin may have supported. He did not support us, people who can wiggle their ears, his people. Merv Griffin was successful singer. A successful TV personality. A successful entrepreneur. But as as an ear wiggling man, as a human being, he was a failure.

I’m not interested in whatever charities Merv Griffin may have supported. He did not support us, double jointed men, his people. Merv Griffin was successful singer. A successful TV personality. A successful entrepreneur. But as as a double jointed man, as a human being, he was a failure.

So let me see if I've got this straight (pardon the pun): I'm supposed to be "gay" before I'm a human being? I'm supposed to be "gay" to the exclusion of anything else? Gay, gay, gay, all the live long day? No thanks. To echo Robbie, the "Joe My Gods" of the world ain't my people.

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A Pam Slam On Fred Thompson

Pam over at Pam's House Blend is slamming on undeclared Presidential candidate Fred Thompson because he supports states' rights on the issue of same-gender marriage Mischaracterizing his stance on the issue by claiming that he said we need a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage.

What's made her coffee bitter? An interview that Thompson gave to John King of CNN where the issue of gay marriage came up. You've heard of gay marriage right? The holy grail for gays and lesbians which any candidate for President must support to deserve our vote. Thought so.

But what did Thompson really say on the issue? Here it is:

KING: You met this morning privately with some conservative activists in this state, the people who helped people win the caucuses in the past. They say that they were very comfortable with everything said in that private meeting, very comfortable with your agenda. But they say they're skeptical, that they don't want to just hear lipservice; they want to see results. And they want to know over time, as they meet you, would you a President Fred Thompson actively push a presidential amendment banning gay marriage.

THOMPSON: Yes, yes, I think that with regard to gay marriage you have a full faith and credit issue. I don't think one state ought to be able to pass a law requiring gay marriage, or allowing gay marriage, and have another state be required to follow along, under full faith and credit. There's some exceptions and exemptions for that. Hasn't happened yet, but I think a federal court very well likely will go in that direction, and a constitutional amendment would cure that. [emphasis mine, QC]

Okay boys and girls, let's look at this carefully. First of all, does anyone see the word "ban" in Thompson's answer? Anyone? I don't. Pam, do you? Moving on... King tried to get Thompson to say he is against gay marriage and supports a constitutional amendment to ban it, and by implication reverse all the progress made in states like Massachusetts and Vermont. But Thompson didn't go for that. He framed it, correctly, within the context of Federalism as a full faith and credit issue.

For those of you who don't know "full faith and credit" refers to Article IV, Section 1 of the United States Constitution, and says:

Full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state. And the Congress may by general laws prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof.

The Supreme Court interprets under the following precedent: "[o]ur precedent differentiates the credit owed to laws (legislative measures and common law) and to judgments." From the Wikipedia article:

If the legal pronouncements of one state conflict with the public policy of another state, federal courts in the past have been reluctant to force a state to enforce the pronouncements of another state in contravention of its own public policy. The public policy exception has been applied in cases of marriage (such as polygamy, miscegenation, consanguinity, or gay marriage), civil judgments and orders, criminal conviction and others. In cases of out-of-state judgments, the Court has stated that there may be public policy exceptions to the Full Faith and Credit Clause, but not a "roving" public policy exception as there is for out-of-state laws.

And that is all Thompson was talking about. He did not say he wants to ban gay marriage, or overturn it where it currently exists. He merely believes, as do I, that each State should have the freedom to make its own decision in regards to same-gender marriage, and the Federal government (and courts) should stay out of it.

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I'll Never Figure It Out

Yet another self-described liberal gay guy doesn't understand how someone could be conservative and gay.

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Mary Beats Kerry

Okay, I have to admit that after the last debate I was giving Kerry a pass for mentioning Mary Cheney and her sexual orientation. I didn't understand what all the hubub was about and on its face the comment didn't seem slanderous or hurtful. Of course I momentarily forgot that this is a political campaign and nobody says anything just to be nice, especially a liberal.

As I read more about it and heard it discussed among friends and the pundits, it dawned on me how wrong it was exploit her as "fair game" in this mudslinging contest. Kerry sought to remind Ma & Pa Square-State that there is a living, breathing L-E-S-B-I-A-N at the heart of the Bush-Cheney campaign. Gasp! Shock! Lordy Mercy!

Once again Kerry has managed another self-inflicted wound - only this one won't lead to a purple heart, just a red face. As Zev Chafets points out in his New York Daily News column, people vote for their political party first and their morality second; the ideals are very often not congruous. For Americans, the issues aren't nearly as black and white as we like to contend. We definitely know how to prioritize our values. Here's the punch line:

Politically, Kerry won't benefit from playing the Mary card. But that doesn't mean he hasn't accomplished something of value. Many conservative Christians are for the first time publicly embracing an avowed homosexual. This puts them in touch with their real priorities and values - including that cardinal Kerry virtue, nuance.

Mary Cheney may be gay, but it turns out there are worse things. At least she isn't a Democrat.

Amen.

UPDATE! This is priceless...

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