When Rights Collide

Identity politics again grinds to an illogical halt. Leftist brains freeze up as they get caught in a circular loop.

Bisexual men sue gay group, claim bias

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Your Tears Soothe Me, Mario...

Such sweet drama...

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The Gheys Are Separate... But Are They Equal?

Texas Christian University to Offer Separate Housing for Gay Students

Eight students have signed up for Texas Christian University's designated on-campus housing for gay students and their supporters, in what may be the only such college housing in North Texas.

The DiversCity Q community will open in the fall in a section of the Tom Brown-Pete Wright apartments. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender students and allies — heterosexual classmates who support them — will have the chance to live together, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported in a story posted Tuesday on its Web site.

"It's a chance for students to be part of a unique experience," said David Cooper, TCU associate director for residential life.

Yes... apparently the "unique experience" they're talking about is better known as "segregation". So all this brouhaha about equality is just so gays can move into a residence hall ghetto. Yeah that make sense... No, no it doesn't.

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As A "Friend To Gays" Sean Penn Is Milk-toast

A Friend to Gays and Antigay Dictators Alike

It’s not surprising that Sean Penn, thanks to his star turn as Harvey Milk, is becoming a hero of the gay community -- likely to be showered with acting prizes, and deservedly so. But his outspoken admiration for the Castro and Chavez regimes should make everyone think twice. [...]

“There isn’t a single individual that is taken seriously in the human rights community -- whether you’re talking about Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, or Freedom House -- that would describe the Castro brothers and their regime as anything other than a police state run by thugs and murderers,” says Thor Halvorssen, president of the Human Rights Foundation, which focuses on Latin America. “That Sean Penn would be honored by anyone, let alone the gay community, for having stood by a dictator that put gays into concentration camps is mind-boggling.” [...]

Why should anyone care about an actor’s politics? The bloviations of Hollywood stars tend to be ignorant and irrelevant to those interested in serious debate about the issues of the day, but Penn’s grandstanding matters due to both his role in Milk and the film’s political relevance in the context of Proposition 8 and the nationwide campaign for gay rights. Gay rights are human rights, as Milk said, and Penn discredits both when he rationalizes illiberal ideologies as “anti-imperialist” and rushes to the defense of thugs who posture as victims of the West. Penn’s ignoble political side projects taint a noble cause.

Ignoble and mind-boggling doesn't even begin to describe it. Penn is a perfect example of Lenin's "useful idiot" - willing to excoriate the very nation that gives him voice in order to defend people that would at best lock him up, at worst use him and then dispose of him.

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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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A Conservative Argument For Same Gender Marriage

From Diogenes Borealis: A Conservative Argues For Same-sex Marriage

An op-ed in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution by Terry J. Garlock argues "Conservatives wrong to fight gay marriage". An excerpt:

I've given this a lot of thought, and I think my prior stand against same-sex marriage was based on my personal thoughts about homosexuality rather than individual liberty. Those are two separate issues. My uneasiness may never go away, no matter how many names the enlightened ones call me, but the freedom of same-sex couples does not depend on my endorsement of their lifestyle.

As a conservative, I believe the state should stay out of the business of judging which unrelated adults may and may not make a marriage commitment to each other, that when a same-sex couple chooses to marry, we conservatives should value their liberty far more than any personal or religious disagreement with homosexuality. Conservatives should welcome the contribution of same-sex marriage to the virtues of commitment and family stability we hold so dear.

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I'm Helping Daily Kos!

Promote the fact that McCain met with GAY PEOPLE! OH NO!!!!!

What rubes they are.

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The Trevor Project

1-866-4-u-TREVOR 1-866-488-7386

The Trevor Project "operates the nations only 24/7 crisis & suicide prevention helpline for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth." If you are a GLBTQ teen in crisis, feeling alone, depressed, or suicidal, please call The Trevor Helpline now. YOU ARE WORTH IT.

I saw this over at Green Mountain Jamie. For all the pain and pangs I went through as a gay adolescent, coming out wasn't that difficult or traumatic. Sometimes it's easy to forget that for a lot of other kids dealing with their sexuality can be just horrible. Regardless of our varying opinions on homosexuality, I don't think anyone wants to see a kid who doesn't feel like he or she has anywhere to go or someone to talk to.

They're looking for word of the event to be spread, so spread it like Heinz Deli Mayo people! (I'm gonna get a lot of mileage outta that commercial):

MEDIA ALERT

CELEBRITY PERFORMANCES AT TREVOR NEW YORK GALA

NOTE TO EDITORS: Media are invited to press line for celebrity interviews and photo opportunities. Media must R.S.V.P. to Jacque Wing or Scott Boute in order to gain wristband access to press line. Gala attendance is by paid ticket only.

WHO: Direct from Town Hall, Tony Award®-winning actress and recording
artist, Idina Menzel, to perform new songs from her latest hit album, I Stand, at Trevor New York, the eighth annual New York City gala benefitting The Trevor Project.

Comic entertainer and author of Confessions of a Pretty Lady, Sandra Bernhard, to perform a comedy segment in the evening’s program.

The evening will be hosted by actor Alec Mapa, host of Transamerican Love Story on the Logo network and a recurring character on Emmy® Award-winning television series, Ugly Betty.

Presenters at the event include:
· Lauren Collins (actress, Degrassi: The Next Generation)
· Gideon Glick (actor, Spring Awakening)
· Cheyenne Jackson (actor, Xanadu)
· Heather Matarazzo (actress, Welcome to the Dollhouse)
· Rosie Perez (actress, The Take)
· Adamo Ruggiero (actor, Degrassi: The Next Generation)
· More to be announced

Award-winning actor Alan Cumming and The N, the 24-hour network for and about teens, will also be honored at the gala. Cumming will receive The Trevor Hero Award, which honors an individual who, through his or her example, support, volunteerism and/or occupation, is an inspiration to gay and questioning youth. The N will receive The Trevor Commitment Award, which honors a company or organization that, through its policies, initiatives and other efforts, demonstrates a commitment to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender causes and is a prominent, public example of corporate acceptance of individuals regardless of sexual orientation.

WHAT: The Trevor Project is a non-profit organization that operates the only
nationwide, around-the-clock crisis and suicide prevention helpline for gay and questioning youth.

In 1998, The Trevor Project held its first “Cracked Xmas” fundraising gala in Los Angeles to keep The Trevor Helpline open and available to gay and questioning youth. In 2001, the organization held its first Trevor New York fundraiser. The two galas, both now annual events, bring together top entertainers to raise the financial resources necessary to fund the organization’s services.

WHEN: Mon. June 30, 2008
Press line begins at 6:30p.m.
Gala from 7:30 to 10p.m.

WHERE: The Mandarin Oriental Hotel
80 Columbus Circle
New York , NY

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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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Congratulations Ladies

Marriage Equality Begins In California

More than 55 years after they first met, longtime partners and human-rights activists Del Martin, 87, and Phyllis Lyon, 83, at 5:01 Monday night became the first same-sex couple to be married in San Francisco. The women's nuptials kicked off what is expected to be a crush of weddings on Tuesday -- following a California supreme court ruling last month that legalized gay marriage.

After 55 years, it was time for their commitment to be honored. They've been together longer than any heterosexual marriage I know except for my paternal grandparents. In the long run this will only strengthen society and help the gay community overall. A civilizing effect for us all.

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A Blurb

I'm rereading Bruce Bawer's column at Pajamas Media on the rising intolerence of and violence directed at gay men and lesbians in Amsterdam - actually it's happening in all of Europe - and I feel the need to share this passage that perfectly sums up the lack of understanding by the multi-culti crowd of the danger that Europe and all of the Western world faces from Islam (not radical Islam... Islam):

Yet politicians, journalists, activists, and others who cling to the multicultural mindset can’t bring themselves to acknowledge the Islamic foundations of all this bullying. Instead, they offer the same kind of nonsense that was served up by a Human Rights Watch spokesman after the Chris Crain incident. “There’s still an extraordinary degree of racism in Dutch society,” that spokesman said. “Gays often become the victims of this when immigrants retaliate for the inequities they have to suffer.”

So powerful is the determination to turn away from the plain and simple truth that Amsterdam mayor Job Cohen recently commissioned a study by the University of Amsterdam. Its purpose? To try to figure out what motives underlie the increase in attacks on gay men and lesbians by Dutch-Moroccan men in Amsterdam. “Some researchers,” wrote a reporter for UPI, “believe they [Muslim gay-bashers] lashed out at local gays after feeling stigmatized by Dutch society.” In other words, as the straight-talking Norwegian immigration expert Inger-Lise Lien put it sardonically when I showed her the article, “it’s the assailant who’s the real victim.”

Take Norway’s Asghar Ali, deputy chairman of Norway’s Islamic Council. Ali, who also holds high-ranking positions in Norway’s ruling Labor Party and in the powerful Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions, and has worked in an advisory capacity on the government’s Equality and Anti-Discrimination Ombud, would seem to be a model of successful assimilation. Yet at a November 2007 debate arranged by the gay student organization at the University of Oslo, he refused to reject the death penalty for gays. When asked about this issue, the head of the Islamic Council, Senaid Kobilica, said that Norwegian Muslims needed to discuss it and consult religious authorities. “While this process is underway,” Kobilica said, “I ask for understanding and respect for the fact that I am unable to comment, either about my personal position or about the position of the Islamic Council of Norway.” Understanding and respect, that is, for his unwillingness to say flat out that he did not believe gay people should be murdered.

Perhaps younger, well educated Muslims are more enlightened? Another participant in the University of Oslo debate, Muslim Student Association head Usman Rana, said that he personally didn’t support making homosexuality a capital crime, but that he would not criticize other countries’ practices. “There is unfortunately a tendency in Norway to degrade religious people,” Rana told Universitas, the college newspaper. “It is due to an extreme secularism among the Norwegian public. I fervently hope that our participation [in the debate on the death penalty for gays] helps to create a more nuanced view of Islam. The Norwegian public needs to become more liberal.” Once again, it’s the assailants - or, in this case, the would-be executioners - who are the real victims.

Did you get that? European society is to blame. Dutch society is intolerant and racist. The Norwegians aren't liberal enough. The aggressors are the victims here. Poor them.

The only question I have is whether the politicians' and multi-culturalists' cluelessness is genuine or willful? On second thought, I think the answer is obvious.

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How Long Will The First One Last?

California's First Gay Marriage On June 17

So how long until the first gay divorce? I say the first lesbian couple married will be the first to divorce after less than 3 months. They'll immediately claim it's discriminatory to apply the divorce laws to them.

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Muslims, Gays, And The Decline Of The West

Dan at Gay Patriot is absolutely correct.

[T]he greatest enemies of gay people are not social conservatives in the West who may question (what they call) our lifestyle and oppose legislation benefiting us, but Islamic theocrats who execute gay people in jurisdictions where they predominate and seek to destroy the nations with political systems which allow us to live freely.

The silence from the gay media, which he highlights in his post, is deafening.

It was waking up to the threat from radical Islam that brought me all the way out as a conservative. Something my liberal gay friends just don't understand. They have a complete disconnect about the danger that is posed; and quite frankly I'm now convinced it's a danger that isn't limited to "radical" Islam. Homosexuals aren't free or safe in any Muslim country, or apparently any country with a large Muslim immigrant population. Groups like Queers for Palestine are particularly galling and completely absurd. Talk about your unrequited love, huh? You'd think that 110 story skyscrapers collapsing to the stirring sounds of "Allahu Akbar" would be quite attention getting, no?

USMale, a blogger friend of mine says it well too: only in the Western world can a gay man live a free life as himself. Hence, the health and strength of the West is fundamental to my survival. In fact I made that quote the tag line of my blog.

Oh, and who is standing up for the victims of gay bashing in the Netherlands? Geert Wilders - a conservative. Who is vacillating in standing up for them? Yman Mahrach, the liberal.

UPDATE: For more evidence that liberals have their heads in the sand, read this thread at Democratic Underground. It's amusing. Sad; but amusing.

via Rightwingsparkle

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Obama And The Gehys

Gay Press Frustrated By Obama Approach

Mark Segal didn’t want to wait. After weeks of requests to interview Barack Obama, the publisher of the Philadelphia Gay News concluded the senator’s aides may never make him available.

So even as the Obama campaign held out the possibility of an interview before the April 22 Pennsylvania primary, Segal published a half-blank front page to represent what he described in an editorial as Obama’s "disrespect of the LGBT [Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender] local media."

It was an attention-grabbing move that positioned a floodlight on gripes that had been festering for months in the gay press: Obama won’t make time for local gay publications.

This is my favorite quote from the story:

"It wasn’t surprising to me," said Tammye Nash, editor of the Dallas Voice, a gay and lesbian weekly that also failed in its efforts to interview Obama before the Texas primary on March 4. "Obviously he is not snubbing the gay community. But we obviously feel he is [bypassing] the gay press."

Ms. Nash, like most gay liberals, just can't bring herself to bite the hand the flips her off. It sounds like battered wife syndrome, "he beats me, but it's for my own good because he loves me."

Obama isn't totally ignoring the 'mos though:

In keeping with his campaign’s managed approach to the media in general, Obama has communicated with the gay press on his own terms, placing ads in local gay newspapers and writing op-eds. And with more interview requests than Obama can fill, aides likely do a cost-benefit analysis of each media outlet and the audience it reaches.

"Obama is talking to mainstream audiences about issues of importance to our community," said Eric Stern, a leader of Obama’s National LGBT Leadership Council. "While Hillary is attractive, she is making her appeal almost exclusively to gay audiences. That is not a postmodern approach."

Translation from liberalese: Obama wants your gay and lesbian votes, he just doesn't want to actually associate with you to get them. So just shut-up, bend over and punch the touchscreen for His Obamaness.

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