Q & A with a refugee from the Westboro Baptist Church

 Heterosexually Challenged, Holy Shit! (Religion)
Jul 232012
 

Want to read an interview with an actual Phelps, ex-member of the batshit-crazy Westboro Baptist Church?  It’s fascinating and really drives home what neanderthals these people are.

Q: I remember reading somewhere that your father treated your mom like trash. Can you give examples if what he did to her and if that played a part in you leaving?

A: He pulled her arm out of the socket. He beat her with his fists, his feet and a mattock handle. He cut all her hair off, down to where her scalp showed through because she wasnt in subjection. He screamed and threw things like a child having a temper tantrum.

Imagine that as the image you have of the person who defines your world and how safe you feel in it. I dont mean to get melodramatic, but I only have so much time and opportunity to impress the reality of the situation on you.

via topiama.com

Heterosexual? Suffering under the iron fist of The Gay? Time to get your own parade!

 Heterosexually Challenged
Aug 142011
 

Holy shit.  Is Brazil about to have a Straight Pride Day?  They’ve got to be fucking kidding.  And check out the below quote from the idiot trying to get this thing put into law, he sounds like a real piece of work.  ”A protest against the privileges the gay community enjoys”, eh?  Oh!  Do you mean, as Gawker points out, the 250+ people killed in Brazil last year for being gay?  This fucktard is right up there with the ones who like to wear “Proud to be straight!” t-shirts and then wonder why people start heckling them.  They simply don’t get it.

I’d like to see some large city pass this law here in America, as it would be vastly entertaining to see their lame-o parade slinking down the street:  a sea of popped-collar douchebags with their skanky girlfriends, stuffy old farts who have never even met a gay person, repressed whitebread families carrying Bibles and signs quoting scripture, and a few high profile anti-gay politicians who picked up young boys on Craigslist only the night before.  Yep, sounds like a perfect hetero parade to me!

Sao Paulo’s mayor is reviewing the legislation, but hasn’t signed it into law. If passed, Heterosexual Pride Day will take place on a Sunday each December. The man behind the bill, Carlos Apolinario, told the AP that he doesn’t hate anyone, he just wants this day to be held as “a protest against the privileges the gay community enjoys,” of which there are many. Just ask the 260 gays who were murdered in Brazil last year for being gay.

“I have no trouble coexisting with gays as long as their behavior is normal,” Apolinario added.

via Gawker

Michele Bachmann: just another idiot “end-timer”

 Heterosexually Challenged, Holy Shit! (Religion)
Jul 192011
 

Not only does this bitch want to see all gays roasting in ovens, she’s one of those batshit-crazy Christians who thinks Jesus is in his car and driving over here this very minute.  Surprising?  Hardly.

You know what?  We’ve been in the “last days” for centuries now.  And it really means nothing, folks…not a goddamned thing.  Stop making fools of yourselves and wasting your lives expecting the world to end tomorrow.  It’s getting embarrassing.  (Though I must admit it’s often entertaining…)

As GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann R-MN surges in the polls, more information is coming to light about her past that reveal the depths of her political and religious extremism. The Bachmanns’ counseling clinic practices discredited and damaging ex-gay therapy to “cure” homosexuality.

Slate’s Dave Weigel has reported an audio recording of Bachmann praying for the notoriously anti-gay ministry You Can Run But You Can’t Hide, run by the radical preacher Bradlee Dean. Bachmann offered the prayer in 2006 though the recording was uploaded in 2008. In it, Bachmann predicts, “We are in the last days,” and says, “The harvest is at hand” — a Biblical allusion to the Rapture when some believe God will take saved Christians from the earth and leave the non-believers to face several years of torment and tribulation before the second coming of Christ

via ThinkProgress

Pope’s handpicked minion: AIDS is homo justice, pedo priests are A-OK!

 Heterosexually Challenged, Holy Shit! (Religion)
Nov 112010
 

I can’t add much to this, except to say that it’s positively delicious.  Having this fucknut out there saying so many insane things on behalf of the Pope is exactly what the world needs to see coming from the Catholic Church.  He’s saying what the Church wishes it could say, though they’re pretending to be shocked and outraged.  Let him speak his psychobabble, it can only damage the Church’s image further.  And that’s a good thing.  (Gee, I guess I did have something else to add…)

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) – He calls AIDS a form of “justice” for homosexuals and wants retired pedophile priests to go unpunished. He says women who have an abortion will be greeted in the afterlife by their unborn child crying “Momma!”

Archbishop Andre Leonard, 70, was plucked from a sleepy Belgian citadel-town by Pope Benedict XVI in January to energize the country’s Roman Catholic faithful and reverse 30 years of liberalism. The appointment was in line with Benedict’s policy of putting tradition-minded and conservative bishops in important dioceses.

But since taking office, Leonard’s hardline views have added turmoil to a church already mired in an abuse scandal. And, privately, some Vatican officials are expressing concern about an ever-worsening public relations disaster.

The controversy turned into a very public revolt last week when his spokesman resigned, saying he could no longer morally defend Leonard.

“I was his GPS for three months. But it is the driver who has his hands on the wheel. Too often, I had to recalculate the route,” said Juergen Mettepenningen. He called Leonard a “loose cannon who thinks everybody else is wrong.”

Leonard’s views – and the way he delivers them so stridently – are riling the Catholic base, but they dovetail with church teachings that homosexual acts are “intrinsically disordered” and that women who abort babies are sinners.

Also, the Vatican admits it has no tolerance for pedophiles, but rarely subjects elderly pedophile priests to full canonical trials, instead telling them to live out their years in prayer and penance.

Bert Claerhout, editor of Church and Life, a Catholic weekly, says he has been receiving “fierce” letters of complaint from readers – and doesn’t believe Leonard’s views have suddenly come to the attention of the Vatican.

“The pope knew very well what he did when he appointed Leonard. He wanted someone to bring a conservative view to the church here,” Claerhout said in an interview.

via CBS News

Gay = Alcoholic

 General Blatherings
Oct 182010
 

Today’s Republican asshattery comes from Ken Buck, a guy running for the Senate in Colorado.  Recently he compared homosexuality to–unbelievably–alcoholism, and he’s not backing down.  So he officially joins the ranks of millions of other clueless right-wingnuts who think that we homos have a disease (by choice, of course), and that this disease can be cured with treatment.  Because, you know, we’re all DRUNK WITH THE GAY!

What a fucking retard.

Asked by host David Gregory to elaborate on a statement he made in an earlier debate about gays in the military, Buck said he believes sexual orientation is a choice.

Buck went on to say, “I think that birth has an influence over it, like alcoholism and some other things, but I think that basically you have a choice.”

Bennet jumped on Buck’s remark. “I absolutely believe he’s outside the mainstream of views on this,” said Bennet.

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After the debate, Buck spokesman Owen Loftus said that Buck did not mean to imply with his alcoholism comparison that buck believes homosexuality is a disease.

“Ken was just saying there’s an element of predisposition there and an element of choice,” Loftus said.

via 365gay.com

N.O.M. donors exposed!

 Heterosexually Challenged, Holy Shit! (Religion), Idiots & Assholes (Politics)
Oct 052010
 

Oh, this is wonderful:  a new website reveals and tracks those who donate to the National Organization for Marriage (N.O.M.).  These are the bastards who fight gay rights and same-sex marriage all over the country, funded mostly by religious organizations.  You know, those groups who are supposed to be helping the poor, hungry, and abused of our society but instead choose to focus their attention and funding on restricting the rights of people they don’t like.  Oh yeah, and they do it without paying any goddamn taxes.

“We want to out NOM for what it is—a secretive player in antigay politics, which is posing as an offshore company for antigay religious money,” says Michael Cole, a spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign.

After months of poring through public documents including court and tax records, the Web site, viewed in advance by NEWSWEEK, details NOM supporters like the Mormon and Catholic churches, as well as Opus Dei. It also posts items about organizations and individuals that have publicly expressed antigay rhetoric and activity and their relationship to NOM. The site includes a graph to show the phenomenal growth NOM has enjoyed over the last three years, going from a budget of $500,000 to $10 million in three years.

via Newsweek

Naturally, NOM is playing the victim card (via their sniveling little spokescreep), claiming that revealing this donor info will put them at risk for violent retaliation by fired-up queens and lesbos with an axe to grind.  Poor, poor donors, what EVER shall they do now that their rights-stomping ways are exposed?  I don’t wish violence on them, but maybe a little fear and paranoia is just what they need.  They have chosen to side with an oppressing force in a country which is supposedly free, so fuck ‘em if they’re spooked.

STOP BEING AFRAID

 Idiots & Assholes (Politics)
Sep 262010
 

Our politicians say the terrorists haven’t won, but watching how many of my fellow Americans are acting, sometimes I wonder.  This poster really gets to the heart of the matter, doesn’t it?  It recently appeared on Salon in a tiny thumbnail, so the artist cooked up a larger version to share on Facebook.  It’s brilliant!  (You can download a hi-res version as well.)

Church, meet State.

 Heterosexually Challenged, Holy Shit! (Religion)
Sep 252010
 

Oh, this is so delicious my head might just explode.  A Christian “charity” in Hawaii has been slapped with $20K in taxes after spending a shitload of money in support of banning gay marriage.

Hawaii Family Forum, a Christian charity that helped lead the fight against civil unions, spent so much money politicking last year that it had to pay the IRS $20,741 in taxes for its “excessive lobbying,” according to its latest tax return.  The nonprofit group reported spending $125,695 on lobbying last year, a huge jump over the zero dollars it said it spent on lobbying in 2008.  The change comes after at least two complaints were filed with the Internal Revenue Service about the forum’s extensive political activities.

“This tax form just confirms what we had suspected, and that is that they engaged in excessive lobbying, that they have no charitable programs, that they are 100 percent a lobbying organization,” said Holly Huber, who filed a complaint with the IRS in June on behalf of Hawaii Citizens for the Separation of State and Church. “They should not be a tax-exempt nonprofit charitable organization. They are a political action group.”

via Staradvertiser.com

Zing!!  Now, can we do the same to other “charity” organizations which heavily influence state law?  How about the Mormons and their spending spree which helped defeat Prop 8 in California?  But really, I don’t care what church or religion you bleong to–if you want a hand in the affairs of state, you can goddamn well pay your taxes just like everyone else.

Republicans uphold dishonor of gay soldiers

 Heterosexually Challenged, Idiots & Assholes (Politics)
Sep 222010
 

Well, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” remains alive and well, thanks to the troglodytes in the Senate G.O.P.  Oh, and some Democrats voted against the repeal as well.  Motherfuckers.  But is anyone really surprised?  Voting on Big Gay Issues to the benefit of said gays scares the living hell out of people, especially those on the Right.  Like Roger Ebert tweeted the other day, “GOP against middle class, poor, unemployed, Hispanics, blacks, gays, and the uninsured.  Who’s left?”

The effort to lift the military’s ban on openly gay and lesbian service members had a major setback Tuesday when Senate Democrats failed to win the 60 votes needed to advance a defense bill that included conditional repeal of the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell law.

Arkansas Democratic Sens. Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor joined all Republicans in opposing the measure. And neither of Maine’s Republican Sens. Susan Collins or Olympia Snowe, who had been the target of a media campaign by Lady Gaga, supported advancing it.

Gay rights advocates, who said they believed today’s vote was the best opportunity in the foreseeable future to achieve a repeal, expressed disappointment at the vote but hope the Senate might still act after the November elections.

“Time is the enemy here,” said Aubrey Sarvis of the Service Members Legal Defense Network, a gay and lesbian advocacy group. “We now have no choice but to look to the lame duck session where we’ll have a slim shot. The Senate absolutely must schedule a vote in December when cooler heads and common sense are more likely to prevail once midterm elections are behind us.”

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he would push for reconsideration of the legislation later this year.

Oh, and get a load of John McCain’s ridiculous swaggering:

Senate Republicans also accused Democrats of advancing the repeal measure and the DREAM Act amendment, which would provide a path to legal status to young illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. before age 15 and complete college or military service, for purely political reasons.

“This is a cynical ploy to try to galvanize and energize their base,” McCain said ahead of the vote.

via ABC News

Cynical?  Bite me, McCain.  This was not a “cynical vote”, but it’s easy to see why people in this country are cynical about ever ending this ridiculous discrimination against men and women who are willing to DIE for this country.

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