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Proposed bill could allow adoption agencies to discriminate against gays while taking taxpayer money
This newest tripe, I mean action alert by the Family Research Council has gotten me a bit angry. The organization is pushing a bill which could allow adoption agencies and foster care providers to engage in anti-gay discrimination under the guise of religious freedom (see the bill here):
In California, Massachusetts, Illinois, and D.C. religious adoption and foster care providers have had their government funding pulled and have been forced to end services, simply because they continue to believe in the importance of a child having a mom and a dad. It's a sad sign of the times that some states have preferred to sever longstanding partnerships with faith-based providers rather than allow them to continue caring for and placing children informed by traditional moral beliefs about the family. This important legislation sponsored by Congressman Mike Kelly in the House and Senator Mike Enzi in the Senate will ensure that the interests of children are placed ahead of political correctness.
Specifically, this bill will prohibit discrimination against faith-based child welfare service providers by the federal government and by states receiving federal funds for adoption and foster care services. The Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act will prohibit such discrimination against faith-based child welfare service providers and will threaten states continuing such discrimination with a loss of federal funding. This important legislation will ensure that the maximum number of child welfare service providers can continue to advocate for children and will ensure that many adoptive families can continue to work with a provider which shares their core beliefs.
For the record, adoption agencies, religious based or otherwise, are allowed to place children in homes with mothers and fathers. What this proposed monstrosity could do is to allow religious based adoption agencies and foster care providers to discriminate against gay households while using our tax dollars.
No doubt, FRC and other supporters of this bill will attempt to paint the lgbt community as selfish if we raise any objections about this bill. It's definitely by intention that the organization uses vague code words and phrases about "core beliefs," children doing better with a mother and a father," "traditional moral beliefs" and all of the other board room talking points which are usually voiced by those seeking to deny the existence of same-sex households with children.
I don't think it's wrong or selfish for the lgbt community to assert our rights and dignity as taxpaying American citizens here. And I definitely refuse to believe that in doing so, we are hurting children.
It's been proven in study after study (the most recent being earlier this month) that we can raise children just as well as two-parent heterosexual households. This view has also been validated numerous times by the courts, including the Supreme Court when it overturned DOMA last year. . Therefore, in the case of adoption agencies and foster care providers who want to discriminate against gay couples, we are talking about organizations who want to assert their personal religious preference instead of what's best for the child.
If religious-based adoption agencies and foster care providers don't think that gay households are suitable enough to raise children then they shouldn't be so eager to have their hands out in order to receive gay tax dollars.
It's bad enough when it is asserted that we are not good enough to raise and nurture children. Having to pay for that non-privilege further reduces the gay community to the level of slaves in a masochistic relationship with our government . . . and all under the guise of "religious freedom."
It's not only a transparent tactic but highly cynical. And apparently it's the tactic that Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida is attempting:
While Rubio has consistently held conservative positions on abortion and gay marriage, his current emphasis appears to be an effort to appeal to social conservatives who have yet to settle on a favored candidate for 2016. "Even before this speech is over, I will be attacked as someone who is a hater or a bigot," Rubio said.
.. . In his remarks, Rubio acknowledged the United States has a history of discrimination against gays and lesbians. But he said he could not support such unions despite a quick-moving shift in public opinion in support of allowing same-sex couples to marry. "There is a growing intolerance on this issue," Rubio said of those who back same-sex marriages. He then urged his opponents to show civility: "Tolerance is also a two-way street."
No doubt, the folks at Fox News and members of the media who care more about attaining "access" than getting the story correct will fall for Rubio's junk.
But I agree with him that there needs to be civility on the issue. And let's start with addressing the following:
Staver: Gay Marriage Is 'A Direct Attack On Who God Is'
Klingenschmitt: Jesus Will Overrule The Supreme Court And Toss Gays Into Hell
Ben Carson Explains How Gay Marriage Is A Marxist Plot To Impose The 'New World Order'
Barber: Gay Marriage Is 'The Brainchild' Of Satan
Renew America Pundit Warns Gay Marriage Will Turn Us Into Marxist Slaves
If Sen. Rubio was honest with his cry for "tolerance," he would address those on his side of the argument with as much vigor as he attempts to place onus on us.
After all, we aren't the ones conjuring up images of Marxism, Satanism, or slavery.
It's not only a personal insult to me as an lgbt but also an African-American that Barber would exploit what I consider sacred images in order to make a false point.
There will be no "coming Christian revolt," Mr. Barber because no Christian in this country is being discriminated against. Being told to treat everyone the same is not discrimination. Providing goods and services to people whose taxes pay for the safety of your business is not discrimination.
Your disagreement with the fact that lgbts should have the same rights as heterosexuals is just that - YOUR disagreement. You have a right to believe that, but you don't have a right to codify it into law, particularly if your codification involves junk science, cherry-picked science, or out-and-out lies.
You are not entitled to anything, Mr. Barber. If you are, please educate me. And by all means, please tell me how the elimination of your entitlements ranks next to being denied the right to vote, segregation, lynching, being called "boy" or "gal" as a deliberate sign of disrespect. And if that's too difficult for you, then answer me this:
Where the hell do you get off exploiting the images and legacy of Americans who suffered for simple freedoms to justify the fact that you don't want to get off that pedestal of yours; a pedestal which you created based upon your concept of being a Christian.
Peep this, Mr. Barber and everyone else who thinks like you. Calling yourself a Christian does not give you special privileges in this country. Calling yourself a Christian does not make you a better American than me. And calling yourself a Christian does not absolve you from rights and responsibilities that all Americans have. This is not nor has it ever been a Christian nation and the rest of us who don't practice your beliefs do not exist here for your will and pleasure.
You are nothing but petulant spoiled child who mistakes the circles he runs with and the access he has as evidence of his own intellect and God's love for him when in fact its a strong possibility that these are evidence of God's love for the rest of us.
Sometimes giving a petulant child the very thing he wants is the best way to show the world just how much of a vulgar individual he really is.
And right now, Mr. Barber, you aren't looking pretty.
Hat tip to Right Wing Watch.
For over a year, I have driven you all crazy and I appreciate your patience and support but now we are almost at the end of one part of a journey.
My online booklet, How They See Us: Unmasking the Religious Right War on Gay America is less than 4,000 hits from reaching 1,000,000. It's a remarkable achievement fueled by all of the support I received from the netroots. And it's very timely. Things have changed tremendously since January of last year when I published this booklet. Thanks to the recent Hobby Lobby decision, the anti-gay religious right is gaining traction with their bogus "religious freedom" argument.
Granted, we can still count on them to accuse lgbts of attempting to "recruit children" or being "oversexed all-around public health menaces. However, just like the Klan tried to retool its reputation by claiming they are not "anti-black," just "pro-white," the anti-gay religious right is cleverly retooling their arguments by saying they aren't anti-gay, just "pro-traditional marriage." They also claim that they are unfairly being targeted for not "celebrating" the so-called "gay lifestyle."
Of course we know the truth.
Their "religious freedom" or "religious liberty" argument is another tactic in a long line of tactics and arguments going back decades And the goal has always been the demonization and stigmatization of lgbt individuals in order to deny the lgbt community our God-granted right to equality.
They will never own up to what they have been doing. They won't bring up any of the anti-gay lies, homophobic language, or willful scientific distortions they have been guilty of throughout the years. And let's be honest about something – neither will the media, particularly the Washington Beltway media.
If you haven't already, check out How They See Us. It is short, but graphics intensive booklet, which I consider a definitive history on anti-gay propaganda. Download it, and above all, PLEASE share it. Our desire for full equality is noble and true, but we have to deal with crafty enemies who hide their homophobic animus behind Scripture and the claim of "deeply held religious beliefs." It's a lie and using their own words and images, How They See Us proves it.
You can read an embedded copy of How They See Us directly on the Scribd site or go to this second site where you can download an adobe acrobat copy.
If you desire to fight back against homophobic lies, then realize that knowledge is the first key. Passing along this knowledge is the second one.
(And just to clear things up, this booklet is free. I don't get a dime for it. I created it because I am tired of talking about lgbt equality on the terms of the religious right. I'm tired of not having a good resource on hand to call out anti-gay propaganda. The lgbt community – particularly lgbt youth – should have something like this. We all should have had something like this a long time ago.)
Never mind reading the entire thing because its his usual psycho wannabe John The Baptist babble. However, the first sentence caught my attention and should catch yours:
Churches in Denmark are now compelled, by law, to host same-sex "weddings."
Even on a technical basis, Barber is wrong. I recognized that sentence from an earlier article I posted in my news briefs. At the time, it was Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association spinning this lie:
According to the London Telegraph, a new law passed by the Danish parliament "make(s) it mandatory for all churches to conduct gay marriages." No options, no exceptions, no choice. Homosexuals are to be married wherever they want, regardless of whose conscience is trampled and whose sanctuary is defiled in the process.
Sarah Jones for Americans United for the Separation of Church and State refuted Fischer:
While it is certainly true that in Denmark, same-sex couples have a legal right to be married in a church in some cases, Fischer neglects to mention the reason why that is so: Denmark has a state church. The law applies quite specifically to that state church.
"With the legalization of gay marriage, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark [which is the state church], is required to allow same-sex couples to marry in churches," the Pew Research Center notes in a 2013 explainer on same-sex marriage laws around the world.It's hardly a blanket rule: Pew goes on to state that other religious groups are exempt from the law.
Catholic churches, for example, aren't required to host same-sex marriage ceremonies, a fact the Vatican noted just this week. "For the moment we [the Catholic Church] are not worried," Niels Messerschmidt, a representative of the Catholic Diocese of Copenhagen, told Vatican Radio.
Fischer omitted this crucial fact in his fear mongering, as did Matt Barber.
And how much do you want to bet that if any speaker at the National Organization for Marriage's silly march later this week brings up this law (because they probably will), the truth behind the meme they will spin about "churches are being forced to marry gay couples in Denmark will magically elude them?
The sad part about the entire lie is that in the comments section of One News Now where Barber's mess is published, the true story is pointed out. However it still doesn't dissuade the notion from some folks that gays are plotting to force churches to marry them.
On that note, the entire blame for this lie can't be shouldered by Fischer or Barber.
When you have people so willing to scared in spite of being told that their fears are groundless, who can blame Barber, Fischer, or any anti-gay spokesperson for taking advantage of their stupidity?
On Tuesday, the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice held a hearing on "The State of Religious Liberty in the United States" to study the rise of "religious freedom" laws in some U.S. states, under which people of faith cannot be compelled to perform their jobs or provide goods and services if to do so would conflict with their personal beliefs.
Critics of these laws argue that they mimic the crop of antigay laws that have been passed in countries like Russia, Uganda and Nigeria, laws that criminalize same-sex relationships and outlaw the positive portrayal of anything other than heterosexual, monogamous relationships.
Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) asked Mat Staver of the Liberty Counsel, "There are certain antigay laws they have in Russia. You, I believe, have advocated for something similar to that, have you not? Do you support the Russian antigay laws?"
Staver replied, "What I am concerned about is having people of Christian, uh, Judeo-Christian beliefs be forced to participate in a ceremony or an event that celebrates something that is contrary to their religious beliefs."
"Okay," said Cohen, "so you're not in favor of the Russian antigay laws and what I read was wrong?"
"I don't know what you read," Staver said. "I haven't spoken on the Russian laws."
However, Right Wing Watch reported in January that Staver and the Liberty Counsel's Matt Barber both voiced their support for anti-LGBT laws like those in Russia, Uganda and Nigeria during an edition of their "Faith and Freedom" radio show.
The transcript of this particular show is as follows:
Staver: President Obama has been going in a direction to really deconstruct this and to create this idea of same-sex marriage, which is really an oxymoron. But, at the same time, the rest of the world seems to be going exactly opposite of the president and some of the states.
Barber: Yeah, and it's encouraging to see what's happening around the world. I think many nations, you think of Russia, you think of some of the African nations around the world, are looking to a liberalized Europe and are looking to the United States under this Obama Administration and they're rejecting this notion that you can take the institution of marriage and radically redefine it by sanctifying what every major world religion and thousands of years of history and uncompromising human biology have long held: that homosexual behavior and conduct is both immoral, unnatural and self-destructive to the individuals engaged in the behavior and that you don't have a marriage built upon this immoral behavior. …
Staver: Well, it seems as though, if people are having AIDS and most of that, as the CDC comes down and says, it is transmitted by male homosexuality, by and large, what are you going to do? Are you going to say, are you going to elevate that to a preferred status and say, well yeah, men ought to be able to marry men? That's an oxymoron. What Nigeria has done by reaffirming marriage as between one man and one woman is what a number of countries are doing around the world. They're reaffirming marriage as one man and one woman. Russia is one of those countries recently that did that. Latin American countries have reaffirmed marriage as one man and one woman. Then other countries around the world are reaffirming marriage as one man and one woman and rejecting this radicalized homosexual agenda. …
Barber: This is a very dangerous lifestyle that countries like Russia are, in addition to reestablishing and saying no, marriage is what it's always been, they're saying additionally we are going to stop this homosexual activist propaganda from corrupting children in our nation and we need to see that right here in the United States.
An article in the Huffington Post published after this show confirmed that Staver was in fact defending Russia's anti-gay laws.
I am not aware of any concrete penalties Staver would suffer for perjury but he definitely deserves a COLOSSAL round of scorn in the court of public opinion because during the Congressional hearing, he was clearly lying his toches off.
Mazel tov!
Now let's get serious for a bit. On election night less than two years ago, many Americans got caught by surprise when President Obama was reelected to a second term. Fox News, just about all of the conservative media and bloggers, and their gut had told them that Mitt Romney would either win in a close vote or a landslide.
As it turned out, what they probably felt in their gut was a brief case of happy gas. However, when it came to all of the other prognosticators, it was genuinely agreed that these seers, these so-called correct predictors of the election day mood, was taking their audience for a ride. Prominent conservatives and republicans like David Frum and Joe Scarborough had it so correct when they read the riot act to folks like Fox News commentator Dick Morris and talking heads Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin for leading fellow conservatives down a primrose path of destruction fueled by a conservative bubble which shut all reality out of an assured Obama victory.
By that same token, someone needs to yank all of these folks who voted for these statewide anti-marriage equality amendments and give them a good figurative slap. And I'm not talking about a wimpy one. I'm talking one of those infamous Joan Crawford type smacks where you really get your hand in the cheek, leaving a loud noise and a lasting sting.
Someone needs to sit these folks down and say "look guys, you have been victimized, bamboozled, played for fools, treated like dopes, and basically sold a bill of goods worse than a car lot full of lemons. In other words, these so-called traditional values and morality groups have been using you."
You see, in spite of the fact that in the past these laws were passed by overwhelming majorities, they still had to be defended in courts of law if there is a question of whether or not they were constitutional. And no spin about "activist judges" or the "will of the people" will change that. It's standard practice in this country that laws are challenged and have to be proven to be constitutional.
And when this happens, someone has to defend these laws. And when it came to marriage equality laws, things changed bizarrely. Those defending the laws either offered off-the-wall defenses, no defenses at all, or defenses comprised of discredited studies so blatantly inaccurate that at times, I found myself feeling pitiful for the authors of these studies rather than dancing in glee at their obviously painful audacity.
Meanwhile, the amen corners which got folks all riled against marriage equality were pretty much nowhere in sight. I tend to think that was intentional.
In other words, it's easy sending out mass emails (that would be you, Family Research Council and American Family Association), running television commercials (that would be you, National Organization for Marriage), preaching in the pulpits ( that would be you, various pastors) or leading one-sided interviews on your fake news channels (that would be you, Fox News) spinning stories of gays wanting to recruit children, pushing discredited or cherry-picked studies, or telling false anecdotal stories about "evil homosexuals."
But, as a very smart lawyer once said, the witness stand is a lonely place to lie.
Scaring people enough to vote a certain way and proving that said vote was constitutional are two entirely different things.
And there, as they say, lies the rub. For all of the talking emanating from Tony Perkins and Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council or Maggie Gallagher, Brian Brown, or Frank Schubert of the National Organization for Marriage or all of their cohorts, just how many volunteered to testify in a court of law as to the validity of the anti-marriage equality laws they were pushing?
Where were theses so-called defenders of morality during the DOMA court case? The Prop 8 court case? How about the state cases? Hell, where were they during the Oregon court case which was just decided. If any time they were needed, that would have been it then because Oregon's attorney general, Ellen Rosenblum, wouldn't defend the law.
Of course that's not altogether fair for me to make such a judgement. I hear that NOM did request to defend the law but was turned down by the courts. Then again, knowing NOM like I do, I suspect the organization was making a deliberately futile gesture.
In common street language, these anti-marriage equality groups and their cohorts used a lot of spooky language, made a lot of false claims, but they wouldn't back it up in the place where it counts, i.e. the courts. Instead, they turned tail and ran. Now when their side loses, they always return claiming that the system is biased so as to distract their supporters from the basic unavoidable point that all of their past fearmongering was (oh how can I say this) basically full of shit.
So true to form, FRC, NOM, various pastors, and other anti-gay groups are probably going to read the riot act, making predictions about how "America is on a precipice of destruction by God" or how "homosexuals are using marriage equality to force acceptance," or, my favorite, "unelected activist judges are attempting the destroy this country's so-called Judeo-Christian foundation."
All I ask those who oppose marriage equality is to ignore those bombastic words for a second and count how many times these folks will be asking you for money.
At the most, don't give them any more money because their track record is beginning to stink like five -day old fish.
At the very least, please recognize that you have been sold a bad bill of goods, i.e. lies told in the name of God, Jesus, and "traditional morality." And all lies, even those told in the name of God,can NEVER carry the day.
Wednesday night, I fell into an awful, soul-numbing depression.
Two very mild tranquilizers and a short nap later, I can finally articulate why. It's simple really.
The lgbt community is fighting Godzilla with a slinky toy.
I know I get either blissed out or whispered about due to what some may claim is my obsession with anti-gay propaganda, but my concerns about stories spread about the lgbt community by organizations such as the Family Research Council, the American Family Association or people like Bryan Fischer or Todd Starnes are sincere and should not be ignored.
Consider this: In over three decades, anti-gay groups have built a powerful apparatus of lies via junk science, horror anecdotes and cherry-picked science (mostly by the Centers of Disease Control) which have painted the lgbt community as diseased, overly aggressive zombies who want to destroy Christianity while recruiting children. They don't even have to create new stories. They can go back to that old framework continuously. It's like a virus which recreates itself every time its destroyed.
They have relied and continue to rely on the junk of discredited researchers (i.e. Paul Cameron) who claim, amongst other things, that gay men either wallow around in feces or stuff gerbils up their rectums. On top of that, since 2012, there have been at least 12 incidents of legitimate researchers, physicians, or Ph.Ds who have complained publicly that their work has been either misconstrued or deliberately finagled the wrong way in by these anti-gay groups under the veneer of "religious liberty."
And how many of these offenses have made it to mainstream knowledge? How many of these actions by these groups who claim to be working for Christ have made it to news magazines, network news programs, or even mentions in places other than blogs like mine? Has there ever been any type of deconstruction of just how these groups operate when spinning these awful lies? And this INCLUDES at places such as lgbt publications and news programs.
In comparison, Fox News's Todd Starnes, who has a known reputation for manufacturing panics about anti-Christian persecution, tells another one of his fibs and his junk gets featured more times than Meryl Streep receives Oscar nominations.
Tony Perkins and the Family Research Council get soft interviews with several news sources and they are building up a "library of information" even as we speak. And by all means, let's not forget Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association, i.e. he who links gays to Hitler. Congressional leaders flock to this man's radio show as if he is a kingmaker.
All of this allows them to define the argument.
Meanwhile, the intellectuals in our community go at each other's throats like Roman gladiators armed with the latest popular terms in "Queer Theology." If we aren't criticizing "mansplaining," we are raising hell over "slut shaming." The TERFS and the cisgenders are fighting one another. Or are they on the same side. I don't know. I can't keep up.
At the bottom of this mess is the regular lgbt folks who want to be empowered by seeing someone in the media stick up for them, who want to learn how they can speak to their legislative leaders, who want to be educated about the the latest anti-gay lies and distortions but aren't getting the means to do any of this. Instead, they are reduced to voicing mindless vulgarities in the comment section of anti-gay articles or verbalizing their wishful thinking that the latest fool to spout homophobic trash in the name of God would one day be caught in a dirty bathroom with his pants down to his ankles and both of his hands (and mouth) full of things he is not supposed to be partaking of.
Lastly, don't get me started about celebrity-adoring in our community except for the fact that sometimes, I don't care to raise hell at a celebrity for putting his or her foot in their mouths.
And then there is our need to christen certain elements of our community as "Gay Inc."
This is not to say that the anger which goes with christening certain elements and groups as "Gay,Inc." isn't legitimate. But I'm really not impressed. In 2008 after the Prop 8 loss, a lot of us were saying "No More Mr. Nice Gay." Then when we got mad at the Democratic National Committee, we proclaimed that the "Gay T.M. is closed." In the midst of all of those slogans, some nut decided to come up with the ultra ridiculous slogan that "Gay is the New Black."
But every now and then, we take a break from all of this to complain about how the media isn't giving us a fair shake or how the media is giving a platform to anti-gay groups. Why should the media care about our concerns in matters such as these when, except for those brief moments of griping, we don't seem to care ourselves to address these things on the level that we would address irrelevant issues such as the relationship between Dustin Lance Black and Tom Dailey.
Maybe I'm rambling but here is where I stand. I'm a 43-year-old black man from Columbia, SC. I have no desire to move to what is considered as large gay metropolitan areas such as New York or California. I will not be driven from where I was born. But I remember how hard it was coming out when I was bombarded by negative comments via radio, television, and news magazine articles about the evils of being a homosexual. I remember how it was to feel like I was alone even though I was in a large crowd simply because I was the only gay person there. Or worse yet, knowing that there was another gay person in the group and not being able to express a simple commonality for fear of being "discovered."
And a lot of this stemmed from the image created by what was put out there by these anti-gay groups and what they convinced others to believe.I won't forget those awful feelings nor will I blind myself to the knowledge that no matter how many court victories we win, how many pro-lgbt laws are passed, or how lgbt-positive television shows or celebrities are out there, there are still some of us who are falling victim to the same sadness I fell victim to.
If there is one thing which should convince us to combat anti-gay propaganda head-on, it should be that knowledge.
All I'm trying to say is our community needs to get a little more on the ball. That's not to say that we haven't made tremendous progress, because we have.
But we got some problems with focus. Maybe I'm wrong but I still stand by what I am going to say. There are many times in which we unnecessarily pussyfoot around and we seem to be deliberately underestimating the power of anti-gay groups. In doing so, we allow them to define us and the argument regarding lgbt equality. We seem to be constantly on the defensive and I don't understand why.
We aren't the liars. We aren't the ones who used discredited science. And we shouldn't be the ones to have to justify our existence.
I would like to see anti-gay groups be in the position to justify their actions for a change. But this won't ever happen unless we take apart the lie that they are acting on their religious liberty.
A good army doesn't fight each other. They zero in on the enemy who is keeping them outside the gate. And right now, the lgbt community isn't acting like the good army we need to be.
Well his comments during a Monday video chat with the Arcus Leader newspaper defies all description and decency. According to Talking Points Memo, Hickey defended his original letter by talking about bowel movements in response to criticism he received from a local doctor, Kevin Weiland:
"And here's what I'd like to ask Dr. Weiland. Do you tell your patients to wash their hands before they eat? Why? Because you touch a doorknob and you don't want to get it inside your body. I hesitate to get crude again, but Dr. Weiland, is it OK for, you know, eight of your friends that you're in love with to take a dump in your bed and then you can sleep in it all year long?"
And it gets worse (or better for those who have a fiendish sense of humor). David Badash of The New Civil Rights Movement watched the entire interview. According to him:
Hickey also claims that doctors tell him gay men "have higher rates of colostomy bags" and "a 20-year less lifespan." Hickey claims an article in the Journal of Sex Research says "the mean number of sex partners for homosexual males is 251." Hickey goes on to claim that he has a report that "talks about the dangers of both lesbian and male sex."
That comment about gay men having a higher rates of colostomy bags is just unreal, particularly because it contradicts an earlier claim he made in his original letter that doctors are supposedly "discouraged from telling the truth" about anal sex." And those who read this blog know that the claim of gays having a 20-year less lifespan come from either two sources – the discredited research of Paul Cameron or a cherry-picked 1997 study. The authors of the latter study complained in 2001 about how their work was being distorted. Regarding the article in the Journal of Sex Research, Badash said The New Civil Rights Movement asked the Journal of Sex Research about its veracity and has not received an answer at press time.
Badash also said:
Rep. Hickey also, pointing to a paper on a table, claimed that "homosexual is 14 times worse" when it comes to sexually-transmitted diseases. That claim, Hickey said, comes from Dr. John R. Diggs. John R. Diggs, Jr., M.D., wrote "The Health Risks of Gay Sex" which was published online by the Catholic Education Resource Center in 2002. It quotes studies from 1978 and 1982, and 1984 — the height of the AIDS epidemic when little was known about HIV/AIDS.
Diggs' study also contained numerous errors and falsehoods, which you can read about here.
Feel free to read about or see the rest of Hickey's interview, but after the above tidbits, I'm done. Except for giving you two reasons why we shouldn't ignore Hickey or his comments.
For one, he is a lawmaker and thus has a hand in making laws. And a lawmaker armed with bad research about the lgbt community will always be a problem.
But more importantly, he is a pastor and therefore can pull the "I am only speaking according to my faith" card which Michigan Republican Dave Agema and North Carolina pastor Patrick Wooden did when they also made outrageously false remarks about alleged gay sex habits.
And that's when we allow the argument to get away from us. Many times when folks like Hickey pull the "religious liberty" argument to justify their nasty comments, we give up that ground to them. Instead of calling question to the hypocrisy of a so-called religious person telling lies in the name of God, many of us attack the religion itself.
In doing so, we help create the false argument that lgbts have a problem with religion in general rather than the lies told in the name of the religion. Meanwhile, folks like Hickey are able to play the martyr. They don't have to defend their exact words. Instead they can simply claim that they are being persecuted for being a Christian even though there is nothing in the Bible which speaks of gays and colostomy bags or bowel movements.
Hickey is merely a small portion of a larger industry which exploits religion – particularly the Christian religion – to demonize the lgbt community via lies and horror stories. The more we focus on the exploitation of the religion instead of attacking the religion itself, the closer we come in creating a welcome change in this so-called culture war.
If you want to know where the left is taking the country, a quick trip to the Southern Poverty Law Center's website is instructive. There you will find a "hate map," on which the precise locations of reputable Christian organizations are listed, along with skinheads, Nazis and other actually disreputable groups. Above the map is a photo of what appear to be storm troopers, none of whom resembles Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, but that's beside the point. On Aug. 15, 2012, the hate map was used by would-be mass murderer Floyd Lee Corkins II, who walked into the Family Research Council lobby in Washington, DC, with a loaded gun and a backpack full of 80 more rounds of ammo and 15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches. Convicted on Feb. 6, 2013, under the District's domestic terrorism law and sentenced to 25 years in prison, Corkins told investigators that he was inspired by the SPLC hate map to target the Family Research Council, and that he had planned to murder as many people as possible and stuff chicken sandwiches into their faces. Chick-fil-A's owners and the Family Research Council support natural marriage.
First of all, Knight is lying. It's something he does quite well. SPLC's map does not contain "precise locations" of the organizations they designate as hate groups. The map only shows the states where they are located.
And with regards to Corkins, he did not say that SPLC's map inspired him to do anything. It was determined that Corkins was already mentally ill and had been thinking about a way to carry out his plan for years.
But that's not the subject of my post. The subject is Knight's audacity in attacking SPLC . As I indicated before and Knight does in his column, he used to work for the Family Research Council.
And during his time there, it was Knight who pushed a lot of the junk science and lies (such as connecting homosexuality to pedophilia) about the lgbt community which eventually led SPLC to designate the Family Research Council to be a hate group. The following is from SPLC's webpage:
Robert Knight, a longtime conservative writer and journalist and major anti-gay propagandist, served as the FRC's director of cultural affairs from 1992 until 2002, when he went to Concerned Women for America (CWA). Knight later moved on to be a senior writer at Coral Ridge Ministries, now Truth in Action Ministries. He is currently a senior fellow at the right-wing American Civil Rights Union. During his years at the FRC, Knight penned anti-gay tracts that used the research of thoroughly discredited psychologist Paul Cameron, head of the Colorado-based hate group the Family Research Institute.
Knight authored numerous anti-gay papers, and even used Cameron's infamous "gay obituary" study in testimony he offered before Congress to oppose the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) in 1994. In his prepared statement on that topic, he said, "A study of more than 6,400 obituaries in homosexual publications reveals that homosexuals typically have far shorter life spans than the general population." Cameron's study has been thoroughly discredited for several reasons, one of which is its deeply flawed methodology. When asked in 2004 about using Cameron's work, Knight, by then with CWA, responded, "Yes, we have used his research. So what?"
While at the FRC, Knight also co-wrote (with Robert York, a former editor at Focus on the Family) a 1999 booklet with the attention-getting title of Homosexual Behavior and Pedophilia. Among its more remarkable claims was the baseless assertion that "one of the primary goals of the homosexual rights movement is to abolish all age of consent laws and to eventually recognize pedophiles as the 'prophets' of a new sexual order." The same publication argued that the "homosexual rights movement has tried to distance itself from pedophilia, but only for public relations purposes." The booklet has since disappeared from the FRC's website, but the organization has not withdrawn the claims it made.
For the sake of disclosure, I happen to know that Knight did freely admit to using the discredited information of Paul Cameron via that 2004 incident. I was the person to whom he gave the flippant response during a visit he made to the University of South Carolina. And I repeatedly talked about the incident on this blog and in my first book on anti-gay propaganda.
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Wow. Just wow. I can easily say this is the first "great" Scudder book. I knew I made a mistake rating the first 4 novels at 5 stars each. It's not that they're bad books, they're just not in the same league as [b:Eight Million Ways to Die|76758|Eight Million Ways to Die (Matthew Scudder, #5)|Lawrence Block|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1289521310s/76758.jpg|2905875].
In the 5th installment of the series, Block takes Scudder and the City of New York all the way down to rock bottom. Whether he's exposing the reader to gang violence and random murders or he's having Scudder drink himself half to death; not a lot of hope escapes these pages.
It's been suggested in the past that Block has had his fair share of problems with alcohol. While he refuses to admit it or even talk about it, you have to think at the very least, he had some personal exposure to the addiction. The subject matter is written with a sense of intensity that is often hard to ignore.
Scudder advances so much as a character in this outing that he's quickly solidifying himself as one of my favorite detectives. His violent outburst against a common street thug is just so bad-ass that I actually found myself yelling "OH!" at the encounter's conclusion. The man can be rather ruthless when threatened but carries a sense of calm when surrounded by others. However, under all that, he comes across as terribly vulnerable this time around. He's just an all around great read and I can't wait to get deeper into the series.
Another quick novel is Eight Million Ways to Die by Lawrence Block, author of the "Burglar" series of mysteries (wonderful stuff). In this book his hero is Matthew Scudder, who reminds me of Ross Mac- Donald's hero, Lew Archer. Scudder is hired by Kim, a hooker, who wants him to intercede with her pimp, Chance, so she can leave the business. Kim is subsequently murdered, with all the suspicion falling on Chance, who then hires Scudder to find the real killer. Chance is an unusual pimp, who squires his stable of six girls to assorted cultural events and who collects African tribal art. Scudder, meanwhile, in true hardboiled tradition, is fighting his own demons, and a subplot revolves around his battle against loneliness and alcohol. The resolution is perhaps a little too neat, but Block is a good writer, and the Scudder series is a welcome addition to the genre.
Pretty good one. The mystery wasn't entirely satisfying, but the balance of mystery and character was wonderful.
Ex-cop and struggling alcoholic Scudder is hired by a pimp to investigate the murder of one of the pimp's girls -- a killing the cops think the pimp committed himself. As the killings continue, so Scudder's struggles with the demon booze intensify; when finally he does unravel the mystery, the solution is one that comes clear out of left field. Among many lovely, near-surrealistic strokes are that the pimp is, despite all stereotyping, an intelligent, intellectual and caring man (I imagine this isn't common in real life) and all of the characters are educated: at one point, for example, a whore quotes Heine (p108); another quotes Yeats (p292). Shamefully, this is (I'm pretty certain) the first Block I've read. It won't be the last.
Nobody knows better than Matthew Scudder how far down a person can sink in this city. A young prostitute named Kim knew it also—and she wanted out. Maybe Kim didn't deserve the life fate had dealt her. She surely didn't deserve her death. The alcoholic ex-cop turned PI was supposed to protect her, but someone slashed her to ribbons on a crumbling New York City waterfront pier. Now finding Kim's killer will be Scudder's penance. But there are lethal secrets hiding in the slain hooker's past that are far dirtier than her trade. And there are many ways of dying in this cruel and dangerous town—some quick and brutal ... and some agonizingly slow.
My fifth and probably most enjoyable book so far in this prolific author's series of 17 books to date. On the front cover of my edition, Stephen King blurbs "A hell of a book!" Whilst on the odd occasion I may take exception to King's recommendations and disagree, not this time around. The book also won the Shamus Award for Best Hardcover PI Novel in 1982.
When I say probably, I will qualify it by saying I was a little bit disappointed in the resolution of the crime and the motivations and raison d'être for the protagonist acting the way he/she did – I'll leave it ambiguous to avoid spoiling anyone's subsequent reading of the book. It's a minor gripe to be honest, but it was a little bit of a niggle for me just the same.
Kim, a good-time girl for hire, wants out of the game. Scudder is asked to speak to Kim's pimp, Chance on her behalf to arrange this. Chance, once Scudder has spoken to him has no objections and an amicable arrangement is reached. Kim is murdered a few short days later. After overcoming his initial scepticism, believing her pimp is responsible for the killing; Matt is engaged by Chance to track down the killer, with Chance correctly believing that now he has been eliminated from the list of suspects, the cops will scale back the investigation giving it a low priority. Scudder, with lead detective Durkin's approval, makes his usual diligent enquiries, doggedly moving closer to some answers.
The mystery in itself was fairly interesting, but for me the best parts of the book, and the other Scudder's I have read, chart Scudder's daily routine, his interactions with his associates and "friends", and his general separateness. He's in a city of eight million people and he's lonely.
My main enjoyment was derived from the characters prominent in the book and the subsequent inter-play between them. Chance, a likeable black pimp; educated, elusive, enigmatic, caring and considered in everything he did and Scudder, who at the end manages to let his stoic, steely mask slip showing his frailty. His humanity has never been in doubt, but seeing this side of him, as he tries to tackle his alcoholism was endearing.
Looking forward to book six next month – When The Sacred Ginmill Closes...err actually this month, as Eight Million should have been done and dusted in May.
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Nobody knows better than Matthew Scudder how far down a person can sink in this city. A young prostitute named Kim knew it also—and she wanted out. Maybe Kim didn't deserve the life fate had dealt her. She surely didn't deserve her death. The alcoholic ex-cop turned p.i. was supposed to protect her, but someone slashed her to ribbons on a crumbling New York City waterfront pier. Now finding Kim's killer will be Scudder's penance. But there are lethal secrets hiding in the slain hooker's past that are far dirtier than her trade. And there are many ways of dying in this cruel and dangerous town—some quick and brutal ... and some agonizingly slow.
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- 1 pound fingerling potatoes, halved lengthwise
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Here's how it's gonna go down…
Hello, all. I have some good news. I've decided to return to Tumblr. For now. However, I plan on being vastly less involved than before. Here's the deal:
- I've reduced the number of blogs I follow from more than 900 to fewer than 300. Further cuts may be in the future.
- Do not expect me to do much in the way of reblogging and other retransmissions. I'm not going to try to keep up with every new happening. As such, a message or ask is your best bet if you want to get my attention.
- On that note, I have enabled asks and submissions on all three of my blogs. I will happily answer everything. Don't be shy! :D
- And speaking of not being shy, if no one minds, I will once again be using this particular blog to plug my fanfiction and, if all goes according to plan, my original fiction. We'll see how that goes…
So yeah. Praetor-bro back in the hizzy. As a way of celebrating, here. Have some ponywalkers.
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Hey, remember me?
Yeah, I may be Tumblr!dead (for reals, this is almost certainly my last post,) but I'm still active in other parts of the Interwebs. You may be interested to know that I've essentially made a crossover of ponies, Magic, and Shed Your Ignorance. Yes, the brony praetor is invading Equestia. And it is proving… interesting.
My Little Praetor: Phthisis is Magic
Because pastel ponies and nightmarish body horror are like peanut butter and chocolate: No one knew how well they went together until someone actually tried.
I'm going to assume all of those x's are silent. ;)
More importantly, you have this on your blog:
I think we're gonna get along just fine.
SBARN: A Thought Experiment
Because I like ponies, I like Homestuck, and more than either of those, I like combining things.
Chapter 16 of Elementals of Harmony, "Up and Down, Over and Through," is up. Here there be climaxes.


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Categories > Original > Drama > What's Another Night All Alone, When You're Spending Every Day On Your Own...
Getting Home0 Reviews
Dylan arrives home, where arguments begin with his mum.
I spent the next few hours gaming on my computer, I didn't have any friends at school, and only one or two outside of school, for example, Nick, who'd been my friend since nursery, but whom I hadn't seen much since we separated to go to different secondary schools. I was in year 11 now, but could count on two hands the number of times we'd met up since year 6. Sad, really. At 11PM I decided it was time to hit the sack, I didn't bother getting changed, I had no energy anyway, I just lay in my bed and stared at the ceiling. Three hours later, when I was still staring at the ceiling, unable to sleep, I rolled over and got out of bed. I crept past mums room and into the bathroom, opened the cabinet and found the box of sleeping pills, popped two out of the shiny plastic container and swallowed them dry. Maybe now I could finally get some sleep, I went back into my room, and thought to myself, Perhaps if I take enough I'll never actually wake up... But then pushed those thoughts from my mind, suicide was the cowards way out. I got back into bed, pulled the covers over my head and within ten minutes was drifting into darkness, finally.
In my dream, I was walking down an empty hallway at school, there was noise all around though, people talking, gossiping, shouting, lockers being shut, footsteps, but no one was around. The place was deserted. I looked in each and every one of the classrooms, there were books on the desk and bags on the floor, but there was still no one to be seen. Maybe there was a fire bell... I thought to myself, but that wouldn't explain the noise all around me. I saw a shadow on the wall ahead, but when I turned around no one was there. Then I actually listened to what the voices all around me were saying "Freak" "Faggot" "Retard" I clasped my hands over my ears and turned a corner, more voices "Emo" "Cunt" "Loser" Everywhere I turned the voices were talking, shouting, screaming, louder and louder. "Weirdo" "Wrist slitter" "Mosher" I fell to my knees with my hands over my ears and screamed to the floor "Make it stop!! Fuck, fuck, make it stop! Please!! Then there was the sound of the bell, signalling the end of something, break? Lesson? I didn't care, so long as the voices stopped. People appeared from nowhere, walking on me, pushing me aside, kicking me, and still the bell grew louder, and louder, and louder.
Until it all stopped. Everything disappeared and I opened my eyes, my alarm clock was going off, 7AM, time for school.


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Last nights Camelopardalids meteor shower may not have been as epic as anticipated, but we did see some amazing meteors. We also got a great view of the Milky Way!
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Last nights Camelopardalids meteor shower may not have been as epic as anticipated, but we did see some amazing meteors. We also got a great view of the Milky Way!
More to be posted at http://www.facebook.com/kevinjamesphoto
Stars over East Beach in Westerly, RI
no hands.
credit: Kevin James Photography
Some sunday fun
Some people think the act of "gloving", and the concept of light shows promotes drug use. Those people just fail to use their imagination, can't relax, and can't see the art in the craft. Next time you see someone waving their fingers around in the corner of a club, ask them for a light show and try to relax.
Something interesting to try - put your finger in front of your face while getting a light-show and focus your eyes on your finger. The lights will then go out of focus and give you a neat effect similar to the one in this image.
Posted on 08 Nov 2012in 365 Photo Project
I do not think anyone was expecting snow today, it seemed to come out of no where. I was trading photography editing techniques with a friend and fellow photographer, Elijah Vicente, when the snow hit. I have been wanting to try a shot like this for a while, once I saw how fast and hard the snow was falling, I just had to give it a shot. I had Elijah hold my flash behind his back while looking at the camera. At full power, the flash lit up the snow around him, leaving me with a snow silhouette.
Forced perspective bokeh.
My router decided to act up today. While resetting it, I noticed the blue lights could make for some awesome Bokeh. I haven't used my 50mm 1.8 in a while, so I figured I would pull it out to get some nice big bokeh balls. Then I had to think about what to do in the foreground, considering I was trying to "fix the internet" I figured a wrench was in order.
Here is another photo from yesterday's meteor shower, sans meteors.
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Orionid Sky
I tried my best to capture some meteors from the Orionid meteor shower, but of course I did not get any meteors my images. I did get some awesome photos of the stars, and I did actually see some of the meteors with my own eyes, so over all it was not a failed mission. There is a second non-star trail photo I will be posting as well.
Technical info: This was done with my 8mm fisheye pointed directly at the sky in the middle of a parking area at the Acadia Management Area in Rhode Island. This is 48, 30 Second photos megerded with StarTrails.exe. ISO 320, f3.5, 30".
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This was taken exactly 2 years ago today on October 18th 2010 in Shoshone National Forest in Wyoming. I figured I would re-process and edit this image with some of my newer techniques and re-post it. I think I will try doing this "throwback Thursday" thing once a week.


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These college coaches serve as both life and football coaches at the two day event, keynote speakers, and they will have a chance to see some really great talent.
The lineman group is strong. Leading the way is four-star offensive tackle Aundrey Walker from Cleveland Glenville (Ohio). The massive Walker holds multiple BCS offers including USC, Ohio State, Michigan State, Michigan, Notre Dame, and others.
Chicago Simeon's Chris Bryant is a massive 6'5, 330-lber, who has several offers, and could project to either tackle or guard at the collegiate level.
A few other offensive tackles will come in with offers in hand. Jalen Schlachter (Corunna, Mich.) holds offers from Wisconsin, Central Michigan, Missouri, and Indiana, and the 6'6, now 300-lber will have an opportunity to earn more as he gets seen over the next few weeks.
Fellow Michigan product Ramadan Ahmeti (Lansing Waverly, Mich.) has great size at 6'5, 310-lbs, and has already been offered by Central Michigan and Ball State. An athletic tackle, he has a chance to turn some heads this weekend.
Minnetonka (Minn.) product Josh Colville has been receiving lots of D1/FBS interest, and will be looking to make the impressions necessary to earn his first D1/FBS offer. The same goes for Detroit Southeastern's Julian Smith and Inkster's Bryce Hall, both excellent high school players who are still searching for their first offer. Hall may also work out on the defensive line.
There will be a couple big time underclassmen to watch as well. Chicago Simeon's Jordan Diamond was one the best lineman at the Michigan Showcase, and appears to be a future multiple offer guy. Saginaw (Mich.) has a young 6'5, 315-lber with great potential in Demetrious Peoples.
Speaking of the defensive line, that group will have several standouts who will offer tough challenges for the offensive linemen.
Leading the way is recent Indiana commit Shafer Johnson (Southfield Christian, Mich.). Johnson is quick off the ball and plays hard, making him a handful in one on ones.
Sonny Haskins (Gary, Ind.) and Eric Crume (Detroit Central, Mich.) were two of the top tackles at the Showcase. Both are stout 300+ lb kids with nose tackle bodies.
One interior prospect we are excited to see is Detroit Denby's 6'5, 340-lb Deleon Barrett, who opposing coaches say was a tough matchup last season. Orchard Lake St. Mary's Cortez Riley is another player who had a good junior season and will be looking to create a buzz.
One of Michigan's best young defensive tackles, Detroit Renaissance's Jabari Dean, will also be in attendance.
At the end spot, the top prospect is Detroit Cooley's 6'5 Jarrell McKinney, an excellent athlete who is tough to block off the edge.
There are also a number of high profile players who could end up coming out. It is still not too late to register. Go to http://www.smsbcamp.com for more information and registration.


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After Undeclared was canceled, Apatow paid for Rogen's friend Goldberg to join him in L.A. and gave the two an assignment: Write down a hundred screenplay ideas over the course of a summer. In the end, Apatow nixed all of them and encouraged Rogen and Goldberg to write a "weed action comedy." "We actually thought that sounded retarded," Rogen says. "Then we thought, Waitif that was good, it would be, like, our favorite movie of all time!" (Cue a superlong laugh.) This was the genesis of the script for Pineapple Express, an excellent, offbeat bro-mance and action comedy certain to become the cult flick of the summer.
Rogen's been something of a serious pot smoker since he was a teenager. "In Vancouver, smoking weed is totally acceptedyou walk into a movie theater, and there'll be 10 groups of people outside getting high," he says. Unlike a lot of his contemporaries in the L.A. comedy scene, Rogen doesn't have a medical marijuana card (California's medical marijuana law is very lax and allows cardholders to access Amsterdam-style head shops). "I buy my weed the old-fashioned wayillegally," says Rogen, laughing. Then he clears his throat. "I'm actually somewhat against people getting medical marijuana cards that they don't need, because I feel that it's jerks like me who will stop actual sick people from getting their weed. I mean, what's my illness? I guess I could say I have a terrible case of I-wanna-smoke-weed-all-day."
On a more serious note, Rogen admits that he has in the past been told he had a problem. "I've definitely encountered people..." he says, trailing off. "I would say that I used to be much less responsible with pot than I've grown to be now."
In fact, this is the surprising and awesome part about hanging out with Rogen: He's obviously grown up a lot in the past few years. "Seth used to be better at writing zingers, but he has a great work ethic," Goldberg says. "He's even learned how to type, which is incredible, because he literally failed typing in grade nine." He's now in his first real relationship, with screenwriter Lauren Miller, who's at their new house right now making matzo ball soup for a Jewish holiday. He says it's going well. "We never fight," he says. "We are both very willing to compromise, to the point where there's almost no selfishness in the relationship." Sexy! "You know, I never had a girlfriend before, and I assumed it would masculinize me, but it's actually done the opposite. Now I know about accent walls, and the whole world of throw pillowsthey're very expensive pillows you do not use! It's not justified to me."
Earlier in the meal, Rogen had mentioned going to a comic-book store after breakfast, which sounded like a horror, but after trudging down the avenue to the store, it's revealed as a hip place with a lot of interesting memorabilia and "graphic novels," which is the way that mature men such as Rogen prefer to refer to comic books. He saunters down the aisles, picking up a Dave Eggers book and a few fierce hand-drawn comics before glancing at a photography collection titled Black Pussy.
"That's the name of our next movie," he jokes.
Rogen loves to make these kinds of raunchy jokes, even if they have given him a bad name: Some women, although I'm not among them, have accused him of sexism. Katherine Heigl, the star of Knocked Up, told Vanity Fair the film was "a little sexist" because the men characters are lovably goofy and the women are selfish shrews. "I guess that's her opinion," Rogen says. "It's weird for me that someone who was that involved in the movie would say something like that. Our whole moviemaking process could not be more open and communicative and input-drivenif she thought that, well, speak up." The other charge sometimes leveled against Rogen and the rest of the Apatow gang is that their films have too wide of a discrepancy between the attractiveness of the male and the female love interests, and that, in fact, it wouldn't hurt some of the men to get a little better looking.
"I love that," Rogen says. "Like, there's so little chance that a girl would like me, it's sexist to imply that one would." Then he laughs extra hard.