I just stumbled over a very interesting around Sotomayor's nomination: Top Republican calls Limbaugh, Gingrich comments 'terrible'. It's mainly about some GOP senate politicians getting somewhat freaked out by the comments angry old white men (Gingrich and Limbaugh) are making about Sotomayor and try to distance themselves from those comments.
Senate politician Cornyn - after distancing himself from Gingrich and Limbaugh - concludes with the following quote:
"We are all a product of our upbringing and who we are and I think it's a fact people do have different backgrounds, but I don't think those background ought to determine what the law is."
Now wait a second: "law should not be determined by upbringing". This is interesting! Isn't the whole anti-gay marriage industry sometimes explicitly and the rest of the times implicitly based on 'christian beliefs' and 'christian upbringing'? But why am I surprised, it's just another piece in the big bigotry puzzle ...
Consider this: Oregonian Gary Randall and his Washington operative Larry Stickney know from the outset that they're destined to FAIL their referenDUMB effort to repeal the new WA domestic partnership law. And their natural allies know too, because they've said so many times, quite embarrassingly and publicly.
But they put up a brave front and forge on, sneakily asking donors almost daily to donate to funds that aren't dedicated to the referendum effort.
Then Larry waits until the last possible hour of the last possible day to challenge the ballot language of his own referendum.
the glory of God nothing.
If I were in support of the referendum, I'd seriously wonder if these gentlemen were leading me down the garden path. The kindest word for it is INCOMPETENT.
I'm curious to see if this campaign continues beyond the weekend.
---Brad Shannon, The Olympian
h/t Erick
I think it might be worth repeating The Words of Brother Pidgeon so that Washingtonians understand just how fringe the backers of this referendum are.
A right to be a right must have supernatural authority.
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You introduce the concept of same-sex marriage or secular marriage, or any of the other rituals that have been formed by the state - and what you do is disestablish the godly order in favor of an order of death.
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Government was created to kill.
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Government is at war with the family, it always has been. It sees the family, the unit of the family as a direct threat to its ultimate sovereignty.
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...the perverted research of Alfred Kinsey, which was promoted in 1948, and given legs to pornography in 1953...
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The health care that's going to be available for people who otherwise tax the Social Security system, is going to be a pair of cyanide pills.
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Mr. Obama is the only Senator to have ever vot ed to allow children to have survived abortion to die on the table.
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The federal government will outlaw homeschooling. It will outlaw private curriculum in private schools, and is going to up the truancy laws to make sure that every child, if they have any opportunity for success in this country, they will go to a public institution.
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You'll either participate in the Communist Party, or you will not be in college, you will not have the right to a job.
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When I say that government is about death, you need to understand that this is their stated goals.
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Homosexual rights are about population control.
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I th;I think there are going to be millions of people fleeing California once the starvation program begins down there.
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I come here under the authority of Jesus Christ.
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And this sanctuary of worship to the demons of Olympus [the state capitol] is stained with the blood of the casualties of this war, most of whom are children.
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Same-sex marriage as a political policy is moral fascism.
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The recognition of the "right" for same-sex couples to marry...is quickly followed by...criminal sanctions for those who are unwilling to renounce their relationship with god in order to embrace the deviant edicts of the state.
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Same-sex divorce...is 8 times higher among homosexual men, and 300 times higher among homosexual women.
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Employment Non-Discrimination Act...will be imposed on churches, who will be required to hire people who are of homosexual, bisexual, sexual transgendered, identity expression, in the churches, and if they don't they will lose their tax-exempt status.
Cross-posted at Washblog.
Chris Hanson of Dateline's To Catch a Predator hasn't featured something like this yet. Of course the fact that this guy is a perv has nothing to do with his furry proclivities. The not-so underground universe of furries advocates was fwas featured in a memorable episode of CSI.Pennsylvania authorities say a Cumberland County man suggested dressing up in animal costumes during online sex chats with a 15-year-old boy. Agents found wolf- and cat-type costumes in his home.
Alan David Berlin, a 40-year-old Carlisle, Pa., resident, also proposed visiting the boy's Harrisburg home and having sex in the back yard while his parents slept, according to a news release from the Attorney General's Office.
Berlin, who used the screen name "alan_panda_bear", requested nude photos of the boy and suggested they meet in a hotel room where a third person could photograph them having sex, the release says.
...Berlin, a longtime staffer for a Republican state lawmaker, is charged with unlawful contact with a minor, a first-degree felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison and a $25,000 fine.
The whole episode can be seen here.
Of course, I'm sure not every furry conventioneer attends for sexual encounters. But for those who do, I need some help here -- I seriously don't understand this particular fetish. I mean those suits get hot, nasty and have to be impossible to clean thoroughly. I know of a couple of people who have been mascots and they said there's nothing remotely sexy about the stench inside.
Maybe someone from the furry world can explain how you sanitize those things enough to actually enjoy being in the costume for any length of time for that kind of activity.
On the eve of the 40th Anniversary of Stonewall, come join us A[ 1000
On the eve of the 40th Anniversary of Stonewall, come join us in celebrating the achievements of the LGBT equality movement:
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