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Little Ricky's mind-boggling, pathetic e-blast boost for National Organization for Marriage

by: Pam Spaulding

Thu Aug 14, 2008 at 09:00:00 AM EDT


This is beyond hilarious. Man-On-Dog makes his way out of the kennel to drool this bile out. He even name-checks gay philanthropist Tim Gill. Woohoo!
From: "Human Events"
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:48:20 -0700
To: ----
Subject: A Special Message from Rick Santorum

Below please find a special message from one of our advertisers, National  Organization for  Marriage. From time to time, we receive opportunities we believe you as a valued customer may want to know about. Please note that the following message does not necessarily reflect the editorial positions of Human Events.

An  Important Message from Rick Santorum  August  13, 2008  

Dear Friend of  Marriage,  My friend, I've never come to you with a more urgent message:  Unless we act today, we will lose the battle for marriage--not a  decade from now, not "someday," but quite possibly in the next few  months.  How? Just weeks ago, a handful of out-of-touch judges overturned  the will of the people in California by repealing Proposition 22,  which defined marriage as a union between one man and one woman and  was overwhelmingly approved by the voters in 2000.  Four California judges endorsed two big, very bad ideas. First,  they extended the internationally recognized human right to marry to  include same-sex marriage. Not even in Massachusetts or in New  Jersey could the courts stomach the idea that same-sex marriage is  deeply rooted in our foundational American traditions of human  rights.  The second big idea endorsed by the California court is even less  promising: sexual orientation should be treated just like race under  the California equal protection amendment, subject to "strict  scrutiny."

This is a ruling which, if left undisturbed,  means that Protestants, Catholics, Jews and Muslims who see marriage  as the union of husband and wife, and view sexual activity as best  confined to marriage so defined, are in the exact position as  racists under California law.

Hollywood, academia and some in the medical profession launched a  huge offensive over the past decade to change the attitude of  Americans about the homosexual community.  They have succeeded in shaping the minds of young people against  traditional marriage and intimidating and punishing anyone who  offers a defense of marriage. A sophisticated network of wealthy gay  activists are now trying to exploit this change in attitudes by  spending millions on stealth campaigns to defeat pro-family state  legislators and pass gay marriage laws.  They are pushing the battle first where the secular left is the  strongest: deep in "blue states" including New Jersey, New York,  Connecticut, Vermont, Rhode Island, Maryland and now even in my home  commonwealth, Pennsylvania.  

That's  why I need you to act today. Use this hyperlink to help launch the  National Organization for Marriage's 2008 State Action  Plan, including a sophisticated issue ad campaign--radio, TV,  and print ads to drive home the point: don't mess with  marriage.

If we don't fight back, our children and grandchildren will get  harmful and confusing messages about marriage, including this one:  there's no difference between same-sex and opposite-sex unions and  anyone who defends marriage is a bigot.  Make no mistake, gay marriage is not about letting Adam visit  Steve in the hospital or letting them do what they want in private.  Gay marriage is about using the power of government to propagate a  new faith: Individuals who oppose gay marriage are hateful bigots  and they and their faith community should be punished.

The insanity continues below the fold.
Pam Spaulding :: Little Ricky's mind-boggling, pathetic e-blast boost for National Organization for Marriage
The right wing really amps up the wingnuttery in order to try to squeeze some cash out of the economy-dropkicked faithful.
Why are they pushing so hard to push gay marriage laws through  state legislatures?  Because, they want to drive a nail into the coffin of any  possibility of a federal marriage amendment.  Because, once it is "normalized" in this way, they are counting  on the courts and the culture to then spread gay marriage throughout  the country.  Because they know that once they get government committed to the  idea that traditional marriage is bigotry, like racism, they can use  the power of big government to marginalize, stigmatize and repress  people of faith in American life.  And because they believe people of faith like you and me have no  way to fight back.  Their strategy is simple: Use the big money power of high-tech  billionaires to get politicians to ignore the values and voices of  regular Americans.  That means, folks like you and me who:  

* Know marriage is the union of husband and wife;
* Don't want their hard-earned tax dollars used to subsidize  novel family forms, and;
* Certainly do not wish their public schools to teach captive  children that their parents and grandparents are evil  discriminators for opposing gay marriage.

That's right, while we are tending to our jobs, going to church,  and raising our families, a handful of wealthy gay men are plotting  ways to use their giant fortunes to reshape the entire American  political landscape in their own image.  Sound a little hard to believe? I thought so too, until I read  the March 1, 2007 Atlantic Monthly article that documents  the detailed plans and huge influence these men are having, led by  one gay billionaire activist named Tim Gill.  The article is called "They Won't Know What Hit Them," and the  subtitle pretty much says it all:  

  "Tim Gill has a mission: stop the Rick Santorums of  tomorrow before they get started. How a network of gay political  donors is stealthily ... reshaping American  politics."

That grabbed my attention, how about yours?  If  so, I need your help to fight back. And the best way I know is  to help launch the National Organization for Marriage's 2008  State Action Plan, so that we can send a clear message to  politicians: don't mess with marriage.


Graphic: Mike Tidmus.

Use this hyperlink to make a generous donation of $35, $50, or even $100  today.

These gay marriage activists know the marriage battle will be won  or lost in state legislatures. And because they know that state  legislatures are our farm team for the next generation of passionate  pro-family leaders that's who the gay donors are targeting.  

   "[I]t's often just a handful of people, two or three, who  introduce the most outrageous legislation and force the rest of  their colleagues to vote on it," says Gill. "If you could reach  these few people or neutralize them by flipping the chamber to  leaders who would block bad legislation, you'd have a dramatic  effect."

Their goal? "[P]unish the wicked," as Gill puts it. Or, "snuff  out rising politicians who were building their careers on antigay  policies, before they . . . achieve national influence."  Their chief cautionary example of such a villain is . . . --Yes,  there I am again!-
- "Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania.

Let's be clear here: by "punish the wicked" Gill means  people like you and me who adhere to God's vision of what marriage  is and what it is for.  By "outrageous legislation" he means laws that protect marriage  as the union of husband and wife, and incidentally also protect  faith groups from persecution by the government for our views of  marriage.  In the last election cycle Gill pumped $15 million into defeating  the good guys. According to the Atlantic Monthly he  succeeded seventy percent of the time.  "In 2000, he gave $300,000 in political donations, which grew to  $800,000 in 2002, $5 million in 2004, and a staggering $15 million  last year, almost all of it to state and local campaigns."  Danny Carroll, for example, used to be speaker pro tem of the  Iowa House, a rising pro-family star who had guided a state marriage  amendment to passage in the Iowa House (the first step to putting it  on the ballot).  Then he was targeted by rich gay activists for his leadership on  marriage.  Carroll never even knew why he lost, until the Atlantic  Monthly reporter pointed out to him all the $1,000 out of state  checks:  "I'll be darned," said Carroll. "Denver ... Dallas ... Los  Angeles ... Malibu ... there's New York again ... San Francisco! I  can't--I just cannot believe this," he said, finally. "Who is this  guy again?"  Who  is this guy? Can we afford to let Malibu, Beverly Hills,  Manhattan, and San Francisco control our country and our  children and grandchildren's minds? That's why I need you to  support NOM's 2008 State Action Plan  immediately.

...In Pennsylvania, Gill money helped the Democrats gain control of  the House by only one vote.  What happens if we permit this tiny minority to reshape  marriage? The next step is to use the new law to suppress the  liberties of Christians.  Already:  

   * A Christian adoption agency--Catholic Charities!--has been  shut down by the government because it will not do adoptions for  gay married couples
   * A volunteer fireman, who risked his life to rescue friends and  neighbors in need, was told his services were no longer  wanted--because he signed a petition supporting marriage as the  union of husband and wife.
   * A father was arrested for trying to prevent a public school  from teaching his son that gay marriage is normal.
   * In New Jersey, a Methodist organization just lost part of its  state tax exemption because it refused to permit civil union  ceremonies on church-owned property.

How can this happen in the United States of  America? One thing I've learned to trust after 15 years on the front  lines: When things look the darkest, God raises up new reasons to  hope.  For those of us who are Christians, despair is a vice, and for us  hope is not only a natural emotion, it's a theological virtue.  We are each called to "faith, hope and love." It is the fuel for  our battles with the forces of hate who seek (in the name of  tolerance!) to silence God's own truth.  And so with great hope and excitement, I learned about the launch  of The National Organization for Marriage's 2008 State  Action Plan. Will  you give a generous donation today to help ensure the plan  succeeds?

...But don't take my word for it alone: Dr. James Dobson  personally donated $25,000 to the National Organization for  Marriage. Why?, "It's not just marriage that is at stake, it's  absolutely everything," Dr. Dobson said on a recent Focus on the  Family broadcast in which he invited Maggie Gallagher and Prof.  George to speak about the National Organization for  Marriage. On the October 10 Focus on the Family radio broadcast, Dr. James  C. Dobson urged pro-family Americans to do something about it.  

   "This has been an ongoing struggle that burns in our hearts,"  Dr. Dobson says. "And now, marriage is really on the brink, and I  don't know how to emphasize that more."

Let's get the good fight going!  Gay marriage activists have to depend on a handful of very  wealthy men, because they cannot count on the broad support of the  American people. They know politicians who listen to your views and  values will vote for marriage as the union of husband and wife.  Together, with God's help, there is no limit on what we can  accomplish.  

Enough, enough, you get the picture. If you can believe it, this crap goes on and on beyond this, asking people to launch billboard campaigns, create TV ads in order to "let the American people know the real consequences of gay marriage." Gee, I'm sure a lot of folks in Massachusetts can speak to the consequences...uh, happy couples and tourism dollars flowing into the state's coffers.

Ricky also shills his dreadful tome, It Takes a  Family in this email. He's asking $35 for it.

My favorite line later on this crap appeal for buxxx -- "$5 or $10 a month (think: one less Big Mac a month!)"

Wait -- aren't these people supposed to be boycotting the Golden Arches?

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Santorum: the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex.
What, you think I'm kidding? That definition even has a Wikipedia article, thanks to Seattle writer Dan Savage having made it sufficiently notable.

Santorum (sexual neologism)

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même merde.


Yep.
Yeah, to me Rick Santorum will always, always, always be Mr. Frothy Mixture.  I think we can count this among the greatest of Dan Savage's many services to humanity.

[ Parent ]
Duh
You know, whenever I read something like this, I always cringe because the language used suggest they almost get it.  Like, talking about comparing racism and homophobia?  I mean, YES!  And that's how you sound!  And then words like "novel," that almost help state our arguments for us.

I just have to say I was never prouder than the day I cast my ballot as a Pennsylvania resident in November 2006 to get that ass out of office.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood... and I blogged about the trail I blazed...

http://zackfordblogs.com


Sounds like the former Senator needs help defending marriage from THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT BRIGADE
Lovely help for those wishing to truly protect marriage.  Available for those in NC at www.bluenc.com.  To start your own chapter at the local state or national level, just type away!

http://bluenc.com/the-seventh-...

Where's that list of marriage hypocrites at the national level, Pam?

Senator David Vitter, R-LA (adulterer)
Senator John McCain, R-Arizona (divorcer and biblcal adulterer)
Former President Ronald Reagan (divorcer)

Keep the list coming!


Let us examine Santorum's claims
* A Christian adoption agency--Catholic Charities!--has been  shut down by the government because it will not do adoptions for  gay married couples

At least he's specific about the charity, but which government? And how did they shut it down?

The Boston Archdiocese's Catholic Charities said Friday it would stop providing adoption services because of a state law allowing gays and lesbians to adopt children.
- CBS news

That's right, Boston's Catholic Charities decided to end their services because of a state law that required organizations that received state funds to not discriminate against gay and lesbian people.

  * A volunteer fireman, who risked his life to rescue friends and  neighbors in need, was told his services were no longer  wanted--because he signed a petition supporting marriage as the  union of husband and wife.

This is very sketchy. Who is this guy? Where was he volunteering?

It turns out that volunteer fireman Leo ''Skip'' Childs was not chosen for a vacancy on the Truro, MA board of fire engineers and they instead chose one of the other candidates they interviewed, Jeff Perry. A former selectman for he town, Paul Asher-Best, apparently was against choosing Childs because Childs had signed a petition against same sex marriage in Massachusetts. Cape Cod Times

So the opinion of the selectmen was to choose another person for the board, perhaps in part due to the fireman's endorsement of a measure to go against the state's Supreme Court ruling on the rights of others.

  * A father was arrested for trying to prevent a public school from teaching his son that gay marriage is normal.

Rick, Rick, Rick. Can you be more vague?

Parker and his wife, Tonia, 34, who was also in court yesterday, said the dispute arose because they asked school officials to notify them about classroom discussions about same-sex marriage and what they called other adult themes. They also wanted the option to exclude their boy, now 6, from those talks.

Parker said he met with school officials to gain those assurances and then refused to leave until he got them. Parker stayed at Estabrook School for more than two hours, according to Superintendent William J. Hurley, as officials and Lexington police urged him to leave. Finally, they arrested him for trespassing.

- Boston Globe

And incorrect, it turns out. He wasn't arrested for trying to prevent his child from being taught that same-sex marriage is normal, he was arrested for refusing to leave the school.

  * In New Jersey, a Methodist organization just lost part of its  state tax exemption because it refused to permit civil union  ceremonies on church-owned property.

Kudos, Mr. Santorum. You identified the state, the denomination, and the loss (partial tax exemption).

Of course, it wasn't a religious tax exemption, as one might have incorrectly inferred from Mr. Santorum's omission of detail. It was a tax from the New Jersey EPA for having a green space open to the public.

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection on Tuesday denied a Methodist organization's request to continue getting tax breaks for a public pavilion in Ocean Grove, N.J., where it allows weddings but not same-sex civil-union ceremonies.

The state ruled that the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association's space, formerly tax-exempt under New Jersey's Green Acres Program, is not eligible for tax breaks because it is no longer open to all members of the public.

- Gay.Com

It also turns out that LGBT-owned businesses were a big part of the revival of the area, which is still owned by a Methodist organization. - New York Times

And the financial impact? About $175/year.

So these aren't outright lies, but they are vague, misleading anecdotes.

Hey, I have an idea - what if we start a new trend? We could change "rickrolling" to mean a link to a video of Rick Santorum saying something misleading.




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Excellent analysis. As for your rickrolling suggestion....
Too damned easy. Finding a video of Santorum (or any other neo-con) is like trying to find a pebble in a streambed.

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même merde.

[ Parent ]
Maybe someone with mad vdeo skills
can do a jibjab-style video of Rick Santorum lip-synching to Rick Astley




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[ Parent ]
What a great job.
As I was reading the post I was thinking exactly everything that you wrote and I was going to quote and comment below but it looks like you beat me to it.

Luckily we've been following these events and remember.  We can then call them on the phony excuses they use to discriminate.

Good work!


[ Parent ]
Catholic Charities Story is Even Worse
IIRC, the law against discrimination towards the LGBT community passed sometime in the 80s. It was only AFTER the 2003 marriage decision in Massachusetts, when the Boston diocese learned that Catholic Charities had been following the non-discrimination law for the previous 15 - 20 years, and had actually placed several children with same-sex couples, that they demanded the charity stop the process AND demanded the Commonwealth provide them with a loophole in the law to discriminate. Most, if not the entire, board of directors of the charity resigned in protest.  

[ Parent ]
It should be also noted
that the children placed with same sex couples through Catholic Charities were special needs children who were not wanted by the opposite sex couples AND they only placed about 13 same sex couple adoptions out of the thousands other adoptions.  The Cardinal (not the Catholic Charities board because they resigned) would rather have the special needs children in foster care going from house to house rather than being permanently placed with a loving caring family who wants them.

[ Parent ]
ricky's low level of basic comprehension
probably makes it difficult for him to pursue the clarity of truthfulness, which is also explains the irony of such statements:

Use the big money power of high-tech  billionaires to get politicians to ignore the values and voices of  regular Americans

because mega-churches and anti-gay organizations don't do this.

Don't want their hard-earned tax dollars used to subsidize  novel family forms

because only ricky's family deserves my tax dollars.

That's right, while we are tending to our jobs, going to church,  and raising our families

because gay folks only sit around being fabulous.

and the list goes on and on....not to mention that his whole plea here is to get lots of out-of-state money flowing into california, while being outraged by money coming in for equality measures from

Denver ... Dallas ... Los  Angeles ... Malibu ... there's New York again ... San Francisco!



The gays stole my lunch money


[ Parent ]
But you aren't his target audience...
No, not for being gay, for having an IQ over 75.  He seems to rely on that demographic for funds, whether it is "protecting" marriage or for teaching the controversy (the one that the his friends at the Discovery Institute have created) about evolution.  Doesn't it seem like the whore level is extremely high in the GOP/Christian circles right now?  Zheesh.

My America includes LGBT families.

[ Parent ]
Thanks Cindik
for providing the details that Santorum chose to leave out of his tirade. I guess he was hoping if he was vague enough, no one would be able to figure out the truth. Unfortunately, the sheeple he is targeting this crap to will probably accept every word as the absolute truth. After all, a true godly family man and former senator like Santorum would never try to lie to them. (snark)

[ Parent ]
Catholic Charities, Boston shut themselves down
because they would not follow Massachusetts law.

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

[ Parent ]
Wow.
This is the second totally ass-wacky thing I've read from right-wing idiots this morning. It's gonna be a long day, isn't it?

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. ~ Isaac Asimov

If God doesn't want us to get married, then isn't She powerful enough to stop
it on Her own?  Aren't their prayers enough?

Why does God need these people's money to do anything?


Because God works in mysterious ways.
Who are you to question God?  If She says give your hard-earned money to Rick Santorum, then you should give it.  

By the way, God told me to tell you, before you send your money to Santorum, you should send some to the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force, Lambda Legal, and the National Center for Transgender Equality.


[ Parent ]
Depends on the God
These folks are invoking images of the Old Testament God who waited for things to go wrong, then whacked the heck out of everyone nearby:

Adam and Eve with the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil

Noah: wait, then wipe out nearly every living thing on the planet

Sodom and Gomorrah: wait, then punish.

Job: wipe out everyone and everything he cares about because he is faithful (now that is harsh)

So God won't stop the homos, but will wait and then punish everyone.

Oddly, the New Testament God Jesus talks about has unlimited grace and patience, but a God who doesn't engage in genocide isn't as exciting.




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[ Parent ]
well,
Isn't that the line that Fred Phelps group is pushing, that the whole world is going to suffer?

[ Parent ]
Exactly
I have to stop you, or I'll get punished for your sin.

My take: "Fundy of the Day: If that's the way your god is, believing/not believing, ritual/non-ritual, works/no works isn't going to amount to a hill of beans - your god is irrational, unstable, and genocidal, and we're all screwed. I hope you're wrong."




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[ Parent ]
daddy d only gave $25,000 to the national organization for (hetero) marriage??
what a flippin' cheapskate!!!  jesus....it doesn't sound like he cares much at all about "saving marriage" if his princely millionaire lifestyle can't cough up more than the cost of a homo-bashing weekend of first-class flights, first-class meals, and first-class hotels.    

The gays stole my lunch money

You forgot the second-class hookers
There's a budget in there for them, some really awesome ecstasy and meth, and some hush money.

God save ornery old queens! - kevinchi

[ Parent ]
Santorum I doubt is rich
He was using a vacant house address to say his residency was in PA when actually he lived in VA, and used that residency to cheap out on his kids private education tuitions. I saw dozens of these upper middle class WANNABEEs at this exclusive condo I worked for, they are barely able to pay their association fees, and B*TCH about absolutely EVERYTHING.

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


[ Parent ]
What it's about
It's not about God, or even about marriage.  It's about MONEY.  It's about saving their cash cow.  They're not going to give up their meal ticket without a hell of a fight.

Though I'm encouraged that Ricky is getting in the fray.   He's lost all credibility in the public sector, so let him speak out all he wants.  It can only do us good.


AMEN!
Ricky and his ilk make their money by pushing hate - not love.  When their brand of hate starts being exposed for what it is and then relegated to the trash heap of history, they'll be out of a job!  And because that's exactly what's starting to happen, they're starting to panic.

[ Parent ]
Having attended a speech by Mr. Frothy ...
... I can say that he is even creepier in person.  His tone and mannerisms as he delivers this sort of stuff drips reasonableness, which is unfortunate.  However much I might value rationality, even the more rationale people I know find it easier to dismiss crackpot ideas when they are delivered by an ugly person who is ranting and frothing at the mouth.

One of his favorite tricks is using a non-canonical meaning for a common word to create an emotional reaction in the listener while leaving room to deny having intended to convey the thought that prompted that reaction.  He has claimed, for example, that the reasoning of the Lawrence decision could be used to condone incest.  He knows that listeners, hearing the word incest, picture lecherous men abusing very young girls and so have a very negative emotional response.  When challenged on his statement, he points to a very different meaning for incest: two consenting adults who happen to be closely biologically related choosing to have sex.  Without getting into the subject of whether the latter meaning should be acceptable instead of illegal, I point out judgments of it are very different than judgments of the former meaning, and yet listeners react emotionally as though to the latter meaning.  It is a subtle, ugly, and unfortunately effective technique for manipulating and audience.

It is much easier to see the dishonesty and intellectual bankruptcy in his positions when they are expressed in written form, where delivery is not an issue and re-reading can partially defang his linguistic prestidigitation attacks.


I am no lawyer, but ...
I have to agree with Frothy on this one:

This is a ruling which, if left undisturbed,  means that Protestants, Catholics, Jews and Muslims who see marriage  as the union of husband and wife, and view sexual activity as best  confined to marriage so defined, are in the exact position as  racists under California law.

As well they should be, and for the same reasons.

Produce a sound argument, sir, or admit your religious choices do not justify eliminating other people's freedoms.


here's how Little Ricky looks losing the Culture War
boo-f*ckin-hoo

  http://trite.files.wordpress.c...

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


Geesh!
His kid is even flippin' everyone off too! ;D

[ Parent ]
this is Santorum's pet queer
Robert Traynham
Cowardly Closeted TRAITOR

  http://www.maynardije.org/colu...

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


There was a famous/infamous essay
on the coming out of Santorum's aide.
I think that it was called "Line in the Sand" and it dealt with LCR's and "collaborators"

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

[ Parent ]
I also saw an image of this PieceOshit traitor with Huckabee
The G*D DAMN SOB who wanted to send People With AIDS to CAMPS.
Robert stay out of the view of PWAs, cuz I'd B*tch slap ya myself!

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


[ Parent ]
Hmmm
Let's see.

God is against homosexuality.  God vaguely expresses this (maybe) in a book he had other people write for him.  To help solidify his opposition against homosexuality, he sends liars armed with fabrications, junk science, misrepresentations of legitimate research & studies, misrepresentations of actual events, and stereotypes.  These people claim to be Christians but spend a great deal of time doing things that aren't even remotely Christ-like.  No love, no live-and-let live attitude, and certainly no problem bearing false witness or ignoring the log in their own eyes.

Meanwhile after accepting my homosexuality and coming out to my family, I've grown closer to them, I've quit drinking and smoking and am now taking better care of myself.  I haven't been depressed or on anti-depressants in close to a decade.  I've now been partnered for over 2 years and we both just started better jobs.

Yes it all makes sense.  Clearly I'm being punished.  I should repent right away and call Rick up for help.

If homosexuality is wrong, then it should be easy and relatively simple to expose that "truth".  The lies and distortions only make it clear to me that I'm actually doing exactly what I'm supposed to do.  Either God approves or God doesn't really care.


Surprising
However, maybe I didn't read it good enough, but Santorum had blamed the Catholic sex abuse crisis on liberal Boston (because it didn't happen anywhere else in the world):
It is startling that those in the media and academia appear most disturbed by this aberrant behavior, since they have zealously promoted moral relativism by sanctioning "private" moral matters such as alternative lifestyles. Priests, like all of us, are affected by culture. When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While it is no excuse for this scandal, it is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...

NO Rick, we in Boston finally did something about it and spoke out about it which had been silent for decades and of course, the country followed suit.


Wikipedia entry
on Traynham says (in part):

In a Blog entitled "Pam's House Blend", the author is quoted as asking, "Will the Log Cabin psychos please take out this homophobe enabler?"


Cause any fool knows, a dog needs a home; a shelter from pigs on the wing

That article is quite a mess, and extremely biased
Link to Wikipedia article: Robert Traynham

Even better, the history shows that the article was created by someone with the wikipedia name of... Roberttraynham!

Methinks the article is long overdue for a rework, with an eye towards removing bias, demanding citations and correcting the many mistatements of fact.  

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même merde.


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Just wanted to add...
The list of contributions made by Roberttraynham shows that this is the one and only article to which he contributed, at least under that name. Creating an entry in the Wikipedia for the purpose of self-aggrandizement is a very big no-no.

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même merde.

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Wow.
I've never actually seen anyone suffering from rabies before. It's kinda scary atcually.

Four California judges endorsed two big, very bad ideas. First,  they extended the internationally recognized human right to marry to  include same-sex marriage.

Oops. I forgot I'm gay, therefore I don't qualify as Human. Sorry. Won't happen again.

In Pennsylvania, Gill money helped the Democrats gain control of  the House by only one vote.  What happens if we permit this tiny minority to reshape  marriage? The next step is to use the new law to suppress the  liberties of Christians.  

We can marry in PA? When did this happen?

And we couldn't get away without having an "Adam and Steve" refrence.

Make no mistake, gay marriage is not about letting Adam visit  Steve in the hospital or letting them do what they want in private.


watashi no yomeiri wa doko desu ka

I enjoy his pink tie.

The rest of Santorum's crap, not so much.

Those four horrifying "offenses" that are now de rigeur for every anti-gay politico and pundit to invokes are such piddling sillyness and idiocy that they deserve no respect.  The people who buy into them as "reasons" after getting sufficient information are hopeless idiots.  And I say that as resident of a town in which one of them took place.

I've watched the anti-gay thing closely for about five years.  The mystery to the Christian Right motivations has been what interests me most, a real conundrum.  Lately it seems to me all the pieces are falling together, though: the weird Christian vs Gay(pro-gay) dichotomy in Right wing thinking, the recruitment and predation fallacy, the "infection" and gay selfreproduction fallacy, the sexual prurience obsession, the dogma of gay dysfunction, the absolute certainty of gayness being fallenness and Divine rejection, and certainty that gay people want to desecrate all things Christian.  It's basically taking the template of anti-Semitism and substituting gay people for Jews in it.


My eyes!
That pink tie does NOT go with the lavender jacket.  

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these are the clothes ya get when every queer dispises you


"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


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Inspirational.
I can't tell you how much his letter has inspired me.  

It makes we want to work all the harder and financially support. . . the various organizations fighting FOR marriage equality.

Thank you so much Ricky for the motivation!


Santorum's out of touch.
This is a ruling which, if left undisturbed,  means that Protestants, Catholics, Jews and Muslims who see marriage as the union of husband and wife, and view sexual activity as best confined to marriage so defined, are in the exact position as racists under California law.

1. He singled out Scientologists, Mormons, Rastafarians, Jehovah's Witnesses, etc.

2. Gay marriage should not be determined by Santorum's cult.  He should not use his "religious faith" to dictate what others can't do.


so. . .
Don't want their hard-earned tax dollars used to subsidize  novel family forms

well, at least he finally admitted that it's not about protecting children, US citizens or families, it's about putting people they don't approve of and their children at risk all to ensure the christian caste system


Santorum opposed the US stopping the genocide in Bosnia
"Look, I voted against going into Bosnia in the '90s. I didn't see it as that serious a threat to U.S. national interests."

Why?

"The strain of radical Islam is very powerful, and it holds great sway in the Islamic world. It's not the majority opinion, but it has great appeal across the board, even among moderate Muslims. Sympathy for that exclusive ideology is very broadly shared."

In other words, Serbian Mass Murderers and War Criminals Karadzik, Mladic Milosovic are Santorum's good guys.


I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid


Ok, to be honest
I have a true hatred for Richard Santorun dating to his Senate days.  I was still ostensibly straight when I was in Bosnia with the ICT-Y when Santorum began making speeches in Pittsburgh opposing the US intervention and clouding the issue of blame and warning about helping Muslims while I was interviewing survivors whose husbands and sons were murdered, and who had been raped along with their daughters.

Santorum prosturing as a Churchill-like prophet warning of the "Gathering Storm" sickened me as he was defending Christians who in their conduct would have done Hitler, Himmler, Heydrich and Eishmann proud.

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid


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