The Christian Civic League of Maine's Mike Hein calls Pam's House Blend: "a leading source of radical homosexual propaganda, anti-Christian bigotry, and radical transgender advocacy."
He is "praying that Pam Spaulding will "turn away from her wicked and sinful promotion of homosexual behavior."
(CCLM's web site, 10/15/07)
Ex-gay "Christian" activist James Hartline on Pam:
"I have been mocked over and over again by ungodly and unprincipled anti-christian lesbians."
(from "Six Years In Sodom: From The Journal Of James Hartline," 9/4/2006, written from the "homosexual stronghold" of Hillcrest in San Diego).
"Pam is a 'twisted lesbian sister' and an 'embittered lesbian' of the 'self-imposed gutteral experiences of the gay ghetto.'" -- 9/5/2008
Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth Against Homosexuality heartily endorses the Blend, calling Pam:
A "vicious anti-Christian lesbian activist." (Concerned Women for America's radio show [9:15], 1/25/07)
"A nutty lesbian blogger." (MassResistance radio show [16:25], 2/3/07)
Pam's House Blend always seems to find these sick f*cks. The area of the country she is in? The home state of her wife? I know, they are everywhere. Pam just does such a great job of bringing them out into the light.
--Impeach Bush
who monitors yours Bevis ?? Just thought I would drop you a line,so the rest of your life is not wasted.
A U.S. soldier opened fire Thursday at Fort Hood, Texas, killing at least 11 people and wounding 31 others, military officials said. The gunman was shot to death, and two other soldiers were in custody.
Lt. Gen. Robert W. Cone, commanding general of the Army's III Corps, who briefed President Barack Obama on the shootings, said the gunman used two handguns.
NBC News' Pete Williams reported that a U.S. official identified the gunman as Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan, who was 39 or 40. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson, R-Texas, said military officials told her that the gunman was about to be deployed to Iraq and was "upset about it." The Associated Press reported that Hasan was a mental health professional.
The shooter was killed and two other suspects, who are also soldiers, have been apprehended, Lt. Gen. Robert W. Cone said.
Hasan allegedly opened fire and killed 11 people on the base before he was shot, bringing the total number of fatalities to 12.
The general said there were "eyewitness accounts of more than one shooter," and the others were tracked to an adjacent facility.
Cone called the attack "a terrible tragedy, stunning." He said the community was "absolutely devastated."
President Obama called the Fort Hood shootings a "horrific outburst of violence."
"It is difficult enough to lose" soldiers overseas, but it is "horrifying that they should lose their lives at an Army base in the U.S.," he said.
CBS is reporting Hasan was an Army psychiatrist from Silver Springs, MD.
The Army post was still on lockdown as of 5 p.m. but Cone said that all of the deaths and injuries had taken place during the initial 1:30 p.m. incident and that authorities were determining whether to lift the lockdown.
FBI agents have responded to the base and the military is asking the FBI's help in investigating the backgrounds of the two soldiers held as suspects in the shooting, Cone said.
There has been some confusion about the exact location of the shooting. Cone said that the shooting took place in the Readiness Center but that the two surviving suspects were taken into custody in an "adjacent facility."
At the Soldier Readiness Center, soldiers who are about to be deployed or who are returning undergo medical screening - on average about 300-400 screened a day, said Sgt. Rebekah Lampam, a spokeswoman at Fort Hood.
A graduation ceremony for soldiers who finished college courses while deployed was going on in an auditorium at the Readiness Center at the time of the shooting, said Lampam said.
Texas Governor Rick Perry, who's running for re-election, has a little problem -- there are allegations that he executed an innocent man in 2004, and some of his aides tried to pressure the chairman of the state's forensics science commission that has been investigating the case. Ten days ago he removed four of the eight people on the commission and replaced them with his toadies, and this happened 48 hours before the commission was to hold a big public hearing about its report. The hearing never happened.
Perry's office, btw, hasn't released any of the state records related to the day Governor Good Hair made his decision to let the execution go forward. Here's the report.
Gay or straight, the sexual orientation of adoptive parents does not have an impact on the emotional development of their children, according to a new study.
"We found that sexual orientation of the adoptive parents was not a significant predictor of emotional problems," Paige Averett, an assistant professor of social work at East Carolina University, said in a statement.
"We did find, however, that age and pre-adoptive sexual abuse were," she added.
Averett, Blace Nalavany, also of East Carolina University, and Scott Ryan, dean of the University of Texas School of Social Work, questioned nearly 1,400 couples in the United States, including 155 gay and lesbian parents.
They used information from Florida's public child welfare system and data from gay and lesbian couples throughout the U.S. for the study.
"There are implications for social work educators, adoption professionals, and policy makers in this and other recent studies," said Averett.
"We must pay attention to the data indicating that gay and lesbian parents are as fit as heterosexual parents to adopt," Averett added, "because at least 130,000 children are depending on us to act as informed advocates on their behalf."
Ryan said what makes the study different is that gay and lesbian couples were compared with heterosexual couples. The study also had a "robust sample size," he said.
The study included 155 gay and lesbian couples and 1,229 heterosexual couples. Couples responded to questions about parent and child characteristics, family composition and dynamics, the child's pre-adoptive history (or a history of maltreatment), and current emotional and behavioral functioning.
As of 2007, there were an estimated 130,000 children in the child welfare system waiting to be adopted, yet a Library of Congress report noted "serious shortages" of qualified adoptive parents.
The American Civil Liberties Union contends that many gay and lesbian families are interested and willing to adopt children and are often open to adopting the harder to place children such as those that are older. Yet policies of adoption agencies, social stigma and state laws have created barriers to adoption for gay and lesbian couples, the advocacy group argues.
Blender Stevious attended a town hall meeting held at IBM in Austin by Congressman John Carter (R-TX-31), and the topic of the pol's no vote on ENDA. The answer that Carter gave can be summed up as sexual orientation isn't an "attribute" deserving of anti-discrimination protections. So Stevious wrote Carter:
Wrong Answer John I asked you about your NO vote on ENDA yesterday at IBM, a place that has had a non-discrimination policy for GLBT people since 1984. In your world, apparently, there are forms of discrimination that are OK, because that's how I understand your answer. You'll notice the room was flat silent after your answer. You disrespected all of us in the room, and IBM, who, as a company, has come out in support of a fully inclusive ENDA."
Senator Edward Kennedy said: "The promise of America will never be fulfilled as long as justice is denied to even one among us," when speaking about ENDA. "The Employment Non-Discrimination Act brings us closer to fulfilling that promise for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender citizens.
Unfortunately Carter (or rather his bone-headed communications spokesbot) doesn't know about how those darned IP addys tell a tale (143.231.249.137, housegate12.house.gov) and he posted this lush bit of astroturf:
Good job, Judge Carter, thanks for standing up for the vast majority of your constituents who agree with your vote 100%! I was not aware of your vote until this popped up, keep up the good work and let's take back the House in 2010 with 100 new congressmen just like you!
Pop over to Stevious's pad to see the tasty bust of this clown.
Marshall also questioned whether Thurgood Marshall, who argued the landmark case that resulted in school desegregation and was the first black U.S. Supreme Court justice, should be presented to Texas students as an important historical figure. He wrote that the late justice is "not a strong enough example" of such a figure.
The recommendations are part of a long process as the State Board of Education prepares to write new social studies curriculum standards for public schools. Debate on the issue, which will also include questions of the role of religion in public life, could be as intense as that on new science standards that were adopted by the board in March, when evolution was a major flashpoint...
...Board members and their appointees have complained about an "over representation of minorities" in the current social studies standards. This is ironic in light of the changing demographics of our country. Sadly, Latino and African-American children have the highest drop-out rates in the country. It's essential to ensure schools are providing students with role models and historical figures whose experiences reflect their own.
We must be concerned when the contributions of Cesar Chávez, Thurgood Marshall and other individuals who have contributed so much to the landscape of American democracy are cast aside and ridiculed. We should welcome the inclusion of all Americans who have helped to make this nation great.
It is horrific to discover that the TX State Board of Education has allowed these panelists to use our children's social studies curriculum as a platform for their political agendas. Please take action today to stop this travesty from going forward. Send your e-mail to the Chair of the Texas Board of Education Gail Lowe (R).
If you're interested in telling Texas to keep the contributions of Cesar Chavez and Thurgood Marshall in the school social studies curriculum, then consider going to the United Farm Worker's action alert and sending off an e-mail to that Chair of the Texas Board of Education.
Okay. It sure looks like the Fort Worth, Texas Mayor Mike Moncrief made an apology for the Rainbow Lounge incident in this video (and reported in this article), but apparently looks apparently can be deceiving. The Mayor said the following in response to a specific question in a city council meeting regarding the Rainbow Lounge incident:
"The mayor and council are always sorry if anyone is hurt ever in our city," Begley said Wednesday. "The mayor has asked for a thorough investigation of what happened in the Rainbow Lounge to the point that he's asked for the U.S. attorney to get involved ...They want to make sure that all voices are heard ... but the apology is that anyone is ever hurt in any incident."
Well, with that clarification, whether an actual apology was issued is so much more...well, unclear.
Engh, it's politics. Apparently no politician ever really apologizes, even when it appears clear that he or she is actually apologizing.
A major paper has pick up on this story, and capture the outrage over the Stonewall weekend police raid at the Rainbow Lounge in Fort Worth, Texas. In "A Raid at a Club in Texas Leaves a Man in the Hospital and Gay Advocates Angry," James McKinley, Jr. of the NYT captures the major issues at play and added a few more details about the event.
So many questions have been raised about the police account that on Friday afternoon, Mayor Mike Moncrief asked the United States attorney for the Northern District of Texas, James T. Jacks, to review the Police Department’s investigation.
Tom Anable, a 55-year-old accountant who said he was in the bar during the raid, said that for more than a half-hour the officers entered the bar repeatedly in groups of three and escorted people out. Then around 1:40 a.m., he said, the officers started to get rougher, throwing one young man down hard on a pool table.
Minutes later, one of the state agents approached Mr. Gibson, who was standing on steps to a lounge at the back of the bar with a bottle of water in his hands, and tapped him on the shoulder, Mr. Anable said. Mr. Gibson turned and said, “Why?”
Then the officer, who has not been identified, twisted Mr. [Chad] Gibson’s right arm behind his back, grabbed his neck, swung him off the steps and slammed his head into the wall of a hallway leading to the restrooms, Mr. Anable said. The agent then forced Mr. Gibson to the floor, Mr. Anable said.
“Gibson didn’t touch the officer,” Mr. Anable said. “He didn’t grope him.”
Angry allies and members of the LGBT community there have created a new organization, Fairness Fort Worth, to track the investigations and inquiries regarding the raid and plans a benefit concert to help those injured.
The Stonewall weekend police raid at Fort Worth's Rainbow Lounge, which resulted in a man, Chad Gibson, receiving a brain injury from the brutality exacted by "law enforcement" has turned into a perfect example of homophobia as a defense. The police chief, Jeff Halstead, has not only bought into the officer's questionable reasons for the violence -- allegations that a bar patron fondled them or made sexual gestures at them, something witnesses deny strongly, but he's proud to release a statement like this:
Monday, police chief Jeff Halstead said the officers' actions are being investigated. However, he also said that officers that entered the bar during the scheduled inspection were touched inappropriately.
"You're touched and advanced in certain ways by people inside the bar, that's offensive," he said. "I'm happy with the restraint used when they were contacted like that."
News 8 talked with council member Joel Burns shortly after he visited Gibson in the hospital Monday afternoon.
"It's my hope that the fact that this is a gay bar and the violence that happened there are not in any way tied - obviously as someone who loves Fort Worth [and] as someone who is gay - I don't want those two things to be connected," he said.
Neither the TABC nor Fort Worth police revealed why the bar was selected for what police called a bar check. But, Halstead said the checks always result from either citizen or law enforcement concerns. The bar's owner questioned that and pointed out the Rainbow Lounge has been open for less than two weeks.
Meanwhile, Gibson is suffering from brain injury.
Gibson's mother, Kelly Carter, called it heartbreaking."He's got bruises here on his head," Carter said. "He's got [them] all down his shoulder. He's got a ring around his wrist where they had tied him."
Allow me to translate the chief's comments: "Them faggots in that thar bar touched mah officers and now they're complainin' about some rough stuff and one little ol' faggot with a brain injury? Those perverts should be grateful they're alive."
This is a classic example of the Gay Panic Defense. In the very recent past all a straight man who brutally murdered a gay man had to say was, "He made a pass at me!", and the jury would ignore the evidence and let the murderer off. The Gay Panic Defense doesn't fly in many courts of law these days but it still has currency in the court of public opinion. And the chief of police in Forth Worth, a major U.S. city, is attempting to use the Gay Panic Defense to convince the citizens of Fort Worth to ignore the evidence-to ignore photographic evidence and credible eyewitness accounts-and let his officers off.
Police say seven people were arrested for public intoxication and at least a dozen more were restrained. The incident was captured on camera and posted on local blogs. The scene was topic of conversation at Sunday's Million Gay March in Dallas, and the Cathedral of Hope in Dallas released a statement following its Sunday morning worship services.
"After more than a generation of progress, this action shows that there is still much work to be done to ensure that all Americans enjoy 'equal protection under the law.' It is tragic that lesbian and gay taxpayers are still abused by the very people who are paid by our taxes."
..."I've worked in gay bars in four different counties in Texas, I've never seen anything this aggressive," club bouncer Justin McCarty said.
Fort Worth police arrested seven people for reported public intoxication, and for reportedly inappropriately groping an officer. It's an allegation witness Chuck Potter disputes.
"I can guarantee there wasn't a man in this bar that would've touched one of those officers, knowing they were arresting people."
People in the Lone Star State are tired of the bible beating flat-earth set trying to slip "intelligent design" into the public schools. One big proponent of this kind of misinformation, Republican Don McLeroy, saw his nomination by Rick Perry to head up the Texas State Board of Ed drop-kicked by the state Senate. (Dallas Morning News):
The Senate rejected Republican Don McLeroy's nomination as chairman of the State Board of Education on Thursday after Democrats decried his lack of leadership and "endless culture wars" over evolution and other volatile topics.
...Several Democrats cited the recurring divisiveness on the board with McLeroy at the helm, along with his resistance to the views of educators and education experts on curriculum and other matters.
Gov. Rick Perry, who nominated McLeroy, will now have to select another member of the board to serve as chairman.
...In an hourlong debate on the nomination, Senate Democratic leader Leticia Van de Putte of San Antonio said that under McLeroy's leadership, the State Board of Education has become a "laughingstock of the nation" with its battles over evolution, sex education and other issues.
"His actions and leadership have caused the board to be extremely dysfunctional, and that has harmed the 4.7 million schoolchildren of Texas," she said. Van de Putte added that McLeroy has "recklessly disregarded the advice" of education experts.
The Republicans countered with reasoning that only affirms why someone like McLeroy has no business in the field of public education. One defender, Sen. Steve Ogden said this:
"If we vote against Dr. McLeroy, the perception among many Texans will be that if you are a conservative and believe in the infallibility and literacy of the Bible, there is no need to apply to be on the State Board of Education."
You've got to be kidding me. Is this a serious statement? No one cares what McLeroy's personal beliefs are; he just cannot impose his religious view of the world upon the young people going through the Texas school system. One can only conclude that Sen. Ogden believes he also was elected to vote based his the infallibility of the Bible. The Texas GOP is obviously infested with a severe case of wingnuttery that needs to be healed.
Interestingly, there is nothing mentioned about San Angelo Mayor J.D. Lown being outed in this article in the San Angelo Standard-Times. Lown was recently re-elected in a landslide to his fourth term in office in this West Texas town, so either he was in the closet, professionally closeted -- or there's some sort of hotbed of gay friendliness there; the latter would surprise me.
Lown said the man came to the United States five years ago. He attended Angelo State University. Lown said the relationship started after March.
Lown and the man are in Mexico awaiting a visa to come back legally. "I did the best I could," Lown said. "I had to get down here and get everything in order to make a life for myself."
..."I didn't make this decision lightly," he said. "I have to give this a chance." He said he did not know how long it would take to get the visa. Lown has dual citizenship in the U.S. and Mexico. He said he and his partner will come back to San Angelo if "the people of San Angelo will welcome me back."
The resignation was quite a bit of drama -- Lown notified the City Manager Harold Dominguez via text message that Lown wouldn't attend Tuesday City Council meeting when he was supposed to be sworn in. The text indicated for Dominguez that a package was heading hs way. The contents -- his resignation effective 8 AM on Wednesday.
Later, got a message saying there was a package waiting for him. He got the package that contained the mayor's resignation at 8 a.m. Wednesday. The letter said Lown's resignation was effective Tuesday. Lown:
"While I know that the timing of this announcement is less than ideal, I have my own compelling reasons for making this decision. I have made thousands of decisions on behalf of our community, and I weighed this decision in the same manner that I approached other decisions."
The reaction from his colleagues was quite supportive.
Jon Mark Hogg, council member and mayor pro tem: "I think it goes without saying we lost a great public servant with Mayor Lown. He cared about and advocated for the city of San Angelo. Mayor Lown has made positive improvements with the city."
Council member John David Fields: "I think we need to take a breath and back off and give him the time he might need to do what he needs to do and respect his privacy."
Council member Charlotte Farmer: "We should give him space."
It's clear that Lown's popularity and presence had an impact that resulted in more support than disdain. If you check out the comments following the article, there are many expressions of support. To be fair, there are a lot of comments that were yanked by the admin (This comment was removed by the site staff for violation of user agreement), that were probably rife with homobigotry.
Lown also asked that the paper share his email addy with readers: jwlown@gmail.com.
In many ways, the discussion of race in America, particularly as it relates to today's issues (the economy, health care, education), brings to mind the parable of the blind men and the elephant. Different people have a firm grasp on part of the truth in the middle of the room - be it the tail, the trunk, an ear, or a leg - but no one seems able to look at the thing itself. Three examples of a similar phenomenon reveal some of the difficulties in our national discussion on race.
In a new survey by Research 2000 for the liberal Daily Kos blog, Texas voters were asked whether the Lone Star State would be better off as an "independent nation" or as part of the United States.
Overall, more than six in ten chose the latter option. (No big surprise there.) But, among Republicans, 48 percent said it would be better for Texas if the state was an independent nation -- the same number who said they would prefer the state remain a part of the United States.
Just to reiterate: roughly half of all self-identified Texas Republicans in the Research 2000 poll said they would rather their state be an independent nation.
What say you, people in Austin? Ready to be assimilated into the Republic of Texas? Hat tip to Oliver Willis, who said:
Look, at a certain point in negotiations you hit a brick wall. You've put what you think is a perfectly reasonable offer on the table, and yet the other side has stripped down to its underwear and is smearing the walls with fecal matter.
Almost half of Texas Republicans are in the brown stuff. And we need to just disengage from further interaction.
I am all for Texas seceding from the Union. They should take Alaska with them since that is part of the Republican agenda there as well. They can send back all of the federal jobs, money, and intellectual capital tomorrow and see how well they get along without Customs and Border Patrol agents, DEA, FBI, and everyone else who protects their constitutional rights. Every sensible person in Texas should leave immediately.
When the Commonwealth of Virginia decided that my rights should not be equal to everyone else (straight people), by passing a Constitutional Amendment, I moved to a state that at least has domestic partner laws (D.C.) so that I wouldn't be paying for my own persecution. Many of my friends followed suit and now the wonderful State of Virginia is practically bankrupt (because their housing prices have fallen so low, they cant collect taxes on upside down homeowners). I guess my point is this: Do not pay for your own discrimination by living in a state where your rights are not equal to your straight neighbors. Vote with your pocketbook.
NOTE FROM PAM: I live in a state that doesn't recognize my marriage. From this diarist's POV, Kate and I should pick up and move from NC to MA, NY, CT, VT, IA or a state with CUs or DPs.
If a marriage amendment were to pass in my state, Kate and I would seriously consider moving, since we are married and it would be recognized in any of the above-mentioned states in some form or fashion.
So this leads to a Q of the Day: Is this a reasonable thing to do -- to abandon the fight for equality where one lives in order to punish that state for not being ahead of the curve on equality? A case can be made for both sides of this of course -- not everyone can pick up and move, nor should they have to. But not everyone is willing to sacrifice for "the cause" either.
I'm loving this batsh*t insanity way too much. So Governor Goodhair's ready to take his balls home and bed down with Chuck Norris to make a go of it as the great nation of Texas, announcing this grand decision to reporters in Austin after the local teabagging affair. (Houston Chronicle):
"Texas is a unique place. When we came into the union in 1845, one of the issues was that we would be able to leave if we decided to do that," Perry said. "My hope is that America and Washington in particular pays attention. We've got a great union. There's absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, who knows what may come of that."
"Rather than everyone here having to learn Chinese - I understand it's a rather difficult language - do you think that it would behoove you and your citizens to adopt a name that we could deal with more readily here?" Brown said.
Brown later told [Organization of Chinese Americans representative Ramey] Ko: "Can't you see that this is something that would make it a lot easier for you and the people who are poll workers if you could adopt a name just for identification purposes that's easier for Americans to deal with?"
Wow. And then Brown became indignant when asked to apologized saying that people are just trying to make this all about race. No, just plain garden-variety stupidity.
These Texas flat-earther creationists either didn't see or didn't care to see the Nova documentary ("Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial"), which chronicled the thorough legal ass-whipping that ID received in the case of the Dover, PA school board.
In the latest attempt to work around the problem, a fundie serving as chair at the Texas State Board of Education tried to insert two sections requiring students to leave the door open for creationism. If accepted, this would have set the curriculum standard for the next 10 years, affecting what would be in textbooks and taught in classrooms. His fellow board members had the common sense to vote for stripping the provisions. (Dallas News):
Social conservatives lost another skirmish over evolution Friday when the State Board of Education stripped two provisions from proposed science standards that would have raised questions about key principles of the theory of evolution.
In identical 8-7 votes, board members removed two sections written by Chairman Don McLeroy that would have required students in high school biology classes to study the "sufficiency or insufficiency" of common ancestry and natural selection of species. Both are key principles of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
... Afterward, a disappointed McLeroy, R-College Station, called the board's decisions a blow to science education in Texas.
"Science loses. Texas loses, and the kids lose because of this," he said. Earlier, McLeroy, a creationist, argued that many aspects of Darwin's theory are not supported by fossil records - though he pointed out he favors the teaching evolution in the public schools.
You'll recall that yesterday I blogged about Texas State Rep. Leo Berman, who proposed a bill to allow non-profit orgs to grant a Master's degree in Science for Creationism. Of course Jesus' General had to write the lawmaker to share his enthusiasm for the bill. A snippet:
I'm so excited, I'm considering moving to Texas to pursue my dream of offering a graduate program in spartan wrestling studies.
As you are no doubt aware, the highest honor a warrior can give another is to challenge him to wrestle in the manner of our ancient Spartan warrior forefathers, that is to say, naked and oiled. Yet, I find that so many of those I challenge, know very little about the ritual. They are so focused on the moment of domination, the point when the victor drives his hard, rigid Spear of Masculine Victory into the defeated's Cave of Eternal Shame, they neglect the rest of the ancient rite.
But there is so much more to know than that. There is: The Dionysian Dance of A Hundred Hoplites, where the competitors pair up by engaging in the Sacred Invitation To See My Etchings; the mixing and application of the fragrant oils used in The Ceremony of The Great Hardening; the Cleansing of the Cave of Shame; and, of course, the Spankings of Christian Redemption (you'd be surprised how many men want to substitute a Pope outfit for the Redemptor's chaps . Imagine that. Receiving ones redemptive lashings from the Whore of Babylon--that's the kind of heretical ignorance I hope to correct).
Oh, god, it's too funny. Click over to read about the "technical track" the General plans to offer.
Texas Governor Rick Perry, who's running for re-election, has a little problem -- there are allegations that he executed an innocent man in 2004, and some of his aides tried to pressure the chairman of the state's forensics science commission that has been investigating the case. Ten days ago he removed four of the eight people on the commission and replaced them with his toadies, and this happened 48 hours before the commission was to hold a big public hearing about its report. The hearing never happened.
Blender Stevious attended a town hall meeting held at IBM in Austin by Congressman John Carter (R-TX-31), and the topic of the pol's no vote on ENDA. The answer that Carter gave can be summed up as sexual orientation isn't an "attribute" deserving of anti-discrimination protections. 
A major paper has pick up on this story, and capture the outrage over the Stonewall weekend police raid at the Rainbow Lounge in Fort Worth, Texas. In "
The Stonewall weekend police raid at Fort Worth's Rainbow Lounge, which resulted in a man, Chad Gibson, receiving a brain injury from the brutality exacted by "law enforcement" has turned into a perfect example of homophobia as a defense. The police chief, Jeff Halstead, has not only bought into the officer's questionable reasons for the violence -- allegations that a bar patron fondled them or made sexual gestures at them, something witnesses deny strongly, but he's proud to release a statement like this:
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