Indiana Newspaper Prints Marriage Announcement

Here's a fun one kids. A couple in Iowa is getting married. One member of that couple asks their hometown newspaper to print an engagement announcement. The paper complies. No body cares because no one ever reads those damn things anymore. The end.

Oh, I should mention that both of the people in this story are men. And that their hometown paper is in Indiana. Still, that should be The End. But, of course, it's not. Because it has something to do with "the gays" and when they get mentioned anywhere, people feel the need to get all up in arms about someone else's business that has absolutely nothing to do with them.

Sooo, Christian Scarebears start this ass-crazy campaign of whining to the editor and calling the paper saying that the news paper (get this) is breaking the law because same-sex marriage is illegal in Indiana. The paper is obviously over stepping their bounds by stating that some queer couple is getting married! And apparently these complainers have nothing better to do with their time than read the wedding announcements in small-town newspapers for states and areas they don't even live in…

Let's clarify a few things here. Same-sex marriage is not illegal anywhere in this country. If it were, gay couples that held marriage ceremonies in states like Indiana (which happens all the time) would be arrested and charged with a crime along with the clergy or whomever performed said ceremony. That doesn't happen (thankfully). Rather, marriage rights are not recognized by the state, so couples can marry to their heart's content, but the state doesn't officially acknowledge that marriage.

Why is that difference important? Because saying things like "gay marriage is illegal" is just another tool that the Scarebears are trying to use to frame LGBT folk as evil, villainous pricks out to destroy the world. I think this is just the Christianist set projecting themselves onto someone else, but that's probably a little too Freudian for that crowd to understand.

If you feel so inclined, send a letter to the editor of this newspaper and let them know that you support their decision to publish the story. Lord knows (at the least Christian Fundamentalists think he does) that the editor is getting a crap ton of email from idiot bigots right now.

Peter LaBarbera Meets Joe The Gay

I need you all to go over to Joe.My.God right now and read this post. It could be the funniest thing I've read in a very long time!

Here's the basics. Peter LaBarbera is a right-wing, Crazy Christian Scare Bear ass-hat, who has run a few of the pro-dead guy on a cross organizations out there. Currently, he spends his time going to gay events like IML and various Pride events taking pictures of what he perceives as perversion, then he blogs about them. Presumably, this illustrates how mentally sick all gay people are if, heaven forbid, one gay person participates in any form of public affection (well, I suppose it takes at least two... sometimes). He also trolls gay websites and blogs for comments and stories that he deems evil.

There's the backdrop, now go read Joe's post. It's hillarious!

Yeah, They Went There

Stupid Christians at it again...

Every day that goes by, my belief that these Crazy Christian Scare Bears are plain insane is affirmed. 

Now they have decided that gay people wanting equal rights is just like Hitler.... yeah, that's what this ass wipe said.  We gays, that were tortured, maimed, and burned by the Nazi's during Hitler's reign, are just like Nazi's.  He apparently is not familiar with where the Pink Triangle symbol came from.

I have a friend that believes that anytime someone resorts to comparing his/her opponent to Nazi Germany or Hitler, they have lost the argument.  They have nothing else to argue with, so they simply call you a Nazi.  It's similar to the Red Scare affect, or the I saw Martha Corey in the forest with the Devil affect.  It's pretty damn pathetic, and just another attempt to demonize and villainize us gays, which is beyond reprehensible.  We have not caused undue shame and humiliation to an entire group of people.  These Scare Bears have. 

Connecticut Scare Bears At It Already

Hey hey! Remember that cool thing the Connecticut Supreme Court did the other day? You know, that thing where they said it's unconstitutional for the state to deny gay people EQUAL FUCKING RIGHTS, specifically in regard to marriage? Yeah, that thing. Well, wouldn't you know it, but the Crazy Christians Scare Bears are already at it trying to find a way to Prop. 8 this bitch!

I'm still not understanding these twisted idiots. If a court had ruled in favor of something pro-Christian, they'd be all like "Yeah, the law has prevailed," but now that a court rules in favor of something pro-Humanity, pro-Civility, pro-Equality, they have to whine and cry and moan about it?

You know what, you sick bastards, get over yourselves. This is not a religious battle or a "culture war" as you often like to try and frame it. It's about equality and decency, which is apparently something you lack as made evident by statements like this:

“The real battle will be Election Day. Even in a state with a legislature as liberal as ours, we have defeated our opponents year after year through the legislative process. They could never have gotten same-sex marriage through the Democratic process. Democracy is gay marriage’s worst enemy"

So, yeah. You show your ignorance on these issues when even the Governor of Connecticut, a Republican, comes out and says that any legislative attempts to enshrine bigotry and hatred into the State Constitution will not work:

Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell, a gay marriage opponent who also supports amending the Constitution to allow for initiatives and referendum, said she is “firmly convinced that attempts to reverse this decision either legislatively or by amending the state constitution will not meet with success.”

Furthermore, by not taking time to understand the process you want to initiate, you fail to show the sound judgment that an educated person would. If this quaint, once-every-20-years convention gets approved, the entirety of the state constitution would be reworked, and you wouldn't get a say in it. It be up to appointed leaders. And it would cost your state billions of dollars. So good luck with that.

I Guess Those Foster Kids Didn't Really Want A Roof Over Their Heads...

A group of Arkansas crazy Christians have decided that they need to pass a state law that would ban "unmarried couples" from being foster parents. The law does not discriminate against straight or gay couples, simply unmarried couples that live together.

Arkansas already has an official state policy barring unmarried couples that live together from being foster parents, so this balot initiative law is an attempt by the Christian scare bears to solidify the policy. What's funny about this is that these "Pro-family" bull shiters want to say that they are only trying to promote a family positive environment, meanwhile denying many family positive homes the opportunity to fost a child simply because the man and woman, or woman and woman, or man and man aren't married.

The logical thing would be to allow any stable, happy, healthy couple the opportunity to foster a child. The Christian freaks like to pretend that married couples, simply by the fact that they are married, allows them a moral superiority, which is really what's behind all the anti-marriage BS in the country right now. If the gays can be married, that one less thing uppity Christian heteros can look down their noses at us for.

I dated a guy in college that was raised in the foster care system. The fact that most of these foster families are Christian Scare Bears really scared him, because he grew up in homes that constantly told him about how evil he was. Combine that with the knowledge and abandonment issues that foster children already experience, and you have a recipe for bad mental health.

All I'm saying is foster homes and adoptive parents should always be considered on a case-by-case basis. There are no hard-set rules about who will be good parents and who won't. There never have been. But its laws like this that show exactly the unintended consequences of the Crazy Chrisitans efforts, and I hope some day soon they start to focus their efforts on how to make their own lives better before trying to decide for someone else what is good for them.