The Gaytheist Agenda

No More Ms. Nice Gay for her, and for that I heartily commend her.

The notoriously anti-gay California State Senator who was recently arrested on DUI charges after allegedly leaving a gay nightclub has admitted he is gay.

State Sen. Roy Ashburn, the Bakersfield Republican who was arrested in Sacramento last week on suspicion of drunk driving, came out as gay in a radio interview this morning.

“I am gay. And so, those are the words that have been so difficult for me for so long,” Ashburn told radio host Inga Barks on her show on the KERN station in Bakersfield.

I positively detest self-loathing homosexual (for the term gay simply doesn’t apply to anybody of his ilk) politicians who work to harm LGBT people. They are vermin.

He defended his voting record, saying he cast votes that his constituents wanted. Ashburn represents the 18th Senate District, which covers a huge swath of the central and southern part of the state.

“I felt my duty, and I still feel this way, is to represent my constituents,” Ashburn said, adding later that “I don’t think it’s something that has affected or will affect how I do my job.”

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“I was only doing my duty”. Gee where have I heard that one before? At any rate, Ashburn didn’t just vote for anti-gay measures, he actively campaigned against LGBT rights. He was not an innocent party merely doing his job. He was personally and willingly involved in harming LGBT people. He deserves nothing but contempt.

 

Rock for Equality is a national event to demand equal Social Security benefits for all LGBT Americans. This year we will rally on April 11th in Los Angeles to demand equal benefits for our LGBT seniors. Please join us in raising awareness about one of the most under recognized and harshly consequential issues in the LGBT movement! Join us at Rock for Equality.

(A shorter version of video is also available.)

 

“I do” is the latest from Ava Lowrey of peacetakescourage.

 
Now enjoy some photo galleries from Washington D.C. where same-sex couples are celebrating marriage equality.

 
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Apparently bigotry trumps family for some allegedly “pro-family” types. Catholic Charities in D.C., the same folks who ended their foster care program over the pending law that legalizes same-sex marriage, will now cease providing health care benefits to employee’s spouses lest they be required to give them to one with Teh Gay.

The Archdiocese of Washington has been battling the D.C. government for the right to discriminate against gays and lesbians since D.C.’s same-sex marriage legislation got rolling last year.

One major point of contention: Once gays and lesbians are allowed to marry, the Archdiocese—which employs plenty of locals through Catholic Charities—will be required to provide health benefits to same-sex spouses, an act which it says would fly in the face of the Catholic church’s teachings on homosexuality.

The solution? No spousal benefits for anybody.
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I wonder why Catholic Charities isn’t whining about the fact that they’re already providing health care benefits to gay people. It’s obvious they know they have gay and lesbian employees by the fact that they’re instituting this ridiculous and hateful policy. Why aren’t they demanding their right to refuse to provide benefits to these employees? It would be a natural extension of their “religious freedoms” after all. Then again, I probably shouldn’t give them any ideas….

Here’s the memo:

I am writing to you to inform you of an important change to our group health care benefit plan that will take effect on March 2, 2010 due to a change in the law of the District of Columbia. It is important to note that the existing health coverage of current employees will not be affected by the change. New employees and current employees requesting revisions in benefit coverage will be affected by this change.

Catholic Charities will continue to honor the health plan coverage that current employees have as of March 1, 2010. As of March 2, a new plan will be in effect that will cover new employees and requests for benefit changes by current employees. …..

We sincerely regret that we have to make this change, but it is necessary to allow Catholic Charities to continue to provide essential services to the clients we serve in partnership with the District of Columbia while remaining consistent with the tenets of our religious faith.

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Actually if Catholic Charities were truly remaining consistent with the tenets of their religious faith they would be denying benefits to the divorced and anybody who’d had premarital sex, among others. But they choose to target gay people and pretend they’re just upholding their religious tenets while they ignore all of the other “sinners” in their employ.

Ultimately Catholic Charities will screw hundreds, even thousands, of straight people in their quest to stick it to the gays. Once again they prove they aren’t about charity but instead about pushing their personal flavor of religion on everyone. This is yet another reason I detest such organizations receiving any taxpayer money. If they’re going to push their arbitrary religious dogma on employees and/or service recipients they don’t deserve a penny of support from the very people they are harming in the process.

 

That’s right. Jeffery Joseph Czech is defending Nadia Schulman. In case you’ve forgotten or hadn’t heard, she’s the infamous “Octomom”, who had a litter of babies via artificial insemination, then tried to use them as a means of getting her own reality TV show. Czech also donated $50K to Americans United to Preserve Marriage. In Czech’s twisted fundamentalist mind committed same-sex couples who want to marry rank below a woman who’d pimp out her own infants for publicity. It’s always nice to see those Christian Ethics in action….

Speaking of anti-gay bigots with deep pockets, don’t forget to check Base8 frequently. It’s constantly being updated and what you see today is not what you’ll see tomorrow.

 

White House officials met with secularist and atheist groups for the first time in history. Of course since religious groups have lost their exclusive access to the WH they must have tantrums over the event.

 

 
The supporters of Proposition 8 realize how poorly their side argued their case in Perry vs. Schwarzenegger. So now, like monkeys, they are pulling yet more poo out of their backsides and flinging it in hopes that something will stick to the wall.

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The potential harms they cited included giving bisexuals a legal basis for pursuing group marriages and unmarried fathers an incentive to abandon their children.
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Bisexual means a person can be romantically and sexually attracted to either gender. It doesn’t mean they’re inclined to fall in love with both at the same time. Of course the bigots like to push the notion that it’s the latter because then they can also pimp their slippery slope fallacy. OMG, if we allow same-sex marriage it might lead to POLYGAMY!!! Yeah, and people might start squeezing the Charmin too. Please people, protect the toilet paper and vote NO on Gay.

As to the claim that same-sex marriage would give unmarried fathers an incentive to abandon their children…that’s pure horsecrap. There are already millions of “deadbeat dads” out there and it has absolutely nothing to do with same-sex marriage. It’s high time that heterosexual people stop blaming gay people and gay unions for the failings of heterosexual relationships.

 

 
A student in a Maryland middle school refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. Her teacher mocked her and called her names on the first day, and had the school police escort her to the office on the second day. It’s a good thing the girl wasn’t doodling on her desk….

 

 
Yet another Christian is crying “persecution” and filing a lawsuit because he thinks they shouldn’t have to share public space with others, or be pestered with the opinions of those who think differently. Perhaps a secured commune would be a better place for him.

 

 
Finally, this “Christian” charity will stop providing aid to Haiti if they won’t turn from their evil Voodoo ways and convert to Christianity. This is exactly why I despise most “faith based” charities–they don’t truly want to help but only to push their religion on others. The aid they provide is only a vehicle to gain more bodies for their god. There is nothing moral about what they do.

 

These puerile bumper stickers were being offered by Concerned Whackjobs Women for America at the recent CPAC.

 

If you have to work that hard to prove how “real” a man you are you’re obviously trying too hard to compensate for….something.

On another note, why is that woman out pimping those things anyway? Shouldn’t she be at home spawning for Jesus and serving her man as gawd intended?

 
Hat tip, The New Civil Rights Movement

 

Of course they’re already being held up as martyrs, as were their MA counterparts before them. But the plain fact is that Catholic Charities chose to end its foster care program in DC, just as CC in MA chose to cease adoption services in MA, because they didn’t want to obey laws every other agency is subject to. Nobody “forced” them to do anything.

The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington has ended its 80-year-old foster-care program in the District rather than license same-sex couples, the first fallout from a bitter debate over the city’s move to legalize same-sex marriage.

Catholic Charities, which runs more than 20 social service programs for the District, transferred its entire foster-care program — 43 children, 35 families and seven staff members — to another provider, the National Center for Children and Families. Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6), the D.C. Council member who chairs the Committee on Human Services, said he didn’t know of any problems with the transfer, which happened Feb. 1.
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So that’s that. Despite former threats that children would be left wandering the streets and DC would implode because of Teh Gays, the entire caseload is already being served by another agency. Granted it’s another “faith based” provider, but I suppose I can’t expect perfection. At the very least they show no overt signs of being as bigoted as their CC counterparts.

Edward Orzechowski, president and chief executive of Catholic Charities, the archdiocese’s social service arm, said the group is optimistic that it will find a way to structure its benefits packages in other social service programs so that it can remain in partnership with the city without recognizing same-sex marriage.

Asked if that meant looking at ways to avoid paying benefits to same-sex partners or ways to write benefits plans so as not to characterize same-sex couples as “married,” Orzechowski said “both, and.”
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Translation: Catholic Charities wants to flaunt the law and still keep taking taxpayer dollars–including those of the people whose rights they’re directly violating. So much for the “moral values” instilled by religion.

 

Various pieces from around the Internutz.

 
How the most religious states fare.

Classically Liberal dissects multiple reports and studies to show what I’ve long known, and have reported more than once–that God and religion simply aren’t the answer to society’s woes.

 
While Judge Considers Same-Sex Marriage Case, House Church Leader says the Verdict Doesn’t Matter

A church leader declares many Christians have lost their way, and turned Christianity into a crusade against others rather than an effort to bring others to Christ and seek God’s Kingdom. It’s nice to see one of them speak up since our voices go largely ignored when we say it.

 
Gay harassment, bias crimes often go unreported

This isn’t anything most of us don’t already know, but it bears repeating because it’s urgent, and because the RRRW tries fervently to ignore/deny it.

 
How the Game is Played

You probably saw the NYT article that claimed 50% of gay married men are in “open marriages”. What you didn’t see is how they distorted the study, and outright lied, to once again smear gay couples. Read the facts at Truth Wins Out.

 
Anita Bryant and Me

One person’s encounter with the original “OMG won’t somebody please think of the children?!?!” anti-gay Liar for the Lord.