November 21, 2008

Stories to Read When You Get Tired of Hearing Me Rant About the Anti-Marriage Bigots

• When Mormons start getting murdered just for being Mormons, and when somebody throws a Molotov cocktail into one of their worship services, we might feel a little more sympathy about a lousy wall getting tagged.

• There were more protesters at the Mountain View No On 8 rally than I thought.

• Marching in not-so-gay-friendly neighborhoods is a good idea, but do we really want to descend on South Central waving posters of Coretta Scott King? Seems to me that would inflame the shaky “blacks-hate-gays” myth (yeah, myth) — and anyway, a lot of people are marching through territory that really is gay-hostile. (Even San Jose, which is considerably safer for queers than, say, Jackson, Mississippi, doesn’t have a gayborhood [unless you count the DeFrank Center building as a “neighborhood”]; we were downtown, and near downtown, three times in one week.)

• Politico reminds me I’m still pissed at Barack Obama for sucking up to Rick Warren.

• Here’s some more real family values, courtesy of Tony Alamo Christian Ministries.

• Two words: Mark Foley. No, make that three words: Mark Foley, slimebucket. Oops, that may be four words.

• When we saw the phrase “rabid Holocaust denier,” we thought the article was going to be about Scott Lively. It’s not. But even after reading about this piece of filth called Frederick Toben, we still can’t decide who’s worse. We also think that the radical religionists who keep screaming about same-sex marriage being some sort of “threat” to their free speech ought to be forced to live in Germany for a while; they could spend their time pondering real restrictions on free speech as they while away their time in their prison cells.

• Cleve Jones thinks there are lots of undiscovered Harvey Milks among us. I’d like to think he’s right, but I haven’t met any yet.

• The cop we saw beating down Duanna Johnson on video pleaded not guilty to violating Johnson’s civil rights. That was Wednesday. I’d give you a link, but I still won’t link to AP. (OK, so I read the story. BFD.) Anyway, no surprises about the cop’s plea. What I didn’t know until now is that Duanna Johnson was murdered on November 10th. She was shot to death and left on a North Memphis street.

Posted by: Sapphocrat

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