November 21, 2008

That “Christian” “Lady” with the Styrofoam Cross? Looks Like Just Another Desperate Attention Whore with a Persecution Agenda

Joe, “The Truth About Phyllis Burgess:

There’s more to the story of Phylliss Burgess, 69, the “Styrofoam Cross Lady” that is currently the darling of Christianist websites after her cross was ripped from her hands and stomped during a Prop 8 rally in Palm Springs. If you buy the story being told on right-wing sites, Burgesss is a frail, elderly, innocent victim of “gay fascists.”

But it turns out that Burgess is somewhat of a professional rabble-rouser and has disrupted at least several other LGBT events, including Palm Springs Gay Pride. Burgess even showed up to protest at the White Party, a giant circuit party held every spring.

On CNN’s iReport, a witness to the cross incident tells a somewhat different version of the event than the one depicted on the news video that is on so many right-wing sites.

At City Hall a woman with a huge styrofoam cross appeared screaming about YES on 8 at the back of the crowd of NO on 8 supporters — their rally. She wanted to get to where the speakers were up front and I saw her knock a disabled man, a NO on 8 supporter to the ground, screaming, “Get out of my way!”. People in the crowd around her tore away her cross and threw it to the ground and began pushing her. Local CBS channel 2 and KMIR channel 6 videotaped the woman being shoved and then interviewed her, ignoring the poor disabled man who was attacked first. Later after all of the rally, march and protest were over I watched the news which headlined this as “Gay Protest Turns Violent!”

Joe also cites the always-enjoyable Mike Tidmus, who has more on the tighty-righty spin, including extensive quotes from professional gay-hater and Folsom Street leather obsessive Peter LaBarbera (whose fondness for the word “homo-fascists” could be taken as a clue about Petey’s fantasy life, but we cannot draw that conclusion, not being actual shrinks who specialize in what we like to call The Lady Doth Protest Too Much, MeThinks Syndrome).

Joe also notes:

Burgess is apparently well-known to the Palm Springs police and she informed them in advance that she would be attending the No On 8 candlelight vigil during which the cross incident occurred. Several days later, new cross in hand, she again appeared, this time at the Palm Springs Village Fest, telling the press, “I have a right to be here. It’s not to antagonize, but it exposes where the hatred is.”

Check out Burgess’ MySpace page in which she rails against gay rights. The gay people who snatched and stomped Burgess’ cross were definitely in the wrong, but it’s clear that she is a professional agitator and hardly an “innocent victim.”

We did check out her MySpace page (Wow! Three whole “friends,” including “Tom“!), and have concluded that Phyllis Burgess is a certified Hateful Old Sow doing a cheap knockoff impression of the Westboro Baptist Church (which, to its credit, for lack of a better word, just stands there and says hateful things while holding hateful signs; at least the Phelps Family doesn’t get into anybody else’s space, or face).

Here’s the nasty thing, with a couple of choice blog entries:

Friday, November 14, 2008

Repentence

This is regarding the Palm Springs Village Fest March

I carried the cross and a message: Shake the Hate out of 8. As I approached the crowd, a big tough biker that told me he was homosexual said to me, “I am so sorry what I did to you. Can you forgive me?” And then he not only asked for forgiveness for himself, but he then said, “can you forgive what we all did to you? You had every right to be there and do what you did.” I told him that I love him, I forgive you, and I forgive all of you. I knew that by doing this God’s love would flow to and through us. And at that instant of forgiveness, I knew that he was sincere, and that there was a lot of sorry. And because of that forgiveness, and because I want God’s love to reach all of us, I am announcing that I WILL NOT PRESS CHARGES for what they did to me; I forgive them. I will not press charges and I believe I’m doing what Christ did for us on the cross by saying, “Father forgive them; they know not what they do.” All of us have sinned and come short of the glory of God, and that includes me and I work on it everyday.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Wake up out of your STUPOR Palm Springs

STUPOR..a state of reduced sensibility; lethargy; mental confusion; daze

The “no” on Prop 8 crowd not only has a ban list, but has started an attack against Desert Sun/Gannett News reporter Nicole Brambila to get her to downgrade the truth (as seen on live tv, on Nov 7.) Note in the following hate blog where Blue Beaumont Boyz aka Blue Palm Springs Boyz begin the verbal whipping of Nicole:

“In two online articles that night, Nicole Brambila, writer for the Desert Sun, focused on the behavior of a couple of people who behaved badly rather on the positive statements at the rallys and the enthusiam of hundreds of local townspeople.” Nicole is further critized for issues of credibility.

See the hate blog for yourself at

http://www.mydesert.com/…

After you read this, you will see that this incident of the ripping the cross out of my hand, has exposed a bigger can of worms: MANIPULATION OF THE PRESS AND THE WHOLE TRUTH. Their efforts to censor the reporter also exposes the hate list generators that want to take down businesses and any individual who disagrees with them. I will further expose GINNY FOAT’s alliance with this agenda and her denouncement of her alliance at the Palm Springs City Hall Meeting of November 14. 2008. You can go to Palm Springs City Hall and purchase the complete meeting. I, Phyllis Burgess just purchased my copy on DVD for only $10. GINNY’s agenda at this city hall meeting was to further extend her hatred and likened me to some family that exercises vulgarities at random funerals and gay functions. GINNY’s credibility as a community leader is to be questioned as she blatently lied on this DVD. She portrays this group of 500 candlight folks as being attacked at a moment of sorrowfulness while screeching out to the media from her hate list. Granted, there was some genuine sorrow of same sex couples; nevertheless, they were used as a backdrop, WHILE GINNY STIRRED THE HATRED OF THE GROUP. I’m sure this will all be taken into consideration as I have heard that the police department is looking into aspects of this being a HATE CRIME.

Did I say I thought she looks like “Just Another Attention Whore with a Persecution Agenda”? I’m sorry, I forgot to add “Delusional Nutbag” and “Off Her Meds” in there somewhere.

Nevertheless, she is the perfect poster-thing for the Radical Religious Right mob that stripped us of our equality because they actually, like, speak for God and all that.

And, who knows? With the right management, the old girl may get her 15 minutes’ fame as the next “God Warrior”: