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Take your pick:
A1. Bragging that you’re cheating on your wife with two other women, then saying it was all “just talk,” dragging one of your so-called conquests through the mud along with you; or:
A2. Listening to one of your cohorts, who’s on the Committee on Utilities and Commerce, brag about cheating on his wife with two other women, one of of whom is a utilities lobbyist, and and not reporting the conversation, especially when both of you are on the Assembly Ethics Committee.
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LOS ANGELES — September 9, 2009 — After California Assemblyman Michael Duvall (R-Orange County) was caught making obscene boasts about sex with married lobbyists on a live microphone in committee meeting, the 700,000-member Courage Campaign called on Attorney General Jerry Brown to investigate.
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Or, at least, on a hot mic, describing the lurid details (details so lurid, even we won’t repeat them here) of his affairs with two female married lobbyists.
“One works for a firm which represents utility companies,” notes KCAL — which is no small detail: Duvall was the vice chair of the Committee on Utilities and Commerce, which oversees regulation of public utilities in California. You don’t have to be psychic to see an ethics probe in Duvall’s future!
While we put together Duvall’s inevitable entry for the Conservative Babylon Hall of Shame, get a load of the report from KCAL-9 in L.A., below.
Of course, Duvall is a rabid homophobe, who, among other things, received a perfect rating from the Capitol Resource Institute — the pro-Proposition 8 PAC created by Karen England’s Capital Resource Institute (read more here), the haters behind the astounding scumbaggery of distributing “Yes On 8″ propaganda to be passed out to trick-or-treaters on Halloween, 2008 (see “Proposition 8 Supporters Take Child Exploitation to New Low: Anti-Gay Fliers to Be Passed Out to Trick-or-Treaters Tonight“).
And now, heeeeeere’s Mikey:
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Cross-posted from Conservative Babylon:
There’s a new, permanent page on ConBab that tells you everything you need to know (at least, as of August 5, 2009) to get up to speed on the C Street “Family” / Fellowship Foundation:
See also:
• John Ensign
• Chip Pickering
• Mark Sanford
Related:
John Templeton Foundation-C Street Connection
Lavender Newswire, August 3, 2009
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Dennis Hof, owner of the BunnyRanch brothel in Mound House, Nevada (east of Carson City), made the following offer in an August 3, 2009, press release:
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Nothing like rubbing sandpaper over a bleeding, raw nerve — and when the author drags Bristol Palin into it, and sinks to the level of making a coldhearted reference to Elizabeth Edwards’ breast cancer, you know you’ve won. Or at least, I know I have. 
Enjoy the sound and the fury in the comments section (at what’s become a cesspool of lying, right-wing extremists):
“First they laugh at you, then they ignore you, then they fight with you, then you win.” — Mahatma Gandhi
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…and we were…
Frank Rich has another kick-butt column in today’s NYT, this time dissecting the “essence of Palinism” (”emotional, not ideological”), and the meltdown of the flailing (and amnesiac) GOP that sees Sarah Palin as its last Great White Hope.
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As the Anti-Gays continue to flog the crumbling, dysfunctional marriage between the Evangelical Wrong and that decaying corpse of an elephant called the Republican Party (why, yes, that would be necrophilia), head corpse-flogger and altogether unpleasant little troll Newt Gingrich pulled a new one out of his chubby chipmunk cheeks: the threat of paganism to the ever-increasingly larger wall between church and state.
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How’s about a nearly two-year sexual relationship with a 12-year-old girl entrusted to his care?
Complete details (so far) on the sick freak at Conservative Bablyon:
Greg Nies Claims to fame: Republican; Lititz, Pennsylvania, Borough Council member (1994-2001); two-time loser for mayor; mayoral candidate, 2009; husband, father; youth group leader, Lititz United Methodist Church; Santa Claus “at Lititz Springs Park during the Christmas season”…
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Before we get to the story, click the picture of Boozy McBlingBling at left to learn all about the alleged waitress-assaulting Nevada governor who’d like to send “tree-hugging, Birkenstock-wearing, hippie, tie-dyed liberals” to Iraq as human shields, and why the Las Vegas Gleaner calls him “a mentally and emotionally unhinged narcissist, liar, thief, con-man, hypocrite, assaulter and slut [and] ignorant homophobe.” Which is nothing compared to what Wonkette calls him.
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Who does former mayor of New York, narcissist, adulterer, and bad Catholic (and criminally unfashionable cross-dresser who let Donald Trump nuzzle his falsies) think he’s fooling?
Rudy Rips Gov’s Bid for Gay Nups RUDY GIULIANI is declaring war on gay marriage — vowing to use his strong opposition of it against the Democrats if he runs for governor next year.
BUT HIS GUY PALS PLAN TO WED …
Giuliani, who is slated to address a Republican fund-raising gala in Albany tonight in what is widely described as further proof of his interest in running for governor, said he’s committed to the traditional definition of marriage.
“Marriage, I believe, both traditionally and legally, has always been between a man and a woman and should remain between a man and woman,” said Giuliani, who has been married three times. …
And, as I recall, when between wives, Ghouliani once availed himself of the spare bedroom of a gay couple.
Rudy, just give it up. You were a laughingstock as a mayor (only the horrible coincidence of 9/11 came along to salvage your legacy), and now you’re just a failed presidential candidate outing yourself as the say-anything opportunist you’ve always been. And to play games with the lives of real people for perceived political gain is beyond disgusting.
It’s mamalukes like you who make me ashamed of my Italian-American heritage.
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The role of religion in the presidential campaign tops the 2008 “Top Ten” list of top church-state stories, according to the editors of Church & State.
The monthly magazine, published by Americans United for Separation of Church and State, is the nation’s only news periodical devoted exclusively to the intersection of religion and government.
Said Church & State publisher Barry W. Lynn, “It was a wild and crazy year. To tell you the truth, I’m glad it’s coming to a close. I’m hopeful 2009 will be a lot better.”
After studying the past 12 months of news, the editors selected the following 10 stories as the most important and most interesting church-state developments for the year.
1. The Role of Religion in the Presidential Campaign: Not since 1960 when John F. Kennedy the first Roman Catholic president was elected, has religion played such a large role in a presidential campaign. News media representatives grilled candidates on what sins they had committed and what their favorite Bible verses were. Barack Obama fought false rumors that he is secretly a Muslim, and Mitt Romney’s Mormonism became a controversial topic. Candidates were held accountable for the incendiary comments of their pastors and their clergy supporters, such as the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and TV preacher John Hagee. Many observers thought the whole thing was an unholy mess, especially in a nation that separates religion and government.
2. The Resurgence of the Religious Right: While pundits and progressives have proclaimed the demise of the Religious Right, the fundamentalist political movement remained extraordinarily powerful. Republican John McCain found it necessary to name evangelical Sarah Palin as his running mate to mollify the GOP’s restive religious base, and Religious Right forces rammed through bans on same-sex marriage in California, Florida and Arizona. Moderate evangelical Richard Cizik was forced out as government affairs representative at the National Association of Evangelicals after coming under fire from Religious Right forces.
3. The Battle Over Gay Marriage: Bans on same-sex marriage were approved in California, Florida and Arizona with conservative religious forces leading the drive. California’s approval of Proposition 8, with massive funding from members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was particularly contentious. The Mormons, joined by the Roman Catholic hierarchy and evangelical Protestant congregations, were successful in passing a constitutional amendment that takes away the right of same-sex couples to marry and reflects church doctrine in civil law. The issue now moves back to the state Supreme Court.
4. The Ascendancy of Rick Warren: Once known primarily as a mega-church pastor and best-selling author (The Purpose Driven Life), the Rev. Rick Warren has rapidly moved into position as the nation’s most prominent preacher, despite right-wing views on reproductive freedom, gay rights and church-state separation. Warren, a Southern Baptist who heads Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., is viewed by progressives as Jerry Falwell in a Hawaiian shirt with an ace PR team. After hosting a presidential debate stacked toward John McCain and being asked to give the invocation at Barack Obama’s inauguration, many think Warren seems destined to be the new Billy Graham.
5. Religious Right Influence at Justice Department: Religious Right influence at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) was exposed this year. According to an internal DOJ investigation reported in the media in July, senior aides in the department used religious and political criteria to hire staff members for non-political positions. Monica Goodling, a top adviser to the attorney general, checked to see if job applicants were “pro-God in public life” and held right-wing views on abortion, homosexuality and other issues. (Goodling is a graduate of TV preacher Pat Robertson’s Regent University.) DOJ also posted a legally dubious memorandum this year insisting that the federal government may give grants to “faith-based” social service agencies that discriminate in hiring, even if Congress has explicitly banned such bias.
6. Battles Over Creationism in Public Schools: New battles have erupted over the teaching of evolution in public schools. Blocked by the courts from teaching fundamentalist religious concepts directly in biology classes, Religious Right forces are trying a backdoor strategy. They are demanding that schools teach the “strengths and weaknesses” of evolution, a euphemism for creationist ideas. Over the heated objections of educators, scientists and civil liberties activists, the Louisiana legislature approved an “academic freedom” law encouraging such instruction in the state’s schools. Now the Texas State Board of Education is debating a similar proposal as part of its 10-year review of science standards.
7. Church Politicking Plot: The Religious Right’s dream of building a fundamentalist church-based political machine took a big step forward in 2008 when more than 30 pastors used their pulpits to endorse Republican political candidates. They acted at the behest of the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), a wealthy Religious Right legal outfit that wants to challenge the federal tax law ban on partisan politicking by tax-exempt groups. The ADF, which was founded by TV preachers and other religious broadcasters, hopes the Internal Revenue Service will revoke participating churches’ tax exemptions leading to a court showdown.
8. Defeat of Jeb Bush Referenda: Florida Gov. Jeb Bush saw his school voucher subsidies for religious and other private schools overturned by the state Supreme Court in 2006. Undeterred, the now former governor’s allies on an obscure tax commission engineered two measures onto the November 2008 ballot that would have repealed the state constitution’s ban on public funding of religion as well as diluted its provision for a strong system of public schools. To Bush’s dismay, the state Supreme Court on Sept. 3 struck the referenda from the ballot, derailing the scheme.
9. Blocking of ‘Christian’ License Plate: The South Carolina legislature unanimously approved a special “Christian” license plate featuring a bright yellow cross, a stained-glass church window and the words “I Believe.” Backed by Americans United for Separation of Church and State, four local clergy and two minority faith groups challenged the government favoritism toward one faith. On Dec. 11, a federal district court blocked issuance of the plates. The judge’s action may forestall similar sectarian plates under consideration in other states.
10. The Christmas Wars: It has become an annual holiday tradition Religious Right groups and their allies in the right-wing media launch a yearly crusade to stop the alleged secularization of Christmas and to pressure government to include Christian symbols in the holiday mix. They rail against stores’ use of the term “Happy Holidays” and insist that advertisements say “Merry Christmas” instead. This year, much of the attention focused on a Washington State battle where an atheist Winter Solstice sign was positioned near a Christian Nativity scene in the state capital. Fox News pundit Bill O’Reilly and an array of Religious Right scolds lambasted Gov. Christine Gregoire for allowing the anti-religious sentiment. Ironically, credit for the atheist display actually should go to the Alliance Defense Fund, a Religious Right legal group that sued Gregoire last year, insisting that the Capitol is an open forum where a Nativity scene (and all other forms of speech) must be allowed.
Americans United is a religious liberty watchdog group based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1947, the organization educates Americans about the importance of church-state separation in safeguarding religious freedom. Americans Unitied for Separation of Church and State Links: Homepage; Americans United (Press Center); Americans United (Action Center)
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Ah, it seems like only yesterday that Larry Craig lost his appeal to withdraw his guilty plea for cruising a Minneapolis airport toilet — maybe because it was only the day before yesterday.
Now, we learn, the day before that, Bob Allen, former Florida state rep (and Republican, of course), lost his second appeal on his conviction of solicitation of offering an undercover cop twenty bucks (to blow the cop) — in a public toilet. (What is it about Republicans and toilet sex?)
We’ve got the latest at ConBab, or, if you’d like to get up to speed on the whole sordid story, complete with my snarky, below-the-belt (hee!) commentary, here’s the main page on this racist closet case who, among other stunningly typical acts of Repug hypocrisy:
• supported amending the Florida constitution to ban same-sex marriage;
• supported Florida’s ban on gay people adopting children;
• opposed a bill to curb bullying of gay students;
• sponsored a bill to further tighten Florida’s prohibition on public sex;
• cosponsored a bill that would have enhanced penalties for “offenses involving unnatural and lascivious acts”; e.g., indecent exposure;
• had a 92% approval rating from the Florida Christian Coalition;
• was voted the Tampa Police Union’s 2007 Lawmaker of the Year.
You keep appealing your conviction, Bob, all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if you have to — we lurrrrrrrrrrrrve every excuse you give us to rehash your sordid little tale as a reminder of what big, fat, deviant hypocrites you self-appointed arbiters of “moral” standards really are.
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Blogged it over at Conservative Babylon, where you’ll find all our Larry Craig news, including the main rundown on Mr. “I’m Not Gay (’Cause There’s Nothing Gay About Being A Sad, Old, Self-Loathing Closet Case Who Cruises Airport Toilets).”
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You know the song by now:
(in a high-pitched mocking tone): “We’re being persecuted for our beliefs! They’re singling us out! They’re targeting us! They’re ruining our reputations! They don’t have the RIGHT!”
Yeah, well, my reply is “Bite me.” Not only do we have the right under the First Amendment — that little thing that allows you to practice your deeply held bigotry — (until you find a way to take that away from queers), but I fart in your general direction at your stunning hypocrisy.
I decided it’s time to update Conservative Babylon — which I do anyway, every time some right-wing pervert does something worth mentioning (like Robert McKee going to prison yesterday) — but sometimes I get in the mood to backfill ConBab with profiles I should have done already, but just haven’t gotten around to.
The whole purpose of ConBab (which I started in 2003) is simple: to expose the self-appointed regulators of “morality” as the lying, cheating hypocrites they really are, leaving the reader to ask: “Gee, if Newt Gingrich has burned through four wives already, dumping two while they were facing life-threatening illnesses, should I really be turning to him for guidance about the ’sanctity of marriage’?”
ConBab, not surprisingly, is by far the most popular section of any Web site I’ve ever owned; it gets a steady stream of traffic whether I update it every day or every six months. It also draws some fascinating reactions, from zombie-like followers of long-dead child molester Bob Gray, to the occasional subject himself — and my response (as it was to a certain homophobe who, out of the blue, phoned me at my home and demanded I remove my remarks about him on the Newswire, because he didn’t see himself as a bigot) is always: “You show me where I’ve written anything that is factually incorrect, and I’ll retract it. Until then, tough noogies.”
So, where was I? Oh, yeah. People don’t like it when you show the rest of the world what abominable hypocrites — and bigots — they are. When they can’t convince you it’s just not “right,” they scream about how you’re violating their privacy. Which is supreme bullshit, at least as far as I go about it: Nothing I write about these gay-bashers can’t be found in some public or publicly-accessible record, somewhere. What cracks me up the most are the anti-marriage Mormons who scream about being “outed” as Mormons, how they’re the target of a witch hunt (I say, OK, if you want to call yourself a “witch”…), and how alerting the rest of the world to the fact that they’re Mormons and they waged war on my rights is a violation of federal law. IANAL, but I think they’d be right about the lawbreaking if I (or Nadine Hansen) went around knocking on doors asking about Joe Missionary’s religious beliefs and practices while posing as an FBI agent doing a background check.
Where their complaint falls apart is in the fact that their religious choice is already public knowledge. To cut to the chase: If you don’t want the world to know you donated $10,000 to subvert the California constitution, then don’t make the donation, ’cause it’s gonna show up in the Secretary of State’s public records, and if you don’t want anybody to know you’re a Mormon, then you tell BYU to take your name off its alumni newsletters, and you stop giving newspaper interviews as the representative of the local Mormon Historical Society, and you stop crowing on message boards about how special your temple recommend is like you just won the Miss America pageant, and you stop bragging on your corporate Web site biography page about how eight of your sixteen sons are currently serving missions to convert the unwashed heathens of Dumbfuckistan to the Church of Joseph Smith of Latter-Day Made-Up Stories About Golden Plates Translated By A Con Man Putting A Rock In A Hat.
You know (she says, as she digresses even further) what’s really funny, in the ha-ha way: the threats I’ve seen across the Web from the anti-gay brigades threatening to out people who donated to No On 8. Uh, hey, dummies, go ahead. In fact, I’ll help you: My name is Joyce Rogers, and you can look up the sum of my three donations ($1,500 — I told y’all I’m dirt-poor) right here. There’s only one of me in the entire country who donated to No On 8. It’s never been a secret, and, unlike you, I am proud to stand up for doing what’s right.
(Am I afraid of some violent bigot hunting me down now? No more worried than I was two days ago.)
So there, I’m outed. Bite me.
Anyway — and yes, I do have a point — back to ConBab. Since we’ve been left with no recourse in this attack on our lives, I’m whiling away my time working on the Prop 8 donor database I’ve mentioned (and am getting ZERO help with from people who should be helping, but that’s another story), and doing some backfill on ConBab. My attention right now is naturally drawn to the institution that worked harder than any other to destroy my equality (you guessed it), the Mormon church.
I figured I’d find just a handful of “bishops” whose sexual peccadillos might be worthy of mention, but what I found was an epidemic, systemic disease of sexual abuse that rivals that within the Catholic church.
But then, you don’t have to have a bunch of diplomas on your wall to know that the more sexually repressed an institution (or a society), the sexually sicker (and more rabidly anti-gay) it is.
Leaving that thought lie there for the time being, I’ll tell you what all this is leading up to: the correlation between anti-gay religionists who rail against being outed as the bigots they are, and their own deeply-ingrained compulsion of doing it themselves, to each other.
I keep telling you: The anti-gay bigots are positively consumed by projection — projecting what they hate most about themselves onto us.
So, in doing my current ConBab research, I ran across the following — which, trust me, is only representative of dozens, hundreds, countless similar stories. Via my favorite cult-hunter, Rick Ross:
Mormon ousted as an apostate East Valley Tribune/September 23, 2007
By Lawn Griffiths
Being excommunicated for apostasy by the Mormon church is one thing, but Lyndon Lamborn is livid that his stake president has ordered bishops in eight Mesa wards to take the rare step of announcing disciplinary action against him to church members today.
Uh, it’s not that “rare.” But, never mind, go on…
“I thought if he could go public, so can I,” said Lamborn, a lifelong member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who said his research into church history gave him “thousands of reasons the church can’t be what it claims to be.”Stake President R. James Molina acknowledged Friday he intends to have Lamborn’s excommunication announced to the wards at men’s priesthood meetings and womens Relief Society gatherings, even with Lamborn now taking his case public. Molina, as well as officials at church headquarters in Salt Lake City, call such a public warning about an ousted member extremely rare.
(*clearing throat*) No, not “extremely rare” at all. Maybe seldom done quite so officially, but not at all rare.
They say, however, church members must be protected from what discordant ex-followers may say to damage the church.In a letter to Lamborn dated Sept. 2, Molina noted that a disciplinary council had been held Aug. 19 and excommunication was ordered. Lamborn, 49, a Mesa resident who has been a priesthood leader for 20 years, was informed he was no longer a church member, could not “enjoy any membership privileges, including the wearing of temple garments and the payment of tithes and offerings.”
He could attend public meetings if his conduct is orderly, but would be denied giving any talks, offering prayers, partaking of the sacrament or voting.
“Because of the nature of your excommunication and your involvement with people in this area, an announcement will be delivered to the Melchizedek Priesthood quorums and Relief Society in each of the wards in our stake … on Sunday, September 23, 2007, that you have been excommunicated for apostasy,” Molina wrote.
“We need to let people know if there is a danger to them, such as him teaching doctrine that is contrary to what is taught by the church,” Molina said Friday.
Yeah, well, if Lamborn had raped or murdered somebody, that would be different — but he taught doctrine that is contrary to that taught by the church! OMG! The horror! The sin!
Lamborn, a member of the Thunder Mountain Ward, said his Mormon roots go back generations, with a great-grandfather in the famed Mormon Battalion that trekked from Iowa to San Diego in 1846 and 1847.Lamborn served a two-year Mormon mission in 1977-79 in Belgium, was elders quorum president four times and led a Mormon Boy Scout troop. Most recently, he said he was assigned to teach older men in his ward and held other roles.
But everything changed in early 2005. Lamborn, an engineer employed at Boeing in Mesa for nearly 25 years, was asked by a work colleague about the wives of church founder Joseph Smith. She had read “Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith” by John Krakauer…
Which is a great read, and, if you’d like to buy it and toss a couple nickels’ commission my way, please buy it directly through this link: Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith.
…and asked Lamborn if what she had read was accurate.Smith, the first LDS prophet and president, had at least 33 wives by many accounts. “Well, I had no knowledge of multiple wives, so I did some research, including using the church’s own genealogical Web site, familysearch.org,” Lamborn said.
He found the information concurred with the book. “Nonmembers seemed to know more about the personal life of Joseph Smith than me,” he said.
True, we do.
Lamborn conducted further research, which led him to question many church teachings. He said he went to Molina with his questions, but received no definitive answers.Lamborn has been attending the three-hour ward meetings with his wife and 16-year-old son. His two daughters, 22 and 24, “are totally out of Mormonism.”
He said he learned that his five brothers “were doing the same research and arriving at the same conclusions” and doubts, he said. The same was true for his best friend since childhood. In a meeting earlier this summer with Molina, Lamborn acknowledged that he wanted to give up his church membership.
“I was planning to leave the church quietly, but was denied that opportunity, presumably because I was speaking openly to other members about my findings and (was) writing things down,” Lamborn said.
Lamborn has compiled his research into a lengthy testament called, “Search for Truth 6/07,” in which he states: “There comes a time in the life of many church members when the desire to know the truth about the church becomes stronger than the desire to believe the church is true.”
He said he intends to continue to accompany his wife, Nancy, to ward services. “It is tough to go, tough to attend, but I enjoy the fellowship,” he said.
He said he has no desire to join another church, adding that the Mormon faith has many merits, such as its strong family values and its internationally recognized welfare system to help those in need.
The public announcement of his excommunication will be toughest on his wife, Lamborn said. “There’s the embarrassment,” he said. “Friends won’t know how to treat her. The awkwardness. It is going to be tougher on her than anybody.”
Clark Hirschi, manager of the area relations division in Salt Lake City, said Friday he talked to Molina after the stake president was contacted by the Tribune.
“Despite the fact that he has told you this is going to happen, it is up to the priesthood leaders,” Hirschi said. “There may be a letter read to some of the adult members this Sunday. It might be in a few weeks. It may not happen. That is going to be at the discretion and call of the stake president.”
Hirschi said he has never been in a meeting in his own 20 years as a Mormon where a public announcement about an excommunication has been made. He said he had only heard of one being made in a neighboring stake.
The things you learn, eh?
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Former Maryland House Delegate, former chaplain, and former Little League president Robert A. McKee, who sponsored a host of “child protection” bills, was sentenced to 37 months in prison today, after pleading guilty in September to child-porn charges.
Get the whole story at Conservative Babylon:
• Robert A. McKee (R-Washington County, MD)
• Robert A. McKee Update, March 20, 2008: “Several” Videotapes Now Means 30
• Robert A. McKee Update, September 2, 2008: Federal Child Porn Charge Filed; Plea Bargain Expected
• Robert A. McKee Update: As Expected, Pleads Guilty to Child Porn Charges
• Robert A. McKee Update, November 21, 2008: Sentenced to 37 Months
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• Josh Brolin is pissed about Prop 8.
• 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.
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Unbelievable interview in the Washington Blade:
‘I hope gay and lesbian Americans will give full consideration to supporting me’
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Oh, sorry, couldn’t help that. Let’s do go on.
Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) told the Blade in an exclusive written interview this week that he appreciates the Log Cabin Republicans’ decision to endorse him, and he hopes “gay and lesbian Americans will give full consideration to supporting me.” …
BWAHAHAH—! Damn. Sorry.
McCain reiterated his long-held position that he would leave it up to military leaders to decide whether the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law should be retained or repealed. …
Yeah, and he said he’d leave marriage to the states, too — until he realized he needed to suck James Dobson’s Bible bookmark a lot harder to win over the evangelamentals.
Washington Blade: What personal experiences or friendships in your life have shaped how you view gay issues?
I can answer that! Your North Vietnamese captors were “pretty damned sadistic” homosexuals who seemed to get a “big bang” out of torturing you.
John McCain: I have known former Congressman Jim Kolbe for 25 years.
That punk?! Mr. Forced-Out-of-the-Closet, who won’t even co-sponsor the UAFA because he’s got the connections to keep his Panamanian lover in the U.S. as long as he wants? That Jim Kolbe?
Don’t make me laugh — Jim Kolbe isn’t gay — he’s just a homosexual. And he’d still be a Larry Craig-style homosexual if he hadn’t been outed by Kurt Wolfe.
… When he came out in 1996…
Was forced out.
…there was no question that I would stand by him. He’s a friend and a patriot and has been an admirable public servant, and a good example of why someone’s sexuality should not be relevant in public life.
Yeah, you wouldn’t want your screwing around on your first wife or the Vicki Iseman story to be made “relevant in public life,” would you, Johnny?
I have also known former Tempe Mayor [Neil] Giuliano for many years.
A Log Cabinette. A Jew for Hitler.
He headed Mayors for McCain in our 2000 campaign. …
Like I said, a Jew for Hitler.
Blade: Do you have any role models who are openly gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender?McCain: I had the humbling experience of speaking at Mark Bingham’s funeral after the attacks on Sept. 11. Mark had supported me during the 2000 campaign.
That’s sad to hear.
Unfortunately, I barely knew him, but our country learned about him after 9-11. He was one of the heroes on 9-11 who tried to retake control of United Flight 93. His efforts along with the other brave patriots could have saved hundreds of lives. I honor and respect Mark. …
What, a queer has to die saving his country before you can “honor and respect” him? You sure don’t “honor and respect” those of us still alive and living with your party’s vile attacks on us every day of the week.
Blade: Would you decline to nominate a qualified Supreme Court justice, cabinet member or other appointed position just because the person is openly gay?McCain: I have always hired the most qualified and competent people — regardless of their political party, race, gender, religion or sexual orientation.
Blade: Would you decline to nominate a qualified Supreme Court justice or cabinet member who had a history of anti-gay rulings?
McCain: I will nominate judges who interpret the Constitution, not judges who legislate from the bench. Legislators pass laws; judges interpret them. Unfortunately, too many judges have become confused [about] their role. …
Just the answer I expected: a non-answer.
Translation: “I’m gonna pack SCOTUS with all the Scalias and Thomases I can dig up, and there’s not a damned thing you can do about it, so kiss your ‘rights’ goodbye, pansies.”
Then he pats himself on the back for supporting PEPFAR, and then he avoids the question of whether he’d have a LGBT liaison in the White House:
I have already publicly stated that there will be no White House Office of Political Affairs in my administration — professional politics should be at the party committees, where it has a rightful place, not in the White House. I intend to be a President for all Americans. …
Except gay ones.
He also won’t give a straight answer on ENDA or DADT (you expected him to?).
Blade: Would a McCain administration be willing to meet with and work with gay leaders to discuss matters of interest to the gay community?McCain: I have met with leaders of Log Cabin Republicans in my campaigns. I am always willing to listen to all viewpoints and that will continue if I become President.
Dog whistle: “I’m only willing to meet with fag— er, Uncle Tom— er, Republican homos. The rest of you can bite me.”
Next, he says he appreciates the endorsement of the Log Cabinettes, and then delivers the punch line:
I hope gay and lesbian Americans will give full consideration to supporting me. The stakes are high in this election. I will have an inclusive administration and I will be a president for all Americans.
My Aunt Fanny you will.
Next, he goes back to paying lip service to “states’ rights” and marriage equality, driving his homophobia home for the benefit of the religious extremists:
However, at the same time, my own view is that marriage should be reserved for a man and a woman. That’s what I supported in Arizona. I realize this is a controversial issue and we must conduct this debate in a way that respects the dignity of every person.
There’s no “debate” on equal rights — you’re either for equality, or you’re against it. It’s clear where you stand, McCain.
And you wouldn’t recognize the “dignity of every person” if it bit you in the ass. (Tell me, have you stopped using the word “gooks”? And do you still stand by “I will hate them as long as I live”?)
He then points out that he voted against the FMA, because “this should be a state matter, and not one for the federal government — as long as no state is forced to adopt some other state’s standard.”
Next, the Blade corners him on his opposition to LGBT adoption:
Blade: Regarding adoption by same-sex couples, you have been quoted as saying you don’t believe it’s appropriate. Can you elaborate?McCain: I hope my comments are not misinterpreted. I respect the hundreds of thousands of gay and lesbian people who are doing their best to raise the children they have adopted. As someone who adopted a child, Cindy and I know better than most couples the amazing satisfaction that comes from providing love to an unwanted child. I believe a child is best raised by a mother and father because of the unique contributions that they make together to the development of a child. …
Taking your talking points from Maggie Gallagher then, are you?
As I did in my home state of Arizona, I support the effort in California to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman. However, the people of California will ultimately decide this issue, and I’ll of course respect the decision of the voters.
Homophobic little jerk.
Lots more of the same, and then:
Blade: Del Martin died on Aug. 27. She and Phyllis Lyon, her partner of 55 years, got married in the first legal gay union in California in June —affording Phyllis many of the basic protections and rights granted to married couples, such as hospital visitation and estate planning issues. Do you envision a time when all GLBT citizens will have similar basic rights? During your administration?McCain: I respect that Del and Phyllis spent a lifetime together. As I stated earlier, however, I believe that issues regarding marriage and family laws are best decided by the states and not the federal government.
Never mind that Del and Phyllis were far more successful at marriage than you could ever hope to be, McCain. Jealous much?
Next, he tries (and fails) to justify voting against the Matthew Shepard Act, and finally dodges a Boy Scouts question.
Now, all you homos and ‘phobes voting for McCain, raise your hands — I want to know who you are so I can avoid getting the stink of you on me.
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