I just love this…  So yesterday John Huntsman go into the GOP 2012 Presidential race.  Sure, his message of “Let’s get out of Afghanistan” is going to be overshadowed by the impending announcement by the President tonight.  But you know what couldn’t stand?  Huntsman’s statement that he respected President Obama.  Republicans didn’t like that at all.

Huntsman doesn’t seem to want to get into the whole “social conservative” meme that most Republicans do.  You know, like when serial-adulterer Newt Gingrich says that gays are going to destroy the world if they’re allowed the same civil rights as regular people.  Huntsman was noncommittal when it came to New York’s impending vote on marriage equality.  Imagine that.  A Republican who’s for states rights, even those states rights that Republican don’t agree with!  How in the hell could they allow that?

So Hannity went after Huntsman, questioning his Republican credentials.  After all, if he’s not anti-gay like the rest of the Republican field is (sans Fred Karger, a gay Republican who’s also running but is being ignored), how does he expect the anti-gay Republican base to support him?

Hannity, you’re a douchecanoe.

Okay, so I wasn’t born until late 1967, and I don’t remember this myself.  But the feelings are the same.  Watch NOM’s latest commercial (you can find it here) talking about “activist judges” and “forcing gay marriage on Iowa”.  Then take a step back and think about 1967 and interracial marriage.

You know, back in the 1960s, not every state allowed interracial marriage.  That’s why the case of Loving v. Virginia is so important.  The Supreme Court ruled that the ban was Unconstitutional.  And no, it wasn’t a popular subject; if you were to “put it to a vote”, it probably would not have passed.

Just because a popular vote comes from the people does NOT mean that it is fair or just.  But NOM doesn’t understand that.  They only understand uglyness, ignorance, and intolerance.

Read some of the arguments against interracial marriage.  Replace the race words with gay or lesbian.  They hold the same meaning; using religion to create intolerance, hate, and to oppress a minority.

Wow… On the West Coast, there really are a few cities that you look towards for GLBT leadership.  Those cities are San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Portland (probably in that order – at least in my mind).  We have leadership in those cities that not only welcome the GLBT community, but help fight the ignorance and hate from those on the right.  But what’s going on in Seattle right now is scary as hell.

The City of Seattle has various groups that employees of the city can join.  One of those groups is the GLBTQF (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered, Questioning, and Friends) Club.  The city gives each of the groups $1,000 per year and allows employees to work on behalf of their group for two hours per month.  That’s all fine and dandy.  And then along comes Seattle City employee Philip Irvin.  He wanted to join the GLBTQF Club, but he was not allowed.  Why?  Because Philip is a fundamentalist who does not think that gays should be allowed to exist, much less have a club.  Obviously the GLBTQF Club is within their rights to refuse him entry.  After all – would you want to bring someone into your home that’s just going to yell at you endlessly?  No – that’s why we all moved out of our families homes!

Well Philip would not let it sit.  To “get even” with the group, he is suing the city and is asking to force the names of everyone in the GLBTQF Club to be named publicly.  He wants the names of ALL GLBTQ Seattle employees to be published so that everyone knows who they are and the City of Seattle almost went along with it, until a temporary injunction could be put into place.  If the names are released what are you going to do, Mr. Irvin?  Will these employees end up like Dr. George Tiller?  Haunted constantly, and then some whackjob goes and tries to assassinate them, too?

Think I’m a little out there?  Think again.  The rate of hate crimes – specifically murder – against GLBTQ folks is rising at an alarming rate.  Yeah. This is 2009, and people are still being racist, homophobic, murdering bastards.  So excuse me for NOT wanting to give out the names of the GLBTQF Club employees!

Note: I normally can control my temper, but this really pisses me off.

The AFA has been pushing their right-wing hate-filled bigoted agenda for YEARS.  So now that gays and lesbians have a chance to be PROTECTED under the law for people who try to hurt/bash/endanger/kill them for simply being gay, the AFA is up in arms.  And the tactics that they are using are DISGUSTING.

Take a look at the link the AFA just sent out.  Go ahead, read the list.  Congress is protecting sexual orientation in hate crimes legislation.  But the AFA drags out a list of not only sexual orientations (which, they include “heterosexuality” in their list of the “perverted” things being protected – go figure, morons!), but sexual activities, most of which nobody except the perverts at the AFA think about.  I mean, who in the hell sits around thinking about “klismaphilia” besides the AFA?  Do they get off on this kind of stuff?

As a gay man, and as someone who has been a VICTIM of a crime due to my sexual orientation, I take massive offense to Wildmon and his actions.  Reverend Don, you stupid fucking hate-peddler: until you have been chased down the road and beaten with baseball bats simply because someone thinks you were gay, you can shut the fuck up.

I have to admit it.  Amazon.com has gotten “sexy”.  They have the new Kindle, and have even gotten me to come back as a customer after five years.  They did some things a few years back that really ticked me off, and I left them for BUY.com and other places.

But today, I think I’m ready to once again close my Amazon.com account.  Damn the Kindle, damn the sexiness, damn the convenience.  Sometimes you have to stand up for your principals.  And as an aspiring writer, that includes censorship.  Take a read at the latest about what’s going on at Amazon.com regarding books for the GLBTQ (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and questioning) community.  They have arbitrarily decided some items are “adult” in nature, while other clearly adult items are out there and proudly displayed and ranked.

Take the new amazing book by Dr. Nathanial Frank, “Unfriendly Fire: How the gay ban undermines the military and weakens America”.  I have not read it yet, but it is on my reading list.  It has been moved because someone at Amazon thinks it is “objectionable”.  The book listing here here; you’ll notice that the “sales ranking” is gone.  And doing a search for this exact title puts it WAY down on the list; even from Amazon’s own “suggest while you type” feature shows it.

The book

Book information

Okay – now comes the insane think that Amazon is doing.  I did a search for “vagina”, which Amazon’s useful suggestion search finished for me.  One of the first products that came up was this one.

And here is its product information, INCLUDING how well it ranks against other “VAGINA” personal sex toys.

How on Earth is Amazon justifying this?  This is utterly rediculous…  Time to cancel my account!

What if they were doing a gay bashing experiment in the bar that you frequented, and you didn’t know?  ABC did this (click here), and in some ways the findings were surprising.  In others, let’s just say I’ve heard it myself when out on the town…