ALOHA HOMOPHOBIA

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HAWAII COACH TOTALLY F*GGED OUT:
FOOTBALL IDIOT INSULTS ALL GAYS

AND THE NAME OF HIS TEAM: THE RAINBOWS

Actually, It Was The "Rainbow Warriors," But They Changed It Because It Sounded "Too Gay"

*In reaction to this news story:

Here in Hawaii, we have a long history of coaches behaving badly. One took his HS team out for strippers & hookers in Vegas after a big win. All under age. Another one totaled his car on the freeway, completely whacked out, and never got a ticket. They're just that special.

Polynesians have a long history of acceptance of third & fourth-sexers, or males who choose to live as females and females who chose to live as males, way before reassignment surgery was a possibility. They're called mahu's, which is now a pejorative applied to all gays, though it used to be just another gender label. "Mahu's" themselves are very much a part of "Local" life today here in the Aloha State. Everybody has a "mahu" Auntie or cousin. The modern attitudes are a bit schizophrenic toward them, part tolerant traditional Polynesian and part Western "Christian" homophobic. It doesn't help that we have a whole political family demonizing gays in general. And they're closet-Hare Krishna's. You'd think they'd understand the need for tolerance, but they're at war against it. It's an interesting place, Hawaii. Sometimes.

The worst of it is, they were allowed to switch from Rep to Dem, despite all their homophobic BS. The local Dems really are schizy. They claimed to be pro-gay marriage, and then they stifled the new law with procedural horseshit.

I suspect it has to do with fund-raising. Like the pot issue, most people say, "Who cares? Legalize it." But the pol's seem to fear doing it anyway. It can only be money that causes that. Rich old families don't ever want anything to change. Why would they? And new money just enjoys the thrill of abusing power to f**k with the powerless. In terms of real nitty-gritty politics, gays are not well organized here. Simply being in the right isn't enough. You have to have leverage, like powerful supporters, which Hawaii gays evidently do not. Not enough, anyway.

*In response to this comment:

Filipinos in Hawaii probably have the most cross-dressing kids. I don't know what their status is, but unlike the comparatively homey & conservative Polynesian mahu's, the TV/TS/TG Filipina's cruise turista & military bars as females, livening up the local scene. Yet they live with their big extended families out in the 'burbs, exactly how I don't know.

As to religion, I think the small but mighty local Mormon church has a lot more to do with the strictures against gambling, gay marriage, pot, etc. The Filipino's really don't have anywhere near the clout in proportion to their numbers as the Mormons do here in Hawaii.

Until the dominant local Japanese are finally outnumbered by the Fil-Ams, they will be the ones calling the shots, and they are mostly not Catholic or Mormon, but Protestants and Buddhists. So, if you want to slice & dice local politics religiously, try a Ginzu knife.

*In reply to this comment:

As to The Next Generation, maybe it's just the kids who are out & about that one sees, but it seems there is a fair number of gay kids, in addition to the Local Honda-racers and the hoochie-mamma's. I think the gay kids own the local Starbucks franchise. No idea what their home lives or interactions with straight kids are like. The older generation, I'd have to agree that those who are "out" tend to be white and from the Mainland. But even they stick close to a pretty small area: A couple of bars in Waikiki. The scene is pretty anemic since they bulldozed Hamburger Mary's, once the center of local nightlife, along with Hernando's, Pink Cadillac & The Wave, all gone. Nightlife here has never been the same.

*In response to this personal anecdote:

Yeah. Ya gotta wonder...
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Where does a 10-yr-old kid even pick up words like "dyke"? His mom? My parents never used any sort of slurs, other than good old-fashioned Anglo-Saxonisms. I was always kind of shocked as a kid when I did hear them. I don't recall ever hearing any anti-gay slurs anywhere until maybe junior high school, when the word "queer" came into limited use. I don't think most of the kids knew what it meant.

Of course, now we have the Internets, and, even worse, "conservatives" screaming about oral and anal sex on the freakin' news and all their horrible talk-radio shows. I could almost side with Tipper Gore on this one: But leave the record labels (etc.) alone, just tell those bloody vulgar Repukelickin's that KIDS ARE LISTENING!!! They really don't need to hear all this sexual stuff at age six or eight.

On the other hand, they're amazingly knowledgeable and blase about stuff I didn't even hear about until I was an adult. We've gone from virginal bobby-soxers to the hook-up generation in half a lifetime without all that much of a fuss these days, after the initial upheavals for sexual freedom in the 50's, 60's & 70's.

You'd think that the kids coming up would be pretty gay-friendly by now, but there is all this "mildly" negative stuff in the entertainment media that sort of nets out to "gay is not quite kewl." In fact it seems to be a synonym for unkewl. I blame so-called liberal writers & producer/ directors going for the cheap laugh and trying to be hip, even openly gay creators. If there were more movies about real people who happened to be gay and acted like movie heroes, it might help.

It took years of Hollywood pounding away at positive Irish, Catholic, Jewish, Italian, black and Latino stereotypes to help make expressions of prejudice against those groups unkewl. I suppose it'll take longer for gays because even successful "out" writers present negative gay stereotypes in the movies & shows. It's kinda like a movie featuring "Jew jokes" or seriously Steppin Fetchit characters in this day & age. But the creative types don't seem to realize that.

And, of course, these phony-macho sports a-holes don't help. Now THERE'S a sick culture.



PAM's HOUSE BLEND
"Weekend This & That: Open Thread"
Totally WAC.

' University of Hawaii football coach Greg McMackin drew sharp criticism for using a gay slur repeatedly during a Western Athletic Conference media day Thursday in Salt Lake City. The WAC football coaches are in Utah for the football season preview. McMackin was referring to last season's Hawaii Bowl when he said Notre Dame University's team did a "little f-----t dance" for Hawaii. That was during the banquet the night before the game when UH Warriors performed their haka. '

**MORAL FAILINGS AND OTHER ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIORS
"On the word "dyke" and stupid mothers"
What's in a name? A fat lip?

' I had placed my order and was waiting for it when a mother with two children came in; the little girl looked around 4, the boy around 9. They were talking, laughing, doing what kids do when they are about to get Jamba. I saw the little girl point at me and heard her say, "Mommy, why is that lady wearing boy's shorts?" Her brother piped up with, "Cause she's a dyke." '

(cross-posted at CoffeeHouseStudio by cosanostradamus)


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SAVE TRADITIONAL OREOS

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THE INSTITUTION OF COOKIES IS THREATENED BY GAY OREOS

Gay Oreo Sex

A HINT OF MINT, THE VULGAR "DOUBLE-STUFF," AND GOD HELP US, EVEN CHOCOLATE OREOS!

Molester Oreo

Protect Our Children From These Lifestyle Choices: Even The Slightest Change Could Cause All Cookies To Crumble!

Fellow Christians and cookie worshippers, I have a sad tale to tell you. Perhaps you already know it: Our streets and our supermarkets have been overrun by purveyors of the homosexual snack agenda. That's right, brothers and sisters, the gays are in the aisles we once cherished, turning frozen pizza into panini, substituting arugula for iceberg, and warping our society's delicatessen values to conform to standards that can only be called "French" [shudder]. Where once there was good old American liverwurst, there is now only pâté . Instead of macaroni salad, sexually ambiguous "deli-istas" are purveying hummus. Could they BE any more obvious? Isn't "Hummus" just French for "homos"? Why else would they suddenly start wear prophylactic gloves just to serve up slaw and Swiss cheese? Can I get an "AMEN!!!," people?

B&D Oreos

Praise Jesus, the Republican Party is on top of this, brothers and sisters. The matter of the gay Oreos has been taken up by the Party Chairman himself, Michael Steele. Even though he is at least in part an Afro mulatto black mocha negro African-American colored person of some sort, Chairman Steele is personally offended by the gay Oreos and has pledged the full resources of the GOP, which means those of the entire global corporate world, to defending traditional Oreos. The Defend Intact Traditional Oreos Act is just baby steps away from becoming law, if the deeply perverted mint-Oreo sucking Demoqueers don't stop it. Throw your teabags out the window and shout, "I'm straight as Hell, and I'm not gonna take it up the wazoo!" [Open the window, first.] OUR CHILDREN WILL DIE GODLESS HOMOS IF YOU DON'T!!!!

S&M Oreos

What can you do? Well, it seems like these days a white Christian traditional-Oreo-loving conservative man or woman's vote just doesn't mean a thing. Thank God we managed to preserve the Second Amendment. We are recommending that every true American, by which we mean straight white Christians, download the attached Gun Stamps to purchase discounted firearms for the coming apocalypse, or, as we are rebranding it, Krystal Night, in honor of DITO spokesperson Krystal-Honey Von Nudenbacher, Miss Utah in the Miss Christian Hooters beauticians-college scholarship pageant, who was recently denied her Tenth Amendment right to secede from the union by gay homosexual bloggers only because she has accepted Jesus Christ as her personal savior. She also needs a little help with the drug charges.

Gun Stamps

Fellow white Christian heterosexuals, we know you will do your part as a church-going member of the NRA. Contact your local militia leader in the bar at the VFW, and sign on to our heavily armed crusade to Defend Intact Traditional Oreos, or DITOS. If you can contribute one hundred thousand dollars or more, you will achieve instant Junior DITO-head status, and qualify for preferred seating at the Rapture. You and your loved ones will be guaranteed a place in an all white Christian heterosexual American section of Heaven, in a shining city high on a hill where you can see the Russians, the Democrats and the Homos in Hell.

But wait! There's MORE!! If you act now, you will receive absolutely free of charge a one year subsription to GOP Chairman Steele's personal newsletter, "Traditional Oreo Journal." Operators are standing by, somewhere in Bangladesh.
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LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL

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HATE CRIMINALS HAVE CREATED A SPECIAL KIND OF CRIME

YOUTUBE: US CITIZENSHIP CEREMONY
"Pledge of Allegiance"
Some people get it. But they're not Republicans.


A SPECIAL LAW WAS REQUIRED IN ORDER TO DEAL WITH THESE SPECIAL CRIMES

Conservatards Quake With Fear That They Might Be Caught Thinking Criminally.
We'd Like To See Them Thinking At All.

Ironically, it is the law & order types who dream of technology that can read people's minds and discover criminal intent. They love good old torture for the same reason: They think it exposes the inner thoughts and intent of criminals and terrorists. But the idea that the same logic might be applied to them has them pissing in their Depends, the old fools.

In America, we insist on the absolute freedom to think anything you want. We defend the right of free expression to the death, from avant garde art to rebellious polemics, from nude dancing to Ku Klux Klan rallies. There is no such thing as "hate speech" in the law here. Hate all you want in the good old USA. As long as you don't act or incite others to act criminally, it's all good. But once you do commit a criminal act, your intent becomes a matter of interest under the law. Under the new hate crimes legislation passed by the US House of Representatives, those who commit crimes motivated by hatred and prejudice against real or perceived groups will find judges and juries most attentive to the messages they were trying to send by committing their crimes. As well they should.

"Intent" is always considered in criminal cases. That's the difference between First and Second Degree Murder, and between Murder and Manslaughter, or Manslaughter and Accidental Death: Did the accused mean to kill? What was his or her state of mind? Was he or she drunk, high, crazy, terrified? Did they act "with malice aforethought"? Did they show any remorse, or did they try to cover up their crime? Do they show remorse now? Is it genuine?

These are the kinds of questions we ask judges and juries to decide. That's why they're there: To exercise their judgment, and try to understand the motivations of an accused person. Maybe they killed in self-defense, or by accident. Maybe they killed for money, or to cover up a crime. Motive matters.

The fact is, it's the perpetrators themselves who have created this special class of crime. The new law simply recognizes an old fact. In many cases, the perpetrators have no connection to their victims, don't even know them, had no reason to do anything to them, not even robbery. They chose to make a statement of their ideas, attitudes or feelings about another "kind" of person or perceived group of persons by committing what is, in any circumstances, a crime against them. They committed a crime against another person BECAUSE of that persons' actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.

Who and what the victim was provided the motivation for a criminal act. The perpetrator chose to break the law for the purpose of striking out against a whole group of people, an act of extraordinary anti-socialism. They chose to use crime to make a statement to all of society, to hurt and terrorize an entire class of human beings. They chose to move from thought to action, from thinking to doing, from abstract to concrete, from ideal to real. They forced this issue by moving beyond symbolism to actual crime. The new law does not criminalize thought, nor does it criminalize behavior that was not already criminal under the law: Assault, battery, rape, murder, arson, and other crimes of violence with intent to cause bodily injury: Crimes without a doubt, since time immemorial.

Under all of our laws, once a crime is proved, the punishment must always hinge on intent. We've already singled out for special punishment our convicted cop-killers, kiddie-porn producers, schoolyard drug-dealers, thieving traitors-for-money, etc. They are punished more severely because of the intent and the special circumstances behind the crime. Hate-criminals have chosen to commit crimes solely, initially or primarily out of hate. If this motivation is not recognized by the law, then how are police and prosecutors to collect evidence and prepare cases? How are judges and juries to proceed? What criteria are they supposed to use to determine the type and severity of the crime, and of the punishment? The logic of the law and the imperatives of justice cannot allow for ambiguity. Without a law like this, justice cannot be done in cases like these, either from a legal, philosophical, moral or emotional point of view. You would be leaving the police and prosecutors without legal guidelines, and judges and juries without a lawful standard by which to judge. In order for our system of justice to work, tools like this new law are required.

Determining intent is a vital part of what the law is all about, and it's why we have a criminal justice system, and trial by juries. We trust juries to make these determinations as they make every other determination in the thousands of criminal cases across the country every day. The system is not perfect, but it is the best we have. If the right-tards don't get that, they don't get America. "With Liberty and Justice for ALL," it says in the Pledge of Allegiance that they themselves insist schoolchildren recite every day. Don't they mean it?

The victims and the perpetrators of crimes motivated by hatred and prejudice deserve justice. Now they will get it. This new law is long overdue, and it reaffirms a simple fact: We are one nation indivisible, where all men and women are created equal, and we demand that people be treated as such. This not Serbia or Rwanda, Nazi Germany or Stalinist Russia. The days of the Bund and the Klan are over. We are a great melting pot, and our diversity is our strength, always has been. Now we have a law to preserve, protect, ensure and defend that diversity. Let those who cannot abide it go somewhere else. Their hateful acts will no longer be tolerated, even though their hateful speech continues to be protected.

Rest easy, Republicans. We real Americans are not like you: We value, honor and uphold freedom & justice, in our deeds and not just in our words. Hate all you want, you sick bastards. But act on that hate, and we will bust you.


Thanks to Pam's House Blend for bringing this up.

OPEN CONGRESS
"HR 1913 Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009"
The Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Act

' Sec. 249. Hate crime acts

`(a) In General-

`(1) OFFENSES INVOLVING ACTUAL OR PERCEIVED RACE, COLOR, RELIGION, OR NATIONAL ORIGIN- Whoever, whether or not acting under color of law, willfully causes bodily injury to any person or, through the use of fire, a firearm, a dangerous weapon, or an explosive or incendiary device, attempts to cause bodily injury to any person, because of the actual or perceived race, color, religion, or national origin of any person--

`(A) shall be imprisoned not more than 10 years, fined in accordance with this title, or both; and

`(B) shall be imprisoned for any term of years or for life, fined in accordance with this title, or both, if--

`(i) death results from the offense; or

`(ii) the offense includes kidnaping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill.

`(2) OFFENSES INVOLVING ACTUAL OR PERCEIVED RELIGION, NATIONAL ORIGIN, GENDER, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY, OR DISABILITY-

`(A) IN GENERAL- Whoever, whether or not acting under color of law, in any circumstance described in subparagraph (B), willfully causes bodily injury to any person or, through the use of fire, a firearm, a dangerouse weapon, or an explosive or incendiary device, attempts to cause bodily injury to any person, because of the actual or perceived religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability of any person--

`(i) shall be imprisoned not more than 10 years, fined in accordance with this title, or both; and

`(ii) shall be imprisoned for any term of years or for life, fined in accordance with this title, or both, if--

`(I) death results from the offense; or

`(II) the offense includes kidnaping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill. '

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MARRY IN HASTE

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REPENT AT DISNEYWORLD

AMERICA REACHES THE TIPPING POINT

Cosanostradamus Predicts: Gay Marriage Will Be Legal By 2012

In the civilized States, that is. But not just on the coasts. Now that Iowa has become the fourth State to legalize same-sex nuptials, the NE/ West Coast lock on kewlness is officially broken. The corn may be as high as an elephant's eye, but Des Moines, Cedar Rapids and Sioux City are about to become gay Mecca's. Who knows, Ames or Davenport could become the next Miami Beach or San Francisco.

With all the brouhaha, it's important to remember that marriage is not just a legal or religious bond. It is the bonding of two souls for all eternity, that they might experience everything in life together and grow old in one another's arms, loving and supporting each other until the day they die. That is the foundation of human society and culture, the framework of our civilization and the meaning of life itself. However well or ill two people manage to carry it out, that marriage is the central work of a lifetime, and a person without it is one who is deprived of nearly all of the greatest gifts of humanity. For this reason, every man and every woman seeks a partner for life, be it friend or lover, companion or spouse, male or female, same sex or opposite. To go through life alone, without such a partner, is a punishment that few merit. To arbitrarily assess such a penalty is to deny a human being the most basic of rights: The right to be who he or she is at heart. No society can do this and still call itself civilized. If there is a God or a Heaven, He or She surely did not mean for the greatest gift of all to be denied to anyone arbitrarily. Let no man rend asunder what God has joined together.


YOUTUBE: ERIC WHITACRE
"This Marriage"



YOUTUBE: EMILIE AUTUMN
"Emilie Autumn - Marry Me"



YOUTUBE: AMINE
"RAINBFEVER, RELIC feat.AMINE - JUST MARRIED"



YOUTUBE: BILLY IDOL
"Classic Hits by Microsoft Songsmith: "White Wedding" by Billy Idol"


YOUTUBE: IRMA THOMAS & BB KING
"YOU CAN HAVE MY HUSBAND - IRMA THOMAS"



YOUTUBE: ANOUK
"Anouk - Nobody's Wife (Official Video) USA Version"



YOUTUBE: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Springsteen - Wedding Bells"



YOUTUBE: FRANKIE LYMON & THE TEENAGERS
"Why Do fools fall in Love"

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CAN A MOONBEAM SAVE A MARRIAGE?

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LINDA RONDSTADT'S EX-BF SINGS "YOU & I TRAVEL TO THE SOUND OF A DIFFERENT DRUM"

GOLDEN STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL TAKES A POSITION IN FAVOR OF GAY RIGHTS



FORMER CALIFORNIA GOV. JERRY BROWN SAYS PROP 8 "UNCONSTITUTIONAL"

Former talk-show host and son of former Governor Pat Brown [ante Reagan], former Governor Jerry Brown [post Reagan], the former Mayor who "saved" Oakland, is working to save thousands of formerly lawful gay marriages in the Bear Republic. Silent until now on his intent in bringing the new law before the California State Supreme Court, Jerry has come down on the side of equal rights for homosexual couples. His last-minute reversal left anti-gays no time to respond. Intentional, Jer'? Slick!

Gay-haters were caught off-balance by the move, but slime-master Ken Starr, the $60 million Presidential BJ detector, is already moving to invalidate same-sex nuptials performed before the passing of Proposition Eight in the November 2008 California State ballot initiative. Moonbeam & Starr will square off in Sacramento, before the same Court that legalized queer weddings in the first place. Right-wingers, who normally argue to suppress election results, will be trying to present the hatred, fear and dis-information-inspired vote as inviolable. Popular hero Brown will be making the point that inviolable rights are not subject to popularity contests, especially not unfair and demeaning ones. Memo to Starr: Never argue with a Jesuit.

Cali's learned Justices will make the call, but the issue is not likely to be finally resolved there. After their stinging rebuke in the national election, right-wingers may be trying to reorganize their demoralized forces around an old source of anger, fear, hatred and spite. Though they chose not to scapegoat gays before the general public this election year, doubtless realizing it could backfire, no such constraints exist with regard to their homophobic base now. A litigious run at the U.S. Supreme Court may be their last stand, before Obama gets a chance to put some non-Nazi's on the bench.

Ultimately, SCOTUS will have to decide to put centuries of precedent aside and invalidate the "Full Faith & Credit" Clause of the U.S. Constitution (which requires recognition of each State's laws & contracts by every other State), and the Equal Protection Amendment (XIV), which guarantees the same rights to all; or else legalize gay marriage by upholding the Constitution. Their only other other option would be to fudge the issue, or refuse to consider it, leaving us with a patchwork of State laws making a couple legally married in one State, but not in another, leading to endless inter-State squabbling and legal chaos. The fact is, there is no choice here. According to Federal law, same-sexers have the same right to civil marriage as heterosexuals, and all States must recognize that, eventually, in the name of human rights and common sense. But when? That's up to Scalia & Co, or whomsoever Obama may put in their places. Stay tuned.

Oh, and both Star & Moonbeam may be gay. Damn. Buried the lede again.


SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
"Brown: Invalidate Prop. 8"
JER-RY! JER-RY!! JER-RY!!!

' Saying Proposition 8 violates constitutionally protected liberties, Attorney General Jerry Brown on Friday asked the California Supreme Court to strike down the same-sex marriage ban, even as supporters filed a brief that would erase the legal recognition of couples married before Election Day. In a brief filed with the high court, the state top's lawyer argues for the first time that Proposition 8 should be invalidated, saying it is "inconsistent with the guarantees of individual liberty safeguarded" by the California Constitution. Brown had not taken a position on the measure until now. "There are certain rights that are not to be subject to popular votes, otherwise they are not fundamental rights," Brown said in an interview. "If every fundamental liberty can be stripped away by a majority vote, then it's not a fundamental liberty." Proposition 8 supporters on Friday further pumped up the wattage of the coming legal confrontation by naming Kenneth W. Starr, the former U.S. solicitor general and independent counsel in the Whitewater investigation against then-President Bill Clinton. Starr, dean of the law school at Pepperdine University, will argue the Yes on 8 case before the Supreme Court, in arguments that could begin as soon as March. '

FOX NEWS: KTUV2 OAKLAND, CA
"A.G. Brown Makes Legal U-Turn on Prop 8"
Making a U-turn is what you're supposed to do when you realize that you're going the wrong way, conservatives.

' Attorney General Jerry Brown made a legal u-turn on Friday on Proposition 8. He had been expected to defend the ban on same-sex marriage in front of the California Supreme Court. Friday was the deadline for supporters of the measure to respond to a lawsuit that argued Prop 8 is a revision of the constitution, not just an amendment.Instead the Attorney General's said when his office began looking at it they quickly decided it was an amendment. But they said they determined it was an unconstitutional one that violates a fundamental right to the pursuit of happiness. The attorney general's office determined it should be stuck down. '

NBC NEWS: BAY AREA TV
"Prop 8 Sponsors Want to Nix 18,000 Gay Marriages"
Redefining "mean-spirited."

' A new war of words over gay marriage erupted on Friday as the sponsors of Proposition 8 asked the California Supreme Court to nullify the marriages of the estimated 18,000 same-sex couples who exchanged vows before voters last month approved the ballot initiative that outlawed gay unions. The Yes on 8 campaign filed a brief Friday arguing that because the new law holds that only marriages between a man and a woman are recognized or valid in California, the state can no longer recognize the existing same-sex unions. '

WIKIPEDIA
"Jerry Brown"
Gay in Oakland? Wow, that takes balls!

' Brown also had a long friendship with Lorenzo Jacques Barzaghi, his aide-de-camp, whom he met in the early 1970s and put on his payroll. According to author Roger Rapaport, writing in California Dreaming 1982, "this combination clerk, chauffeur, fashion consultant, decorator and trusted friend had no discernible powers. Yet late at night, after everyone had gone home to their families and TV consoles, it was Jacques who lingered in the Secretary (of state's) office." Barzaghi lived with Brown in the warehouse in Jack London Square, and was brought into Oakland city government upon Brown's election as mayor in 1998, where Barzaghi first acted as the mayor's armed bodyguard. Brown later awarded Barzaghi with high paying city jobs, including "Arts Director." Brown dismissed Barzaghi in July 2004. '

WIKIPEDIA
"Kenneth Starr"
They might BOTH be gay! This should be interesting.

' Though his judicial reputation earned him some note for three and a half years after his appointment[citation needed], particularly after his aggressive emphasis on engaging political issues in Arkansas — culminating in the fraud prosecution of then-sitting Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker and Clinton real estate investment partners James and Susan McDougal — Starr was accused of doing the bidding of Richard Mellon Scaife, who had funded a position at Pepperdine University that Starr first accepted but later relinquished. In 2004, he became the Dean of Pepperdine Law School.[16] Rumors began spreading that members of Starr's staff were gay, and Doug Ireland alleged in The Nation that White House aide Sidney Blumenthal was spreading them. Susan McDougal, in the book and film documentary The Hunting of the President, alleges that Starr's office pressured her to lie under oath in order to back up its allegations against Clinton. '

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DOUBLE-BIAS ATTACK IN THE BOROUGH OF CHURCHES

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"GAY" ECUADORANS BRUTALLY BEATEN IN BROOKLYN BY ANTI-LATINO ANTI-GAY THUGS

BUSHWICK FAMILY STRICKEN AS THEY WITNESS UNPROVOKED ATTACK BY STRANGERS IN THEIR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD



Now, What Will Those Famous Churches Do About This?

Given the role of so many religious institutions in fear-mongering, scapegoating and focusing hatred on gays, one wonders what their reaction will be to the product of their labors. What, for God's sake, would Jesus do?

I'm no Biblical scholar, but I can't honestly recall any parables, epistles, sermons or psalms about gays, positive or negative. Maybe they were among the Apocrypha stricken out by post-Christ censors in Palestine, Greece, Rome or Byzantium. Maybe they skip over them today in Sunday school and catechism. Maybe those uncomfortable silences after children inquired about Mrs. Jesus or the lady apostles said it all. I'm not going to scour the bloody New Testament just to find out.

Christian attitudes toward sex and gender, sensuality and sexuality, love and friendship, marriage and divorce, abortion and birth control, women and gays, morality and individual rights, all pretty much turned me away from churches a long time ago. I've never felt any inclination to go back.

Lately though, I have begun to wonder what is going on in those curiously shaped buildings. We hear clerical boy-rapers squealing about "the homosexual agenda," mountain-man bigamists mounting campaigns to save "traditional" marriage, televangelist con-artists wishing hurricanes on gay paraders. Is the anti-Christ already here, under the assumed name of Billy-Bob? Or, in the case of Brooklyn, Vito, Shawn or Tyrone?

Is that a sign of my own prejudice? Maybe. But nobody's going to die for it. Somebody did just die for the same prejudices instilled and inflamed quite deliberately by "men of God," and "moral leaders." If there really were a God in Heaven, these people would have to answer, first among us, for all this hate. The irony is, neither victim in this case was actually gay. Just the perception that they were was enough to inspire a brutal attack. In fact, the two "gay" victims were brothers, and simply observing the custom common in most of the world, and among women even in this country, of walking arm-in-arm down the street. So, even if you are not gay, be very careful not to let anyone think you are. They might kill you.


NY1
"Police Investigate Hate Crime, Victim Remains On Life Support"
When crossing the street, look both ways. And then look straight.

' Police are calling an attack on a pair of Brooklyn brothers over the weekend a hate crime. Investigators said 31-year-old Jose Sucuzhanay was walking home with his brother Romel early Sunday morning when one of them stopped to give the other his coat at the intersection of Kossuth Place and Bushwick Avenue. That's when investigators said a group of men jumped out of an SUV and beat them with a glass bottle and baseball bat while yelling anti-gay and anti-Latino slurs. Romel was not seriously hurt, but Jose was taken to the hospital where he is on life support. "My brother is in critical condition. He has to go through brain surgery. He's okay there. But right now he's not moving, he's not talking, he's in very critical condition. And we hope he will recover," said Sucuzhanay. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said, "There's no indication that they had any previous contact with the victims. So it clearly appears to be a hate crime based on ethnicity and perceived sexual orientation." '

NY TIMES
"Family Keeps Vigil for Beaten Brooklyn Man "
Blacks attacking Hispanics because they think they are gay. Only in America, land of hate crimes of opportunity.

' Early Sunday, less than a mile from where Mr. Sucuzhanay worked, he and his brother Romel were set upon by men the police said they believed were strangers. The brothers were walking home from a bar, arms around each other, the police said. At the corner of Bushwick Avenue and Kossuth Place, three men riding in what a witness described as a maroon or red sport utility vehicle spied the brothers and shouted anti-gay and anti-Hispanic slurs. One of the men hit Jose over the head with a bottle, and the driver of the car swung an aluminum baseball bat at his head, the police said. He fell to the floor as the three attackers, who were black, continued kicking and punching him, the police said. The beating ended only when Romel held up his cellphone and said he was calling the police. On Tuesday, the police released a description of one of the men, saying he is 6 feet tall and thin, and wore a black leather jacket, boots, dark jeans and a dark baseball cap during the attack. The authorities said they did not have the license number of the car. The reward for information was set at $22,000. Julia Osman, who worked with Mr. Sucuzhanay, visited him at the hospital on Monday. His face was so swollen that she could not see his eyes, and his head was wrapped in bandages. “He was kind, and cared about everyone who worked with him,” she said. '

EL DIARIO NY
"Another victim of hate"
If you're going to target someone, make it an immigrant, or an undocumented alien. They won't dare report you. Especially if you kill them. Unfortunately for the criminals, this victim was a citizen.

' Jose Sucuzhanay, a Bushwick business owner, was with his brother Romel on Sunday when he was beaten by a group of men using a bat. He was reportedly declared brain dead yesterday. Romel had come from Ecuador to visit his brother, not bury him. Witnesses heard the cowardly attackers shout anti-gay and anti-Hispanic slurs at the brothers, according to police. They mistook Jose and Romel cozing up in the extreme cold as a sign that they were gay. This hate and violence is anything but isolated. In 2005, the FBI documented more than 1,200 hate crimes against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) persons. But this is a vast undercount, according to the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. On top of inaccurate data tracking, hate crimes overall are under-reported. Undocumented immigrants are the least likely of all victims to report these crimes. '

NY NEWSDAY
"Cops: Bias crime attack victim dies"
So, now it's murder.

' Police have released a sketch of one of three assailants of an Ecuadorean man left brain dead after a savage beating in Brooklyn, where attackers hurled anti-gay and anti-Hispanic slurs. At a news conference Tuesday afternoon, the family of Jose Sucuzhanay, 31, said they still held out hope. "He's not dead," Diego Sucuzhanay, one of his five brothers, said at Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens, where Jose had been listed in critical condition yesterday after surgery. "There are some decisions that need to be taken," he continued. "We are brothers and we do not have the power to make that decision." Sucuzhanay's parents are in Ecuador. But a law enforcement source said the case is being investigated as a homicide and Sucuzhanay has been declared brain dead. The Associated Press said he had been taken off life support, according to a law enforcement source. Community leaders and city politicians called for the swift arrest of the attackers. Sucuzhanay suffered severe head trauma in the 3:30 a.m. beating Sunday in Bushwick. Police Tuesday asked for the public's help in locating one suspect, described as a male about 6 feet tall and between 18 and 20 years old, wearing a dark baseball cap, a black leather jacket, dark jeans and boots. A $22,000 reward is also being offered for information leading to the arrest of the attackers. Police asked the public to call 800-577-TIPS. '

[Cross-posted at CoffeeHouseStudio by cosanostradamus.]
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POST-ELECTION BLUES: SUNDAY MUSIC ROCK'N'ROLL GUITAR & PIANO PARTY VIDEO CONTEST

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IF THINGS DON'T WORK OUT ON THIS PLANET, THERE'S LOTS OF OTHER ONES OUT THERE

OR, WE COULD PUT ON THE OLD JET-PACK AND COME TO THE RESCUE OF THIS ONE

If You're Not Allowed To Walk, Then Fly


YOUTUBE: ELTON JOHN
"Elton John - Rocket Man"


YOUTUBE: DAVID BOWIE
"david bowie ground control to major tom"


YOUTUBE: QUEEN
"Queen - Princes Of The Universe"


YOUTUBE: NY DOLLS
"New York Dolls - Jet Boy"


YOUTUBE: VELVET UNDERGROUND
"THE VELVET UNDERGROUND Ride Into The Sun"



[Cross-posted on CoffeeHouseStudio.]
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