Via JMG; Mrs. CPAC On The Gays

"Rena, it IS a threat to society. It is not nature's way. They can't procreate, can they?....You hvae them in your family? Well, there is no reason not to like them or love them, the same way you would love one who has a disability, or an illness, etc. I just DO NOT want them pushing their agenda on the majority who are not. This is just about sexual preference--keep it in the bedroom!!!! It is not about being denied any constitutional rights.....Ana, I got your point.....I am just tired of this topic being shoved in our face continually by all these gay activists and I have to ventilate my feelings.... You know I always wondered why homosexuals are referred to as 'gay', kind of an oxymoron? Nothing really 'gay' about them or their movement......I am all for intellectual honesty too!!" - Diana Cardenas, wife of CPAC chair Al Cardenas, in a virulently anti-gay Facebook battle.

RELATED: Pam Spaulding directs us to this Scribd page where screenshots have been preserved.

Labels: assholery, bigotry, CPAC, Facebook

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Unsung - Sylvester

Via JMG: More Ridiculous Lying Lies From The Lie-Tastic Liars At Lying NOM

Local activists in gay-gay-gay Wilton Manors, Florida threatened to stage a boycott after a local business group invited virulently anti-gay Rep. Allen West to speak at one of their meetings. Under pressure, the business group rescinded their invitation to West. Story over? Nope. The unrepentant and inventive liars at NOM are trying to escalate this little low-level bit of local theater into some kind of rallying cry about HOMOFASCISTS shutting down debate. In fact, a casual glance at NOM's blog headlines and tweets on this story give the impression that West has suffered personal, physical intimidation and/or threats.

As usual, when boycotts work AGAINST the Christianists, they are "intimidation" and "homofascism" and "harassment." When THEY boycott, that is GOD'S PLAN, people.

RELATED: NOM has a public relations firm on call to field media inquiries about this "outrageous attack on Rep. West."

Labels: assholery, Florida, hate groups, hypocrisy, liars, NOM, Wilton Manors

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Via Utne: Public Displays of Meditation

Tags: meditation, flash mobs, MedMob, Shambhala Sun, elephant journal, Margret Aldrich

 

It was the om heard ’round the world. Yesterday in 108 cities—from London to Los Angeles, Hong Kong to Houston, Barcelona to Birmingham, and more—“MedMob” groups participated in large-scale displays of meditation.

Playing off of the flash mob concept, in which strangers organize online, arrange to meet at a specific time and place, and then perform an unexpected public act, MedMob members delight in presenting meditation in a surprising, inclusive way, says Shambhala Sun. MedMob’s goals aren’t complex, but they are significant:

1. To create an environment for people from all walks of life to come together in meditation.
2. To expose the world to meditation through public display of meditation.
3. To come together as a global community to send positive intentions out into the world.
4. To show that leading by example is the best way to lead. Simple acts can stimulate major paradigm shifts in thinking.

The MedMob movement, which began in Austin early this year, is for everyone, reports David Telfer McConaghay for elephant journal. Telfer assures us that passers-by do not need to believe in “hippy-dippy feel-goodery” to participate in meditation, whether in a group or alone. “The goal is not to attain some state of illusory bliss, then wander around all day in a disconnected daze with a silly grin,” he writes. “The goal (if meditation can be said to have a goal) is to allow the naturally arising chaos and distractions of the mind to settle and fade so that we can act and make choices with greater intention and clarity.”
Below are a handful of blissful (and maybe even a little hippy-dippy) feel-good photos from the July 28, 2011 international MedMob event:


Long Beach, California (above)


London (above)


Rome (above)
 
Sources: Shambhala Sun, elephant journal
Images courtesy of MedMob. (The photo at the top of this post comes from Amsterdam.)

Read more: http://www.utne.com/The-Sweet-Pursuit/Public-Displays-of-Meditation.aspx#ixzz1TzCwyMvl

Via Telling Dick Cheney to Shut the Hell Up (by Leftake.com) and Not having George Bush as President (by Leftake.com) shared a link.

LeftAction: Speaker Boehner: Stop Wasting Money Defending DOMA!

Send a message to Speaker Boehner: "Stop Wasting Money Defending DOMA!"

Telling Dick Cheney to Shut the Hell Up (by Leftake.com)

 

John Boehner keeps ranging about "spending." Okay, then why is he STILL planning on wasting hundreds of thousands (millions?) of dollars defending the absurd, discriminatory "Defense of Marriage Act"?

Click over, and ask him yourself. (and click "like" if you think we should push this action hard)

http://leftaction.com/action/s​peaker-boehner-stop-wasting-mo​ney-defending-doma

Via AmericaBlogGay:

NBA hires attorney to the bigots, Paul Clement, who is helping Boehner defend DOMA

David Duke's lawyer wasn't available?

Via AmerticablogGay:

Anti-gay congressman says we’re intolerant of his intolerance 

If things keep going this way, it won't be safe for bigots anywhere. And then what kind of country will we have?

Oh that's right, a nice one.

Via AMERICAblogGay: Larry King, other celebs lobby Obama to Evolve Already

Celebrate marriage equality & tell the President to "evolve already" - buy an AMERICAblog t-shirt

 

http://www.americablog.com/2011/06/celebrate-marriage-equality-tell.html 

Via Just Out: Washington State’s Suquamish Tribe Makes Gay Marriage Legal

The Suquamish Native-American tribe in Kitsap County, Washington, this week made same-sex marriage legal on tribal land, reports The Seattle Times. Heather Purser, a commercial diver who lives in Seattle but was raised in Kitsap County off the reservation, sparked the issue with tribal council after months of attending meetings. She was assigned a tribal attorney who asked her to get proof that the tribe recognized homosexuals by collecting stories from the elders.

That effort was dropped until she moved to Seattle and met her partner. This renewed her efforts with the Suquamish Tribe.

make the jump here to read the full article

Via AmericablogGay: Mormon study looks at gay experience within church

There is a study of 1,000 gays, lesbians, bisexual and transgender Mormons being conducted by Utah State University, and is said to be the first to focus on that particular demographic. One of the gay Mormons featured in this article claims to have given a talk to his congregation as to how the Holy Ghost had been a comforter to him:

Watching television one day with his mother, Clayson said he pointed out that one of the "Survivor" cast members was both gay and Mormon. 

 "She said, 'You can't be both,'" Clayson said. 

It's a dilemma many gays in the church face as they struggle with their identities as both homosexual and religious faithful.

No, that is not true. It depends on one's denomination or theology as to whether or not there is any sustained cognitive dissonance for someone who is gay and a religiously faithful person. The analogy I would make is between being a member of GOProud or Stonewall Democrats, and then making a spurious claim one can't be both gay and politically active. It depends on the policies that group stands for. True, being an active Mormon or Catholic and gay is a stretch, but being a progressive member of the United Church of Christ is not inconsistent in the slightest.

One can make the argument that one is both gay and working within an organization to make it more progressive, but it is self defeating and ridiculous to claim one believes the tenets of an organization that disagrees with your very right to exist.

Via AmericaBlogGay: American Heritage Dictionary has a new editor: Steve Kleinedler

Congrats to Steve Kleinedler, on his new job as Editor of American Heritage Dictionary. He knows words. In 2009, Steve wrote a powerful post about the death of his husband, Peter Dubuque, which revealed how "ordinary" same-sex marriage had become in Massachusetts. I've linked to that post many times over the past few years. It really moved me and a lot of other people.

Andrew Harmon wrote an article about Steve's new job at the Advocate, including a link to his post at AMERICAblog:

“The job of dictionaries is primarily to describe how language is used, not to dictate how it should be used,” lexicographer Steve Kleinedler, The American Heritage Dictionary’s new executive editor, wrote in a 2009 op-ed.

The statement is part American Heritage Dictionary ethos, part personal experience. In 2009, Kleinedler’s husband died suddenly, just two months after Kleinedler and fellow editors had revised the definitions of several marriage-related words to reflect the changing culture. The definition of widower, for example, was revised from "a man whose wife has died and who has not remarried" to "a man whose spouse has died and who has not remarried."

“In the shattered aftermath of profound loss, an obsolete or incomplete definition of widower would seem an insignificant detail,” Kleinedler wrote, “but all such trivial details viewed together coalesce into a constant reminder of a two-tiered, unequal system. Therefore, having had the ability to revise the definitions that appear in a major American dictionary took on an important resonance for me.”

Kleinedler ascended to the dictionary’s top editor position Monday after 14 years on staff. He previously served as supervising editor.

Changing words, changing society.