GAY, SORTA, DISCRIMINATION AT A STRAIGHT CLUB?

Next Mag posts a screed about an incident at the Standard. Someone came on a nongay and non-gay friendly night.

If a club wants to cater to a gay clientele it needs to be open and accepting all the time, every night of the week.

Okay, I agree, but, wait. This one-gay-night-a-week thing at club venues has been going on for a lo-o-o-o-ng time around here. You're just noticing? C'mon Next.

I always saw the phenom as something of a half-step backward. The outcome is practically guaranteed.

Gay club life has been of the floating party variety in New York for some time. Sensitivity training for staff is a start, but how long does that stick?

This could be sorted out rather easily, with a solution I have in mind. It would take a little work, though, and perhaps the party givers don't have the time to spare.

See also: BACHELORETTE PARTY BAN INTERVIEW

DOMA RULED UNCONSTITUTIONAL BY U.S. 1ST CIRCUIT COURT? NOT SO FAST...

MSNBC has the same story everyone else does, saying that DOMA is struck down:

A federal appeals court has ruled that the Defense of Marriage Act, a law that denies a host of federal benefits to same-sex married couples, is unconstitutional.

Not so fast! It's true as far as it goes, but this one's going to the U.S. Supreme Court, and we know the rotting composition of that fallen branch of government.

Second, the U.S. 1st District Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against FEDERAL discrimination against same sex marriage. What's absurd in this road show is that the actual constitutional language that bears on the law was never at issue. I speak of course of the "full faith and credit" clause, which binds states to recognize the acts and proceedings of other states.

I know, I know. We'll get the usual, "This one helps the cause, because it heaps up more arguments on our side." Yes, but this particular Supreme Court has an absolutely dismal record of applying law and logic to much of anything that appears to be a political issue. Socially just they are not. So, let's be ever hopeful, but watch with caution.

So, hurray, a bit, maybe, sort of... Again, where are these "strict constructionists" when the word-for-word reading of the constitution would simply make same-sex marriage instantly, as in NOW, legal throughout the land? Thunderous silence.

So, pop only yesterday's flattening champagne and make a mimosa. Leave the new bottle on the shelf.

See also: MITT FUNDED OPPOSITION TO MARRIAGE EQUALITY

KANSAS PREACHER-CREATURE CURTIS KNAPP: GOVERNMENT SHOULD KILL GAYS

Murder-lover Curtis Knapp

Good as You tracked down this new lovely antigay screed (audio at link).

Curtis Knapp, pastor of Seneca, Kansas' New Hope Baptist Church:

"Oh, so you're saying we should go out and start killing them? No, I'm saying the government should. They won't, but they should."

Another call for government-run genocide.

And I thought Conservatives thought government couldn't do anything right. A sudden change of ideology when it serves their vampiric cravings for blood.

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TODDLER'S NO-HOMOS-IN-HEAVEN RAP
PROTEST OF CREATURE PREACHER WORLEY
NIGHTMARE NC PREACHER SEAN HARRIS

BRAINWASHED TODDLER SINGS ANTI-GAY HATE JINGLE BEFORE CHURCH (VIDEO)

Children singing in Church to enthusiastic... by f100001838231867

Watch, if you can stomach the poison that's been given this innocent child. "Ain't no homos gonna go to heaven," gets them jumping to their feet and cheering.

Here you have it, a full-on demonstration of why the national far-right crowd opposes anti-bullying laws. They want kids to grow up to be a member of the anti-gay hate patrol, to spew epithets, and possibly to inflict harm verbally, maybe even physically. It's "just kids," after all, isn't it?

You could call it child abuse, but it's so widespread that it just seems part of the air we breathe. Hatred does not come from the air, though, it comes from aping the unevolved apes like the big ones dressed up in these pews.

Related: ANTI-GAY PREACHER PROTEST

(Funny how these things are all coming up now. It's almost like a timed campaign. I'm not a major conspiracy theorist, but Gay Pride celebrations are just around the corner, or going on about now.)

UPDATE: CUE THE MARTYRDOM

Daily news reports:

Since it hit the blogosphere, the church, identified as the Apostolic Truth Tabernacle Church in Greensburg, Indiana, has received harassing phone calls, and its pastor, Jeff Sangl, has even gotten death threats at home, members told TMZ.com.

PROTEST OF KILL-THE-GAYS PREACHER WORLEY

Evil preacher-creature Worley, who advocates death camps for gay and lesbian people, got a little bit of big protest thrown at him.

I think the worst part of this video may not be this unholy wreck of a man, but the counter-demonstrators who support him. Yikes. They've had time to mull it over, and they're just fine with the idea.






Related: BRAINWASHED TODDLER ANTIGAY SONG IN CHURCH
See also "Kansas Pastor Wants Government to Kill Gay People"

INTERVIEW: BAN ON BACHELORETTE PARTIES

CNN interviews David Cooley, owner of the Abbey in West Hollywood. He makes a strong statement for equal rights, going beyond the ban to draw the larger picture. Bravo.

Follow-up to: BAN ON BACHELORETTE PARTIES

See also: DOMA UNCONSTITUTIONAL? NOT SO FAST... 
GAY, SORTA, DISCRIMINATION AT A STRAIGHT CLUB?

SCARY STUFF: ATLANTA ANTI-CHOICE FIRES, POSSIBLE DOMESTIC TERROR (UPDATE: ANOTHER IN N.O.?)

Atlanta area fires and burglaries are hitting pro-choice advocates, and seem to target speech as well as clinics:

Federal agents are investigating two fires in the past week at women's clinics in metro Atlanta, authorities said. ...

The two fires, along with several burglaries that struck women's clinics in recent months, have raised concerns that the clinics are being targeted by vigilantes.

The physicians who were victims of the burglaries and Sunday's fire did not perform abortions but they had all visited the statehouse this session to discuss the impact of abortion-related legislation, said Dr. David Byck, president of the Georgia Obstetrical and Gynecological Society.

"We are concerned that each of these physicians spoke with lawmakers during the session and that each then became targets of felony crimes," Byck said in a statement.

This looks like either one person or a group at work to silence these doctors. That does constitute terrorism, by definition, no?

UPDATE: Here's another case of arson at a Women's education, advocacy, and community center in New Orleans. Again, this one is deliberate, going after the information materials (speech). I am not saying they are directly connected, but it's worth exploring the angle, while the feds are at it. This group seems to have overturned a law that made prostitutes subject to sex-offender registry, somehow based on a 205-year-old statute. FBI, please get on this.

Related: TN'S ANTI-CHOICE SCARLET LETTER BILL
CHICAGO CLUB 'VELVET ROPE' FIRE IS ARSON

THE ABBEY BANS BACHELORETTE PARTIES

West Hollywood gay bar, The Abbey, bans bachelorette parties:

"Every Friday and Saturday night, we're flooded with requests from straight girls in penis hats who want to ogle our gogos, dance with the gays and celebrate their pending nuptials. They are completely unaware that the people around them are legally prohibited from getting married," David Cooley, the founder of The Abbey said in a statement.

Thanks to Steven T. for alerting me to this story.

I wish more bars would institute something of the sort. Around my neighborhood, mentioned in the article, crazed drunken women take over gay establishments every weekend because, as they all ways put it, "It's safe."

Ah for the bad old dangerous days.

UPDATE: THE CNN INTERVIEW

GAYDAR IS REAL: STUDY PROVES IT!

From the Department of DUH! A University of Washington study proves gaydar is real.

In the study, 96 black-and-white photos of gay and straight men and women were shown to 129 students, who were then asked to guess their subject's sexuality.

In two-thirds of cases, they were able to tell if a woman was gay or straight, and they accurately judged 57 per cent of the males they saw.

Even turning the photos upside down did not stop ability of viewers to correctly guess the subject's sexuality.

 So, guys, switch off Grindr, stop woofing on Scruff, and use your eyes and ears (and your psychic kids' sixth sense, if you've got it tuned). What did the cavemen do? Do that, and I don't mean painting antelopes on cave walls.

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Photo: RDinNYC

I'm glad they're constantly fixing it up. You don't want an unpainted door sticking out like a sore thumb. How would that look?

NC NIGHTMARE PREACHER SEAN HARRIS

This just in:

Get Pastor Harris's tweet: "Even my apology is being judged by those who are supposed to be the most tolerant as insincere. At this point nothing seems sufficient."

Oh my gawwwd, how he's being pilloried by the mean homosekshuls of the world! What bullies they are.

The story so far:

Homophobe of the week Sean Harris preached a sermon that advocated breaking the wrist of any male toddler caught seeming to be effeminate, audio via GoodAsYou.

Can I make it any clearer? Dads, the second you see your son dropping the limp wrist, you walk over there and crack that wrist. Man up. Give him a good punch. Ok? You are not going to act like that. You were made by God to be a male and you are going to be a male. And when your daughter starts acting to Butch you reign her in. [Transcript excerpt, errors included, from that site.]

The words spread out from Berean Baptist Church in Fayetteville, NC, like an oil spill, and the church staff and preacher spent a day saying it was all a joke, or maybe just an exaggeration for effect, or whatever. Anything to get the phones to stop ringing. And the retraction has come in, via his blog. Oh, but wait!

However, I do not apologize for the manner in which the Word of God articulates sexual immorality, including homosexuality and effeminacy, as a behavior that is an abomination to God. Nothing in this official statement of retraction should be perceived as an apology for the overarching intent and message of the sermon and the need to define marriage as one man and one woman and to maintain the gender distinctions that God created from the beginning when He made them male and female (Genesis 1). I recognize that there are those in the LGBT community who believe that their sexual behavior is not sin. I do not agree with them and this official retraction should not be misunderstood as an apology for the gospel of Jesus Christ or the Word of God.

I do not apologize for the manner in which I emphasized the importance of one man and one woman getting married and staying married for the benefit of their children and society.

My bold. So we have a non-retraction retraction. What was the "manner in which [he] emphasized"? Precisely to tell parents to break and beat their kids for the least wavering from beer-commercial gender roles. The man cannot help himself. Someone needs a rainbow intervention. Where's a bubble machine and a busload of drag queens? Time to show up in front of the place next Sunday.

Scarier still is that the church runs a school. Via The Advocate, it's K-12. Hello child protective services? Care for a casual swing by?

I just noticed his Linked in profile. Twenty years in the army? I'm sure he knows a few effective wrist-snapping techniques. The man has violent fantasies that he loves to express. That doesn't mean he's acted on them.