"My feeling about gay people is that we have a responsibility not only to make gay marriage acceptable and to make gays feel accepted as much as heterosexuals…Gay people are downtrodden. They are beaten. They are abused for their sexuality, and it goes across race. In the white community and the black community gay people are the bastards of the world. And in order for things to change, because any one of you could have gay children, or gay relatives, or gay friends…we have a responsibility to make this acceptable, to get all this bullshit so that some gay kid going to high school doesn't get the shit beaten out of him just because he's gay…I'm as heterosexual as they come. What is this hang-up about gay marriage? Who cares? Get on with your life!"
From none other than the King of All Media himself, Howard Stern
And then there are idiots like this, North Carolina's Virginia Foxx:
OK, I admit I've been slack here in WRITING some posts and using videos as a quick daily drop of interest or info, but it is valuable!
Well she did, and it cost her. Apparently her personal feelings and her need to be true to herself cost her the Miss USA crown. She is supposed to represent ALL of us and apparently gay and lesbians don't count.
I love America for the rights we have, one of them being Freedom of Speech, but this was not a personal question, it was a question that as a representative of all of us, she was supposed to answer.
Here is a question posed to Miss California by blogger Perez Hilton:
As one of our most revered presidents said,
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt"
- Abraham Lincoln
Mind you, I have an open mind and as I expressed, admire her for "sticking to her guns" and what she believes. Would love to hear your feedback and opinions, keep it tame please!
On Tuesday, State Rep. Betty Brown, a Republican, caused a firestorm during House testimony on voter identification legislation when she said that Asian-Americans should change their names because they’re too hard to pronounce:
“Rather than everyone here having to learn Chinese — I understand it’s a rather difficult language — do you think that it would behoove you and your citizens to adopt a name that we could deal with more readily here?” Brown said.
Brown later told [Organization of Chinese Americans representative Ramey] Ko: “Can’t you see that this is something that would make it a lot easier for you and the people who are poll workers if you could adopt a name just for identification purposes that’s easier for Americans to deal with?”
Yesterday, Brown continued to resist calls to apologize. Her spokesman said that Democrats “want this to just be about race.”
ONE is a magazine about everything on rollerblading... they got some awesome videos with some cool editing... really worth watching it! Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
The former British Prime Minster has called for a "quiet revolution in thinking," suggesting that the Pope might not be as in touch with public opinion as he could be.
Especially when it comes to homosexuality!
Blair says, "There are many good and great things the Catholic Church does, and there are many fantastic things this Pope stands for, but I think what is interesting is that if you went into any Catholic Church, particularly a wellattended one, on any Sunday here and did a poll of the congregation, you’d be surprised at how liberal-minded people were."
Blair converted to Catholicism in 2007.
The new convert says, "When people quote the passages in Leviticus condemning homosexuality, I say to them — if you read the whole of the Old Testament and took everything that was there in a literal way, as being what God and religion is about, you’d have some pretty tough policies across the whole of the piece."
Traveling on behalf of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, which aims to promote understanding of different faiths, Blair says he believes it is time for religious leaders to reevaluate their texts as more metaphorical than literal, and come to terms with homosexuality, because that's the direction the next generation is moving in anyway.
He says, "I think there is a generational shift that is happening. If you talk to the older generation, yes, you will still get a lot of pushback, and parts of the Bible quoted, and so on. But if you look at the younger generation of evangelicals, this is increasingly for them something that they wish to be out of — at least in terms of having their position confined to being anti-gay."
It's said a picture is worth a thousand words, but at the San Diego Swap Meet, you could pick it up for a buck. After getting out into the beautiful weekend weather, we went for a stroll and a few laughs at one of our favorite people watching sites. Here are some of the things and people one may run into while wandering the rows, enjoy. (Click to enlarge)
Iowa's Supreme Court just ruled today that gay marriage is and will be legal in the state. The decision makes Iowa the first Midwestern state, and the fourth nationwide, to allow same-sex marriages.
What's up with California already?
I read that the Iowa Supreme Court’s web site was hit with more than 350,000 visitors this morning. Steve Davis, a court spokesman, said administrators added extra computer servers to handle the expected increase in web traffic, but “this is unprecedented,” Davis said.
Richard Socarides, a former senior adviser to President Bill Clinton on gay civil rights, said today’s decision could set the stage for other states. Socarides was a senior political assistant for Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin in the early 1990s.
“I think it’s significant because Iowa is considered a Midwest state in the mainstream of American thought,” Socarides said. “Unlike states on the coasts, there’s nothing more American than Iowa. As they say during the presidential caucuses, 'As Iowa goes, so goes the nation.’”
Three years ago after 25 years together, my partner Dave and I celebrated with friends and had a commitment ceremony. We did this for us and to thank our friends for being in our lives. We'll see if this ever happens in California and EVERYONE has equality in the land of the free.
Always irreverent, Sacha Baron Cohen has brought the laughs with such characters as Ali and Borat. Now comes Bruno, a not so straight model ready to wreak havoc on fashion and the world. Look out, coming to a theater near you soon!
