Minnesota Taliban

The New York Supreme Court ruled today that denying same-sex couples marriage is unconstitutional. [via Towleroad]

Of course, the Minnesota Taliban™ seeks to enshrine this unconstitutionality into the Minnesota State Constitution.

The Minnesota Taliban™ includes:
Mary Liz Holberg, R (36A-Lakeville)
443 State Office Building
100 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Saint Paul, Minnesota 55155
(651) 296-6926
rep.maryliz.holberg@house.mn
Mary Liz's personal website

Jeff Johnson, R (43A-Plymouth)
401 State Office Building
100 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Saint Paul, Minnesota 55155
(651) 296-5511
rep.jeff.johnson@house.mn

Paul Gazelka, R (12A-Brainerd)
529 State Office Building
100 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Saint Paul, Minnesota 55155
(651) 296-4333
1-800-683-4205
rep.paul.gazelka@house.mn

Sondra Erickson (R-16A-Princeton)
473 State Office Building
100 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Saint Paul, Minnesota 55155
(651) 296-6746
1-800-709-0578
rep.sondra.erickson@house.mn

Dan Severson (R-14A-Sauk Rapids)
553 State Office Building
100 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Saint Paul, Minnesota 55155
(651) 296-7808
1-800-920-9984
rep.dan.severson@house.mn

Let the Minnesota Taliban™ know that you don't support theocratic laws in Minnesota.

Stay tuned! I'm sure Michele Bachmann will be introducing her version in the Senate fairly soon.

Trolling for Assholes

One of my favorite Sunday morning past-times is to put 'homosexual' into Technorati and surf the anti-gay hate. It shows that any jack-ass from Kentucky can start a Blogspot blog. Todays search brought me to this quote:

"Thousands upon thousands have died for their faith in Christ as a result of the hatred of God and Christianity. Homosexuality cannot claim this."

My response: "I think the thousands and thousands of homosexuals who died in the Holocaust would beg to differ. See here.

And see also those homosexuals who have been killed by the governements of Islamic nations. "Al-Fatiha estimates that 4,000 homosexuals have been executed in Iran since their revolution in 1979. 10 public executions of homosexuals have been performed in Afghanistan by the Taliban army."

It took me about 3 minutes on google to find this much."

If people are going to start a blog, whether I agree with the content or not, they need to find something to back up their arguments. Even if it's some fake-ass study from some family values circle jerk, at least the reader knows where the ignorance is coming from.

No Name-Calling Week can go to hell

First they go after Spongebob, now they're after "No Name-Calling Week." All because each of these make even the slightest mention of teaching children to be respectful of each others differences. Oh yeah, and because they each mention tolerance and tolerance means homosexuality and homosexuals are going to incur the wrath of god and burn in hell for all eternity. [hat tip to Byf]

I just wonder how long it will take for people to stop listening to James Dobson and the rest of these radical clerics.

History of the Anti-Gay Movement

If you've wondered how these anti-gay organizations and foundations started, Mitch Gore has a brief history at DailyKos. The connections between white supremecists and current anti-gay outfits like the Heritage Foundation and Coors Brewing are pretty fascinating. I think it would change a lot of people's minds if, say, a major newspaper or magazine were to tell this story...I won't be holding my breath.

Salvation Army

Right-wing Christians are getting pissed about the flack that the Salvation Army has been getting over their discrimination of GLBT people. In the Twin Cities, a group called Celebration Army attempted to raise funds with buckets and bells for Open Arms of Minnesota. Open Arms provides meals for people living with HIV/AIDS. The Salvation Army sued on copyright infringement grounds and Celebration Army volunteered to back down.

A website called GayDC called for a boycott of Safeway and Giant Food because they allow Salvation Army bell-ringers. As an alternative to the Salvation Army, GayDC added this banner to their website: "This holiday season, all proceeds as a result of shopping at Target thru GayDC.Net links until December 31, 2004 will be donated to Food and Friends!"

Food and Friends "prepares, packages and delivers meals and groceries to nearly 1,000 people living with HIV/AIDS and other life-challenging illnesses such as breast, lung and colon cancer throughout Washington, DC and 14 counties of Maryland and Virginia."

Concerned Women for America, a radical anti-gay Christian fringe group based in Washington, DC, voiced their outrage over the Celebration Army, and several other boycott's of the Salvation Army.

Robert Knight, director of Concerned Women for America's Culture and Family Institute had this to say: "Needy families are not even on the radar screen of these homosexual activist groups, who are more interested in promoting acceptance of sodomy than in the Salvation Army's ongoing charity efforts to keep poor people fed and clothed."

He must have missed this part about the Celebration Army "funds would go to Open Arms of Minnesota to provide meals to those with HIV-AIDS," or perhaps he missed "Food and Friends prepares, packages and delivers meals and groceries to nearly 1,000 people living with HIV/AIDS and other life-challenging illnesses such as breast, lung and colon cancer."

Knight is more concerned with the sexual activity of others than he is in helping those with life-challeging illnesses. Doesn't sound very Christian to me.