Jeesus Christ, Google. What the Fuck?

(via GRIST)

Google hosts fundraiser for climate-denying Sen. Jim Inhofe

Oh, for the love of. . . Are you fucking serious, Google?

Didn't Google's corporate logo used to be "don't be Evil?" I guess they've decided that it's not strictly "evil" to be a huge bag of butts and shockingly pignorant (copyright 2011, Chaos Industries)

The lunch, at the company’s Washington, D.C., office, will benefit the Oklahoma Republican Jim Inhofe, who has made a career of dismissing climate change as a “hoax” on the Senate floor.
Proceeds of the July 11 lunch, priced at $250 to $2,500, will also go to the national Republican Senatorial Committee.

You know, it would be one thing if James Inhofe was merely an embarrassment to a once-great (arguably) nation and a walking punchline to a joke about inbred Oklahomans, but his fucktarded assholery has real-world consequences for this planet and the people condemned to live upon it (oh, shit. That's us!)
 
Also, who hosts a fundraiser at some company's DC office? Are there no banquet halls available in Oklahoma?

 

Oh, right!

Seriously, though, come on, Google. You know, if you really don't understand how dangerously stupid James Inhofe is, you could find out pretty quick with A GOOGLE SEARCH!
 
 
 
I mean, it's not like you guys are actually in favor of environmental destruction, are you?

It’s the second show of support from Google for the anti-climate cause in recent weeks.
Last month, the Washington Post reported that the internet company had donated $50,000 for a fundraising dinner for the ultra-conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute — topping the contributions even of the Koch oil billionaires.

 Oh, for fuck's sake!

The Competitive Enterprise Institute has launched multiple lawsuits aimed at trying to discredit the science behind climate change — accusing scientists of fraud. None has so far succeeded.

Really? That's hard to believe. I mean, if you can't sue someone for doing science, what has our legal system come to?
Seriously, what standing could you possibly have to sue climate science? The fact that they're showing you to be moronically wrong about science maybe equals defamation of character?

 

Well, if we had any character. . .

Come on, Google. You know who James Inhofe is. You know he's dangerously wrong about, well, everything, but especially climatology. You know that. there's no excuse for helping to fuel his destructive idiocy. I don't know what committee he sits on that might affect your future business plans or whatever, but there is no way in hell you're afraid enough of this pinhead to fund him out of intimidation. Just stop it. It's wrong, you know it's wrong, just stop it.

However, a company spokesperson noted that Google maintained data centers in Oklahoma. The spokesperson then sent an email saying:

We regularly host fundraisers for candidates, on both sides of the aisle, but that doesn’t mean we endorse all of their positions. And while we disagree on climate change policy, we share an interest with Senator Inhofe in the employees and data center we have in Oklahoma.

Fuck, you, yes it does mean that you endorse their positions. How much more of an endorsement could you give a candidate than to host a fundraiser on his behalf? You can't say "we're raising a bunch of money to help this guy get re-elected, but we sure hope it doesn't work, 'cuz holy fuck is he a loonie!"

And it's not just his stance on science being wrong because he thinks science is some sort of conspiracy and the Bible doesn't talk about it so it isn't true. He's really just a terrible, awful person:




Wandering off topic a bit, as I seem wont to do lately, you want to know what I (a "normal person") and James Inhofe (not even close) have in common?

Glad you asked!

James Inhofe knows exactly DICK about climate science. I also know pretty much dick. The difference is I'm not smart enough (barely) to realize this. And I understand that the men and women who have spent their adult lives studying climate science know a bit more about climate science than the guy who watched an episode of NOVA once, but it was about string theory and I didn't really understand it that well and I guess it isn't really all that germane to the topic at hand, but I did stay awake through the whole thing.

 




So fuck you, Google. And fuck you, people of Oklahoma who keep returning this anthropomorphic pig's anus to the Senate (Along with Coburn, who's just as bad). This isn't about political differences, this is about how bad the next tornado season is going to be, and all the tornado seasons to come. It's about how n=many people are going to be killed, how many homes are going to be destroyed because we refuse to take any steps to mitigate the damage we as a species are doing to our habitat, and James Inhofe is a big reason why none of those steps are being taken. And, sure if it was just tornados, we could all say "hey, Okalhoma, if you don't mind being Wizard-of-Ozzed all over the plains by giant tornadoes every year, that's your problem. And if we lived there, we'd probably be praying for tornadoes, too,"  but it's also about how many people will be killed by hurricanes in Florida, and how many people will drown in floods throughout the Ohio River Basin, and (and I know this is hard for you to grasp) how many people will die in horrible giant blizzards in the Northeast.
So, knock this shit off, people of Oklahoma. It's not funny. Your actions affect everybody, and so far the effects have been pretty terrible. For fuck's sake, you just had the two largest tornadoes in history, or the tstrongest, or something, I f=don't know but they were pretty awful.  No one's asking you to like Al Gore. Just quit obstructing the people who are trying to save the rest of us from destructive weather patterns, and you can make fun of him for being dull and aft all you want. He probably won't mind, if it means that the Earth might still be inhabitable for his grandkids.

Rand Paul Cohort is a racist, secessionist, neo-Confederate assbag? I am shocked!

 

Rebel Yell

Rand Paul aide has history of neo-Confederate sympathies, inflammatory statements

 

 



Well, you know what they say, scratch a Libertarian, find a Neo-Confederate!
Yes they do always say that!

A close aide to Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.) who co-wrote the senator’s 2011 book spent years working as a pro-secessionist radio pundit and neo-Confederate activist, raising questions about whether Paul will be able to transcend the same fringe-figure associations that dogged his father’s political career.

Okay, let's just stop here for a second to point out that Rand and Ron Paul don't associate with fringe figures. They ARE fringe figures.
The only reason they have the level of mainstream acceptance they have is that most of their supporters don't have any idea what they actually stand for past legalized pot and no more taxes.

 

Hard to believe these guys wouldn't be better informed!

Paul hired Jack Hunter, 39, to help write his book The Tea Party Goes to Washington during his 2010 Senate run. Hunter joined Paul’s office as his social media director in August 2012.
From 1999 to 2012, Hunter was a South Carolina radio shock jock known as the “Southern Avenger.” He has weighed in on issues such as racial pride and Hispanic immigration, and stated his support for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.

This is maybe the most extreme example of the "It's Okay If You're a Conservative" phenomenon,. If you're far enough to the right, you can actually celebrate the murder of an American President and still have a career in politics. You can still be welcome to spew your sicko views onto the public airwaves, and a Senator eyeing a presidential run won't even feel like he needs to shun you, even though you OPENLY CELEBRATE THE ASSASINATION OF A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!
Oh, and you can openly call for secession from the US of A and still be considered a good patriotic American of whom a potential presidential candidate need not be ashamed.

Prior to his radio career, while in his 20s, Hunter was a chairman in the League of the South, which “advocates the secession and subsequent independence of the Southern States from this forced union and the formation of a Southern republic.”

I hadn't ever heard of the League of the South before,

 

I honestly thought it was this.

So I checked out their webpage and it's pretty much what you'd expect. An exercise in wrapping polite language around the basic ideas of white supremacy and hatred of modernity. Here are a couple of highlights"

The League of the South asserts that Southern society is radically different from the society impressed upon it by an alien occupier. American society today is egalitarian and Marxist and is devoid of any grace or charm

 

Hell, yeah! Grace and Charm!

 



 

In contrast, we believe in a Southern society that:

Upholds the ontological or spiritual equality of all men before God and the bar of justice.  . .

Is structured upon the Biblical notion of hierarchy. In short, a recognition of the natural societal order of superiors and subordinates where Christian charity (as found in the second Table of the Law) toward our neighbors produces harmony and stability. Christ is the head of His Church; husbands are the heads of their families; parents are placed over their children; employers rank above their employees; the teacher is superior to his students, etc.

You know, equality!

 Teaches and practices good manners and the famed “Southern hospitality, which are outward manifestations of the recognition that our fellow men are made in the image of God and should be treated according to God’s law.

Except n***ers and Jews!

Some of the funniest (in a tragi-comic sense) parts are on the FAQ page:

Q: Does the LS advocate armed revolution or overthrow of the current US government?
A: No. We are not revolutionaries; therefore, we do not seek the overthrow of the US government. Rather, we seek, by peaceful and well-established legal and constitutional means, to separate ourselves from it

We would certainly not advocate violence. We believe in using Constitutional, legal means which don't exist, have never existed, never will exist and are the creation of our own wishful-thinking and just plain ignorance. You know, like the well-established legal principle of "but I really want to!"

Q:  What is the LS position regarding blacks in the South?
A: The LS disavows a spirit of malice and extends an offer of good will and cooperation to Southern blacks in areas where we can work together as Christians to make life better for all people in the South. We affirm that, while historically the interests of Southern blacks and whites have been in part antagonistic,

In part antagonistic! just like the sometimes strained relations between cats and mice. Or me and a pint of Cherry Garcia.

Oh, you are going DOWN, muthafucka!

 



Anyway, I don't to spend a whole lot of time on it, but if you have a few minutes, check out their website: http://dixienet.org/rights/2012/index.php it's laugh-out-loud funny (unintentionally) and surprisingly devoid of the N-word. (Although, if there's a comment section, hoo boy, I'd hate to even think about it.) Basically, they seem to be a group of deluded white guys who got their image of the Antebellum South from Gone With The Wind and think that if only they could get back to those halcyon days everything would be just fine and dandy once again, so basically, morons, I guess.

Anyway, back to Jack Hunter, or, as he likes to refer to himself in the third person, "The Southerm Avenger!"

Take that, sense of irony!

I'm not sure who publishes his drivel, but his drivel includes drivel like this:


No Apologies for Slavery
by The Southern Avenger
4 March 2007

John Wilkes Booth Was Right
by The Southern Avenger
13 April 2004

Let's Invade Saudi Arabia  
by The Southern Avenger
16 October 2007

And my personal favorite:

White, Right and Ready to Fight  

by The Southern Avenger
10 September 2004

In which the Avenger encounters a black man passed out drunk at a bar and uses the drunkard to extrapolate to the entirety of race relations in the whole of the US, and includes this charming paragraph:
 
 The bartender politely told the man he could not sleep in the booth, that he should finish what was left of his beer, but then he must leave - and like clockwork - the man began cursing and threatening the bartender and then declared he was going to sue the bar for racism. There was no racism here. I should have told this A-hole that the Avenger got kicked out a month ago for having sex with a black girl in the exact same booth - but it didn't have anything to do with the fact that the girl was black. I got kicked out because she was the girlfriend of one of the bartenders.      

I don't even have a smart-alecky comment, just an apology for the mental image.

 

You're picturing me doing it right now, aren't you?

I would point out that just because an extremely inebriated man makes a baseless claim of racism, that hardly seems like a scientific sample from which to build your theory of race relations. Let's judge all white guys by what Mel Gibson says when he's drunk!

Oh, no wait. I just took another peek at the archive and now I have a new personal favorite:

Are White People Out of Style?  

by The Southern Avenger
22 November 2004

Um, short answer yes. Long answer yeeeeeeeesssssss.

So I'm going to guess that this article is going to be about how white people must bear the heavy yoke of some unfair double-standard?

Clothing company Abercrombie and Fitch settled a lawsuit last week in which they agreed to pay $50 million dollars in damages for alleged “racial discrimination.” This class-action lawsuit was filed last June by Asian and Hispanic groups who claimed the clothing company discriminated against racial minorities in order to convey a virtually “all-white image.” This settlement also requires Abercrombie and Fitch to hire  at least twenty-five “diversity recruiters” whose main task will be to make sure the company is not too white. This nonsense is just one more example of the racial double standard we have in this country

.

Bingo!

The three largest racial groups in the United States today are whites, blacks and Hispanics. But unfortunately, the mutual respect needed is not prevalent among all three groups. Black Americans are encouraged to celebrate their racial identity by appealing to their shared experience of injustice and African roots, and while hip-hop is a worldwide phenomenon, rap is still a musical culture that is defined overwhelmingly by black American youth.

It is so totally unfair of them to be better at it than us!

 

Also totally unfair!

 Hispanics indulge in an even more nationalistic form of racial identity by flying Mexican flags, listening to a foreign music that both black and white Americans have never even heard of, and turning everywhere they settle into northern outposts of their Mexican homeland.

Um, everyone but you has heard of Salsa, Conjunto, Norteno, and Selena. But that's probably not the point, is it?

 

What strange manner of foreign musicry is this?

And then there are white people. Not only are whites not afforded the same right to celebrate their own cultural identity – but anything that is considered “too white” is immediately suspect. Nobody talks about rap music being “too black.” No one would dare suggest that the agricultural work force is “too Hispanic.” But let something like NASCAR, country music or the Republican party become patronized mainly by white Americans, and you can bet your ass someone is going to scream racism. You never hear about the need for “diversity” when the group in question is black or Hispanic. But when the group is white – diversity somehow becomes the number one objective.

Oh my God. I never understand this. If these people are going to create their own alternate reality, why wouldn't they make it a pleasant place for them to live? In my alternate universe, I'm sort of a Joe Montana - Carols Santana hybrid who can't walk around the house without tripping over one of my Nobel Prizes. But in their alternate reality they're ALWAYS the victim. Look at that last paragraph: White people are "not afforded the same right?"  They can't "celebrate their cultural identity?" I guess that's why you never see anyone waving Italian flags at Columbus Day Parades?

 

 

If only we were Mexican!



And you never see Irish flags waving in the breeze outside of every other bar in town.

 



Or  British pubs in every city in the US

 

 

Or whatever the hell this is!

 

But, no. In the alternate universe of the right-wing sisters of perpetual victimhood, only Mexicans are allowed to fly their flags.

 



And when has anyone called NASCAR racist? It's been called boring. And stupid. And boring.

 

Also stupid!

 

but when has anyone ever said "oh, mainly white guys like auto racing. Pardon me whilst I go out and scream 'RACISM!'"

 

If Abercrombie and Fitch want to hire and promote only blonde-haired, blue-eyed Swedish models, what's wrong with that?

 

Um, really? You actually have to ask "what's wrong with blatant racism?"

 

Abercrombie and Fitch is a company that appeals mainly to preppy white people and I think it's ridiculous that they are being punished for it.

 

How exactly are they being punished for having a mainly white clientele? They are being sued for pushing out non-white employees in order to maintain their lily-white image. No one is saying punish Abercrombie for having mainly white customers.

 

 

 

Although I am saying punish them for this bullshit!

 

Anyway, I seem to have wandered off topic a bit. I huess my main point is that Rand Paul associates with racist neo-Confederate douchebags mainly because he is one and that no one is going to call him out on this because It's Okay If You're A Conservative!

 

 

 

Courage International is fucking weird!

When last we spoke, or when last I typed and you were bored enough to read, we were discussing horrible Paul Scalia and his membership in some weird organization called Courage International.

 

 (Artists' Rendition)

 

 

Well, if anyone's free the last week of July, they're having a conference!

 

 COURAGE/ENCOURAGE CONFERENCE 2013

 A Spiritual Conference

 for Members and Friends of Courage and EnCourage

 

 

And you can tell that this conference is all about doing God's work here making the world a better place because it costs $375 per person to attend! (All profits go to the victims of the conference's organizers. Not really, screw those losers!)

 

Here's important fact number one to know about this conference:

 

This year's conference is dedicated to Benedict, Bishop Emeritus of Rome.            

Because who personifies "Courage" more than Benedict, a man who, when faced with the awful realization that priests under his command were committing atrocities against children, leapt bravely into the fray to help them cover up their crimes and place them in position to commit more!

And check out this morning schedule:

6:45 am – BENEDICTION
7:00 am – Spanish Mass (Homily in English)

Yes, a Spanish Mass presented in English, because that's what God speaks! Sure, there might be singing and whatnot in Spanish, because pandering to Hispanics is the new black for republicans. Well, not black, but whatever the Republican go-to fashion color would be in that analogy, but when it comes to actual theological teaching, either you learn to speak English or prepare to be deported to Hell, amigo!

But before you attend, be sure to recite the recommended prayer:

Lord Jesus, I consecrate my sexuality to you; 

 

No, thank you. . . really, I'm uh, I'm good!

 

 

 

. . . cleanse my mind, my memory, my imagination and
my dreams of all erotic content.

 

 

 

Yeah, that can't be done!

If Saint fuckin' Augustine couldn't pull that off, what chance do you think you have?

 

 

Grant me the gift of chastity, to bring my sexual
drive into subjection of your Holy Spirit dwelling within me

 

 

 

Buh-huh-huh-huh-huh!!!

 

 

Guard my weakness by your Holy Cross through
the intercession of your Mother Mary, my
guardian angel, Saint Charles Lwanga, and the
communion of saints. AMEN

 

Yeah, I didn't know who Charles Lwanga was either, so I looked him up. According to Wikipedia:

 

Saint Charles Lwanga (also known as Karoli Lwanga) (1860^[1][2] or 1865–June 3, 1886) was a Ugandan Catholic catechist martyred for his faith and revered as a saint in the Catholic Church

 

Twelve Catholic boys and men and nine Anglicans were then burnt alive. The ire of the king was particularly inflamed against the Christians was because they refused to accede to demands to participate in sexual acts with him.^[4] Charles Lwanga, in particular, had protected the pages from King Mwanga's sexual advances.^[5]

 

Kind of ironic that protecting young boys from sex with a male authority figure used to be something the Catholic Church apparently saw as a positive.

 

 

Interstingly, Charles Lwanga and the other Catholics who accompanied him in death were canonized in 1964 by Pope Paul VI.^[7] Although the Anglicans could not be canonized, they were named "with the others, also deserving mention" for enduring "death for the name of Christ".^[8]

 

 Because apparently Pope Paul VI was a really petty little prick. The Anglicans do the exact same thing, but because they aren't officially Catholics, they're only eligible for honorable mention?

 

 

Congratulations, but you're still not welcome in Heaven!

 

 

So, if you're thinking of attending, be sure to get there by Thursday, so you won't miss the opening night keynote address:

 

7:30 pm – OPENING KEYNOTE ADDRESS - Dr. J. Budziszewski, “Why Is There Sex?

 

Wow!

 

 

 

Asshole Roundup

As previously mentioned, I haven't been spending as much time on line lately as my psychiatrist might hope. So now that I have a chance to "surf" the "net," as the kids say, I can't help but notice what a lot of assholes there have been in the news lately.

Asshole # 1: Mark O’Mara

 

Could this guy look any creepier?

Sometimes you can judge a book by its cover.

You'd have to assume that anyone willingly taking on the defense of [allegedly] racist murdering thug George Zimmerman is going to be a pretty huge asshole, but holy fuck did he go above and beyond with this:

Zimmerman lawyer urges Trayvon’s mom to admit her son ’caused his own death’

 

The defense attorney then tried to throw cold water on Fulton’s assertion that it was her son’s voice screaming on a 911 call the night he was shot and killed by Zimmerman.
“If it was your son, in fact, screaming as you testified, that would suggest that it was Mr. Zimmerman’s fault that led to his death,” O’Mara observed. “

Well, I didn't go to law school, but I'm pretty sure that murder is generally the fault of the murderer, isn't it?

“And if it was not your son screaming, if it was, in fact, George Zimmerman then you would have to accept the probability that it was Trayvon Martin that caused his own death, correct?”

You do realize that this is his mother you're asking, right? You're asking her to go along with your scenario in which somehow, despite all evidence, her son, who was minding his own business when a racist vigilante decided he looked suspicious enough to follow with a gun,  is somehow the instigator and responsible for the racist thug shooting him? His mother you're asking this. Holy fuck, are you a colossal asshole!

Asshole # 2: Adam Kokesh





The asshole who originally called for a thousand armed lunatics to march on DC, then changed it to everyone march on your state capitol and demand that your state secede from the union, then gave up on that is ba-ack! Yes, he's back even though it seems pretty obvious that he's never going to actually do anything himself except try to get even stupider nuts riled up enough to do something tragic.
So, anyway, his latest publicity stunt was filming himself loading a shotgun in a park in DC a few blocks from the White House to protest tyranny, I guess? Because what better way to demonstrate the tyrannical nature of your government than to openly break the law within shouting distance of the seat of power, openly threaten the despotic regime and then totally not get arrested or killed or "disappeared" or suffer any sort of consequences at all, pretty much like what would have happened in the Soviet Union?

According to Wonkette,
While loading the shotgun, Kokesh delivers this inspiring message:

“We will not be silent. We will not obey. We will not allow our government to destroy our humanity. We are the final American Revolution. See you next Independence Day.”

Yeah, no. You are not the final Revolution or whatever. You are just an asshole.

Asshole # 3: Paul Scalia

Proving once again that the turd doesn't fall far from the ass, it's the son of Supreme Court buffoon Antonin Scalia, Father Paul Scalia

Ugh, can't you just feel the Scalia oozing off of him?

As you might expect, a Roman Catholic priest whose father is the worst kind of right-wing pseudo-intellectual hack has a real problem with the gay people. So much of a problem, that he seems to be building his career around his homophobia, as the Chairman of a group called "Courage International," and more about them soon!

But Father dipshit has come up with a brand new way to deal with the problem of how gay people are always going around making him feel all icky: Pretend they don't exist! Or at least don't exist by that name. or something. I don't know, he really spends a lot more time thinking about gayness than any not-gay person should. I think he spends more time thinking about gaiety than Dan Savage, Scott Thompson and RuPaul combined.


Check out this article he wrote for some stupid website wherein he purports to pursue "rational arguments" Damn, those arte some $5 fucking words!

Humanum

Issues in Family, Culture & Science

The quarterly review of theCenter for Cultural & Pastoral Research        

 

Paul D. Scalia

PDF

For Those Who Believe in Rational Argument: In Memoriam John Harvey OSFS

In this regard we must note the unfortunate title The Homosexual Person.  In short, we should not predicate “homosexual” of any person.

I'm not sure that that's really a sentence, I couldn't find any definition of "predicate" that would make that make sense, but from what I can tell, he means that we should not call any person a "homosexual person." Why? Well. . .

That does a disservice to the dignity of the human person by collapsing personhood into sexual inclinations.

Yeah, I'm not sure that it does, but okay. If you want to say that a person is not defined solely by his or her sexuality, that's obviously true. But that sounds like something a sane person would say, so I'm pretty sure that's not what you were getting at.


Let's go back to the beginning of his article:

Consider how swiftly American society has changed as regards homosexuality.

If by swiftly you mean it's taken us some 200-odd years to get to the point that a significant percentage of Americans are acknowledging the obvious fact that gay people are just people, then yeah, boy howdy is that swift!
Although I woul dpoint out that the idea of gay people being treated as equal citizens is still somehow "controversial" in the 21st fucking Century, and that might be more indicative of the snail's pace of America's societal progress, but sure, let's go with "swiftly!"

 The “Stonewall riots,” the touchstone and unofficial beginning of the gay rights movement, occurred in June 1969. Since then, the demands from the gay community have progressed from simple tolerance, to acceptance, to the right to marry, to now the silencing of any opposition as bigoted and “homophobic.”

Oh, and here we go! You seemed almost rational for a minute, there. yes, gay people would like to be accepted and have the same marital rights as heteros, that much seems to be true, but then you rev up the paranoid victim wagon and speed on down to the parallel universe in which it's the homophobes who are having their rights trampled.

Why do you guys always have to pretend that someone is "silencing" you whenever you encounter any criticism? If you say something bigoted and I point out that what you said was bigoted, I'm snot "silencing" you. I have no authority to silence you and neither does anyone else. I wish you'd be silent. I would love it if bigots had the sense of shame to remain silent, and I'm guessing that I'm hardly alone in that, but telling you to shut your fat ugly hate-hole is not the same thing as silencing you. If I ever got the chance to meet you face to face and tell you to your ugly hateful pig-face to shut your ignorant yap, I have no doubt that you would continue on spouting hateful bigotry and nonsense.

In this radical transformation of society, one of the greatest casualties is the individual who experiences homosexual attractions but who desires to live chastity.

I would have thought that he meant to write "live chastely," but he uses the same weird phrasing later on: " In 1980 he founded Courage, the Catholic spiritual support group to help men and women with same-sex attractions live chastity." So I guess that's some sort of weird ecclesiastical way of saying "live a life of chastity" or something, I don't know.  But anyway. . .

 . . . one of the greatest casualties is the individual who experiences homosexual attractions but who desires to live chastity. He finds, on one hand, the homosexual community encouraging him to live out his sexual desires, to claim his gay identity, to embrace the lifestyle, and so on.

The "homosexual community" and also the "sane community," the "non-asshole community," the "decent human being community," etc.


 Worse, even some in the Church will encourage him to do so. Unfortunately, among those to whom he turns for help, he may find insensitivity, ignorance, misunderstanding, or simply an unwillingness to help.

Yeah, that's from people like you. Insensitivity, ignorance, misunderstanding, an unwillingness to help, that's exactly what people like you have to offer.

Father Scalia also objects, for his own bizarre reasons, to the use of the term "sexual orientation.

Father Harvey’s use of the term “orientation” also underwent a deserved change. In his first two books we find the use of this word to describe homosexual inclinations or attractions. In the last book, however, he deliberately avoids it. This reflects the increased appreciation for the fact that homosexual tendencies (to use a term from magisterial documents), do not constitute a fixed, unchangeable aspect of the person and therefore should not be considered an “orientation.”

Even though no one has ever changed their sexual orientation, excuse me, "inclinations," no matter how much praying away of the gay or "reparative therapy" they engaged in, sure, obviously sexuality is unfixed and changeable. Oh, but wait. It gets weirder!

Further, the term does violence to a proper understanding of human sexuality. Either our sexuality is oriented in a certain direction (i.e. toward the one-flesh union of marriage), or it is not. We cannot speak of more than one sexual “orientation” any more than we can think of the sun rising in more than one place (i.e. the orient).

So there is only one orientation? I really don't understand the logic here, and I guess I'm glad I don't. But here's what I do understand. Paul Scalia is an enormous asshole. I haven't seen an asshole this big since that scene in Pink Flamingos that I wish I could un-see.

July is the Stupidest Month

at least according to the Christian Post, it is:

First-Ever Ex-Gay Pride Month to Be Held in DC This Month

By Melissa Barnhart , CP Reporter

July 2, 2013|8:39 am

An event which will surely not wind up turning into a giant gay orgy!

 

This is seriously their logo!

Men holding hands under a rainbow.

 

 

Members of the ex-gay community are celebrating the first-ever "Ex-Gay Pride Month" and have asked President Obama to issue a proclamation to recognize the rights of the ex-gay community and to commemorate their month, just as he's done for the LGBT community with "Gay Pride Month" in June.

Although this does raise the question of who exactly is threatening the rights of the "ex-gay" community? Who is telling "ex-gay" persons that they're not allowed to live fake hetero lives? Who is saying "no, ex-gay people, you may not choose a life of solitude and celibacy, nor may you choose to live in a joyless marriage of resentment and denial, now get back to Castro Street and start having same-sex relations right this very minute!"

Apparently, this event, which will totally not turn into a giant gay orgy, is being put on by a group called "voice of the voiceless," which is either a support group for mutes or is just another example of the tiresome habit religious conservatives have of casting themselves as some sort of oppressed minority, and yeah, of course it's that second thing.

 

Mon Dieu, who will speak for us?

 

 

Anyway, they have apparently sent this open letter to POTUS asking for some sort of recognition. Let's have a look at it, shall we?

Dear Mr. President…

June 19, 2013

President Barack Hussein Obama

The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

See, now this is just good letter-writing technique. Someone was paying attention in 5th grade grammar! First, when addressing the president, you want to include his entire full name, lest it accidentally be routed to, say assistant staffer Barack Doug Obama. Then, in addition to the street address, let your postman know that the letter is intended for "The White House," so that when he gets to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, he doesn't accidentally deliver your letter to the Arby's in Suite B.

Dear Mr. President,

Our office has left multiple voice messages for the White House Office of Public Engagement.

My God, you mean no one has returned your calls? No one from the most powerful address in the world has gotten in touch with "voice of the voiceless?" How is this possible?

Voice of the Voiceless is a public advocacy organization of ex-gays that represents tens of thousands of former homosexuals.

Also several unicorns, dozens of sasquatches, and many many little green men from Mars.

 As you may know, former homosexuals are now recognized as a legally protected class in Washington, D.C. (see: PFOX v. Government of the District of Columbia Office of Human Rights, No. 08–003662, slip. op. at *5-6 (D.C. Super. Ct. June 26, 2009)).

Really? Holy shit! That can't be right, can it?
Well, I Googled it and spent way too much time reading legalese, but in Judge Ross's decision denying PFOX's claim (Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays), there is indeed this line on page 12:

"As a matter of law, OHR erred in determining that ex-gays are not a protected class under the HRA."  (read it here) So I guess technically they may be right. Who knew? I had no idea that shame-based delusionals were considered a protected class.

 

As such, we have established July 2013 as the First Annual Ex-Gay Pride Month, and are seeking a meeting with you or a senior member of your civil rights staff to discuss a Presidential Proclamation, as you have issued in previous years, including this year, for June’s Gay Pride Month.

 

 

Again, I think you might want to give some examples of the rights of "ex-gays" being violated if you're going to make an equivilancy between your struggle and the struggle of people who actually do face discrimination on a daily basis. Maybe talk about that time that ex-gay men were forbidden to marry ex-gay women. Or that time that an "ex-gay" was turned down for a job he would have gotten if he had just stayed gay.

 

We would also like to discuss tolerance for the ex-gay community and how The White House can ensure equal access for ex-gays in the nation’s capital, which is the only jurisdiction that recognizes ex-gays as a legally protected class.

Please contact me at your earliest convenience at cdoyle@voiceofthevoiceless.info or by phone at 571-379-4546.

Tolerance? Equal access? Where do you not have equal access? Who is being intolerant? Who is turning you away at the door because you gotta be either gay or straight to come in here, none of this half-assed useta-be-gay stuff allowed!


Also, at your earliest convenience? Sure, in between trying to fix the economy and deal with Egypt and Syria and persecuting whistleblowers and trying to talk Republicans into not letting the federal government go into default and pretending to care about global warming and approving Keystone XL, sure, the President of the Goddamm United Fucking States of Muthafukkin America should just take a moment to pick up the phone and talk to some self-aggrandizing religious nut with a weird persecution complex! I wouldn't call you back, and I'm just some guy!


Oh, and if you want to see some real nuttery, check out Voice of the Voiceless's  website!

About Us

The mission of Voice of the Voiceless is to defend the rights of former homosexuals, individuals with unwanted same-sex attraction, and their families. We also support the faith-based community and work actively in the United States to defend the constitutional rights of all Americans to share their views of homosexuality in the public forum. We support similar international efforts and provide assistance, whenever possible, to individuals and organizations abroad who align with our mission and goals.

Which makes the whole idea of "Ex-Gay Pride" seem a bit odd. What exactly are they proud of? "Hey, I'm here, I'm not exactly queer, but I have UNWANTED Same-Sex Attraction, get used to it!"

WHY Ex-Gay Pride?

in order to draw attention to the ever-increasing phenomenon of ex-gays or former homosexuals; that is, individuals who formerly had unwanted same-sex attractions and/or lived an LGBT-identified life, but now do not. These individuals may be in heterosexual relationships, pursuing heterosexuality, or living celibate lives as former homosexuals

 

Hetero and Loooooooving ittttttt!

Hooray for boobies!

Because former homosexuals are the last invisible minority in American culture and are increasingly subject to hostility from anti-ex-gay activists and the media at large, who is influenced heavily by the gay-activist lobby that discriminates and marginalizes former homosexuals.

Oh, yes. Obviously the media just loves the gay people. That's why there is at least one gay person with her own tv show!

 

At LEAST one! I lost count.

 

 

WHERE is Ex-Gay Pride? Currently, VoV plans to hold at least one event in Washington, D.C. in July to commemorate the First Annual Ex-Gay Pride Month. Because Washington, D.C. is the only jurisdiction that recognizes ex-gays as a protected class against discrimination in the United States, we believe this is a safe place to gather and celebrate free from any threat of intimidation.


Oh my God, you really need a "safe place?" Who's threatening you? You know Michele Bachmann is a goddamned Congresswoman and a recent presidential candidate and she's married to one of you!

And he is FABULOUS!

And not only did that not hurt her, it's a point of fucking pride! So I really fail to see why you think that you must get to this city of refuge lest you be threatened or intimidated. By whom exactly?

Oh. Okay, they are pretty intimidating.

So, anyway, the head of VOV put his e-mail address on his website in case anyone wants to help! Although, I suppose some folks might send him unpleasant comments. Gee, I sure hope that wouldn't happen.
 Please e-mail cdoyle@voiceofthevoiceless.info for more details on how you can participate.



Also, his phone #
571-379-4546.