I Didn't Say It.....

Randy Thomasson of Save California, on Harvey Milk Day:

"Wake up, parents. Public schools are no longer for the public. They're government institutions that think that you're children are their children -- and they are going to turn them into homosexual, bisexual, transsexual political activists. Just wait now until Harvey Milk is on a weekday next year, and it's going to be what? Anything goes. It could be gay pride parades on campus; it could be mock gay weddings on campus; it could be essays, mandatory homework saying why Harvey Milk, a bad guy, was a great guy. I mean, this is in-your-face stuff."

Oh Randy, you delusional fuck.
You can't "turn" people gay. People are born this way. Haven't you been listening to Gaga?
I kid.
But, Randy, you delusional fuck, tis true you can't make people gay, or even gay activists. What you can do, and what you are doing, is turning people into haters.
And really, Randy? Gay pride parades on campus? That would be so horrible?
And for the record, you douchenozzle, Harvey Milk was a hero, to the LGBT community and anyone else who felt disenfranchised, and less than. He wasn't working for gay equality, he was working for equality for everyone.
You.Delusional.Fuck.

Dan Savage, on WeinerGate:

"A reporter asks if Weiner was drinking or using drugs—if he has a problem—because only a man who has a drinking problem or a drug problem could get caught up in something like this. Do reporters know what men are like? (And lots of women too?) This desire to pathologize behavior that isn't sick—that is, indeed, very common and human and completely and instantly understandable—is itself pathological. Weiner does not have a problem. He has a computer. The whole world has Weiner's problem: same old horniness, brand new box."

Once again, Dan cuts through the crap.
You don't need to be high to email your junk to strangers. You don't have to be drunk to sext someone.
You need to, if you';re a man like Anthony Weiner, to have lost your mind for a moment to think that your sexting exploits and your brief pictures, would not come out. Haven't we learned by now that the story always comes out?

Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy, on the transgender anti-discrimination bill he intends to sign:

“This bill is another step forward in the fight for equal rights for all of Connecticut’s citizens, and it’s the right thing to do,’’ he said in a written statement issued shortly after the vote was taken. “It’s difficult enough for people who are grappling with the issue of their gender identity, and discrimination against them has no place in our society.’’

You don't know what it does for me to hear a politician, any politician, speak out and tell you exactly how they are feeling, and exactly what they mean.
No sidestep. No shuffler. No mindless rhetoric to confuse people.
Malloy is for equality for everyone in his state and he makes no bones, or excuses, for it.

Erica Diaz, lesbian granddaughter of anti-gay NY Senator Ruben Diaz, on her appearance at his Bronx hate rally last month:

"I was so nervous that morning that I threw up. I spoke against him across the street, directly within his view. But then I approached a police officer who escorted me to the podium where he spoke. My grandfather introduced me to the crowd and kissed me on the forehead. 'This is my granddaughter," he said. 'She chose her way of life, but I chose God's way, but I love her.' Grandpa even called me after the rally, to say that he was proud of me for 'respectfully speaking up for what you believe in.' You cannot tell someone that you love them and stay silent when people call for their death. 'Love' is empty when you say someone's life isn't natural. He could quietly vote 'no' if that's what he believes is right. But I want him to know that every word he utters hurts his own blood."

How can Diaz profess to love his granddaughter and then stand up and say she doesn't matter?
How is that love?
Not to mention, how can anyone, these days, still utter the old "chose that lifestyle" bull?
Ruben chose hate.
Erica was born gay.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates, on ending DADT:

"The reality is that you don't all agree with each other on your politics, you don't agree with each other on your religion, you don't agree with each other on a lot of things," he added. "But you still serve together. And you work together. And you look out for each other. And that's all that matters."

That's all that matters.
Can you help protect your country? Then it doesn't matter if you're gay.
Can you play basketball better than most/ Then it doesn't matter if you're gay.
Can you teach children like they've never been taught before? Then  it doesn't matter if you're gay.
It.Doesn't.Matter.

Teabagger pin-up boy, Rand Paul, on profiling radical anti-government protesters, as long as they are of the Muslim variety:

"I’m not for profiling people on the color of their skin, or on their religion, but I would take into account where they’ve been traveling and perhaps, you might have to indirectly take into account whether or not they’ve been going to radical political speeches by religious leaders. It wouldn’t be that they are Islamic. But if someone is attending speeches from someone who is promoting the violent overthrow of our government, that’s really an offense that we should be going after — they should be deported or put in prison."

See, if you protest the government you should be deported or put in prison.
But, um, Rand, what about all your Teabagger friends who stand with their guns and threaten to take back the country by ballot or bullet?
Should we lock them up?
Me thinks Rand Paul needs to stop and think before he opens his illiterate yap.
Like, say, stop and think for about thirty years, until you catch up with the rest of us.

NFL Hall of Famer Warren Moon, on having gay teammates:

"I think I have played with a couple of players who have been gay. I know of a couple of players, who I won’t mention their names because they have not made it public yet. It really doesn’t bother me what your sexual preference is as along as you don’t bring in your sexual preferences to the locker room. I think that should be for homosexuals and heterosexuals. That’s a personal part of your life you should deal with in that way. As long as your coming to the football team and bringing a positive influence, that’s all that matters to me."

Back to Robert Gates.
It doesn't matter.
i seriously doubt a professional athlete of the gay variety, worked that hard to get that far in his sport, just so he might get some play in the locker room.

Tony Perkins, of the Family Research Council, on religion and The Gays:

"The so-called Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Union Act has already done more harm to religious freedom than good. The Roman Catholic diocese in Rockford has announced that it will close its doors on the church's adoption program before subjecting children to placement in homosexual homes. Like it did in Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., the Catholic Church refused to violate its convictions. Unfortunately, it's only a matter of time before other dioceses follow suit. For the church, this is an act of self-defense. Without a religious exemption, the law makes programs like this one vulnerable to lawsuits or state budget cuts. Much to the frustration of the bill's own sponsor, the state refused to carve out special protections for the religious organizations like this one. And now the state's neediest children will be paying for it."

The state's neediest children will be paying for it because churches like the Catholic Church refuse to accept that gay people are here, and that we deserve equality and that we can, and do raise children ourselves and do just as good a job of it as straight people.
Remember, Tony, if being gay is such a horrible thing, why not question the parents of gay people. Most of them are straight, so how can they be good parents if they raised gay children?
They can be good parents because they loved and nurtured their children and made them feel safe and protected. And if a gay couple, or gay man or woman, can do that for a child, it's not very Christ-like to deny them that option.

I Didn't Say It........

CNN anchor Don Lemon, on coming out, and being Black and Gay:

“It’s quite different for an African-American male. It’s about the worst thing you can be in black culture. You’re taught you have to be a man; you have to be masculine. In the black community they think you can pray the gay away. [And you're] afraid that black women will say the same things they do about how black men should be dating black women. I guess this makes me a double minority now. [But] I think it would be great if everybody could be out. But it’s such a personal choice. People have to do it at their own speed. I respect that. I do have to say that the more people who come out, the better it is for everyone, certainly for the Tyler Clementis of the world.”

Welcome out, Don, at least publicly out.
And you aren't a double minority. You are just a member of a new kind of family, of friends and lovers and partners and spouses, who seek to show the world that their is nothing to fear about being gay.
Or black and gay.


Mike Huckabee, on asking folks to pray for him to run:

"When people asked me what it would take for me to run, I would tell them the same thing---pray for me to have clarity in the decision. I don’t expect everyone to understand this, but I’m a believer and a follower of Jesus Christ. That relationship is far more important to me than any political office. For me, the discussion and decision is ultimately not a political one, a financial one, it's not even a practical one - it’s a spiritual one....Only when I was alone, in quiet and reflective moments did I have not only clarity, but an inexplicable inner peace—a peace that exceeds human understanding. All the factors say 'go,' but my heart says 'no.'"

Well, looks like my prayers were answered.
If you think your relationship with Jesus Christs supersedes that of your relationship with mankind, and I'm assuming that means your wife and children, then maybe you shouldn't run. And maybe tehn you should get your ass off TV and go back into he woods and think some more.
I'm sure you could use more clarity.


Newt Gingrich, on his hypocritical stance on marriage:

"Every American has the right to ask these questions. I have made mistakes in my life. I have had to go to God for forgiveness and to seek reconciliation. And I ask them to look at who I am today."

Oh, Newt, we are looking at you today.
A serial adulterer who converted to Catholicism so you could have your first two marriages annulled and then run for president with a not-so-clear conscience.
Maybe the church and god forgives and forgets your first two marriages and your first two extra-marital affair, but last I checked the church and god don't get a vote for president.
That's up to us, and a serial cheater and lying hypocrite has no place in the White House.

Harold Camping, End Times "prophet" and leader of the May 21st It's The End Of The World As We Know It movement:

"God has given sooo much information in the Bible about this, and so many proofs, and so many signs, that we know it is absolutely going to happen without any question at all. There’s nothing in the Bible that God has ever prophesied--there’s many things that he prophesied would happen and they always have happened--but there’s nothing in the Bible that holds a candle to the amount of information to this tremendous truth of the end of the world. I would be absolutely in rebellion against God if I thought anything other than it is absolutely going to happen without any question."

Um, are you there God, it's me, Margaret, er, Bob?
Yeah, see, I'm having some people over for a little get together on the 21st, and I was kinda hoping that the world wouldn't end on me while I was making margaritas for the gang. So, um, yeah, God, if we could hold off on this whole Rapture thing until next weekend?
No, wait, that's no good for me either. I've got tickets to see Patti LuPone in concert, and well, God, for my people, that is as close to Rapture as possible.
So, maybe we can rethink this whole End Of Days thing, m'kay?
Get back to me on that.

Mo'Nique, on why gay men love fat black women:

"Yes, there’s a mutual affection there. There’s something very special about the connection between a gay man and a fat black woman. I think that because we’ve both been the underdog--or we’ve both been in this place of trying to be accepted and loved--that we gravitated to each other."

Grrrl, you are preachin' to the choir.
The Gays love the underdogs because we are the underdogs. And we love to see someone, anyone, who has been put upon or put down, make it.
It gives us hope.
Plus, you're fabulous.

Roger McDowell, Atlanta Braves pitching coach, apologizing again for the anti-gay slurs and gestures he made to fans at a recent baseball game:

“These past two weeks have been very humbling, emotional, and a reflective time for me and my family to better understand about what has happened. I have and will continue to learn from this and have committed to being a productive member of the Atlanta Braves organization and to this coaching staff. in addition, I would like to apologize to anyone who was offended by my actions. I am not proud of the way I acted and I know it will not happen again.”

Let's see that it doesn't, Rog.
Maybe you could become one of those men in professional sports that stands up for the LGBT community, rather than taking us down and making us into a joke.
Try being a little more Ben Cohen and a little lesss Kobe Bryant.


Senator Rand Paul, on how health cvare reform is akin to slavery:

"With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to health care, you have realize what that implies. It’s not an abstraction. I’m a physician. That means you have a right to come to my house and conscript me. It means you believe in slavery. It means that you’re going to enslave not only me, but the janitor at my hospital, the person who cleans my office, the assistants who work in my office, the nurses. Basically, once you imply a belief in a right to someone’s services--do you have a right to plumbing? Do you have a right to water? Do you have right to food?--you’re basically saying you believe in slavery. I’m a physician in your community and you say you have a right to health care. You have a right to beat down my door with the police, escort me away and force me to take care of you? That’s ultimately what the right to free health care would be."

Wow.
He puts the fuck in fucktard.
The nut in wingnut.
The ass in asshat.
Way to scare your Teabagging minions by comparing health care to slavery, but then, wouldn't they be for health care then? I mean, they seem a little KKK to me, so slavery should be right up their alley.
At least if you're talking about enslaving the 'right' people, not the white people?

Jackie Cooper, on his dallinace with Joan Crawford, in his autobiography, Please Don't Shoot My Dog:

"I was seventeen, and I began to go over to Joan Crawford's house to play badminton... I was brash, fresh from some romantic triumph, I suppose, and I made some remark which i assumed was sophisticated, witty, and very sexually provocative. 'You had better get out of here, young man,' she said. But I didn't go. Instead, I made a move toward her, and she stood up, looked at me appraisingly, and then closed all the drapes. And I made love to Joan Crawford. Or, rather, she made love to me."

And, I believe, during their encounter, she made him scream, "Mommie, dearest" at least a dozen times.
I love stories like this because Crawford always portrayed herself of the ideal of decorum and manners and propriety. But when Jackie Cooper was seventeen and bedding down Joan Crawford, she was thirty-four, and had just divorced her first, or, depending on whom you believe, second husband.