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Focus on the Family, and why LGBT youth are dying in droves

Bashing, suicide, out-right murder - LGBT young lives are being cut short in shocking numbers. In theocrasies like Iran, executions of gay youth are notorious and blatant. However in America - the land of the free and home of the brave - executions of gay and lesbians youth take on a covert, smiling but cowardly face, draped in hypocritical religiosity, set to dulcet musical tones. Observe: Focus on the Family has unleashed their most shameless homegrown "Kill the Gays" effort yet. Just as kids were going back to school, TrueTolerance.org was launched. Their message is about protecting children for horrible "homosexuality lessons" under the guise of tolerance. Nice. The typical family-values-style jujitsu of the Christian Right. This is where we are in America. The body count of gay teens climb as we move toward the November mid-terms. If the endless and heartbreaking stories of lives cut short like Tyler Clementi's, if the lascivious actions and fork-tongued rhetoric from vile anti-gay GAY Jesus PIMP Eddie Long (and his ilk) don't light a fire under you to action, then this TrueTolerance video from Focus on the Family will. Remember, these are same Tea Party people who are trying to distort truth and out-right LIE their way into power. VOTE this November!

Photo du jour: YIKES! - Teabaggers are more edumacated than average Americans.

But first - Oh snap! A rare black Tea Bag sighting. It's a special moment for me. Like catching a glimpse of Bigfoot lumbering behind the trees of a trailer park; it sends a cold tingle down my spine. Anyway, a new CNN poll sheds light on who makes up the Tea Party movement. According to the results, tea partiers are richer, more male and have more education than the general population. Really? Now when people are at rallies carrying a misspelled sign and are asked if they have ever gone to college - is there a chance they lie? There we go. Conundrum solved. Which explains the video ... More 'cool' (at least they're spelled right) Teabagger signs -- So this is Michele Bachmann's source for her "1 term President" schreech. Yes, dude, all white people will be rounded up any day now. <(Rumor has it - Arbor Day.) Oops. 1950's era pic. Wrong mob of anti-"hopey-changey" white people.

Photo du jour: Straight Pride

‘Straight pride’ shirts at Tea Party rally draw fire Shirts echo 'white pride' slogan used by white supremacists It was offered for sale at a Capitol rally along with buttons featuring Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin and a host of other conservative causes and ideas. The company also offered other t-shirts carrying slogans like “Fox News Fan,” the Second Amendment written out in the shape of a handgun and a drawing of two stick figures with one holding a gun to the head of the other and labeled “socialism.” “It sends a message that this is a cause for a certain group of people,” says David Holtz, executive director of Progress Michigan. “That group is older white people, straight apparently. It sends the message that if you are not in the group, you really aren’t welcome. What’s troubling is the idea they are getting support and clearly making money off a vendor who is making money off discrimination against gay and lesbian people,” said Holtz. “And they think that’s OK. That’s what’s troubling.” Some of the comments to the above article in support of these shirts suggested people are "too sensitive". And if "blacks" and "gays" can be proud, then what's wrong with this? Well, this sort of thick-headed, willful ignorance of historically disparaged groups doesn't happen by accident. It's orchestrated, and oh-so-transparent. The reason this shirt is wrong is clear: Heteros never thought it was necessary to assert how proud they were until homos demanded equality. Whites never did either, 'til Blacks demanded equality. This is clearly a reactionary, anti-gay pseudo-movement by tongue-in-cheek 'activists' from the far right, affectionately known around these parts from this day forward as the Ku Klux Tea Party. Since Obama, like in every other era in American history where the status quo was shaken, the bigot right rose in outcry. And just like all those previous times when they decried the evils of race-mixing and "evil-ution", and like like those Westboro freaks raising their children to hate (below) they're fighting a losing battle.

Heros of Reconstruction: Ku Klux Klan (coming to a Tea Party near you)

Yes, its true, even the Ku Klux Klan hates the Westboro Baptist Church, and they've placed a disclaimer on their website to prove it. ⇒ Distancing itself from Fred (God Hates Fags) Phelps' Westboro freaks just says the modern, friendlier, revisionist Klan is not totally stupid, though still insane. But don't think their all gay-friendly these days. No, they still hate us, and everyone else who isn't all four of the following: White, hetero, hateful and Christian. What really wow-ed me though was reading their website and how they've rewritten history to make themselves heros instead of the disgruntled Confederate soldier terrorists they were: "1865 was a violent time and the now defeated south would feel the wrath of the industrial north in ways yet unimagined by the people of the south. Born in a desperate hour this humble fraternity, became the central driving force during Americas 'Reconstruction'". This tyranny took the voting rights, property rights and the right to possess weapons away from the veterans of the Confederate Army and their families. At this time, the Klan grew by leaps and bounds across the south, becoming a protective order that defended dispossessed Whites from persecution. By 1873 , natural order had been restored to the south and the Klan, for the most part disbanded, their job completed. Awwhh ... they sound down-right cuddly. No mention of the number of freed blacks who were terrorized as depicted in the below Harper's Weekly illustration, dated, ironically, 1873. I guess that's how "natural order" was restored ... Ah, the good ol' days of the Confederacy. No wonder that flag is all the rage since the rise of Obama. Coincidence? The Klan WAS the Confederacy, just with a new uniform. Today's sympathizers of the Confederacy, like Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour and others, are also lamenting the Klan. Photo essay of KKK by Anthony Karen Sadly, these confederate flag waving, racist, homo-hating Christians are on the rise, again, just like in the post-civil war south when they thought Blacks were going to take over. Just roll through a Palin/Bachmann rally or chat up some TeaBaggers. You won't find a Bull Connor or a George "segregation fo'eva" Wallace among them vocally advocating Supremacist views - but you can feel it. You can smell it. In Tea Baggers, Ku Kluxers, and Red Shirts, Berry Craig put it this way: The Tea Bagger movement’s spiritual forebears – the White Citizens’ Councils and the George-Wallace-for-president-in-‘68 crowd come to mind – went apoplectic when Congress passed historic civil rights bills in the 1960s. These same white people who ranted against “race mixing” were no more welcoming to women’s rights and gay rights, which came later. Both were boosted by more government action on the equality front. But it was Barack Obama’s election that tore it for the Tea Baggers. You won't see any pointy hoods or as Craig put it, "dunce caps", on these people in the Tea Party video below. Like I've said over and over, those disgruntled racist misspelled-sign carrying McCain/Palin voters had to go somewhere - unfortunately, it wasn't away. Also check out: The Rotting Racist Underbelly of the Tea Party Protests And - The Unbearable Whiteness of Being ... a Tea Bagger And on the "fucking" hilarious realism tip: Fuck The South!