Former Neo-Nazi disavows movement, comes out as gay and Jewish. Wait, what?

Courtesy of Channel 4: 

A white supremacist active as recently as the start of this year says today he is publicly renouncing 40 years of hate. Speaking on Channel 4 News he comes out as gay for the first time – and admits to a violent past.

After a lifetime of involvement with the far-right Kevin Wilshaw announces on Channel 4 News that he is leaving the movement – at the same time publicly coming out as gay. 

The well known National Front organiser in the 1980s was still active in white supremacist groups earlier this year – including speaking at events. 

But tonight on Channel 4 News he explains for the very first time why he is publicly disavowing the movement – sharing his secrets, explaining how he was both a Neo-Nazi and of Jewish heritage , while admitting to violent acts and what motivated his hatred.

During the interview Wilshaw says that he became interested in the white supremacist movement because he had no friends and wanted to be part of something.

I think this guy could be the poster boy for joining an organization that is diametrically opposed to your self interests.

He's like a black Republican, only even worse.

Wilshaw said that while he witnessed violence toward minorities and others it did not impact him until it was directed at him.

I am going to guess that empathy is not high on his list of attributes.

So now there's a gay Bible, where Rihanna is the Lord. Seems right.

Courtesy of Pride:  

Just weeks after becoming the Mayor of Hell, Michigan and banning all heterosexuals from entering the town, comedian Elijah Daniel has now rewritten the holy bible for the gays. 

The EDV (Elijah Daniel Version) translation has a few updates from previous editions; Rihanna is God, she made Adam and Steve, not Adam and Eve, and instead of wine, Jesus turns water into mimosas.

Well mimosas have vitamin C, so clearly that is a better choice.

off to a great start pic.twitter.com/yTWT9H5yI4

— fagdad elijah daniel (@elijahdaniel) September 15, 2017

I'm just confused as to when Rihanna became the gay icon.

I knew that Lady Gaga had replaced Madonna and Cher awhile back, but I am totally out of the loop concerning Rihanna's rise as a deity. 

But anything that irritates the snot out of the Fundamentalists works for me.

And clearly this does that.

Coming soon.

New study claims that marriages between gay Mormon men and women almost always end in divorce. Shocked! That's what I am, shocked!

Courtesy of The Salt Lake Tribune:  

The LDS couples profiled on TLC’s "My Husband Is Not Gay" may find these statistics sobering: Marriages like theirs — same-sex attracted husbands and straight wives — are two to three times more likely to end in divorce than others. 

That finding and others come from a newly released in-depth survey of 1,612 self-selected LGBT/same-sex attracted Mormons and former Mormons, thought by researchers to be the largest study ever conducted with this population. 

Rather than tapping a random sample, John Dehlin, a doctoral student at Utah State University, and Bill Bradshaw, a retired Brigham Young University professor, with help from Renee Galliher, also of USU, solicited responses via various websites, including pro-Mormon outlets such as North Star International and those more critical such as Dehlin’s own "Mormon Stories" podcast. 

The study found that: 

• Between 51 percent and 69 percent of mixed-orientation Mormon marriages end in divorce, well above the roughly 25 percent of LDS couples who split up. 

• More than 70 percent of LGBT/same-sex attracted Mormons leave the LDS Church. 

• 80 percent of respondents reported undergoing efforts to change their sexual orientation — 85 percent of which were religious and private efforts, 31 percent were private efforts only, 40 percent therapist-led and 21 percent group efforts. 

• 53 percent rejected their religious identity; 37 percent compartmentalized their sexual and religious identities; 6 percent rejected their LGBT identity; 4 percent integrated the two.

Not exactly an earth shattering study however it confirms what most of us already know as fact, if you are not attracted to women, then you really cannot fake it.

Nor should you be forced to try.

Even if they let you appear on TV for doing so.

This is from a few nights ago, but Stephen Colbert's take down of Louie Gohmert is something that should not be missed.

To play video click the Gohmert

"People have said to me 'Stephen you gotta understand you don't even know your history. You're dumb, you're dense. You're a mental midget with an IQ of a butter dish whose mind is a black hole that sucks all surrounding thought into it in an infinite singularity of pure stupidity. Stephen I'm surprised you can dress yourself. I bet you have to rub peanut butter inside your lips to remember to open your mouth to breathe. I have never met, and I hope to never meet again, a man so pervasively, astoundingly, unyieldingly, ignorant.' To which I say well then you haven't met Louis Gohmert."

God that was a thing of beauty.

Well you knew it was coming, Now that openly gay football player Michael Sam has been drafted by the NFL, here comes the Right Wing outrage.

Courtesy of Christian Post: 

Jack Burkman, head of the Washington, D.C. lobbying firm J.M. Burkman & Assoc. who is seeking to ban gays from the NFL, says he intends to build a national coalition to boycott any football franchise that picks openly gay football player Michael Sam in the NFL Draft, which starts Thursday at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. 

In a release issued Thursday, Burkman said he would "leverage his political clout" to ensure that the franchise that selects the 6-foot-2, 260-pound defensive end from Missouri would get "roughed up financially." 

"We shall exercise our First Amendment rights and shall not stop until the drafting NFL franchise cannot sell a single ticket, jersey or autographed football," said Burkman. "In short, we shall be relentless."

Threatening financial ruin for a football team that drafts a gay player, how Christian of them.

Miami Dolphins safety Don Jones took to Twitter to express his outrage over Sam's recruitment, including the hug and kiss which accompanied it, and has now been fined and forced to undergo "educational training."

Other conservatives are just pissed that Michale Sam is getting all kinds of love, while openly Christian Tim Tebow was mocked for his faith.

"@livinglegend_44: Y'all praise Michael Sam for being gay but y'all mocked Tim Tebow for being a Christian. Smh #Society" the realest spoke
— Brandon J White (@OvaTimePodcast) May 11, 2014

Of course the fact that you are born gay, and you choose to be a Christian, seems to be lost on this crowd. As is the that there are tons of openly Christian football players, but most are not as obnoxious at Tebow was about it.

Of course some, like our good friend Andrew Sullivan, had an entirely different take:

Here’s what that embrace and kiss meant to me. It meant that Sam is not afraid, and neither is Vito, his boyfriend. There are no double standards here or special exceptions. If Sam were with a girlfriend, the scene would be utterly banal, if still beautiful. It helps that they are so young – because they are not yet old enough to have their minds clogged with qualifications, warnings, worries. They just respond as two people in love. In that moment, the hug matters more than the kiss; and the faces more than the hug. Look at Vito in the video as he waits for and absorbs the news. The anxiety, the trepidation, the concern for his partner: this is what love looks like.

We must remember that there was a time when the first African American played on a white team. A first time a woman was able to vote in an election. And the first time that a non-Christian was elected to public office in America. There is an ideological thread which connects all of those who spoke out against each of these landmarks.

I am sure you can identify it quite easily.

Awesome response by local Dallas sportscaster concerning the possibility of the NFL drafting its first openly gay player.

Damn, now that was awesome!

New Pope has no problem with "teh gays." Really?

Courtesy of the BBC:  

Speaking to reporters on a flight back from Brazil, he reaffirmed the Roman Catholic Church's position that homosexual acts were sinful, but homosexual orientation was not. "If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge him?"

Is this a trick?

Well assuming it's not this could in fact be a big deal. Especially since whether they admit it or not a lot of OTHER Christian groups take their lead from the Catholics, and that includes their stance on abortion, birth control, as well as homophobia.

So the Pope saying this could have a significant effect on the acceptance of homosexuality around the world moving forward.

However before you get TOO excited the Pope is not quite ready to push the church into the 21st Century on all fronts.  

On the role of women in the Church, he said: "We cannot limit the role of women in the Church to altar girls or the president of a charity, there must be more. 

"But with regards to the ordination of women, the Church has spoken and says no... That door is closed."

So there you have it. Yes to being less homophobic, but as for women wanting to become priests they can just fuck off.

Gee I wonder how this news will effect this guy?

The good news for homophobes is that homosexuality is not contagious, the bad news is that stupidity apparently is.

Courtesy of Real Clear Science:  

There are many straight people in this country who suffer from a closeted (or even open) fear that homosexuality is contagious, that merely befriending a gay or lesbian person or being near one will cause a straight individual to sprout a same-sex attraction. 

But a large study recently published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior may help dispel that fear. Analyzing the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, a long term-study conducted from 1994 to 2002 of a nationally representative sample of 90,118 students in Grades 7-12, researchers from the U.S. and the U.K. found that same-sex attraction does not spread in adolescent peer groups.

Of course this is the underlying fear of those who are terrified of gay teachers in the classroom, can't stand the idea of gay people getting married, and who believe that the acceptance of homosexuality as relatively normal will usher in some sort of national Sodom and Gomorrah.

Now most of us did not need to read this study to recognize that those fears were unfounded, but that is because WE tend to think logically. And we are likely straight, or out of the closet gays.

As we have noted before homophobic people often have latent homosexual urges which they constantly have to struggle with to keep suppressed and unnoticed by their peers.

They are so aggressively against the idea of homosexuality gaining a sense of normalcy because that would make it just that much harder to suppress their own.  And the idea that homosexuality is contagious seems reasonable to them because the more they are exposed to "teh gay" the more their own "sinful" thoughts bubble to the surface.

However, as this study proves, the facts are that if you are gay, then you are gay regardless of how hard you try to suppress it, and if you are straight, then your love of showtunes is simply bad taste in music.

That is why the so-called "gay agenda" has never been about making other people gay, it has always been about allowing those who ARE gay to learn to love themselves and realize that they do not have to hide who they are anymore. 

This just in, Virginia is definitely NOT for lovers! Not good lovers anyway.

"About this big. Why do you ask?"

Courtesy of Slate:  

Ken Cuccinelli wants to keep kids safe from sexual predators by banning oral and anal sex—between consenting adults. On a website his campaign just launched, Cuccinelli, the Republican candidate for governor in Virginia, paints himself as the only real protector of children, because of his efforts as Virginia attorney general to reinstate a law banning all naked fun-time acts besides vaginal intercourse. 

Cuccinelli's claim is that only by reinstating the Crimes Against Nature law, which Cuccinelli dishonestly calls the "Anti-Child Predators Law," can the state of Virginia prosecute people who rape children. Never mind that rape is already illegal, child molestation is already illegal, and statutory rape is already illegal. His website says that a full 90 sexual predators may come off the sex offenders registry (the site is vague on how) if oral and anal sex isn't banned outright for everyone, a claim that hopefully will remind voters that enforcing such a law would mean that adults having consensual sex in their bedrooms could become "sex offenders" if they're caught. 

That is absolutely insane.  That is like attempting to curtail drunk driving by outlawing the use of fifth gear.

Like the article says it is ALREADY illegal to have sex with minors so all he would be doing is making sex for adults really boring.

But of course we know the REAL focus of this law. Teh gays.

You see in Cuccinelli's view of reality he believes that making oral and anal sex against the law, a law by the way that he could NEVER enforce, he can stop those "homosectuals" from getting their freak on and possibly making little baby queers. (Oh yeah, he undoubtedly thinks that gays are produced from gay sex.)

All I have to say is that if this law WERE to pass then Virginia would have to change it's motto from "Virginia, a place for lovers" to:

GOP Chairwoman warns that straight couples will get gay married if legislation passes. WTF?

Don't I appear relatively sane to you?

Courtesy of TPM:

Sue Everhart, chairwoman of the Georgia Republican Party, told the Marietta Daily Journal in a story published Saturday that once gay nuptials are legally permitted, there will be nothing to stop a straight person from exploiting the system in order to claim marital benefits. 

“You may be as straight as an arrow, and you may have a friend that is as straight as an arrow,” Everhart said. “Say you had a great job with the government where you had this wonderful health plan. I mean, what would prohibit you from saying that you’re gay, and y’all get married and still live as separate, but you get all the benefits? I just see so much abuse in this it’s unreal. I believe a husband and a wife should be a man and a woman, the benefits should be for a man and a woman. There is no way that this is about equality. To me, it’s all about a free ride.” 

Everhart also expressed a distaste for homosexuality, which she argued is unnatural. 

“Lord, I’m going to get in trouble over this, but it is not natural for two women or two men to be married,” Everhart said. “If it was natural, they would have the equipment to have a sexual relationship.”

Wait a minute. Wasn't this the plot to an Adam Sandler movie?

Yes, yes it was.

I put off posting this yesterday because I was convinced that it must be an April Fool's joke. But nope, this actually how crazy the Republican leaderhsip is in Georgia.

By the way on that whole not having the equipment for a sexual relationship? Yeah, pretty sure this woman does not have a clear understanding of gay sex. Nor the advancements that science has made in the field of sexual accoutrements.

Russell Brand tries to play nice with members of the Westboro "God Hates Fags" Church.

It kind of took me awhile to warm up to Russell Brand (I found his voice a little annoying) but after I saw him in the movies "Get Him to the Greek" and "Arthur" I really started to appreciate him more.

However after seeing how genuinely kind and patient he is with these two UNBELIEVABLE assholes I now feel badly that it took me so long to appreciate him.

Do me a favor and tell me how long it took before you wanted to jump into the video and tell these two douchebags off. (I would have ripped them a new one the minute they walked out with this horribly insulting sign.)

This should start your day off right. The Boston Gay Men's Chorus sings "Every Sperm is Sacred."

I LOVE it when the woman doing sign language walks over to protest, and gets shooed back over to her spot on stage.

Absolutely brilliant.!

Investigative reporter visits Bachmann and Associates, to determine if their "therapeutic" interventions to rid clients of their "gayness" were legal. Wanna guess what he found?

Here are the highlights that John Becker reported back after attending several sessions to expunge his "gayness.".

• I was advised to find a heterosexual “accountability buddy” as I struggled to increase my attraction to women and decrease my attraction to men. I was to confide in, pray with, and be held accountable to this person.
• Bachmann & Associates sells a book written by Twin Cities minister and self-proclaimed “ex-lesbian” Janet Boynes. This book chronicles her supposed journey “out of the lesbian lifestyle.” Next to the stack of books was a prominently-displayed, typewritten note that read, “Janet is a friend. I recommend this book as she speaks to the heart of the matter and gives practical insights of truth to set people free. – Marcus Bachmann, PhD.”
• I pretended to have just told my brother that I was seeking counseling to help me deal with homosexuality. My brother’s (fictitious) response was that I should just come out, because a person can be happy and gay and still go to heaven. My therapist said that my brother “didn’t choose his words wisely.”
• I mentioned Marcus Bachmann’s by then well-publicized remarks calling gays “barbarians” who “need to be educated.” “Am I a barbarian?” I said through tears. Rather than contradict his boss’ words, Wiertzema opted to doubt the authenticity of the recording I had heard: “It sounds like… something that someone just did. It doesn’t sound accurate.”
• Several sessions after asking for information about “ex-gay”-friendly churches, programs, and support groups, Wiertzema passed along a colleague’s referral to Outpost Ministries, a Robbinsdale, MN-based “founding member ministry” of the discredited “ex-gay” group Exodus International.
• I mentioned the marriage equality ruling in New York and the possibility that some of my close gay friends might now get married. When I asked him for advice on whether or not I should attend any future same-sex weddings, he acknowledged that it was a tough and highly personal decision, but if he were in my situation he wouldn’t go – at least not without a heterosexual accountability buddy in tow. When I expressed concern for the well-being of my gay, soon-to-be-married friends’ eternal souls and asked if they could go to heaven, Wiertzema reassured me that indeed they could, “if they repent before the Lord and are right with God, later on.” When I sought clarification as to whether or not he meant they would need to turn away from homosexuality first, he responded in the affirmative.

Based on my experiences at Bachmann & Associates, there can no longer be any doubt that Marcus Bachmann’s state- and federally-funded clinic endorses and practices reparative therapy aimed at changing a gay person’s sexual orientation, despite the fact that such “therapy” is widely discredited by the scientific and medical communities. It’s time for Michele and Marcus Bachmann to stop denying, dodging, and stonewalling. They owe it to all Americans to provide a full and honest explanation for their embrace of these dangerous and fraudulent practices.

Becker is right,  Bachmann and Associates have received  over $137,000 in Medicaid payments to their clinic since 2005.  If they are receiving this money while providing widely discredited therapy, they are in fact defrauding the government. Which they must be since homosexuality is NOT defined as a mental illness. And isn't THIS guy married to the batshit crazy GOP Presidential candidate who is constantly  badmouthing government spending?

And it is not like the fact that these homosexual to heterosexual therapy sessions not working is anything NEW.  Hell the Daily Show was openly mocking them ten years ago.

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That is exactly how this "therapy" should be treated, as a joke. However, sadly, it is a joke which can do real, permanent harm to those who have been subjected to it.

Is there any problem the folks from Star Trek did not see coming, and don't already have a solution for?

Brilliant!

I have to admit I was surprised when George Takei came out.  I did not pick him as the gay Star Trek crew member.

I figured it had to be Kirk.  I mean come on, he was forever taking off his shirt to show off his lightly oiled torso, that is if he wasn't overcompensating with every green or purple woman who happened by.

According to Pat Robertson women are having abortions so that the lesbians don't get all of the good jobs. Go ahead and read that again, it still won't make any damn sense.

Okay how big is the lesbian work force in this country?  And how come they hate babies so much?

"Think about it a little bit ladies and gentlemen."  Well I did Pat, and my conclusion is that it is past time to get your medication adjusted.

Listen Christians, you need to kick this guy out of the club.  Trust me, he is doing you NO favors.

(H/T to Wonkette.)

Lawmakers in Tennessee seem to believe that nobody would ever grow up to be gay just as long as they don't hear the word "gay."

Courtesy of Knoxville News:

After some convoluted maneuvers, a Senate committee Wednesday approved a bill that will prohibit teachers from discussing homosexuality in kindergarten through eighth-grade classrooms.

The measure (SB49) is sponsored by Sen. Stacey Campfield, R-Knoxville, who unsuccessfully pushed the same idea - nicknamed the "don't say gay" bill - for six years as a member of the state House before he was elected to the Senate.

As introduced, the bill would have put into law a declaration that it is illegal to discuss any sexual behavior other than heterosexuality prior to the ninth grade.

This is what happens when you allow science resistant Republicans to create legislation.

You know hearing your parents constantly repeat the word "ni**er" could make you a racist. And hearing your father call women "whores" or "bimbos" might make you a sexist. But hearing your kindergarten teacher say the word "gay" is not going to suddenly make you want to blow the guy napping on the next cot over.

People do not become gay because somebody says the word within earshot. But a gay teenager struggling to understand their sexuality might not feel overwhelming shame if they are not raised to believe it is a dirty, sinful word.

And sometimes that shame can be fatal:

Suicide attempts by gay teenagers — and even straight teens — are more common in politically conservative areas that lack school programs supporting gay rights, a study involving nearly 32,000 high school students found.

Those factors were a substantial influence on suicide attempts even when known risk contributors like depression and being bullied were considered, said study author Mark Hatzenbuehler, a Columbia University psychologist and researcher. The study was published online today in the journal Pediatrics.

Hatzenbuehler’s team found a higher rate of suicide attempts even among youths who were not bullied or depressed when they lived in counties less supportive of gays and with relatively few Democrats. A high proportion of Democrats was a measure used as a proxy for a more liberal environment.

I can tell you from experience that discovering your child is gay is NOT the end of the world.

However losing that same child to suicide just might be.

Here is a little educational video for you to show to your homophobic friends.

Take notes all my gay friends out there, because believe me this will be information you will need for the rest of your life.

You CANNOT have too much humor on a Monday morning.

Well, I thought it was funny.

He probably just needs to go to one of those "Pray Away the Gay" camps.

Okay is it just me, or is this guy absolutely adorable?