East Coast Gay-Off?

The still too close to call mayor's race in Atlanta has turned, well, fabulous. With gay people compromising over 12 percent of the vote in Atlanta, there is a race to be the more gay candidate. It's time for you to decide:

Mary Norwood (left), Kasim Reed (right)

Mary is pro gay marriage while Kasim would only like to see civil unions. It's nice to see that even though America is violently homophobic sometimes that there are still some places where it's good to be gay.

So, it's up to you, who is more gay?

(via The L.A. Times)

Texas Bans Marriage

I guess I'm being something of a gay rights activist today, but this one is too funny to pass up. In an attempt to prevent gay people from getting married, Texas lawmakers may have inadvertently banned all marriage in the state. I guess that's Texas for you.

The clause in question says that "marriage in this state shall consist only of the union of one man and one woman." Ok, on point so far, moving on. "This state or a political subdivision of this state may not create or recognize any legal status identical or similar to marriage." Oops, the state can't recognize anything identical to marriage? Hmm, what is identical to marriage. Oh, that's right, marriage.

The apparent intention of this badly worded clause was to prevent civil unions and domestic partnerships for same sex partners. It does that, but they went a little too broad. So Texans, until this constitutional amendment can be repealed or changed, no marriages for anyone. Thank Greg Abbott for his mistake.

(via Miami Herald)

Homophobes Boycott Scholastic

I think gay bigotry has reached an all time high. These crazies are boycotting an entire publisher (Scholastic Books) over one book, that doesn't have anything to do with gay people. They are boycotting because one of the four main characters happens to have lesbian parents. The book, "Love Ya Bunches" is targeted toward 9-12 year olds. Which of course makes it all the worse, we wouldn't want our children to not be bigots.

This is the product description from Amazon:

What do Katie-Rose, Yasaman, Milla, and Violet all have in common? Other than being named after flowers, practically nothing. Katie-Rose is a film director in training. Yasaman is a computer whiz. Milla is third in command of the A list. And Violet is the new girl in school. They’re fab girls, all of them, but they sure aren’t friends. And if evil queen bee Medusa— ’scuse me, Modessa—has her way, they never will be. But this is the beginning of a new school year, when anything can happen and social worlds can collide . . .

Told in Lauren Myracle’s inventive narrative style—here a fresh mix of instant messages, blog posts, screenplay, and straight narrative—Luv Ya Bunches, the first in a four-book series, is a funny, honest depiction of the shifting alliances and rivalries that shape school days, and of the lasting friendships that blossom from the skirmishes.

Where is the pro-gay message? How homophobic do you have to be to scour through all of the books your children read, paranoid about gay characters. Of course, these people see the secret gay agenda behind Scholastic Books:

Clearly, homosexual activists recognize the potential Scholastic Books has to transform the views of impressionable children.

Clearly. I agree, children are impressionable to being "nice" and recognizing everyone as "equal". We have to work together while they're young to turn them into little hate filled bigots, just like their parents.

The rest of the message lists the way you can contact Scholastic Books and harass them. I sincerely hope Scholastic doesn't back down on this one.

Christians Pro "Hate Crimes"

A couple of weeks ago, President Obama passed the new hate crimes law "Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act". Christians are screaming foul. They say this violates their first amendment rights. Your first amendment right to hate people? I think I missed that one.

As protest, Christians held a rally, quoting bible verses such as "And they that commit such things are worthy of death." I wonder if Jesus would be out there protesting loving people. Jesus must have said something about homosexuality being wrong. Oh wait, he didn't. Go home Christians.

(via WorldNetDaily)