We didn't do Queerty Rebuttal last week because we were still awestruck by God's special contribution that we couldn't find the mental strength to sift through your lovely comments and respond.

Also, we forgot.

Never fear, though, because we've remembered this week. Sure, it may have been a short week for us Queertians, but we still managed to bait some doozies.

Read our selections, after the jump...

• Let's start with a story from earlier today, shall we? This morning we wrote on "ex-gay" preacher man James Hartline's harangue against alt-preacher man Marc Brown's pro-gay sermon (James Hartline Unleashed Torrent of Senselessness). While we didn't mention it in the post, Hartline's HIV positive - the result of drugging and sexing during his days as a gay man. A knowledgable and spiteful chap, reader dizzy spin wrote:

AIDS isnt God's revenge on homosexuals--its his revenge on ex-gay assholes like Hartline. I hope whatever cocktail he's on fails utterly and he dies a painful, drawn-out death.

Now, dizzy, that's no way to talk. No matter how vile, misguided and just plain sickening a person may be, you really don't want them to die of AIDS. That's a terrible thing to say. We'd prefer, "May James Hartline be half-devoured by rabid cannibals from outerspace. Realizing he's a stringy motherfucker, may the aforementioned alient cannibals leave his body to rot in the hot summer sun, under which he'll bake for an inordinate amount of time before passing into oblivion."

• While Hartline may have escaped his gay demons, fifteen men in Knoxville are looking for ways to escape prison time. In a story ingeniously entitled, Fifteen Arrested for "Indecent Exposure", we directed you to a story about the crackdown on men getting their jollies in a public park. It wasn't the arrests themselves that caught our attention, but the archaic, blatantly slanted reporting in which the men were not only named, but made to be some pack of roving sexual beasts.

We're so pleased with the responses to this one, but we're especially intrigued by a comment left by poodle:

...there is no reason for closeted men or out gay men to be having sex in parks. there are bars and places to meet men and then find a discreet location. it isn't 1970 anymore and attitudes have changed. there are no longer raids on establishments that cater to our community. these people do us all an injustice by parading through the parks... how sad and tragic for them and now for us as a result of their actions.

We agree to a certain extent. It's nice to think that all men and women can muster the gumption to hit up gay bars, but we must remember that some people are so crippled by shame (and disgust) over their sexuality that they simply cannot bring themselves to cross the queer threshholds.

And, of course, some people like doing it in nature. Plus they can just take a piss behind a tree afterward and call it a night.

• Speaking of piss - we sure did piss people off with our post on Archbishop Peter Akinola (Spending Christmas with Archbishop Peter Akinola), including a man of god named Father Phil Swickard. Here's what he had to say:

Peter Akinola gets his stuff from heaven and is sharing it with us people on earth.

Unfortunately you get your stuff from Satan.

At his death, he goes up. You can too, if you get rid of Satan, in Jesus name, and turn your life over to Christ.

Um, thanks for the offer, Father Swickard, but we'd really rather not. We're afraid of heights. Besides, all off our friends are going to hell and we've never been very good with strangers.

• In response to this morning's Morning Goods (Mat Gordon), a reader named Adrian wrote:

I love morning goods but how come more times than not the goods are white meat? How about a hot blatino?!!! Yum,! Maybe a few more Asian guys? And I know fags are racists and all but some of us like dark meat too. The last brotha on the goods was Tupac! How about a little Tyson Beckford?

We understand, Adrian - we really do. Basically, here's the problem: we'd love to feature more men of color, but we have a really difficult time finding pictures of them. For example, we've been dying to do Mos Def, but the selection's limited. We can't very well put up the cover for New Danger and call it a day.

So, let's strike a deal: if you guys want to select some MG men and send us the pictures, we'll gladly post. Going through our sources, it's rare that we find men of color. Why? Well, because the Hollywood and the fashion world's prefer crackers. It sucks, yes, but it's the truth.

As for Tyson Beckford, Taye Diggs and other notable black hotties. We've done them before. If we repeat them, we get hate emails from people. But, when we post a white boy, we still get hate letters. The only solution, then, is for you guys to send us suggestions. Otherwise no one's happy. Especially us.

Okay, that's all for now, lovelies. Have a good New Year's Eve and all that jazz. We'll be back on the second of January.

xoxo,
Queerty