Oh, btw…why don’t you stuff that oar handle up your ass and navigate your gondola to romance at it’s finest?

Who knows? You might even find that it is the “stuff” that dreams are made of?

A perusal of your site revealed the following information.

The Gondolas at Newport Beach

“Romantic, relaxing, exclusive… Cruise through spectacular Newport Harbor in one of the World’s most beautiful gondolas. Create a memory with that special someone as you glide silently through quaint canals guided by a charming gondolier.

This is romance at its finest.

Tradition dictates that couples kiss under every bridge. Greeting others in Italian as they pass by is encouraged and enjoying life to its fullest is a requirement.

The gondolas are stunning…

The sunsets on the water breathtaking…

The mood perfect…

This is the stuff that dreams are made of.”

Sounds absolutely charming. However, given that I only saw a picture of a man and a woman sitting in one of your stunning goldolas, I could not help but wonder if “Tradition” also motivates Gondola.com to encourage two men or two women occupying one of your gondolas to kiss under every bridge or would that be “prohibito”?

“But what happens when those who “stoop low” to help the “uneducated” find that the “ignorant” masses reject the lessons of their betters? What happens when, say, the minority vote makes up a large percentage of the voting electorate that defeated Proposition 8 in California?

Rage. Blinding, ugly, disgusting rage.”

By all means. Do nominate Mortimer Snerd to run for our next president. I mean, the religious populace is already so dumbed-down by our illustrious Mr. Bush and the Prick-Rick crowd that he would, no doubt, win by a landslide.

It’s rants like this, made by blind, ignorant people like you, portraying yourselves as the “victims” of this rage, that you folks created btw, that have no business being on a gay site like Queerty or any other gay site for that matter.

What exactly is it that you are attempting to find on these sites that you cannot find on one of your “girly” sites?

Pictures of pretty gay boys to masturbate to perhaps?

It is NOT the rage of gays that is blinding ugly and disgusting. It is your hateful, denigrating words that are blinding, ugly and disgusting, Sir!

Freedom of religion may be a right protected by the constitution, but when that religion advocates the freedom to discriminate, it crosses the line between protected rights and taking advantage of them.

I despise the mormons. Their religion is nothing more than a cult, and I cannot wait until the downfall of the LDS church.

This self-image is zealously guarded and maintained…it seems a psychological necessity–in the face of cold hard facts that belie it–namely that the “poor” are generally quite conservative…especially when it comes to religion. Few things irk the liberal soul more than this glaring truth. They deal with it in a variety of ways. The emphasis on “awareness” and “sensitivity training” among liberals is, I think, one outgrowth of this concern. The problem, they persuade themselves, is not that liberalism/revisionism is bankrupt and unworkable (and therefore unpopular), it is just that people are “uneducated”…they have yet to be enlightened…they still are too ignorant to “get it” but once they do we can take our proper roles as the people’s vanguard.

The thrust of this particular vanity tends to run headlong into just the sort of paternalism, racial and otherwise, that they claim to despise and oppose…bearing in many ways a quite distinct similarity with the infamous “white man’s burden”…

But what happens when those who “stoop low” to help the “uneducated” find that the “ignorant” masses reject the lessons of their betters? What happens when, say, the minority vote makes up a large percentage of the voting electorate that defeated Proposition 8 in California?

Rage. Blinding, ugly, disgusting rage.

Hillary DID talk about gay RIGHTS in speeches, e.g., at the annual Jefferson Jackson Dinner in Iowa in front of THOUSANDS of STRAIGHT people. True, not as often as your Massa er Messiah simply dropped the G-word and had little girls like you wetting your Day-of-the-Week panties. He NEVER NEVER NEVER talked about gay AND gay rights in the same breath [or, as you put it, "our issues"]except when asked questions in interviews or debates and Hillary [and Edwards and the other Dems] did, too. The pre-released transcript of his thank you remarks to Ted Kennedy when they were to announce TK’s endorsement of him had no reference to gays, but he, sly as a fox, slippery as a snake, inserted some ex temp after TK included gays in his remarks BEFORE O spoke. Likewise, NOWHERE in O’s official 80-some page “Blueprint for America,” that was distributed at his rallies, as well as available online, was there one sentence, one word about “our issues.”

Hillary has attended HRC events IN ADDITION TO the Logo event. Your Massa just sends Mrs. Massa. Hillary marched in New York City’s gay pride parade EVEN WHEN SHE WAS STILL FIRST LADY, and then as Senator…photographed, videotaped, for all the world [and homophobic potential voters] to see! I could find NO instance of even Mrs. Massa doing that in Chicago or anywhere else. But those not willingly fooled enough do recall Massa himself refusing to be even photographed with SF Mayor Gavin Newsom even at fundraisers Newsom held for him when he was running for US Senate because he was clearly afraid to be branded by association with Newsom’s support for gay marriage.

All candidates had homophobes who supported them but Hillary never asked one to headline a campaign event for her. Massa not only did that but REFUSED to disinvite Donnie “Gays are trying to kill our children” McClurkin from pimping votes for him when BEGGED to by gays both black and white.

In short, what you and a few other fools are calling an overreaction to Warren’s invite misses the point that, as it were, this is not the first time Massa has fucked us over, disrepected us, told us essentially to go fuck ourselves. Even if he hadn’t, what part of the insanity, the indignity, the tolerance of intolerance do you not get from him having awarded the equivalent of the Oscar of Public Piety to a “Hollow Man [who] has no internal locus of control because he MUST fill it with hatred, his book of myths and his lust for Jesus”? One has to be a pretty hopeless Obama Troll to see one and not the other.

What is getting TIRESOME is the remix of the Magic Negro, to the HOUSE version the “HAPPY HOMO.”

Go G*D DAMN tap dance at the Inaugural.

Oh right, Obama stabbed us in the back, blah blah blah….poor us! What a bunch of drama queens you people are.

Would you rather have John McCain and Sarah Palin in control for the next 4 years? Why didn’t you just vote for them?

Later on the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton never once uttered the words gay and lesbian in any general speeches.

In sharp contrast, Barack Obama willingly and easily discussed GLBT issues from that point ONWARD. In speeches given to straight audiences, Obama continuously spoke about our issues. To the tune of tens of thousands of listeners. Indeed, I was at a Lambda Legal event in Chicago where Michelle Obama came and spoke to an audience made up of MOSTLY gay and lesbian supporters. I was there.

The contrast was clear, evident and made sense. Barack Obama was willing to speak for us. There was no good evidence that Hillary was our person. NONE WHATSOEVER. Don’t tell me the opposite, because I was there and witnessed a minimum of two events in person that told me that Obama was the man and Hillary was NOT.

Those irate bitches with their icepicks that now are screeching about how we should have picked Hillary are grasping at girl-straws. She did NOT tell us she was going to support us. She DID NOT. DID NOT. EVER. NEVER to my face. Never in my presence.

So, let’s talk about the Inauguration. Warren’s address will be a 3 minute ‘plea to god’. Nothing more. He will not be given a cabinet position. He will not sleep in the WH. He will not have the number to the red phone. Warren is a mythologist extraordinaire and nothing more. He is a charlatan. And he’s very good at what he does – which is pull the wool over people’s eyes.

Indeed, Warren has tens of thousands of people duped with his current brand of Christianity. He managed to dupe Obama and his staff. Warren is a master at the game of ‘I’ll dazzle them with g0d bullshit’. These charlatans do it all the time.

YOUR task, dear readers, is to understand that. Your task is to extract yourself from the religion mindf*ck and step back to see this invocation for what it is. A THREE MINUTE STOP UNDER THE LIMELIGHT.

Warren only hurts you if you choose to let him. Since I know that Warren is a charlatan he hurts me not one bit. I know his game. I understand he is a Hollow Man. He has no internal locus of control because he MUST fill it with hatred, his book of myths and his lust for Jesus.

Get it? The man is a NOBODY because he has no soul. If you have one, you will forgive Obama for this first big political mistake and take away from this experience something bigger than Warren could ever muster: FAITH. Real faith that to win big you must always fight. Justice is never given on a silver platter. You must continue to fight for justice.

And, the best thing to come away with is this: Warren represents the end of his dinosaur era. His era is almost over. Keep fighting so that you can see the look on his face when all of his soulless hate-filled words are spit back at him. It’s just around the corner.

>> Never heard that.. but have heard people say..
>> That’s mighty white of you..

“That’s mighty Taliban of you” is a common Pashto phrase (but oddly,
not used in Dari Persian, the other major Afghan language.)

In Pashto that would be:

Hamágha luy Talibani sta.

It also seems to have been used until the 1950s in English royal
circles to hail an evening of abandoned homosexual activity:

“Their Majesties enjoyed a gay evening at the Apollo Theatre and were
graciously pleased to allow the director, Mr. Oscar Wilde ( a
notorious Irish sodomite), to entertain them.”

Taking turns pawing Lord Alfred Douglas, no doubt – filthy beasts!
What a pity Unki’s great-grandfather wasn’t there to parade the
famous, alabaster family buttocks around – Unki might have been Lord
Tallaght today and persona non grata at the Palace for having slipped
a length or ten to the Royal Wives of Windsor – Di, Fergie, Ann, Zara,
Sarah Chatto… all tasteful alabaster buttocks fanciers!

Ah, life as it should have been… (Visions of mesel pocketing the
wheesht money to keep Lord Unki de Talaght’s name out of the News of
the World and the Waterford Weekly…)

These religious loonies are like ducks at a shooting gallery.

As fast as you knock one down, another one pops up. :-(

Thanks for the input, but even if Queerty is writing a narrow list of homophobes, I think the Warren connection to African homophobes bears wider dissemination — just trying to do my part.

The Kern Krew is a sad collection of some very sick puppies who relish the pain of others in order to exorcise the demons that inhabit their own little bit of skull space.

They’ve never matured to an adult level of acceptance of sexual or religious privacy. Kern’s Krew is a collection of Peeping Toms, looking for what arouses them, be it sacred or secular.

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My mother is not comfortable with my level of vehemence toward organized religions. I guess she made the mistake of raising me with an open enough mind to think for–and to defend–myself. I see it as an act of self preservation and defense. Why should I not attack someone (or organizations) that repeatedly attack me? Being nice and polite only goes so far. How many times can we get kicked down and stand back up with a polite smile? Our bodies and minds are finite (not like fables, parables, and fairy tales).

If you want to defend your religion as a good and wholesome organization you can be more visible and loud (and encourage others) explaining your views. If the more moderate and progressive religions (the only religions that I respect) would somehow be more loud and belligerent and steer the national discussions in their direction I might not be as willing to quickly discount anyone who openly and quickly identify themselves as ‘religious’ as ignorant quacks. …isn’t it funny how the faster someone identifies themselves in a conversation as ‘religious’ the crazier they seem to be…

Good luck

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Dude be real, as much as I LOVE Queerty, they ain’t gonna right an essay that will win them a distinction! I’m not being rude…it’s news but bitesize and fast. And also ‘narrow’ in terms of resource time to research the exact details or what not…

So in answer to your statement. It’s longer. Much f**king longer. Queerty have touched on nothing. Iran pres is well known which is wht he is there. This would have been a US fest of what they know.

Don’t take this for the world news against homophobia…

:(

POZ room of gay.com

BTW which website did you meet your partner on? :)

Maybe you just aren’t be able to use the internet very well, I met my lover online 6 years ago.

Homophobe of the Year: The Internet!

What is he doing here anyway? I mean he can read what he wants of course, but to post in such a way….at first I thought you (CM) might have been too rough, but you weren’t rough enough on Ed!

Ed, you’re a moron. If your faith or principles mean anything, you always speak up for what is right. You don’t let the bad apples on either side keep YOU from doing what you know to be true and correct. THINK ABOUT IT.

I enjoyed your post, Leland. Much of what you state is true. And while I am bitterly disappointed by Obama, I will withhold my final determination about him until he has been sworn in and given a chance to exercise his powers either for or against the LGBT community.

Personally, I don’t think Obama can do any more harm to us, than the disastrous team of McCain/Palin would have. They and the Republican party have demonstrated far more hostility toward the LGBT community than Obama or the Democrats. But, we shall see. As the old adage goes, “The proof is in the pudding”.

I went to the link that TikiHead posted. I have seen several similar articles about Dr. Warren’s ass-kissing antics with Peter Akinola of Nigeria. The anti-gay words that this scumbag spoke there are now as well-known as the toned-down homophobia he spouts here in the U.S.

In my not so politically correct time, we had a name for men like this. Prick!

Dr [Rick] Warren said that homosexuality is not a natural way of life and thus not a human right. “We shall not tolerate this aspect at all,” Dr Warren said.

Oh, really now? Izzatso?

Dr. Rick could also say that people who are incapable of bearing children for physical and medical reasons is not a natural way of life an thus not a human right.

He could say that being an Albino is not a natural way of life and thus not a human right.

He could say that being a midget is also not a natural way of life and thus not a human right.

In fact, Dr. Warren could apply his twisted logic to any minority group of people that he chooses to set his sites on and state emphatically that “We shall not tolerate this aspect at all.”

Lacking any empirical knowledge of the true workings of nature, would this ignoramus also feel justified in the taking away the rights of the above named groups of people as we just witnessed in California and for which he recently highly praised Peter Akinola in Nigeria?

Simply because this man has a “Doctor” preceding his name, does not make him more knowledgeable than biologists, scientists and psychologists, educated in their respective fields and who have devoted their lives to the study of the human condition for hundred of years and concluded that homosexuality is, in fact, a completely natural way of life that exists and is practiced across the entire broad spectrum of all animal life forms on the planet.

Without empirical evidence with which to challenge the findings of these learned people, Dr. Warren believes, among other childish and idiotic notions, that he knows more about the human condition than anyone else, based of course, on a moldy, Draconian book of loony tunes and merry melodies, written by a bunch of lunatics from the dark ages who claim to know everything, but have no scientific facts to back-up any of their bullshit.

But then, what can we expect of people who believe in sky-daddies, angels, heavenly choirs and miracles, who also believe the world was created some five or six thousand years ago and that the “creation” of Adam and Eve, wearing fig leaves that magically stay in place without support, was the first, actual, recorded marriage performed by God, in the garden of Eden, next to a tree bearing forbidden fruit and from whose branches hung a lecherous snake who attended this momentous occasion. while a heavenly choir, accompanied by a sextet of harps sang, “Here Comes the Bridge” in the background?

Note:

Only choirs and harps are permitted in heaven. Pipe organs are simply much too heavy for the diaphenous floors of heaven to support.

“Every time I read an article from the GLBT community slamming my church, it gets a little more difficult for me to support their rights.”

And every time we read an article from the Church slamming gays, it gets a little more difficult for us to support their rights.

It’s a two-way street, dude.

Get over feeling “bashed”, Ed. It’s a fact of life we gays have had to live with for ages. Why should the Church get to have all the fun…and while being exempted from taxes to do so.

I mean, your Church gets to keep all that money you collect from it’s sucke….er, flock and then use it to strip the LGBT community of their civil-rights.

Who’s the real “victim” here, the Church (you) or the LGBT community? Tell your fucking Church, whatever denomination it it is, to stop slamming gays and you won’t hear another peep from us.

The ball’s in your court.

Or history didn’t exist prior to those under 30 being born apparently….

LDS elders went out of their way to attack LGBT families and make them the one minority who’s Constitutional Rights are excluded by the equal protection clause. LDS wrote prop 8, got it placed on the CA ballot, funded 4 of every 5 dollars,canvassed neighborhoods, and attempted to extort $10,000.oo in letters to No on prop 8 donors,(A FELONY with 4 yr sentence and thousand in fines.)
LDS OWNS prop 8, and they also OWN the backlash.
btw….half my family are Mormons (none are devout Mormons.)

SILENCE OF GOOD “FRIENDS”

“In March three Mormon missionaries in Colorado desecrated a Roman Catholic shrine…” Not true. First, whatever did happen occurred years ago, not in March. Second, it is unclear whether the missionaries did the desecration or they used poor judgment in taking sacrilegious pictures with the relics.

“Catholic officials to retaliate by preventing Mormons from accessing parish genealogical records Mormon church leaders use in their practice of baptizing the dead.” Not true. You are trying to link two events that occurred in different dioceses. Anyone that knows the least bit about how the Catholic Church is organized would know you have no idea what you are talking about.

“Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign highlighted the rifts between evangelicals and Mormons.” This is only news to you. The evangelicals have been calling the Mormons “non-Christians” for years. Why? Mormons are baptizing evangelicals into their Church and it is costing the evangelicals money.

“For many there’s no distinction between the Mormon Church and its polygamist offshoots.” And this is one reason Mormons (members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) don’t even try and talk to the GLBT community. The GLBT associates them with the Fundamentalists; calls them bigots, homophobes and blame them for the loss on Proposition 8. This is great for firing up the base and increasing your readership, but it gets you no where in dealing with those that see things differently. Every where there was a gay rights item on the ballot this election, it went down to defeat. This is an election cycle where Democrats where out in force and virtually ran the table. At this time same gender marriage is not seen as mainstream in the US and its not just the Mormons that see it this way.

“You’d be hard pressed to cite another time in recent American history when a religious institution so transparently involved itself in the laws of the land.” Oh my gosh! Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority (1979-1989). It’s size and impact was national and far reaching. This is how we got two terms of Ronald Reagan and gay rights were set back twenty years! How soon they forget.

“What should keep him {Monson} awake is a realization that the Latter Day Saints can’t run national government the way they run Utah’s state government.” Obviously you don’t live in Utah! Mormons are only about 58% of the populous and only half of them are active. The largest newspaper is the Salt Lake Tribune not the Mormon owned Deseret News. If you look at where the Mormons are sending missionaries, you will see that they are not after the US, but world domination.

Gays need to keep in mind that not all Mormons supported Prop 8 and, as you claim the Mormons have “drained much of the goodwill the church had accumulated since 2002,” gays have eroded much of their support from within the LDS Church. I’m embarrassed about what my church did with Prop 8. I’m angry with how the GLBT have spoken about my church since then. Whereas I used to try to persuade people to support gay marriage, I keep my mouth shut and stay out of the discussion now.

The unfortunate truth is that gays have never liked the LDS Church and dislike most churches, and most Americans do not support gay marriage. Let’s be honest, no goodwill was eroded; rather, people were honest with feelings they already had.

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Warren, so simperingly moderate and gay-loving here, shows a different face in Africa, where he can loosen his size 48 belt and let his gay-hate out:

Dr [Rick] Warren said that homosexuality is not a natural way of life and thus not a human right. “We shall not tolerate this aspect at all,” – Kampala Monitor

Tell us for of your extensive experience with little girls having orgasms.

Good.

Get real, while I condemn Obama’s choice of Rick Warren, President-elect Obama is not a vicious, anti-gay fiend. What laws did he try to pass to hurt gays? What executions did he order or permit? You really think Obama has done anything equivalent to Ahmadinejad? Where are the bodies of the dead teenagers to back up your claims?

Obama has made pledges to support the GLBT community with specific laws. Why not give the man a chance to take office before writing him off and condemning him to the Ninth Circle of Homophobic Hell?

Please study the history of the Civil Rights Movement and the complex relationships the movement had with Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson. All four of those presidents took small or giant steps to end American apartheid against people of color. But none of them acted easily. Most were either led or pushed to make the right decisions.