On Thursday President Obama issued a proclamation barring the entry of any immigrant and non-immigrant aliens who organize, participate, attempt, or conspire to “commit war crimes or serious violations of human rights into the U.S..” This includes people who persecute other based on “sexual orientation and gender identity.” The Secretary of State and her designees can decide who can and cannot enter based on their actions (though bigots can still visit if the Secretary decides their entry “furthers the interests of the United States”). Our vote for the first person banned from America: David Bahati, the Ugandan parliamentarian who introduced the ‘Kill the Gays” bill. And can we get Bryan Fischer and Tony Perkins on this list too?
Shannon1981
Can he take Maggie Gallagher, Tony Perkins, Allen West, George Rekkers, Brian Brown, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, and quite a few others and banish them while he’s at it?
o
How about the family members of those people? Gaddafi’s son got into the U.S. and he was a student! Until he left suddenly to fight in the war earlier this year.
Shannon1981
Oh, and let’s not forget the Bachmanns. They are the worst offenders right now with that ex gay clinic they are hoarding state funds to finance.
ewe
start with a bang and bar the pope from entering the US
Jeff
That is certainly ONE way to get rid of the GOP
Nailin Palin
@Jeff: Too bad we can’t get rid of their Evangelical fan base the same way.
Shannon1981
@Nailin Palin: Sheep are nothing without their herders. Ge rid of the herders, and they will go away, too, or at least be quiet and powerless.
Retro
@Nailin Palin: Evangelicals will always hate gays. There’s nothing anyone can do about that.
tjr101
How about Bush’s buddy in Italy, Silvio Berlusconi he’s rabidly anti-gay and while we’re at it investigate the Pope’s record.
rodca
I guess there won’t be a papal visit anytime soon.
Awww @Shannon1981 we can’t ban the Bachmanns. I’ll miss Marcus’ jiggly dancing and dramatic royal poses and thosed pursed lips! Even evangelicals need a gay party boy to liven things up. Well come to think of it maybe a hologram would serve the purpose! 🙂
tyrel
@tjr101:
well he’s a typical hypocrite pedophile
jcknck
What about political officials whose countries support anti-gay legislation? And, where do our Republicans go? And NOM? Will they be deported back to their home country of Crazystan?
Riker
Martin Ssempa would be on the list for sure.
One interesting side effect of this could be United Nations delegates and diplomats from places like Myanmar, People’s Republic of China, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Russia, Chechnya, North Korea, Vietnam, and dozens of other countries who commit human rights atrocities. Hell, Israel and the West Bank would have to be on the list too. So much for talks at Camp David.
Z
As vile as Fischer is, isn’t he a citizen? I don’t think you can just deport him.
zander
lets start with the pope and work are way down. then we wait for the westboro baptist church to go on vacation over seas 🙂 haha. just kidding, we love you wbc <3 and free speech 😛
Thomas
Karl Lagerfeld and probably that Beenie Man fellow
Politically Incorrect Thug
Okay, okay, it looks like the “tolerant” left needs a mirror held up to their hyporcritical opinions yet again. This article is about a ban on incoming individuals, not a fantasy game of “Who can we deported based on my dislike for their politics.” I see the usual suspects you’ve lined up to pick off, but what about immigrants, at whom this is directed? Yes, Mormoms don’t want you to marry, but Muslims want you dead, and as twisted as the logic is, you’d believe a muslim is more your friend than a mormom.
But who am I to spoil your fun? Keep up the hate, it truly becomes you. (and boy, Queerty has been a young gay man’s crash-course in how catty his brothers and sisters can be, I tell ya)
JayKay
@Politically Incorrect Thug:
Muslims are a poor, brown, minority being horribly oppressed by the white, privileged, colonial, cisgender, heteronormative, militant, American patriarchy. Obviously that makes them allies of the QAITBL community.
Aaron
@JayKay: I seriously hope you’re joking.
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BenFrankly
OBAMA IS TOAST…HE’S DONE…..The downside of that is that because Obama is a failure and flim flam man we may end up with a social conservative in the White House. Which would be a disaster and would divide America as never before. Thanks to the liar in chief we may be plunged into the dark ages of social justice for ALL Americans and likely riots in the streets ala stonewall.
Obama will go down in history as the cyanide of presidents – unfortunately he can’t see how he is destroying the country and won’t do the honorable thing and resign.
Riker
@BenFrankly: I think you’re a little off base here. I’m a proud Republican and strongly dislike Obama, but you’re being a tad too hyperbolic for my tastes.
Sebizzar
@Politically Incorrect Thug: Can you agree that the scum family a.k.a. Westboro Phelps be deported?
Ronbo
@Riker: We can’t pre-judge history. However, it is amazing how President Obama has been able to move Social Security from the most successful poverty-prevention program to the top of the chopping block. And Social Security was/is secure for at least 30 more years. That’s amazing for a Democrat! Obamas is unique as a Democrat who fights to promote the Republican agenda of endless-wars, erosion of our Constitutional rights, invasion of American Cell, online and general privacy.
I voted for President Obama on his soaring speeches and the promise of improving our society. But his steady move towards Republican policy has seen the middle-class shrink into poverty.
I don’t blame President Obama for all that continues to erode in this country. However, he doesn’t take action to stop what he can. He is increasing the prosecution of whistle-blowers. He once favored marriage equality, now he says he is evolving. He is increasing our wars and pushing for a larger Terror Industrial Complex. He is enabling Republicans while criticizing Liberals. I feel that I have been hoodwinked by his words and lofty speeches.
What is the word for someone who can see that they are being deceived; but, chooses to go along with it anyway?
Casey
I vote NOM, the American Family Association, Michael Savage (ala England) and a good portion of the Tea Party to be deported. I also vote to deport Nickelback, as their music is putrid to the ears…
Politically Incorrect Thug
@Sebizzar: Of course, yes, the Westboro nuts are a stain on our society, but, like you and me, they have the right to express their views. Even though I would secretly wish them all cancer in the most painful places, I would also help them build the soapbox from where they spew their filth, because I believe with heart and soul that the first amendment is the foundation of our country. That being said, doesn’t common sense tell us that people won’t be deported based on their sexuality? I can’t think of single instance in which someone was.
Ganondorf
Andy Cohen and the entire bravo and logo networks. Add a few gay bloggers who ape that shit, perhaps. And fat, old and ugly, which would decimate the population of the united states. Huh? Huh? Damn, they’re not immigrants so it wouldn’t work. I’d rather spend a month in afghanistan than ten minutes with the aforementioned. Oh well.
The multiculturalist model of naturalizing immigrant populations in Europe is a resounding failure. The American model works better because we’re better. Suck it, not-america!
Tom in Lazybrook
I nominate the Mayor of Moscow (Luzhkov and the new one) for banning freedom of expression, petition, protest, assembly, due process, and association for LGBT Russians. I would also include the police minister of Grenada, who arrested two men last year for consensual sex in private.
Remember, its persons who use the state to deny civil rights. They have to be state officials for the law to be effective.
ewe
Maybe the Bummer can concentrate on himself.
Skeloric
So, now that the FANTASY DEPORTATION LIST might have run its course, maybe we can look at a REAL WRINKLE of the statement?
Could this be used to deny REENTRY TO THE COUNTRY by those who left it temporarily to promote bigotry and hate crimes elsewhere?
Maybe not immediately, but eventually?
Such an evolution could do wonders to protecting the rest of the world from our home grown crazies, or protect us if they choose to leave anyway.
hmmm… can we hope?
zrocqs
@Retro: There’s hope. Evangelicals under 25 yrs of age don’t care much either way about the rights of Queers. The next generation of evangelicals might even give reluctant support for equality. Cross your fingers.
@Politically Incorrect Thug: Pull you head out of whatever fetid hole it currently occupies. Official immigration policy forbade the entry of “known homosexuals” until recently. It was easy enough to lie and gain entry, but both the lie and “the gay” were reasons for deportation. If you think no one was deported then your delusional. This was just one more legal cudgel for supression. And current law (DOMA) prevents U.S. citizens from acquiring legal residency (aka: green card) for same-sex partners, even if they are legally married. I really want to know what color the sky is in your reality.
Queer Supremacist
This law means nothing if we can’t deport domestic civil rights violators. And start at the top with the breeder in chief.