Thank God For A Day Of Wonderful, Peaceful Protests

They protested in 5 countries, all fifty states and over 300 cities. Protests ranged from the small (100) to the large (30,000). The important thing: they were mostly peaceful. Up until this time (6:00PM PT) there have been no arrests, no violence, and no desecration of buildings.

We should thank God - in our own, individual way.

And after the passing of Proposition 8 in California, these protests prove that the issue of marriage equality is not going away. The hate-mongers have had their day. It's time for love to take it's rightful place in humanity.

Of course, the hate-mongers, Christofascists and their minions will not simply go away either. "News" and donation letters from organizations like Family Research Council are still preparing for an all out war.

From Tony Perkins and the FRC:

...Therefore, FRC is launching a plan to help expose our liberal leaders' radicalism to America even as we short-circuit their agenda in Washington.

Knowing an Obama victory was possible, FRC crafted this plan in advance....So make no mistake, this can be our movement's "finest hour."

Help Launch "Our Finest Hour": The FRC Plan to Reverse the Threat to Our Values and Freedom. The plan includes:

• Building a Capitol Hill Firewall by supplying conservative and genuinely centrist members of Congress with facts and answers.
  
• Building a Supreme Court Firewall by laying the groundwork ...to reject any radical judicial activist nominees.
  
• Building a National Firestorm of facts through a media strategy that will expose the extremism of leaders in the White House and Congress.

Yes, The Family Research Council and other institutions like it want to see heads roll.They want blood. They've smelled too much of it to even think about anything else.

Just a thought.

And Gay Marriage Will Cause Tornadoes in Tahiti, Bubonic Plague in New Jersey, a Culinary Craving for Infants, and ...

Bill O'Reilly To Become Gay!

O.K., some of you wouldn't mind New Jersey getting Bubonic Plague, you get the gist. People like Bill O'Reilly grasp at anything evil-sounding to associate with gay marriage.

O’REILLY:

So you can see the debate over gay marriage is now a full fledge national battle. As talking points said last night the election of Barack Obama has emboldened secular progressives who feel it is their time. Gay marriage just the beginning. Other cultural war issues will also be in display very shortly. These include limiting gun possession, legalizing narcotics, unrestricted abortion and the revocation of the Patriot Act.

Sounds almost as fearful as Pat Robertson:

It [feminism] is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

Then again, O'Reilly doesn't seem quite as squirrelly.

It's True: Republicans Will Be Getting Even Poorer and Dumber Than They Are Now!

IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE?

(Charlie Cook, National Journal Magazine)

Republicans have lost an enormous amount of support among upscale voters, basically just breaking even among those with household incomes above $50,000 a year, a traditional GOP stronghold. Similarly, McCain's losing to Obama among college graduates and voters who have attended some college underscores how much the GOP franchise is in trouble. My hunch is that the Republican Party's focus on social, cultural, and religious issues -- most notably, fights over embryonic-stem-cell research and Terri Schiavo -- cost its candidates dearly among upscale voters.

When I was a kid, (don't ask) Republicans were thought of as, well, patrician. They were the professionals - doctors, lawyers, engineers - while the Democrats had unions and worked on assembly lines primarily because they lacked education. By reaching for the vote of Sarah Palin's "Joe Sixpack," they ignored their base and got stuck with Christofascists running the show for the RNC.

Now they're stuck with the kind of voters they once disdained. They're closer to Jeff Foxworthy's rednecks than they ever imagined. Soon, the list of jokes will be prefaced by "you might be a Republican if..." O.K., that's mean spirited of me and redneckphobic. But if Republicans don't recapture upscale voters - and quickly - they might find that their supporters are too wild and dogmatic to control.

And Ann Coulter's book - If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans - will become an anomaly. Now THAT would be wonderful!

Just a thought.

SPLC: Bankrupting the KKK One Court Case At A Time!

Hey! Hate Costs Money!
...and good white 600-count cotton sheets aren't cheap!

(From Morris Dees, Southern Poverty Law Center)

We won a great victory today in our lawsuit against the Imperial Klans of America (IKA) and its leader, Ron Edwards.

The jury awarded a $2.5 million verdict to our client, Jordan Gruver, who was brutally beaten by IKA members while attending a county fair in Brandenburg, Ky.

The people of Meade County, Kentucky, have spoken loudly and clearly. And what they've said is that ethnic violence has no place in our society, that those who promote hate and violence will be held accountable and made to pay a steep price.

But for some, the price isn't steep enough!

Who's To Blame For All The Hatred: Sarah Palin?

And the hatred keeps going on
...and on
...and on

Surely Palin fed the crowds "clinging to their guns and their religion." But when you cling to your religion with murder in your heart, some of the blame for that extreme hatred lies with the "religion." Yesterday, we posted an article about a South Carolina Catholic priest who told parishioners that if they voted for Obama, they would have to do penance before taking Holy Communion. The attack against Obama was supposed to be because of his stance on abortion, but it was definitely tinged with racist overtones. And today, this from Associated Press:

Obama has more threats than other presidents-elect

By EILEEN SULLIVAN, Associated Press Writer Eileen Sullivan, Associated Press Writer

One of the most popular white supremacist Web sites got more than 2,000 new members the day after the election, compared with 91 new members on Election Day, according to an AP count. The site, stormfront.org, was temporarily off-line Nov. 5 because of the overwhelming amount of activity it received after Election Day.

On Saturday, one Stormfront poster, identified as Dalderian Germanicus, of North Las Vegas, said, "I want the SOB laid out in a box to see how 'messiahs' come to rest. God has abandoned us, this country is doomed."

Note "God has abandoned us." Where did the poster get that idea from? He couldn't have come up with it himself.

90 Squeakers: B**h Does Further Damage Before He Leaves

Up Yours, America!

George W. B**h is deregulating again - with a vengeance. Up to 90 deregulations affecting the nation could become policy before Barack Obama takes office:

(From Washington Post - R. Jeffrey Smith):

The new rules would be among the most controversial deregulatory steps of the Bush era and could be difficult for his successor to undo. Some would ease or lift constraints on private industry, including power plants, mines and farms.

Those and other regulations would help clear obstacles to some commercial ocean-fishing activities, ease controls on emissions of pollutants that contribute to global warming, relax drinking-water standards and lift a key restriction on mountaintop coal mining.

In May, White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten vowed that the administration would propose no regulations after June 1. He and White House spokesman Tony Fratto have repeatedly stated their contempt for what they call “midnight regulations.”

O.K., Enough is enough already! We know how much B**h hates environmentalists, loves big business and war, and knows nothing about healthcare or education. He's brought this country down so much that it will take decades for us to get back on our feet. His war, his deregulation, his interrogation methods have all said a big FUCK YOU! to America, but he's a glutton: he'll get in his last digs even if they are the last things he'll ever do to this country (or IN this country: read below).

Why?!? Does he hate us so much that he would enact deregulations to ruin us? O.K., so we made fun of his gross stupidity and blocked his chances to create numerous satellite USAs. Deregulating everything in a hurry while the country is suffering from eight years of deregulation just doesn't make sense. O.K., you have a point: much of what B**h did never made any sense. Then it's vengeance pure and simple. Either that or he's getting a little under the table.

But for leaving the country in a shambles and then BULLDOZING it, he should get something: justice.

WTF?!! Voting For Obama Was A Mortal Sin?!! Was The Pitbull in the Pulpit?

Must Be The Spiritual Adviser of Ann Coulter!

(from AP Nov.13, 3:45PM EST)

COLUMBIA, S.C. - A South Carolina Roman Catholic priest has told his parishioners that they should refrain from receiving Holy Communion if they voted for Barack Obama because the Democratic president-elect supports abortion, and supporting him "constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil."

The Rev. Jay Scott Newman said in a letter distributed Sunday to parishioners at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Greenville that they are putting their souls at risk if they take Holy Communion before doing penance for their vote.

"Our nation has chosen for its chief executive the most radical pro-abortion politician ever to serve in the United States Senate or to run for president," Newman wrote, referring to Obama by his full name, including his middle name of Hussein.

As a recovering Catholic, I can tell you that NO ONE - no priest, no bishop, no pope - can ever, ever restrain you from receiving Holy Communion! There is something called "an act of contrition," which, if made sincerely before Communion, allows one to take Holy Communion. The only circumstance (to my knowledge) where you cannot receive communion is if you have been excommunicated by the church.

Using religion for political reasons (like the 1955 article above) is criminal. Clearly this priest couldn't tell his parish how to vote before the election, but decided to zap Obama supporters AFTER the election.

By his letter, Rev. Jay Scott You-Have-Sinned Newman revealed his loathing for Obama. Right-wing rednecks have been mentioning Obama's middle name as a slur against the President-elect (as well as Ann Coulter, but, then again, we all know that rednecks have better taste) Of course, I don't know which single-wide Newman crawled out from under, but his statement was against doctrine, abusive and too provocative: since South Carolina has one of the country's largest ratios of hate groups, it might have been expected from a preacher who matriculated at a store-front Bible school, but not a priest who (supposedly) received extensive education in both a college and a seminary. His screed is divisive and it is racist.

Make no mistake about it, folks, Padre Newman's a gunnin' for Obama!

Just a thought.