Because bigots are the real victims in all this

you'll have to forgive me if I, upon reading quips like the following that the National Organization For Marriage's cofounder included in her latest "Culture War Victory Fund" piece, can't help but choke on the galling assertion that America's anti-equality crowd is the one facing dangerous "toxic" labeling:

Hearing only one side, people begin to believe there's something wrong with their views opposing gay marriage, that they are alone.
Every time a Carrie Prejean is vilified for simply opposing gay marriage, ordinary Americans learn: it's dangerous to speak out. Their common sense views are now 'toxic.'
—Maggie Gallagher

Dangerous? Carrie Prejean got a book deal within months of her brouhaha. She's now legally married to a pro football player. I'm thinking if she ever even saw her gladly-solicited "scandal" as a storm, then she certainly feels that she weathered it, and with a higher profile than she ever would've under any normal Miss USA runner-up scenario. And if she truly wants to get her heartfelt beliefs out to the public, then Carrie is surely glad for the considerable attention that she received.

LGBT people, on the other hand? We, along with our supporters, are told on a daily basis that we are toxic—personally, politically, professionally, and more. And ours is not a "fifteen minutes of fame" situation from which we can withdraw, moving back into the warm confines of our supportive circles. This is life for us. When we are deemed toxic by citizens marching in the streets on our wedding days or voting against us at any one of the polls, we have real world pitfalls attached to that "toxicity" that go far beyond anything a TMZ camera crew might say to us.

And Maggie Gallagher? She has, quite sadly, been at the forefront of all of this ill feeling, stirring it all up for the sake of her own political profile and personal profit!

Maggie adores the victim role—that is not news. But as she jumps from Point A to Point Me in her attempts to overlook the truly maligned population that suffers so fully within this far-right-instigated "culture war" context, I can't help but believe that people are really starting to see right through the charade. The truth is that there is one "side" that's living and loving in the way that they should, while there is another set of forces that's simply unwilling to accept that certain kinds of humans have grown and matured in the way they were meant to have developed. Taking the freedoms associated with LGBT people and positioning them as toxic is the through line that binds all anti-equality advocacy, regardless of whether that positioning is explicit (as with groups like the American Family Association) or more willfully masked behind pragmatic politics (like most of NOM's state ads whenever an election nears). As our world moves forward in its one decided, inevitable direction, I have to believe that folks are going to question someone who wants to lead the fight that produces so many tears while at the very same time claiming she is the one cowering in a corner.

Beyond reprehensible:

The Pastor's leper colony-esque proposal came in response to the president's endorsement of same-sex marriage, which he said 'anybody with any sense' would be against. Worley explained that the idea of two men kissing makes him 'pukin' sick,' so he developed a proposal to 'get rid of all the lesbians and queers':

WORLEY: I figured a way out — a way to get rid of all the lesbians and queers. But I couldn't get it passed through Congress. Build a great big large fence, 150 or 100 miles long. Put all the lesbians in there. Fly over and drop some food. Do the same thing with the queers and the homosexuals. Have that fence electrified so they can't get out. Feed 'em, and– And you know what? In a few years they'll die out. You know why? They can't reproduce.

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US Soldier Trained Neo-Nazis in Florida for "Race War"

The 10 members of a Florida-based neo-Nazi militant group arrested last week received training in close-quarters combat and other Army-approved tactics from a member of the US Army National Guard, according to court filings.

The co-conspirators, alleged to be members of the violent white-power American Front, face felony charges for hate crimes, paramilitary training, and preparing for a coming "race war" against blacks, Jews, and immigrants at a fortified compound in the marshlands of St. Cloud, Florida, just south of the amusement-park haven of Orlando. A short paragraph buried in the group's arrest affidavit shows a disturbing link between the Florida gang and a US military employee:

Missouri National Guard Probes Claims of Neo-Nazis in Ranks

The Missouri National Guard is investigating a new claim that its ranks are infiltrated with neo-Nazis – this time a 'patched member' of the violent American Front, whose members stand accused of plotting violence in Florida.

The inquiry comes after the Missouri Legislature conducted a hearing in April to look into how the Guard took more than a year to process three complaints about another guardsmen who was an admitted neo-Nazi.

In the American Front case, a Missouri Guard member identified as Ryan Riley provided firearms and military combat training to members of the white supremacist, militia-style group, including ex-cons, last summer in Florida, court documents allege.

'In July of 2011, Ryan Riley who is a patched member of the AF Missouri chapter was present at an AF compound in north Florida,' the Florida court documents, which just came to light, say. 'Riley is also a member of the United States National guard.'

For Dio: The Only Appropriate Tribute

Coffee. My mouth tasted like coffee and a little bit like cheese Danish, probably because it was full of coffee and a little bit of cheese Danish.

The constant, clattering rattle of my fellow office workers typing was somehow amplified and made hollow, bouncing off the walls of my cubicle. One half of my hand was asleep, split down the middle vertically: The ring and pinky fingers gone numb. Something about the height at which I held my mouse did that, I presumed. I fumbled it over and closed Firefox. I swallowed my coffee; it was the hardest thing I have ever had to do in my life.

Shit, I mumbled in shock.

Whats up, man? Everything OK? Stanley, my friend in the cubicle opposite me, poked his head over the wall like the neighbor from Home Improvement. I hated when he did that. Trying to hold a conversation with somebody peeking down at you over a wall while you remain sitting at your desk is so fundamentally awkward. Your seated posture, which seemed so natural a second ago, suddenly feels stupid and inappropriate.

Dio just died, I recited to him, like I had only memorized the words phonetically and had no idea as to their meaning.

What? Who?

I stood up abruptly, the back of my knees straightening so quickly that they sent my wheeled office chair spinning out into the corridor between cubicle rows.

Whoa, whats going on, dude? Stanley asked, coming around the barrier to stare into my face. Oh shit. I know that look. Thats the Im going out to get supernaturally tanked and engage in a series of increasingly wacky shenanigans that accidentally end in tragedy look. Am I right?

No, Stanley, I informed him, adjusting the length of my shirt-cuffs on my wrists and straightening my tie, What happens next is very deliberate. In a moment, I am going to take the elevator to the ground floor, where I will exit this building. I will proceed two blocks east to Promenade Plaza, where I will strip naked and lay siege to the doughnut shop. If police arrive, I will maul them with my teeth. I will escape on foot, and make my way to the fairgrounds out by the paper mill. Once there, I will burn down the circus. Then I am going to steal the largest, fastest car I can find, and I am going to crash that car at a terrible speed into the oldest and most sacred looking tree I can find. I will then mouth-fuck the OnStar operator from the wreckage.All measure of reason drained from Stanleys face.

But why? He asked plainly.

Because Dio taught me, in part, what it is to be a man. Oh, he did not teach the rational lessons: He did not teach me morality, or responsibility, or restraint. No, Stanley, he taught me that being a man means sometimes ruining things in the most extravagant fashion possible. Because you can, and because its awesome. And Dio died today, so now I am going to ruin things. I am going to ruin everything, Stanley. For Dio.

I took another bite of Danish; I would need the calories.

But first, Stanley, first I am going to orally pleasure the receptionist - your fianc - on top of the copier. I will set the machine for 666 copies, and if she has not climaxed by the time its finished making them, I will throw her out the window. Ill be sure to mail one to you, buddy."

W wh

Whats that? Why? You want to know why, again? Because you didnt know his name, Stanley. You didnt know his god damn name. But you will now. It was Ronnie James, incidentally. Ronnie James Motherfucking Dio.But thats okay: I promise this time, you wont soon forget it.

I polished off the rest of my coffee, and gently pushed him aside.

Welp, I gotta be off now to pleasure your woman and commit some Tribute Crimes. Oh, and Stanley?" I turned, clapping him reassuringly on the shoulder, "Ride the tiger, buddy. Ride the tiger.

Unfuckingbelievable

In the library, what kids are really checking out is a new ideology. Hello, I'm Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C. School libraries are one place where liberalism has a long shelf life. For years, the American Library Association's been funneling inappropriate material to kids. And stopping them just got a whole lot harder. The Left wing's favorite billionaire, George Soros, is giving the ALA a half-million dollars a year to develop a "privacy curriculum" that teaches kids how to "bust through censor walls," "encrypt their communication," and "override filters." Even worse, librarians are told "to inform students that their book circulation data will never be shared with anyone, including their parents." Groups like Parents Against Bad Books in Schools are fighting back, but they need your help. "If enough parents become aware of how many objectionable books there are in [circulation] and work together in constantly challenging them, things can improve considerably," said a spokesman. Otherwise, what libraries will be lending isn't books--but a helping hand to the Left.

Thats right you primitive screwhead, libraries have information which you might disagree with. Information gathered from across the world over generations, much of it from people considered experts in their fields, and whose accomplishments modern civilization is built. Your open hostility to anything other than 2000 year old fairy tales didn't build what we have today, its a complete antithesis of progress. If you had one fucking brain cell functioning in your shit filled cranium, you might see that learning and being exposed to new ideas is something parents should encourage, not worrying that their child might learn something which would disrupt the smoke and mirrors craptastic world view that you think you've been blessed with.

Pigfuckers.

[Link: www.rightwingwatch.org...]

Bishop Daniel R. Jenky of the Catholic diocese of Peoria, Illinois, likened President Obama to Adolf Hilter and Joseph Stalin, along with past French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau and German chancellor Otto von Bismarck, on Sunday while condemning Obama's 'radical, pro-abortion and extreme secularist agenda.' He said that Catholics in America are in a 'war' as a result of the administration's mandate for religiously-based institutions to cover contraceptives, and compared politicians who back the mandate to Judas Iscariot.

This is a 4 minute long rant.

He is a Muslim.

The long Washington Post profile this weekend of a top Central Intelligence Agency official contained a remarkable number of details about the man that heads the Agency's Counterterrorism Center — remarkable because the man remained shrouded in mystery, referenced only by the first name of his cover identity, 'Roger.' Roger chain smokes, swears, worked in Africa, was 'pudgy' in his youth, and — oh, yeah — he's Muslim.

And that is what Spencer has a problem with:

None of that was enough to convince Robert Spencer, a long-time ally of anti-Muslim mainstay Pamela Geller, that “Roger” just might be a Manchurian candidate foisted upon the CIA by Muslim extremists looking to destroy America:

[I]f Islamic supremacists wanted to subvert the U.S. defense against jihad terror, they couldn’t do it more easily than by turning someone in a position like Roger’s. The worst part of this story is that no one is even examining that as a possibility.

But wait, this guy has been behind the drone strikes decimating Al Qaeda and help take out Bin Laden, how can he a possible traitor?

Never fear, Spencer will explain that.

The Washington Post, of course, follows the mainstream media line that Islam is a Religion of Peace that has been hijacked by a tiny minority of extremists, and so takes for granted that 'Roger' has no loyalty issues, and proffers the drone campaign and the killing of bin Laden as proof.

It was all a cunning ruse.

Robertson: It's like a virus, if you have, we have, all of us have, antibodies in our system and if our system is healthy we can repel viruses, but once those antibodies breakdown then the viruses take over. The antibody to these false religions have been vibrant Christianity, it doesn't exist any longer in Belgium, it doesn't exist in Europe any longer.

Meeuwsen: It seems as though we are so busy enjoying the benefits and the blessings that God has given us that it's like we've gone to sleep.

Robertson: We've not only gone to sleep, we've actively attacked it. We've attacked the founding principle of our civilization and no one can do that and survive, but that's what happened. Our elites have turned against the founding principles that gave us our freedom. Why? Because they don't want be Christian, they don't want to acknowledge that they are sinners, they don't want to come and say they need a Savior, that's humbling, they want to be proud and in their pride they are going to lose everything.

[Link: 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com...]

Asked whether Obama is Christian or Muslim, some 45 percent of Alabama Republican respondents picked Muslim; 14 percent correctly identified him as Christian. Another 41 percent said they were unsure. In Mississippi, a majority of Republicans, 52 percent, identified Obama as Muslim; 12 percent said he was Christian and 36 percent were undecided.

Interracial marriage laws were overturned by the Supreme Court in 1967, but a significant minority of Mississippi and Alabama apparently still long for their return, or are at least ambivalent about the idea. In Alabama, 67 percent of respondents said interracial marriage should be allowed, but 21 percent said it should be illegal and another 12 percent were not sure. Mississippi Republican voters were even more divided: Only 52 percent said such marriages should be legal, versus 29 percent who said they should be banned and 17 percent who were unsure.