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Iran executes 2 gay teenagers

Iran: Two More Executions for Homosexual Conduct

Fleeing Anti- Gay Iran

I don’t get it, just who is supporting this dude and are people actually STILL donating to his campaign?

Yesterday, Karl Rove—the man George Bush called “the Architect” of his presidency—resigned.

When John heard the news, he had three words to say: “Goodbye, good riddance.”

But John also knows that there’s little time for celebration. Because while the Architect is leaving, the radical right-wing takeover of the government he helped engineer still stands—and it is up to us to take it down.

In the White House that Rove built, the government is rigged against regular people. Special interests and lobbyists for big corporations write the laws, the rich and well-connected prosper—and everyone else is forgotten.

We need change. We need a leader who will stand up to the special interests—who won’t be bought and sold by their lobbyists. John doesn’t take money from federal lobbyists or political action committees—he never has, and he never will.

Today, John is traveling across Iowa on a bus, talking to regular people about the real problems they face. The bus is fueled by B20 biodiesel, a cleaner fuel—and John’s campaign is fueled by clean money from people like you.

Help us keep our campaign fueled by clean money. Thousands of people have already stood up to fuel our campaign for change. Will you join them by making a contribution today—and help us reach our goal of raising $100,000 by Sunday?

 By George F. Will - The Washington Post

Marriage is the foundation of the natural family and sustains family values. That sentence is inflammatory, perhaps even a hate crime.

At least it is in Oakland, Calif. That city’s government says those words, italicized here, constitute something akin to hate speech and can be proscribed from the government’s open e-mail system and employee bulletin board.

When the McCain-Feingold law empowered government to regulate the quantity, content and timing of political campaign speech about government, it was predictable that the right of free speech would increasingly be sacrificed to various social objectives that free speech supposedly impedes. And it was predictable that speech suppression would become an instrument of cultural combat, used to settle ideological scores and advance political agendas by silencing adversaries.

That has happened in Oakland. And, predictably, the ineffable U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has ratified this abridgement of First Amendment protections. Fortunately, overturning the 9th Circuit is steady work for the U.S. Supreme Court.

Some African American Christian women working for Oakland’s government organized the Good News Employee Association (GNEA), which they announced with a flier describing their group as “a forum for people of Faith to express their views on the contemporary issues of the day. With respect for the Natural Family, Marriage and Family Values.”

The flier was distributed after other employees’ groups, including those advocating gay rights, had advertised their political views and activities on the city’s e-mail system and bulletin board. When the GNEA asked for equal opportunity to communicate by that system and that board, it was denied. Furthermore, the flier they posted was taken down and destroyed by city officials, who declared it “homophobic” and disruptive.

The city government said the flier was “determined” to promote harassment based on sexual orientation. The city warned that the flier and communications like it could result in disciplinary action “up to and including termination.”

Effectively, the city has proscribed any speech that even one person might say questioned the gay rights agenda and therefore created what that person felt was a “hostile” environment. This, even though gay rights advocates used the city’s communication system to advertise “Happy Coming Out Day.” Yet the terms “natural family,” “marriage” and “family values” are considered intolerably inflammatory.

The treatment of the GNEA illustrates one technique by which America’s growing ranks of self-appointed speech police expand their reach: They wait until groups they disagree with, such as the GNEA, are provoked to respond to them in public debates, then they persecute them for annoying those to whom they are responding. In Oakland, this dialectic of censorship proceeded on a reasonable premise joined to a preposterous theory.

The premise is that city officials are entitled to maintain workplace order and decorum. The theory is that government supervisors have such unbridled power of prior restraint on speech in the name of protecting order and decorum that they can nullify the First Amendment by declaring that even the mild text of the GNEA flier is inherently disruptive.

The flier supposedly violated the city regulation prohibiting “discrimination and/or harassment based on sexual orientation.” The only cited disruption was one lesbian’s complaint that the flier made her feel “targeted” and “excluded.” So anyone has the power to be a censor just by saying someone’s speech has hurt his or her feelings.

Unless the speech is “progressive.” If the GNEA claimed it felt “excluded” by advocacy of the gay rights agenda, would that advocacy have been suppressed? Of course not — although the GNEA’s members could plausibly argue that the city’s speech police have created a “hostile” environment against them.

A district court affirmed the city’s right to impose speech regulations that are patently not content-neutral. It said the GNEA’s speech interest — the flier — is “vanishingly small.” The GNEA, in its brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene, responds that some of the high court’s seminal First Amendment rulings have concerned small matters, such the wearing of a T-shirt, standing on a soapbox, holding a picket sign and “other simple forms of expression.”

Congress is currently trying to enact yet another “hate crime” law that would authorize enhanced punishments for crimes motivated by, among other things, sexual orientation. A coalition of African American clergy, the High Impact Leadership Coalition, opposes this, fearing it might be used “to muzzle the church.” The clergy argue that in our “litigation-prone society” the legislation would result in lawsuits having “a chilling effect” on speech and religious liberty. As the Oakland case demonstrates, that, too, is predictable.

Democratic Party boss Howard Dean demanded that Republican presidential candidates denounce conservative columnist Ann Coulter after she referred to Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards as a “faggot” during a speech Friday at a national conservative gathering.

Full Story, but who cares Dean is a HOMO!

Other outrages bloggers. I don’t care because I think of Ann like a Sideshow Bob.
I don’t take her seriously enough to be bothered by her.

 Right Wing News: Ann Coulter’s Juvenile Comment At CPAC

Wizbang: Ann Coulter Doesn’t Speak For Me

Ann Coulter, You’re No Sister Souljah

 

(CBS4) MIAMI Former Miami Heat superstar Tim Hardaway told a local sports radio show that he “hates gay people,” and he’s gotten a lot of peoples’ attention especially in South Florida.

“Disgusting. Having grown up in northern florida, dealing with racism there and desegregating of schools up there,
it’s unfortunate you still hear things like that on the radio,” one man told CBS4’s Art Barron outside of a Coral Gables carwash that uses Hardaway’s name as a draw. The manager of the carwash was away and unavailable for comment.

Hardaway made the comments while he was being interviewed by Dan Le Batard on 790 the Ticket Wednesday afternoon.

The five time All Star was asked how he would deal with a gay teammate.

“First of all I wouldn’t want him on my team,” said Hardaway. “Second of all, if he was on my team I would really distance myself from him because I don’t think that’s right and I don’t think he should be in the locker room when we’re in the locker room.”

Le Batard took Hardaway to task, pointing out that his comments were ‘flatly homophobic’ and bigoted, but that only seemed to stir up the former point guard.

“Well, you know, I hate gay people,” Hardaway said in response to Le Batard. “I let it be known I don’t like gay people. I don’t like to be around gay people. I’m homophobic. It shouldn’t be in the world, in the United States, I don’t like it.”

Hardaway spoke to CBS4’s Sports Director Jim Berry Wednesday evening saying, “I don’t condone it. If people got problems with that, i’m sorry. I’m saying i can’t stand being around that person, knowing that they sleep with somebody of the same sex.”

Hardaway’s comments come on the heels of a groundbreaking revelation made by former player John Amaechi, who became the first professional basketball player to openly identify himself as gay.

Amaechi became only the sixth male atlhlete from one of the four major American sports (NBA,MLB,NFL,NHL) to admit he is gay.

Former NFL running back David Kopay , offensive lineman Roy Simmons and defensive lineman Esera Tuaolo just recently came out.

Glenn Burke, an outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Oakland Athletics in the 1970s, and Billy Bean, a utility player in the 1980s and 1990s, have also come out.

No player has ever publicly admitted to being gay while currently playing for one of the four major American sports.

Now let me first say I don’t in any way condone what dude said, however I am just dumbfounded as to why people have an issue with what he said, dude was speaking his mind and he was expressing his honest opinion.
There are bastards who mutter to themselves all sorts of racial and ethnic biases.
I’m sure there are white folks all over the damm place uttering nigger this and nigger that but they must keep it quiet and hidden to mask their true disdain.

I have no problem with gay folks, as a dude I can’t grasp the concept of two nasty, hairy dudes rumbling and grumbling between the sheets, but that’s just me, “hating” someone or some lifestyle is just too mentally demanding.

I say I hate liberals, but that tis just me ranting, I do think most liberals are nuts but actually hating them is just counter productive. If there were a world without liberals what would I laugh at?

Hardaway unfortunately is just too stupid to realize that uttering “I hate gays” or “I hate niggers” is a career and public relations killer.