are there really more

bigots and homophobes and lunatics and big fat stupidheads and vile soulless evil hatemongers out there than not?

how DO these people get elected in the first place? the ones touting hate and exclusion and the denial of our rights? HOW HOW HOW?

Meet Jeff Wagner

Mr. Wagner, who describes himself as “a farmer and a legislator,” is also a member of the Ohio State Legislature. He’s a Republican who represents Ohio’s District 81, and serves on, among other things, the Local and Municipal Government and Urban Revitalization Committee. He’s a member of the Kiwanis Club and a Boy Scout Merit Badge Counselor.

Oh yes. And he believes loving, same-sex relationships may lead to mental and physical illness.

That’s right: Representative Jeff Wagner of Ohio, presumably elected to represent the views of everyone in his district, is hard-pressed to find anything more dangerous . . . more offensive . . . or more patently unacceptable than, say, giving people a job and a home . . . especially if they’re gay.

A good job and a home of one’s own, of course, is what many people would define as the American dream. But it’s a dream Wagner is determined to deny to LGBT people in Ohio.

In responding to a constituent’s letter about H.B. 502 - the “Equal Housing and Employment Act” currently being considered by the legislature - Wagner “comes undone,” as Wally Lamb might say. .........

see, i KNEW it. there IS a gay agenda! (lgbt)

hmmmmmmmmm. dagon from pam's house blend spells it out. WHAT NERVE. seems ALL they want IS TO BE TREATED LIKE EVERYONE ELSE (can you believe that??????????????)
take that sally kern - you giant steamin' pile


Out On A Limb - The Gay Agenda
by: Dagon
Sun Mar 30, 2008 at 14:33:28 PM EDT
Let's face up to it once and for all. There is a "Gay Agenda." You know it and so do I. Shall I spell it out for you? Here is what I see as "The Gay Agenda." You may feel free to add to it or to discuss what I ought to subtract from it. But I think it is all pretty obvious.
Dagon :: Out On A Limb - The Gay Agenda
The LGBT Community in the United States of America wants:
1. We want, in a few generations, for gay, lesbian, and transsexual kids studying history to wonder why we even needed anti-discrimination laws in the old days. Of course transsexuals and homosexuals are natural and normal and accepted by society. What was the big deal?
2. We want the rights and responsibilities of marriage available to all American families, even same sex couples. We want it in every state and at the federal level. As a stepping stone we will accept civil unions or domestic partnerships that grant our families all the rights and responsibilities of marriage, but only as a stepping stone. These place our families in a second class, which is unacceptable. Of course, making the states and the federal government responsible only for civil unions or domestic partnerships and leaving "marriage" to religious bodies is another acceptable avenue of resolution.
3. We want to be allowed to work without fear of discrimination. We want a fair hiring process, a fair promotion process, and to work without fear of being fired for our sexual orientation. We want to be free from constructive discharge where employers force one to quit. We want an end to the wage disparity between heterosexuals and homosexuals where homosexuals earn an average 14% to 20% less than similarly situated heterosexuals. We want an end to the wage disparity faced by lesbians and all women in the USA where lesbians and all women earn an average of 76 cents to each dollar earned by a man. ............

i was going to participate in this

then i got to thinking. do the russian government or russian 'authorities' own stoli? no, they don't. why would boycotting stoli help gays in russia then?

it would be like foreign nations boycotting spam because they don't like the us presence in iraq. IT WOULDN'T MATTER

(horrible analogy i know stoli to spam)

i just can't see any connection between stoli and the treatment of gay people in russia.

i want to post this story anyway. i want the injustices to stop. not just in russia but everywhere.

Gays Launch Stoli Boycott over Russian Homophobic Violence

(New York, NY and San Francisco, CA) - Gay equality advocates in two American cities upset over the denial of full respect for the human rights of LGBT people in Russia, and the bloody confrontation on May 27 in Moscow as gays attempted to peacefully march, today announced they are launching a boycott of Stolichnaya vodka. Vigils will be held at two Russian consulates, where gays will pour Stolichnaya vodka in the gutter. The date for launching the Stoli boycott and vigils is Tuesday, June 5............

Vodka Wars Spill into U.S.