this asswipe (but some of my BEST friends are 'the gays')

would NOT be on my short (or long) list to even BE at my inauguration

that's for sure

(well i'd ONLY even remotely consider two reverends: the right reverend horton heat OR of course al green)

Anti-gay pastor chosen to deliver invocation at Obama's inauguration
by Nick Cargo

"I have many gay friends," he said. "I've eaten dinner in gay homes...No church has probably done more for people with AIDS than Saddleback Church. Kay and I have given millions of dollars...helping people who got AIDS through gay relationships. So they can't accuse me of homophobia--I just don't believe in the redefinition of marriage."

.........It is a grave disappointment to learn that pastor Rick Warren will give the invocation at the inauguration of Barack Obama," People For the American Way President Kathryn Kolbert said in a Wednesday statement. "Pastor Warren, while enjoying a reputation as a moderate based on his affable personality and his church's engagement on issues like AIDS in Africa, has said that the real difference between James Dobson and himself is one of tone rather than substance. He has recently compared marriage by loving and committed same-sex couples to incest and pedophilia.........

and more
Obama picks anti-gay, anti-choice pastor for inauguration ceremony
Obama has chosen Rick Warren, the right-wing Christian author and pastor of Saddleback Church, to given the invocation at his inauguration in January.

Dr. Warren, author of "The Purpose Driven Life," will deliver the invocation. He will be followed by Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, who sang "Someday We'll All Be Free" and "Respect" at a concert for Bill Clinton in 1993, but not at the inaugural ceremony.

What?! Surely Obama could have found a non-bigoted religious leader to give the invocation. Warren, despite being considered a nicer-and-friendlier "new evangelical," equates same-sex marriage with incest, says Christians who work for social justice are basically Marxists, and is staunchly anti-choice. (He recently told Steven Waldman of Beliefnet that he believes he is obligated to lobby the president to end abortion rights, but not to stop the use of torture.) .....

i read about the other murder

of marcelo lucero on long island about a month ago. he was killed because his skin was a bit more brown than his murderers

now we have another new york murder of an ecuadorian, jose o. sucuzhanay. mr sucuzhanay and his brother were leaving a bar early one morning last week. they had their arms around each other. what happened? well some 'men' (and i use the term VERY loosely) hopped out of an suv with baseball bats and a bottle. they ended up beating mr sucuzhanay so badly, he died. this is in new york. brooklyn. why did they beat him? only they know (they've not only NOT been caught, they've not been identified) BUT they shouted anti-gay and anti-hispanic words


i don't want those kinds of people living in MY america

Brooklyn Man Dies From Beating
By JACK HEALY
An Ecuadorean immigrant who was brutally beaten with a bottle and baseball bat last week by men said to be shouting anti-gay and anti-Hispanic slurs has died, a family spokesman said on Saturday night
The victim, Jose O. Sucuzhanay, died on Friday night at Elmhurst Hospital Center as his mother was traveling from Ecuador to see him one last time, said the family spokesman, Francisco Moya. Mr. Sucuzhanay’s family had kept him on life support in anticipation of his mother’s arrival, but on Friday, his heart stopped.

In a statement on Saturday night, Mr. Sucuzhanay’s brother Diego said he was “at a loss beyond words” at his brother’s death, which the police are investigating as a hate crime.

The police were still looking for Mr. Sucuzhanay’s assailants, but said that detectives had been investigating the attack as homicide, a law enforcement official said. ......

this is what i was talking about

in my answer to a comment on my posting about being different. an eight grader SHOT and KILLED another eighth grader. why? because he wore purple eye shadow

Gay Youth's Slaying Spurs Call for Tolerance

By Ashley Surdin Washington Post Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES -- With his school uniform, eighth-grader Lawrence "Larry" King wore purple eye shadow, nail polish and pink lipstick. In the weeks before he died, he added purple boots with three-inch heels.
Classmates at E.O. Green Junior High School in Oxnard, Calif., mocked his makeup and slung anti-gay slurs at him in the halls. Sometimes, the words transformed the expressive teenager into a wallflower.
Still, rumor spread that King, openly gay, was trying to find the courage to ask another student, Brandon McInerney, to be his valentine. On Feb. 12, McInerney allegedly approached King in a computer lab and shot him in the head. King, 15, died two days later.
The crime -- for which McInerney, 14, has been charged as an adult -- horrified parents, educators and students in the community and across the nation. But according to gay rights groups and experts on adolescent sexuality, it is the extreme consequence of a growing but often-ignored phenomenon. .......