News sources in the Philippines are reporting that 19 year-old Edmund Padilla suffered first degree burns over much of his body after his father Erano, poured scalding water on him. Erano told police that he was drunk at the time and became enraged after Edmund informed him that like 2 other siblings, he too was gay.
New York City Police are reporting that a suspect has been arrested for the fire bombings of 5 sites, an Islamic community center, a Hindu temple and two private homes. The attacks are being treated as hate crimes.
Incredibly naive progressives who like Ron Paul’s ‘libertarian’ views on such matters as drugs and personal freedoms, overlook the obvious fact that his perspective is not the by-product of some refreshingly, enlightened intellectual perspective.
‘Rabbi’ Yehuda Levin of Brooklyn, NY, is renown homophobic chicken-rabbi who every few months likes to unload some hateful verbiage about homosexuality that grabs some very limited media attention.
Yesterday’s (12/27/11) New York Times editorial took note of Republican efforts to restrict the voting rights of demographic groups that tend to vote for the Democratic Party: Blacks, Hispanics, the poor and the young. In a number of states in which the GOP controls one or both legislative houses, laws are pending or have already been passed that would require voters to present valid state issued ID cards to vote.
Earlier this week, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and some of the other thoughtful, objective, intelligent pundits on Fox News who have so meritoriously dedicated their lives to objectively informing Americans of just the facts and news they need to know, appropriately took President Barack Obama to task for sending out a Christmas card this year that included a picture of the family dog, Bo, sitting in front of a fireplace.
Speaker John Boehner announced this evening that House Republicans would agree to the two month extension in payroll tax cuts.
Tea Party Republicans in the House of Representatives don’t like compromising with Democrats or Barack Obama on anything. Their ’cause’ isn’t the needs and rights of the American people; their cause is not participating in a democratic process that requires reasonable people to compromise.
The ‘Festival of Lights,’ Chanukah, begins tomorrow evening, December 20th at sundown. No doubt, many non-Jews are unfamiliar with the holiday, its origins and traditions. In the spirit of the numerous books out these days that explain seemingly complicated things in a simple fashion, we offer this tongue in cheek, ‘A Gentile’s Guide to Chanukah.’
Most homophobes of course don’t realize that their profound disdain for LGBT people is really a reflection of their own insecurities; e.g. ‘How dare you act upon a feelings I won’t let myself think about.’
If blue-collar cops in this country really buy the idea that the OWS movement is contrary to their personal and professional interests, it would seem that the 1% have once again, effectively turned some of the 99% against each other.
Today, we learned that Mayor Janice Daniels of Troy Michigan, who told the world on her Facebook page last week that she couldn’t be a fan of New York now that ‘queers can marry there,’ has lost her job with Century 21 Real Estate.
In running for governor, Romney knew all too well that liberal Massachusetts was not about to elect a die-hard, right-winger so in his campaign for the State’s highest office, he continually reassured voters that he was one of those moderate Republicans who identified with the GOP because of its responsible, conservative fiscal policies, not its angry-intolerant-right-wing social agenda.
While the very loving, beautiful message of this video comes from one particular person, I think it’s fair to say that he speaks for many LGBT adults like myself who genuinely care and will do whatever we have to support any teen going through a difficult times. Never feel alone!
Americans are certainly no strangers to the efforts of social conservatives to place restrictions on the civil liberties of lesbian, gays, bisexuals and transgender (LGBT) people. ‘Different,’ is not acceptable in some religious and politically conservative communities.
In a very eloquent and moving address to the UN Human Rights Council which was meeting in Geneva, Switzerland the American Secretary of State declared: ‘gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights.’
A little boy named Elijah had something he wanted to say to Presidential candidate and staunch social conservative, Rep. Michele Bachmann. ‘…Miss Bachmann, my mommy’s gay but she doesn’t need fixing.’
Looks like democracy is still a hope and not yet a reality in the former totalitarian country. But then again, does anyone really believe that Putin has any profound convictions about seeing Russia become a moral, ethical, open, free democracy?
Rush Limbaugh and Herman Cain have a lot in common: Both, are charismatic men who have built their careers on their ability to turn-a-phrase. But Cain’s having to suspend his presidential campaign today, had to have left Rush Limbaugh laughing.
