Reflections From a Murky Pond

I remember when a number of Christian groups went a little crazy when J.K. Rowlings announced, perhaps foolishly and definitely unnecessarily, that her character Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Wizardry, was queer.

Perhaps a scene such as this was part of what these Christians feared:

The Dumbledore Effect – Scary, Very Scary

Yeah, I can see where that might have scared them. The plots of the later books and movies were odd enough without adding that sort of love triangle sub-plot to the mix. 😉

Tags: Books & Reading | Christianity | Harry Potter | Homophobia | Homosexuals | Humor | Rowlings

This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 26th, 2011 at 3:00 pm and is filed under Books & Reading, Humor, Society. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

They ask; they tell. In the case of the Liberals who have debased the Democratic party, they ask for everything and tell lies when balked by Americans.

Their latest bit of perfidy is their whining that the Senate Republicans blocked the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (DADT).

Such mouthings may play well with  their base, but fall far short of reality or American credulity.

These domestic enemies are not utterly without intelligence and cunning, however. They, following the “shining” example of what passes for President Obama’s rhetoric, lie through omission and by spewing half-truths and ambiguous statements rather than by outright lies.

Yes, it is true that a bill that included a repeal of DADT as a rider failed to come to a vote in the US Senate due to 39 Republican and 1 Democrat Senators blocking it via filibuster. Senator Reid’s vote  for cloture ended up 57 to 40 with 3 abstaining (2 GOP, 1 Dem).

What is patently false, and a stupid lie by the Liberals trying to still rule Congress, is that the bill in question was a bill to repeal DADT or that the GOP blocked it on the grounds of being such a bill. It was, in truth, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 (S. 3454), something very important to the nation and the Republican Senators representing it.

The GOP, with one Dem supporter, filibustered the bill because the Senate Democrats, led by the ever arrogant and delusional Reid, tried to keep the Republicans from having any input into the bill and to prevent any debate upon its content where C-SPAN and the nation could see it.

Sens. Brown and Murkowski had previously said they supported repeal of DADT but demanded an “open amendment process” to ensure Republicans can make changes to the defense bill. Reid, in turn, offered Collins 15 amendments — 10 for Republicans and five for Democrats — but she countered with a request for four days of floor debate.

So the truth, despite the lies and misinformation spewing out of the mouths of America’s domestic enemies, is that Senator Reid and his cronies used the LGBT community in an attempt to ramrod a unbalanced and non-transparent national defense appropriation bill through the Senate and the Republicans refused to bullied by them.

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Keep your eyes open. Travel light but load heavy, and always put another round in the enemy after they’re down. 😉

Tags: America | Congress | Earmarks | Homophobia | Homosexuals | LGBT | Liberals | Lies | Politics | Reid | Truth | US Military | US Senate

This entry was posted on Friday, December 10th, 2010 at 12:49 pm and is filed under Politics. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

It seems that various queer activist groups are having a hissy fit over the US Military’s new questionnaire regarding the possible repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT).

To these groups’ collective consciousness it’s wrong for the Pentagon to even ask the men and women serving in the military how they might respond to openly gay servicemen.

Given the nature of such agendists, this isn’t surprising in the least, but it’s certainly worthy of note and derision.

Gay rights organizations are up in arms over a Pentagon survey on the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” claiming that some of the questions put to U.S. servicemembers are “homophobic.”

The surveys, emailed to 400-thousand active duty, national guard and reserve forces includes questions like;

“IF A WARTIME SITUATION MADE IT NECESSARY FOR YOU TO SHARE A ROOM, BERTH OR FIELD TENT WITH SOMEONE YOU BELIEVE TO BE A GAY OR LESBIAN SERVICEMEMBER, WHICH ARE YOU MOST LIKELY TO DO?

* TAKE NO ACTION
* DISCUSS HOW WE EXPECTED EACH OTHER TO BEHAVE
* TALK TO A CHAPLAIN OR MENTOR
* TALK TO A LEADER TO SEE IF I HAVE OTHER OPTIONS
* OTHER

“IF DONT ASK DONT TELL IS REPEALED AND YOU ARE ASSIGNED TO BATHROOM FACILITIES WITH OPEN BAY SHOWER WITH A GAY OR LESBIAN SERVICE MEMBER…?_

* TAKE NO ACTION
* USE SHOWER AT DIFFERENT TIME

There’s also a question asking servicemembers if a gay or lesbian member moved into military housing with a same-sex partner, would they pick up their family and move out.

— Jim Miklaszewski
MSNBC’s First Read, July 9, 2010

That’s right; the agitators and professional grievance-mongers leading a large swath of the queer advocacy groups want people to believe that a questionnaire issued by the Pentagon to 400K+ members is homophobic because it asks military personnel how they might respond to the realities of living, serving, fighting, and dying alongside openly homosexual servicemen and women.

Yeah, I know; most claims of homophobia by queer activists are, like most claims of racism by Black activists or the claims of Islamophobia from Muslim vermin, something to be ignored.

Sometimes. though, ignoring such problems, like ignoring a growing tumor, just allows the cancer to spread unchecked. It’s sometimes necessary to cut or burn out the diseased flesh so that the body may survive.

Apparently our military, charged with defending the lives of the American people, isn’t supposed to be allowed to try to determine if repealing DADT will negatively impact national security and in what ways, if any at all, it might do so – or at least so these treasonous queer activists rant.

NOTE: As an American and a veteran I’m passionately and virulently opposed to DADT, as I’ve posted before on this blog.

[Sic] … Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell should be repealed. It is predicated upon unconstitutional ideas and, as such, should have been struck down by the Courts years ago. Sadly, they have to-date failed to do so, though the SCOTUS has not yet deigned to hear any case regarding it.

From the US Constitution, supposedly the highest law of the land:

A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

–- US Constitution, Second Amendment

That the right to “bear arms” was intended by our Founders to mean the right to bear arms in the common defense, i.e., serve in the military forces of America, can be deduced from the concerns over the original 2nd Amendment. The Constitution makes it quite clear that such a right exists for every American and it shall not be infringed.

Nowhere does it say, “except for sodomites,” which would have been the term used at the time.

— jonolan
Asking And Telling

That doesn’t mean that I’m going to turn a blind or forgiving eye to rabble-rousers and grievance-mongers from within the LGBT community who want to deny the military the right to determine how repealing such legislation and the underlying ban on openly homosexual people serving in the military it was meant to ameliorate will affect military discipline and operational efficiency.

Tags: America | DADT | Gay Rights | Heterophobia | Homophobia | Homosexuals | Law | LGBT | Liberals | National Security | Politics | US Military

This entry was posted on Sunday, July 11th, 2010 at 3:30 pm and is filed under Politics. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

You know – or should know – it’s bad when even the Ku Klux Klan feels the need to publicly repudiate your behavior, and that is exactly the situation in which Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church find themselves in.

The KKK Repudiates Westboro Baptist Church’s Activities

Yes, the above is a partial screenshot of the KKK’s website’s homepage which I’ve posted here both so that people don’t have to go to the Klan’s site and in to keep a record of it when they later remove the news release.

It seems that nearly everyone – even groups known for their hate and public displays – is arrayed against Phelps and his congregation.

So, now that everyone – except a few pathetic federal appeals court judges – seems to be in agreement that Phelps, his misborn brood, and his sickening followers are vile, can we, the People finally do something of a retributive and permanent nature about these creatures who harass and insult the families of our fallen soldiers?

Mr. Phelps believes that we’re nearing the end times. Let’s do what we can to ensure that for him, the 13 misborn spawn he rutted into his female, any progeny that those 13 might have spawned, and his followers and all of their crotch-droppings, and any who have supported them, it is such.

You know it’s bad when even the Ku Klux Klan feels the need to publicly repudiate your behavior, but let’s ensure that it is of Biblical proportions. Let fire be rained upon them from on high; let the waters turn red with blood; let the heads be stripped from the grain so that there is naught for them to eat nor plant in its time.

Such just retribution would, after all, fit in with Phelps’ view of his God 😉

Tags: Fred Phelps | Homophobia | KKK | Prejudice | Society | Westboro Baptist

This entry was posted on Friday, April 9th, 2010 at 5:46 am and is filed under Society. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Today, May 26, 2009, the California Supreme Court, in a 6-1 decision, upheld Prop 8. This is amazing news for fans of democracy, but a brutal defeat for queers and LGBT activists and organizers.

California voters legally outlawed same-sex marriage when they approved Proposition 8 in November, but the constitutional amendment did not dissolve the unions of 18,000 gay and lesbian couples who wed before the measure took effect, the state Supreme Court ruled today.

The 6-1 decision was issued by the same court that declared a year ago that a state law defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman violated the right to choose one’s spouse and discriminated on the basis of sexual orientation.

Prop. 8 undid that ruling. The author of last year’s 4-3 decision, Chief Justice Ronald George, said today that the voters were within their rights to approve a constitutional amendment redefining marriage to include only male-female couples.

— Bob Egelko
San Francisco Chronicle

The actual issue before the justices was whether the voters’ had the power to amend the California State Constitution by initiative, or whether – as the homosexuals and their supporters claimed – Prop 8 legally required a two-thirds legislative vote or approval from delegates at a state constitutional convention in order to have reached the November, 2008 ballot.

It’s rather shocking that the California court didn’t fall victim to judicial activism and actually held firmly to the law and to the merits of the case before them, which was Strauss vs. Horton, S168047.

In addressing the issues now presented in the third chapter of this narrative, it is important at the outset to emphasize a number of significant points. First, as explained in the Marriage Cases, supra, 43 Cal.4th at page 780, our task in the present proceeding is not to determine whether the provision at issue is wise or sound as a matter of policy or whether we, as individuals, believe it should be a part of the California Constitution. Regardless of our views as individuals on this question of policy, we recognize as judges and as a court our responsibility to confine our consideration to a determination of the constitutional validity and legal effect of the measure in question. It bears emphasis in this regard that our role is limited to interpreting and applying the principles and rules embodied in the California Constitution, setting aside our own personal beliefs and values.

— Strauss v. Horton 5/26/09 SC
Majority Opinion of the Court

I would suggest to those who favor and/or support same-sex marriage that they gather signatures on petitions and submit them to the California Legislature so that a Constitutional amendment or revision redefining marriage as to be something other than merely “one man and one woman” can be brought to referendum vote in the next few years.

Tags: California | Defense of Marriage | Gay Rights | Homophobia | LGBT | Marriage | Politics | Religion | Society

This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 at 2:17 pm and is filed under Politics, Society. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.