Before beginning this commentary let me say in advance to those who will complain, I am not anti-Catholic, nor anti any religion for that matter. However as with anti-gay Conservatives there does come a time when one needs to comment on the groups and in the case of religion, the institutions which do everything to strike at, defame and seek to block any advancement of a segment of society, in this case of course the LGBT community.
My own “family tree” is a diversified one when it comes to religion. There are Catholics, Episcopalians, agnostics too I’m sure, Presbyterians and there have even been a Baptist or two thrown in for good measure. With that being said I apologize in advance only to members of my “family tree” who were brought up in the Catholic faith for this less than flattering piece.
This week the Catholic Church, and indeed the heart and soul of it, the Vatican, was rocked by news of a member of the Vatican choir who is alleged to have arranged gay sexual liaisons, or pimping in the vulgar and more accurate description, for an Italian government official who is also a papal usher or as is described a “gentleman of his Holiness”. While many news organizations covered this, for the sake of simplicity I’ll use CNN’s report for snippets.
A Nigerian man who sang in a Vatican choir arranged gay liaisons for an Italian government official who served in the unpaid role of papal usher, according to transcripts of wiretaps collected by Italian authorities.
The purported conversations were between Angelo Balducci, who oversaw the Italian government’s awarding of construction contracts — including work on the airport at Perugia — and Thomas Chinedu Ehiem, a 39-year-old Nigerian singer. They were recorded between April 14, 2008, and January 20, 2010.
Ehiem said an escort friend introduced him to the Italian businessman more than a decade ago. “He asked me to do it with him, but I like women and just the thought grossed me out,” Ehiem said.
“He asked me if I could procure him other men. He told me that he was married and that it had to be done in great secrecy. I told him that there was the Internet. But he asked me to take care of it because he couldn’t do it from his home.”
He added, “Sometimes he would ask for two meetings a day.”
Now one can well argue that this in fact has nothing to do directly with the Vatican, nor the Catholic Church and Ehiem was procuring men on his own. True, but, as the CNN article reports among the men Ethiem was alleged to pimp were members of the seminary. How close to home does that ring in the hundreds, if not thousands of reported incidents of child abuse and sexual exploitation by Catholic priests over the decades, incidents which the Catholic Church and directly or indirectly the Vatican, does everything in its power to ignore, silence, pay off or shuffle a “problem priest’ from one church or diocese to another.
This is not about a priest being gay or bi-sexual. This is about pedophiles taking advantage of their young wards if you will, for acts “as” sinful, if indeed not more so, than what the Catholic Church in its dogma and piety says about the LGBT community while at the same time sweeping its pedophilia “problem” under the rug whenever possible.
It never ceases to amaze this writer how those, be it the church or politicians,who have the most to lose, are the most sanctimonious and pious when it comes to LGBTs and denying and achieving some semblance of equality as every other American, yet have skeletons in their closet which they hide until someone eventually finds the key and then when that door is open all of a sudden they are filled with remorse, guilt and seek forgiveness.
After the media has stopped covering events and people’s memories fade, they again continue their “Holy Crusade” against LGBTs. The ones who do not forget are the members of the LGBT community who will not be hesitant in reminding those with short memories of the “falls from Grace” of the self-righteous.
They quote the Bible by selected verse casting homosexuals to Eternal Damnation. They seek to keep homosexuals from having the basic rights of equality and protection which most Americans take for granted. They support an archaic military rule that deprives talented and much needed human assets from joining or being relieved of duty when the “truth” is found out about an individual. And in some cases they compare the homosexual lifestyle to that of pedophiles.
And yet while condemning a lifestyle or impeding advancement and making inflammatory comments about homosexuals, they are in a variety of ways themselves a part of the very lifestyle which they oppose or are participants in the darkest corners of illegality.
In 2006 Florida Republican Mark Foley, a six term Congressional representative, resigned over allegations he sent sexually explicit Internet messages to at least one underage male who was a former page at the Capitol. At the time ABC News reported that it had interviewed Foley, 52, about excerpts of instant messages provided by current and former pages under the age of 18. ABC reported that Foley, under the AOL Instant Messenger screen name Maf54, made repeated references to sexual acts and body parts.
In his short resignation letter Foley said, “I am deeply sorry and I apologize for letting down my family and the people of Florida I have had the privilege to represent.” Foley’s hypocrisy was he was Chairman of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children and an opponent of child pornography.
In a New York Times article titled The Open And Closeted Lives Of A Gay Congressman from October 4, 2006 written by Shailagh Murray, First, there was whispering about the Republican congressman’s sexual orientation, beginning in 1994 during his first House campaign. He was almost outed two years later when he voted against gay marriage. In 2003, Foley dropped a Senate bid after the rumor mill again started churning. He dismissed the speculation as “revolting and unforgivable.”
But as Foley attempted to navigate the tricky path of being a gay Republican, there was yet another, darker secret that he proved unable to handle: He was making sexual advances toward teenagers. For all his caution about his sexual orientation, it wasn’t that but his pursuit of underage former congressional pages that wrecked his career.
Also in 2006 Evangelical Reverend Ted Haggard was removed from his church and found guilty of “sexually immoral conduct” by an investigative board. Haggard was accused of soliciting gay sex and buying illegal drugs.
After the allegations were made public, Haggard resigned as president of the influential National Association of Evangelicals, an umbrella group representing more than 45,000 churches with 30 million members.
He also temporarily stepped aside as pastor of the 14,000-member New Life Church.
In January of 2009, the New York Times ran a story that Haggard made payments starting in 2007 to a young male church member who had a relationship with Mr. Haggard before the dismissal, the church’s pastor told worshipers.
Mr. Boyd (senior pastor of New Life Church) said in an interview that the payments, and what has now amounted to second body blow of scandal, were kept quiet for two years partly because of legal constraints, and partly because of ministerial confidentiality rules, since the man had sought out church authorities for counseling about the affair. Mr. Boyd declined to identify the young man, but said he is now in his 20s and was over 18 at the time of the relationship.
U.S. Senator Larry Craig who twice voted against adding the words “sexual orientation” to the federal hate crimes law and also voted to give states the right to refuse to recognize gay marriage resigned when news of charges of inappropriate behavior in an airport bathroom surfaced.
It was a relatively quick end to a drama that began Monday with the stunning disclosure that Craig had pleaded guilty to a reduced charge following his arrest June 11 (2007) in a Minneapolis airport men’s room.
Craig was arrested June 11 in a police undercover vice operation. The arresting officer, Sgt. Dave Karsnia, said in his report that the restroom where he encountered Craig is a known location for homosexual activity.
Of course there have been others including Bob Allen member of the Florida House of Representatives and Florida Chairman of John McCain’s Presidential Campaign who in 2007 was arrested for soliciting a male undercover police officer for sex in a Titusville park restroom.
Allen was considered to be acting suspicious by police as he entered and exited the men’s room three times, according to a Titusville Police report. Moments later, he approached the plainclothes officer and offered to perform oral sex for $20, police said.
Allen faces second degree misdemeanor charges. A seven-year House veteran, the term-limited Allen had been considered a likely Senate candidate next year. He also had been named a co-chairman last spring of Arizona Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign team in Florida.
Allen was one of 21 Florida legislators to sign Gov. Jeb Bush’s friend-of-the-court brief supporting the state’s ban on gays adopting children and he co-sponsored an unsuccessful bill that would have enhanced penalties for “offenses involving unnatural and lascivious acts” such as indecent exposure.
Now we have California Republican State Senator Roy Ashburn who is well known for his anti-gay voting record.
Sources tell CBS13 a state senator from Southern California was arrested for allegedly driving drunk after leaving Faces, a gay nightclub in midtown Sacramento, early Wednesday morning.
The California Highway Patrol pulled over Senator Roy Ashburn at 2:00 a.m. Wednesday after an officer noticed a black Chevy Tahoe swerving at 13th and L Streets.
The Sacramento County district attorney says Republican state Sen. Roy Ashburn’s blood-alcohol level was .14 percent when he was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving near the Capitol.
Ashburn, a father of four, is a Republican Senator representing parts of Kern, Tulare and San Bernardino Counties.
Granted being seen coming out of a gay bar and having a male rider in your car does not equate to one being gay, but could this be the next shoe to drop in the ever increasing stories of the hypocrisy of those who are anti-gay and then are caught with their proverbial pants down ?
For more on Republican and even Democratic lawmakers who are anti-gay hypocrites and lead secret or double lives visit BlogActive by Mike Rogers.
UPDATE – The shoe has dropped boys and girls as is now being reported by CBS13 in Sacramento just mere hours after this article was posted on Focus On the Rainbow. According to CBS13,West Sacramento Mayor Christopher Cabaldon — who is openly gay – says he has seen Ashburn in gay hotspots a number of times. He says while he respects Ashburn’s right to privacy, but not when it involved hypocrisy.
“You can’t just live a double life in politics anymore,” said Cabaldon. “To live a secret life and at the same time be attacking exactly the same people you are one of, but you are too ashamed to admit, that’s the hypocrisy for folks whether you are gay or not. It’s just unacceptable in politics.”
LATE UPDATE – Equality California sent out this brief press release regarding Ashburn.
Equality California Executive Director Geoff Kors issued the following statement regarding Senator Roy Ashburn (R-Bakersfield) who was recently charged with a DUI reportedly after leaving a Sacramento gay club.
“It is extremely hypocritical for Senator Ashburn, by patronizing a gay club, to be enjoying the fundamental rights and freedoms of association that others have fought so hard for but that he himself has repeatedly voted against.”
Senator Ashburn has consistently received a zero percent on Equality California’s Legislative Scorecards since 2004, with the exception of 2007, when he scored 10 percent.
Ashburn has not been seen at the capitol since his arrest and according to CBS13 no one from his office had any comment except to say Ashburn has been on leave for the past several days and no one has spoken to him, nor would anyone in Ashburn’s office comment as whether Ashburn will resign over the incident and his now subsequent “outing” by West Sacramento Mayor Christopher Cabaldon.
Ashburn did release the following statement after his arrest, “I am deeply sorry for my actions and offer no excuse for my poor judgment,” said Ashburn, who through a spokesman declined to be interviewed. “I accept complete responsibility for my conduct and am prepared to accept the consequences for what I did.”
According to Project Vote Smart, Ashburn has voted NO on the following gay issues or related topics.
Creation of “Harvey Milk Day” – AB 2567, “Harvey Milk Day” – SB 572 (two NO votes), Expanding Anti-Discrimination Laws – AB 2654, Statement of Opposition to Prop 8 – SR 7 and Recognizing Out-Of-State Same-Sex Marriages – SB 54.
Ashburn once said in an interview with Lois Henry of Bakersfield.com, “Why would that be anyone’s business? Including The Californian’s? I think there are certain subjects that are simply not relevant and this is one of them. It has no bearing on the job I do.” in answer to Henry asking Ashburn if he were gay after it was rumored a gay newspaper was going to “out” Ashburn.
Henry reported in the article that in 2005 Ashburn organized a “Traditional Family Values” rally, but as she wrote he kept a “low profile” during the Prop 8 campaign. What’s most interesting in her article was when she wrote the following, During my conversation with Ashburn last summer, we also agreed that if he were having an affair, regardless of gender, with a lobbyist, someone who worked for him or someone under age, those would also be legitimate public concerns.No, he said, none of those situations applied to him.
“Do you think I’m that stupid?”
Perhaps not in those instances but to get behind the wheel of a car after drinking at a gay bar and being seen leaving with another man no less, it does bring one to wonder how high up on the “stupidity scale” Ashburn chooses to rise.
What’s that old children’s story, oh yes, “The Emperor Wore No Clothes“.
And so it goes boys and girls, just another day in the life of anti-gay conservatives.
The opine is titled after the upcoming Los Angeles Times Press Club panel discussion which will take place next Thursday, February 25.
In regards to the question in the title of this posting, in this writer’s opinion the answer for the most part is no.
Particularly in the case of many of the ”well respected” gay blogs such as Pam’s House Blend, Americablog Gay,Box Turtle Bulletin, Joe My God and others. One only has to read their blogs when covering events, either on scene or starting with mainstream media sources and then putting their own bias spin on news, just as FOX News does in their “news reporting”.
When I decided to “provide coverage” of the Prop 8 trial last month I opted to use the mainstream press for a next day “briefing” of what took place and with no commentary, unless clearly labeled as such as is this posting.
And there in lies the problem with a great many LGBT blogs and even websites. What passes for “news” is in fact commentary, biased of course with the LGBT slant. And nothing wrong with that, each publisher should decided how and in what form they wish to offer “news”.
But as the Fox News Channel is often slammed for being a news channel with “fair and balanced” reporting, but in actuality presenting news often with a conservative slant and more in the way of opinion, so too are many in the LGBT press, media and the so-called “Citizen Journalist” bloggers, offering news and reporting with their own LGBT bias slant.
Again nothing wrong with that as long as the reader knows and understands that’s what they are going to get for their free ticket on the Internet for news.
We as publishers and writers have our own goals and ideas of how, what and the way we present news which affects or is of interest to the LGBT community, as is clearly written in the Mission Statement of Focus On The Rainbow.
If only more LGBT blogs and websites would do the same, then there would be no question as to their own “fair and balanced” reporting, which is often taken as “gospel” and then spread among other blogs, websites and on some occasions picked up and put into the news stream.
For those in the Los Angeles area who would like to attend the panel discussion, it will be presented at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25, at the Los Angeles Press Club in the Steve Allen Theater, 4773 Hollywood Blvd., one block west of Vermont Ave., in Los Feliz. (Metro: Vermont/Sunset station). Free parking and refreshments. The discussion is open to everyone.
Here’s the RSVP info – free for members, $10 for non-LA Press Club members, $50 for membership and two tickets for new members.
Have a seat by the campfire boys and girls as I tell you a tale about how one lovely lady and her co-horts in Canada took just about every news organization and a multitude of websites and blogs in the US and around the world for a ride to promote a “dating website” by taking advantage of the outrage over CBS Television accepting an ad from Focus On The Family for the Super Bowl.
It all started this past Thursday, January 28 when FOX News posted this storyon their website written by Hollie McKay, which reads in part, After days of deliberations on whether to run a controversial Super Bowl ad from gay dating site ManCrunch.com, CBS has not yet reached a decision.
For those who may not have been following this great “fiasco of journalism”, the story refers to a website called Man Crunch, “Where Many Many Many Men Come Out to Play”, and how the owners of the website were trying to buy ad time from CBS for the Super Bowl.
Well boys and girls, as they say about a YouTube video, the story went viral. New articles with links to the Fox News story started popping up the same day on mainstream websites such as The Huffington Post, as well as LGBT blogs and websites, among the first was JMG.
Now, what a great many of the postings on blogs and websites have in common aside to a reference to the Fox News story, CBS and Man Crunch, is the “contradiction” by CBS to accept an ad from Focus On The Family, an organization which among other things is anti-gay, and as will end up happening on the 29th, CBS rejecting the ad from Man Crunch.
On Friday the 29th, the story hit, via a tweet from CNBC’s Darren Rovellno, that CBS would not accept the Man Crunch ad and again that story went viral too, this time with the likes of the NY Daily News, the New York Post,CNN and even later Friday evening on the CBS News website, which uses a source for their story, about their own company mind you, The Hollywood Reporter.
Before we break out the marshmallows for roasting and hearing the second part to our tale, I must tell you this.
When this writer first starting coming across the story on Thursday and reading the content of the FOX News article, the built in journalist and former CBS employee antenna went up and I figured something was afoot and not correct, which is why until this posting, there has been no mention of CBS/Man Crunch.
What led me to that observation if you will, and decided not to join the fray of the many, was the information regarding CBS and Man Crunch, the information of which was provided by Man Crunch. Every time “a CBS rep” was written it was done so with no name. Also in some of the articles there was an unsettling contradiction in what CBS was purported to be saying and Man Crunch’s statements and offering of information.
Even the “statement from CBS” as to why the ad would not be accepted was information provided by Man Crunch and again with no names of CBS spokesman or representatives. So needless to say the whole thing didn’t sit right and I opted not to add this blog to the ever growing media taking this all in.
Now you can break out the marshmallows, here’s the second part.
Late Saturday afternoon, January 30, I was doing my ”trip around the block” checking websites/blogs and JMG had another posting about Man Crunch, this one from Friday, and in the comments I noticed one from Jason D, in which he references to a website GayDailyHot (NOTSFW due to gay oriented ads) and a posting which says that Man Crunch is yet another site created by Simone Dadoun-Cohen, the very lovely young lady first mentioned at the beginning of this posting.
GayDailyHot wrote in part, Mancrunch isn’t a LGBT-owned business and it isn’t a “gay dating site” at all.. it’s just the “gay niche” site made by a clueless straight company for publicity.
It appears to be from the same gold-digging skank who brought you Establishedmen, ArrangementSeekers.com and Cougar Life. Those are owned by Simone Dadoun-Cohen, and this is probably just another way for her to manipulate people for money.
This company seems to be just using the gay community’s political strength for some cash. It looks like they made a “gay” commercial they knew would be rejected so the gay community would get angry and generate a lot of free press for them.
So with that in mind, I decided to have a good old fashion look-see. Join me and make up your own mind.
Established Men media contact .. Man Crunch media contact … same phone number, and also look and see how the websites are similar, here and here, on the same, how do the computer geeks call it, framework, and how the FAQ’s and answers are pretty much the same, here and here.
And there you are boys and girls, one smart classy cookie and co-horts up in Canada, who took advantage of the outrage of CBS selling ad time to Focus On The Family. Just who is Simone Dadoun-Cohen ?
ABC News’ Nightline once did a story on her and her website in an article on May 18, 2009 (which the video below is about) and was also mentioned May 13, 2009 in reference to dating sites in an article in the “money section” at the ABC News website, titled, Sugar Daddy Sites Attract Sexual Blackmailers
Have a look at the video to meet the former stripper who has bamboozled CBS plus a host of others around the world, using Focus On The Family, it’s anti-gay sentiment and the outrage of CBS accepting a “pro-life ad” from the group.
Dadoun-Cohen and co-horts have used that hot-button news story to promote a “gay dating service” website with no cost to her or her company while a great many well intentioned people found fault with CBS for creating a double standard in accepting an ad from Focus On The Family and not an ad from a gay advertiser. An ad which most likely wouldn’t have been accepted based on it’s amateurish production alone.
As PT Barnum was purported to have said, “there’s a sucker born every minute“, it would seem Simone Dadoun-Cohen and co-horts have certainly proved that in this little farce of using the passionate feelings against CBS within the LGBT community, and LGBT blog & website publishers and authors/writers, for their own profit, promotion and exploitation, where on one website male customers pay $49 monthly, plus additional fees for extra frills such as sending virtual gifts to, in the words of the website, a “perfect princess.” as was reported in an article back in June of 2009 at the Toronto Sun. Dadoun-Cohen was a York University student earning between $800 and $2,000 a night stripping at a Toronto-based gentleman’s club, a world that completely contrasts her life now as a cushy suburbanite, married with three young children.
I do believe there are a great many lessons to be learned, the least of which for reporters, if it looks like a cow-pie, smells like a cow-pie, it most likely is a cow-pie and best not to step into it.
I learned that lesson the hard way a very long time ago on my great-grandfather’s farm.
Above is a link which shows the clearance report sent to Man Crunch and “signed” by Kristin Bartlett, editor, CBS Program Practices.
The report reads in part, CBS Standards and Practices has reviewed your proposed Super Bowl ad and concluded that the creative is not within the Network’s Broadcast Standards for Super Bowl Sunday. Moreover, our Sales Department has had difficulty verifying your organization’s credit status.
This writer is confident the document is authentic (and not another volley of bamboozlement) as it is similar to one which we used at the CBS Radio Group in Hartford, CT when I worked there in the capacity of national advertising continuity manager.
Mike Bawden of the website Brand Central Station left a comment on this posting today (Monday 2/1/10) in which he also feels the whole Man Crunch/CBS debacle is a sham.
Bawden conducted an interview with a representative of Man Crunch, Dominic Friesen, and posted the interview in its entirety this past Friday January 29. You can read the interview here.
Bawden finished his piece by writing, After all, the outrage we should feel here isn’t about gay dating it’s about the manipulation of an all-to-willing media and people who would rather believe in grand conspiracies and imagined enemies than take the time to think about the messages they’re being fed and how realistic or reasonable they are.
“This year, I will work with Congress and our military to finally repeal the law that denies gay Americans the right to serve the country they love because of who they are.”
On January 16 this writer was one of the first in the media to voice opposition to CBS Television’s decision to sell ad time during this year’s Super Bowl to the anti-gay hate group Focus On The Family.
Yesterday CBS stood behind it’s decision to sell ad time and that it will not drop Focus On The Family as a Super Bowl advertiser. In an article at Broadcasting and Cable(B&C)reporter John Eggerton wrote in part, The network said it does not reject advocacy ads out of hand, and added that it would consider “responsibly produced ads from all groups” for the “few” remaining spots in the broadcast.
“We have for some time moderated our approach to advocacy submissions after it became apparent that our stance did not reflect public sentiment or industry norms on the issue,” CBS said in an e-mailed statement Tuesday. “In fact, most media outlets have accepted advocacy ads for some time. At CBS, our standards and practices process continues to adhere to a process that ensures all ads — on all sides of an issue — are appropriate for air.
“We will continue to consider responsibly produced ads from all groups for the few remaining spots in Super Bowl XLIV,” the network said.
A CBS spokesperson had told B&C Claire Atkinson last week that the network had vetted the spot’s script and did not expect to have any trouble with the video.
“It is not inflammatory or divisive,” a CBS exec told Atkinson last week.
The ad in question may not be inflammatory or divisive but Focus On The Family certainly is.
The following is an open letter directed to Les Moonves, President and CEO of the CBS Corporation.
Dear Mr. Moonves,
As a former and once proud employee of CBS Broadcasting I find your decision as head of CBS Broadcasting to allow Focus On The Family to buy ad time during this year’s Super Bowl broadcast, putting corporate profit above the fight against discrimination and to allow a group such as Focus On The Family which dictates what it deems should be the moral conscience and decency of Americans and to publicize themselves to a national and international TV viewing audience, to be unconscionable.
When I was the commercial continuity manager at the CBS Radio Group in Hartford, CT and managed barter ads for program distributors such as Westwood One, I was not allowed to schedule certain radio spots.
I was not allowed to schedule ads from XM Satellite Radio as it was deemed a competitor. I was not allowed to schedule ads for Trojan prophylactics as the ad subject matter was deemed inappropriate for our four stations in the radio group.
And there were times I was not allowed to schedule ads from Radio Shack because the ad co-oped with XM Satellite Radio.
Part of my job was to bring to the attention of the Director of Operations and the General Manager of the Radio Group ads which may have “underlying political messages”, inappropriate content matter for the radio stations and ads which may be of a competitive nature to the radio broadcast industry (with the exception of TV or Cable Networks).
Should I be remiss in my duties and neglect to become “suspicious” of ad content, as I did once with Radio Shack co-oping with XM, my ass was handed to me on a platter, to put it in blunt terms.
So while the content of the upcoming ad from Focus On The Family may not be “inflammatory or decisive”, the same can not be said about the organization behind the ad.
Not only is your descision to accept advertising dollars from Focus On The Family an affront to LGBTs, women and those who believe in reproductive choice, it is a major disappointment I am sure for a great many loyal employees of the CBS Corporation and it’s divisions, this a Corporation which in its employee policy does not tolerate intolerance among the CBS Corporation and its various division’s employees.
Were I still working at CBS I would not write this communication to you for fear of losing my job.
Now that I no longer have to worry about that scenario, I can write this to be a voice for the thousands of fellow CBS employees I left behind and who may be afraid to express the like-minded view of this communication.
I use to say CBS was like a second family to me.
Today and until such time as you make the decision not to air the Focus On The Family ad, I am ashamed to have been part of the CBS family.
Pam’s House Blend has “promoted” a blog piece by Chino Blanco which shows the video below and several others, now making Utah State Senator Chris Buttars their latest target. Another day in Beanville.
funny how they missed or chose not to use this video, but then it puts Buttars in a good light
(Note – this commentary was originally published January 21 and has been moved up to today to include David Kaufman’s timely commentary at The Huffington Post)
Having been blogging in various forms going on three years in February and following/reading LGBT blogs, websites and LGBT pundits, yes folks we also have them, it never ceases to amaze me that in spite of the call for equality for LGBTs, if you’re an LGBT Republican you don’t qualify to be a member of “the club”.
I can’t begin to count how many bloggers and members of the LGBT press have taken swipes at the organization Log Cabin Republicans and those who are like minded.
This could account for myself not being brought into “the fold” of many of the LGBT media elites as I have many times, on several blogs, wrote that I am a Republican, both moderate and liberal in thinking, and that President Obama is the first Democrat for president who I have voted for.
If it’s any consolation to those who have now fainted and awaiting the smelling salts, had I been old enough I would have voted for JFK.
However, just because I affiliate my political thinking more to one side than the other doesn’t mean I vote straight ticket. No my friends (thanks John) I often spilt my vote in elections, because you see I vote for the person or at times what is in my best interest as a US citizen, a resident of the Connecticut or the town I live in.
I daresay I have probably voted for more Democrats than Republicans.
I’m what many of the LGBT elitists would call a Judeas.
Oh well, I’ve been called worse in my life.
What brings me to this commentary is two of, and by days end and into Friday most likely more, the elitists who bring to the table the video below of nice guy, but who can be an elitist himself, Michelangelo Signorile who has a talk show on the LGBT channel on XM/Sirius Radio.
The YouTube video is titled “Inside the mind of a gay Scott Brown supporter” and is on the very LGBT elitist blog Americablog Gay and J.M.G. aka Joe My God, in which Joe Jervis author of the blog wrote, “Yes folks, we got us a gay teabagger.”
I write this commentary not for the LGBT readers who know what goes on out in the LGBT blogosphere and media, but for the straight folk who happen by and read FOTR.
Just as within other groups and communities, here in the Rainbow world, you are expected to tote the line and be good little LGBTs without any contradiction to the greater good. Kind of like being assimilated by the Borg if you know what I mean.
And so it is there are times when the LGBT elite can be just as homophobic as Right-Wing Conservatives, which in my book is worse.
