Pennsylvania State Senator declares he is gay like a boss.

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Courtesy of CNN:  

Lawmakers gathered in the Pennsylvania state capital in Harrisburg on Tuesday to propose a major change in the state's hate crime law to extend protection to those who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. 

Lawmakers made their pitch for getting the legislation to the governor's desk by the end of the year. 

Then bill sponsor, Sen. Jim Ferlo of Pittsburgh, made his surprise announcement -- very casually.. 

"Hundreds of people know I'm gay. I just never made an official declaration," he said. "I never felt I had to wear a billboard on my forehead. But I'm gay. Get over it. I love it. It's a great life."

Later, Ferlo, who will be leaving the state Senate in November, said his remarks weren't planned. 

"It was totally impromptu. I've never denied it. I've never felt the need to talk about it," he told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

The dude makes being gay sound awesome.

In fact seeing how happy he is with his life, and how easily he comes out and talks about it, kind of makes me wish I were gay.

Damn it! Pat Robertson was right! Now my heterosexuality has been put at risk by the gay agenda.

Damn you gay mafia!

Gotta admit he has a point.

By the way that is Tim Gunn of Project Runway fame, in case you were wondering.

You know people can wave their Bibles and rail against marriage equality all they want, but like it or not it is coming. There may be bumps and delays long the road, but the destination is really no longer in doubt.

Stephen Colbert reports on the Gay Mayor of Vicco Kentucky. Oh you HAVE to see this! Update!

No video for you!

I love everything about this!

Especially the fat old white oxygen huffing anti-gay pastor. He was killing me.

If the acceptance of the LGBT community has spread to Vicco, Kentucky I think the gay agenda has finally been realized.

Update: Okay well the video was taken down but you can still enjoy this very entertaining segment by clicking here. 

Pat Robertson lays out the gay agenda for us. And after all, who would understand it better than Pat Robertson?

The want "an affirmation of the way they DO sex." The bastards!

According to Roberson they are wiling to destroy the church, the military, marriage, and even businesses if people do not affirm that the way they "do sex" is alright with them.

And here I thought that gay people simply wanted to have the same rights as their heterosexual counterparts and gain acceptance for who they are as people.

But clearly I was mistaken, these people are dangerous individuals who want to get freedom dissolving "gay" all over everything! Oh the horror!

The good news for homophobes is that homosexuality is not contagious, the bad news is that stupidity apparently is.

Courtesy of Real Clear Science:  

There are many straight people in this country who suffer from a closeted (or even open) fear that homosexuality is contagious, that merely befriending a gay or lesbian person or being near one will cause a straight individual to sprout a same-sex attraction. 

But a large study recently published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior may help dispel that fear. Analyzing the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, a long term-study conducted from 1994 to 2002 of a nationally representative sample of 90,118 students in Grades 7-12, researchers from the U.S. and the U.K. found that same-sex attraction does not spread in adolescent peer groups.

Of course this is the underlying fear of those who are terrified of gay teachers in the classroom, can't stand the idea of gay people getting married, and who believe that the acceptance of homosexuality as relatively normal will usher in some sort of national Sodom and Gomorrah.

Now most of us did not need to read this study to recognize that those fears were unfounded, but that is because WE tend to think logically. And we are likely straight, or out of the closet gays.

As we have noted before homophobic people often have latent homosexual urges which they constantly have to struggle with to keep suppressed and unnoticed by their peers.

They are so aggressively against the idea of homosexuality gaining a sense of normalcy because that would make it just that much harder to suppress their own.  And the idea that homosexuality is contagious seems reasonable to them because the more they are exposed to "teh gay" the more their own "sinful" thoughts bubble to the surface.

However, as this study proves, the facts are that if you are gay, then you are gay regardless of how hard you try to suppress it, and if you are straight, then your love of showtunes is simply bad taste in music.

That is why the so-called "gay agenda" has never been about making other people gay, it has always been about allowing those who ARE gay to learn to love themselves and realize that they do not have to hide who they are anymore. 

Finally the gay agenda revealed!

Oh my God! it is even more insidious than we were led to believe!

Newly out of the closet teen meets his idol, George Takei.

Just a few days ago Jacob Rudolph had come out to his class while accepting an award as best "class actor" in front of his classmates:  

When Jacob Rudolph received the award for "class actor" at his high school, the New Jersey teenager took the opportunity to make a real-life announcement. "I've been acting every single day of my life," he said. "You see me acting the part of 'straight' Jacob, when I am in fact LGBT." He then defined the acronym, which stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender. Jacob's father says Jacob is still exploring whether he's exclusively attracted to one sex and used that acronym out of solidarity. Jacob's classmates gave him a standing ovation, and his father — who helped edit his speech before posting the video to YouTube — said it took "more guts than anything I've ever attempted in my life." 

The other day when being interviewed by Anderson Cooper Jacob  received the surprise of his life.

You know we have to always remind ourselves that we are not just fighting for equal rights for ourselves and our loved ones, we are also acting as role models for those who will carry on the fight going forward.

What was improbable yesterday, is possible today, and ubiquitous tomorrow.

The One Million Moms are about to LOSE THEIR MINDS! Update!

Courtesy of Joe My God:

The text on the upper right reads: "First Pals: What makes Dad so cool? He's the swim coach, tent maker, best friend, bike fixer and hug giver--all rolled into one. Or two." The text at the bottom right reads: "Real-life dads, Todd Koch and Cooper Smith with their children Claire and Mason." Fantastic. And I'm totally going to JC Penney this weekend. I don't know what I need, but I'll figure that out when I get there.

What?  The One Million Moms, KNEW this would happen!

First Ellen Degeneres makes totally gay commercials inviting tons of Jesus hating homos to shop at J.C. Penney and NOW we have yet ANOTHER commercial showing two little children in the process of being indoctrinated into the gay lifestyle, bravely hiding their emotional scars, while the two abominations in the eyes of God attempt to bribe them with colorful durable clothing form a once respected department store.

Oh the horror!

And you can bet that JUST as soon as the One Million Moms bring Marvel and DC Comics to their knees for daring to show gayness on their little funny pages, they will turn their attention back to Penney's and stop buying their products with even MORE ferocity.

Update: Well it seemed to take them all day but FINALLY One Million Moms noticed the ad, and are currently losing their minds over it as predicted:

One Million Moms (OMM) is disturbed that JC Penney's (JCP) is continuing down the same path of promoting sin in their advertisements. In JCP's June catalog, there is another homosexual ad, but this time with two dads celebrating Father's Day.

Also as predicted they are going to teach J.C. Penney a lesson by doing the following:

OMM will continue to avoid shopping at JCP until they take a neutral stand.

Apparently the J.C. Penney corporation is  actively blocking e-mails from OMM supporters so perhaps somebody should contact them to let them know that the reason these crazy Christians are refusing to shop in their fine department stores is no longer just because of that gay talk show host lady, but is now also the result of the two homosexual dads indoctrinating their children into a deviant sinful lifestyle.

You know, if you think it would make any difference to the J.C. Penney people that is.

According to Nathan Lane, "if you want to get to the right place, at the right time, the pro-gay bandwagon is the only way to travel."

Now I realize that this is two pro-gay posts in a row, which means in a few minutes the "Hah! I KNEW you were a fag" troll will be visiting my comments section soon.

So as a sort of preemptive strike, let me just remind everybody visiting here that I am a VERY liberal, single man, living with his daughter, who often wears tank tops and enjoys listening to show tunes.

Wow, you know what? That does sound kind of gay.

Well anyhow, despite all indications to the contrary, I am not gay.  Trust me, if I were you would be the first to know.

Well probably the second to know actually.

Considering my lifestyle, my job, and my friends there is no reason I would keep my sexuality hidden. So I don't.

Just because I support gay rights and marriage equality it does not make me gay.  It makes me a human being.

I also write in support of women's rights, minority rights, and even sometimes animal rights.

So by the logic of some people, I would have to be a gay, dark skinned, female, Labrador retriever.

Which I'm not.

At least I don't think.

Just thought I would put that out there.

Religious Right in a rage over "homosexual indoctrination" in public schools.

This from God Discussion:

The following video put together by Mass Resistance, a group in Massachusetts that is still fighting gay marriage and tolerance of the LGBT community, is an example of "the evil of this radical facet of the Leftist enemy" according to a forum poster at the You Know It's About Liberty forum. Showing that children of same sex parents have trouble with permission slips, that gays or lesbians are bullied, and that there are famous gay and lesbian people has enraged some of the people at It's About Liberty, one of whom had to "suppress the impulse to reach out and throttle anyone who would deliberately seek to pervert children." Anther wrote, "Suffice it to say anybody sending a kid to a public school like this is truly endangering their child!"



Look I am well aware that I am one of those "Godless, liberal, America hating, socialists." But having admitted that, I watched this supposedly shocking  video showing the "insidious indoctrination of school children," and was left feeling extremely impressed with the sensitivity and openness the educators involved demonstrated while teaching this topic of mutual respect and acceptance.

At a time when we are learning that school programs which support gay rights can dramatically decrease the number of teen suicides among their students, watching how the teachers in this video addressed this sensitive issue made me feel hopeful about the youth of tomorrow, not frightened for them.

In fact, in my opinion, the word "indoctrination" was completely misused as a description of what I saw.

Which got me to thinking about a movie I once watched that I felt DID feature aggressive indoctrination.  See if you can spot the difference.

(From the movie Jesus Camp.)



Where would you rather send YOUR children?

(H/T to the Daily Kos.)