Posts Tagged ‘California’

NOM peas itself in new California ad

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

Two Peas Same Liberal Pod – Tom Campbell Barbara Boxer Proposition 8 California (video: NOM at YouTube)

They’re back! The carpetbagging con artists of the Washington DC-based National Organization for Marriage are back in California trying to win friends and influence elections.

According to Eric Ross, writing at The Examiner:

On March 15th, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) launched a new TV ad to attack a Republican candidate for supporting marriage equality. Their new video titled, “Two peas, same liberal pod,” compares Republican Senate candidate Tom Campbell with Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer.

NOM’s strategy is as transparent as its interstate double-dealing is not. The California candidates aren’t extreme enough on marriage equality? Surprise. And, for good measure, NOM thinks they can sucker a few fiscal conservatives into supporting the lunatic theofascist wing of the Republican party by mentioning the right’s great Satan — taxes.

Fancy that coming from the comedy team of Maggie Gallagher and Brian Brown — the radical religious reich’s go-to grifters when it comes to the elimination of the fundamental rights of gay and lesbian Americans. Gallagher and Brown are two peas in a pod that’s barely managing to stay a step ahead of the IRS and their ethics and legal challenges in multiple states.

The Quotable Mark Morford

Monday, March 15th, 2010

“See, we here in sinful, hellhole Sodom-iffic San Francisco see such piffling outcry, and laugh. We’ve been shrugging off Bible Belt ignorance and fundamentalist accusations of our being the perverted nail sticking out of God’s virtuous park bench since Harvey Milk opened a camera shop, Berkeley decided to light some U.S. flags on fire and the Haight burned Vietnam draft notices — all right before we became one of the world’s foremost centers of intellectualism, culture, art, food, education, experimentation, leather, enlightenment, love and joy and fine lubricants for all. Welcome to hell, WaPo! Come on in, the water’s blasphemous.”

Mark Morford, San Francisco Gate columnist, reacting to the virulently bigoted response to the Washington Post’s publication of a photograph of two gay men kissing on the day marriage equality arrived in our nation’s capitol,
from Hey, sickos! Real men marry women!

Sans Comment

Friday, March 12th, 2010

Gary Lauder’s new traffic sign: Take Turns (video: TEDtalksDirector at YouTube)

Stephen Whitburn’s news conference

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Given that San Diego City Councilmember Donna Frye has declined to run for the Board of Supes, this announcement by community activist and former San Diego City Council candidate Stephen Whitburn could be very interesting:

MEDIA ADVISORY
March 10, 2010

Stephen Whitburn, a 2008 City Council candidate, will hold a news conference to make an announcement regarding the San Diego County Board of Supervisors on Thursday, March 11th at 5:30 p.m. at Twiggs Coffeehouse in University Heights.

WHEN: Thursday, March 11, 2010 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Twiggs Bakery & Coffeehouse, 4590 Park Boulevard, (Corner of Park and Madison), San Diego, CA 92116
WHO: Stephen Whitburn, 2008 City Council candidate, neighborhoods advocate, and past president of the San Diego Democratic Club
WHAT: News conference/announcement regarding San Diego County Board of Supervisors

Here’s your basic how to get there.

Zap this bigot in the bud

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Lorie Zapf wants to replace City Councilmember Donna Frye, but she might not be all that comfy hanging with some of San Diego’s other elected officials, according to CityBeat’s Justin McLachlan:

“I absolutely want to keep homosexuals out of public office and not be allowed to influence our schools, textbooks, altering marriage, children, and on and on,’ [San Diego City Council wannabe Lorie] Zapf wrote in a 2006 e-mail exchange obtained by CityBeat between her and James Hartline, an anti-gay activist.

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She also made it a point to tell him she supported his cause: “I like that you are trying to keep homosexuals and homosexual activists out of public office because we both know what the long term agenda is.” And later: “I do believe homosexuality is a sin. I have three homosexual first cousins. I love them all and would ‘be seen’ in a photo with them. I believe they all live in sin and frankly all are very unhappy people and had horrible childhoods as well.”

Has Zapf progressed from those statements?

When presented with copies of the e-mail, Zapf said her comments to Hartline “do not accurately reflect my views or actions then or now. For many years prior and after this e-mail, I’ve hired gays in my business and have endorsed gays for elected office. But, I recognize my words may still be hurtful, and I apologize for them sincerely.”

And … puft! … as if by magic, her comments vanished in a puff of rainbow-colored patchouli smoke and we all lived happily ever after and got along famously.

Not.

One thing to remember: Closeted homophobia festers in the dark looking for a release.