N.C. SENATOR FORRESTER – A VICIOUS GAY-BASHER -- !!!!!BOMBSHELL!!!! REVELATION

N.C. SENATOR FORRESTER – A VICIOUS GAY-BASHER -- !!!!!BOMBSHELL!!!! REVELATION

UPDATE BELOW!

by Scott Rose

North Carolina State Senator James Forrester (R-Gaston) a licensed physician, is one of the lead political gay bashers in his state.  Forrester sponsored the proposal for a ballot measure for a constitutional amendment that would deny equal marriage rights to gay North Carolinians.

Guilty of recklessly disseminating fraudulent health care information to the public, Senator Forrester now has apparently been caught out lying about his professional medical associations.

In various places, Dr. Forrester claims to be a Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine.

The ACPM’s Mike Barry has this to say:  
“Thanks for bringing this to our attention.  The quick answer 
to your questions is that Dr. Forrester is not, and never has 
been, a member of ACPM (much less a Fellow, 
which is our highest designation of membership).  However, 
this is troubling to us, too, that he's apparently claiming to be 
a Fellow of ACPM, and we would like to know
 where Dr. Forrester is making these proclamations so that 
we can approach him and demand that he cease falsely using 
ACPM credentials in his campaign or wherever else he's
using it.  If you can point us to some places where he's using 
those credentials, we'd be most appreciative.  Many thanks.” 

UPDATE: The American College of Preventive Medicine's
Jennifer Edwards sent me this message:
"I've called Dr. Forrester's office. I spoke with Ms.Murphy and
explained that Dr. Forrester isn't one of our members and to
please remove our name and any references to us from
 their website.

NOM’S VIOLENCE AGAINST TAX PAYERS

NOM’S VIOLENCE AGAINST TAX PAYERS

by Scott Rose

           

 The so-called “National Organization for Marriage,” an anti-gay hate group, has announced plans to launch a hate propaganda video involving New York State clerks who break the law by refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples.

            In some ways, the clerks’ illegal anti-gay discrimination is akin to a white waitress refusing to serve black customers. And to be sure, segregation -- aka racial apartheid -- does share many monstrous features with the sexual orientation apartheid that prevails in the United States today.

           

            However, here is why the clerks’ illegal discriminatory behavior is worse than that of a white supremacist waitress refusing to serve black diners. A restaurant customer refused service has not yet paid for the service. By contrast, when a couple arrives at a clerk’s office to apply for a marriage license, their taxes have already been paying the clerk’s salary and the office maintenance. The clerk is refusing the citizens a service that the citizens have already paid for.

            Some New York jurisdictions with heterosupremacist, theocRAT clerks have already announced that they will hire extra personnel so the official clerk does not have to issue marriage licenses. One of the troubles with that arrangement is, that because of it, tax payers are being forced to pay extra money -- for the very same work to be performed -- as a result of bigoted clerks’ refusal to comply with the law.

            We must not forget that a lesbian or gay firefighter does not have the option not to save a political gay-basher’s life in the event of fire. If a lesbian firefighter will go through flames to save a political gay-basher’s life, then a political gay-bashing clerk can either issue marriage licenses to gay couples or find a different line of work.

            In politicking in favor of the gay-bashing clerks, the National Organization for Marriage is committing an egregious economic violence against all New York State tax payers. It is not acceptable, in a time when public schools are being defunded because of the economic crisis, for additional tax resources to be squandered on the hateful whims of gay-bashing clerks. And, NOM is not only promoting an unnecessary and hateful expense to tax payers; it is doing so as part of its organization’s fund-raising drives, begging its fellow political gay-bashers for anti-gay blood money.  At this link, you may view a preacher at a NOM-sponsored anti-gay hate rally yelling that God says that homosexuals are “worthy to death.”  New York tax payers had to pay for the policing of a rally where NOM, a hate group, approved of a preacher saying that homosexuals are “worthy to death.”  Was that really a good, sane use of tax dollars?  It should be noted that for its hate rally, NOM had to be issued a permit by a government clerk.

            Being a hate group, the so-called “National Organization for Marriage” does not hesitate to squander tax payers’ money in other additional ways. This reporter plans at a later date to make an accurate calculation of the costs to the tax payer of NOM’s long-dragged-out legal challenges to established laws regarding political donor identity disclosure.  The courts are being tied up with NOM’s pernicious hate group activities – and that tying up of the courts should be considered another of NOM’s acts of economic violence against tax payers.

            NOM’s close colleague in political gay-bashing, the Catholic Church, furthermore, creates hidden costs to tax payers. When, for example, a Church child rape victim needs government assistance for mental health care, NOM, in being part of the Church’s political protection mechanism, is again doing an economic violence against tax payers. That is not to mention that a Church child rape victim, typically, -- because of the mental and physical trauma -- is not able to make the best use of the public education being provided to her. Go here to learn more about the so-called “National Organization for Marriage’s” child rape problem. And then go here to sign a petition asking President Obama to tell Archbishop Timothy Dolan to stop obstructing justice for the Church’s child rape victims.

            Now, go here to tell New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo that you object to tax payers’ money being used to subsidize illegal discrimination. Note that you can e-mail the Governor if you live outside the state.  Here is a suggested message, which you should feel free to copy, and to send to additional elected officials too.  Dear Governor Cuomo:  This is to express dismay over the economic violence against tax payers now being promoted by the so-called “National Organization for Marriage,” an anti-gay hate group.  NOM is promoting the idea that although anti-gay clerks are breaking the law by refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, tax payers should have to fund the hiring of additional office personnel in order for marriage licenses to be issued to gay couples. Note, please, that this is not NOM’s only economic violence against tax payers.  In many jurisdictions, NOM at great tax payer expense is tying up the courts with wasteful challenges to long-established donor disclosure laws. Tax-payer funds, moreover, had to be devoted to a NOM-sponsored anti-gay hate rally in the Bronx in May, during which a preacher yelled at a mob of bigots that homosexuals are “worthy to death.”  In 21^st century America, tax payers should not be funding hate groups. Your continued support for the best possible uses of limited tax payer resources will be greatly appreciated.  Please do whatever you can to stop the so-called “National Organization for Marriage’s” economic violence against tax payers.

NOM’S CHILD RAPE PROBLEM

NOM’S CHILD RAPE PROBLEM

by Scott Rose

The National Organization for Marriage is jumping on the bandwagon, demanding Google alter search results, such that the link to Rick Santorum’s campaign site should appear above results containing his nickname.

          We must not forget, or ever allow NOM to forget, that Dan Savage redefined Santorum in response to Santorum’s 2003 interview with Associated Press reporter Lara Jakes Jordan.  The first topic of that interview was the Catholic Church’s crimes of enabling child rapists. Santorum dismissed the subject by duplicitously alleging that all instances of priest-on-child sexual violence had been matters of consensual relations between adult and teenaged homosexuals.

          Santorum was parroting a line the Church used at the time and often attempts to use still.  That line of propaganda denies that 1) certain priests raped pre-pubescent children including females; 2) certain nuns raped children, including males; 3) it is not appropriate for Rick Santorum to allege that teenage rape victims were having consensual relations with the priests that raped them; 4) statutory rape laws do not apply to heterosexuals exclusively, and; 5) many courts of law have found that the Catholic Church is liable to its child rape victims.

          What this all amounts to is that the National Organization for Marriage is actively giving political support to somebody who seeks 1) to shield child rapists from prosecution, and 2) to prevent rape victims from seeing justice done. That Santorum concurrently seeks to demonize gay people is secondary to the issue of his seeking to enable and to empower child rapists. There have, for example also been female rape victims of Catholic priests.

          The Church deceptively claimed to have enacted adequate reforms, yet additional Church child rape crimes keep coming to light. A March 4, 2011 New York Times headline read “In Philadelphia, Fears That Abusive Priests Are Still Active.”  In an indictment involving the Philadelphia Archdiocese, 37 of the priests named can not be prosecuted because of the statutes of limitations.

          Maggie Gallagher’s close associate in political gay-bashing, Archbishop Timothy Dolan when in Wisconsin successfully fought against proposed legislation that would have lifted the statutes of limitations on the prosecution of child rape cases there. After scoring those successes, Dolan was promoted to New York and made President of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. He is notorious for fighting against similar proposed legislation in New York.

          Apparently, the National Organization for Marriage sees nothing wrong with shielding child rapists from prosecution. In vain does one look for statements from NOM demanding that Archbishop Dolan politic in favor of the lifting of statutes of limitations on the prosecution of child rape. This is a big money matter to the Catholic Church and it will fight tooth and nail to keep those statutes of limitations in place.

          It also is a signal indicator of the National Organization for Marriage’s utter depravity. Though the anti-gay hate group is adamant that each child has a “right” to two opposite sex, heterosexual parents, (and that therefore, gay Americans must be denied the civil right to marry), it apparently believes that the complaints of the Catholic Church’s child rape victims can all be written off with the fraudulent assertion that all of those child rapes were “consensual.” NOM certainly is seeking to protect and to defend Rick Santorum against the negative nickname he was assigned in part because of his obnoxious statements about the Catholic Church’s child rape crimes. If this is how NOM promotes child welfare, then nobody should allow their children near any NOM board member, employee or supporter.

All decent Americans must relentlessly and uncompromisingly demand to know whether the National Organization for Marriage supports or opposes the lifting of the statutes of limitations for the prosecution of child rape. And we must demand that, until we have a yes or no response from NOM.  Then, if NOM alleges it favors lifting the statutes, we must demand that it demand of Archbishop Dolan that he support the political effort to get the statutes lifted. If Dolan can send a menacing letter to President Obama over marriage equality, warning of a "national conflict," then he can get involved politically with lifting the statutes of limitations on child rape or face a national conflict over them.  NOM does not hesitate to coordinate politically with the Catholic Church against marriage equality, it must here be noted.  On what moral grounds would NOM refuse to coordinate with the Church towards lifting the statutes of limitations for child rape prosecutions?  NOM does allege an interest in child welfare and the family. It therefore is justified for us to inquire whether NOM acknowledges the overwhelming and negative impact of Church child rape on the victims’ families.

Alternately, if NOM says it does not support the lifting of those statutes of limitations, then we must let the public know that the National Organization for Marriage abets the Catholic Church and Rick Santorum in shielding suspected child rapists from prosecution and in otherwise enabling child rapists.

RUBEN DIAZ’S SON REPUDIATES HIS FATHER’S BIGOTRY

            By Scott Rose

            News today from New York reaffirms that anti-LGBT bigots, generationally, are on their way out.

            In the September 13 special election to replace U.S. Congressman Anthony Weiner, Democrat David Weprin is running against the sexual orientation apartheid Conservative Party candidate Bob Turner. 

            State Senator Ruben Diaz, Sr., supposedly a Democrat, yet a malicious political gay-basher, endorsed the sexual orientation apartheid candidate, saying that he praises the Lord for this chance to work with NOM to attempt to reinforce sexual orientation apartheid.

            Diaz’s son is Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. His spokesman John DeSio says: “Borough President Diaz is and has always been a staunch Democrat, and has never supported anyone but a Democrat in an election. He is supporting David Weprin in this race.”

            The vicious bigot Ruben Diaz, Sr.’s granddaughter Erica Diaz, a lesbian, previously published this article in The New York Post, repudiating her grandfather’s political gay-bashing.

            We applaud the rational members of the Diaz family.

JERRY BUELL'S MENTAL ENEMA

by Scott Rose

Jerry Buell is the piece-of-shit gay-bashing "teacher" at Mount Dora High School alleged once to have said in class that gays should serve on the front line of the military with heterosexual troops deserting them from behind.

I call him a piece of shit, because his supporters are such vicious anti-gay bigots that no matter how polite one were in writing about him and them, nothing would change them.  (And furthermore, polite language will not get the more enlightened segments of society to take adequate action to protect LGBT students at Mount Dora High School, either).  So what the fuck?  Lake County, Florida is dominated by gay-bashing zombies, incurably addicted to using God and Jesus as alibis to bully LGBT human beings in the schools and in society generally.

I asked the student who told an Orlando Sentinel reporter about Buell's anti-gay hate speech involving the military if he had ever reported, to school authorities, how he as a gay student was persecuted in the Lake County Schools.  He told me that he never reported how students or Buell or other teachers and adminsitrators were gay-bashing him, because given the district's general hostility against LGBTers, he thought doing so would be futile.  Remember; this is the part of the country where the influential Republican blogger Dr. Rich Swier keeps on saying that anti-gay bullying is a "healthy" form of peer pressure.  And, most likely, for a student to report being gay-bashed to the authorities would be even worse than futile, as it is probable that all these self-righteous Bible thumping gay bashers would retaliate against any student who complained of being abused by them.  I know for certain, such retaliation takes place against gay-bashed students in Florida's public schools.

A cached web page of Buell's faculty biography on the Mount Dora High School site had him carrying on about how he tries to teach as though he were Jesus Christ (and don't forget; with respect to gay human being's love relationships, Jesus Christ, er, I mean, Jerry Buell said "God will not be mocked!")  Elsewhere in his bio, Buell said that he takes his yearly vacations to "get that mental enema."  Too bad there isn't any mental enema powerful enough to flush the gay-bashing bullshit out of this smug asshole bigot's head.

Now before people fly off their toilet seats criticizing me for taking up the enema talk that the Holy fool Jerky Dumbbuell himself started, I want readers to think about this: at an anti-gay hate rally sponsored by the National Organization for Marriage in May, a Jesus-loving preacher yelled through a megaphone that homosexuals are "worthy to death."  NOM spent its summer spreading irrational, religious-based anti-gay hate in Iowa and got the professional political gay-basher Michele Bachmann to sign the viciously anti-gay NOM "pledge."  This past weekend in Bachmann's hometown of Waterloo, Iowa, Marcellus Andrews, a 19-year-old gay male, was beaten to death by people yelling "Faggot!" at him.

Now where is the enema that could finally rid U.S. society of this unbearable and shameful shit?  Jerky Dumbbuell's self-described yearly mental enemas are manifestly not adequate to the colossal task.

JERRY BUELL, FLORIDA'S GAY-BASHING TEACHER OF THE YEAR

by SCOTT ROSE

            Jerry Buell heads the social studies department at Mount Dora High School in Florida.  Recently, the Lake County Schools district temporarily transferred Buell to an administrative job after he gay-bashed on Facebook, to a public of about 700 “friends” who reportedly included some of his school’s current students.

            Buell said that for gay people to be granted marriage equality almost makes him throw up.  He likened gay civil unions to a cesspool.  The root of his rabid and unshakable support for sexual orientation apartheid is religious; he has referred to marriage equality as “sin,” and said “God will not be mocked.”  If you replaced his word “God” with Allah and said that “Allah will not be mocked” by homosexuals finally being granted their inalienable equal rights, you could just as well be quoting a demented Iranian Ayatollah as the head of a high school social studies department in the United States.

            And yet, Buell was once named Mount Dora’s teacher of the year.  He is the school’s faculty advisor for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, whose membership contract commits signers to abstaining from homosexuality for life.  Buell and his Fellowship want others to believe that their gay-bashing vision of Christianity is the only authentic vision for the religion, as though the Presbyterian, Episcopalian and Lutheran Churches did not ordain out married gay and/or lesbian ministers.

            A graduate of Mount Dora High School saw Buell’s gay bashing on Facebook.  After Buell knew he was alienating student Facebook friends less narrow-minded than he, but before he grasped that his actions would eventually be investigated by his employer, he lashed out at those who criticized him for his irrational gay bashing.  On Facebook, he published this: "If one doesn't like the most recently posted opinion, based on Biblical principals (sic) and God's law, then go ahead and un-friend me. I'll miss you like I miss my kidney stone from 1994." 

Facebook pages in support of Buell are crammed chockablock with ominous anti-gay bigotry.  One Buell supporter wrote:  “I am so glad that your students have you for their role model.”  Andother said: "Who do you think made Mr. Buell the kind of teacher who receives a teacher of the year award?  God of course! I don't know him but at least on this one point he is supporting biblical views of homosexuality."  Yet another of the gay-bashing Buells fans said: “I hate the gay right movement too Jerry as a Christian I going to stand for what I believe in”.

            Against that background, the Lake County Schools anti-discrimination policy and its student code of conduct do not include “sexual orientation” and “gender identity and expression” as protected groups.  This fact raises grave concerns that the community could be bullying its gay students while considering anti-gay bullying a “healthy” form of peer pressure, as per the egregious anti-gay hate speech of the dangerously influential Republican blogger Dr. Rich Swier, who operates out of central Florida.

            This reporter asked the Lake County Schools if they plan now to add “sexual orientation” and “gender identity and expression” to their anti-discrimination policy and code of student conduct.  The district’s attorneys, apparently, have told them not to furnish me with a comment.  The Mount Dora, Fla. community appears to be more concerned with protecting a gay bashing social studies department head than with making sure its gay students have a safe and nurturing learning environment.

Minnesota Public Radio's Integrity Problem

MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO THUMBS NOSE AT INTEGRITY
Gay-bashing lunacy on the move!

by Scott Rose

Scandal surrounds the publication in MPR's "Commentary" pages of an absolutely ridiculous essay slopped together by Carrie Daklin, an apparent gay-basher. 

Daklin's dumb diatribe is titled Franken Missed An Opportunity to be Kind to a Witness.  Daklin lands into Senator Franken because -- get this! -- he wouldn't stand for Focus on the Family's Tom Minnery committing perjury at a Senate hearing. The hearing regarded proposed repeal of the notoriously anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act, which was signed into law by a heterosexual adulterer.

Daklin's main point, that Senator Franken should have been "kinder" to a gay-bashing witness guilty of perjury, is too disingenuously cutsie to merit examination. Nonetheless, as 1) Minnery's aims are maliciously anti-gay, and 2) as Daklin defended Minnery in his viciously anti-gay aims, it is 3) notable, and suspect, that the malignant National Organization for Marriage almost instantaneously reproduced Daklin's anti-gay, anti-Franken idiocy on its NOM blog. Readers are reminded that at a NOM-sponsored anti-gay hate rally in May in the Bronx, a Christofascist extremist hollered through a megaphone at a mob of gay-bashers that homosexuals are "worthy to death."  How kind of them - and how very kind of Carrie Daklin, also, now to give NOM grist for its gay-bashing propaganda mill.

Attempting to clarify whether Daklin is in cahoots with NOM, or just a naive dolt, or something, this reporter contacted her to pose the following three questions.  1) Do you favor full legal equality for LGBT Americans?  2) Do you support NOM's mission?  3)  Are you aware of Focus on the Family's history of maliciously distorting evidence in order to incite discrimination against LGBTers?

Instead of answering those questions, Daklin grew pathologically defensive. She claims she was only interested in the matter of civility, and that to her taste, Senator Franken was not "civil" enough to Minnery.  Daklin has never acknowledged that Minnery is guilty of perjury.  Daklin has never said whether she thinks Minnery is being "civil" with his unrepentant political malice against gay human beings.

As of this writing, NOM is using Carrie Daklin's photo on the NOM blog alongside excerpts from her gay-bashing, Franken-bashing drivel. Daklin personally had supplied the photo to MPR, meaning, if she told NOM that they may not use her photo, NOM would have to remove Daklin's photo from the NOM blog.  I told that to Daklin, and apparently, Daklin did not act.  The appearance is exceedingly strong that Daklin approves of NOM's use of her photo.

Additionally, online research of campaign contribution records shows that many Minnesota Public Radio Board members donated to the Senate campaign of Al Franken's Republican rival, Norm Coleman.  Coleman is a rabid opponent of marriage equality at the state and national levels.

Carrie Daklin could very easily dispel the appearance that she is a gay-bashing NOM shill, by unambiguously stating support for LGBT equality and opposition to NOM's anti-gay hate speech. (It's the kind thing for her to do).  MPR could very easily dispel the appearance that it is thumbing its nose at integrity, by having all of its Board members sign a declaration that 1) perjury is intolerable in U.S. Senate hearings and 2) Senator Franken is to be commended for having detected Minnery's perjury and for having called him out on it.

Failing those actions, Daklin must be presumed a NOM-collaborator, and MPR a Daklin-NOM enabler, with motives of the most highly dubious sort.