FED. JUDGE OK'D GAY-BASHING IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Though George Herbert Walker Bush's Republican party was already fiercely and maliciously anti-gay when Bush was elected U.S. President in 1988, the Republican party was not satisfied with the first President Bush's level of maintaining sexual orientation apartheid -- and thus at the 1992 Republican convention, where Bush was the nominee, Pat Robertson -- declaring open war on LGBT Americans -- criticized Democratic candidate William Jefferson Clinton by saying that Clinton wanted 1) to end the ban on gays in the military and 2) to appoint out gay people to his administration.

Pause for a moment to consider what it meant that a sitting U.S. President did not denounce and disown Robertson and his anti-gay hate speech. (Robertson today continues as one of the most malicious of all public gay bashers). Those unfamiliar with state-sanctioned persecution of gays in America should learn about Executive Order 10450, signed by President Eisenhower, which effectively banned "known homosexuals" from serving in government posts. The book and film The Lavender Scare provide historical background to the state-sanctioned persecution of gay human beings.

George H.W. Bush appointed Gerald E. Rosen (gerald_rosen@mied.uscourts.gov) to be a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Readers should note that Rosen has been involved in some controversial cases involving Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox, who notoriously permitted Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell to carry out a stalking and harassment campaign against gay student Chris Armstrong. The reasons that Cox did not more swiftly act to protect Armstrong against the gay bashing Shirvell -- at the time an Assistant Attorney General -- remain unsatisfactory and unacceptable. Had Shirvell been stalking and harassing a student as part of an anti-Semitic campaign rather than as part of an anti-gay one, he most certainly would have been stopped sooner.

In 2003, Judge Rosen issued an Opinion and Order in the case Hansen v. Ann Arbor Public Schools. The Ann Arbor Public Schools in 2002 held a diversity week. Where LGBTers were a topic of that diversity week, the Ann Arbor Public Schools intended to educate the school community about the harms of ignorance-fueled anti-gay bigotry. One of the diversity week panels was to treat of "Homosexuality and Religion" with invited speakers explaining how strong acceptance values are compatible with religious belief.  A gay bashing Catholic student, Betsy Hansen, and her gay bashing Catholic mother wanted for Betsy to be included on the panel to allege that their religion authorized them to gay bash in public schools.

Ann Arbor Public Schools did not allow Hansen to change the topic of the panel presentation from acceptance to non-acceptance of gay human beings.  With Thomas More Law Center attorneys, Hansen sued on free speech and other grounds.  Judge Rosen dismissed part of the charges but found in the gay-basher's favor on certain free speech grounds. Where Rosen interpreted precedent law in favor of the gay bashers, he did so determining that Hansen's anti-gay hate speech presented no danger to LGBT students in the school environment. To illustrate why I disagree with Rosen's decision, I am paraphrasing written evidence in the case submitted by the gay-bashing Betsy Hansen, and recasting it to be against Jews instead of against gay people:
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"One thing I don’t like about Diversity Week is the way that Jews are being portrayed as having rights in public schools equal to those of Christian students.  Religion is a choice, Jews can choose to be Christians, and as everybody knows, Jews that don't accept Jesus are going to hell.  Anybody that chooses to be Jewish has made the wrong choice, and one that is very harmful to society. I completely and whole-heartedly support diversity, so long as it doesn't include teaching acceptance of Jewish people and ideas, which by definition are always wrong and disgusting."

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My guess is that had Hansen been dealing with an anti-Semite instead of a gay basher, he would have understood why students of the Jewish minority needed protection against such hate speech in a public school setting. Judge Rosen certainly ignored the extent and insane ferocity of ignorance fueled anti-gay hatreds in U.S. public schools and how those anti-gay prejudices had since the inception of the Republic negatively impacted sexual minority students. Rosen is now Chief Judge in the U.S. Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, where the Thomas More Law Center has filed a pleading against the Howell, Michigan Public School District on behalf of the gay bashing Catholic Sandra Glowacki and two of her gay-bashing offspring. The Glowacki pleading is stuffed full of language defamatory of all gay human beings. Do not hold your breath expecting Judge Rosen  to agree that LGBT public school students merit protection from these monsters. The Glowacki case is assigned to Judge Patrick J. Duggan, who was educated at the Jesuit Xavier University in 1955, during the time that gay human beings were effectively banned from the U.S. government. 

MONEY, AND THE GAY-BASHING GLOWACKIS

by Scott Rose

On Spirit Day, 2010, in his Howell, Michigan public high school classroom, student Daniel Glowacki said "I don't accept gays."

Teacher Jay McDowell eventually told him he had to leave the room.

The question of whether McDowell violated Glowacki's free speech rights is presently the subject of a federal lawsuit being brought by Daniel's mother Sandra Glowacki in his name, and in the name of another of her offspring. The pleading is full of language defamatory of gays as a class of people and thus now is the subject of my request for the Attorney Grievance Commission of the State of Michigan to investigate Glowacki's attorneys.

It appears that should this lawsuit go ahead, the determinative facts might have to be ascertained from many student witnesses deposed and/or put on the witness stand under oath.

However all of that may be, Glowacki at all moments admits that in class that day, he said "I do not accept gays." The incident generated controversy in the Howell community. A few days later, Glowacki's mother told a local newspaper "The things people have been saying online about my son have been terrible." Remember; this woman's son said "I don't accept gays" on SPIRIT DAY. Remember too that the LGBT community has had to suffer actual school board members, such as Clint McCance saying that they want all "fags" to commit suicide.

Now here's where this gets REALLY interesting. Sandra Glowacki told her local paper "My son is not a bigot. He has a very diverse group of friends that includes some gays. If a gay student was being picked on in class, he’d stick up for them." Daniel Glowacki . . in this period when he was taking heat for having said "I don't accept gays" told the reporter: "I never said I was against gays."

The Spanish expression is A otro perro con ese hueso . . take that bone to a different dog.

One could speculate that Sandra Glowacki and her son Daniel alleged that Daniel accepts gays after all, perhaps in order to get the criticism then being made of him to die down.

And now, Sandra Glowacki is demanding in a federal court that McDowell and the Howell Public Schools give them MONEY  . . . and I'm repeating the word so it's clear what is involved . . . . . $$$$$MONEY$$$$$  . . . for not having allowed Daniel to continue to create a classroom environment hostile against LGBTers after he said . . . (we're not yet sure how many times) . . . . but possibly more than once . . . and on Spirit Day . .  "I don't accept gays."

It's enough to make somebody ask themselves "Why would people who said 'My son has gay friends' and 'I never said I was against gays' now file a lawsuit asking for $$$MONEY$$$, $$$MONEY$$$, $$$MONEY$$$ because they don't think Daniel Glowacki got a chance to say "I don't accept gays" enough times in a public high school on Spirit Day?"

Different school districts have different policies but it's hard to imagine many American schools today that would allow students to say and repeat "I don't accept Christians" or even "I don't accept African-Americans." (Note that Daniel's same high school had a notorious anti-African American incident involving  students and the Confederate flag, and that the violators were disciplined). It hardly even seems likely, for example, that in an American public school, a student could say, and repeat and then repeat again, over and over and as many times as she pleased during the year "I don't accept Jesus." That statement would too likely provoke a disruption to the learning environment.

The system already "gets" why it can't have public school students saying "I don't accept Jews" and "I don't accept Mormons." But the reason controversy arises around the phrase "I don't accept gays" is that anti-gay bigots like Beverly Lahaye say hateful things such as "They are not a legitimate minority group." Look in the comments under the many right-wing Christian blogs now going into spasms over a Catholic gay basher's alleged right to gay bash, and it won't be long before you hit on anti-gay comments such as "They aren't human." And that is the tip of the ice-berg of the anti-gay vitriol. Under the Thomas More Law Center's Facebook post about the lawsuit, Glowacki supporter Rhein Krigner said "Teach that crap to my kids and I will kick your ass and stick you back in the closet." TMLC's FB page administrators left that comment up for several days while interacting with others on that same comments thread. The gay-bashing comment only disappeared from the thread after my Complaint to the Attorney Grievance Commission . . with that comment mentioned inside . . got published online.

The Glowackis' lawsuit asks for the Court to declare the Howell Public Schools' anti-bullying policy unconstitutional. That is not likely to happen, as precedent law shows that students' free speech rights in public schools are not identical to first amendment rights. One is perhaps not incorrect to opine that what's at stake in this lawsuit . . . besides $$$MONEY$$$ . .. $$$MONEY$$$ . . .$$$MONEY$$$ for the Glowackis (and their Thomas More Law Center attorneys, who are busy waving the Complaint document under anti-gay bigots' noses to attract donations, even though papers have not yet been served on the Defendants) . .  is whether American society is ready to think that LGBTers are really human and a legitimate minority.

OPEN LETTER TO GAY-BASHER DANIEL GLOWACKI

From: Scott Rose

To: Daniel Glowacki

Listen, Glowacki you gay-basher. I am calling bullshit on you and your gay-bashing lawsuit that asks a US Federal Court to have a school's sexual-orientation-specific anti-bullying policy declared unconstitutional.

Firstly, let's review the events of Spirit Day, 2010, on which your lawsuit is based.

Apparently, teacher Jay McDowell was wearing a purple Spirit Day shirt in honor of Tyler Clementi while teaching an anti-bullying lesson that was NOT limited to anti-gay bullying. You began your challenge against your fine teacher when he asked another student to remove their Confederate flag belt buckle. It defies credulity to suppose that you had no idea about the Howell School District community's recent history with malicious anti-African American bigotry connected to the image of the Confederate flag. I call bullshit on you in a first instance for your having challenged teacher McDowell over the matter of the Confederate flag. In case you need a reminder of what happened in your community with the Confederate flag, go here. Be sure to read the hateful anti-black comments under that post.

The Howell Schools' anti-bullying policy gets published in your local newspaper. It says that no verbal harassment may be directed against a group.  That's what you did, when in class you created a learning environment hostile to LGBT students by saying "I don't accept gays."  Nobody in that classroom said "I don't accept Catholics."  No victim need come forward with a complaint about your bigoted remarks, for your behavior to constitute a violation of the school's anti-bullying policy. Because your community, and you, in many ways create a hostile environment for gay human beings, it must be allowed that a student in that classroom that day could be actually gay but fearful of coming out because of the toxic environment that you have some responsibility for having created. I repeat that nobody in that classroom said "I don't accept Catholics."  You are not a victim of anything; you are a violator of the school's anti-bullying policy, which absolutely would protect you against having to put up with somebody saying "I don't accept Catholics" in a classroom.

One of the main reasons that I'm calling bullshit on you, and on your mother, is that you are talking out of both sides of your mouths. You told a local newspaper "I don't want people to think I'm against gays. That's just not true." And your bullshitting mother told that same paper "My son is not a bigot. He has a very diverse group of friends that includes some gays. If a gay student was being picked on in class, he’d stick up for them."

The lawsuit being brought by your mother in your name contains shocking language defamatory of gay human beings as a group; that language subverts the dignity of the Court. It is as hateful an attack against all gay people as the nasty anti-black comments written under the article about Howell Schools and the Confederate flag.

Your statement that you are not against gays, and your mother's statement that you have some gay friends, are completely contradicted by the hateful anti-gay lawsuit being brought in your name. Your attorneys are running around wagging the Complaint document under anti-gay bigots' noses and encouraging them to gay bash in your community and all over the internet.  

Your lawsuit is seeking to have declared unconstitutional an anti-bullying policy that protects you every bit as much as it protects LGBT students. If you want to be in a school environment consistently hostile against LGBTers, and where you may with impunity declare "I don't accept gays," then you should seek out a Catholic school that agrees to provide you with such an environment. 

You are a bullshitter, Daniel Glowacki and so is your mother Sandra. Nobody who really was not against gay human beings and who had gay friends would bring the lawsuit you are bringing against the Howell Public School District. 

Gay-Basher Sandy Glowacki's Dirty Laundry by Scott Rose

Sandy Glowacki appears to be a maliciously anti-gay Catholic bigot raising her children to believe nasty, ignorance-fueled, bullying non-acceptance of gay human beings. If she had been in Spain at the time of the Inquisition, she most likely would have believed that terrible things should happen to Jews if they refused to convert to Catholicism.

She apparently wants her sons to be able to gay bash in public schools and so in their name is bringing this lawsuit against the Howell Public School District in Michigan and against teacher Jay McDowell . McDowell does not believe in allowing students to display in non-scholarly contexts obvious symbols of hate such as Nazi flags and the Confederate flag (the symbol of an enemy of the United States) in public schools. He also supports sexual-orientation specific anti-bullying policies, as does the Michigan Education Association. 

Glowacki's suit is being brought through attorneys of the Thomas More Law Center, which describes itself as "The Sword and Shield for People of Faith" but which others often describe as a cesspool of fundamentalist dumbfuckery. The relentless gay-bashing language in the Complaint document reminds one that 1) the Wehrmacht uniform belt buckle read "Gott mit uns," (God is with us), and 2) that at the time the Vatican signed its political unity treaty with the Nazis, Jews had already been barred from the professions in Germany, and 3) that today in the United States, many vicious gay bashers attempt to hide their militant anti-gay malice behind a veil of religious justifications.

The Complaint document includes the hearsay, fraudulent claim that all gay persons are living a "destructive" lifestyle.  Sandy Glowacki's MySpace profile, meanwhile, states that Ms. Glowacki is a smoker. In other words, Glowacki is concerned about her offsprings' ability to gay bash in public schools because, allegedly, all gays live a "destructive" lifestyle, but meanwhile she exposes her children at least on some occasions to the destructive impact of second hand smoke.

Considering that Glowacki is bringing a lawsuit through a Complaint document that states all sorts of negative things about gay human beings and their intimate relations, it is very interesting to note that on MySpace, Glowacki participated in a survey game called "My Bar Tab."  Participants were given a list of questions, such as "Have you ever vandalized something?" Each activity was assigned a dollar value, vandalization for instance was given a $20 value, and then at the end of the survey the participant was supposed to publish on MySpace their total "Bar Tab," without revealing which of the expenses had contributed to their total.

Glowacki published in a non-confidential forum on MySpace that her "Bar Tab" total was ($)340.  So there's no way for us to know which of the listed "offenses" Glowacki admits to having committed, but we can nonetheless speculate on the percent of them she claims she has committed, given her "Bar Tab" total.  Most of the activities are assigned low dollar amounts . .  $5, $10, $25 . . . just a very few stick out for their higher assigned dollar values; Had anal sex is $80 and Had sex for money is $100.

From the public information on Glowacki's MySpace profile we see that she appears to be "Friends" with the teenager "B.Ware" whose profile photo as of this writing shows his muscular torso bare, with him standing in a sexually suggestive pose.  Glowacki's profile also appears to show that she has received multiple messages from "B. Ware"  How curious, then, that the "Bar Tab" list includes the question - Have you ever "Had sex with someone under 21 and you are over 27," -- assigned a $25 value.  Glowacki's profile says she is 49-years-old.

Even though social science and even empirical daily observation shows that *not* all homosexuals live a "destructive" lifestyle, many of the "Bar Tab" survey "offenses" (many of them actual crimes) that Glowacki perhaps admitted to having committted tend towards destructiveness, for example, driving drunk, "getting drunk, passing out and not remembering the night before," stolen something worth more than one hundred dollars, and beating somebody up.  The complete list of "offenses" in the "Bar Tab" survey and their assigned dollar values is below. There are only so many items on that list, most are assigned a relatively low dollar value, and Glowacki's non-confidential MySpace page has her published statement that her total "Bar Tab" was $340. Remember that Glowacki authorized a court document that defames LGBTers by stating that every last one of them is living a "destructive" lifestyle.  We have saved screenshots of all relevant pages of Glowacki's MySpace profile. It is just absolutely shameful for this woman to defame -- in an official court document -- an entire minority among her fellow citizens.

Bar Tab Survey

This is fun to do. Just read the "offense" and if you've done it, you owe that fine. Keep going until you've read each "offense" and added up your total fine. Title your bulletin "My Bar Tab is $........"

You don't have to confess your answers, just the amount of your fine.

Smoked pot -- $10

Did acid -- $5

Ever had sex at church -- $25

Woke up in the morning and did not know the person who was next to you-- $40

Had sex with someone on MySpace -- $25

Had sex for money -- $100

Ever had sex with the a Puerto Rican -- $20

Vandalized something -- $20

Had sex on your parents' bed -- $10

Beat up someone -- $20

Been jumped -- $10

Crossed dressed -- $10

Given money to stripper -- $25

Been in love with a stripper -- $20

Kissed some one who's name you didn't know --$10

Hit on some one of the same sex while at work-- $15

Ever drive drunk -- $20

Ever got drunk at work, or went to work while still drunk -- $50

Used toys while having sex -- $30

Got drunk, passed out and don't remember the night before -- $20

Went skinny dipping -- $5

Had sex in a pool -- $20

Kissed someone of the same sex -- $10

Had sex with someone of the same sex -- $20

Cheated on your significant other -- $10

Masturbated -- $10

Cheated on your significant other with their relative or close friend --$20

Done oral -- $5

Got oral -- $5

Done / got oral in a car while it was moving-- $25

Stole something -- $10

Had sex with someone in jail -- $25

Made a nasty home video -- $15

Had a threesome -- $50

Had sex in the wild -- $20

Been in the same room while someone was having sex -- $25

Stole something worth over more than a hundred dollars -- $20

Had sex with someone 10 years older -- $20

Had sex with someone under 21 and you are over 27 -- $25

Been in love with two people or more at the same time -- $50

Said you love someone but didn't mean it -- $25

Went streaking -- $5

Went streaking in broad daylight -- $15

Been arrested -- $5

Spent time in jail -- $15

Peed in the pool -- $0.50

Played spin the bottle -- $5

Done something you regret -- $20

Had sex with your best friend -- $20

Had sex with someone you work with at work --$25

Had anal sex -- $80

Lied to your mate -- $5

Lied to your mate about the sex being good --$25

Tally it up and Title it..."My Bar Tab Is ___"

HOW TO FIGHT BACK AGAINST THE GAY-BASHING HATE GROUP "CONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA"

by Scott Rose

The so-called Concerned Women for America is a very powerful, politically-connected, viciously anti-gay lobbying group. The Southern Poverty Law Center's description of CWFA as an anti-gay group can be read here. Every time any matter of gay rights is before a legislative body anywhere in the United States, the sadistic, bullying haters of CWFA are there, urging elected officials to perpetuate sexual orientation apartheid.

This hate group opposes legal recognition of LGBT rights as civil rights. CWFA is even against gay human beings' right to consensual love-making in their own homes. To clarify that point; if CWFA had its druthers, gay people would be jailed for making love with each other. As a lobbying group, CWFA is very actively opposed to the proposed Employment Non-Discrimination Act. This hate group does incalculable harm by incessantly and intentionally telling demented lies against gay human beings. CWFA does not hesitate to tell their demented lies against gay human beings to U.S. government officials including Representatives and Senators.

These nasty gay-bashing bigots justify all of their political gay-bashing on a single, untestable, hearsay allegation; that homosexuality is "against God."  Below is a sample letter that you can send to your Congressperson, Senator and other elected officials, telling them that you will not stand for malicious, militant theocrats keeping you oppressed as a second-class citizen. To find contact information for your U.S. Representative, go here. Contact info for your state's two U.S. Senators is here.  Don't forget that the malicious gay-bashing bigots of CWFA also lobby your state representatives and senators; those elected officials, too, should know what you think of this hate group lobbying against gay Americans' equality.

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Dear (fill in elected official's name)

This is to express utmost concern about illicit influence being exercised on the US Government by the anti-gay hate group Concerned Women for America.

CWFA's overriding justification for attempting to perpetuate sexual orientation apartheid is their untestable hearsay allegation that God hates homosexuality. Not only is the United States not a theocracy; whole churches ordain out married gay and/or lesbian ministers. The CWFA has no privileged relationship with God, and no sustainable claim to know, better than Christians fully accepting of gay people and supportive of their legal equality, what God wants American legislators to do with respect to gay rights.When anti-gay hate groups duplicitously claim that gay rights ipso facto curtail religious liberties, you can be sure that they are not talking about the religious liberties of churches, synagogues and other religious organizations that favor full equality for LGBT Americans.

CWFA's chief officers give themselves out to be "experts" where they are not at all qualified to speak on the given topic. Janice Crouse, for instance, recently released a gay-bashing video in which she falsified health statistics with a conspicuous intent to demonize all gay human beings. Crouse said, for example, that anal cancer is "very prevalent" among homosexuals. In truth, anal cancer in all populations is too rare a disease accurately to be described as "prevalent." Crouse has no qualifications or authority to speak about public health matters. Her Master's thesis was on Camp Meeting Preaching.

CWFA habitually demonizes sexual minorities with fraudulent statistics and lies. For such a hate group to influence any American legislative body potentially is unconstitutional and certainly debases the legislative body influenced.  I respectfully ask that whenever LGBT Americans' rights are involved in a proposed piece of legislation, you reject lobbying and lies from malicious anti-gay hate groups, and weigh your considerations of the proposed legislation in light of what scientific sources such as the American Medical Association have to say about sexual orientation.

Sincerely,

JANICE CROUSE'S LONG, SHAMEFUL HISTORY OF LYING ABOUT GAY HUMAN BEINGS

Janice Crouse's recently-released gay-bashing video is just the latest vile bit of anti-gay hate speech from this craptastic, pathological liar that heads the so-called Concerned Women for America's Beverly LaHaye Institute, named for the prominent Christofascist Beverly LaHaye, who is on record as saying that homosexuals are "looking for recruits" among "Christian" children. The philosophy . . if such we should call it . . . posits Evangelical gay-bashing Christianity as the only imaginable good, says that Evangelical gay-bashing Christianity must predominate in governments, and that all social ills can be squarely blamed on homosexuals.

In her latest anti-gay hate video, Crouse repeats the tired old canard that lesbians and gays have shorter life-spans. Crouse's co-conspirator in maliciously lying about gay people, Mary Frances Forrester, was married to North Carolina State Senator James Forrester, who lied about his professional medical credentials, and also frequently said that gay people have shorter life spans. Senator Forrester recently died, thank goodness, before reaching the average male American lifespan.

Many of the dubious statistics that Crouse uses as her weapons against innocent gay human beings seem to have been pulled directly out of her anus. Why, she even talks about anal cancer being "very" prevalent among gay men. Another statistic that Crouse apparently pulled out of her nasty butt says that lesbians are 4.5 times more likely than heterosexual women to have had more than 50 sex partners in their lifetimes. To the extent that anal cancer can be caused by HPV, using condoms helps to curb the spread of HPV, but guess what?  Crouse with her Goebbels-style anti-gay lies is against the use of condoms. In this broadcast transcript, Crouse says "I'm against condoms as a solution to the AIDS epidemic." Where it is pointed out to her that Brazilian officials wanted to insist on condom education, though a Bush "abstinence only" program was threatening to cut off US assistance to Brazil over the condoms issue, Crouse says "they've taken that stance, and they've said, you know, "We're not going to accept money." And, I say, "Tough. You know, it'll go to somebody else."

Crouse's vicious anti-gay lies barely merit being repeated in order to rebut them, except that the gay-bashing Nazi bitch's bio says that she GIVES CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY.

Now, what qualifications does Crouse have to evaluate human sexuality scientifically, or to formulate scientifically-informed (i.e., non-theocratic) notions about public health matters? 

Crouse allegedly earned a Bachelor's from Asbury University in Kentucky. According to that school's website, it's mission is to "advance the cause of Christ around the world."  Don't ask what habitual pathological lying about gay human beings has to do with advancing the cause of Christ. Also don't ask how Crouse was advancing the cause of Christ around the world when her anti-gay hate speech contributed to the murders of gay rights advocates in Uganda. At Purdue University, allegedly, Crouse earned a Master's in the history of camp meeting preaching in the U.S. And she says she earned a Ph.D. from SUNY, Buffalo in Communications Theory, writing on the topic of the debates between President Ford and Jimmy Carter.

The bottom line is that Janice Crouse has NO PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OR OTHER QUALIFICATIONS for evaluating gay people for any reason whatsoever. A person does not become qualified to talk about human sexuality and/or public health by studying Camp Meeting Preaching or the Ford/Carter debates. Yet this malicious anti-gay bigot has given CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY. See here for Crouse's article explaining to the public that gay rights advocates that talk about the elevated rate of gay youth suicide are the cause of heterosexual youth killing themselves. I kid you not, that this scumbag bigot stoops that low.

RECOMMENDED ACTION: Call and/or write your U.S. Representative and your U.S. Senators. Tell them that you are sick and tired of vicious anti-gay bigots being called as "expert" witnesses for hearings. Tell them that you expect Senate hearings to adhere to scholarly standards for getting at the truth of a matter, and that bigots and bigotry have nothing to do with scholarly standards. Tell them that you are aware that the lying anti-gay bigot Janice Crouse previously has been involved in giving Congressional Testimony, and that you want a commitment from them that they will uphold the integrity of the Congress by never again inviting this malicious political gay basher to bear false witness against those of her fellow citizens that happen to be gay.

NAZI BITCH JANICE CROUSE BEHIND "KILL-THE-GAYS" LAW IN UGANDA

Janice Crouse (Nazi bitch) of the so-called Concerned Women for America's Beverly LaHaye Institute believes that "God hates" what homosexuals do and that if they do it, they should be killed.

Because she can't at present get that plan to murder all gays put into effect in the United States, she became part of the propagandizing towards the infamous, U.S. Evangelist-facilitated "Kill-the-Gays" legislation in Uganda.

Here, you can listen to the Nazi bitch Janice Crouse in a radio interview titled "Uganda Holding Firm to Biblical Values." At the time of that broadcast, in Uganda, Christian religious leaders and government figures were conspiring to do away with gay human beings by publishing their addresses in newspapers and ordering henchmen to persecute them, with the persecution not stopping short of killing them.

Though HIV/AIDs in Uganda -- as throughout Africa -- mainly is transmitted among heterosexuals, and from mothers to their fetuses, the Nazi bitch Janice Crouse in her broadcast claims that because an abstinence education program had been thought to lead to a reduction in HIV infection rates in Uganda, "homosexual activists" were targeting Uganda to move into it. Do you get what vicious propaganda Crouse was engaging in?  She was saying that because a country had experienced some success in containing AIDs, gay people were motivated to undo that success. The Nazi bitch in her broadcast carries on at length about how Ugandan Christians don't want Western gays imposing an outside culture in their country, with no apparent awareness of how ridiculous she sounds, in view of the fact that Christian missionaries did not impose their gay-bashing faiths in this region of Africa until late in the 19th century -- and at that -- as a part of power grabs by competing colonializing powers. To show you what a wonderful thing the Christian missionaries did by imposing themselves on the Africans, a civil war broke out in the territory now Uganda between British Protestant missionaries and French Catholic missionaries.

The gay-bashing Nazi bitch Janice Crouse even attacked President Obama for naming Ellen . . that Ellen . . Ellen DeGeneres as a "Global AIDS Special Envoy."  The Nazi bitch Crouse objects to Ellen in that role because she is "openly lesbian" and "an activist on the issue of homosexual rights." 

Have you got that?  The gay-bashing Nazi bitch Janice Crouse is against *all* rights for homosexuals. That is why she propagandizes in favor of getting gay human beings killed, for all that she attempts to hide her genocidal wet dream behind blah-blah-blah involving God and Jesus.

Recently in the United States, the Nazi bitch Janice Crouse has been perpetrating a smear campaign against gay human beings, in support of fascist anti-gay politicians such as Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich. Never forget . .. and we really do mean . . . NEVER FORGET! . ..  that the female leaders of the women's branches of the Nazi Party exhorted German women to keep "good Christian homes" for the Vaterland.  To tell the Nazi bitch Janice Crouse directly what you think of her political gay bashing, go here.

MAGGIE GALLAGHER'S SLEAZEBAG SLAP AT ZACH WAHLS

Recently, the video of Zach Wahls testifying in Iowa about his two loving, lesbian mothers was widely re-circulated around the internet.

Zach gives the lie to the so-called National Organization for Marriage's endless demonization of gay human beings generally and gay parents in particular, so it was no surprise that this week, the NOM blog featured a post by a vicious anti-gay bigot who used discredited statistics to say, in effect, that all gay parents are bad parents. The vicious anti-gay bigot's main message was, Zach Wahls is the exception that proves the rule - so you can safely go back to demonizing all gay people and gay parents, despite him.  Be sure to read all the malicious, gay-bashing comments that the lying, gay-bashing monsters at NOM are leaving up under that blog post.

NOM's vicious propagandizing attracted attention, whereupon Maggot Gagginwhore duplicitously posted that "A Link is Not an Endorsement." Gagginwhore's galling hypocrisy in saying that "A Link is Not an Endorsement" is well-analyzed by Jeremy Hooper here. And, as long as Maggot wants to make her current claim that "A Link is Not an Endorsement," she'll understand why we're now linking to this video of a River Hippopotamus in an article about Maggot Gagginwhore.

In her post, Gagginwhore said "I would like to say personally that nothing in any argument I've ever made on gay marriage, rests on the idea that same-sex couples harm their own children at any higher rates than any other family form. (If there is data that shows this, I've never seen it.)"

Yet, right on Maggot Gagginwhore's NOM site, people are told that gay parents ipso facto are doing any children they might be raising an injury: "A loving and compassionate society comes to the aid of motherless and fatherless children, but no compassionate society intentionally deprives children of their own mom or dad.  But this is what every same-sex home does — and for no other reason but to satisfy adult desire."

If Maggot Gagginwhore expects us to believe that she doesn't engage in demonizing gay parents, then she'll order all of NOM's sites scrubbed clean of material that demonizes gay parents.  Don't hold your breath.

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.

IS THERE A GAY-BASHING DOCTOR AT YALE?

By Scott Rose

Yale University produced the notorious gay-basher Maggie Gallagher of the National Organization for Marriage.  Gallagher's contempt for LGBT human beings now extends even to protesting their marriages on the day they are getting married.  We might think of Gallagher as the Fred Phelps of Yale.

Or, we might think that Yale right at this moment has a Phelps-like figure right on its faculty.  Dr. Paul Amble is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry.  He is also the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Chief Forensic Psychiatrist.

Dr. Amble is frightfully well-connected in professional gay-bashing circles.  His sister is Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, who sometimes gives him "permission" to talk to the media, apparently as a sort of proganda minister for her presidential campaign.  In a recent New York Times article, Dr. Amble said that in her ignorance-fueled, militant political gay bashing, Bachmann has simply been doing "what she thought was right."

At present, you will search in vain for any public statement from Dr. Amble reflective of a scientific understanding of homosexuality.  Were Dr. Amble only a propagandist for the Bachmann for President campaign, that would be one matter.  He is however a key figure at the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction.  It is urgent and essential that the media be able to report on whether Dr. Amble accepts LGBT human beings and supports their equality.  If he does not, then, particularly in light of his public statements in support of his sister's brass-knuckled political gay bashing, it will be absolutely impossible for LGBTers to feel safe around him or to have confidence in his carrying out his job duties without prejudice against them.

It is, furthermore, worrisome that Yale University has on its faculty a psychiatrist who refuses to clarify his understanding of homosexuality and his baseline attitude towards LGBT human beings.  This reporter e-mailed him at his Yale address, hoping to learn whether he had a scientific understanding of homosexuality.  Turns out, Dr. Amble answers no questions without the Bachmann for President campaign's permission, and the campaign evidently isn't permitting him to comment on whether he has a scientific understanding of homosexuality.  URGENT UPDATE: A commenter on an Advocate article alleges that Dr. Amble practices reparative "therapy."  This could, or could not be true.  Remember that before being caught in a sting, Marcus Bachmann lied about whether his clinic engaged in the fraudulent "treatment."


Yale University President Richard Levin did not respond when asked whether his school endorses or discredits Michele Bachmann's idea that calling homosexuals "gay" comes "from Satan," which she said at the end of a very long lecture at the EdWatch National Education Conference in 2004.

To ask Yale President Richard Levin whether Maggie Gallagher's alma mater has an enlightened view of LGBTers, write to him at Richard.Levin@Yale.Edu      To ask Connecticut Department of Mental Health Commissioner Patricia Rehmer whether Dr. Amble has a scientific view of LGBT human beings, write to her at Pat.Rehmer@po.state.ct.us    And to request that Dr. Amble go on the record with his attitude towards gay human beings, write to him at Paul.Amble@Yale.Edu