A very queer moment with Rick Perry

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Fabulous photo

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More on the killing of the US Airways flight attendant

Andy Towle has much more, including images of the alleged murderer entering the hotel.  The guy is an idiot.  He was on camera, went to the front desk with the victim, signed in at the front desk (and even if he used an alias, everyone is looking at him and the camera is filming him), goes upstairs, either kills the guy or he claims an accomplice killed him, and then a few days later goes back to the same bar where he picked the guy up.  He's an idiot.  Andy has a nice compilation of the various press coverage. Read the rest of this post...

Boy Scouts refused to call cops on serial child molester, who then molested again and again

I had no idea that the Boy Scouts had any kind of pedophile problem at all, let alone that they had a file on at least 5,000 suspected pedophiles in the Scouts.  It appears from this story that the Scouts handled their pedophiles in much the same way as the Catholic Church - they told no one and tried to make the problem go away, where of course it didn't, and simply continued in someone else's backyard.  I don't see how anyone could entrust their child to the Scouts in the future, particularly considering the Boy Scouts are still in court trying to protect their pedophilia files from public scrutiny.  I'd rather they were in court protecting the young boys in their charge.

And let's not forget that the Boy Scouts are notoriously homophobic.  They see gays as immoral.  Yep, no gay scouts or scoutmasters need apply.  Straight pedophiles, however...

There's been significant discussion of whether the Boy Scouts' bigoted ban on gay scouts and scoutmasters is based in part on the Mormons having taken over the Boy Scouts.  From About.com:

Many readers are surely aware of the fact that there continue to be legal and social problems due to the Boy Scouts' discrimination and bigotry against atheists and gays. What readers may not realize is just how much of this may be ultimately due to the efforts of the Mormon church. Mormons control a significant percentage of all Boy Scout troops; if policies change to treat gays and atheists equally, the Mormons will walk - taking all of their money with them.
As MSNBC reports, Mormon involvement in Scouting has even reached the point where Brigham Young University is offering a new major in Scouting:

The Boy Scouts are the official boys’ youth group of the LDS, and more than one in nine Scouts are Mormons. Critics say the church exerts disproportionate influence through membership on the national advisory council and vigorous fund-raising. (In New York, LDS leaders recently launched a fund-raising campaign with pamphlets carrying an endorsement from the church’s current prophet.)

It's difficult to believe that the Mormons aren't behind the Scouts' aggressively homophobic bigotry. After all, an aggressive antagonism, political and even violent, has long been a mainstay of the Mormon faith against those it considers less worthy (be they innocent men, women and children, blacks, or gays). They've even been aggressively baptizing the dead of other religions, against the wishes of living relatives, for decades. They particularly made news with their zeal to convert dead Jewish Holocaust victims to Mormons (their defense? the dead didn't put a fight (seriously)). Heck, they even converted President Obama's deceased mother right before the election, without his knowledge.

And let's not even get started on Mitt Romney's famous proclamation that he wouldn't put a Muslim in the cabinet.  But please don't bash his religion. He, and his faith, are much more interested in bashing you and yours. Read the rest of this post...

Rick Perry’s policy beard

He's so adorable when he tries to deflect.

A poll from theUniversity of New Hampshire this month showed that 62 percent of residents oppose repealing the same-sex marriage law -- including a plurality of likely Republican primary voters -- while only 27 percent support repealing it....

"I applaud those legislators in New Hampshire who are working to defend marriage as an institution between one man and one woman," Perry said, adding that he supported the "sanctity of traditional marriage."

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Chick-Fil-A gave nearly $2m in donations to anti-gay and hate groups

Do not eat at this establishment.  They donate huge amounts of money to some of the most hateful anti-gay organizations on the planet.  Do NOT eat at Chick-Fil-A.  And tell your friends to avoid them too.  This is serious money.  Equality Matters got the scoop:

Chick-Fil-A's Charitable Arm Gave Nearly $2 Million To Anti-Gay Groups In 2009

WinShape Is Chick-Fil-A's Charitable Arm. The WinShape Foundation is Chick-fil-A's charitable arm, created by Chick-fil-A founder and chairman S. Truett Cathy in 1984. WinShape has received a substantial amount of funding from Chick-fil-A: in 2009 alone, WinShape received $7,814,788 from Chick-fil-A Inc. [WinShape 2009 Publicly Available IRS 990 Form via Foundation Center, accessed10/28/11]

WinShape Gave Over $1.7 Million To Anti-Gay Groups. In 2009 alone, WinShape donated $1,733,699 to multiple anti-gay groups:

· Marriage & Family Legacy Fund: $994,199

· Fellowship Of Christian Athletes: $480,000

· National Christian Foundation: $240,000

· Focus On The Family: $12,500

· Eagle Forum: $5,000

· Exodus International: $1,000

· Family Research Council: $1,000

[WinShape 2009 Publicly Available IRS 990 Form via Foundation Center, accessed 10/28/11]

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