Gay Bashing: It's All the Rage

On Saturday, we wrote about the wing-nut, bi-coastal hate-fest where hundreds of homophobes were gathering to show their unity and determination to keep you and your family from enjoying the same legal rights and protections that are granted to heterosexual citizens.

We wouldn’t need give these numbskulls an ounce of our energy if they were not successful luring all Republican -- and many Democratic -- presidential candidates to their side of the marriage equality issue.

And what exactly is their side? According to Scott Lively, co-founder of the group Watchmen on the Walls:

“We view homosexuals like we view alcoholics: unfortunate people trapped in a bad lifestyle. Like alcoholics, they should have the right, if they reject therapy, to enjoy privacy in their own homes. But they should not be allowed to publicly recruit others to their lifestyle. Pubic advocacy of homosexuality should be, like public drunkenness, culturally discouraged to minimize its impact on society.”

Crazy as it sounds, these hate-based fringe groups continue to hold sway over what lawmakers do and say.

Just yesterday, Tony Perkins, who heads up the anti-gay group American Family Association (AFA), announced that he had a private meeting with Rudy Giuliani who promised – as president -- he would support an amendment to the US Constitution to ban equal marriage rights for same-sex couples.

And recently, Barack Obama revealed that he would be touring South Carolina with the “notorious gay basher, gospel singer Donnie McClurkin.”

According to author and political analyst, Earl Ofari Hutchenson:

“The Grammy winning black gospel singer's last effort on the political scene was his song and shill for Bush's reelection at the Republican National Convention in 2004. Obama has hitched his string to McClurkin's high flying gay bash kite in part out of religious belief (he purports to be somewhat of an evangelical), in bigger part because he's falling further and further behind Hillary Clinton with the black vote in South Carolina and everywhere else, and in the biggest part of all because he hopes that what worked for Bush's reelection will work for him.”

Everyone knows that gay-bashing is the easiest way to score points with bigots of every color. Opposing rights for LGBTQ families is a cheap shot. Maintaining a system of separate and unequal access to civil rights hurts the whole society.

This group of wing-nuts is actually made up of many smaller, separate groups of political and religious intolerance. While they are able to coalesce around their shared hatred for you and me, if given the slightest chance to turn on each other for their differences, rest assured, they will!

That is why all of us, the gay, the lesbian, the bisexual, the transgendered, the transsexual, queer, questioning and our allies, must stand together for the rights of each other instead of letting lawmakers give rights to some, but not all of us – as in the recent draft of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) which excludes transgendered people from its umbrella of protection.

Back to the Future: President Giuliani

I had a sudden realization last night: Rudy Giuliani will be the next President.

Why? Because he, like Bush, is a thug.

Rudy is someone the Repugnican pit-bulls can really sink their teeth into:

• He is great at doublespeak, ignoring his own shortcomings and turning negatives into positives.

• He understands the power of simple, fear provoking sound-bites.

• He will win over the "values voters" by scaring them to death.

• He is a ruthless bully who is not afraid to lie to get what he wants -- power and money.

It seems the fix is in and so I predict Rudy will be the Republican and Hillary the Democratic candidate.

A look into my crystal ball reveals this likely scenario:

• The cabal in charge will "discover and foil a terrorist plot " to attack a US city (or an attack will actually occur), Rove's minions (already set in place during the Bush regime) will set their sites on Hillary and they will attack her with abandon. They will throw out bloody red-meat innuendos and lies to the neo-con sharks to frenzily feed upon.

• Hillary will spend much of her time trying to defend against these un-provable rumors, unable to get her own message out.

• In the meantime, the gang in charge of election-rigging will do their part by purging voter rolls; sending out letters with erroneous information to voters; programming machines to favor the Republican candidates, etc.

• And, the MSM echo machine will obey their orders to repeat rumors and wing-nut talking points until the average person is so confused and the truth is as hard to find as a needle in a thousand haystacks;

In the end, Rudy wins. Perhaps by only a small margin, but enough to make it seem "legitimate."

Later, after all the dust settles, witnesses to all of the above will write tell-all books, make the talk-show rounds, and get rich and famous.

By then, it will be too late to save our Republic.

How do I know all of this?

Easy, it is simply a repeat of what has already happened in the last two Presidential elections...

No magic, no Tarot cards.