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Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Visual Aid: If Marriage Equality Becomes a Reality What Will Happen?
Here's visual aid concerning all those nasty claims and myths from right wing Christians, Catholics and Mormons concerning same-sex couples' civil-marriage rights courtesy of Political Ironing at the PBH Network.
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Sunday, April 10, 2011
Will Right-Wing Christians Go after Interracial Marriages Next?
Public Policy Polling recently released a poll of Republican primary voters in Mississippi. Here's the most shocking result:
46% of these hardcore Republican voters believe interracial marriage should be illegal, while 40% think it should be legal.
No, this isn't 1966 when interracial marriage became legal in Mississippi. This is 2011.
But who are these "hardcore Republicans"?
The PPP poll also revealed that [Sarah] Palin has more support among voters who believe interracial marriage should be illegal than among those who are OK with it. Mitt Romney's numbers reveal just the opposite. He has a higher favorability among Mississippi Republicans who want interracial marriage to remain legal.
Interesting.
One thing I hear all the time from well-intentioned supporters of marriage equality is "Just be patient. The next generation is more accepting. Things will change in another ten or twenty years." Well check out this result from the poll:
Yes, the 18-29 bracket is nearly as racist as the over 65 crowd. How's that for all are created equal? Maybe we should cut billions more from education, fire tens of thousands more teachers, and give more corporations tax cuts, so that more and more of our young never learn about the radical nature of their nation's Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and history of civil rights that deplore such racism, bigotry, and hatred. Dog bless America.
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Saturday, March 12, 2011
Wisconsin, Michigan, Washington, Public vs Private Sector, Salaries, Unions, Tax Cuts, Corporations, Greed, Religion, Hypocrisy, & the Republican Jesus Christ of the Upper Class: David Koch -- A Lament for Our Time
Good Christian white rich men rejoice! With heart and soul and voice! If Calvin was right and the Prosperity Gospel is true, then you are on your way to heaven. Only, you may not want to stay long as your Jesus will be hanging out with the poor people who's rights, benefits, and livelihoods you've crushed.
You say it's the middle class and public employees that are bankrupting America, especially those money-hoarding teachers, power-hungry nurses, and lazy road-construction workers. You hypocrites! You forget, that we are the poor souls are paying your salaries.
- Public employee Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin (Republican/Baptist), who with his Republican congress broke Wisconsin state open-meeting law to strip workers of their right to unionize, receives a state-provided salary: $137,092 (This was also his starting salary.) Those greedy public school teachers that you, good Baptist Walker, accuse of being overpaid, what do they make? The starting salary for a school teacher in Wisconsin is $25,222. The average salary of a Wisconsin public school teacher is $52,644. Why are you complaining, Walker? That's a deal, as the teachers and other public workers aren't provided with the same benefits as you, like a governor's mansion. If you really want equality, then every public employee of Wisconsin should have his/her housing paid for, like you. Hypocrite. (For more fun salary statistics see the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.)
- Public employee, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder (Republican/Presbyterian), who is pushing for his GOP-controlled legislature to pass a bill that will allow him to appoint an "emergency manager" in "financial emergencies" with the power to throw out the state's publicly-elected officials and replace them with private workers of his choice, has the third highest salary of any governor in America: $177,000--before the mansion. Those GOP legislators in Michigan each make $71,685. I wonder, dear legislators, if that would be enough pay were you stuck all day in classroom of thirty clueless kindergarten students or cleaning bedpans for a patient with a highly contagious disease in a state hospital? Oh, and you wouldn't get your $12,000 expense account for shlepping actual fecal matter.
- Speaker of the House John Boehner (Roman Catholic), who is fighting like a saint to cut programs that serve the poor and middle class, while extending and expanding tax cuts to large corporations and the upper class, is paid a salary of $223,500 of those middle and lower class' tax dollars. Boehner's left hand, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Baptist), makes $193,400; his right hand, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (Jewish--Okay, so they're not all Christian hypocrites), $193,400. The current salary for "rank and file members" of the U.S. legislature is a measly $174,000. But you, six-figure politicians, demonize snowplow drivers, waterworks employees, firefighters, postal workers, and police officers for draining the nation's resources. (And let's not forget, that we tax payers are buying you anti-government-provided-healthcare Republicans the best government-supplied healthcare our tax dollars can buy, even though many of us don't have jobs that provide us with health insurance benefits.) Speaker Boehner, next time you get teary eyed talking about how horrendous the recession has been on the American people, I will personally bite my thumb at you and your Bush-Obama tax breaks for the wealthy, you members of congress, who during the first year of the recession saw your median personal fortunes rise from $785,515 to $911,510. Yes, you really do know what it's like to walk in my middle class shoes.
So, why don't all of you Tea Party/Republican politicians put your money where your mouth is and lower your wages, benefits, and expense accounts to the average made by your fellow public workers? In Wisconsin, you would drop to a salary of $50,774; in Michigan, $58,801; and in Washington, DC, $82,607 (which is only $457 more than DC's private sector workers. Hmm. I wonder if the immense cluster of elected public officials and their six-figure salaries have anything to do with DC leading the nation's average public-sector salary?). Or better yet, you should all work for free. When you each average nearly a million dollars in personal wealth, why should we be paying you?
But the public money that the Scott Walkers and John Boeners of the world are being paid is peanuts compared to the billions their benevolent benefactors are making thanks to unprecedented tax cuts, courtesy of the political lobbying and campaign donations bought and paid for by multi-billionaire heir David Koch (Roman Catholic) and the like.
Mister Koch--Or shall we refer to you as "Master"?--you might want to catch up on the social ethics of your own precious Holy (Dysfunctional) Mother Church, who has supported the right of workers to join unions and collectively bargain, not to mention a just wages, universal healthcare, taxation of the rich, and service to the poor, alien, and ill. Of course, Mother Church is still giving you and your Speaker Boehner communion, which makes her a hypocrite, as well.
Oh, America, when did you become so ungrateful? Oh, Middle Class, when did you become so ignorant, so easily duped? When will you wake up and see that the problem is not that public workers are paid too much but that private workers, whose corporate overlords are stuffing their pockets via tax loopholes they've bought and secured with your votes, are paid too little! You are fighting over the difference of a few thousand dollars, while the upper class of our nation, Wall Street thieves, and corporate hoarders are transferring wealth from the middle class to the upper 2% at unprecedented proportions. The Forbes 400, the richest 400 individuals in the nation, have no amassed more wealth than a combined 155 million Americans.
Yes, 0.0001% of the American public holds 50% of the nation's wealth. Don't believe me, take it up with Forbes and simple math (although I had to get out my old scientific calculator to divide 400 by 310,964,000). Trickle down economics--the warrior's cry of the Republican politicians of my youth--has shed it's grace on thee, upper 0.0001%.
Yes, 0.0001% of the American public holds 50% of the nation's wealth. Don't believe me, take it up with Forbes and simple math (although I had to get out my old scientific calculator to divide 400 by 310,964,000). Trickle down economics--the warrior's cry of the Republican politicians of my youth--has shed it's grace on thee, upper 0.0001%.
But still, the GOP wants to extend tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans at the expense of the poor and middle class. This chart from the Center for American Progress says it all:
If faced with such an immoral disparity, what would Jesus do?
Apparently, the Jesus of the United States of America would take back the loaves and fishes he'd given to the middle class of Wisconsin, shake the snow from his sandals, and walk across the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers to Wichita so he could hand-feed David Koch.

Postscript: In my years as a Catholic school student, seminarian, and priest, I never once heard a private sector/Catholic school teacher or parish employee, who was making between twenty and forty thousand dollars while trying to feed a natural-family-planning family of four or five children, ever say, "You know, I'm making just the right amount of money for what I do." So, let's not blame the state for being too generous to school teachers, when it's the private sector who refuses pay its workers a just wage.
Hug a teacher!
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Saturday, February 19, 2011
Colbert on Bill O'Reilly's Tide/Moon Argument for the Existence of the Christian Deity
Stephen Colbert's humorous responses to FOX Gospel's Bill O'Reilly's scientific ignorance:
(Sorry I missed this story for so long. I've been deep in the thesis.)
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The GOP's War on Women's Rights and Poor Children; Democratic Representatives Moore & Speier Fight Back
Do you remember October and November, when Republicans said that the election was about job creation? Well, the past month has shown their true agenda. One of the groups they are targeting is women. How is this for the Gospel According to Hate?
MoveOn.org compiled the following report:
Top 10 Shocking Attacks from the GOP's War on Women
1) Republicans not only want to reduce women's access to abortion care, they're actually trying to redefine rape. After a major backlash, they promised to stop. But they haven't yet. Shocker.
2) A state legislator in Georgia wants to change the legal term for victims of rape, stalking, and domestic violence to "accuser." But victims of other less gendered crimes, like burglary, would remain "victims."
3) In South Dakota, Republicans proposed a bill that couldmake it legal to murder a doctor who provides abortion care. (Yep, for real.)
4) Republicans want to cut nearly a billion dollars of food and other aid to low-income pregnant women, mothers, babies, and kids.
5) In Congress, Republicans have a bill that would let hospitals allow a woman to die rather than perform an abortion necessary to save her life.
6) Maryland Republicans ended all county money for a low-income kids' preschool program. Why? No need, they said.Women should really be home with the kids, not out working.
7) And at the federal level, Republicans want to cut that same program, Head Start, by $1 billion. That means over 200,000 kids could lose their spots in preschool.
8) Two-thirds of the elderly poor are women, and Republicans are taking aim at them too. A spending bill would cut funding for employment services, meals, and housing for senior citizens.
9) Congress just voted for a Republican amendment to cut all federal funding from Planned Parenthood health centers, one of the most trusted providers of basic health care and family planning in our country.
10) And if that wasn't enough, Republicans are pushing toeliminate all funds for the only federal family planning program. (For humans. But Republican Dan Burton has a bill to provide contraception for wild horses. You can't make this stuff up).
Sources:
1. "'Forcible Rape' Language Remains In Bill To Restrict Abortion Funding," The Huffington Post, February 9, 2011http://www.moveon.org/r?r=206084"Extreme Abortion Coverage Ban Introduced," Center for American Progress, January 20, 2011http://www.moveon.org/r?r=2059612. "Georgia State Lawmaker Seeks To Redefine Rape Victims As 'Accusers,'" The Huffington Post, February 4, 2011http://www.moveon.org/r?r=2060073. "South Dakota bill would legalize killing abortion doctors," Salon, February 15, 2011http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2011/02/15/south_dakota_abortion_killing_bill4. "House GOP Proposes Cuts to Scores of Sacred Cows," National Journal, February 9, 2011http://nationaljournal.com/house-gop-proposes-cuts-to-scores-of-sacred-cows-201102095. "New GOP Bill Would Allow Hospitals To Let Women Die Instead Of Having An Abortion," Talking Points Memo, February 4, 2011http://www.moveon.org/r?r=2059746. "Republican Officials Cut Head Start Funding, Saying Women Should be Married and Home with Kids," Think Progress, February 16, 2011http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/16/gop-women-kids/7. "Bye Bye, Big Bird. Hello, E. Coli," The New Republic, Feburary 12, 2011http://www.tnr.com/blog/83387/house-republican-spending-cuts-pell-education-usda-pbs8. "House GOP spending cuts will devastate women, families and economy," The Hill, February 16, 2011 http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-a-budget/144585-house-gop-spending-cuts-will-devastate-women-families-and-economy-9. "House passes measure stripping Planned Parenthood funding," MSNBC, February 18,2011 http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/02/18/6080756-house-passes-measure-stripping-planned-parenthood-funding"GOP Spending Plan: X-ing Out Title X Family Planning Funds," Wall Street Journal, February 9, 2011http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/02/09/gop-spending-plan-x-ing-out-title-x-family-planning-funds/10. Ibid."Birth Control for Horses, Not for Women," Blog for Choice, February 17, 2011http://www.blogforchoice.com/archives/2011/02/birth-control-f.html
Here's Representative Gwen Moore (D-WI) speaking out against #9 on the above list, from her own experience of becoming a teenage mother in poverty. She calls the GOP out on their claim that they are helping black babies and both parties for the gutting of support programs for low income mothers.
Here's Representative Jackie Speier (D-CA) speaking on the floor of the House of Representatives calling the Republicans out for their hypocrisy of speaking about job creation while attacking people's private medical decisions.
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Thursday, December 9, 2010
Rachel Maddow Interviews David Bahati, Author of Uganda's Kill-the-Gays Bill
Here's some background on the scientifically-debunked myths still being spun by fundamentalist and Catholic Christians concerning homosexuality:
Bahati claims to "love" gays, but believes they should be put to death. He goes on to say: "I want to be sure that this law is consistent with god's law."
Here's part two of Maddow's Bahati interview. Bahati: "I'm not involved in a hate campaign." But, he believes that gays should be put to death, because the Bible says, "The wages of sin is death." He also says that a certain Jewish carpenter agrees.
Bahati claims to "love" gays, but believes they should be put to death. He goes on to say: "I want to be sure that this law is consistent with god's law."
Here's part two of Maddow's Bahati interview. Bahati: "I'm not involved in a hate campaign." But, he believes that gays should be put to death, because the Bible says, "The wages of sin is death." He also says that a certain Jewish carpenter agrees.
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Saturday, November 6, 2010
The Word of Nerdy Applebottom: "My Son Is Gay"
Here's a link to an incredible post by a mother about her five-year-old son's desire to be Daphne from Scooby Doo for Halloween. It shows how parents have a choice to teach their children tolerance or bigotry.
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Friday, October 29, 2010
The Holy Blog's Anniversary and a Message about the Future
Dear Heretics,
The Gospel According to Hate had its first anniversary on October 2. Since going online, the Holy Blog has received over 110,000 page views by more than 55,000 visitors. I have published over 700 posts. Thank you for reading, commenting, and confronting the hatred that some preach in the names of their gods.
A special thank you to the blog's followers and those of you who comment regularly: Buffy, Doorman-Priest, Truthspew, Russ, FDeF, Deldachez, and, of course, Anonymous (who can really be a judgmental asshole). Thank you to folks who emailed me to let me know I'd missed a typo.
A huge thank you and hug to my Super Husband Extraordinaire (SHE) for his assistance with research, proofreading, and all his support, when I doubted myself.
A very special thank you to my dear friend, Iowa Soup Mama, who's guest post during last year's Twelve Hates of Christmas, "I Hate Mall Rage," has been the blog's most visited post with over 5000 hits.
I have a confession to make: this blog began as a graduate school writing assignment. It wasn't my intention for it to become an unpaid thirty-hour-a-week job. I've enjoyed the research, writing, and interaction with you, my readers. That said, I need a break.
Every morning, I awake peacefully. Then I spend two to four hours combing through news stories that are infuriating and listening to the hatred that people spew in the names of their gods, churches, and dogmas. I need a reprieve from that negative energy. Also, I have a thesis that is currently demanding my full attention and focus. Unfortunately, the blog has become a convenient distraction.
That said, I'm going to continue to publish, but not with my expanded commentary and not daily. I will still post links, videos, etc. when huge stories of hypocrisy, hatred and violence in the name of religion cross my path. Please email me at gospelaccordingtohate@gmail.com if you see a story you think should be reported.
It's also been a painful year. Coming from a religious background, numerous friends and family members have taken great offense to me voicing my opinions. Thank you to my readers and friends who understand the point of this blog. Thank you for your support.
Despite some people's opposition, this blog has been a success and a place of refuge. Numerous people have emailed me to confide their own stories of being abused by church leaders, to ask support after being cut off from family because of their sexual orientation or changed religious beliefs, or to ask for guidance because they are still priests struggling with the anti-gay rhetoric of the church. I hope that I was able to help them. My goal in writing the blog was to help people in situations such as these to find a voice.
Again thank you for reading. Please continue to stop by. Don't stop confronting religious violence, bigotry, and hatred. Get out the vote on Tuesday!
As we say at USC: "Fight on!"
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Thursday, October 14, 2010
New York Yankees Fans Bully Others with Homophobic "Y.M.C.A." Parody
There is something incredibly broken about a nation that protects this kind of speech.
In the video "Homophobia Literally Kills: Yankees Game" which is posted below, a group of New York Yankees fans surrounds a fans from the opposing team and shout a hate-filled homophobic parody of the Village People's "Y.M.C.A." at the men. You can hear the bullies' friends giggling in the background.
Yankees fans routinely sing a version of "Y.M.C.A." to fans of opposing teams during their ballgames that demonizes gay people. These are clips from other YouTube videos over the past few years that show Yankees fans in action singing this homophobic songs at opposing fans. As NAACP Chairman Julian Bond has said, "homophobia literally kills", and it is this kind of homophobia that leads to anti-gay bullying and harassment at our schools and LGBT teenagers to commit suicide.The site After Elton explains that as of yesterday there were still some Yankees' fans continuing this "tradition" of homo-berating the opposing teams fans:
Earlier today we posted a video of New York Yankee fans singing a shockingly homophobic version of "Y.M.C.A." A short time ago I spoke with a spokesman for the Yankees who told me that video was from four years ago and that the Bleacher Creatures (a group of fans seated in a specific section of Yankee Stadium) had been told that homophobic lyrics would not be tolerated.
That turns to be true and not true. While the most virulently anti-gay version of that song is no longer being performed by most fans in Section 203 , the Bleacher Creatures clearly still don't get what is offensive about their antics because they have numerous videos posted of themselves from as recently as several weeks ago singing "Y.M.C.A." with the lyrics changed to "Y. R. U. Gay?" as a way to denigrate fans of opposing teams.
This is a perfect example of the "trickle-down homophobia" explained by Kathy Griffin. When adults engage in blatant anti-gay activity, children learn that it's okay to violently pick on people different from themselves. Children see. And learn. Some of them take to the streets of the Bronx and kill.
I'm curious to know when this Yankees' "tradition" began in relation to the wave of HIV/AIDS death's that decimated New York's population of gay men. Really, it doesn't matter. The fact that this taunt is still being performed and posted online (by bragging Yankees fans) is an front to every gay man who has died of AIDS. Shame on the Yankee's organization. Unless, I see some spectacular mea culpas, I'm done rooting for them.
In a previous post, I said "Bullying doesn't end after high school. It becomes free speech."

In a previous post, I said "Bullying doesn't end after high school. It becomes free speech."
Here's the proof:
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Fort Worth Councilman Joel Burns' Impassioned Speech on LGBT-Bullying-Related Teen Suicides
Fort Worth City Councilman Joel Burns spoke last night about the recent string of LGBT-bullying related suicides. He makes an impassioned plea to children considering suicide to not give up on life and then to parents and adults to make a difference and end the hate and the bullying.
His impassioned speech is worth watching in whole. (It brought me to tears.)
Just hold on. It really does get better.
That's the message Fort Worth City Councilman Joel Burns shared in an emotional speech during Tuesday night's council meeting, saying his goal was to reach out to youths everywhere who are struggling with being gay.
During a moving speech, Burns said it tears him up each time he hears about youths taking their own lives somewhere in America after being bullied because of their sexuality or simply struggling with it.
Burns, who is gay, said he'd like to give his 13-year-old self -- who also struggled with being gay -- glimpses into the future.
His younger version would see him meeting his partner, being loved by his parents, winning a City Council election, Burns said.
"High school was difficult, coming out was painful," he said. "I want to tell any teen who is watching this, life will get better. ... Life will get so, so, so much better."
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Wednesday, October 6, 2010
National Education Policy Center Addresses LGBT-Bullying-Related Suicides
In reponse to the recent LGBT-bullying-related teen suicides, the National Education Policy Center has released a document entitled "Safe at School: Addressing the School Environment and LGBT Safety through Policy and Legislation." Kudos to co-authors Stuart Biegel and Sheila James Kuehl, and also to the UCLA Williams Institute and Great Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice, who supported the document's creation..
The Washington Post listed these summary points from the document:
The Washington Post listed these summary points from the document:
Below, I [Kevin Welner, director of NEPC] summarize the brief, but I hope readers will click through and read the whole thing. It’s available online at http://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/safe-at-school.
The brief documents, among other things:
• Recurring examples of traumatic peer mistreatment, often with faculty complicity.
• The resulting harm to the academic achievement and aspirations of LGBT students.
• Lives lost, both directly through assaults and indirectly through suicide.
The brief also presents evidence of structural and institutional failures such as:
• Failure to recognize that LGBT educators can play valuable, positive roles.
• Failure to address the persistent overt homophobia in many school sports programs.
• Misuse of the special education system, which further exacerbates LGBT mistreatment.
• Minimal coverage of LGBT issues in many teacher-education and professional development programs.
The recommendations from Biegel and Kuehl include:
• Adopt proactive school climate initiatives that demonstrate a commitment to inclusive policies and shared values within our pluralistic society.
• End discriminatory disciplinary practices and the inappropriate referral of LGBT students to special education.
• Implement LGBT-specific programs or activities at individual school sites, which may include safe zones, gay-straight alliances, and suicide prevention programs.
• Develop and implement LGBT-related professional development, locally determined and agreed upon by faculty and staff, for all school-site personnel.
• Align classroom pedagogy with shared values and respect for differences.
• Include age-appropriate LGBT-related content in the curriculum.
• Involve key members of campus athletic programs in LGBT-related initiatives.
• Make it clear that homophobic comments and actions by coaches and student athletes are completely unacceptable.
• Encourage student athletes to participate in targeted programs such as initiatives addressing bullying and hate violence, as well as gay-straight alliances, safe zones, and wellness programs.
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Sen. Jim DeMint Wants Gays & Single Women Banished from Teaching, Baptists Applaud
Senator Jim DeMint is proud to be against gay rights and women's rights. The Baptists of South Carolina are eating up his message of hate, discrimination, and bullying.
During his roughly 45-minute speech during a Greater Freedom Rally at First Baptist North Spartanburg, DeMint said he's become an outcast in Washington...
DeMint said he's supporting candidates such as Pennsylvania Republican Pat Toomey, Florida Republican nominee Marco Rubio and Kentucky GOP nominee Rand Paul, among others. They, DeMint said, will demand a stop to “reckless government spending” and fight to repeal “Obama-care.” They'll talk about principles and pro-life issues and will fight to keep marriage between a man and a woman, he said...
DeMint said if someone is openly homosexual, they shouldn't be teaching in the classroom and he holds the same position on an unmarried woman who's sleeping with her boyfriend — she shouldn't be in the classroom. “(When I said those things,) no one came to my defense,” he said. “But everyone would come to me and whisper that I shouldn't back down. They don't want government purging their rights and their freedom to religion.”
So, for Jim DeMint and the Baptists of First Baptist North, freedom of worship/religion equals freedom to discriminate, bully, belittle, and hate. Dog bless America.
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Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Lying, Flip-Flopping Republican Candidates & Personal Responsibility. Oh the Hypocrisy!
Last night, Rachel Maddow reported on the inconsistencies, backpedaling, and flat-out lies that certain Republican candidates have been caught in recently.
Here's what GOP Senate candidates Marco Rubio (Florida), Sharron Angle (Nevada), and Ken Buck (Colorado) are respectively lying about concerning privatizing social security, privatizing the Veterans Administration and "birth control pills are murder" legislation.
In this piece, Maddow unmasks the lack of "personal responsibility" in GOP candidates Meg Whitman (California), Christine O'Donnell (Delaware), Linda McMahon (Connecticut), and Joe Miller (Alaska) when they are caught in lies. They blame someone else. Gee, where did they learn to do that?
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's Statement of LGBT-Bullying-Related Suicides
From the U.S. Department of Education:
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today released the following statement:
"This week, we sadly lost two young men who took their own lives for one unacceptable reason: they were being bullied and harassed because they were openly gay or believed to be gay. These unnecessary tragedies come on the heels of at least three other young people taking their own lives because the trauma of being bullied and harassed for their actual or perceived sexual orientation was too much to bear.
"This is a moment where every one of us - parents, teachers, students, elected officials, and all people of conscience - needs to stand up and speak out against intolerance in all its forms. Whether it's students harassing other students because of ethnicity, disability or religion; or an adult, public official harassing the President of the University of Michigan student body because he is gay, it is time we as a country said enough. No more. This must stop."
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Friday, October 1, 2010
Texas School Teacher Taped Himself Having Sex with Students: It's Not Just Priests & Ministers.
Here's the latest out of El Paso, Texas.
Dance teacher Marco Alferez accused of taping himself having sex with children. Marco Alferez, a high school dance teacher in El Paso, Texas is accused of filming himself in sexual encounters with dozens of children -- some of them as young as elementary school age. Authorities say they’ve found over 200 videos of the Irvin High School teacher having sex with children.
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Monday, September 20, 2010
Stop8.org Refutes NOM's Absurd Claims about Marriage Equality and "Activist Judges" in Iowa
In the video below, Stop8.org's Jeremy gives a point-by-point refutation of the latest anti-gay-rights commercial that NOM has spent $235,000 to air in Iowa. Thank you, Stop8, for pointing out the lies, scare tactics, and ignorance of NOM's ads.
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Vianney Renewal Center (Club Ped) Exposed, Fr. Mustache Missing
When priests in the Midwest are accused of sexually abusing children or sexually exploiting adults under their care, one of the places they are sent is Vianney Renewal Center, near St. Louis, Missouri, which is run by the Servants of the Paraclete.
This center has been the recent target of a news investigation by KSDK, after a previous employee spoke about the center's pedophile residents, many of whom avoided prison by going to Vianney. These priest-perpetrators are allowed to wander unsupervised, to hang out in a jacuzzi, and to view the pornography of their choosing.
After I came forward to my archbishop with sexual abuse allegations, my perpetrator, Fr. Mustache, was quietly sent for a psychological assessment at a place for priests who'd failed in their celibate commitments. The place was in St. Louis.
I know that Fr. Mustache admitted to the archbishop that my accusation was true, but how this was worded, I don't know. He may have played the perpetrator-tested "the kid seduced me card." When I inquired about what he'd said, the archbishop barked that it was none of my business. He had professional boundaries to maintain, of course, in order to protect Fr. Mustache, who'd violated all of my personal boundaries, repeatedly.
Fr. Mustache's admission came during the first few days of February 2004. He was allowed to return to his campus ministry position until mid-March, before he was sent to St. Louis for his assessment. During those months, he had access to the college boys that I'd seen him grooming just as he had me. After Spring break, he returned to ministry without anyone knowing he'd been whisked off to St. Louis. I don't know what the mysterious place in St. Louis concluded in Fr. Mustache's assessment. I was told by the archbishop's go-between that it was none of my business.
The last time I saw Fr. Mustache was in May 2004 at the annual archdiocesan summer gathering of priests. Trapped between two priests in the middle of a pew during evening prayer, I fought off a panic attack when I saw him leading the gathered clerics in music at the front of the chapel. At the dinner that followed, Fr. Mustache received a standing ovation from his brother priests when the archbishop thanked him for his campus ministry leadership and promoted him to a position having something to do with being the head of Catholic identity in the schools. The only priests not standing were those in my priest support group, who knew the truth of what had been covered up.
This morning, I looked up the phone number of one of my old support group friends on the archdiocesan webpage, where I discovered that Fr. Mustache is no longer in his campus ministry position. He's currently receiving mail c/o of a religious order in St. Louis, MO. I don't know where he is or what he's doing there.
I'm fairly certain that I wasn't his only victim.
If you are also a victim of Fr. Mustache, please, feel free contact me at gospelaccordingtohate@gmail.com. You are not alone.
Here are the KSDK reports on the Vianney Renewal Center
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