And another one's gone

and another one's gone...

Racist homophobe (and former Republican Senator) Jesse Helms bites the dust at 86.

The way the sphere spews

Ugh, the common cold has got me in its ferocious grip. My head feels like it's in a vise (remember that scene in "Casino"?), but before I stumble back to bed and collapse into a heap of misery, I must comment on one especially absurd post that I came across today.

Yes yes, we know the upper-right quadrant of the political compass is home to a lot of bugfuck crazy nutbars, we all read their spewage (or should that be "sewage"?) from time to time. Sometimes it's entertaining (in a "can anyone really be that dumb?" kind of way), but sometimes it's just weird, and not in a good way. (Like "Good Naked" and "Bad Naked", there's Good Weird and Bad Weird.) Today's exhibit, from red tory (via CC) is a post that claims gay rights will lead to "pederasts' rights", on the basis of the potential discovery of a "Pederast Brain". Hold on tight, people, we're entering bat country:

"Our secular society says that it is deeply committed to the equality of all human persons, regardless of sexual orientation, hence the urgency to legiitimize homosexuality. However it is worth noting that scientists do not display the same sense of urgency to discover a "pederast gene", or a scientific justification for pederasty. However, iif scientific discovery can be used to justify homosexual behaviour, why can't the same scientific methods, and discoveries, be used to justify pederast behaviour? If they are both unchosen, and innate, why should one be viewed as normal and the other deviant? Why shouldn't both be viewed as normal, or, alternatively, deviant?"

The Coles Notes version of the long and pedantic screed at the end of the link is that if there's a genetic component to sexual orientation, then there must also be a "pederast/child molester" gene. Rights naturally follow.

If my brain wasn't stuck in 2nd gear, I'd address each of the 57 varieties of stupid in this guy's little hypothesis, but fuck it. His theory falls on its face right out of the gate because of one basic reality: pederasty isn't a sexual orientation. The problematic issue with pederasts isn't orientation, it's the pursuit of relationships with physical and psychological subordinates. It's a power trip that happens to involve the genitals. So whatever, dude -- apples and oranges. I think the first commenter had it right when he/she said:

"*sigh* Another sexually-obsessive "Christian" focused on the sex lives of others. Sorry...the rest of us know what that means. Seek help."

Sounds about right to me!

More equal than others

Well, it's been a few days since Tom Lukiwski rolled around whimpering and pissing himself on the House of Commons floor (the same floor that's riddled with trenches from the constant dragging of knuckles by the "A" guys). That seems to be the end of it -- Prime Minister Chubby McChubster says the apology was offered, so accept it, mothahfuckaaahs, and move on.

Oooooh. No consequences?

Where are the consequences conservatives are so quick to demand whenever someone makes a mistake... even one that doesn't involve maligning an entire community... something like, oh, I don't know, accidentally getting pregnant?

Or the consequences Saskatchewan First Nations are threatened with when one of their own barfs up some stupid, bigoted comments, apologizes and is reinstated in his position? (Whether you agree with FSIN's decision to reinstate Ahenakew is irrelevant -- it's their decision to make, and theirs alone.)

Well, that's apparently a little different: There Could Be Consequences for that decision, the Con-gov thunders -- big time consequences, affecting thousands of people. One couldn't be blamed if the "H-word" came to mind, as stageleft adroitly points out. (EDIT: Ahenakew ultimately declined the position, but the point is the government immediately went ballistic in one case, but did nothing in the other.)

But as Bruce also aptly explains, not all bigots are equal -- some are more equal than others.

And as knuckledragger apologist John West would say, "Don't even try to deny it".

Behind the muzzle

Ho ho! Now we know for sure what we've always suspected -- the reason Harper keeps such a tight leash on the braindead pitbulls he calls "MPs" is because when the muzzle falls off, bad things happen:

"Mr. Lukiwski, then a Progressive Conservative campaign official, speaks directly to the camera at one point in response to a question from the camera operator.

"There's A's and there's B's," he says with what appeared to be a beer bottle in his hand.

"The A's are guys like me, the B's are homosexual faggots with dirt under their fingernails that transmit diseases."

Niiiiiiice. I guess you can take the rube out of Saskabush, but you can't take the rube out of the rube. Or something like that.

Oh well, it's all good because Mr. Lukiwski is sorry, so sorry, that he was such a tool...

You bet your ass he's sorry -- sorry he got caught. Sorry he wasn't somewhere else that night. Sorry the videocam was ever invented. Lukiwski might be one of the sorriest assholes I've ever seen.

SORRY-ASS UPDATE: I've seen a few comments to the effect that this tape was old, people can change. I agree, people can and do change. Unfortunately, it's clear that Lukiwski isn't one of them: his much more recent voting record on equal marriage speaks for itself. And things like this (from 2005) are anything but helpful:

"At 8 p.m., Conservative MP Tom Lukiwski makes a final speech. So raucous is the chamber, so loud the press gallery that I can barely hear him declare that the bill represents “a very slippery slope” that could lead to polygamy."

And fox terrier-fucking, let's not forget that. Arf!

"EWWW" UPDATE: Montreal Simon has the creeeeeeepy video of this bozo, caught in the act of being a slimebag bigot.

(h/t to toujoursdan in the comments at CC)

"They're Coming To Your Town!"

Those krazy kristians at the American Family Association are ringing the warning bell about a devastating threat -- SHRIEEEEEK! -- that's on its way to Your Town! The AFA recently sent out an email flogging a new DVD that warns of an Impending Invasion of... illegal immigrants? Nope. Swarthy Terrorists? Guess again! It's...
... homos and lezzies and queers, oh my! Check out the DVD trailer... if you dare! SHRIEEEEEEEEK!

SHRIEEEEEEEEEEK!!!

(from Good As You, via Pandagon ... SHRIEEEEEEK!)

Move over, Big Tobacco

You too, Big Pharma.
Because now there's ....

"BIG SODOMY"

"The Gay Lobby" (proud sponsor of "The Gay Agenda", coming soon to a wedding chapel near you) has moved up, so much so that in the wingnut world it's been elevated to the status of Big Tobacco and Big Pharma. They're calling it:

"BIG SODOMY"

Following the lead of anti-Big Tobacco and anti-Big Pharma activists, bigots have found a more socially-acceptable name for their sexual neuroses. They're not ignorant mouth-breathing, bile-spewing bigots, they're anti-Big Sodomy activists, and they're hoping that "ex-gays", like militant ex-smokers with Big Tobacco, will help shut Big Sodomy down:

"Note the remarkable parallels with the smoking craze: In both cases, the promoters of the respective dangerous habits had been or are withholding evidence that undoubtedly would have led people not to indulge or to quit. Today, public elementary and secondary schools are doing just that, and in addition, some are teaching, as part of "sex education," methods for carrying out harmful sexual perversions, including "fisting."

Once enough of the victims have seen how they have been duped by the universities, politicians, media, business (deep pockets), Hollywood, politicians and, yes, the gay agenda itself, to throw away their health and life expectancy, they will come out swinging, marching boldly behind their lawyers.

The reverse "coming out" of Michael Glatze is the first major chink in the ramparts of Big Sodomy. More major players will be announcing themselves in time, demonstrating the fallacy of "once gay always gay," the sandy foundation on which the gay agenda is premised."

Someone should break it to these guys that unlike smoking, sodomy is a practice "as old as the human race", as William S. Burroughs once said, and unlikely to end anytime soon. Furthermore, and this will no doubt come as a surprise to anyone who only has semi-monthly sex for the sole purpose of procreation, sodomy isn't unique to gays. Too late, dudes -- Big Sodomy has diversified!!!

A vote for Whatcott is a vote against Anal Warts

You can't make this shit up. Last week while on my regular patrol of Freak Dominion, I saw a post about how extremist homophobe and anti-choice whacko extraordinairre Bill Whatcott is running for Mayor of Edmonton. When I stopped laughing, I clicked onto the next post, thinking the other was just Whatcott's idea of a joke. But wonder of wonders, it's true.

In case you're not familiar with Bill (and if not, I deeply regret being the one to break the news of his existence to you), he's a Christopathic "ex-gay" who's been in and out of trouble with the law for his extremist activities for years. If he's not hassling gays for exercising their constitutional right to, um, exist, he's handing out gross, gory and likely photoshopped pictures of aborted fetuses to anyone who doesn't immediately run away screaming at the sight of him. Whatcott has been convicted and fined for hate speech for distributing flyers that railed incoherently against homosexuality and showed pictures of ... anal warts (lots of them -- he has an anal wart fixation of epic proportions). Whatcott managed to force the City of Regina to proclaim a "Family Pride Day" in reaction to its gay pride day, by threatening to sue the city. "Family Pride" somehow morphed into "Heterosexual Family Pride" with Whatcott delivering a homophobic diatribe in front of Regina City Hall. This is what passes for a mayoral candidate in Edmonton these days.

Whatcott is clearly bugfuck nutzoid; even a lot of FD posters allude to that nugget of truth, and treat him like the idiot that the rest of the gang allows to hang around because he can be so good for a laugh. But this particular idiot has some troubling connections, specifically with ArmyofGod, the USian terrorist organization whose members are responsible for bombing women's clinics and gay bars. Whatcott has happily written articles for the AoG and similar jerks like Neal Horsley, and freely admits to being acquainted with (and admiring) anti-choice terrorist Chuck Spignola and AoG's top terrorist turd, Donald Spitz.

So what did we learn today? That there's a much darker side to this imbecile Whatcott than people generally know -- which bears keeping an eye on. And that anyone, and I mean anyone, can run for Mayor.

Does this banner concern you?

It concerns me. The words "christian" and "government" don't belong together, or anywhere near each other for that matter. Any organization whose website suggests that they do belong together is of paramount concern to me. So I checked them out, and sure enough, they're wingnuts of the highest order.

Their link list reads like a who's who of Canadian religious right douchebaggery: REALwomen, Focus on the Family, Institute for Canadian Values, Canada Family Action Coalition, Marriage Canada, and even the despicable NARTH (homophobic hate site) are just a few of the whackjobs "Christian Government" links to. Especially troubling is something called "Take Back Canada", a site which operates under the pretense of being "pro-family" but in fact is almost entirely devoted to gay-bashing. ("Gays want your children!" kind of stuff.) This is the kind of attitude that should characterize Canada? I think not.

Theocracy: it sounds crazy, but it could happen. Even here. These people clearly need to be watched, and what better way than to get their spewings right from the horse's mouth. So I subscribed to their newsletter:

"Canada is in urgent need of an alternate vision to the oppression of Secular Humanist tyranny; Christian government is that vision" -- ruh-roh. This statement seems to confirm what many have long suspected, and what the religious right insists they're not trying to do: establish a theocratic government in Canada. But on the upside, being linked on this site will be anything but helpful to the political credibilty of groups like "REALwomen" and the "Institute for Canadian Values". Even among many (if not most) Conservatives, theocracy is not a Canadian value.