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Perry: anti-choice laws make Texas free

In this video from a couple of weeks ago, Rick Perry shows his either his freedom from logic or his familiarity with Orwell.

Liberty Counsel threatens boycott of PayPal

This just in from Right Wing Watch.

Gingrich on DADT

Thank goodness this hypocrite is unelectable.

Anti-gay Montana pastor blames fraud charges on gays, abortion activists

The Missoulian reports.

October 13th - 50th anniversary of Mattachine Society of Washington founding

Washington, DC – On Thursday, October 13^th, the Rainbow History Project is honoring the 50^th anniversary of the Mattachine Society of Washington (MSW), Washington D.C.’s oldest gay rights organization, with a panel discussion featuring MSW founders and activists Frank Kameny, Lilli Vincenz, and Paul Kuntzler. They will discuss the history, activities, and enduring legacy of MSW in both the Washington D.C. area and nationally.

This panel will take place on October 13th at the National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1785 Massachusetts Avenue NW. Doors will open at 6:30 with the discussion to follow at 7 p.m. This will be a free event. RSVP at http://mswrainbowhistory.eventbrite.com

Fifty years ago, in November 1961, Dr. Frank Kameny and Jack Nichols founded the Mattachine Society of Washington, “dedicated to improving the status of the homosexual citizen through a vigorous program of action.” MSW worked tirelessly in pursuing legal and social change for gays and lesbians: fighting the U.S. civil service employment ban, working with religious organizations to improve understanding, challenging the homophobic views of psychiatrists. These activities culminated in Frank Kameny’s run for Congress in 1971.

For more information about the Mattachine Society of Washington, visit the MSW page of the Rainbow History Project

Historical Documents from the Mattachine Society:

• Mattachine tells its own story (PDF)

• MSW statement of purpose (PDF)

• News release (PDF) announcing the Mattachine Society of Washington, August 28, 1962

• MSW informational leaflet for heterosexuals about homosexual issues (PDF)

 

Military chaplains granted religious freedom

The AP is reporting that military chaplains gotten the OK to perform same sex weddings both on and off-base.

The Pentagon says a military chaplain may officiate at any private ceremony, but isn’t required if it would conflict with his or her religious or personal beliefs.

All Christians do not oppose LGBT equality. This policy protects the religious liberty of everyone. The same way DC marriage equality law does.

Austraians support equality

(via JoeMyGod)

Randy Philips comes out to his mom

Randy Philips, a 21-year-old soldier based at Ramstein Air Base in Germany drew quite a bit of attention when on September 20th he came out to his dad on the repeal of DADT.  He had been posting videos about his coming out process for several months and recorded the phone conversation with this dad.  The video of this was discussed on network TV and has had over 4 million views on YouTube.  Later that evening he came out to his mom, a much more difficult act, which you will see in this video clip.  The touching thing in both videos is his desire to not be rejected by his vamily.  He sought assurances that he was loved from both his mom and his dad.  Earlier generations often faced expulsion from the family for being gay.  It is a measure of social change that this would now be widely criticized.

Another interesting thing is that while the Marine Corps was reportedly the most resistant branch of the service to repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell, after repeal they seem to be the service most accepting.  The marines are also the most intensley bonded service, often thinking of themselves as like family.  In sociological terms this is called a high level of ethnocentrism, and tendency to see people in groups or as 'our people' versus 'those people'.  This is desireable since they see themselves opposing 'the enemy' which they are supposed to kill.  However, now that gay people are accepted in the family of marines you can expect they will be the service most protective of their family.  This will probably surprise a lot of politicians.

Police, Fire officials meet community

Lou Chibbaro of the Blade reports on last evening's Public Safety Open House. It was a good meeting. Most of the community members who showed up at the Reeves Center on the rainy night were activists like myself, Jeri Hughes, Ruby Corado and Charles Butler who have been dealing with public safety issues. Thanks to Jeff Richardson for organizing the meeting; to Peter Rosenstein for facilitating it; and to the officers and firefighters (and others, including Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Paul Quander) who came to meet with us. It was a good meeting; whether it was productive will depend, as always, on the city's follow-through.

After Cartwright Moore raised the problem of the U.S. Attorney's Office failing to prosecute many hate crimes brought to it by the Metropolitan Police Department, I suggested that this problem presents a political opportunity: The city should publish periodic updates of hate-crime cases that the U.S. Attorney "no papers" (chooses not to prosecute). This can then be used by Mayor Gray, Congresswoman Norton, the press, and members of the public to highlight the fact that the U.S. Attorney is not accountable to District voters or elected officials. Thus it is not just a public safety issue, but a Home Rule issue. If the problem turns out to be that MPD is not turning over solid cases, that will be useful to know. Either way, a regularly updated "no papered" list will give us leverage to correct a scandalous situation of long standing. Rosenstein loved my suggestion. We'll let you know what comes of it.

Obama says courts will decide fate of DOMA ‘fairly soon’

Think Progress reports:

President Obama reiterated his opposition to the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act during an “Open for Questions” roundtable at the White House this morning, but said he does not know if the courts will strike down the measure. Responding to a query about the struggles faced by binational gay and lesbian couples, Obama stressed that his administration is no longer defending the law and predicted that the courts will decide the fate of the policy “fairly soon.” “Administratively, we can’t ignore the law,” he explained, but “even if we enforce it, we don’t support it, we think it’s unconstitutional.”

Fischer: First Amendment does not apply to Mormons

Right Wing Watch shares the latest from nutjob Bryan Fischer. Meanwhile, People for the American Way writes:

At next week's Values Voter Summit, Mitt Romney is scheduled to take the stage immediately before Bryan Fischer, an American Family Association (AFA) spokesman with a long and shocking record of bigotry against gays and lesbians, American Muslims, Native Americans and other minority groups. Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain and Rick Santorum are also scheduled to speak at the event, which is sponsored by the anti-gay Family Research Council, the AFA, and other Religious Right groups. PFAW is urging these candidates for our nation's highest office to condemn bigotry.

At next week’s Values Voter Summit, Mitt Romney is scheduled to take the stage immediately before Bryan Fischer, an American Family Association spokesman with a long and shocking record of bigotry against gays and lesbians, American Muslims, Native Americans and other minority groups. Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain and Rick Santorum are also scheduled to speak at the event, which is sponsored by the anti-gay Family Research Council, the AFA, and other Religious Right groups.

Ninth Circuit rules Log Cabin case moot

This just in from Log Cabin:

Ninth Circuit, Department of Justice Erase Ruling Upholding Constitutional Rights of Servicemembers
(Washington, DC) - Log Cabin Republicans are disappointed that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of the Department of Justice, declaring Log Cabin Republicans v. United States moot and vacating the federal court ruling which declared "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" unconstitutional.

"Log Cabin Republicans v. United States said more than 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' should be repealed - it stood for the fundamental constitutional rights of servicemembers not to be discriminated against by the nation they serve. President Obama should be ashamed that he is responsible for undoing that important precedent," said R. Clarke Cooper, Log Cabin Republicans Executive Director. "The ruling in Log Cabin Republicans v. United States is the reason why Congress finally acted to end this failed and unconstitutional policy. This decision by the Ninth Circuit denies more than 14,000 discharged gay and lesbian servicemembers an important means of obtaining justice for the wrong perpetuated against them under the ban, and leaves open the possibility of future violations of servicemembers' rights. The court can vacate this ruling, but that does not change the fact that 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' was unconstitutional. Log Cabin Republicans are proud to have brought this case, proud of our victory at trial, and proud that the ruling in Log Cabin Republicans v. United States provided the necessary motivation to make repeal of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' a reality."

Lead plaintiff's attorney in Log Cabin Republicans v. United States, Dan Woods of White & Case, emphasized that the case is not over, saying, "We are, of course, disappointed by today's ruling but we will continue to fight on for the constitutional rights of all people impacted by Don't Ask, Don't Tell. This is an important issue for all Americans and we anticipate seeking re-hearing before the full Ninth Circuit."

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I agree with Log Cabin. Let's hope that this ruling doesn't come back to bite us. That is, let's hope that the Republicans don't win control of both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue in 2012, after which — with no new legislation — a new President, a new Secretary of Defense, and a new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff could simply return us to the status quo ante.

Chris Geidner reports at Metro Weekly.

Coulter defends booing of gay soldier, is defended by GOProud

Right-wing performance artist Ann Coulter, in her latest column, predictably springs to the defense of Republican debate audience members who booed gay soldier Stephen Hill last week:

At the time of the vote -- five minutes ago -- only eight Republicans in the entire U.S. Senate supported eliminating Don't Ask, Don't Tell. It's safe to assume that no one on the stage supported this sexualization of the military, except maybe one of the nut candidates polling at 3 percent.

This is not an anti-gay position; it's a pro-military position. The basic idea is that sexual bonds are disruptive to the military bond.

Soldiers, sailors and Marines living in close quarters who are having sex with one another, used to have sex with one another or would like to have sex with one another simply cannot function as a well-oiled fighting machine. A battalion of married couples facing a small unit of heterosexual men would be slaughtered.

Is Coulter unaware that straight soldiers are sexual beings? Has she somehow missed the massive cultural evidence (war movies, military humor) that straight soldiers are not celibate? Of course not. This is her standard shtick, which is fact-free provocation. It should nonetheless be noted, for the benefit of the easily misled, that her prejudicial assumptions are contradicted by a sizeable body of evidence that gay soldiers have been just as disciplined and effective as their straight counterparts. Remember, the facts are not erased by Coulter's scornful posturing.

As to her claim, "A battalion of married couples facing a small unit of heterosexual men would be slaughtered": First, no one is suggesting such a battalion, except perhaps for military historians familiar with the Theban Band. Second, why don't we test her assumption of gay weakness and indiscipline by setting up a contest along the lines she describes, but with non-lethal weapons? How about it, Ann? Give us our Billie Jean King moment. The thing is, though, that most straight soldiers do not agree with Coulter, and are quite happy to fight alongside their gay comrades. Nor is this particularly new. What is new is that gay servicemembers can no longer be drummed out of the service arbitrarily.

BTW, Coulter also says that "patriotic gays should come out against girls in the military." Pardon me, but those are women, not girls. Coulter also pretends that everyone who disagrees with her — that is, the overwhelming majority of the American people — is a crybaby.

One of the pleasures of next year's election will be in seeing this harpy's smug certitudes disappointed.

Incidentally, to quote Katie Couric (who was referring to someone else), will someone please give that woman a sandwich?

Meanwhile, Chris Barron of GOProud defends Coulter. Barron likes to imagine that he and his sidekick Jimmy LaSalvia enrage gay liberals. No, Chris, you are only causing embarrassment.

"Welcome to HuffPost Gay Voices"

Noah Michelson, editor of the new HuffPost Gay Voices, explains what it is, why they created it, and why they're calling it "gay" and not "LGBTQQILSMFT" or something. For agonizing political correctness, it beats a hairshirt and flagellator.

Al-Qaida calls on Ahmadinejad to end 9/11 conspiracy theories

The Guardian reports. Salman Rushdie calls this "Comedy story of the day."

Pass This Bill

Courtland Milloy has a column today on Check It.  He write.

Whenever there’s trouble around the Chinatown and Gallery Place Metro stations in the District, the finger of blame often points to a most unusual group of suspects: a black gay gang called Check It.

Depending on whom you talk to, they’re just a bunch of mischievous gender benders and drama queens, vulnerable gay youths seeking safety in numbers. Or, they’re one of the largest, more aggressive gangs in the city.

They banded together in response to anti-gay harassment they faced in school including from teachers.

In other news D.C. Public Schools chancellor Kaya Henderson testified that

• 10 percent of DCPS eight graders have attempted suicide.

• 18.4 percent of DCPS middle schoolers have missed classes because they didn't feel safe traveling to school.

• 13.9 percent of middle school students were afraid of being beaten up at some point in the last year.

• 15 percent of DCPS middle schoolers were members of a gang or crew in the last year.

• Around 40 percent of DCPS ninth graders repeat the grade, while one in three DCPS ninth graders fail algebra.

There is something the DC government could do to address the problems.  Get busy and  pass this bill.

Michele Bachmann's Cuban Missile Crisis

Another message from Planet Bachmann.

The right's populist fakery

My column this week looks more at the disconnect from reality in the rabble-rousing by Republican candidates:

For all the talk of "what the American people want," Republican candidates are pushing a lot of things that polls show most people do not want. The candidates reveal their awareness of this by the lies they have to tell in the process.

The repeal of "Don’t ask, don’t tell," for example, was supported by an overwhelming majority of voters and preceded by extensive studies and preparation. Yet GOP candidates keep talking as if allowing gay men and lesbians to serve openly is an entirely novel idea, and as if the gayness of the thousands already serving would cease to exist as long as we agreed not to talk about it.

This massive denial of reality can only prevail if the rest of us remain asleep for the next thirteen months. Even Rick Santorum, the day after the debate in Orlando, had to repudiate audience members for booing gay soldier Stephen Hill, who asked a taped question from the war zone in Iraq. Santorum ultimately could not ignore the repugnance of catcalls against a defender of our country despite having himself equated open service with sexual misconduct.

We are told that voters have repeatedly and overwhelmingly rejected same-sex marriage, as if that were a steady-state condition. In fact, the margin of victory in anti-gay initiatives has narrowed with every election cycle, to the point where polls now show a slight majority in support of marriage equality.

False claims by right-wing candidates are like the bits of irrelevant business created by a magician to distract his audience.

Read the whole thing here.

"Not one candidate"

The DNC releases a campaign video noting, to quote a September 25 Concord Monitor editorial, "Not one candidate, in situations that cried out for it, exhibited leadership." Yep. And that's what makes it about more than just a couple of jerks in the audience. Not one of the candidates onstage had the guts or the decency to call out the bad behavior.

When police are criminal

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Lawrence O'Donnell on Monday evening delivered this harsh critique of the unprovoked abuse of Wall Street protesters by NYPD officers last weekend.

Update: HuffPo reports that one of the officers involved in the abuse of protesters, Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna, has a history of this sort of thing.

Robertson: "Halloween is Satan's night"

I am shocked, shocked to find Rev. Pat Robertson spreading misinformation. In fact, Halloween derives from ancient European harvest festivals. It was not designed to celebrate Satan. Similar to its spring planting festival counterpart, Walpurgisnacht, which never caught on in America, this night traditionally involved people putting on masks to ward off evil spirits for the sake of a good harvest. The association ("All Hallows Eve") with All Saints Day (November 1) came later, around the 8th century.

If every ancient festival that was deliberately co-opted by Christianity is now to be demonized and its traces erased from our culture, most of the Christian calendar would have to be erased (or at least the chosen dates called into question). But contrary to Rev. Robertson, Halloween is an example of the success of Christianity, which absorbed all sorts of older festivals and symbols. I am surprised that he didn't work in an attack on the Great Pumpkin, devised by that notorious agent of Satan, Charles M. Shulz.

(Hat tip: Right Wing Watch)

Lively: Homosexuality Is Inherently Morally Wrong

Scott Lively, one of the American evangelicals who inspired the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill, demonstrates his approach to spreading Christ's love.

(Hat tip: Right Wing Watch)

Moran: "All the bullies I've known were insensitive jerks"

Rep. Jim Moran's (D-VA) "It Gets Better" contribution. Thanks, Congressman.

(Hat tip: Joe Jervis)

In case you were thinking Romney might be tolerable

Mitt Romney goes after Rick Perry on immigration. This is one of the few things on which I agree with Gov. Perry. Romney of course is just his usual opportunistic self.

I thought the Pagans were a motorcycle club

Richard Land of the Southern Baptists Convention goes on a tear about gay pagans. Oh, yeah, that's a huge problem.

No More Downlow TV

NoMoreDownlow.tv covers the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial and a push for a U.S. postage stamp for Bayard Rustin,  interviews newly out CNN correspondent Don Lemon, who discusses his new book "Transparent", the announcement that WNBA star Sheryl Swoopes will marry a man after coming out very publicly as a lesbian, and playwright Donald Jolly's gay romance in the time of slavery in "Bonded."

Colby King on ethics in Washington

Our friend Colby King's column in WaPo on Saturday slammed a raft of D.C. officials for their ethical problems. I spent several hours Saturday on the Anacostia Coordinating Council's annual river cruise, and Colby's column was the subject of many conversations.

Also on board the ACC cruise were Mayor Gray, Congresswoman Norton (who is recovering well from a pinched nerve), Chairman Brown, Councilmembers Michael Brown, Phil Mendelson, and Marion Barry, and assorted candidates including Ron Moten and Jauhar Abraham of Peaceoholics. Have you ever noticed that some politicians who are eager to win you over behave much the same as if they're trying to pick you up? Of course, I'm already spoken for....

The whole affair Saturday was headed up by our friends Arrington Dixon and Philip Pannell, who had a charming young lady do the emcee chores. I sat between Ron Simmons of Us Helping Us and Jeff Richardson of the Office of GLBT Affairs, dishing and overeating. Ron noted that the one problem with going on the cruise was that you couldn't get off halfway through if an unpleasant situation arose; fortunately, it was all sweetness and light. I had a good chat on the upper deck with our wonderful Congresswoman, who was as sharp and tough as ever.

Getting back to Colby's column, it has been an amazingly embarrassing year with all the ethics problems stinking up City Hall. On the cruise Saturday, I didn't hear a lot of people disagreeing with Colby's harsh assessment. He points to the next election, and at GLAA we are getting ready to gear up for our earlier-than-usual primary. It will be on April 3, but the deadline for candidates to file their ballot signatures is January 4. That means GLAA and other groups who send out candidate questionnaires will be having to pull our stuff together this fall. In October we'll start drafting our policy brief, "Agenda: 2012." Ugh, so soon? But civic duty calls.

Obama knocks Perry, GOP debate audiences

President Obama had some choice words at a Silicon Valley fundraiser yesterday for Texas Gov. Rick Perry and the recent Republican debate audiences:

I mean has anybody been watching the debates lately? You've got a governor whose state is on fire denying climate change. It's true. You've got audiences cheering at the prospect of somebody dying because they don't have healthcare. And booing a service member in Iraq because they're gay. That's not reflective of who we are.

Gov. Perry, in response, is deeply offended that the President is playing, gasp, politics.

(Hat tip: Joe Jervis)

Obama to CBC: 'Put on Your Marching Shoes'

(Above: Parts 1 & 2 of President Obama's speech to CBC, Sept. 24, 2011)

Cynthia Gordy reports for The Root on President Obama's speech Saturday night to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation:

When speaking before black audiences, President Obama tends to be more charismatic in his delivery. He just plays the room differently -- gripping and galvanizing, with a preacherlike cadence that can sometimes rise to a holler at points of emphasis.

That was certainly the case on Saturday night at the annual Phoenix Awards Dinner, the culminating event of the 41st Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's Annual Legislative Conference....

Powerful as the awards presentations were, the event's standout moment was President Obama's speech, which centered on faith and perseverance during hard times (while also pushing his jobs bill and deficit-reduction plan, naturally). He opened his remarks with an anecdote about a sermon he once heard Rev. Lowery deliver, which professed that there's "good crazy" and "bad crazy" -- and sometimes you need a little bit of the good crazy, fueled by faith, to make the world a better place....

The president closed by telling the audience not to give in to discouragement. "Throughout our history, change has often come slowly. Progress often takes time," he said. "It's never easy. And I never promised easy. Easy has never been promised to us. But we have had faith. We've had that good kind of crazy that says, 'You can't stop marching.' " ...

"I expect all of you to march with me and press on. Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on. We've got work to do, CBC."

Rep. Maxine Waters, who has a knack for seeing the cloud in every silver lining, is complaining about the speech. Here's another negative reaction. On the other hand, Rev. Al Sharpton agrees with the President. I'm with Rev. Al on this one.

Spreading Santorum

Rick Santorum continues to be upset about his "Google problem".  For those who don't know what this means, if you do a search on the word 'Santorum' one of the top results is a web page showing the definition of the word as "that frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex".

Rick Santorum is a failed politician who the voters turned out of office by a huge margin and is now seeking to be president.  His poll numbers are in the same range as Fred Karger, the gay candidate that the media is consipiring to keep out of the presidential debates.  And lately he has taken to whining that Google could do something to help him if it wanted to do so.  This is one point Rick Santorum is 100% right about.

Google could make Santorum an unindexed term, like 'the' or 'a'.  Of course this complicates things.  You either have to have develop special software that can index thing so people can search for information on Vitamin A or the band The The or you have to increase your storage requirements.  Or invest in software that can understand the content and make indexing decisiions that allows for this type of search.

What Rick Santorum is acutally requesting is that a private corporation invest money and resources into helping his campaign for president.  He is asking Google to suppress search results that he finds are not to his liking.  Would the money they spend to accomplish this need to be reported as a political contribution?

There is another way Rick Santorum could improve the results of Google searches.  Stop being a massive douchebag.

G as in Gay

Today would be Jim Henson's 75th birthday.  Google honors him with an animation on their home page today.  Sesame Street, his creation, lives on.  While it is sad that political pressures will keep Ernie from making an honest man of Bert social change takes time.  One of the muppets in this homage to the letter G (who you will remember have no sex) has already been termed the gayest muppet ever.  I am surprised that I haven't heard of any anti-gay bigots attacking Sesame Street about indoctrinating children with this segment.  Yet.

More glitter. 

Oct 14th - 6th Annual Hispanic LGBTQ Heritage Reception

October 14th from 6-8:00pm at the HRC Equality Room

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The special evening reception will feature a bilingual Spanish and English historical exhibit about Latino LGBTQ activists in metro DC since the mid-1980s with brief remarks about the Latino GLBT History Project's 2012 vision and ample time for networking and the opportunity to view the historical exhibit. The reception will feature appetizers, refreshments and seven large historical exhibit display panels as historical banners, posters, buttons and other memorabilia from LGBTQ Latinas and Latinos. The event will be open to our invited guests free of charge. Donations accepted. If you organization is interested in sponsoring the event, donating food or beverage please contact the President of the Latino GLBT History Project, David M. Perez at DPerez@LatinoGLBTHistory.com.

A question for GOP presidential candidates

MoveOn.org has an excellent question for Republican presidential candidates after last night's debate, where none of them spoke up in defense of an American soldier serving in Iraq after he was booed by the audience.

(Hat tip: Michael Crawford)

Ros-Lehtinen becomes first GOP co-sponsor of DOMA repeal

Chris Johnson reports for the Blade. Thanks to Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.).

Obama to UN: "No country should deny people their rights because of who they love"

At 5:22 in this clip from his speech at the United Nations this week, President Obama says:

No country should deny people their freedom of speech and freedom of religion. But also, no country should deny people their rights because of who they love, which is why we must stand up for the rights of gays and lesbians everywhere. And no country can realize its potential if half its population cannot reach theirs. This week the United States signed a new declaration on women's participation. Next year we should each announce the steps we are taking to break down the economic and political barriers that stand in the way of women and girls. This is what our commitment to human progress demands.

Thank you, Mr. President.

Speedo sues over gay porn sites

UPI reports. Fark.com summarizes:

Speedo sues over gay porn sites, seeks to protect the substantial and valuable reputation and goodwill associated with the swimsuit and its use among fat, clueless bastards.

(Hat tip: Andy Burns)

Perry wants to "mate up" Gingrich and Cain

Adam Serwer discusses "perhaps the strangest moment" of Thursday's GOP presidential debate.

Shall we take Marco Rubio at his word that he's a natural-born citizen?

Jason Linkins discusses that political zombie, Birtherism, and how it's now being directed at Republicans like Marco Rubio and Bobby Jindal.

GOP debate audience boos gay servicemember after question on DADT repeal

The audience at the latest Republican presidential debate boos Stephen Hill, a soldier serving in Iraq, and lying bigot Rick Santorum says that sex should not be an issue in the military while making a big issue out of gay servicemembers' sexuality. Perhaps the most famous film portrayal of sex and the military is the beach scene in From Here to Eternity featuring Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr. Why is the idea of straight sex okay but the prospect of gay sex brings cries of outrage?

Remember these Republican debate audience reactions as the 2012 election heats up. If you stay home on election day, you are conceding the government of this country to them.

Barton: Congress Should Impeach Judges For Rulings It Doesn't Like

Right Wing Watch reports on the latest from David Barton. As they say:

When you listen to David Barton on a regular basis, you learn all sorts of interesting things - a lot of them happen to be false and/or terrifying, but interesting nonetheless.

As to the terrifying part, RWW sounds a bit too tender for this line of work. The hellfire and brimstone stuff is the closest thing to pornography for many Catholic schoolchildren.