2015: Goodbye To All That

Kim Davis, gaymarriage, trans in the military, Caitlyn Jenner, the bathroom bill, the blood donor ban, blah blah blah... yes Zach, it was a very dull year.

But the earth stood still, as the White House turned rainbow!

There won't be a backlash, love, unless you count us all dying of being boring.

PS My imaginary friend, Sean Faye, wrote an interesting piece about how obsessing over the blood donor ban is a gay bourgeois folly.

Slight paraphrase, but the prime movers behind this waste of time all seem to be in LGBTory.

Festivus: Seasons Greetings

Artist's impression.

This holiday season, as many as eight state capitols will be graced with a rainbow-festooned Festivus pole—a 6.5-foot-tall display crowned by a glittering disco ball. The pole was designed by Chaz Stevens, head of The Humanity Fund, a scrappy advocacy group that champions separation of church and state, free speech, and constitutional equality. Stevens hopes to place his display in Republican-dominated states—Arkansas, Oklahoma, Florida, Georgia, Michigan—as a protest against what he views as their support for laws respecting an establishment of religion.

Several states quickly agreed to display Stevens’ pole, which was wise: As I explained in 2014, the First Amendment bars the government from allowing some groups from expressing their beliefs on state grounds while excluding others based on their viewpoint. Once states allowed Christians and Jews to erect mangers and menorahs in capitol halls, they were constitutionally required to let Stevens display his own expressive symbol...

Outward, Slate.

Seinfeld reference klaxon!

There follows a Q&A with Chaz Stevens...

In 2013, I got a tip saying, did you know there’s a manger up in Tallahassee in the capitol? So I write to Tallahassee, saying I want to put up a Festivus pole, thinking there’s no way in hell they’ll say yes. Three days later, they say yes. Up goes the pole...

Right around the corner, Kim Davis and her crazy people in Kentucky say, we’re not gonna give marriage licenses. That just drove me nuts. The very day that happened, I said to myself, those little fuckers! I am going to troll the living shit out of them. I’m going to wrap my pole in gay pride and put a disco ball on the top and stick it in the bowels of the Florida rotunda.

PS Somewhat spookily today's Independent republishes Christopher Hitchens' 2011 essay, The True Spirit of Christmas, which touches on this nonsense...

But what is all this clutter doing on the White House lawn or in the public rooms of the executive mansion, or on public property and in public schools? Quite apart from the clear stipulations of the First Amendment, this seems to me to violate the Tocquevillian principle that American religion is strictly based on the voluntary principle and neither requires nor deserves any taxpayer-funded endorsement. 

It also offends - by being so much in my face, without my having requested it and in spite of polite entreaties to desist – another celebrated precept about the right to be let alone. A manger on your lawn makes me yawn. A reindeer that strays from your lawn to mine is a nuisance at any time of year. Angels and menorahs on the White House lawn are an infraction of the Establishment Clause, which is as much designed to prevent religion from being corrupted by the state as it is to protect the public square from clerical encroachment...

Church News: Making Your Mind Up

Daily Mail.

I've a feeling tomorrow we'll find out that he's actually Frankie's GBF and this was an admin error and he's been re-instated.

Or Kim Davis is lez or something - I can't keep up.

PS At a special synod over the weekend the Catholic church will debate allowing sodomites to move from the Seventh Circle of Hell to the Sixth.

Pope Francis: Thanks For Clearing That Up

The Vatican on Friday attempted to clarify the circumstances surrounding Pope Francis’ recent meeting with Kim Davis in the United States, saying it “should not be considered a form of support of her position.”

The Kentucky clerk spent time in jail for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses and she has become a focal point in the gay-marriage debate.

She met with the pope on Sept. 24.

However, Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi said the pontiff also met with several dozen people at the Vatican’s embassy that day just before leaving Washington for New York and that those meetings were due to the pope's “kindness and availability.”

“The pope did not enter into the details of the situation of Mrs. Davis and his meeting with her should not be considered a form of support of her position in all of its particular and complex aspects,” Lombardi said.

Davis earlier this week said that the pope had encouraged her to “stay strong.” ...

USA Today.

Strictly entre nous, Frankie told me he thinks she's a witch.

PS Who knows what really went on there, but good job certain gay journalists didn't go into TOTAL BATSHIT MELTDOWN just because of Kim Davis' account of their 'meeting'.

Hey, this crazy lady claims she talks to god, dudes!

Update: It's possible Frankie didn't know who she was, Reuters.

Update 2: But apparently he did meet and greet a gay couple at the Vatican Embassy do, according to CNN.

The papal plot thickens quicker than yr boyfriend's dick!!!

Kim Davis: Free At Last!

Let us now stone the adultress to death, coz Bible.

Kim Davis: Is Rosa Parks

Sure.

 PS Some Martyr, The Economist.

As ever, be extremely sceptical about any gay issue the right supports.

Breaking: Sledgehammer, Meet Nut

Queerty.

Ridiculous.

Dunno why so many queens are celebrating, this is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard.

'Lock up the non-believer and throw away the key!'

Fagburn say #FreeTheCrazyLady1!

PS That's not to detract from the fact she's such an idiotic bigot you wonder how she got a job in the first place, though.

Kim Davis: Out Come The Pink Pitchforks!

Well, yes, as an elected official Kim Davis should 'do her job' and issue marriage licences to same-sex couples.

But can we not get all gay-hysterical again and turn Rowan County, Kentucky into this month's rainbow Salem.

If she refuses to do it - and is therefore incapable of doing her job - the county should just offer her another position.

End of over-blown story.

Some religious nutters don't like gay marriage - get over it!