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Gay History – October 28: Republican Senator Jesse Helms “Homosexuals and lesbians [are] disgusting” and more.

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Jesse Helms

 

1903:  British writer Evelyn Waugh is born in London. His best-known works include his early satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934), and of course his novel Brideshead Revisited (1945).

1970:  Kate Millet, American feminist writer, artist and activist comes out of the closet. Millet became a seminal influence on second-wave feminism and is best known for her 1970 book Sexual Politics.

1990: The late Senator Jesse Helms infamously declared in a campaign speech that “homosexuals and lesbians [are] disgusting people marching in our streets demanding all sorts of things, including the right to marry each other.” Helms was disgusted by gays and lesbians, who he called  “weak, morally sick wretches” (1994), and accused them of engaging in “incredibly offensive and revolting conduct” 

For nearly two decades, he fought tooth and nail against expanded federal funding for AIDS research, and exploited gays and lesbians as convenient scapegoats in his constant fear-mongering crusade.  In 1987 Helms said, “Somewhere along the line we’re going to have to quarantine people with AIDS.” Helms’ uncaring and disgusting response to the disease was explained by his tirade the next year against the bipartisan Kennedy-Hatch AIDS bill, when he claimed, “There is not one single case of AIDS in this country that cannot be traced in origin to sodomy.” Of course which was a lie.

Helms died of vascular dementia during the early morning hours of July 4, 2008, at the age of 86.  Mitch McConnell of Kentucky eulogized Helms as one of the “kindest men” in Congress, and said, “no matter who you were, he always had a thoughtful word and a gentle smile.”

Jesse Helms is currently burning in HELL alongside Jerry Falwell and his good friend Ronald Reagan. They are waiting on FRC’s  Tony Perkins to check-in and join them so they have a fourth for Canasta.

1990: A high-end event at Carnegie Hall raised $1.5 million for the Gay Men’s Health Crisis. It was reportedly a “three-hour international parade of singers and musicians [and] a demonstration that AIDS is a disease to be feared and resisted not just by several enclaves but by people of every sex, nationality and sexual persuasion.”

1992:  Episcopal Bishop A. Theodore Eastman issued an order to clergy in Maryland not to bless same-sex unions.

1997: The National Black Lesbian and Gay Leadership Forum condemned gospel singers Angie and Debbie Winans for their anti-gay song “It’s Not Natural” and BET-TV for providing them with a one-sided forum to promote their homophobic views.

2009: The first openly gay member of the German government, Guido Westerwelle, took office as Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister to Angela Merkel. – Kiss me Guido!

Chants of "Moscow Mitch" Follow McConnell to Fancy Farm Political Event in Kentucky

Chants of “Moscow Mitch” Follow McConnell to Fancy Farm Political Event in Kentucky

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The annual Fancy Farm Picnic started simply as a church picnic 139 years ago. Since then, however, it’s become Kentucky’s signature political event.

Kentucky political candidates from far and wide attend the event to stump speech exchange barbs and throw shade at their party rivals.

But this year national derision followed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell home as attendees taunted the GOP leader with T-shirts, signs and continuous chants of “Moscow Mitch” during his speech.

McConnell, who earlier this week publicly took offense to the nickname calling it “modern day McCarthyism” during a particularity whiny speech on the Senate floor, addressed the issue again Saturday.

Democratic candidate for Treasurer Michael Bowman who isn’t very well known fired back when he took the stage after McConnell.

“It was a little dangerous getting on the stage today because I nearly tripped over the leash that the Russians put on Mitch McConnell,” he said.

Bowman went on, “I see that the senator is no longer here,” he said noticing that McConnell left the event. “I’m sure the Russians needed him more than we did. Probably to teach him new tricks. I wouldn’t know what, he already knows how to roll over.”

Gay Republican HomoCONS Petition Mitch McConnell to Block The Equality Act

Gay Republican HomoCONS Petition Mitch McConnell to Block The Equality Act

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Former Log Cabin Republicans president Gregory Angelo, Chadwick “Media Whore” Moore and a gaggle of other self-serving and self-loathing gay quislings have launched apetition to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell which demands that he refuse to allow a vote on the Equality Act. 

“We, the undersigned members of the gay community, formally ask that Leader McConnell never bring the Equality Act up for a vote in the United States Senate. While discrimination against LGBT Americans is wrong, and while legislation protecting against discrimination may yet be possible in the future, the Equality Act is so flawed and problematic that it should not be considered by the United States Senate.”

Samuel L. Jackson Calls Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump Racist Assholes.

Samuel L. Jackson Calls Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump Racist Assholes.

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In a wide-ranging discussion with Esquire, Samuel L. Jackson star of the movie “Pulp Fiction”, “Snakes on a Plane”, and Marvel franchise stalwart let it all out about KY Senator and congressional Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump

Jackson was asked if growing up in racially segregated Tennessee angered him.

Jackson — who is the highest grossing actor in history with 120 films that have raked in $13.3 billion worldwide — said it didn’t anger him while growing up. However, he quickly pivoted and directed his opinion about racism to include Donald Trump and McConnell.

“I’m angrier now about it than I was then, just because I see these guys and I know these are the same guys: Trump and all those assholes, Mitch McConnell,” Jackson said. “But they’re the same fucking guys. And when I hear their voices, I hear the same voices. Those twangs where they didn’t specifically call you ‘n—–,’ they said ‘nigra.'”

Jackson continued the interview, saying it was always clear to him what people like Trump and McConnell thought about racial issues.

“There was no doubt about where they stood, that you were never going to be their equal and, if possible, they were going to make sure you never had as much sh– as they had,” Jackson said. “And they were worried about the chasteness of their women, and miscegenation, and not having enough of them, there being more of us than there are of them.”

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Mitch McConnell Once Again Blocks Bill To Reopen Government

Mitch McConnell Once Again Blocks Bill To Reopen Government

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The Hill reports:

Senate Republicans blocked a House-passed package to reopen the federal government for a second time in as many weeks on Tuesday. Democratic Sens. Chris Van Hollen (Md.) and Ben Cardin (Md.) asked for consent take up a package of bills that would reopen the federal government.

One bill would fund the Department of Homeland Security through Feb. 8, while the other would fund the rest of the impacted departments and agencies through Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year.

Under Senate rules, any one senator can ask for consent to vote on or pass a bill, but any one senator can object. McConnell blocked the two bills saying the Senate wouldn’t “participate in something that doesn’t lead to an outcome.”

FRC's Tony Perkins: Tony Perkins: The Equality Act Would Make LGBT Citizens “The Most Protected Class In America”

Mitch McConnell Appoints FRC Hate Group Leader Tony Perkins To US Commission On “International Religious Freedom”

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) today announced the appointment of Family Research Council (FRC) President Tony Perkins to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) as its newest commissioner, for a two-year term. Mr. Perkins will remain FRC president during his time with USCIRF.

Majority Leader McConnell appointed Perkins to the independent, bipartisan U.S. federal government commission which is tasked with reviewing “the facts and circumstances of religious freedom violations and makes policy recommendations to the president, the secretary of state, and Congress.” USCIRF Commissioners are appointed by the president and the congressional leadership of both political parties.

In recent years Mr. Perkins has taken a direct and active role in advocating for religious minorities helping to bring national and international attention to their plight. He has testified before Congress on the topic of international religious freedom on multiple occasions. FRC President Tony Perkins released the following statement:

“I am grateful to Majority Leader McConnell for appointing me to this prestigious position. From my post at USCIRF, I look forward to doing all that I can to ensure that our government is the single biggest defender of religious freedom internationally. One immediate step our government can take in this regard is to make sure that the Frank R. Wolf International Religious Freedom Act is fully and properly implemented.

“As a commissioner, I also look forward to working with willing partners among those nations on USCIRF’s list of ‘Countries of Particular Concern’ to substantively address religious freedom concerns, including at the grassroots level, and assist them in being removed from the list. It is my hope that through the work of USCIRF, the world will become one step closer to recognizing the vital role religious freedom and the defense of religious minorities play in peace, security and human flourishing.” – Family Research Council press release.

 

Just when you thought you couldn’t possibly hate Mitch McConnell any more than you do……

GOP Senators Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul Add Union Busting Amendment To ENDA

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Rand Paul bad toupee

As if the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) did not have enough problems with religious extremists and a gaping religious exemptions clause that renders it almost useless and would give religious organizations, schools, hospitals and businness a free pass to continue discriminating LEGALLY against the LGBT community.  NOW we have Senators Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) trying to attach a national so-called “right-to-work” law to the Employment Non-Discrimination Act.  The two filed an amendment attaching ENDA to the anti-union measure hours before it passed the key hurdle of cloture on its way to its to the  floor debate and vote.

The idea behind right-to-work laws is much more complicated and deceiving than the name suggests. The laws prohibit unions from requiring dues payments from all employees in a unionized workplace. That creates a free-rider problem whereby workers who stand to gain higher wages and better job conditions from a successful union contract bargaining effort can refuse to help pay for those efforts. While the laws are often billed as rescuing workers from being forced to pay union dues, it weaken unions, and drives down wages. Workers in right-to-work states like Michigan and Indiana make about $1,500 less per year than those in other states and workplace safety and health insurance benefits are much weaker according to studies of the 22 states that operate under the policy.

Dirty GOP politics and corporate greed at the expense of civil rights and the well being of American citizens.

THAT is the Republican party

Source: Think Progress

GOP Senators Send Letters To Sports Leagues Warning Against Helping Obamacare – NFL Caves In

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NFL Caves In To GOP Demands

GOP Senators Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn sent a a stern letter to the nation’s six top professional sports leagues last week, warning them not to support or help publicize an important national health care initiative that has already affected and helped millions of  Americans. The  Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, more familiarly known to the Tea Party and the GOP as Obamacare.

The letters sent to the National Football League, Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, the National Hockey League, the Professional Golf Association and warns the organizations that the new law is the “most divisive and polarizing political issue of our day.” It further warns that “given the divisiveness and persistent unpopularity of the health care [law], it is difficult to understand why an organization like yours would risk damaging its inclusive and apolitical brand by lending its name to its promotion.”

As of this writing  the only organization listed above that has caved into McConnells and Cornyns demands is the National Football League who have said they will not  promote enrollment in health insurance plans under the new health care law,  a spokesman announced today.  All other professional sports organizations have remained silent.

McConnell who is up for re-election this year in Kentucky is using the repeal of “Obamacare” as a platform for re-election despite the fact that his state is one of the poorest in the country with the most uninsured per capita and whose constitutes would benefit greatly from health care coverage.

 

GOP Senators Including Closet Case Lindsey Graham File SCOTUS Brief Against Overturning DOMA

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Lindsey Graham SCOTUSTen GOP members of the U.S. Senate have filed a Supreme Court brief against the overturning of DOMA and one of them if the notorious self-loathing closet case Lindsey Graham.

Notwithstanding the Attorney General’s belated discovery of DOMA’s allegedly unconstitutional motivation, this argument is flawed because legislative motivation is not a basis for setting aside a federal statute supported by legitimate and rational government interests. This Court’s precedents do not sup-port evaluating the constitutionality of a federal statute based on subjective characterizations of the motives of individual legislators. In any event,support for traditional marriage cannot be equated to“animus,” as Justice O’Connor observed in her concurrence in Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558, 585(2003). It would be particularly inappropriate to invalidate DOMA based on the alleged motivations of individual supporters, given that the statute was passed with overwhelming bipartisan support and signed into law by President Clinton.

Graham a “lifelong bachelor” is well-known in D.C. to be a closeted homosexual in the tradition of Ken Mehlman and Roy Cohn and  has never been officially outed.