the right wing tea party combines with the repub southern bible belt to vilify and hate gay people, trans etc. Their only goal is to gain total control and in the words of bachmann etc and their “pledge”, end all forms of gay marriage, reinstate dadt, fill the courts with extremist xtians and the brainwashed catholics of a pope who have vilified gays for most of his life, even serving in the German army while Hitler was tossing the gays he could find into the ovens with Jews, slaves etc.

Back during WWII there were jews called Kapos.. They worked for the Nazis, often more vicious then the nazis themselvesl Until their number for the ovens came up.

Back after the civil war, where the only real means of communication was tellegrams or very slow mail, in 35 years the extremists xtians (apparently with some catholic support – the view is muddy) turned the situation around via the KKK and segregation

Both of which are so similar to forcing closeting of gays. its the old story of how its so easy to sell hate against someone you dont know and so hard to sell hate to someone you know and respect.

which is exactly what the real ending of DADT is all about – a million of the 2 million of our mil who dont know any gay people discovering people they know and respect are gay. the best analogy is its like a polio vaccine for religious based hatred of gays.

Its far to early to give the repubs control of both houses of congress (at risk anyway – 23 dems up for repelection, only 10 repubs. And the white house which has done so much administratively for gays, all items that could be turned around in a week.

And the supreme court – with the marriage case pending in CA and certain to go to SCOTUS, where two of the progressive justices are well into their 80s and the right wing frothing at the mouth to replace them with xtian extremists.

The danger is real. Its the right wing xtians, eg Don Schmirier of EXodus, Scott lively of “watchmen on the walls”(xtian hate group), FRC with its George Reker – just another self hating gay person finally outed after a lifetime of smearing gay people. Schmirier and Lively are some of many xtians directly involved in supporting the genocide of gays bill in Uganda (lots of muslim influence there also) . FRC spent $25000 to hire a lobbyiest to crush a simple condemnation of the uganda genocide bill in the House of Reps, To me its current head Tony perkins – he’s got lips just like Minister ted haggard, The second in command (along with perkins) is peter spriggs – a known racist who served with Perkins in the LA legislature – next to hte great hate state of missisiipi in demonizing gays as htey did blacks.

its your life – my only risks is that the genocide law would also, if enacted here, get me sent to a hellhole prison for my life for supporting and simply knowing gay people (shades of KGB “spy thy neighbor”

You vote repub at your own risk. I vaguely remember the freakouts of the McCArthy era (catholic church supported the invasion of Russia by AH because the communists werent religious)

The tea party, from my active involvement in gay rights since the matthew shepard murder, is just atnohter KKK, its NOM pals are on the hate group lsit also re vilifying gays etc

Just take a look at whats going on in the world via the website http://www.christianaggression.org/

And realize it could happen here. And the Jews were repsected in Germany – its bankers, doctors , lawyers. In ten years the extremists (now seen on the hypnotic subliminal site “fox news) turned it all around and 55 million died.
Be careful. Remember about propaganda – If you tell a lie often enough and outrageous enough, it will be seen as the truth. It got that psychopath elected in 1933. it could destroy every last thing this country stands for, including freedom of / from religion. And much worse

Comments stephen_1553-k@comcast.net I’ve done a few things like support HRC as a volunteer, been on the board of Equality Maryland, met matthew Shepards mom 4-5 times, His dad twice his brother once.

And given so much money to the gay rights movement that my wife wants to disown me.

Ps looking for me – most friday nights at Grand central in baltimoe – graying, 6 feet tall, about 170#,

gold rimmed glasses. sometimes with a nortorius religious symbol made out of toys etc. I also have met kevin Naff a couple years ago.

The only good point is that their is a lag time. Jews, Catholics, and middle class children of working class parents voted Democratic for a while longer than any social disadvantage.

“You know that I was born a lesbian, and what I’ve experienced in my life is a lot of prejudice from people concerning the fact that I don’t lie about my sexual orientation and act like I am straight. The ones who have given me the most grief are people who are gay and in the closet themselves, and people who are Republicans–which sometimes can also be in that first closet-case category. I’m not a hard-core Democrat either, but at least the Democratic party has made an attempt at giving me, a tax-paying citizen of the United States, the same rights as a heterosexual murderer, who is in prison sitting on death row and can still get legally married! There are over 1,000 rights that my partner of 18 years and I don’t have, that any married heterosexual couple do–even those who are drunk, just met, and got married in Las Vegas! At this point, me voting Republican would be like a African American voting for the KKK, or a Jewish person voting for a Nazi!”

My client really couldn’t argue these points, and I do think that our conversation may have opened his mind to the fact that LGBT people are not treated fairly when it comes to our rights in the USA. I think a lot of people don’t realize the rights LGBT don’t have because we can’t get legally married. If you’d like to see a list of these rights, check out my website here:
http://www.amazingdreamspublishing.com/marriagerights.html