Posts Tagged ‘homophobia’

Worried About Virginia

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

If you thought my satire about a Virginia referendum to reject suffrage was too hyperbolic, check out what Rachel Maddow has to say about Virginia’s newly elected governor and attorney general:1

Excerpts: (starting at about 1:00)

Virginia… elected an attorney general named Ken Cuccinelli, who has called being gay “intrinsically wrong,” and has said that it does not comport with natural law….2

…Virginia’s new governor-elect Bob McDonnell just a few years ago said that certain homosexual conduct could and should disqualify a person from being a judge because of violating Virginia’s Crimes Against Nature law.3

  1. To clarify: I’m not calling what Maddow said as hyperbolic. I’m saying that my satire might not be as “out there” as it might seem at first glance, as there’s plenty of evidence that McDonnell and Cuccinelli are both noted regressionists. [<]
  2. See Shannon questions Cuccinelli’s stance on gay employees, Richmond Times Dispatch [<]
  3. See Sex Law Is No Judging Criteria, Daily Press [<]

Randall Terry Rocks the National Equality March

Sunday, October 11th, 2009

He really stole the show.

Don’t know Randall Terry?

Here’s what Wikipedia says about him:

Randall A. Terry (born 1959) is an American activist. A political conservative, Terry founded the anti-abortion organization Operation Rescue in 1987 and led the group until 1991. He has been arrested more than 40 times, most recently for protesting the commencement visit at the University of Notre Dame by President Barack Obama, who is pro-choice, by defying a court order to stay off the school’s property.

In 2003, Randall Terry founded the Society for Truth and Justice and conducted a program called Operation Witness. He was the spokesman for the Schindler family in the Terri Schiavo case. In 2006, he unsuccessfully ran as a Republican for state senator of Florida’s eighth district.

I’ll be trying to transcribe some of Mr. Terry’s announcements in the above videos (which I took, yay), and post them here soon. Stay tuned!

(Oh, btw, since it’s sometimes difficult to convey sarcasm on the interwebs, the title to this post is sarcastic.)