Jesus Christ in heaven
“Isabella is the child of Lisa Miller, a former lesbian who left that lifestyle after becoming a Christian.”
I was under the misconception that my tenacious contented gayness would disqualify me from “becoming a Christian” as I continued to be…me. I was wrong. Thank you Victoria. I can’t wait to join the “Christian lifestyle”.
What an awesome letter.
Washington Post Loudoun Extra
September 13, 2007What a relief to see that Manuel the Illegal Alien is the source of all Loudoun ills – soaring taxes, overcrowded schools, endless traffic jams. Until now, some thought these problems were linked to the Board of Supervisors and its smelly relationship with unbridled developers who have overwhelmed county school, police, fire and rescue budgets.
Our local press and political leadership have spotlighted Manuel, who once was viewed as the hardest-working person in Loudoun.
It all became clear when Supervisor Eugene A. Delgaudio (R-Sterling) applied his skills to the issue. Delgaudio is a professional homophobe who raises and spends millions of dollars to make life miserable for people such as Vice President Cheney’s daughter Mary. That is his day job as head of the group Public Advocate. At night, Delgaudio rattles property developer cages for campaign contributions financing his November reelection bid.
Now, Delgaudio’s talent as a hate merchant has led the board’s Republican majority to portray Manuel as devouring Loudoun funds. Persecuting Manuel has proved the ideal distraction this election period.
Fear of Manuel is almost enough to make us forget the Department of Justice’s investigation of possible public corruption in Loudoun. For most of the year, the FBI has been conducting interviews about ties between the development community and Loudoun officials. The U.S. attorney’s office in Alexandria is unlikely to conclude the probe before the fall election.
Maybe Manuel will make us forget annual 28 to 40 percent increases in Loudoun home tax assessments from 2004 to 2006 after the Republicans took over. (Some anti-tax party.) Or the supervisors’ near doubling of the county budget in the past four years, in hopes of keeping up with new development after new development.
Then again, maybe voters will look beyond scary smokescreens.
Patrick J. Sloyan Sr., Paeonian Springs
Here’s an example of what 32nd District delegate candidate Lynn Chapman does as policy director of the Family Leader Network. The Washington Post reports that Family Leader Network has joined PFOX and “Citizens for a Responsible Curriculum” in seeking a court order to block the Montgomery County classroom units on sexual orientation and gender identity from being taught this fall. We’ve reported extensively on this story before:
Truth wins in Maryland
Redefining “neutrality”
More identity confusion?
But what if they don’t like the facts?
Morally suspect “health education”
Reality: It’s just too controversial
Teach facts, not beliefs
Coming to Terms With Sexual Orientation
There is just no excuse for this continued harassment of educators. This curriculum has been thoroughly vetted. Parents have the choice of opting out their children from these particular units, or from the entire curriculum. The objections of these people to the content are, frankly, ridiculous.
School board members and education leaders say the lessons are age-appropriate and pedagogically sound. “The Maryland State Board of Education has already considered and rejected the opponents’ arguments as having no merit,” said schools spokesman Brian Edwards. “It appears that a small group of opponents is intent on forcing Montgomery County public schools to spend thousands more in taxpayer dollars to argue the same points all over again.”
Like the cadre of censors who want to control the student plays performed in our schools, they will never be satisfied. And, as it turns out, these censors inhabit a very small world.
Following is Lynn Chapman’s bio as it appears on the Family Policy Network website. Why is it that this position in the development of public policy is not included on Chapman’s otherwise extensive campaign website?
Lynn Chapman-Policy Director
This action provides yet more evidence that Chapman would actively seek to pass legislation that does harm to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community.
The Washington Blade weighs in with an article about recent gay-baiting campaign tactics in Virginia and a bipartisan call to cut it out, co-signed by Equality Virginia, Log Cabin Republicans and Virginia Partisans.
The article is primarily about the push poll calls attributed to the Lynn Chapman campaign, insinuating that Delegate David Poisson is “a closet homosexual.” See previous posts here and here for our analysis of that situation. It would have been nice if the Blade had picked up on the Patricia Phillips gay-baiting attack on Republican John Andrews as well, and the joint statement by Andrews and Poisson condemning these ugly, dishonest tactics:
Public service isn’t for the faint of heart. We – one a Republican, the other a Democrat – know that only too well. We have always recognized that we must be fully prepared to present and defend our positions. We also recognize that any decisions we make, whether professional or personal, are fair game for our opponents.
But we are concerned that with each new election cycle politics is becoming uglier and more dishonest, damaging not only our public discourse but also tearing at the very fabric of our democracy.
This “latest round of dubious campaigning echoes the previous House of Delegates 2005 election cycle, when the Blade reported two incidents of gay baiting,” a fraudulent flyer about Vivian Paige distributed to NAACP members and a bizarre letter to constituents from former Delegate Bradley Marrs about a contribution to his opponent Katherine Waddell from a “wealthy homosexual businessman.” At the time, Marrs insisted that his overheated rhetoric was “standard political campaigning.”
Closer to home, that 2005 cycle also included the “standard” gay-baiting attacks on David Poisson by former Delegate Dick Black. Notably, both Black and Marrs lost. One would hope that a lesson was learned from this.
In some cases, however, what has worked in the past is being tried again, albeit with a different group of “others” filling in as scapegoat. What’s the difference between the following two statements?
…I have just been sent a tip that a local pro-illegal alien organization, has been in contact with the ACLU and the left-wing group Legal Aid in a plan to sue Loudoun County…Even worse, they hope their lawsuit will “set a precedent” and repeal other sensible zoning laws across the country. The plan is to throw open our communities to an invasion of illegal aliens and turn neighborhoods across the country into dangerous, crowded slums…
…Help me stop their plan to make our neighborhoods a crime-infested “sanctuary community” for illegal aliens…groups like La Voz and others now threaten war against CURRENT law enforcement, hoping to sue away the Delgaudio Ordinance and repeal laws across the country aimed at stopping invasions of illegal aliens who turn safe neighborhoods into filthy, crowded slums…Pro-illegal alien activists are already invading Sterling, never mentioning their actual agenda and spreading lies in an effort to defeat me…
…Last week the pro-homosexual special interests including mislead and mistaken young people and a former opponent swarmed into the School Board room. They openly spoke against Christians who wish to not have government endorse immorality. There were community leaders like Barbara Black, Andy Wallo, Paul Goze and others who spoke against the use of taxpayer monies to promote obscene acts on children…The School Board…is going forward NOW with plans to create a policy PREVENTING the continued promotion of bizarre and obscene immoral practices that offend all traditional pro-family religions in America and the world…
…At the same time they attacked me, an explicit “student” play was being organized by a high school principal, with the active help of other pro-gay rights activists implementing a defacto school board policy to condemn Christians and other traditional morality promoting citizens…in fact the teacher and students involved stridently assert they have the unlimited right to promote pro-gay rights philosophies on school grounds…Strident anti-Christian pro-gay rights leaders and their misguided followers will swarm Tuesday night urging the school board to encourage pro-homosexual plays, productions, surveys, curriculum and other propaganda. They do not want this proposed policy passed…
If there is one, I can’t find it. Hate is hate, and lies are lies.
Wife Power!
This is absolutely hilarious. Here is how the Knoxville Anti Racist Action Clown Block ran the Klan out of town on a humiliating rail. Hat tip to the always well-read Waldo.
Alex Linder…the lead organizer of the rally kicked off events by rushing the clowns in a fit of rage, and was promptly arrested by 4 Knoxville police officers who dropped him to the ground when he resisted and dragged him off past the red shiny shoes of the clowns.
“White Power!” the Nazis shouted, “White Flour?” the clowns yelled back running in circles throwing flour in the air and raising separate letters which spelt “White Flour”.
“White Power!” the Nazis angrily shouted once more, “White flowers?” the clowns cheered and threw white flowers in the air and danced about merrily.
“White Power!” the Nazis tried once again in a doomed and somewhat funny attempt to clarify their message, “ohhhhhh!” the clowns yelled “Tight Shower!” and held a solar shower in the air and all tried to crowd under to get clean as per the Klan’s directions.
Hey, this could come in handy someday.
From the Department of Bizarre heterosexual practices
A special “Thank you” to Mr. Delgaudio for the proper phrasing for this post.
I found this in the comments at Teach the Facts. Please send predictions about how long it will take some genius to protest that this entrepreneurial achievement represents free market capitalism at its finest, and that this behavior is all part of some natural, reproductive design.
From the Washington Post column The Magazine Reader:
Obviously, it’s in the woman’s best interest to keep the e-mail exchange going as long as possible.
Obviously. One cringes at the revolting scenario that sets up. I am relatively speechless.