June 30th, 2009 @ 4:19 pm
This Week in Hate
Last week a PA State Senator had this to say
LEACH: How would he [Eichelberger] want to encourage stability in gay couples?
EICHELBERGER: I wouldn’t. I mean they can practice whatever sexual activity they like to practice, but there’s no reason to give them special consideration. We don’t give them special consideration in Pennsylvania for any reason. Why in the world would we allow them to marry?
LEACH: How would you encourage gay couples to be able to provide for their families?
EICHELBERGER: Well, I wouldn’t.
…HOST: Are you saying that by their very nature homosexual relationships are dysfunctional?
EICHELBERGER: [Pause] Um. I guess I would say that. I would say that.
LEACH: Should our only policy towards [same-sex] couples be one of punishment, to somehow prove that they’ve done something wrong?
EICHELBERGER: They’re not being punished. We’re allowing them to exist, and do what every American can do. We’re just not rewarding them with any special designation.
Damn that’s a strong cup of hate.
When asked if he would apologize, Eichelberger answered, “No. I think you know my answer to that.”
Francine Busby is running for the seat in the 50th district in CA’s 2010 congressional election
Congressional candidate Francine Busby was being hosted at the home of a lesbian couple in San Diego, where they and 30 guests raised funds for her campaign. A neighbor of the couple began shouting homophobic slurs over his backyard fence and then apparently called the police to complain about the noise. What happened next is surreal.
via Joe. My. God.: Cops Raid San Diego Dem Home Fundraiser With Helicopter, Arrests, Pepper Spray.
She was using a megaphone for a short while but 8-8:30pm hardly counts as a noise violation, the guests at the fundraisers are described as “middle-aged supporters;” which we all know just are wild and crazy with noise. Oh wait.
So the neighbor shouts obscenities about gay people from behind the bushes, which lead the police to believe that they needed to use pepper spray to control the 60 year olds fundraiser guests. The neighbors didn’t even notice the event until the police showed up. And show up they did, seven deputies, a sergeant and a helicopter.
see also Cops Arrest Host, Use Pepper Spray at Candidate’s Fundraiser – Towleroad
and also, an update on the Ft. Worth raids via JMG
The Fort Worth Police Department still has some explaining to do about what happened early Sunday at a southside gay bar called the Rainbow Lounge.
Or some clarifying or some illuminating or some supplementary detailing – anything to mitigate the apparently self-administered public-relations shot-to-the-foot it suffered after what it keeps calling a routine “bar check.”
‘Cause – Problem No. 1 – bar patrons who were there say it wasn’t a “check,” it was a “raid.” Problem No. 2, this particular “check” ended with a kid in the intensive-care unit with a head injury.
Problem No. 3, in what I can only hope is a spectacularly infelicitous coincidence, all this took place on the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Raid.
I hate being hated. but not that much, don’t you worry.
