Given his continuing series of gaffes and dumb-ass statements, I have been wondering why the Republican Party keeps Michael Steele as chairman. But then I read about his recent comments regarding the potential of gay marriage to wreak havoc on small businesses, or at least using that message to expand the base, which right now [...]

A Washington Post-ABC poll earlier this month found that 47 percent of Americans believe gay marriage should be legal, while 31 percent oppose. Support is down by 2 percentage points from the May 2009 poll cited below, but opposition has dropped 15 points.

Frank Schubert is the president of Schubert-Flint Public Affairs, the political shop hired to manage the campaign to revoke the right of gay people to marry in California.
Under Schubert’s direction, California voters were bombarded with false advertising, including ads that purported that if Prop 8 failed, school children would be forced to learn about [...]

Hilarious. Read it here.

It was, I suppose, predictable that professional bloviator Bill O’Reilly would get his panties in a twist over author J.K. Rowling’s (yawn) revelation that a character in the Harry Potter novels was gay. Rowling told an audience at Carnegie Hall last week that the headmaster of Hogwarts Academy, Albus Dumbledore, was gay.
Despite the fact [...]

The Kaczynski Brothers
So it’s not just American conservative homophobic politicians who are self-hating gays. Here’s one in Poland who was ousted by liberals this week:
“It is advisable to establish if Jaroslaw Kaczynski remains in a long-term homosexual relationship and, if so, who his partner is.”– Head of Polish Secret Service in 1992
Poland’s pro-European Union [...]

Associated Press:
Sen. Larry Craig says he will file an appeal Monday over a judge’s refusal to allow him to withdraw his guilty plea stemming from his arrest in an airport bathroom sex sting.
In an interview Sunday with KTVB-TV, Craig repeated he will not resign his post in the Senate and said he will continue to [...]

Opposition to gay civil rights has become an extremely effective fundraising tool for the Christian right. In 2005, for example, four of the leading organizations focused on institutionalizing homophobia — Focus on the Family, the American Family Association, the Family Research Council and the Traditional Values Coalition (which advocates execution of gays) — raised [...]

Come out, come out, wherever you closeted Republican hypocrites are! Oct. 11 is National Coming Out Day, a time to resolve to live openly as you are. And, in the case of some Republican politicians, to quit trying to make homosexuality go away by legislating it out of existence.
You can even find help at www.comeout.org. [...]