“A lesbian couple was refused entry to the Dollywood theme park because one of the women was wearing a T-shirt that read, ‘marriage is so gay.’

Olivier Odom and Jennifer Tipton said what really rankled them was the explanation from the gatekeeper.

‘He said it was a family park’ said Tipton.”

The lesbian couple was finally allowed entry into Dollywood after Odom agreed to turn her T-shirt inside out.

Dollywood employees need sensitivity training, for an employee to turn away a lesbian couple with the explanation that Dollywood is a family park is unbelievable and insulting to everyone who treasures human rights.

Families come in many different configurations, a lesbian couple is just as valid as a heterosexual couple. People are people, and gays and lesbians want to have fun in a family-friendly environment like everyone else.

Only Neanderthals who believe that same-sex marriage is obscene would find Odom’s T-shirt objectionable.

Country music icon Dolly Parton supports gay marriage, she is one of the few country artists who publicly speaks out on behalf of gay rights. It’s a shame this sort of stupidity happened in a park that bears her name. [ READ MORE ]

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Republican Homophobia

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Anti-Gay leader, Republican Dr. George Reekers was reportedly caught on vacation with a male prostitute. Reekers, the co-founder of the anti-gay, homophobic, Islamophobic, Latinophobic and Negrophobic Family Research Council and board member of several other anti-gay organizations who is now in the midst of a “slow burning” scandal involving a male escort, spoke on the situation.

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Thieving Richard Cohen, a “former homosexual“, claims he can cure “Gayness” by cuddling with “Active Homosexuals.” LOL! Only a Republican can come up with such an incredulous scheme to defraud vulnerable homosexuals — who are hounded and murdered all over the world because of their sexual orientation.

Richard Cohen, the “ex-homosexual” therapist is head of the “International Healing Foundation,” which purportedly helps gay people become straight. Cohen’s rancid slander against gay people (they’re a threat to children, etc.), masquerading as “research,” is being used by advocates (Evangelical Republicans) of a proposed law in Uganda that would allow the state to execute homosexuals, reports Glenn Greenwald.

Republicans have invaded Museveni’s Uganda to help him kill his own people. I call this “Homophobic Neo-colonialism.” The teachings of homosexual “healer” Richard Cohen (of the ‘International Healing Foundation‘) and evangelical Republicans has inspired Uganda’s hateful new legislation — “Kill All The Gays”

References: Tracy Clark-Flory Reports For Salon.com | Newsweek Report | HuffingtonPost Report |

A Rachel Maddow Demolition of The “Recovering Gay” Therapist

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The “Touch Therapy” Cures Gayness?

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The Story Behind Curing Gays

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American Encouraging Anti-Gay Sentiment in Uganda

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The Family’s Uganda Ties

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No Comment From Chuck Grassley on Anti-Gay Bill

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“California GOP Rep. David Dreier and a number of other politicians are the unwilling stars of a controversial new documentary with an explosive premise – it’s time to blow open the closet door on prominent politicians who have hidden their homosexuality while actively working against gay causes.

The film ‘Outrage,‘ which opens today at the Embarcadero Center Cinema in San Francisco, presents interviews and documentation charging that a number of prominent legislators – including Dreier, the U.S. representative from San Dimas (Los Angeles County), GOP Florida Gov. Charlie Crist and former Democratic New York Mayor Ed Koch – have remained closeted while publicly opposing legislation on issues such as same-sex marriage, HIV/AIDS funding, and gays in the military.” Carla Marinucci, Chronicle Political Writer.

A politician’s personal life should have no bearing on his political career. It shouldn’t matter if a candidate is a swinger or a recluse, we should cast our vote based on the issues.

However if a elected leader has sex with a subordinate or if a closeted gay politician votes against gay rights legislation, then a pol’s sex life becomes a matter for public discourse. Americans can’t abide sexual harassment, and they can’t tolerate hypocrisy.

You don’t have to be gay or be blessed with the gift of discernment to figure out that Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is as gay as all get-out. There is absolutely nothing wrong with homosexuality, and I could care less about what Crist does in his bedroom. But Crist’s hypocrisy in voting against gay issues really turns me off, and it’s a good reason not to support him.

During the 2008 presidential campaign Crist got married in a selfish, stupid and transparent attempt to make himself a more desirable vice-presidential running mate. But instead of selecting the intelligent and experienced Crist as his VP, McCain picked the stupid and inexperienced Sarah Palin.

For the record Crist denies that he’s homosexual, but let’s not forget that Dick Cheney denies that he’s a grouchy and evil old man.

It is the responsibility of journalists and especially pundits to uncover hypocrisy wherever they find it. I’ve written many essays lambasting the hypocrisy of televangelists — they preach humility, holiness while they indulge in the sins of the flesh and drive around in luxury automobiles. Any pundit worth his salt will do his patriotic duty and out closeted gay politicans who vote against human rights legislation.

I wish the producers of “Outrage” had sent Governor Crist a ticket to the premiere.

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Iowa is smack dab in the middle of America’s heartland; the small state is eons away from the cultural and ethnic diversity of the Left coast and East coast. Iowa conjures up images of corn-fed milk drinking families enjoying picnics, going to church, and watching Fox News in their living rooms.

Americans look to California, New York and Florida for new cultural trends and innovations. But Iowa has become the first state in the Midwest to approve same-sex marriage, it joins the liberal bastions of Massachusetts and Connecticut as the only three states where same-sex marriage is legal.

The Iowa Supreme Court unanimously decided that a 1998 law limiting marriage to a man and a woman was unconstitutional.

The decision was the culmination of a four-year legal battle that began in the lower courts. The Supreme Court said same-sex marriages could begin in Iowa in as soon as 21 days.

‘The Iowa statute limiting civil marriage to a union between a man and a woman violates the equal protection clause of the Iowa Constitution,’ the justices said in a summary of their decision.” — Monica Davey and Liz Robbins/The New York Times

If same-sex marriage is now legal in the conservative Mecca of Iowa, every other state in the union should follow suit. As a native Californian my eyes are on the Golden State where the California Supreme Court is currently hearing arguments on the ballot initiative passed by voters last November that outlawed same-sex marriage.

It’s an outrage that same-sex marriage is illegal in the forward-thinking and progressive state of California. Californians (gay and straight) who treasure human rights must not allow this injustice to stand.

The California Supreme Court should follow the sterling example of the Iowa Supreme Court. If gay marriage is legal is the large liberal state of California, and the small conservative state of Iowa I believe it will lead to a chain reaction. Within a few years same-sex marriage will be legal in every state.

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