“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 ]

By Robert Paul Reyes | Follow Robert Paul Reyes on Twitter: http://twitter.com/robertpaulreyes

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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Notes: Don’t ask, don’t tell (DADT) is the common term for the policy allowing openly gay, lesbian, and bisexual individuals to serve in the United States military, in contravention to federal law Pub.L. 103-160 (10 U.S.C. § 654). Unless one of the exceptions from 10 U.S.C. § 654(b) applies, the policy prohibits anyone who “demonstrate(s) a propensity or intent to engage in homosexual acts” from serving in the armed forces of the United States, because “it would create an unacceptable risk to the high standards of morale, good order and discipline, and unit cohesion that are the essence of military capability.”

The act prohibits any homosexual or bisexual person from disclosing his or her sexual orientation or from speaking about any homosexual relationships, including marriages or other familial attributes, while serving in the United States armed forces. The “don’t ask” part of the policy indicates that superiors should not initiate investigation of a service member’s orientation in the absence of disallowed behaviors, though credible and articulable evidence of homosexual behavior may cause an investigation.

Violations of this aspect through persecutions and harassment of suspected servicemen and women resulted in the policy’s current formulation as don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t pursue, don’t harass. [ READ MORE ]

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Eliminating “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”

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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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References: | Valenti’s Sexuality Was Topic For FBI — Under Pressure, LBJ Let Hoover’s Agents Investigate Top Aide | J Edgar Hover — Hoover was a lifelong bachelor, and since at least the 1940s unsubstantiated rumors have circulated that he was homosexual. It has also been suggested that his long association with Clyde Tolson, an associate director of the FBI who was also Hoover’s heir, was that of a gay couple.[ READ MORE ] |

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