Dear Newt:

I recently had the displeasure of watching you bash the protestors of the Prop 8 marriage ban to Bill O’Reilly on FOX News. I must say, after years of watching you build your career by stirring up the fears and prejudices of the far right, I feel compelled to use the words of your idol, Ronald Reagan, “There you go, again.”

                                                     Newt Gingrich       Candace Gingrich
However, I realize that you may have been a little preoccupied lately with planning your resurrection as the savior of your party, so I thought I would fill you in on a few important developments you might have overlooked.

The truth is that you’re living in a world that no longer exists. I, along with millions of Americans, clearly see the world the way it as — and we embrace what it can be. You, on the other hand, seem incapable of looking for new ideas or moving beyond what worked in the past.

Welcome to the 21st century, big bro. I can understand why you’re so afraid of the energy that has been unleashed after gay and lesbian couples had their rights stripped away from them by a hateful campaign. I can see why you’re sounding the alarm against the activists who use all the latest tech tools to build these rallies from the ground up in cities across the country.

This unstoppable progress has at its core a group we at HRC call Generation Equality. They are the most supportive of full LGBT equality than any American generation ever — and when it comes to the politics of division, well, they don’t roll that way. 18-24 year olds voted overwhelmingly against Prop 8 and overwhelmingly for Barack Obama. And the numbers of young progressive voters will only continue to grow. According to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning, about 23 million 18-29 year olds voted on Nov. 4, 2008 — the most young voters ever to cast a ballot in a presidential election. That’s an increase of 3 million more voters compared to 2004.

These are the same people who helped elect Barack Obama and sent a decisive message to your party. These young people are the future and their energy will continue to drive our country forward. Even older Americans are turning their backs on the politics of fear and demagoguery that you and your cronies have perfected over the years.

This is a movement of the people that you most fear. It’s a movement of progress — and your words on FOX News only show how truly desperate you are to maintain control of a world that is changing before your very eyes.

Then again, we’ve seen these tactics before. We know how much the right likes to play political and cultural hardball, and then turn around and accuse us of lashing out first. You give a pass to a religious group — one that looks down upon minorities and women — when they use their money and membership roles to roll back the rights of others, and then you label us “fascists” when we fight back. You belittle the relationships of gay and lesbian couples, and yet somehow neglect to explain who anointed you the protector of “traditional” marriage. And, of course, you’ve also mastered taking the foolish actions of a few people and then indicting an entire population based on those mistakes. I fail to see how any of these patterns coincide with the values of “historic Christianity” you claim to champion.

Again, nothing new here. This is just more of the blatant hypocrisy we’re used to hearing.

What really worries me is that you are always willing to use LGBT Americans as political weapons to further your ambitions. That’s really so ’90s, Newt. In this day and age, it’s embarrassing to watch you talk like that. You should be more afraid of the new political climate in America, because, there is no place for you in it.

In other words, stop being a hater, big bro.

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Prop 8 — Olbermann Interviews Candace Gingrich

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| Cross-Posted from The Huffington Post |
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Notes:

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Newt Gingrich, pressed his wife Jackie for a divorce while she was in the hospital for cancer surgery. Newt is reported to have said of Jackie: “She’s not young enough or pretty enough to be the wife of the President. And besides, she has cancer.”

The “Family-Values” Republican has a history of “Unfamily-Values”::

1. He refused to pay alimony or child support.

2. An adulterer, Gingrich pioneered a denial of adultery that some observers would later christen “the Newt Defense”: Oral sex doesn’t count. [ Read More Here ]

3. Even while “Impeaching” Bill Clinton, the former House Speaker, a married man, was busy having an affair. [ Read More ]

4. Newt Gingrich — GOP hypocrite of the week!

Proposition 8 is a California State ballot proposition (November 4th) that passed and is set to amend the state Constitution to restrict the definition of marriage to a union between a man and a woman.

If it survives court appeals, it will overturn a recent California Supreme Court decision that had recognized same-sex marriage in California as a fundamental right.

The official ballot title language for Proposition 8 is “Eliminates Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry.” The entirety of the text to be added to the constitution is: “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.” — [MORE]

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Gay Bash — By Mélange Lavonne

Fictional character Kevin, Mélange’s friend becomes a victim of a hate crime. Mélange’s confronts those including the “Church” who condemned him and his lifestyle. — Directed by Little Red Pictures.

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My Comment

Proposition 8 passed in California with 52% supporting the ban, with the help of intense “Fear-Mongering” by fundamentalist right-wing churches, who interpret the Bible literally — that homosexuality is a sin.

A huge percentage of African Americans voted for Obama and against Same-Sex Marriage, despite traditionally being among the most reliably liberal in the California.

Barack Obama has stated his opposition to the proposition, calling it “divisive and discriminatory.”

The results on Nov. 4 were negative for advocates of gay marriage not only in California: citizens in Florida and Arizona also voted to make gay marriage unconstitutional. The vote was overwhelming in Florida, which favored Barack Obama in the presidential race but still decided 63% to 37% to make marriage available only to heterosexual couples. And in John McCain’s home state of Arizona, voters reversed course just two years after defeating a similar, if more sweeping, ban on gay marriage. — Time.com Examines these results

I don’t go to church, never been in one in the last twenty two years, and I have no regrets, for I believe that the Bible and for that matter the Koran — are some of the phoniest extortion tools ever invented by man. Religion easily . . . easily, is the best bull shit story of all time!

From AfriqueOnline.com:

Europeans worshiping Jesus as the “Son of God” conquered, murdered and enslaved millions of black, yellow, brown and white non-Christians with the blessing of their god, shouting everything from “Death to the barbarians!” to “Destroy the Infidels” to “Enslave the savages” to “Manifest Destiny” to “Kill a Commie for Christ!”

Black victims of this onslaught of burning crosses now donate billions of dollars annually to con men who pray to the same black-painted-white messiah with more enthusiasm than whites do. — Read More

The same applies to the religion of Islam, and all other religions that exist on this earth.

To me God does not exist. It is an illusion …a very dangerous one, that has caused the most misery on this planet.

If you are offended, please forgive me, for I have no hate for you — I know that because I love my mother very much, and she is a “staunch Christian” — drunk with the “blood” of Christ, and under the hypnosis of an imaginary GOD.

It has never been a problem for me to extend this courtesy to all well-meaning human beings, over the years, however inebriated with religion they are.

Religion has been used, and is still being used as a weapon to demonize, marginalize, persecute and lynch Black people in Africa, in the Americas and all the way down under in Australia.

Renowned Kenyan author and dramatist, Ngugi Wa Thiongo believes that the first word of religion is a lie. Christianity, whose basic doctrine hinges on love and equality between people, is an integral part of colonialism, neo-colonialism and racism — which in Africa and elsewhere was built on the equality and hatred between men and the consequent subjugation of the black race by the white race. Ngugi has often noted with disgust how Christianity has aligned itself with the ruling class and given the lie to its own protestations of support for a humanistic vision of life. The church, in the views of Ngugi “has always been in alliance with the ruling class and adjusted its precepts to suit the need of that class, thus guaranteeing its own safety and security.”

Ngugi attacks religion as an instrument of exploitation and impoverishment of the poor. The Christianizing mission came with colonization. The missionaries are accused of holding the Bible in the left hand and the gun in the right.

The white man wanted us
To be drunk with religion
While he,
Was mapping and grabbing our land,
And starting factories and businesses
On our sweat.
He drove us from our best lands,
Forcing us to eke a living from plots on road sides
Like beggars on our own land…

The syphilitic racists in yester America did exactly the same thing….and they are still doing it today. Just because Creflo Dollar, a black minister has joined the racket doesn’t make it any different. Times have changed.

If these “Taliban” goons are given an inch, they will demand a foot.

Here is an example — after the vote, the so called “social conservatives” — the most racist and prejudiced in America — are threatening to roll out Arkansas-style adoption bans in other states. And the timing couldn’t be worse: in tough economic times, the numbers of abused and neglected children in need of foster care rises. But good times or bad, no movement that would turn away qualified parents and condemn children to a broken foster care system should be considered ‘pro-family.’ — [MORE]

In light of the above mentioned, and as abhorring as Gay Marriage could be to a “Church Going Person,” for me the underlying element of justice completely trumps the “fundamentalist and church fear” of homosexuality.

Sincerely, I don’t understand what a man would want in another man’s shit-hole, but I also do know that homosexuals are human beings and not animals. I also believe that homosexuals are born gay — scientific research supports me, despite many who acquire the “taste” out of curiosity. The “true Gays” did not choose to be what they are, and should be left to lead their lives as they wish.

Gay people who choose to get “Hitched” should be accorded all the benefits of married couples without exception.

Given the choice between the racist right-wing of America, who have caused hundreds of years of catastrophic harm to African Americans, and Gay Americans, the choice is easy — JUSTICE, however GAY it is!

And, blacks should lift their heads off the “Godly Sand” and join hands with the gay community in defeating the RACIST and BIGOTED right-wing.

Speaking frankly: Because this GOD-SHIT has been used for hundreds of years to persecute, colonize and demean blacks all over the world, and while the vast majority of Gay Americans voted for Obama, it is imperative that the black community join hands in beating up the repressive extremists in right-wing America — the chief propagators of hate — and a common enemy to all.

“Marriage” is just but a word. Bible thumping extremists should surrender it to the homosexual community and adopt “Licensed Sex” in its place. Then everybody will be happy.

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Olbermann’s Special Comment: “Why would anyone oppose happiness
in this lonely world.”

References:

1. CNN: Suspicious powder, legal complaint add to Prop 8 tensions