Zinnia Jones

Dozens of gang members visiting Disneyland in California have been evicted after entering the park wearing gang colors according to Kenneth Green, Director of Corporate Communications. He said the company was concerned the groups might intimidate or invoke fear in the hearts of regular patrons. So, Disney can see where a dozen people wearing gang colors might be offensive to regular families but not thousands of same-sex revelers wearing shirts that flaunt and promote homosexual, lesbian and transgender behavior.

Asked whether times need to change, just as they did with regard to the civil rights and women’s rights movements, Marshall replied, “Dr. Martin Luke King [sic] and Rosa Parks never took an oath of office that they broke. Sodomy is not a civil right. It’s not the same as the Civil Rights movement.”

FALSE. Lawrence v. Texas, 2003:

This case does not involve minors, persons who might be injured or coerced, those who might not easily refuse consent, or public conduct or prostitution. It does involve two adults who, with full and mutual consent, engaged in sexual practices common to a homosexual lifestyle. Petitioners’ right to liberty under the Due Process Clause gives them the full right to engage in private conduct without government intervention.

Sodomy is a civil right.

Marshall said he believes that Tracy Thorne-Begland, a Richmond-based prosecutor who lives with his partner and two adopted children, should be removed from the list of potential appointees. Thorne-Begland’s sexual orientation would conflict with his ability to hold up the state’s constitution, Marshall said.

“Marriage is between one man and one woman, and the the applicant has represented himself in public in a relationship that we don’t recognize in Virginia,” Marshall said in an interview with WRIC, the ABC affiliate in Richmond.

So there you have it: Banning gay marriage is really about putting gay people into a formal second class that can be barred from certain jobs, and I’m sure if Marshall had his way, pretty much all jobs.

The underlying assumption of this argument is that a minimum requirement for judges is that they can’t be in a public relationship that isn’t recognized by the state. Marshall would like you to believe this is a criteria that’s always been around and is just now being abandoned, but as far as I can tell, the “judges must be in legally recognized public relationships” is a brand-spanking new requirement. It would also mean that any straight judge who is dating someone would also be barred from the bench, since they’re in a public relationship that isn’t marriage.

Picture white, heterosexual conservatives packing up the car with stacks and stacks of Newsweek magazines, mapping out this nation’s most popular “black barbershops,” and barging in each of these establishments’ doors for the expressed purpose of turning the patrons against our country’s first African-American president. Does that image not trouble you as much as it does me? I mean when you really think about it—isn’t just a bit ugly?

Asked how he would respond if one of his five children came out as gay, Perkins claimed, “I doubt that would happen with my children as we are teaching them the right ways that they are to interact as human beings, we’re not allowing them to be indoctrinated by the education system.” He added, “it is environment, it is environment…I do think that it’s a product or a happening of environment and events, things that they’re exposed to.”

Let us know how you plan to alter brain hemisphere size, finger length ratios and hair whorl direction with “teaching”. You incredible dipshit.

David Barton, historical revisionist and avowed enemy of the separation of church and state, offers this wisdom:

There’s a passage that I love in Romans 1 - I don’t love what the topic is - but it talks about homosexuality and it says that they will receive in their bodies the penalties of their behavior. And the Bible again, it’s right every time, and studies keep proving that and that’s why AIDS has been something they haven’t discovered a cure for or a vaccine for, because it’s the fastest self-mutating virus known to mankind. Every time they just about get a vaccine discovered for it, it transmutes into something new and they have to start over again. And that goes to what God says, hey you’re going to bear in your body the consequences of this homosexual behavior.

Merely claiming that God created HIV as a punishment is quite awful, but not really the sort of thing that can be concretely proven or disproven in a way that would be convincing to someone who attributes natural mutations to divine intervention. But hitching your faith to the claim that HIV will never be cured because God wills it is something altogether different: there’s now an opportunity for you to be definitively proven wrong. When HIV is finally cured, so much for the nightmarish power of God to make people suffer horribly.

I don’t know if Barton realizes it, but he’s just given humanity the chance to prove ourselves stronger than God within his framework of beliefs. One man has already been cured. More will follow.

From Governor Phil Bryant:

“The hypocrisy of the left that now tried to kill this bill, that says that I should have never signed it, the true hypocrisy is that their one mission in life is to abort children, is to kill children in the womb,” Bryant told conservative radio host Tony Perkins on Tuesday.

This is amusing. It makes me wonder if he really perceives “the left” as some kind of blind, ignorant paperclip maximizer that really wants to optimize for as many abortions as possible - notwithstanding the fact that this would require as many pregnancies as possible, meaning that they’d really be optimizing for fetuses.

This isn’t even an Onion story:

The life in pro-life denotes not quality of life but life itself. The term denotes opposition to a procedure that intentionally results in dead babies.

This doesn’t mean we should ignore environmental risks. It does mean they should not be portrayed as pro-life.