Log Cabin's darling, Sen. McCain, flip-flops on marriage

I'm too sad to gloat. Just read this.

Message to Log Cabin's Carol Newman: It broke my heart to watch you get choked up describing Bush's betrayal in 2004's "Gay Republicans" movie. Don't make me watch it again for McCain in the 2008 sequel. Come back to the Libertarian Party. Bring your friends.

Porkers Line Up—It's Feeding Time Over at Homeland Security

According to Lisa Keen, writing in the Bay Area Reporter (a San Francisco LGBT newspaper), social service grants to faith-based organizations increased 7 percent in 2005 including—get this—the addition of a new office in the department of Homeland Security charged with making it easier for "faith-based and other community organizations" to obtain federal funding to provide "social and community services."

Somehow, and maybe it's just me, I don't get the connection between Homeland Security and social services. But hey, Bush's gotta keep those fat porkers on the religious right fed somehow!
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Here's how those on the LGBT left took the news about continued expansion of the faith-based initiative:

"In our experience, very little" federal funding under Bush's five-year-old program is going to gay groups that provide social and community services,

said Lorri L. Jean, chief executive director of the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center. (Is anyone shocked about this, coming from the Bush administration?) Added Jay Smith Brown, director of communication strategies for the Human Rights Campaign,

"We aren't opposed to faith-based funding..."

No indeed. While whining about the potential for these programs to roll back existing civil rights protections as cover, the main problem the left has with them is they think they're getting stuck sucking the hind teat. They're not against more faith-based funding; they just want more of the loot for themselves! But don't worry, our little leftist piglets may be down but not out. After a long struggle with principle, Jean says,

"we decided to go forward with a faith-based partnership."

The only principle either the left or right seems to have remaining is to feed long and hard from the public trough. With all the slurping and sucking sounds coming from the pigs on the Animal Farm, one might think there was a orgy going on there in Washington. There is, and guess who's getting screwed!

Outright's Treasurer, Lloyd Russell, has passed away

Lloyd Russell (r) with Harry Browne (l) in 2000

We are saddened to report that, following a long illness, our organization's Treasurer, Lloyd Russell, has died.

A fixture in Libertarian politics for decades, Lloyd Russell was a founding member of Outright Libertarians in 1998, while he was running for Lieutenant Governor of Georgia. Prior to that, he had been an on-air television personality in the 1960s and joined the Libertarian Party when it was founded in the early 1970s. In addition to being an attorney, "Russ" was the owner of a well-known gay bar in Atlanta, The Cove, which was in business until the 1980s. While running The Cove, he became personally aware of the difficulties of running a gay-oriented business in the Bible Belt, which led to his involvement in the Gay Bar Owners Association of Atlanta and his contribution to other gay bars in the Atlanta area.

Queer leaders beg Dems for crumbs

This line from the Washington Blade says it all:

"We are tired of being seen as the embarrassment to the [Democratic] party." (Kevin Cathcart, Lambda Legal)

In contrast, the Libertarian Party doesn't see the LGBT community as an embarrassment. In fact, Libertarians have supported equal rights for same-sex couples to form a contract, which includes marriage, ever since our first platform in 1972.

Unfortunately, with puppets of the Democratic Party entrenched in the leadership of the largest LGBT advocacy groups, most people have never heard about this. If queer Americans knew how often their rights are traded for an extra 1% in spending on some Democrat's pet project, there would be Stonewall-like riots outside the Democratic Party conventions.

Straight and Unhappy?

Justin Watt, a gay blogger, has riled up Exodus International, the "ex-gay" folks, with his parody of their billboard. Watt took a photo of the billboard, aimed at recruiting gays for the "cure," and altered it so the roles of gays and straights were reversed. The Exodus lawyers failed to appreciate the joke and sent Watt a cease-and-desist letter.

Now, it may be turning into a First Amendment case as the ACLU has taken up the cause claiming, correctly in my view, that this parody is constitutionally protected speech.

Dogs, Ponies and Shows...Oh, My!

Again, GLBT Americans are being used as a distraction from Bush's bungles in Iraq.

As detailed in the previous post, "out" gays are being told to stay away from important White House positions, due to "security" concerns. This Administration fears honesty, period. How surprising it thinks good citizens should live a lie! Or that, once again, it portrays us as a threat. We're hardly the only convenient villains in the neocons' cast of enemies.
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Paul Craig Roberts notes in today's Lew Rockwell.com, "One can imagine the thoughts in Bush's mind: 'Thank goodness I didn't capture bin Laden. Maybe he will strike again and bail me out.'" See Roberts' entire essay at www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts156.html. And if good ol' Osama doesn't cooperate, Bush can always look for his villains closer to home.

But the dog-and-pony shows may no longer be fooling the public. Anthony Gregory also comments quite pointedly on the scapegoating tactics of our desperately-flailing Commander in Chief at www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory112.html. Our protectors can't tell the difference between the truly evil and the innocent. We must hope America understands that difference while we still have a nation to protect.

White House makes it harder for gays and lesbians to get security clearance

From the Washington Post: If sexual behavior is "strictly private, consensual and discreet," that could lessen security concerns, according to the regulations that came as part of an update to clearance guidelines distributed in December. Translation: "Back in the closet with you, homos!"