Saturday, October 17, 2009

god forbid someone might fight for children who are not just like the GOP.

(How many Boogey men they have in their closets notwithstanding)

Personally, I like it better when they just say they hate gays. Makes it so much simpler than when they try to keep muddying the waters.

Case in point. Remember that post I wrote last week about the shameful way idiots like Sean Hannity were drawing a false connection between a man who now works for President Barack Obama and NAMBLA?

Which in turn was an outgrowth of a fantasy they'd concocted about the man, Kevin Jennings: That he had failed in his duty when, as a school counselor, he learned of the sexual abuse of a child and did nothing about it.

The fact that this never happened has, of course, done nothing to stop them from screeching and caterwauling about it. Concealing (they think) their homophobia by wrapping it in a pious desire to keep children safe.

Fortunately, most of the country is not bigoted; most of the country knows we need equality. Unfortunately, there is some question as to whether or not the Obama administration--which has been treating the Fox republicans more like doted-on children than I'd like--will fight for it.

(I mean, I'd like to say so, but could I then look at myself in the mirror?)

Anyway, the latest is that 53 right wing conservatives have signed a letter to the president asking him to fire Jennings.

This letter makes little pretense of keeping up the veil trying to mask anti-gay feelings as merely those of concerned parents:

Throughout his career, Mr. Jennings has made it his mission to establish special protections for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered students to the exclusion of all other students. The totality of Mr. Jennings' career has been to advocate for public affirmation of homosexuality. There is more to safe and drug free schools than can be accomplished from the narrow view of Mr. Jennings who has, for more than 20 years, almost exclusively focused on promoting the homosexual agenda.


Ah. So it's not the sexual abuse of a child--itself in this case, the product of your own sick little minds--that bothers you.

Good to know.

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