CALL TO ACTION: AFA, Denver Post, and ex-gays for Jeebus

In my email this morning was the latest piece of excrement from Donald E. Wildmon at the American Family Association(*). Mr. Wildmon pointed out to his constitupancy that the Denver Post published an article yesterday on the efforts of 'Focus on the Family'(*) to change gay people into straight people. In particular, Mr. Wildmon mentioned that the Post online article contained a reader poll asking whether folks believe sexual orientation can be changed at will. 'At the time this e-mail was being sent, nearly 75% of the Post’s respondents said no to the question,' Mr. Wildmon notes.

Well, I know that AFA has a wide distlist, but I was horrified to find that, as of right now, the YES, FAGGOTS CAN CHANGE IF THEY REALLY WANT TO vote is at 54.04% and is increasing as we speak, while the I WAS BORN THIS WAY YOU MISERABLE HOMOPHOBIC FUCK vote is 38.17% and decreasing.

I know this is a stupid little poll, but can y'all go to this article and vote your conscience? And maybe repost this in your journal for others to see? Thanks!
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(*) Screamingly paranoid organizations purporting to save 'the American family' by exterminating homosexuality, if not actual homosexuals.

This is depressing.

The fundies have topped 60 percent in the Denver Post's poll on whether queers can be 'cured' of their homosexuality... I ask again for assistance. Dunno how many people bothered to go to this site the first time, since I didn't ask for comments... But please do spread the word...

I know this is a stupid little poll, but can y'all go to this article and vote your conscience? And maybe repost this in your journal for others to see? Thanks!

Spending what it takes. This is essential.

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This is absolutely central to any discussion of what the fuck we've been doing in Iraq the last five and a half years. It has never ceased to amaze me at how little traction the notion has gotten that invading an sovereign nation with a predominantly Muslim population without overwhelming military justification might be a phenomenally stupid thing to do, might actually have the opposite effect of what was intended, e.g., by convincing millions more young Muslims of the importance of combating the Great Infidel by any means necessary.

This line of thinking should have been central to the public dialog from day one; and while it wasn't wholly absent, it was one of those things the crackhead liberals said that the GOP hawks dismissed as so much more America-hating by Americans. Never mind there have been signs of increased recruiting by the Taliban and other hardcore Islamists, ever since we took down a secular dictator in respond to an attack by religious warriors.

Now it's 5.5 years after that particular mission was accomplished, and al Qaeda endorsed John McCain yesterday with the explicit rationale that he would continue to bankrupt the United States with neverending wars that can't help but bolster enrollment in the Academy of Jihad. And in response, look what the 'I'm not Bush' candidate is doing:

McCain's surrogates went to great lengths to pooh-pooh the notion that al-Qaeda would prefer McCain's hawkishness to Obama's more reasoned approach to foreign policy. Yet, in the same breath, senior McCain foreign-policy advisor Randy Scheunemann announced, "John McCain will spend what it takes to win" in Iraq. —Huffington Post, 23 October 2008

In other news tonight, Honest Tea's (of Bethesda, Md.) Moroccan Mint Green Tea (organic, gluten-free) is seriously the best thing to happen to bottled soft drinks. Ever. Five grams of sugars per serving—i.e., so very lightly sweetened. Every other commercial iced tea is like drinking candy.

In other other news, the proposal I've been working on like mad for pretty much all of October is done and submitted as of 40 minutes ago. Dinner at my place, 7 p.m. Bring booze.