Comments on: Equality California — Just Another anti-Republican Gay Organization

By: Steve S

Steve S — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 22:26:43 +0000

No on prop 8 was never a website to promote or oppose the Democratic party. Why don’t straight people get it? The issue is equality. If Gov. Schwarzenegger had been proactive and introduced legislation to support same sex marriage vs. taking the expedient avenue of coming late in the game and minimally endorsing the no on prop 8 cause, he could have been our hero. If it wasn’t for his wife we all know where his position would be.
We just want equality. We don’t want to force your churches to grant us marriage we don’t want to change your minds about us, we want the law to treat us with respect and equality. Where in the world civilized persons feel that the majority should have the right to repress or marginalize a group of persons for their natural state is a complete mastery to me. We want the same rights, responsibilities and limitations for that matter that come with the legal status of marriage. This includes survivors benefits, dependent status on IRS responsibilities, child rearing, divorce, and the status that tells others, don’t come on to me, I am married. These issues have all been decided in law and practice for centuries. We don’t need to reinvent the wheel. With civil unions none of these issues have a history. Heterosexuals, please, just get past your own bigotry and unsubstantiated fears. Give us equality. We are your children, siblings, parents, and friends. We don’t want to take anything from you or the miracle of reproduction. We just want to celebrate the person that we are.
I’m too old to care much whether I can marry, but I want the LGBT youth of America to practice dating with the idea that a life long relationship is preferred to solitude and anonymous sex. The lack of this status for your children to have an increased suicide rate. Get it, YOUR children, heterosexuals create homosexual children.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:24:03 +0000

I`m amazed your so suprized about this. In England the typical gay man`s sterotype of lesbians is that they are extremly violent .Iam a twenty year veteran of the gay scene and have lost count of the number of women I have knowen stabed or beaten in bar fights between lesbians. Back in the mid `80`s regular battles between Hastings and Eastbourne women involving bar stalls, bottles and knives would take place at weekends.I youst to be friendly with a woman from New Castle who`s nick name was “carving knife” and who was run out of town after taking anouther woman`s face off with a beer bottle. I have seen them fight straight men too. I remember a particularly nasty little brawl bettween three of them and a pimp I witnised early one morning in a celler club. A friend of mine who served in the R.A.F. said lesbians fighting made the fights he had seen in barracks look gentlmanly. Latley this kined of violence seems to be tailling off. Younger women seem less interested in fighting but even in the last year or so I heard of a woman being barred from a gay pub after she accidently dropped a machite out of her coat.I am not acussing lesbian culture as a whole of being violent but there is deffinatly a violent eliment amongst the old fashond pre-femanist lesbians. Things must be very different in the States or your life a little shelterd for you not to be aware of it.

By: jimmy

jimmy — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 01:18:47 +0000

#10. Kerry, Clinton, Gore…Kerry, Clinton, Gore. Does Kerry support–and actively support–a Constitutional Amendment? But, I digress… You were going to say something about Clinton and Gore now?

Vote Santorum in 2006!!

By: GayPatriotWest

GayPatriotWest — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 01:18:06 +0000

Your point in #11, Patrick, makes a lot of sense.

By: Patrick (Gryph)

Patrick (Gryph) — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 00:02:06 +0000

Victory ‘06 had to hire someone like Lopez to “shore up the base” precisely because Governor Schwarzenegger does not promote such an agenda!

The inherent style of TFV campaigns, regardless of the actual issue are the basically fear-based, they are out to get your children (whomever “they” are) kind of message.

There would seem to be to be a basic incompatibility with that style of fear-based tactics and Governor Arnold’s more upbeat, positive style of campaigning. If thats the kind of tactics that the guy was suggesting, then perhaps they simply realized that they hired the wrong person for the job. He wasn’t a good fit for the Governors administration.

By: North Dallas Thirty

North Dallas Thirty — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 17:07:07 +0000

How many gay blogs, sean, carried ads for homobigot John Kerry, who said that gays should be stripped of rights for a condition with which they were born because his religion said so?

By: Boi From Troy » CRP fires anti-gay Lobbyist

Boi From Troy » CRP fires anti-gay Lobbyist — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:30:09 +0000

[...] After shameless attacks from gay “rights” group Equality California, the California Republican Party has sacked former Traditional Values Coalition lobbyist Ben Lopez from its Victory ‘06 team. Ben Lopez, the chief lobbyist and spokesman for the Traditional Values Coalition — the Anaheim-based evangelical advocacy group led by the controversial Rev. Lou Sheldon — has been fired from his new job as an outreach worker with the California Republican Party, sources said Tuesday. [...]

By: Michigan-Matt

Michigan-Matt — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 12:43:12 +0000

It’s never surprising to see how willingly or extensively the GayLeft has subverted our agenda for partisan Democrat interests. I’m gald that you, Dan, this blog and others like BfT help keep that story forward in minds of independent or nonaligned gays.

Like breaking out the hispanic or asian vote from the minority base, this battle to win back the hearts and open the minds of our fellow gays will be a long slog but worth it in the end.

Thanks for another insightful, credible post and thoughtful reference.

By: GayPatriotWest

GayPatriotWest — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 06:08:28 +0000

Thanks, Patrick. Since fixed.

By: sean

sean — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 05:43:48 +0000

How many people can see the Santorum ad on this blog? Is there something pro-gay about his actual record that we should know about or is it just his political affiliation that gets his face plastered on a “gay” blog?

By: BoBo

BoBo — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 04:50:19 +0000

#2 But you can’t be Republican and authentically gay so Equality did the right thing by opposing those so called gays.

By: Jim G

Jim G — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 04:03:48 +0000

I did not vote for the man, but I do remember being at the Gay Pride parade in Arcata California (pop 15K) near Eureka soon after Arnold was elected and a representative from some gay group had come to give us a message from the Governor. Through the snickers and the sneers this young man passed on to us a message of encouragement, inclusion and support. At the time I thought how significant this was because Arnold had just been elected and he certainly was not going to be making any points with many of the very conservative people who had supported him. I thought he was actually putting his backside on the line! And he was giving us gay men and women a message of support. Unfortunately, the crowd of about 1100 people were mostly unimpressed and negative. Too bad, I thought, in this heavily liberal town (Humboldt State is there) Arnold simply can’t win for losing.

By: sean

sean — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 23:30:31 +0000

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By: North Dallas Thirty

North Dallas Thirty — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 21:49:51 +0000

Absolutely, GPW.

As I pointed out, after BfT reported it, Equality California did not endorse a single one of the five non-incumbent openly gay candidates running for state offices in California. Indeed, they endorsed the opponent of four of the five.

Why?

Because those five candidates are also, more importantly, openly Republican.

I guess the EQCA puppets are more concerned with dancing for their Dem masters than they are with gay political advancement.

By: Patrick (Gryph)

Patrick (Gryph) — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:27:55 +0000

“Although the Governor has said a number of pro-gay bills and made”

I think that might be “has signed a number of pro-gay…”