I’ve seen this posted around on Facebook by those poor, straight people. Will the discrimination against them ever end?
I’ve yet to see anyone who is in favor of gay rights post a “straight pride” icon. So maybe there is a reason that people who post this get “attacked viciously.”
This goes along with all those other proclamations like “Why isn’t there White History Month?” — which is always said by a white person.
Personally, I would love to live in a world where we wouldn’t need Gay Pride parades or Black Pride marches or anything like that. But as long as there are a group of people who want to make others ashamed of what they are, then there will be people saying, “No, I am not ashamed. I am proud. You cannot shame me.”
If we lived in a society where it was absolutely fine to discriminate against people with blue eyes, I would encourage blue-eyed people to have their own “Blue-Eyed Pride” parades. They would need them, to establish that they will not bend to the will of those who would take away their rights for no good reason.
Is there a need whatsoever for “Straight Pride”? No, of course not. No one is preventing straight people from getting married. No one is firing straight people for that reason. And absolutely no one is trying to shame straight people for being straight.
But what I and others will do is shame straight people who act like their way of life is under attack by posting stupid “Straight Pride” banners on their Facebook pages. These people always are against gay rights, and are posting these things because they think they are under attack because they can no longer force their way of life on everyone else.*
*This also applies to religious fundamentalists who think anyone who defends themselves against their attacks is declaring a “war on religion.”
Republicans are suing Obama because he is doing his job, and everything else they have tried in order to stop him from doing his job hasn’t worked.
“He’s using Executive Orders to accomplish things!” they scream, as if no other President has ever done that before. They are once again ignoring reality, in that Obama’s use of Executive Orders is far less than any President since Grover Cleveland.
If only Romney had been elected, they say, we wouldn’t have to do this! You all remember Mitt Romney — the man who promised that on day one of his Presidency, he would use an Executive Order to cancel Obamacare (a/k/a “Romneycare”) despite it having been passed by the House and Senate and confirmed by the Supreme Court.
Do I need to point out that absolutely none of Obama’s Executive Orders have cancelled or overturned laws that were passed? Talk about a tyranny! Can you imagine a President saying “I don’t care that a majority of Americans through their representatives have passed this bill; I have the power of a King to cancel anything I damn well please.” That was Romney’s promise in a nutshell, wasn’t it?
The difference, of course, is that the Republicans’ outrage against these things is only limited to when the President is a Democrat. Republican presidents can do whatever they want.
Twice in a month. What is happening to our world?
Beck has vowed to help the immigrant refugee children coming to our borders, running from war and drug gangs. 
He has pledged to provide food, water, toys, and needed supplies.
“Through no fault of their own, they are caught in political crossfire,” he said.
Not surprisingly, he’s receiving death threats and calls for boycotting of his show from his fellow conservatives, many of whom hate immigrants so much they have absolutely no compassion left for children. Many of the angriest are also Christians who apparently believe that Jesus loves the little children, unless they come from across the border — then to hell with ’em.
However, some believers seem to have remembered what Jesus really said. As much as I dislike Glenn, I also want to encourage people like him when they do the right thing.
“When America stops being good, we are no longer able to be great,” Beck said. I couldn’t have said it better myself.
District Judge C. Scott Crabtree ruled yesterday in Colorado that the arguments for keeping the ban against same-sex marriage (that marriage is about the “protection of families” and “procreation of children”) are “recently fabricated” arguments for the purpose of denying that discrimination is occurring. 
“It is merely a pretext for discriminating against same-sex marriages,” he wrote.
And that’s what we’ve been saying for years. If marriage was just for having children, then why do we allow elderly couples and infertile couples to get married? Would my wife and I, childless by choice, be forced to give up our 31-year marriage?
It’s so nice to be able to post these things every few weeks, and so reassuring to see even conservative Republican judges shaking their heads and saying, “Yeah, that’s ridiculous.”
Children are running away from war. Children. They are coming to us, seeking comfort and help.
And Americans are yelling insults at them and demanding that they be turned away. 
It’s more of the Know Nothings who hate all immigrants (especially non-white ones). I just stare when I see the anger in their faces as they scream at the scared children. What is wrong with us that we are turning away children who need help? What does that say about our humanity?
Many (if not most) of these protesters down in Texas will go home tired after screaming at these kids and then spend their Sundays at Church, ignoring every single thing the preacher tells them Jesus said.
“If we can afford two goddamn wars, a trillion dollar tax giveaway to the 1%, and more money spent investigating Benghazi than the failure of the VA — then we sure as hell can afford to take care of a few buses of refugee children. ” – David Gerrold
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