Some very unpleasant watching

But very necessary I think to see just how extreme the hate is, especially in this case where we can see just how much damage the hate does and how it can be used.

Box Turtle Bulletin Has done a superb job of following and reporting on the Ugandan kill gays law. he has now put together some videos of Scot Livery one of the American hate mongers who went over to Uganda to encourage and lay the foundation for this law.

The videos are very powerful. And quite painful to watch and listen to.

Never let someone tell you “it's just words.” Words matter. Words mean things. Words are the foundation on which hatred, violence and persecution rest.

Scot Livery has been behind some of the most hateful rhetoric you have ever heard against gay people - and his words found an audience. In Uganda. The man who claims to know more about gay people than anyone else in the world (hah, any straight person claiming that should be slapped for that alone) spread his hate along with other American hate mongers - and others built upon that hate and implemented it.

Now we have, in his words “a nuclear bomb against the gay agenda” in Uganda. This is the power of words. This is the power of hate. And this is why we must speak up and speak out against people spouting this kind of vileness.

Horrendous to watch - but necessary to learn. Because we can’t forget who these people are and how extreme they are. We can’t let them back out and claim innocence. We can’t let them separate themselves from their actions

Marriage marriage marriage

We can has gay marriage in Portugal! yes, yes we can has which, considering it's a largely Catholic country, is quite surprising. The Catholic church in Portugal apparently decided it was a civil matter and really not their business *boggle* who are you and what did you do with the real Catholic church? That almost sounded like... reasonableness... Better be careful with that, ther Pope may explode if exposed to too much.


But yes, we have gay marriage in Portugal. They still don't allow gay couples to adopt - but it's still a step forwards.

Sadly, New Jersey is still mired in prejudice and still unwilling to treat homosexuals as equal citizens. Pam at Pam's House Blend has a great resumation of which legislators need tar and feathering


And then we get to an old standard. Why is is that the most vicoferous opponents of gay marriage are so damned useless in their own married lives? Do they fear the competition? "No gay marriage will damage the sanctity of marriage, and that's my job?!" Remember, those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones fire trebuchets.

There are many I could point to (Karl Rove and his divorces were quite recent), but I think a special prize goes to Iris Robinson, grossly homophobic Northern Irish MP who called homosexuals "abominations" among many other happy loving comments.

When she was 59, she comforted a 19 year old after the death of his father (one she had known since he was 9 years old). That comfort turned into an affair which her husband was quite miffed about. My my my thwere should probably be a special hypocrisy prize for this particular preacher of morality

And it further seems that she has been rather... free with the financial rules over her lover's business. My my what a paragon of morality



(I'm kind of torn on the age reporting here. Part of me wants to pile on everything because, yes, she's the enemy and that doesn't make me want to be very fair. But, while there was an age gap, I don't think lovers having a large age gap between them is inherently immoral and I think it's wrong to shame them for that. ESPECIALLY given the inherent sexism - men are rarely criticised for having female lovers that are substantially younger than them and certainly not on the same scale as men. On the flip side She was 59, he was 19. 19. 19 is very young. 19 and recently bereaved - he'd just lost a parent and she was comforting him. There's 'age gap' and there's 'predatory' to be honest.

Oh, and her name actually IS Mrs. Robinson. C'mon, it's too perfect)

That's IT I'm hibernating

I told you it was too bloody cold

BBC shows Nasa's piccies of frozen Britain We're COVERED IN FREAKING SNOW!





I. Hate. Snow.