Topeka, Kansas, by default, is home to a heard of lunatic fringe hate mongering fake Christians, the Pastor Bill Ball taking his rightful place next to Fred Phelps and his band of merry men eager to embarrass God. Ball and along with Chris Pettigrew, were arrested on August 24th, 2009 – multiple times mind you – in Primrose, Georgia, for displaying violently hateful signs deploring homosexuality and for preaching the same ugliness.
Mary Cheney, daughter of former vice-president and political traitor Dick Cheney, has reportedly donated one thousand dollars to the campaign of Representative Rob Portman, of Ohio, who is seeking a seat in the United States Senate. None of the story would be of interest in the least save that Cheney, who is openly gay, partnered, and who is raising a son with said partner, made the object of her generosity an anti-gay zealot who voted against allowing same sex marriage in 2004 and who voted to ban gay couples from adopting in the District of Columbia in 1999. Mary Cheney has yet to comment.
Whoopi Goldberg, who, along with the rest of The View, won a Daytime Emmy Award Sunday, has lent her support via video to the organizers and participants of the 2009 Budapest Pride Festival, in Hungry, scheduled for September 5th. The Festival, begun in 1995, was marred in 2007 by the appearance of ragtag collective of fascists and ultranationalists who attacked marchers and in 2008 by violent right wing extremists who attacked and threatened the participants and the authorities who had come to protect them. This year, in addition to Goldberg, thirteen embassies including ones from Canada and the United States, released a joint statement supporting the Pride Festival, saying in part that “human rights – including justice, equality, humanity, respect, and freedom of expression – and the rule of law are the foundations upon which democratic states are built.” Goldberg’s message of freedom and respect is below.
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