Roy Edroso shortened this piece by Mark Krikorian at the National Review as, “What good are wetbacks if we can’t use them against faggots?” Then he added, “you think I’m kidding?!”
Sadly, Roy is not kidding, for if you click on the piece by Krikorian, you see a lot of verbose garbage that could indeed be reduced to that base, racist sentiment. Look:
While Hispanic immigrants, like black Americans, are conservative on certain social issues (though not as much as some might think), it doesn’t matter politically. As one political scientist recently put it, in reaction to a new poll:
“It’s always been said that Latinos have a conflict between their religion and their political tendencies. That they’re usually more progressive on economic policy but conservative on social issues,” said Matt Barreto, a professor at the University of Washington in Seattle and advisor to Latino Decisions.
However, Barreto said the poll reflects no such conflict: “Religion and social and moral values are not among their priorities when they make their political and election calculations.”
That’s part of the reason why California, the state with the largest share of immigrants in its population, has “the first state law mandating lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history and social science curricula.” It’s not that immigrants demanded this nonsense; they probably don’t even like it very much. But their large-scale presence solidifies the position of the Left, making this kind of thing possible, and they aren’t turned off by it enough to rebel against it. When there’s a referendum, sure, they’ll vote against gay marriage, for instance, but that’s not the way most social policy is made. Both by importing faithful Democratic voters and through sheer numbers creating more safe leftist seats in local and state and federal legislatures, mass immigration empowers statism and cultural leftism.
It’s all a conspiracy by the “leftists” and the “statists” and the gays to “import Mexicans” in order to create laws mandating that gay history be taught in California, you see. Now, what I want you to notice about this fine wingnut hackery is just how many of their ooga-boogas it involves. You’ve got big gub’mint, you got lib’ruls, you got gays and you’ve got “illegally imported” Mexicans! This works on their readers because wingnuts don’t have to explain anything. They just have to invoke the specter of things their readers are afraid of and it’s considered a Q.E.D. situation.
It’s not that Democrats are necessarily bad (well, the slaveholder part was bad, but we finally beat that out of them),
By turning them into Republicans…
But it does mean that any successful GOP effort to woo immigrants and their children will take generations — and if small-government, morally traditionalist, pro-sovereignty conservatism is to have any chance of lasting political success during our lifetimes, future immigration must be curbed.
In order to keep ‘Murka pearly white, Christian and heterosexual, we have to keep dark-skinned people out. Gotcha.
How exactly has conservative rhetoric changed in the past forty years?
Whether or not their names are immediately familiar, many of you will remember Derence Kernek and Ed Watson. They’re a gay couple from California who made a powerful video earlier this year for the Courage Campaign. In it, they urged the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to lift the stay on U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker’s ruling overturning Proposition 8 — which would have allowed marriages between same-sex couples to resume in the state — so that the two of them could wed while Watson was still able to remember their 40-year relationship and recognize his beloved partner. You see, Watson had recently been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and it was progressing rapidly. The two men gently (and heart-wrenchingly) asked for the simple dignity of being able to marry each other while there was still time.
Well yesterday, time ran out for Ed Watson. He died at age 78, still waiting to be able to legally marry the person to whom he had dedicated over 40 years of his life.
Every day that LGBT couples around this country are forced to wait for equality, every day that LGBT people are denied the freedom to marry the person they love, real people like Derence Kernek and Ed Watson suffer the consequences.
Ed Watson: one more life extinguished before equality could be realized.
This is great news. The more that we’re visible, the more that people realize that they’re around us every day, the more the slim majority that support full equality will turn into a super majority before we know it. Cathleen Galgiani, a Democratic assemblywoman in California, has come out:
Galgiani, D-Livingston, said that by coming out now, she hopes to send a positive message to young people who are struggling to come to terms with their sexual identity.
“It sickens me that young people would think about taking their lives because of who they are,” Galgiani said. Galgiani, 47, said it was not until well into adulthood, after she was elected to represent the 17th Assembly District in 2006, that she knew she was gay.
It IS sickening. More people need to follow Cathleen’s example. It’s hard to be one of just a few to come out publicly, but if thousands of us do it, it will make things so much better for so many kids.
Look, it’s Randy Thomasson, one of the anti-gay activists who’s so extreme that most on his own side are embarrassed to be seen with him, commenting on the proliferation of Queer Studies courses and concentrations in California universities. Randy, you will remember, is with the wingnut group Save California, and he believes bullied gay children cause their own deaths, even when they’re murdered. That is the caliber of individual we are dealing with. For no reason at all, I’m going to make fun of his quote about Queer Studies on the Janet Mefferd radio show as we go:
It’s an oxymoron, it should be called the promotion of homosexuality, bisexuality, transexuality.
Does not explain how the word “oxymoron” applies.
They’re not studying it, if they studied whether it was normal or not they’d have to hold a news conference or tell all the students, you know what, ‘there’s no “gay gene,” we’ve never found it, nobody has found it, Hamer didn’t find it, LeVay didn’t find it,
Unscientific argument that betrays poor understanding of genetics. Typical wingnut.
we have noted there are thousands and thousands of former homosexuals and they’ve got families to prove it,
No citation for the “thousands” line. Of course, one of the flagship ex-gay leaders, John Smid, recently admitted that he’s still gay. Also, Alan Chambers admits he likes dudes. So “ex-gays” with families prove nothing.
they’ve got testimonies to prove it, we’ve seen that a huge amount of those of us in this lifestyle
“Those of us?”
were sexually molested or had very bad relationships with our fathers or our mothers, and we see that this is something that can be changed, certainly with bisexuality.
Wait, bisexuality can be changed? Into…what?
We acknowledge that transsexuality, cross-dressing is not normal,
It may not be “normal,” in that it is not “the norm,” but Randy has not shown how that makes it wrong.
cutting off healthy body parts is not natural, it takes a scalpel,
Indeed, it does take a scalpel, but gender dysmorphia is a recognized medical condition with a variety of treatments which are considered medically acceptable, by experts. We are very sorry that “being a wingnut” does not a medical expert make, which disqualifies Randy from all consideration.
and we have no evidence at all that this is a natural thing that people are born homosexual actually and it is a behavior. So we have to announce that as the findings of our study.’
If we’re dumb liars.
If they were honest, that’s what they would do, but they are dishonest so they are indoctrinating college students to think that homosexuality, bisexuality and transexuality is good and natural, maybe even for them,
They really think this is all some sort of ad campaign. And it is always so obvious, in their fears about “promotion” of homosexuality, that most anti-gay activists really are probably those who could, with the right amount of “promotion,” start living out and proud gay lives. Regular straight people aren’t freaked out by gay people.
but more so because the students that are interested in this are already relativistic because of the government school mentality they’ve been in through kindergarten through twelfth grade, probably. They are sitting ducks to become activists. So this is training up an army to become intolerant activists who want to trample parental rights, religious freedom, marriage, the Boy Scouts,
They are so obsessed with the Boy Scouts.
property rights, business rights, medical doctorate rights,
Whaaaaaa?
etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, free speech, religious freedom. This is very dangerous, it is on several campuses in California, and yes I do believe that this is a wave.
A wave of gay on campuses! If Fundamentalists like Randy want to have more of an impact on college campuses, maybe they should educate their children better so that they may get into good colleges. Yes, that does mean that Creation Science is unacceptable curriculum, except as fantasy fiction.
Because what do we have on most college campuses? Liberal administrators who allow this, so this is a fertile bed for an infection of Queer Studies that will not be studying anything that’s true but will be promoting a lie.
According to Randy, who, as a professional wingnut, is paid to stick his head in the sand and cry at the mention of gayness.
The Christian Right lost — for now — a second battle today when U.S. District Court Judge James Ware denied the groups’ demand that the government force trial participants to surrender video footage of the trial in which California’s antigay, antifamily Proposition 8 was overturned. (Read More)
A U.S. District Court judge dealt a setback today to Christian Right efforts to weed gay judges out of the federal judiciary system.
Chief Judge James Ware rejected the argument by Christian Right political organizations that no gay judge who is in a relationship may rule on a case involving legally recognized relationships such as marriage. Narrowly speaking, antigay groups had sought to prevent any gay person other than a celibate or “ex-gay” from serving as a judge in family-law matters. More broadly, the Christian Right groups sought to rationalize a future ban on female, black, atheist, and Jewish judges serving in cases involving minority constitutional rights.
On the question of whether Judge Vaughn Walker should have recused himself from a trial against California’s Christian Right-sponsored Proposition 8, Ware ruled:
“The sole fact that a federal judge shares the same circumstances or personal characteristics with other members of the general public, and that the judge could be affected by the outcome of a proceeding in the same way that other members of the general public would be affected, is not a basis for either recusal or disqualification under Section 455(b)(4). Further, under Section 455(a), it is not reasonable to presume that a judge is incapable of making an impartial decision about the constitutionality of a law, solely because, as a citizen, the judge could be affected by the proceedings. Accordingly, the Motion to Vacate Judgment on the sole ground of Judge Walker’s same-sex relationship is DENIED.”
Ware further explained:
“Requiring recusal because a court issued an injunction that could provide some speculative future benefit to the presiding judge solely on the basis of the fact that the judge belongs to the class against whom the unconstitutional law was directed would lead to a Section 455(b)(4) standard that required recusal of minority judges in most, if not all, civil rights cases. Congress could not have intended such an unworkable recusal statute.”
Ware emphasized that all Americans are bound to protect one another’s fundamental rights, and that everyone has an equal stake in protecting those rights. Members of a minority group are neither more nor less vested in protecting the rights of all, than the general public:
The fact that this is a case challenging a law on equal protection and due process grounds being prosecuted by members of a minority group does not mean that members of the minority group have a greater interest in equal protection and due process than the rest of society. In our society, a variety of citizens of different backgrounds coexist because we have constitutionally bound ourselves to protect the fundamental rights of one another from being violated by unlawful treatment. Thus, we all have an equal stake in a case that challenges the constitutionality of a restriction on a fundamental right.
Those who pit majority privilege against minority rights undermine constitutional law and civil society.
While Ware’s ruling represents a step toward restoration of constitutional equality and pro-family policy in California, the struggle to overturn the antigay, antifamily, and un-American Proposition 8 continues.
The state Supreme Court must still decide whether Christian Right groups — operating under the banner ProtectMarriage.com — can step in and defend the proposition, since those who had legitimate jurisdiction over the proposition opted not to appeal Walker’s original ruling.
This just came via e-mail from Chad Griffin and AFER:
Today, in an historic and forceful decision, US District Court Chief Judge James S. Ware denied anti-marriage forces’ motion to throw out the decision that ruled Prop. 8 unconstitutional.
He erased all doubt that the Prop. 8 trial was anything but fair and thorough and sent a powerful message that extreme fringe groups cannot strong-arm the law.
Prop. 8 is hanging by a thread. AFER will be before the California Supreme Court in September and we expect to have a resolution on the issue of standing within months.
It really was the defendants’ most desperate move yet, their contention that the ruling should be vacated because Judge Vaughn Walker is gay. Therefore, it’s not surprising that their disgusting notion that, because Walker might “personally benefit” from the Prop. 8 ruling, his ruling should not stand, was laughed out of court. This fight is far from over, but if the last couple of years have shown us anything, it’s that our opponents’ longstanding contempt for the courts makes sense, at least from their perspective. They only win battles when they aren’t forced to testify in a court of law, when they’re not constrained by a prohibition on lying.
Though the Golden State’s “Harvey Milk Day” falls on a Sunday this year, pro-family activists are still concerned about the curriculum and activities that will involve children.
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Jerry Cox, president of the Family Council Action Committee in Little Rock
Who has an opinion relevant to a California state holiday for obvious reasons.
sees a double standard in public schools, as officials refuse to honor Christian leaders.
“On the other hand, if a person has left-leaning philosophies, a left-leaning theology, a left-leaning view of the world, then it seems that it’s always in vogue to honor those people and to have a special holiday for them,” Cox notes.
Oh, ye Arkansas yokel, just complain about having to celebrate MLK, Jr.’s birthday and stop pussyfooting around.
Children will be required to participate in exercises that honor Milk, which could include mock homosexual “weddings” and cross-dressing contests, as well as writing or reading activities.
Source?! Yeah, that’s what they’re going to do to honor Milk. They’re going to gay marry each other and have drag shows. I was going to suggest a Sodomy Shadow Puppet contest, but I guess they won’t have time.
I really wonder what planet wingnuts live on sometimes.
Filed order (STEPHEN R. REINHARDT, MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS and N. RANDY SMITH) Having considered all of the factors set forth in Nken v. Holder, 129 S. Ct. 1749, 1756 (2009), and all of the facts and circumstances surrounding Plaintiffs’ motion to vacate the stay pending appeal, as well as the standard for vacatur set forth in Southeast Alaska Conservation Council v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 472 F.3d 1097, 1101 (9th Cir. 2006), we deny Plaintiffs’ motion at this time. [7691622] (KKW)
Chad Griffin responds:
“Several weeks ago, we filed a motion with the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit asking the Court to lift its stay and allow California’s gay and lesbian couples to marry. We felt then, as we do now, that it is decidedly unjust and unreasonable to expect California’s gay and lesbian couples to put their lives on hold and suffer daily discrimination as second-class citizens while their US District Court victory comes to its final conclusion.
It is un-American to deprive gay and lesbian couples of their fundamental constitutional right to marry. These are adults in committed, loving relationships who just want to live their lives without government interference.
Last August, the US District Court declared Proposition 8 unconstitutional. We believe that the courts will permanently secure the freedom to marry for all Californians.
AFER is committed to ensuring that all Americans have the freedom to marry.”
Whether or not their names are immediately familiar, many of you will remember Derence Kernek and Ed Watson. They’re a gay couple from California who made a powerful 
On the question of whether Judge Vaughn Walker should have recused himself from a trial against California’s Christian Right-sponsored Proposition 8, 
