Yesterday, Teabagger Republican Representative Kristen Hansen introduced HB516, which would repeal all statewide or local ordinances which protect LGBT citizens in any way, shape or form. At the hearing for the bill, legislators refused to allow anyone opposed to the bill to be heard.
Yesterday, Teabagger Republican Representative Kristen Hansen introduced HB516, which would repeal all statewide or local ordinances which protect LGBT citizens in any way, shape or form. At the hearing for the bill, legislators refused to allow anyone opposed to the bill to be heard.
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According to my source, Hansen will be outed at an upcoming meeting of University of Montana students.
We’ll have to see how this all unravels, but it must take an astonishing level of self-hatred to be such a hypocrite.
Carl Kruger is a Democratic state senator from Brooklyn. His vote against gay marriage last year was crucial in stopping the measure in New York. Funny thing: He lives with his gay lover, who’s the bagman in their bribery racket.
Yesterday, a criminal complaint against Kruger was unsealed in federal court in the southern district of New York, lifting the veil from what must be one of the most satisfyingly convoluted and brazen cases of self-loathing gay political figures in our time.
First, the bribery: Kruger, the feds charge, conspired with a state lobbyist named Richard Lipsky to shake down clients for Kruger’s vote. He’s charged with accepting bribes from Lipsky to funnel state money to various New York City projects being developed by Forest City Ratner, as well as trying to curtail the state’s recycling laws. When the feds raided Lipsky’s Upper West Side apartment, they found “$102,000 in cash from a safe in a closet and $4,000 ‘in crisp, large denominational bills from the pocket of a suit belonging to Lipsky,’” according to the New York Post.
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Now, about that lifestyle! Kruger, who was one of four Democrats who killed gay marriage in New York last year (along with face-slasher Hiram Monserrate), ostensibly lives with his sister in Brooklyn. But according to the Post, neighbors there “said either that they did not recognize him or that he was rarely, if ever, there.” That might be because he actually lives in this gaudy 7,000 squareifoot home with the Turano family—Michael, his brother Gerard, and their mother Dorothy. Kruger is, according to the complaint, essentially a member of the Turano family. “He helped manage the household and shop for groceries,” the Times says, and even help pick out a gravestone for the family plot.”
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Michael Turano and Kruger lived together, they co-mingled their finances, and Kruger helped look after Turano’s aging mother. There have been plenty of secretly gay politicians who opposed gay marriage; Kruger appears to be the first secretly gay-married pol to have done so.
Oh, there is SO MUCH MORE. Read it all, read it all, it’s juicy and scandalous.
Being a self-hating gay only pays for so long, guys.
The Lord moves in mysterious ways, sometimes even sort of straight up and down with a firm grip mellowed by a little dab of Lubriderm.
He suggests that the two big stories of the week, that of the arrest of anti-gay street preacher Grant Storms, for wanking in a van by a playground with kiddies nearby, and the fact that batsh*t “prophet” Janet Porter has scheduled a fetus to testify on an abortion bill in Ohio are indeed related, as Storms may have just been “doing the Lord’s Work, that is, spontaneously creating thousands of tiny little witnesses that he was going to take to the nearest Congressional committee to testify about the evils of abortion.”
One day maybe I will be like Thers.
Thinking along similar lines is General JC Christian of Jesus’ General, who suggests that Pastor Storms might be able to help out with the Ohio hearings:
I believe I can get Pastor Grant Storms to provide your committee with a billion newly-freed Spematazoan-American witnesses. You may have heard of him. He promotes the heterosexual lifestyle by going to playgrounds, whipping out his holy staff, and liberating his trapped Spermatazoan-American brothers onto the monkey bars.
I don’t think it has to be monkey bars. I bet he’d liberate them onto the witness table’s microphone if that’d be more convenient.
Southern Decadence-protesting, bullhorn wielding, gay-condemning, public-park pocket pool-playing Pastor Grant Storms has held a press conference to say he is very sorry for hoisting his own personal picket in a van next to a playground:
The conservative pastor known for his condemnation of the Southern Decadence Festival was tearful and apologetic Tuesday in discussing his recent arrest.
The Rev. Grant Storms called himself a “hypocrite” because of his Friday arrest on accusations of masturbating in a public park. Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s deputies charged him with obscenity after two women claimed they saw him touching himself while watching children on the playground at Lafreniere Park.
Storms said in a news conference Tuesday that he was not watching the children, but he did have his hand in his pants. He apologized to those he has hurt, and he said he was sorry for targeting Decadence, an annual gay festival in the French Quarter.
Fat chance.
Also, he says he has a “porn problem,” and that he was looking at it right before he went to the park to spank it in front of kids:
He did, however, admit that he was looking at pornography on-line about an hour before he went to the park. He added that he struggles with an addiction to porn, and he asked pastors to help deal with his demons.
Storms told members of the media he is no longer connected with the church that once staged the protests against Southern Decadence, now running a lawn care business.
Weeping, he then went on to apologize to family and friends. He even apologized to those that he once railed against, including members of the gay community and organizers of Decadence Festival.
But he totally wasn’t jerking off to the kids, honest!
Reverend Grant Storms was booked on Friday after his arrest at Lafreniere Park. Witnesses told investigators they saw the man fondling himself in his van while watching children on the playground.
JPSO authorities said Storms admitted to the offense. He denies the charge and says no children were around.
Right.
You’ll remember from yesterday that this is the fundamentalist pastor who runs around Southern Decadence in New Orleans [and other places] preaching with huge signs listing the various kinds of people [including peodphiles] who will be burning in hell. His original story is that he was urinating in a bottle, which is strange in and of itself in the middle of a day in a van next to a park where kids are playing…
The Rev. Grant Storms, a Christian fundamentalist best known for his bullhorn protests of the Southern Decadence festival in the French Quarter, was arrested for allegedly masturbating at a Metairie park Friday afternoon.
Storms, 53, 2304 Green Acres Road, Metairie, was booked with obscenity, a Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office arrest report said.
Storms told deputies that he was merely having lunch at Lafreniere Park, 3000 Downs Blvd., in his van when he decided to relieve himself using a bottle instead of using the restroom, an incident report said.
But two witnesses said they saw Storms through the open windows of his van masturbating himself while watching children on the playground, the report said.
The two women flagged down a park employee who notified the Sheriff’s Office. The employee also detained Storms until deputies arrived.
Everybody, look surprised about this news, as soon as you stop laughing. I’m not yet sure if it’s the exact same guy whose group appears in this shot, but as soon as I contact the person who took this picture, I’ll update.
This is pretty sweet. Matt Ortega at AmericaBlogElections sets it up:
A college student at the University of Pennsylvania asked Newt Gingrich a very pointed question about his adulterous past. Gingrich, who led the charge to impeach Bill Clinton in the late 1990s over an affair, admitted four years ago that he, too, was having an affair during impeachment proceedings.
It was in this context that Isabel Friedman, described by Politico as a “party activist,” questioned Gingrich’s moral standing to be the leader of the free world.
“You adamantly oppose gay rights… but you’ve also been married three times and admitted to having an affair with your current wife while you were still married to your second,” Isabel Friedman, president of the Penn Democrats, asked Gingrich after a speech at the University of Pennsylvania, according to Politico. “As a successful politician who’s considering running for president, who would set the bar for moral conduct and be the voice of the American people, how do you reconcile this hypocritical interpretation of the religious values that you so vigorously defend?”
Ooh! In typical GOP fashion, Gingrich’s response was pablum for idiots. If you want to read the transcript of his reply, it’s at the link, but it’s not worth reposting here, because all he did was deflect the question and try to make himself look like a big man in front of the audience.
Here’s the video. The audio is faint, unfortunately, but that’s how these things go sometimes.
Timothy Beauchamp at AmBlogGay points us to an important story that hasn’t gotten much coverage lately:
With little fanfare or news coverage, the four sexual coercion lawsuits confronting Bishop Eddie Long had the first hearing recently, with both sides opting for mediation to avoid a trial.
Why no major news outlet or editorial columnist has discussed the implications of such a move is nothing less than egregious in nature. Despite the initial media crush and coverage and the incessant analysis of Bishop Long’s statement on his website and “sermon,” there’s been nary a peep in response to the quest for mediation.
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Bishop Eddie Long agreeing to mediation of sexual coercion charges is an end-run around the universally accepted moral and ethical responsibilities of any ecumenical leader. Mediation of sexual allegation grievances is tantamount to an admission of “some” guilt, “some” form of ministerial misconduct. Innocent folk don’t make deals if the claims against them are baseless and untrue. Mediation for the accused is a forfeiture of the right to ever claim innocence, and readers should be absolutely clear on this point.
Did you hear that?
That was the sound of Long publicly admitting to some degree of guilt when he agreed to mediation. The public wanted Long to thoroughly address the allegations. Well, there you have it. He said it all, you just had to have been paying attention to hear it.
There you have it, indeed.
Timothy ties it all up with a bow, adding:
It is important to use every gift of cognitive dissonance given us by the other side to prove they have no corner on human morality, and we deserve every single right they enjoy that they would gladly deny us while reminding all voters those rights are enshrined in our constitution.
Yet another tacit admission of guilt from a supposed beacon of morality. But yet, you, married happy gay couple, are the problem, according to these dolts.
Uh-oh! So this happened a couple of months ago:
Well, these kinds of stories are always so shocking! 
Southern Decadence-protesting, bullhorn wielding, gay-condemning, public-park pocket pool-playing Pastor Grant Storms 
Next to the public park with the kids playing.
