This video, of a woman testifying against, um, p-e-n-i-s-e-s and gays and declaring that gays molest schoolchildren because the kids don’t have AIDS yet, and also that Hillary Clinton became gay in college due to rohypnol, went viral today, but I wasn’t around to post it because I’m dealing with a sick puppy.

But seriously, Peter, is that you?

[h/t Wonkette]

Oh, gawd, it really has come to this:

For goodness sake, Peter, Dan is a married man.

[h/t Jim]

Remember a few weeks ago when I made fun of Pastor Ken Hutcherson for trying to “reclaim” the rainbow? Now he wants to reclaim the word “gay,” claiming that he is the gayest person he knows. I always had my suspicions, but it’s not polite to judge:

Dr. Ken Hutcherson, the pastor of Antioch Baptist Church in Redmond, Wash., posted an announcement earlier this week that many close to him – including his wife – have known for years. Hutcherson revealed that he is the “gayest man I know.”

“Coming out of the closet is a difficult decision to make, especially when close, personal relationships are at stake,” Hutcherson wrote in his column, Hutch Speaks Out, that was published on WorldNetDaily.

Bwahaha, this is going to backfire on him.

“Will my family abandon me? Will my friends still look at me the same? Will this announcement be worth the risk? These are indeed valid concerns that can make a person live like a double agent for years. And even though this decision is acutely personal, it does help to stand alongside someone else who is ready to announce the very same thing,” he continued.

The announcement of the burly NFL-linebacker-turned-evangelical-minister-and-author sent some initial shockwaves through the Christian community. He and James Hansen, one of his ministry leaders who is married with three children, are challenging others, especially evangelicals, to come forward and also admit that they are gay.

Haha, okay, Peter LaBarbera, you and Bam Bam do it next.

But the thing is Hutcherson is not a homosexual, nor does the happily married man have a same-sex attraction of any kind. He is, however, on a mission to take back words, phrases and symbols he believes groups, such as homosexual activists and other liberal organizations, have “hijacked” from the American lexicon.

Okay, next I would like Ken to publicly take back loving Madonna and the freedom for two dudes to make out in public. Because we gays have just cold hijacked those things. Go ahead, Ken.

“Seriously, I am the gayest guy I know,” Hutcherson reiterated in an interview with The Christian Post.

God, you don’t have to broadcast it.

“My frustration is that some groups have taken words and symbols away from the Church and from society in general. When I say I’m ‘gay,’ what I mean is that I am happy, that I am joyful and that I love people. That is precisely what a Christian ought to be so in my opinion we just need to be as gay as we can.”

It’s great to be joyful and love people. Tony Perkins, Ken Hutcherson is asking you to be as gay as you can. Do you have what it takes?

“Dan Savage (a pro-gay activist) says he is gay. He’s not gay, not anywhere close. Yeah, he may be a homosexual but he certainly doesn’t appear to be happy or joyful when he stands up in front of a classroom and uses profane language. Nope, nothing gay about that.”

To be serious for just a moment: why do wingnuts think Dan Savage is unhappy? He has a great husband, a great kid and a great life. The fact that he makes fun of wingnuts doesn’t mean he’s unhappy. It means he’s quick on his feet and knows how to laugh at people, like Ken, who would seek to destroy his family unit.

Anyway, wingnuts, you have your marching orders from Hutch. Come out of the closet and be super-gay, like he is! Here is Ken’s full column, if you want to subject yourself to that.

Wingnuts, having seen something shiny and having fixated on it, are still whining about Dan Savage. Peter LaBarbera posted a supposedly offensive video of Dan talking about the Pope the other day, and apparently Bill Donohue of the Catholic League Of One has been issuing breathless press releases about the same comments. Reflecting on the Really Not Offensive nature of what he said, Dan sums up the acceptable rules for discourse with Fundamentalists/Conservative Catholics these days:

And for those of you keeping score at home: it’s not hate speech when pope claims that my marriage somehow constitutes a threat to the survival of humanity but it is hate speech when I tell an overwhelmingly straight and overwhelmingly Christian audience that the pope is being a ridiculous old queen.

See how that works? The pope can say anything he wants because FAITH! And I can’t defend myself because FAITH! It’s a neat trick: we can beat you up all we want and you aren’t allowed to defend yourself.

Yep! Because according to people of “deeply held faith,” their beliefs are above criticism, even if their beliefs end up driving gay kids to suicide. Because FAITH.

And also, because Fundamentalists have mastered the art of both being Real Americans, but also a victimized minority. Shed a tear for them, please.

This is supposed to be shocking, as Dan talks about the Pope’s silliness in proclaiming that marriage equality will destroy the human race. I actually post this video for two reasons. Wait, three:

1. It’s funny.

2. Porno Pete is over at his blog posting things like this, which are supposed to just be appalling, but do you hear how much the audience is laughing? Do you hear how the next generation of college students simply doesn’t include people like Porno Pete, at least not in any sort of significant numbers? Do you hear that sound? It’s the sound of of the culture war that we’ve won.

3. This is also the talk, at Elmhurst College, that Porno Pete got kicked out of, because he doesn’t know how to behave in public. Then he lied about why he got kicked out. Then he got busted, on Twitter, by Dan himself. Hilarity ensued.

I hesitate to give today’s dispatch from Porno Pete’s Haus of Leather Photography, Sadness and Funyun Crumbs the title of “stupidest thing he’s ever posted,” because the second I do, somebody will e-mail me a long-forgotten post from 2008 or something, that easily outshines today’s post in the “dumb” department. But let’s just agree that today’s post is among the dumbest things he’s ever posted. I will now show you why. This is going to be a long post, because there is so much crazy to deconstruct, but I’m in the mood to do this, and I’m having fun, so bear with me. [NOTE: While I was writing this, I didn't realize that Bruce had already commented on one piece of it. Both pieces stand, though, as we take them in two entirely different directions. Check his out too!]

The post starts with this picture, from Glee, which Porno Pete censored because he believes it is “indecent”:

To which I reply:

Got yer nose! My laptop came with Paint too, dude.

Now, on to the content of the piece, which was not written by the Peter, but rather by a wingnut whose name I had forgotten completely, so absent has his voice been from even Porno Pete’s low level of wingnuttia in years of late:

Two Manly Men In Maine
by Coach Dave Daubenmire of Pass the Salt Ministries

Ooh, we are going to hear about men that a “coach” thinks are manly, in Maine! Aren’t we excited?! We already know that the wingnut definition of “manly” tends to correlate strongly with large tires and a propensity for hysterical shrieking homophobia, so this should be good. Also, readers should know that “Coach” uses that title because he used to be a high school football coach before he was forced out of that position for pushing his religious views onto his players. Now he’s the “coach” for “God’s team,” or something of that sort, as per his website.

Anyway, on to the Coach’s homage to the hottest guys in Maine:

The boys are back in town.

Not that they ever went anywhere.

False alarm.

But Mike Heath

Oh, actually, Mike Heath did go somewhere. He conveniently resigned from the mainstream anti-gay movement in Maine when even his own allies were put off by his strange, prurient style of political gay hatin’. He’s a lot like Porno Pete, actually, which is why they are friends. Now he is back, trying to hurt gay people in Maine again, and we on the side of equality and fairness are actually kinda thrilled. The more extremist voices like Pete’s and Mike’s are elevated, the more we win, 100% of the time, as their message repels sentient beings.

and Paul Madore

Also a buddy of Porno Pete’s. A few years ago when Maine’s wingnut leaders were lying to/scaring Maine voters into repealing marriage equality there, Peter, Paul and some Mary or another were very obviously upset that the higher-ups in the anti-gay movement didn’t want their voices to be heard, so they had their own little sad press conference.

are teaming up once again to take on the sodomites in Maine.

That is bad news for the gay-rights thugs, and they know it.

No seriously, mister coach guy, we think it’s great. Again, the more that people like Mike Heath and Paul Madore get to talk, the more we win. I promise Maine’s gay rights activists are thrilled to see this kind of Hail Mary pass from the bigots in their state.

Heath and Madore are like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Huh?

Batman and Robin

No gay undertones there.

Lone Ranger and Tonto.

Ace and Gary?

They are the homosexual movement’s worst nightmare.

Again, if this is our worst nightmare, bring on the REM sleep.

For the seventh time in recent history, there is an attempt by the deviant-left to foist “sodomy-based marriage” onto the grandchildren of the citizens of Maine.

This is specifically about the grandchildren? Huh. I hadn’t heard.

When does “no” mean no?

Not when almost 58% of Mainers support marriage equality, according to the latest polls. This is why we think that Laverne and Shirley’s entry into the anti-gay side of the fight is so great, as they will push even more moderates to our side with their weird message, which “Coach” will elaborate on shortly. Until then, schlemiel, schlemazel!

Six times they have tried, and six times this dynamic-duo has helped push them back. It hasn’t been easy, and it hasn’t come without a cost. They both have the scars to prove it.

Oh, they are such victims. When does the part about “manly men” happen, again?

But at least they have scars. Rare is the man willing to take the arrows that come for standing publicly for what he believes. With all due respect to homo-queen Elton John, Madore and Heath can sing “I’m still standing” as they enter the ring in what they believe is the final round against the sodomy crowd.

Yep, according to the poll I just cited (and the other credible ones that have come out lately), this likely will be the last stand for Donny and Marie.

“We are going for the knockout,” Heath recently told me. “We are going to turn them back with a 70 percent vote. It will be a long time before the homosexual activists get off of the canvas in Maine.”

“It is time to get serious with the society on the issue of homosexuality and the practical effects that are very harmful to society that this distorted and perverted lifestyle will have. It is time to take the gloves off. Good people just keep moving the line back in regards to homosexuality. But not any more,” says Madore.

Three cheers for being delusional. Why do I get the feeling these guys spend a lot of time gazing at Matt Barber’s boxing photos?

“For 30 years we have bought the lies and we have played by the Homosexual’s rules. We have tried the “nice” approach to Christianity and have continually lost ground. For me, and this ministry, it is not about a political referendum. I spent a career depending on politicians and it took me awhile to see the light. This is not a political issue. It is a moral issue. Our goal is to re-stigmatize sodomy. To paint a picture in the mind of Mainers exactly what it is that sodomites DO. We want to make the thought of sodomy abominable once again,” Heath says.

“So we, two grown men, are going to run around the state of Maine graphically describing how other people have sex in the privacy of their own homes, at least our perceptions of it, and people are not going to think that we’re weird at all!”

These guys play to win.

Unfortunately they’re Tebow-ing passes at the wrong end zone.

Heath used to run with the “big dogs” in the pro-family movement. Although his name is not as nationally known, he was at the table with James Dobson, Tony Perkins, Ralph Reed and the boys as the fight for culture has been waged over the years.

And then they got rid of him because even they thought he was kinda weird?

He saw the emergence of the unholy alliance as the Christian leadership slowly morphed into Republican lapdogs.

The Christians held a seat at the table, but the “Republicans” are the ones who called the shots.

Truth be told? The Republican establishment has never been comfortable with the partnership.

They loved the Christians’ votes, but not their issues. After three decades, what do the Christians have to show for the hundreds of millions of dollars that the grass roots donors have trusted them with?

Nothing. We’ve been saying that for years, that fundamentalists have always been the useful idiots of the Republican party, but they don’t like to hear it.

Sad, isn’t it? Most Christian organizations are proudly endorsing Mitt Romney in the battle between the “Morman [sic] and the Muslim [sic].” Their only hope is that the arm of the Republican Party can defend Christians better than the hand of the Lord. But I am sure those donations are still rolling in…

Mike Heath knows how Dr. Dobson feels. After 25 years, he too, was forced out of his position at the Christian Civic League of Maine. What was his crime? He played to win. He recognized that it was war and he understood the stakes. Unfortunately, others didn’t.

Okay, Revisionist McGee, but actually the people who forced Mike Heath out of his position DID win that battle, because they found a new way to lie to and scare Mainers. Mike Heath might play to win, but he’s not playing any game the rest of us recognize.

In a recent press release “the boys in the suits” at the National Organization for Marriage (NOM, which just endorsed Romney), [NOM President Brian Brown] said, “We reject attempts to make this campaign [over homosexual "marriage" in Maine] about the morality of homosexuality.” Homosexuality is not a moral issue, huh?

Yep, we have lost a lot of ground but have sure looked polished doing it. Most national pro-family organizations have modeled the church. They want to be nicer than Jesus. Well Heath and Madore want to win.

Yeah, forget that lame-O “Jesus” guy their religion is named after! This isn’t a time for Christian love!

Here is their plan.

Madore is Rocky Balboa. Heath is his trainer Mickey.

Madore is Angel. Heath is Spike. Neither of them have souls right now, so they will join forces and defeat Buffy once and for all!

Together, these defenders of the Faith are going to take sodomy head-on.

I’m going to let you readers absorb that sentence on your own, as many times in a row as it takes you all to stop giggling.

I read the following in a recent newsletter I received.

“The issue is not marriage. The issue is not “rights.” The issue is not “fairness.” The issue is sodomy. Homosexuality is not a lifestyle. Homosexuality is a behavior. ‘Sodomy is most commonly legally defined as any contact between the genitals of one person, and the mouth or anus of another’.” Gaylib.com.

Permit me to clarify the definition. Sodomy is one MAN inserting his genitals into the mouth or anus of ANOTHER MAN.

Actually, dingus, the first definition was correct. However, and this is where things get dicey…only an idiot can read the story of Sodom and Gomorrah and then pull out a concordance to read everything else the Bible says about that event, and still come to the conclusion that it had anything to do with homosexuality. It’s actually not difficult Biblical scholarship. Sure, it knocks a leg off the homophobe’s stool, and I know that they have so few to stand on, but it’s pretty simple. The reason the word came into use is because bigots over the years misread that passage, over and over and over again, due to bigotry.

Say it again. Say it out loud so your ears hear it. Picture it in your mind. Picture Barney Frank and Elton John in action…Barney Frank putting his genitals into Elton John’s…

The men that wingnuts choose to fantasize about amuse me. You’ll never see them saying “picture Ricky Martin popping open a bottle of wine while Neil Patrick Harris runs a bubble bath…”

Haha.

That is what they want to tell us is normal…no wait…tell our children is normal. Into that “union” they are asking permission to place children. Would you let them put YOUR grandchild into a sodomy-based family? Why would you let them do it to someone else’s child? Have normal people lost their minds?”

Actually, it’s you guys you are obsessing over how people have sex. Adults of all sexual orientations tend to keep their sex lives in the bedroom. I’m really not worried about what happens in any of my neighbors’ bedrooms. Oh, but wingnuts are. They think about it all day, every day. And what is this about “YOUR grandchild?” I would assume that if “YOUR grandchild” is being raised in a same-sex household (like it or not, there is no such thing as a “sodomy-based household”), that came about as a result of YOUR child being gay, falling in love and choosing to raise children with his/her spouse.

Rev. Mike Heath and “Mr. Maine” Paul Madore are taking the gloves off.

Heath is Zack Morris. Madore is A.C. Slater. Together they will sneak out of Bayside without Mr. Belding finding out! The rest of the gang is already at The Max!

They are putting the pictures on mobile trucks and are taking the truth of sodomy to every city, every school, and every home in Maine. Here is the picture they will put on the trucks that they will drive throughout Maine.

Here is the picture they’re putting on the trucks, unless Porno Pete’s link was bad:

Yet another reason Heath and Madore are going to help win this for OUR side. You see, normal people who aren’t obsessed with sex look at that picture and see two guys who love each other. Heath, Madore, “Coach” Daubenmire and Porno Pete see it and run away screaming about sodomy. We win, in a landslide. PLEASE put that picture on your bus.

Oh, how the pigs will squeal. The sodomites will cry “hate” as if the truth of a picture can be hateful.

Nope, guys, again, if anyone squeals when they see that picture, it’ll be because they’re saying “AWWWWW!” That picture went viral for a reason, and it wasn’t because it disgusted people for the most part. In fact, it immediately was compared to and put side by side with another iconic photograph:

So again, please put that on your bus, wingnuts. Images of love are transcendent, and they affect people in positive ways. The wingnut bus will go down the highways and by-ways of Maine, quietly telling the story of two men whose devotion and love for one another shines through in one beautiful photograph.

I will say, though: the picture of the Marines is the first thing I’ve read in Daubenmire’s column that has anything to do with manly  men. It’s certainly not Heath and Madore.

The Christians in pretty suits will cry “mean” as if being nice ever won a war.

“Coach” sure is obsessed with Brian Brown’s clothes.

It is God who first called them sodomites. If it is good enough for Him then it should be good enough for us.

Yes, but actually no. Again, read the Bible passage about Sodom and Gomorrah with a concordance handy and preferably at least a seventh grade education in English. We’ll wait a few years.

It is time to take off the gloves. It is time to get down and dirty. It is time we fought like we wanted to win.

You already said that.

Hey! Listen to me!

It’s rare that wingnuts actually type out their cries for help so literally.

Send them some money!! They are on the front lines. They know the people of Maine. They are battle tested and uncompromising. David taking on Goliath. Put some gas into their tanks. Redirect all of your giving from the “national ministries” to the two manly men in Maine. Their gloves are off. This is Clay against Liston III, Lewiston, Maine 2012.

Heath is Lucy. Madore is Ethel. Hijinks ensue!

If you trust me, trust them. I wouldn’t steer you wrong. Help deliver a knockout to the homosexual agenda. Your gifts are NOT Tax deductible. Helping Hands is not a corporation. It is a church.

Trust me! Waste your money! The polls are already showing a landslide victory for equality, but give them some money, even though it’s not tax deductible!

Goooooo, Team Wingnut!

Congratulations, “Coach” Daubenmire, I do believe that my thesis from the top of this piece, that this is at least among the dumbest things Porno Pete has ever posted on his blog, has been proven correct.

The great thing about this hilarious list from Jesus’ General, of Republican scientific beliefs, is that it’s probably not all that far off from what the Peter LaBarberas, the Tony Perkinses and the Linda Harveys of the world really believe. They just couch it in language that at least sounds intelligent to them. Here are a few of my favorites:

Preborn girls are created when a sperm person gives up one of his ribs.

A man’s uterus is the only organ that can function outside of his body.

Gravity is a lie. We all have angels pushing down on our heads. Sometimes Catholic priests and protestant youth ministers have to help the angels push down on heads.

OUCH. Click over to read the rest.

Another day, another instance of Porno Pete interviewing one of his ideological confreres about gayness. In this case, it’s North Carolina anti-gay/pro-Amendment One activist Steve Noble, who has some interesting analogies involving homosexuality, Satan and playgrounds:

LaBarbera: You’re talking about the spiritual significance of attaching that name—marriage—to the sin of homosexuality.

Noble: Right, when you refuse to repent the only option you have left is to redefine. You say, ‘I’m just going to take this sin right out of the Bible by redefining it and I’m going to get rid of it.’ That’s why when you do that and this is the really sad spiritual underbelly of the whole thing for me as I look at this situation, I’m looking at people, men and women, caught up in their sin, enslaved by their sin, it’s the playground of Satan and the evil forces against God’s way, and they are so broken and so angry at the world telling them and pointing out to them ‘there’s something wrong with you, your lifestyle is messed up, it’s deviant,’ all the things that get said, these are broken people who desperately want to feel whole but they are not willing to repent.

It’s true. From my chair, I’m looking out the window onto the playground of Satan, and I can see the Jungle Gym of Doom, the Merry-Go-Round of Evil and, you know, the swing set. And I am so broken and angry.

It never ceases to be strange, the things that wingnuts tell themselves about us. They have to concoct these weird cosmic fantasies, because they have absolutely no argument without them. [Not that their Dungeons & Dragons fantasies really count as "arguments" for anyone besides fringe True Believers, but you get the point.]

Right Wing Watch also has another part of the transcript, where Noble suggests that gays are “attacking the whole world.” As always, I ask, when are we doing this? After brunch? I’m so confused.

They just don’t get it. Joe tips us off to this piece by Concerned Man Mario Diaz of the Concerned Women for America, where he tries desperately to find the balance between condemning gays to a fiery damned hell with a plastic fundamentalist smile on his face and, you know, actual hate. I never know how Fundamentalists actually define “hate” if they can’t see it in themselves. Let’s go through his piece and see what we find:

Some who fight for homosexual “rights” accuse Christians of being hateful because of their support for the traditional definition of marriage.

Some who fight for the “rights” of black people to be free accuse slaveowners of being “hateful” because of their support for the traditional definition of “slavery.” (See what I did there? I see what I did there. They’re the SAME ARGUMENT.)

But there is a fundamental problem with that equation. A Christian, by definition, cannot hate homosexuals.

Oh my goodness, what definitions and equations is Mario using here? Because his fundamentalist cohort show on a daily basis that, yes, indeed, they can hate homosexuals, and moreover, they’re quite good at it!

Christians follow the teachings of Christ. And Christ summarized all the law with two simple rules: (1) “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind,” and (2) “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Well, in theory…but we still haven’t talked about the Concerned Women for America/hate group-y kind of Christian. They don’t follow Christ’s teachings at all.

The truth is that if anyone hates homosexuals then they cannot call themselves a Christian. Hate towards neighbors and Christianity are mutually exclusive.

Ha, well then. Porno Pete, Linda Harvey, Tony Perkins, Peter Sprigg, Greg Quinlan, DL Foster, Bryan Fischer, Laurie Higgins, and all the rest of you, come on down! Mario of the Concerned Women has summarily excommunicated you all. Please return your Christian name-tags on the way out and be off.

It is true that Scripture even calls us to “love our enemies.” Yet, I am hesitant to use that passage in this context, because I do not want to suggest that homosexuals are somehow our enemies. They are not.

Is CWA going liberal? I’m still waiting for Mario to start twisting language and throwing Get Out Of Jail Free cards.

Now, that’s all well and good in theory

In theory. Did I not say “in theory,” just above? I did. I promise I didn’t read the article before I started writing. Here comes the justification for a special supposedly Biblical sort of hate:

but how does this look in practice? Well, I can say that I have in my life, just like most of the readers, close friends and family members who describe themselves as homosexuals. And I love them.

They “describe themselves as homosexuals.” And he loves them. Warm fuzzies. Go on?

They know where I stand on the issue of marriage and homosexuality. They know I believe that government should not promote their lifestyle. I have shared what I believe God’s grace can do in their lives. That they are not slaves to their desires.

Aha, so he “loves them,” therefore he’s foisted his weird, unfortunate, disproven beliefs about sexuality on them, sharing the Good News about how, if they really loved God, they’d live out their lives all alone, never experience romantic love, etc. There’s that Fundamentalist Christian “Love” I’m so used to. I love you, you’re perfect, now change, or you’re going to burn in hell with all the other unsaved heathens! Warm fuzzies getting warmer.

We’ve talked about it privately, and I write about it publicly. Some have even gotten mad at me because of something I have said or written.

Yeah, and they probably talk behind your back about how unfortunate that it is that you’re a bigot.

But our friendship goes on, because it goes beyond homosexuality. They are much more than that.

I am committed to pray for them, and not only about salvation, as some seem to think. They have many worries in life (as we all do) and I pray for those, especially when they ask me to.

Even gays have other worries in life beyond whether we’re going to hell? Tell me more, Mario!

I won’t lie and say my heart doesn’t hurt for them. They truth is that many of their struggles are centered on their lifestyle. And the great majority carry enormous hurt from their past.

That’s my favorite kind of loving friend: the one that publicly writes about how much they pity me. Warm fuzzies now warmest! Let me guess: the enormous hurt from their pasts was inflicted by, for the most part, rejection from the Fundamentalists they were erroneously trained to trust?

So I pray for peace, joy, and mercy in their lives. That’s the Christian approach. That is, at least, for those who follow the teachings of Christ.

Hate who they are, pray for them and tell them to change, while waxing poetic about “love.” Sounds about right.

The bottom line is a Christian must behave like a Christian. Or he or she is not a Christian at all. We stand for God’s model for marriage and the family alone, and we love our homosexual neighbors. There is nothing incongruent about that.

Especially when “love” is a euphemism for something else entirely.

The free speech of others? Nah, not so much.

Commenting on the story of a California student who was wrongly ejected from participating in a school pageant for stating that in ten years’ time, he’d like to be able to be legally married, Porno Pete unfortunately opens his mouth, exercising the free speech he and his cohort claim is under threat:

“Parents through their school officials have the right to affirm their moral beliefs,” he asserts. “If advocating for sodomy-based ‘marriage,’ so called, is extremely controversial in the eyes of the parents, especially at a public venue, they should have the right to make that policy known. In other words, it doesn’t seem to me it’s a pure … free speech issue.”

Trouble is, the parents were pretty supportive of the kid. But here is the thing: the fact that the kid was saying that he wants to be married one day is not in and of itself ”advocating” for it. He’s expressing a dream for his life, just like any other kid in that school.

“If the homosexual activists are going to tout free speech, then they need to respect free speech – our free speech,” he contends. “And the problem is so often they not only don’t respect our free speech, they’re trying to squelch it everywhere they can.”

He says as he’s whining loudly and being quoted verbatim both on wingnut websites and on gay websites, where we are making fun of/rebutting him. Porno Pete is being silenced, you guys! Pay no attention to the fact that he’s crying on and on about his free speech being taken away in a story that’s actually about a student being punished for speaking freely.

One other thing of note from the article: the OneNewsNow writer Becky Yeh recounted the student’s original quote like so:

“I just want to be able to sit on the couch by the person I love and happily proclaim that we’re married. Hopefully, ten years from now I’ll be able to do that, if ‘gay marriage’ is legal.”

This is how weird wingnuts are. They put gay marriage in scare quotes even when they’re directly quoting somebody. The shoddy journalism on display at OneNewsNow has been well documented over the years, but it’s a bit amazing to see just how extensive their psychoses are when reporting on such issues.

The comments section on that piece is fun if you want to gouge your eyes out.