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.

So sad, these people.

Bigots are running out of anti-gay smears.  They know that normal people laugh at them when they try to conflate us with pedophiles.  They know that normal people make fun of them when they try to compare us to Nazis.  They know that normal people recoil in disgust when they compare us to murderers or whatever else is in one of their lists o’ sins.  So…zombies?  Eh, why not, let’s give it a go!  Randy Thomasson of Save California:

“Any day of the week starting in January, children as young as kindergarten will be told that a homosexual, a bisexual, or even a cross-dresser or someone who has had healthy body parts in a sex-change operation cut off – that this is a positive role model. They’re not going to be told that it’s unhealthy; they’re not going to be told, well is this natural or is this a matter of environment. They won’t be told it. So, there’s no critical thinking.

“This is basically the gay activists kidnapping the brains of the kids, and the parents have no say whatsoever.”

Okay. Here is the video of the weird socially awkward man calling us zombies [skip to 1:45 or so to get the full train of stupid]:

[h/t Autumn]

In California, thanks to a pioneering bill introduced by state senator Mark Leno, students will now learn, in an age appropriate way, about the contributions of all kinds of minorities to society, including LGBT people.  I cannot imagine how art was taught before without including the contributions of gay people, but I suppose the difference now is that it’s okay to point out obvious things like “such and such was a gay person.”

Anyway, the usual suspects are having a conniption.  Randy Thomasson of the Religious Right group Annoy California [I think that's what it's called]:

“Social engineering of homosexual, bisexual and transsexual lifestyles is being done behind parents’ backs. Most parents say no to this,” he told ABC’s News 10. In April, Thomasson speculated to TPM that the law would result in textbooks that would teach about Elton John and his husband, or might ask: “Did you know President Abraham Lincoln was gay? How do we know that? He slept in a bed with a man when he was younger.” Thomasson said: “Abraham Lincoln was not homosexual. He was a Christian man who loved his family.”

Homosexual Lifestyle Engineering is big business, you see. Also, there definitely are scholars who believe that Lincoln slept with dudes. I don’t understand how Elton John factors into this discussion, as “Honky Cat” wasn’t part of any class I ever took.

Bryan Fischer, the anti-gay, anti-bear “Director Of Issues Analysis” for the American Family Association also thinks the law goes too far. “Ladies and gentleman, by definition, somebody who engages in sexually aberrant behavior is not and cannot be a role model, period, end of story,” he said on his radio show Monday.

That knocks out a lot of Republican Senators. Damn.

Also, there is some complain-y group called Stop SB 48 that is trying to collect enough signatures to put an initiative to repeal the law on the ballot. Same story, different day.

One day after State Senator John Campbell announced he is going to introduce a gay marriage bill this legislative session, Campbell received a threat.

The Windsor County Democrat says he got a call at the Statehouse from a woman who threatened to blow up his house.Police are investigating the threat.

Where are all the conservatives who complained about the “violence” in the largely peaceful gay rallies? Why aren’t they up in arms about this?

And what about the hinting-at-violent threats made today by Randy Thomasson, president of Campaign for Children and Families. He said that the California Supreme court is, “playing with fire by threatening to destroy the people’s vote on marriage.” And that “if the court disobeys the constitution by voiding Prop. 8, it will ignite a voter revolt.”

So, if the court does its duty and protects a minority from discrimination, what kind of “revolt” and “fire” does the fanatical fringe have planned?