LGBTQ news and entertainment
As the Illinois primary is underway today, thought we could laugh a bit.
I think this is funny and very well done by Hugh Atkin.
“Please stand up”
“Please stand up”
“Please stand up”
Chant with me kids…
“Please stand up”
“Please stand up”
“Please stand up”
Kirk Cameron is worried his anti-gay comments will affect his new “movie” so he’s in damage control mode.
You may remember a couple of weeks ago he said on Piers Morgan’s show on CNN about homosexuality: “I think that it’s unnatural. I think that it’s detrimental and ultimately destructive to so many of the foundations of civilization.”
His spin later was to say that that means he loves gay people and even has gay friends.
Now he’s giving interviews trying to clear the air.
On Fox News he said “I don’t change my feeling about the comments. What disheartens me (is that Piers Morgan took) “some answers, reduce[d] an important and personal and sensitive issue to a four-second sound bite and toss[ed] it into a community to start a political bonfire. [To] really upset people you’re saying you’re looking to protect…is disingenuous.”
What’s disingenuous is Kirk trying to say he blurted out a “four-second soundbite” when the discussion about the subject was actually almost three minutes. Kirk had plenty of time to be thoughtful and make his feelings clear. Which I think he did. And Piers Morgan didn’t “toss” any sound bite out into a community. Kirk said it – and the world heard.
Kirk also gave an interview to The Daily Beast where he said this:
“When my friend who came to me and said you’re the first person I’m telling this to, I’ve known you for 10 years, I’m gay. I could tell how difficult it was. It’s personal. It’s sensitive. It’s difficult. He was nervous what my reaction would be. I said, ‘Dude, you know me. I love you. There’s nothing you could ever tell me that would make me not love you and care about you.’ If Piers had asked me that: what do you think about homosexuals? What do you think about the gay community?”
On what he’d do if his son was gay:
“It does grieve me to think there are people misunderstanding my heart on an issue. If my kids came to me and said I’m gay, I’d say, ‘Son, I love you.’ That’s never at stake. Never, never, never at stake. We’ll talk and we’ll go through life together and we’ll work through our thoughts and feelings and we’ll come to what’s healthy. You’ll make your decisions and I’ll make mine.”
When Ramin Setoodeh asks about gay marriage, Cameron’s publicist interrupts: “I don’t mean to interrupt. I think we’ve gone enough into it. The gay marriage, I just want to stay away from it. It’s just so polarizing.”
And I think that says all you need to know. Kirk Cameron wants you know he loves gays, but let’s not talk about things that are “polarizing.” He wants to give interviews hoping you’ll like him, but he can’t talk about the issue that started it all.
Got it.
UPDATE: After Kirk spent the day doing damage control, Piers Morgan tweeted an invitation to Kirk Cameron to come back on his show uncensored and discuss the gay issue.
In recent years, the Transportation Security Agency has come under fire for what many perceive to be unjustified and unnecessary searches. Now a video has surfaced, reportedly shot in 2010, in which a three-year-old boy in a wheelchair with a broken leg is subjected to an extended search from a TSA agent.
The three minute clip, which was shot by the boy’s father Matt Dubiel, shows the boy looking increasingly concerned as a TSA agent swabs the boy’s hands, legs, and back for residue from explosives. Apparently, the child’s parents were not allowed to comfort him or hold his hand during the process. You can hear Dubiel assuring his son that everything will be OK and trying to keep his son from having a panic attack.
According to Fox News Radio, the video was shot by Dubiel. He and his family were flying to Disney World when they were stopped. While speaking to Fox News Radio, Dubiel said he found the footage over the weekend and decided to post it.
So I just heard that the soundtrack for “A Few Best Men” starring Olivia Newton-John will finally be released in the USA digitally on April 24th.
I know a lot of fans have been looking forward to the release as an indicator of when the movie may make it’s debut here. No word on that yet from my sources, but I’ll post as soon as I hear.
Santorum has made this argument many times, as Dave Weigel points out at Slate, but the soundbite and the message convey his campaign’s lesser focus on the economy.
Perhaps this is because Santorum’s focus is on the social issues?
Mitt Romney in Peria, Ill. later same day: “I do care about the unemployment rate, it does bother me. I want to put people back to work.”
Infighting is fun…
“In all of [Jesus’] teachings about multiple things -– he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.”
“I draw the line, maybe arbitrarily, in requiring by law that churches must marry people. I’m a Baptist, and I believe that each congregation is autonomous and can govern its own affairs. So if a local Baptist church wants to accept gay members on an equal basis, which my church does by the way, then that is fine. If a church decides not to, then government laws shouldn’t require them to.” – President Jimmy Carter speaking to the Huffington Post
Looks like she still has the old skills…
Snooki promised at the end of the latest season of “Jersey Shore” that she’d be back for more Seaside Heights, New Jersey, shenanigans, and she wasn’t lying.
MTV News has confirmed that there will be another season of the “Shore” — with mom-to-be Snooki joining her pals.
Things kick off with climbing down fire escapes and jumping into rivers in what resembles a trailer for a Jason Bourne-type action thriller. As it becomes clear that the two men are traveling towards each other, the commercial cuts to a close-up of a woman’s red lipsticked mouth saying, “I can’t wait for what is to come.”
The clip may suggest the guys are about to engage in a fist fight. But it also looks like these guys might just as easily start making out.
Check it out below and let me know how you interpret it.