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Oklahoma: Restaurant owner won’t serve African-Americans, gays or people with disabilities

A restaurant owner, in Enid, Oklahoma refuses to serve African-Americans, Hispanics, gays, or people with disabilities, KFOR reports:

Gary James, owner of Gary’s Chicaros, said, “I’ve been in business 44 years, I think I can spot a freak or a faggot.” He added, “I don’t deal with these people walking down the street with no jobs on welfare.”

James said, “If I reached over there and slapped the sh** out of you, you should be offended. But to call someone a ‘chink’ or someone call me a bigot, that doesn’t bother me.”

Now, a wave of comments on Facebook claim James refuses to serve African-Americans, Hispanics and people with disabilities, like Matt Gard.

Gard said, “He doesn’t like certain people of race, color, ethnicity.”

Gard was a regular at Gary’s Chicaros restaurant for years. He said he turned a blind eye to the owner’s choice of customers, until recently.

Gard said, “Now, he tried to find a weak excuse not to let me in with my wheelchair or the weak excuse of having loud people with me.”

Watch KFOR’s report below:

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Bryan Fischer: Having same-sex parents is “child abuse”

Predictably, hate group leader Bryan Fischer was not happy about this year’s Grammy Awards show.

Regarding the Macklemore/Madonna/Queen Latifah “Same Love” segment near the end of the telecast, Fischer calls the marriage ceremony an “abomination.”

He goes on to say “If you care about children,” Fischer said, “this thing ought to appall you because gay marriage is bad for children. In fact, same-sex parenting – I’m going to be very direct here – same-sex parenting is a form of child abuse.”

(via Right Wing Watch)

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Hate group leader: Forcing businesses to follow the law is the same as making gays attend church

Hate group leader Tony Perkins, of the Family Research Council,  says that requiring businesses to follow the law and not discriminate against gays is “essentially” the same thing as forcing gays out of a gay bar and into a church.

And clearly, by “essentially” he means “not at all the same.”

Jeremy Hooper at Good As You gets it right:

“The proper analogy would if a gay bar wanted to deny a Christian customer bar service. In that case, Tony would actually have a point, as religion, like sexual orientation, is a protected class in most state nondiscrimination laws.

But the case, as the reliably hostile FRC president states it, only shows (a) how fully he misunderstands what’s going on and (b) just how excessive his evangelical superiority complex truly is.”

You can listen to the flawed logic of Tony Perkins below.

(via Good As You)

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ABC denounces anti-gay “pervert: comments by BACHELOR star Juan Pablo Galavis

ABC released a statement yesterday distancing itself from comments made by Bachelor star Juan Pablo Galavis that gays are “perverted” and therefore a gay-themed version of The Bachelor would not set a “good example” for children.

Said ABC:

“Juan Pablo’s comments were careless, thoughtless and insensitive, and in no way reflect the views of the network, the show’s producers or studio.”

Watch ABC’s report below:

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The Bachelor’s Juan Pablo Galavis “apologizes” to those he MIGHT have offended calling them “perverts”

THE BACHELOR’s Juan Pablo Galavis offers one of those “sorry to those I might have offended” apologies for his VERY offensive statements regarding gay people like “There’s this thing about gay people… it seems to me, and I don’t know if I’m mistaken or not… but they’re more ‘pervert’ in a sense.”

I don’t know HOW that could possibly be taken as offensive. NOT.

I have to say – it’s just after 2pm and the recording of Juan Pablo saying these things surfaced early this morning. He clearly has the worst publicist and management team in the world. They took THIS long to write this?????

Here’s the ‘fauxpology’ from the stand up example of morality – a man who thinks it’s a good example to look for love on a reality show with 20 women in a hot tub:

“I want to apologize to all the people I may have offended because of my comments on having a Gay or Bisexual Bachelor.

“The comment was taken out of context. If you listen to the entire interview, there’s nothing but respect for Gay people and their families.

“I have many gay friends and one of my closest friends who’s like a brother has been a constant in my life especially during the past 5 months. The word pervert was not what I meant to say and I am very sorry about it. Everyone knows English is my second language and my vocabulary is not as broad as it is in Spanish and, because of this, sometimes I use the wrong words to express myself.

“What I meant to say was that gay people are more affectionate and intense and for a segment of the TV audience this would be too racy to accept.

“The show is very racy as it is and I don’t let my 5 year old daughter watch it.

“Once again, I’m sorry for how my words were taken. I would never disrespect anyone.

First of all, I’ll post the recording of his comments again. The comment is not taken out of context. He says what he says. That kind of line is text-book publicist damage control thinking most people won’t hear the original statements. Unfortunately for Galavis his comments were recorded by a reporter.

Second, it’s offensive to me that he begins with “want to apologize to all the people I may have offended.”  May have offended?  Really?  Because some folks aren’t offended when they are called a “pervert?”

And third, defaulting to “I have many gay friends” is even more offensive to me.  Like when bigots would say “some of my best friends are black.”

He said gays are perverts.  Period.  Just own it, apologize and cut it there.

And get better publicists.  They’re slow and not very creative.

UPDATE:  The show’s network, ABC, issued this statement:

“Juan Pablo’s comments were careless, thoughtless and insensitive, and in no way reflect the views of the network, the show’s producers or studio.”

UPDATE II:  The Bachelor star spoke to GLAAD by phone. The gay rights organization quoted Galavis via a statement:

“I have heard from many gay Latinos today who are hurt because of what I said and I apologize.

“I know gay parents and I support them and their families. They are good parents and loving families. I am a father and I know the feel of being a father, why wouldn’t I want my gay friends to also be happy parents?

“I also want gay and lesbian youth to know that it is fine to be who you are. Gay or straight, Black or White, Latin or American, what matters here is to respect who we are.

“I look forward to meeting with gay and lesbian families as well as Monica and Wilson from GLAAD.

“Gay and lesbian people, and the children they are raising, wrongfully face discrimination and I want them to know that I’m on their side.”

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Peter LaBarbera still can’t articulate his anti-gay hate other than he just hates gays

Anti-gay crusader Peter LaBarbera

For no good reason that would add up to any common sense, virulently anti-gay Peter LaBarbera was invited to be a guest on Alan Colmes radio show yesterday.

LaBarbera runs the “Americans for Truth about Homosexuality” which is a classified as a certified hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

While talking with Colmes, LaBarbera stated that children would “be better off in a single-parent household because you’re not modeling homosexual behavior.”

“When you have two men raising a young child, that child grows up learning dysfunction and a sexual perversion as normal. He’s learning a sexual perversion as normality.”

LaBarbera is not a trained sociologist, a child psychologist, or — as far as I know – any other certified or trained professional practitioner of psychiatry, child rearing, or family development, so why in the world anyone would even ask his opinion on the raising of children is a puzzlement.

According to sources, the only “designation” he has earned is a BA in Political Science.  You do the math on that one.

You can listen to the exchange below:

To further underline LaBarbera’s less than informed positions, Right Wing Watch notes that LaBarbera “was left speechless when Colmes asked him to spell out his plan to ban homosexuality.”

LaBarbera repeatedly refused to answer Colmes’ question about what he thinks the punishment for homosexual behavior should be, finally admitting: “I don’t know what the punishment should be.”

“So you want these laws on the books but you don’t know what to do about them?” Colmes asked. “You keep talking about criminalizing sodomy and using the country of Jamaica as a model for that but you’re not telling me how you would enforce it and then what the punishment should be. So you don’t have a well-rounded idea of how to approach the idea of criminalizing it.”

In Jamaica, where LaBarbera campaigned for the preservation of the country’s stringent anti-gay laws, homosexuality is punishable up to ten years in jail.

Listen below as Colmes repeated asks how such anti-gay laws would be enforced and what the punishment would be.  LaBarbera is so caught up in hating the gays, he hasn’t gotten to how he punish them.  I’m guessing he’s of the “arrest first, figure the rest out later” kind of hater:

(via New Civil Rights Movement)

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North Carolina GOP chair Don Yelton resigns after racist comments in Daily Show interview

North Carolina county precinct GOP chair Don Yelton has resigned from his post as a direct result of an interview that ran last night on The Daily Show.
“Yes, he has resigned,” said Nathan West, a spokesman for the Buncombe County Republican Party. According to Business Insider, West said that the party asked for Yelton’s resignation in “direct response to the interview.”
In the interview, Yelton insisted that the voter-ID law is “not racist” before admitting that he has been called a “bigot” in the past. He defended a picture of President Obama “sitting on a stump as a witch doctor” as making fun of the “white half” of the president. And, he said if the law “hurts a bunch of lazy blacks who just want the government to give them everything, so be it.”
When Yelton started throwing around the “n-word” and complaining that only black people are allowed to use it, The Daily Show’s Aasif Mandvi stopped him to ask, “You know that we can hear you, right?”
Ladies and gentlemen, your Republican party unfiltered.
(via Mediaite)
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San Antonio: Homophobic councilwoman Elisa Chan resigns

The San Antonio councilwoman who was secretly recorded spewing anti-gay rhetoric has chosen to resign her seat on the city council:

In a letter to Mayor Julián Castro and council members, Chan said she was proud of San Antonio and “what we have accomplished.” She reflected on her five years on council, saying: “I have done my best to represent the conservative values of these fine people. The people of this district take an active role in deciding policy, giving their input, volunteering their time and listening to the views of their neighbors,” she wrote.

The date was chosen out of an abundance of caution, said Murphy, adding that Chan wanted to make sure there was ample time to pick her successor. She’ll resign before council votes on a proposed rate increase for CPS Energy, scheduled for Nov. 7.

Chan, 47, said she is resigning, per law, to challenge incumbent tea party Republican Donna Campbell to represent Senate District 25.

(source)

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Georgia: Heated debate about marriage equality on “Georgia Gang”


Gov. Nathan Deal appointee calls for culture war in Georgia from Bryan Long on Vimeo.

Gov. Nathan Deal appointed Phil Kent to Georgia’s Immigration Enforcement Review Board.

On June 30 Kent appeared on Fox 5 Atlanta’s The Georgia Gang to talk about the Supreme Court’s decisions on DOMA and Prop 8. You’ll be shocked by what he says about gay rights, what he tells African Americans they should believe and what he calls anyone who believes in equality. And that’s just in three minutes.

What a toad this Phil Kent guy is. Note his condescending tone and attitude.

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Kansas congressman Tim Huelskamp defends plans to amend US Constitution banning same-sex marriage

On Meet the Press Sunday, Rep. Tim Huelskamp defended his plans to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban same-sex marriage, repeating the often-told lie that it would protect children.

David Gregory slapped that down saying “Children tend to prosper in homes where there is a loving marriage. There is really not evidence to suggest that if you are a same-sex couple or a heterosexual couple that it makes one difference one way or the other.”

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