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Playwright David Mamet (screen capture)Pulitzer Prize winning playwright/author David Mamet appeared on Fox News’ Life, Liberty & Levin on Sunday where he told host Mark Levin that teachers are “sexual predators” who are “inclined” to pedophilia. Continue reading “David Mamet: ‘Teachers Are Inclined…To Pedophilia’”
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| Wyoming state Sen. Lynn Hutchings |
Wyoming Equality shares this disturbing encounter high school students had with state Sen. Lynn Hutchings.
On Friday, February 1st, Wyoming Equality, the state’s only statewide LGBTQ civil rights organization, hosted its bi-annual Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) Civics Day where students from GSA clubs across Wyoming are invited to learn about state government and civic engagement.
Students from Central High School, accompanied by their club sponsor and high school teacher, went to visit their representative for their district, Senator Lynn Hutchings.
The students wanted to discuss HB 230, Enhancing Quality Employment Law, and express their support for the bill.
The legislation would prohibit “discriminatory practices based on sexual orientation or gender identity in employment practices.”
Meeting with the children in the gallery of the state legislature, Hutchings said she was unfamiliar with the bill’s language so the students shared that they wanted her support because the bill would protect the students from workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Hutchings’s response, per Wyoming Equality, was to compare being gay or lesbian with bestiality and pedophilia:
“If my sexual orientation was to have sex with all of the men in there and I had sex with all of the women in there and then they brought their children and I had sex with all of them and then brought their dogs in and I had sex with them, should I be protected for my sexual orientation?”
Wyoming Equality issued this statement regarding Hutching’s behavior with the high school students calling her language “unacceptable and inexcusable”:
It is our understanding that while the state legislature’s anti-harassment policy mentions no protected classes, including sexual orientation and gender identity, Senator Hutchings behavior was unacceptable and inexcusable. Fourteen- and fifteen-year old high school students wishing to engage with the legislative process should not have been confronted with the comments made by Senator Hutchings. Those students, some of which identify as LGBTQ, were deeply hurt and disturbed that they were compared to acts of beastiality and pedophilia. The students’ sentiment was exacerbated especially after Senator Hutchings hypothetically recounted the idea of sexually engaging with children then physically engaged with the students.
At Wyoming Equality, we are horrified. On GSA Civics Day, we expect students to be challenged and engage in lively civic dialogue. This is not what transpired. As guaranteed by the First Amendment, Senator Hutchings may express her beliefs and views however she wishes, but her behavior is not what we expect of adults in the workplace, and we expect even more from a Wyoming elected official. The students spoke with several legislators that day. For the exception of the incident with Senator Hutchings, the students said all their interactions with legislators were civil and respectful no matter where the legislators stood on bills and issues.
The mayor of Cheyenne denounced Hutchings behavior:
Shame on you, Sen Hutchings. We deserve better. Our youth deserve better. Bestiality is equivalent to being gay? Really? https://t.co/eb7euuPnOl— Mayor Marian Orr (@gofishwyo) February 9, 2019
Randy Rainbow serves up some Roy Moore parody on the eve of the alleged child molester’s election night.
And the tune choice?
Perfection – a parody of the Sound of Music classic, “You Are Sixteen Going On Seventeen.”
You get the drift…
Hit the play button for the fun.
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| Roy Moore |
Four women have come forward accusing Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore of inappropriate sexual advances to each of them when they were teens.
From the Washington Post:
Leigh Corfman says she was 14 years old when an older man approached her outside a courtroom in Etowah County, Ala. She was sitting on a wooden bench with her mother, they both recall, when the man introduced himself as Roy Moore.
It was early 1979 and Moore — now the Republican nominee in Alabama for a U.S. Senate seat — was a 32-year-old assistant district attorney. He struck up a conversation, Corfman and her mother say, and offered to watch the girl while her mother went inside for a child custody hearing.
“He said, ‘Oh, you don’t want her to go in there and hear all that. I’ll stay out here with her,’ ” says Corfman’s mother, Nancy Wells, 71. “I thought, how nice for him to want to take care of my little girl.”
Alone with Corfman, Moore chatted with her and asked for her phone number, she says. Days later, she says, he picked her up around the corner from her house in Gadsden, drove her about 30 minutes to his home in the woods, told her how pretty she was and kissed her. On a second visit, she says, he took off her shirt and pants and removed his clothes. He touched her over her bra and underpants, she says, and guided her hand to touch him over his underwear.
“I wanted it over with — I wanted out,” she remembers thinking. “Please just get this over with. Whatever this is, just get it over.” Corfman says she asked Moore to take her home, and he did.
There’s much more at the link.
Moore denies all of the allegations.
After Donald Trump won the presidency despite being heard to say “Grab’em by the pussy” on video, I have no doubt the voters of Alabama will not care if this story is true or not.
Roy Moore accused of pedophilia by multiple women.
His opponent prosecuted the white supremacists who killed 4 little girls in the Birmingham church bombings.
Ordinarily, a civil rights hero is more electable than a molester.
But we’re talking about Alabama.— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) November 9, 2017
Are you trying to tell me that the alt right loving homophobic, disgraced bigoted shit bag Roy Moore is a pedophile?! #GTFO— Danny Zuker (@DannyZuker) November 9, 2017
Sen. Mitch McConnell statement on Roy Moore allegations: “If these allegations are true, he must step aside.”— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) November 9, 2017
Alaska senator Lisa Murkowski in the Post’s Roy Moore bombshell story: “I’m horrified and if this is true he needs to step down immediately.”— Paul McLeod (@pdmcleod) November 9, 2017
Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala) on Roy Moore revelation: “If that’s true, then he wouldn’t belong in the Senate.”— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) November 9, 2017
The big news in LGBT political circles today are two videos featuring loathsome Milo Yiannopolous seeming to defend or give a pass to pedophilia.
Additionally, it appears he admits to being sexually molested as a young teen himself.
The Blaze reports:
Sunday morning, less than one day after the controversial announcement about the CPAC speaker lineup, video surfaced of Milo Yiannopoulos allegedly defending pedophilia in the past.
“We get hung up on this sort of child abuse stuff,” Yiannopoulos is heard saying in a video, acknowledging that he has a controversial point of view, “to the point where we are heavily policing consensual adults.”
“In the homosexual world, particularly, some of those relationships between younger boys and older men — the sort of ‘coming of age’ relationship — those relationships in which those older men help those young boys discover who they are and give them security and safety and provide them with love and a reliable, sort of rock, where they can’t speak to their parents,” he added.
“It sounds like molestation to me,” an unnamed person tells Yiannopoulos in reply, likely an interviewer. “It sounds like Catholic priest molestation to me.”
“But you know what? I’m grateful for Father Michael. I wouldn’t give nearly such good head if it wasn’t for him,” Yiannopoulos replied, using a euphemism for male oral sex.
Yiannopoulos has since shared two posts on Facebook defending his language. Here’s the first:
There’s a video going around that purports to show me saying anti-semitic things (nope) and advocating for pedophilia (big nope). The shocking thing? It’s Republicans doing it. Sad to see establishment types collapse into the same tactics as social justice warriors: name calling, deceptively edited videos, confected moral outrage and public shaming. This is why they deserve to burn — and why they are burning. Here’s how I actually feel about pedophilia, which you’d know if you’d actually watched or read anything I’ve ever done. Or, you know, if you had two brain cells to rub together. There’s only one appropriate response to this sort of behavior, and it’s a gigantic FUCK YOU!
And his second Facebook post was much longer, which read, in part:
I have never defended and would never defend child abusers, as my reporting history shows. The world is messy and complicated, and I recognize it as such, as this furore demonstrates. But that is a red line for any decent person.
The videos do not show what people say they show. I *did* joke about giving better head as a result of clerical sexual abuse committed against me when I was a teen. If I choose to deal in an edgy way on an internet livestream with a crime I was the victim of that’s my prerogative. It’s no different to gallows humor from AIDS sufferers.
National Review, whose journalists are tweeting about this, published an article defending Salon for giving a pedophile a platform.
I did say that there are relationships between younger men and older men that can help a young gay man escape from a lack of support or understanding at home. That’s perfectly true and every gay man knows it. But I was not talking about anything illegal and I was not referring to pre-pubescent boys.
I said in the same “Drunken Peasants” podcast from which the footage is taken that I agree with the current age of consent.
I shouldn’t have used the word “boy” when I talked about those relationships between older men and younger gay men. (I was talking about my own relationship when I was 17 with a man who was 29. The age of consent in the UK is 16.) That was a mistake. Gay men often use the word “boy” when they refer to consenting adults. I understand that heterosexual people might not know that, so it was a sloppy choice of words that I regret.
This rush to judgment from establishment conservatives who hate Trump as much as they hate me, before I have had any chance to provide context or a response, is one of the big reasons gays vote Democrat.
Many in the conservative world are already calling for Milo to be booted as the keynote speaker of CPAC this week.
Here’s two of the videos folks are talking about. One clip seems to be from a January 2016 episode of the “Drunken Peasants” podcast.
Here is a longer cut where Milo Yiannopoulos says that he “is advocating” for legal sex between 13 year olds! & older men. #CPAC2017 pic.twitter.com/1fiuv7TSKs— The Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) February 19, 2017
In this clip, Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty at the Sportsmen’s Ministry in Georgia in 2009:
“Now that’s a woman. They got to where they’re hard to find. Mainly because these boys are waiting til they’re twenty years old before they marry them.
“Look, you wait til they get to be twenty years old and the the only picking that’s going to take place is your pocket.
“You got to marry these girls when they’re about fifteen or sixteen and they’ll pick your ducks.”
Now, if an adult male were to “date” a 15 year old boy, he would be attacked as a pedophile.
You have to wonder about how those same “moralists” will react to Phil Robertson advising men to find wives who are 15 years old…?