I’ll fight for equal rights till I fall. When I do, someone else will pick up the rainbow flag and trudge on. We aren’t going away. Things are better than they were 20 years ago! As we raise our families, we teach them love and not bigoted hate. Our children are tomorrows voters. It might be three steps forward and two steps back but at least we get a step in there. Don’t give up the “faith”. Never drop the rainbow flag. Hurtles put up by bigots are merely hurtles not an ending.
So, on that note… I kissed a girl and I liked it. I’ve followed my heart ever since. I don’t care what you think and won’t succumb to your rules values or standards. I love my life. It’s been a fabulous one.

7to all who are (M)beloved of God in Rome, called as (N)saints: (O)Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. This was written to the Saints, later on in this passage Paul stated that “such where some of you”, so there is freedom from this practice. There were people practicing this in the Church at that time, it is wrong to do these acts, who are we to judge another mans (God’s) servant. This is not a holy act and God does condemn the act, but Love’s the person, Scripture says that Love covers the multitude of sin. Many believe that being cruel to someone just because there sin is not the same as our sin, we will all be accountable for our own choices. But the Love of God is big enough to love the Homosexual back to Him.

As far as what Bush has done is to show decency to the sinners of this world and give them some type of livelihood in the course of financial hardship that looks like mercy to me.

His Mercies are new every morning, even when we judge harshly, the judgement should be on us.

1) Barack Obama was born in Hawaii. That makes him a natural citizen of this country. All the hoopla about how long his mother was in U.S. or not is irrelevent. Anyone born on U.S. soil is a naturalized citizen.

2) Fred Phelps is a democrat who refuses to change his party affiliation because he beleives the party changed. So, while registered as a Democrat, he does not beleive in the party. Point is moot. Besides, he’s a first class nut job.

3) Republicans always fall back on the excuse of “inheritence”. Well, you’ve had 8 years of Republican control and the country has seen NOTHING get better. So now of course, when things begin to get better in 2010, you will take credit for having “set it up”. It’s a load of crap that continues to stink.

4) Dick Chaney was the person who claimed that China was drilling 60 miles from the coast of Florida. It was a couple days later that he corrected himself and apologized for accusing China of doing something that they weren’t. But like parrots, people continue to spread this rumor as truth.

5) Neither Bush Senior or Bush Junior or McCain ever mentioned “gays” in their innauguration and campaining speaches. Both Clinton and Obama have always said the word “gay” and included us as a respected minority within their campains.

6) Barack Obama has THE MOST PRO GAY voting record of any of the Democratic candidates.

7) The Defense of Marriage Act was drafted by then Republican Bob Barr (who now admits it is a poor policy). Some of the worst anti-gay voting records and anti-gay influencers have been issued by closeted gays within the Republican party – Mark Foley, Larry Craig, Bob Allen, Terry Dolan, David Dreier, James Guckert, Ken Mehlman, Armstrong Williams, Ted Haggard… to name but a few. Republicans are NOT an inclusive party, and repeatedly vote against measures that would extend equality to gays. It was the Republican Party that made Gay Marriage a wedge issue to bring out conservative voters in 2004. Bush announced at a Rose Garden press conference that he’d assigned lawyers to come up with a plan to stop gay marriage. It was Republicans that denounced John Kerry for mentioning Cheney’s gay daughter. How dare he? Even though one of her previous positions with Coor’s Brewery was designed specifically for her to be an ambassodor to the gay community, Republicans didn’want to hear about it. And John McCain has spoken publicly that he doesn’t beleive gays should serve in the military, be allowed to adopt children or have the right to marry. This doesn’t sound so inclusive to me. Hiring a gay person, and beleiving they have equal rights is two different issues.

President Elect Obama has chosen his Senior Staff based on putting the best person possible into each position. If this did not include an openly gay or lesbian person, then so be it. No one should be given a position based on their race or their sexual orientation.

These are FACTS, and thus what my ideology is based on. And as a liberal gay man, beleive me, I do not include you when I speak for “my people”.

Geert Wilders,

America as the last man standing ‘In a generation or two,
the US will ask itself: who lost Europe ?’

Here is the speech of Geert Wilders, chairman Party for Freedom, the
Netherlands , at the Four Seasons, New York , introducing an Alliance of
Patriots and announcing the Facing Jihad Conference in Jerusalem .

The speech was sponsored by the Hudson Institute on September 25.

Dear friends, Thank you very much for inviting me. Great to be at the Four
Seasons. I come from a country that has one season only: a rainy season
that starts January 1st and ends December 31st. When we have three sunny
days in a row, the government declares a national emergency. So Four
Seasons, that’s new to me.

It’s great to be in New York . When I see the skyscrapers and office
buildings, I think of what Ayn Rand said: “The sky over New York and the
will of man made visible.” Of course. Without the Dutch you would have been
nowhere, still figuring out how to buy this island from the Indians. But we
are glad we did it for you. And, frankly, you did a far better job than we
possibly could have done.

I come to America with a mission. All is not well in the old world. There
is a tremendous danger looming, and it is very difficult to be optimistic.
We might be in the final stages of the Islamization of Europe . This not
only is a clear and present danger to the future of Europe itself, it is a
threat to America and the sheer survival of the West. The danger I see
looming is the scenario of America as the last man standing. The United
States as the last bastion of Western civilization, facing an Islamic Europe
. In a generation or two, the US will ask itself: who lost Europe ?

Patriots from around Europe risk their lives every day to prevent precisely
this scenario form becoming a reality.

My short lecture consists of 4 parts.

First I will describe the situation on the ground in Europe . Then, I will
say a few things about Islam. Thirdly, if you are still here, I will talk a
little bit about the movie you just saw. To close I will tell you about a
meeting in Jerusalem .

The Europe you know is changing. You have probably seen the landmarks. The
Eiffel Tower and Trafalgar Square and Rome’s ancient buildings and maybe the
canals of Amsterdam . They are still there. And they still look very much
the same as they did a hundred years ago.

But in all of these cities, sometimes a few blocks away from your tourist
destination, there is another world, a world very few visitors see and one
that does not appear in your tourist guidebook. It is the world of the
parallel society created by Muslim mass-migration. All throughout Europe a
new reality is rising: entire Muslim neighborhoods where very few indigenous
people reside or are even seen. And if they are, they might regret it.
This goes for the police as well. It’s the world of head scarves, where
women walk around in figureless tents, with baby strollers and a group of
children. Their husbands, or slaveholders if you prefer, walk three steps
ahead. With mosques on many street corners. The shops have signs you and I
cannot read. You will be hard-pressed to find any economic activity. These
are Muslim ghettos controlled by religious fanatics. These are Muslin
neighborhoods, and they are mushrooming in every city across Europe . These
are the building-blocks for territorial control of increasingly larger
portions of Europe , street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood, city by
city.

There are now thousands of mosques throughout Europe . With larger
congregations than there are in churches.

And in every European city there are plans to build super-mosques that will
dwarf every church in the region.

Clearly, the signal is: we rule.

Many European cities are already one-quarter Muslim: just take Amsterdam ,
Marseille and Malmo in Sweden . In many cities the majority of the under-18
population is Muslim. Paris is now surrounded by a ring of Muslim
neighborhoods. Mohammed is the most popular name among boys in many cities.
In some elementary schools in Amsterdam the farm can no longer be mentioned
because that would also mean mentioning the pig, and that would be an
insult to Muslims. Many state schools in Belgium and Denmark only serve
halal food to all pupils. In once-tolerant Amsterdam gays are beaten up
almost exclusively by Muslims. Non-Muslim women routinely hear “whore,
whore”. Satellite dishes are not pointed to local TV stations, but to
stations in the country of origin. In France school teachers are advised to
avoid authors deemed offensive to Muslims, including Voltaire and Diderot;
the same is increasingly true of Darwin . The history of the Holocaust can
in many cases no longer be taught because of Muslim sensitivity. In England
sharia courts are now officially part of the British legal system. Many
neighborhoods in France are no-go areas for women without head scarves.
Last week a man almost died after being beaten up by Muslims in Brussels,
because he was drinking during the Ramadan. Jews are fleeing France in
record numbers, on the run for the worst wave of anti-Semitism since World
War II. French is now commonly spoken on the streets of Tel Aviv and
Netanya, Israel . I could go on forever with stories like this. Stories
about Islamization.

A total of fifty-four million Muslims now live in Europe . San Diego
University recently calculated that a staggering

25 percent of the population in Europe will be Muslim just 12 years from now
Bernhard Lewis has predicted a Muslim majority by the end of this century.

Now these are just numbers. And the numbers would not be threatening if the
Muslim-immigrants had a strong desire to assimilate. But there are few
signs of that. The Pew Research Center reported that half of French Muslims
see their loyalty to Islam as greater than their loyalty to France .
One-third of French Muslims do not object to suicide attacks. The British
Centre for Social Cohesion reported that one-third of British Muslim
students are in favor of a worldwide caliphate. A Dutch study reported that
half of Dutch Muslims admit they “understand” the 9/11 attacks.

Muslims demand what they call ‘respect’. And this is how we give them
respect. Our elites are willing to give in.

To give up. In my own country we have gone from calls by one cabinet member
to turn Muslim holidays into official state holidays, to statements by
another cabinet member, that Islam is part of Dutch culture, to an
affirmation by the Christian-Democratic attorney general that he is willing
to accept sharia in the Netherlands if there is a Muslim majority. We have
cabinet members with passports from Morocco and Turkey .

Muslim demands are supported by unlawful behavior, ranging from petty crimes
and random violence, for example against ambulance workers and bus drivers,
to small-scale riots. Paris has seen its uprising in the low-income suburbs
the banlieus. Some prefer to see these as isolated incidents, but I call
it a Muslim intifada. I call the perpetrators “settlers”. Because that is
what they are. They do not come to integrate into our societies, they come
to integrate our society into their Dar-al-Islam. Therefore, they are
settlers.

Much of this street violence I mentioned is directed exclusively against
non-Muslims, forcing many native people to leave their neighborhoods, their
cities, their countries.

Politicians shy away from taking a stand against this creeping sharia. They
believe in the equality of all cultures.

Moreover, on a mundane level, Muslims are now a swing vote not to be ignored

Our many problems with Islam cannot be explained by poverty, repression or
the European colonial past, as the Left claims. Nor does it have anything
to do with Palestinians or American troops in Iraq . The problem is Islam
itself.

Allow me to give you a brief Islam 101. The first thing you need to know
about Islam is the importance of the book of the Quran. The Quran is Allah
s personal word, revealed by an angel to Mohammed, the prophet. This is
where the trouble starts. Every word in the Quran is Allah’s word and
therefore not open to discussion or interpretation. It is valid for every
Muslim and for all times. Therefore, there is no such a thing as moderate
Islam. Sure, there are a lot of moderate Muslims. But a moderate Islam is
non-existent.

The Quran calls for hatred, violence, submission, murder, and terrorism.
The Quran calls for Muslims to kill non-Muslims, to terrorize non-Muslims
and to fulfill their duty to wage war: violent jihad. Jihad is a duty for
every Muslim, Islam is to rule the world by the sword. The Quran is clearly
anti-Semitic, describing Jews as monkeys and pigs.

The second thing you need to know is the importance of Mohammed the prophet.
His behavior is an example to all Muslims and cannot be criticized. Now,
if Mohammed had been a man of peace, let us say like Ghandi and Mother
Theresa wrapped in one, there would be no problem. But Mohammed was a
warlord, a mass murderer, a pedophile, and had several marriages at the same
time. Islamic tradition tells us how he fought in battles, how he had his
enemies murdered and even had prisoners of war executed. Mohammed himself
slaughtered the Jewish tribe of Banu Qurayza. He advised on matters of
slavery, but never advised to liberate slaves. Islam has no other morality
than the advancement of Islam. If it is good for Islam, it is good. If it
is bad for Islam, it is bad. There is no gray area or other side.

Quran as Allah’s own word and Mohammed as the perfect man are the two most
important facets of Islam. Let no one fool you about Islam being a religion
Sure, it has a god, and a here-after, and 72 virgins. But in its essence
Islam is a political ideology. It is a system that lays down detailed rules
for society and the life of every person.

Islam wants to dictate every aspect of life. Islam means ’submission’.
Islam is not compatible with freedom and democracy, because what it strives
for is sharia. If you want to compare Islam to anything, compare it to
communism or national-socialism, these are all totalitarian ideologies.

This is what you need to know about Islam, in order to understand what is
going on in Europe . For millions of Muslims the Quran and the life of
Mohammed are not 14 centuries old, but are an everyday reality, an ideal,
that guide every aspect of their lives. Now you know why Winston Churchill
called Islam “the most retrograde force in the world”, and why he compared
Mein Kampf to the Quran. Which brings me to my movie, Fitna.

I am a lawmaker, and not a movie maker. But I felt I had the moral duty to
educate about Islam. The duty to make clear that the Quran stands at the
heart of what some people call terrorism but is in reality jihad. I wanted
to show that the problems of Islam are at the core of Islam, and do not
belong to its fringes.

Now, from the day the plan for my movie was made public, it caused quite a
stir, in the Netherlands and throughout Europe . First, there was a
political storm, with government leaders, across the continent in sheer
panic. The Netherlands was put under a heightened terror alert, because of
possible attacks or a revolt by our Muslim population. The Dutch branch of
the Islamic organization Hizb ut-Tahrir declared that the Netherlands was
due for an attack. Internationally, there was a series of incidents. The
Taliban threatened to organize additional attacks against Dutch troops in
Afghanistan, and a website linked to Al Qaeda published the message that I
ought to be killed, while various muftis in the Middle East stated that I
would be responsible for all the bloodshed after the screening of the movie.
In Afghanistan and Pakistan the Dutch flag was burned on several occasions.
Dolls representing me were also burned. The Indonesian President announced
that I will never be admitted into Indonesia again, while the UN Secretary
General and the European Union issued cowardly statements in the same vein
as those made by the Dutch Government. I could go on and on. It was an
absolute disgrace, a sell-out.

A plethora of legal troubles also followed, and have not ended yet.
Currently the state of Jordan is litigating against me. Only last week
there were renewed security agency reports about a heightened terror alert
for the Netherlands because of Fitna.

Now, I would like to say a few things about Israel . Because, very soon, we
will get together in its capital. The best way for a politician in Europe
to lose votes is to say something positive about Israel . The public has
wholeheartedly accepted the Palestinian narrative, and sees Israel as the
aggressor. I, however, will continue to speak up for Israel . I see
defending Israel as a matter of principle. I have lived in this country and
visited it dozens of times. I support Israel . First, because it is the
Jewish homeland after two thousand years of exile up to and including
Auschwitz, second because it is a democracy, and third because Israel is our
first line of defense.

Samuel Huntington writes it so aptly: “Islam has bloody borders”. Israel is
located precisely on that border. This tiny country is situated on the
fault line of jihad, frustrating Islam’s territorial advance. Israel is
facing the front lines of jihad, like Kashmir, Kosovo, the Philippines,
Southern Thailand, Darfur in Sudan, Lebanon, and Aceh in Indonesia . Israel
is simply in the way. The same way West-Berlin was during the Cold War.

The war against Israel is not a war against Israel . It is a war against
the West. It is jihad. Israel is simply receiving the blows that are meant
for all of us. If there would have been no Israel, Islamic imperialism
would have found other venues to release its energy and its desire for
conquest. Thanks to Israeli parents who send their children to the army and
lay awake at night, parents in Europe and America can sleep well and dream,
unaware of the dangers looming.

Many in Europe argue in favor of abandoning Israel in order to address the
grievances of our Muslim minorities. But if Israel were, God forbid, to go
down, it would not bring any solace to the West. It would not mean our
Muslim minorities would all of a sudden change their behavior, and accept
our values. On the contrary, the end of Israel would give enormous
encouragement to the forces of Islam. They would, and rightly so, see the
demise of Israel as proof that the West is weak, and doomed. The end of
Israel would not mean the end of our problems with Islam, but only the
beginning. It would mean the start of the final battle for world domination
If they can get Israel , they can get everything. Therefore, it is not
that the West has a stake in Israel . It is Israel. It is very difficult
to be an optimist in the face of the growing Islamization of Europe . All
the tides are against us.

On all fronts we are losing. Demographically the momentum is with Islam.
Muslim immigration is even a source of pride within ruling liberal parties.
Academia, the arts, the media, trade unions, the churches, the business
world, the entire political establishment have all converted to the suicidal
theory of multiculturalism. So-called journalists volunteer to label any
and all critics of Islamization as a ‘right-wing extremists’ or ‘racists’.
The entire establishment has sided with our enemy. Leftists, liberals and
Christian-Democrats are now all in bed with Islam.

This is the most painful thing to see: the betrayal by our elites. At this
moment in Europe’s history, our elites are supposed to lead us. To stand up
for centuries of civilization. To defend our heritage. To honor our
eternal Judeo-Christian values that made Europe what it is today. But there
are very few signs of hope to be seen at the governmental level. Sarkozy,
Merkel, Brown, Berlusconi; in private, they probably know how grave the
situation is. But when the little red light goes on, they stare into the
camera and tell us that Islam is a religion of peace, and we should all try
to get along nicely and sing Kumbaya. They willingly participate in, what
President Reagan so aptly called: “the betrayal of our past, the squandering
of our freedom.” If there is hope in Europe , it comes from the people, not
from the elites. Change can only come from a grass-roots level. It has to
come from the citizens themselves. Yet these patriots will have to take on
the entire political, legal and media establishment.

Over the past years there have been some small, but encouraging, signs of a
rebirth of the original European spirit. Maybe the elites turn their backs
on freedom, the public does not. In my country, the Netherlands , 60
percent of the population now sees the mass immigration of Muslims as the
number one policy mistake since World War II. And another 60 percent sees
Islam as the biggest threat to our national identity. I don’t think the
public opinion in Holland is very different from other European countries.

Patriotic parties that oppose jihad are growing, against all odds. My own
party debuted two years ago, with five percent of the vote. Now it stands
at ten percent in the polls. The same is true of all military-minded
parties in Europe . They are fighting the liberal establishment, and are
gaining footholds on the political arena, one voter at the time.

Now, for the first time, these patriotic parties will come together and
exchange experiences. It may be the start of something big. Something that
might change the map of Europe for decades to come. It might also be Europe’s
last chance.

This December a conference will take place in Jerusalem . Thanks to
Professor Aryeh Eldad, a member of Knesset, we will be able to watch Fitna
in the Knesset building and discuss the jihad. We are organizing this event
in Israel to emphasize the fact that we are all in the same boat together,
and that Israel is part of our common heritage. Those attending will be a
select audience. No racist organizations will be allowed. And we will only
admit parties that are solidly democratic. This conference will be the start
of an Alliance of European patriots. This Alliance will serve as the
backbone for all organizations and political parties that oppose jihad and
Islamization. For this Alliance I seek your support.

This endeavor may be crucial to America and to the West. America may hold
fast to the dream that, thanks to its location, it is safe from jihad and
shaira. But seven years ago to the day, there was still smoke rising from
ground zero, following the attacks that forever shattered that dream. Yet
there is a danger even greater danger than terrorist attacks, the scenario
of America as the last man standing. The lights may go out in Europe faster
than you can imagine. An Islamic Europe means a Europe without freedom and
democracy, an economic wasteland, an intellectual nightmare, and a loss of
military might for America – as its allies will turn into enemies, enemies
with atomic bombs. With an Islamic Europe, it would be up to America alone
to preserve the heritage of Rome , Athens and Jerusalem .

Dear friends, liberty is the most precious of gifts. My generation never
had to fight for this freedom, it was offered to us on a silver platter, by
people who fought for it with their lives. All throughout Europe American
cemeteries remind us of the young boys who never made it home, and whose
memory we cherish. My generation does not own this freedom; we are merely
its custodians. We can only hand over this hard won liberty to Europe ’s
children in the same state in which it was offered to us. We cannot strike
a deal with mullahs and imams. Future generations would never forgive us.
We cannot squander our liberties. We simply do not have the right to do so.

This is not the first time our civilization is under threat. We have seen
dangers before. We have been betrayed by our elites before. They have
sided with our enemies before. And yet, then, freedom prevailed. These are
not times in which to take lessons from appeasement, capitulation, giving
away, giving up or giving in. These are not times in which to draw lessons
from Mr. Chamberlain. These are times calling us to draw lessons from Mr.
Churchill and the words he spoke in 1942:

“Never give in, never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large
or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of
the enemy.

I don’t beleive that most liberals “hate Christianity”. But like most neo-Christians, you beleive that becuase we don’t share your enthusiasm for a deity that we think is a fairy tale, that we hate Christianity. Far from it. If it works for you … keep on keeping on.

What we liberals DO hate, is fundamentalists trying to shove their choice of diety down our throats. Your exact words, for example, “Conservatives are happy with Obama’s latest choices and his mission to introduce Muslims to a Christian way.” Who says that Muslims WANT to be introduced to Christianity? Do you, Steve, want to be introduced to the Muslim faith? If you beleive in Christianity, then beleive, but keep the rest of us out of it.

And none of us proud irreligious liberals voted for Obama due to any notions of Communism. We voted for him because we saw his ability to actually “lead” this country, rather then just wanting the title of President and not knowing how to do the job. We saw Obama as someone who could meet with Vladamir Putin and actually accomplish negotiations….not just gaze into his eyes and “read his heart” as Bush did.

You say, “no conservative ever wanted gays to be discriminated against.” Do you even live in the USA? What reality are you on? Try researching these conservative organizations and get back to me on their equality values for gays and lesbians:
Family and Faith Network
American Family Association
Focus on the Family
Catholic Church
Southern Baptist Churches
Exodus International

The list is endless.

Oh, and in closing….I’ll take Barney Frank over your conservative, self hating, closeted Larry Craig and Lindsey Graham ANYDAY.

“bselz
Comment posted December 30, 2008 @ 12:10 pm
Ha, Ha. This is too funny.
To my fellow Americans who are of the Fundamentalist persuasion, you must be so proud that you helped elect this guy — twice! Well, that is if you still have a home, job or health care.”

Are you absolutely kidding me? You see, people like this are so politically nuts that they will remind everyone that Bush was elected because of fundamentalism but won’t admit that it is members of his/her own party when it comes to homopobia or racism. Liberals who voted for Kerry in 2004 voted Pro-FMA, liberals in California voted for Barack and voted pro-prop 8.

Now all the liberals who voted for Prop. 8 want to attack churches now. Any excuse they can make to hate Christianity while their own Presidential elect is now inviting Christian pastors like Rick Warren to his inaugurations and is using his Christianity and middle name of “Hussein” to reach out as a Christian to Muslim countries just as Christ did with the Jews many years ago.

To think, whacked out and crazed hater-filled irreligious liberals voted for this guy believing his promises of communism. Now that he’s coming around and even sent William Ayers packing over to the liberal-writing Huffington Post where he belongs, suddenly they’re beginning to hate him.

Let this be an example. We conservatives always supported Bush and no conservative ever wanted gays to be discriminated against. I’m gay and I am sick of irreligious haters from the left so emtpy and dark in their own lives purposely use my community and the blacks as a reason to vote for idiots like Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi.

Conservatives are happy with Obama’s latest choices and his mission to introduce Muslims to a Christian way.

Liberals are the ones foaming at the mouth, so the joke is on all of you.

Thanks!