Let’s be totally honest here. The National Organization For Marriage (NOM) hates us. I don’t use the word “hate” lightly. But, as I wrote last week, a just-released Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll found that a large segment of our fellow countrymen, in fact, a majority of Republicans, don’t want us to marry, teach their kids, receive benefits, or serve in the military. What else can you call that? Dislike? Uncomfortableness? No. It’s hate, pure, unadulterated hate. And now it’s entered the public forum surrounding the federal Prop 8 trial.
As it turns out, sixty-five year-old Vaughn Walker, the federal district court judge appointed in 1989 by President George H. W. Bush (41 – GWB’s father) and who was confirmed by the U.S. Senate unanimously, is unqualified — according to Brian Brown of the National Organization for Marriage — because he is gay.
Well, as you know, we gays stick together like peas in a pod. Like white on rice. Like birds of a feather. Like glue. Like… oh, please!
Bottom line is that Brian is throwing out the “gay card.” Because Walker is gay, Brown’s “thinking” goes, he therefore, is biased. If Brown rules against us, and says Prop 8 is constitutional, will Brian still cry “bias” and demand a retrial? Of course not. He’ll come up with some other tactic, some other way to claim “fairness.” Bias, methinks, is in the eye of the beholder.
Referring to a report Sunday in the San Francisco Chronicle, which, of course, as usual, he doesn’t link to, for fear his readers will actually read the truth and stop listening to his lies and hate, Brian writes,
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