Apple knowingly disseminates hate propaganda



Anti-gay organization Exodus International's iPhone app

 Apple is openly and knowingly promoting hate propaganda. How does that make you feel about the Apple brand?

University of Minnesota researcher Dr. Gary Remafedi wrote a letter today asking Apple founder Steve Jobs and interim CEO Tim Cook to remove a controversial “ex-gay” app from its online store. The scientist claimed that Exodus International distorted his work in an effort to misrepresent homosexuality and confuse the app’s users.
When one clicks the Exodus app, it directs the viewer to a webpage that answers questions about homosexuality. One of the question sequences is, “If people are same-sex attracted but don’t ever act on it, does that make them homosexual? What if they do engage in same-sex physical intimacy? Are they homosexual then?”
In answering these questions, Exodus twists the findings of Dr. Remafedi to make it appear as if homosexuality is just a transitory phase in youth.

“Exodus depends on distorting the work of legitimate researchers and using junk science to trick its vulnerable clients into believing they can go from gay to straight,” said Wayne Besen, Executive Director for Truth Wins Out. “Apple should not aid and abet the spread of deliberate scientific misinformation, nor should they create a pernicious platform for anti-gay lies.”

Dr. Gary Remafedi sent the following letter to Steve Jobs and Tim Cook this morning:

Dear Messrs. Jobs and Cook,
This message serves as a request to remove the Exodus International application from Apple’s iphone offerings because the website content is objectionable. It erroneously cites my research (Remafedi 1992) in support of claims that homosexuality can be changed.
Various professional organizations, including the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics, have taken the position that homosexuality is not a mental or physical condition. Programs which aim to change sexual orientation have been opposed because they are unwarranted, ineffective, unethical, and harmful.
Exodus’s website features an article (Buchanan 2010) which makes erroneous statements and conclusions and attributes them to Remafedi (1992). Statements were made to the effect to that many teens are confused about their sexual orientation and that sexual orientation is amenable to change.  Further, associating my work with that of the ex-gay ministry and other unfounded treatments is professionally injurious and grievous.
As a savvy consumer, I understand that corporations market phones both by offering a wide array of applications and by appealing to niche audiences like Exodus’s. In turn, Exodus applies the Apple “4+” smartphone application rating to its own website as an imprimatur (see http://exodusinternational.org/).
From my perspective, the risk of offending and harming consumers by providing a platform for erroneous information about an important health and social topic far outweighs the potential financial gain. Arguably, corporations have no affirmative responsibility to vendors under the First Amendment of the Constitution, but they are accountable for the quality and consequences of their products.
For the aforementioned reasons, I ask Apple to revoke the 4+ rating and delete the Exodus application from the iphone’s menu of applications.
Respectfully,
Gary Remafedi, M.D., M.P.H

I'm working on an app of my own that helps people escape the grip of Christianity. I'm sure with this precedent, Apple will have no problem publishing my app.

Truth Wins Out - Breaking News: Scientist Calls On Apple to Remove ‘Ex-Gay’ app That Distorts His Research

The cost of slamming a gay man head-first into a wall, nearly killing him, because he asked why he was being arrested for no reason: $400,000

City officials are recommending that $400,000 be paid to the man who suffered a head injury during a controversial inspection at the Rainbow Lounge gay bar almost two years ago.
The amount, if approved Tuesday by the City Council, would settle Chad Gibson's claim for damages against the city. Gibson says excessive force was used against him during his arrest at the south Fort Worth bar on June 28, 2009.
Don Tittle, the civil attorney for Gibson and Armstrong, said all parties have worked together for months to reach a resolution without a lawsuit.
"Everybody worked toward a resolution that was fair," Tittle said. "I thought that the city, at least in this regard, they recognized that there was significant legal exposure. I think there was also just an element where they felt like it was, on some level, just the right thing to do."
Tittle said Gibson is still seeking treatment for injuries.
"He had some significant injuries and is still getting treated and will be for quite some time," Tittle said.
"Approval of this settlement should not be construed as an admission of liability by the City of Fort Worth, any liability in this matter being, in fact, expressly denied," the document states. "This settlement is entered into only to avoid time-consuming and costly litigation."
The controversial inspection by Fort Worth police and Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission agents sparked protests and allegations of police brutality.
But investigations by police and the commission concluded that no excessive force was used. An agent had said that Gibson fell and hit his head while handcuffed and vomiting outside the club.
Still, the commission fired two agents who participated in the inspection and their supervisor, citing policy violations, and Fort Worth Police Chief Jeff Halstead gave three officers one- to three-day suspensions.
Last year, city officials dropped misdemeanor charges of public intoxication against Gibson, Armstrong and two other arrested patrons. A misdemeanor charge alleging that Gibson had assaulted a commission agent was also dismissed.
Carolyn Beck, a commission spokeswoman, confirmed Friday that the state agency is also discussing settlements with Gibson and Armstrong.
Since the incident, Fort Worth police have created a department liaison to the city's gay community and added sensitivity training.

Fort Worth officials recommend paying $400,000 to man hurt in arrest at gay bar Fort Wor...

70-year-old gay man stoned to death per Biblical admonition

John Joe Thomas, self-appointed Wrath of God

A 28 year-old Philadelphia-area man admitted he stoned to death a 70 year-old man because the Bible says to stone homosexuals. John Joe Thomas reportedly killed Murray Joseph Seidman, whom he knew, and told police, “I stoned Murray with a rock in a sock,” because he had read in the Bible that gays should be stoned.

Think about this. Gays are being stoned to death in 21st century America. Actually, we don’t even know if the man who was stoned was gay, but his murderer thought he was.

Apparently he skipped the part that says "Thou shalt not kill." But while Thomas was putting people to death for violating Old Testament laws, I wonder why he didn't also stone people who work on the sabbath--the Buy-bull says that, too. It also prohibits cutting your hair at the temples or shaving your beard--yet clean-shaven Thomas, who was willing to kill a man because the Buy-bull told him so, was curiously unwilling to adhere to a much simpler and more humane Biblical directive. Gee, could it possibly be the case that his actions were motivated by his own personal hatred, and not his religious devotion?

70 Year-Old Stoned To Death Because The Bible Says To Stone Gays The New Civil Rights Movement

SNL reject Victoria Jackson was "sickened" by Glee kiss

Either SNL has-been Victoria Jackson, or a pig wearing lipstick. Unclear.

Former Saturday Night Live cast member Victoria Jackson wrote in an op-ed piece about a same-sex kiss on the television show Glee: "Did you see Glee this week? Sickening! And, besides shoving the gay thing down our throats, they made a mockery of Christians – again! I wonder what their agenda is? Hey, producers of Glee – what's your agenda? One-way tolerance?"

Victoria who? A washed-up never-was is judging one of the best-rated shows on television today? I've had to endure literally millions of images of heterosexuality forced upon me by television and other mainstream media, and this peroxide cow has her panties in a twist over seeing one same-sex kiss? Vicki, dig around under your couch cushions among the discarded chicken bones and Twinkie wrappers until you find the remote. If you don't like what you see, change the fucking channel. Why the fuck is a trailer-trash homophobic hippopotamus watching Glee in the first place--was there no NASCAR coverage that night?

Former SNL Star Sickened By Glee Kiss News The Advocate

Dan Savage wonders why Sarah Palin hasn't made an It Gets Better video yet

Dan Savage, columnist and founder of the It Gets Better campaign

Time: "Who hasn't made a video yet who you hope will?"
Savage: "Rick Santorum. Tim Pawlenty. Sarah Palin. Glenn Beck. The Prime Minister of Britain, who leads the Conservative Party there, made a video, and we haven't seen one from anyone on the right in the U.S. to even say, You're 14 and gay. Don't kill yourself."

Dan Savage has a damn good point: Why won't Beck, Palin, Santorum, Bachmann, Gingrich, or any of their right-wingnut colleagues come forward to do an It Gets Better video? Do they think it's a good thing that gay teenagers are killing themselves?

10 Questions for Dan Savage - TIME

Maggie Gallagher: Gay-hating Christians are the real victims

Maggot Alligator, professional hatemonger

National Organization for Marriage spokesdouche Maggie Gallagher whines that Christians are being discriminated against when they are prevented from discriminating against gays. You can't make this shit up.

In Great Britain, Christians are now effectively second-class citizens, judged "unfit" to care for foster children. If they are unfit to foster children, logically they are also unfit to adopt, and possibly as one British lawyer suggested to the press, unfit to parent their own children, too.
Could it happen over here?
Yes. We see the first steps of the muscular liberalism process at work already in the state of Illinois, in its probe of evangelical, Lutheran and Catholic foster-care agencies for discrimination against gay couples in foster care. For the ACLU and the gay rights community, suddenly the right to live as we choose isn't good enough. Any foster-care agency that does not place children with gay couples now must be discriminated against by the government in the name of anti-discrimination.

Hey, Maggot: The fucking Queen of England is also head of the Anglican Church. There's certainly no ploy there, or here, to silence or demonize any Christians. Attacking, dehumanizing, and marginalizing people and trying to strip them of their civil rights is what you and your organization do. The mere fact that some people would try to hinder you from doing that does not make you the victim of discrimination. It confirms you as the perpetrator. Neither your civil liberties nor your religious liberties entitle you restrict those same liberties from other people.

THE LAUNCH OF 'MUSCULAR LIBERALISM' - Yahoo! News

NAACP Leader is unclear on the meaning of "civil" and "rights"

Rev. Keith Ratliff Sr., self-appointed civil-rights gatekeeper

A leader of the NAACP has come out attacking gays, and he is demanding the “gay community stop hijacking the civil rights movement.” Rev. Keith Ratliff Sr., president of the Iowa-Nebraska chapter of the NAACP, spoke at a marriage rally in Des Moines on Tuesday, adding, “Deviant behavior is not the same as being denied your right to vote,” and calling any parallel between the African-American civil rights movement and the gay civil rights movement an “insult.”
Ratliff, according to reports, also condemned any idea that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., would have supported gay rights or civil same-sex marriage.
This is not Ratliff’s first attack on the LGBT community, and it directly counters his leadership role at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), whose mission clearly states, “is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination.”
Ratliff’s anti-gay actions also go directly against the teachings of the NACCP’s president, and Chairman, Benjamin Jealous, and Jealous’ predecessor, Julian Bond. Additionally, Dr. King’s right-hand man, Bayard Rustin, who planned the historic march on Washington, was openly-gay.

Ratliff is quoted as saying, ”We believe the homosexual lifestyle is wrong,” and in an infamous op-ed wrote that “everything about homosexuality conflicts with natural law,” and added, “homosexuality will always be un-natural and un-healthy.”

Ratliff may want to rethink that "natural law" argument--at one time, slavery proponents argued that black people's natural place was to be owned and controlled by the "superior" white race.
NAACP Leader: ‘Gay Community Stop Hijacking The Civil Rights Movement’ The New Civil Rights Movement

Minnesota Rethuglicans want to make it illegal for people on public assistance to have money in their pockets

Republicans in Minnesota are pushing a bill which would make it a crime for people on public assistance to have more $20 in cash in their pockets on any given month.

Previously, their proposal was to ban them for having any money at all.  It’s baffling as to how they can get public assistance and have no money — also problematic is the mentality of those trying to pass this bill. So much for those ‘common sense values’.

Why stop there? Make it illegal for them to wear anything but a barrel. How dare the poor on public assistance have money for clothes?

FreakOutNation » GOPers Trying To Pass Bill Making It Illgegal For The Poor To Have $20

Ann Coulter says radiation is good for you

Nuclear physicist and medical expert Ann Coulter has spoken, and it turns out that a giant radioactive plume floating across the Pacific may be just what the doctor ordered for fretting California residents. On tonight’s O’Reilly Factor, Coulter told host Bill O’Reilly that “radiation is good for you,” and cited a number of articles in the New York Times showing radiation has a positive effect on cancer patients. Then, of course, she blamed “the media” for not covering it.

By Ann's logic, getting stabbed in the chest is actually good for you because knives are used in surgery. But if she wants to test her hypothesis on herself, I certainly wouldn't stand in her way.

Ann Coulter - Bill O'Reilly - Radiation Is Good For You Mediaite

Catholic Church leaders: Fuck the March of Dimes--and UNICEF, too.

Bishop Samuel Aquila, self-righteous asshat

The two Roman Catholic bishops in North Dakota issued guidelines last week naming several well-known, and in some cases, church-related, organizations they say Catholics should not support, with money or volunteer work.

They warn Catholics against giving to or working with the March of Dimes, UNICEF, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, an anti-breast cancer organization or Crop Walk, which is promoted largely by Lutheran churches in the state. It’s not because of those organizations’ main work, but because they also support abortion rights, contraception or stem cell research, the bishops say.

“Catholics are compelled by the Gospel to responsibly promote the protection of human life, families, and the common good,” the bishops wrote. “We applaud the charitable giving and social justice efforts of our parishes, Catholic schools, and individuals. At the same time, we urge attentiveness to the possibility of endorsing an organization whose mission or affiliation may be morally objectionable or, at least, questionable. We call upon pastors, clergy, and the lay faithful to use guidelines based on the virtue of prudence and justice when making charitable giving decisions."

Organizations that promote “abortion, contraception, ‘reproductive rights/family planning’ or embryonic stem cell research” or that seek to “redefine marriage” should not be supported by Catholics, the dickheads bishops said.

The March of Dimes and UNICEF are orgnaizations dedicated to protecting children. Children. And the kiddie-fucker church opposes their efforts?

North Dakota Catholics told not to donate to groups INFORUM Fargo, ND

United States earthquake hazard map

So, what's up with the bulls-eye epicenter right in the middle of the Bible belt?

U.S. Fault Lines GRAPHIC: Earthquake Hazard MAP

But Massah, cotton doesn't grow in New York!



Teatard congressional candidate Jack Davis shocked local New York Republican leaders in a recent interview when he suggested that Latino farmworkers be deported -- and that African-Americans from the inner city be bused to farm country to pick the crops.
Several sources who were in the Feb. 20 endorsement interview with Davis confirmed his comments, which echo those he made to the Tonawanda News in 2008, when he said: "We have a huge unemployment problem with black youth in our cities. Put them on buses, take them out there [to the farms] and pay them a decent wage; they will work."

But oh, no, the teabaggers aren't racist at all!

Davis' comments shock GOP leaders - Special election - The Buffalo News

Quote Pro Homo

"What these parades are about is a celebration of Ireland and Irishness. I think they need to celebrate Ireland as it is, not as people imagine it. Equality is very much the center of who we are in our identity in Ireland. This issue of exclusion is not Irish, let's be clear about it. Exclusion is not an Irish thing..... I think that's the message that needs to be driven home." ~Irish Foreign Minister Eamon Gilmore

Irish Foreign Minister To NYC St. Pat's Parade: Homophobia Is Not Irish

Self-righteous "Christians" predictably blame the Japanese for their own suffering

According to right-wing religious nutcase Cindy Jacobs, her god shows his great love and compassion by visiting unspeakable tragedy upon an entire nation:

...this island, Hokkaido, looks like the head of a dragon with the body being the rest of Japan. The people of Asia have worshipped the dragon for 5,000 years. If one looks at the place where the earthquake took place, it looks like the soft underbelly of most vulnerable part of the dragon. Let's pray that the deep idolatry and the worship of hundreds of idols under the guise of Shintoism, Buddhism, and allegiances to being "sons of the dragon" will be broken and thousands will turn to the Lord.

Umm, Cindy? If they've been worshipping the dragon for five thousand fucking years, why is your "Lord" only just now getting around to doing something to express his displeasure? And what of any unborn fetuses that perished in the tragedy--were they also guilty of idolatry? If this is how your "god" treats his people, how exactly is he any better than a demon?

May Buddha show you enlightenment--and I doubt it would be by drowning your children.
Jacobs: God Is Using Earthquake To Break Japan's Pagan Idolatry Right Wing Watch

Rethuglican solution to illegal immigrants: Shoot them like feral pigs

Kansas State Rep. Virgil Peck (R) suggested Monday that the best way to deal with the illegal immigration problem may be the same way the state might deal with the problem of "feral hogs" -- by shooting them from a helicopter.
The state's House Appropriations Committee was debating financing for controlling the feral swine problem, the Lawrence Journal World reports, when one legislator suggested theproblem could be handled by shooting them from helicopters. Peck offered: "It looks like to me if shooting these immigrating feral hogs works maybe we have found a [solution] to our illegal immigration problem."
Scott Rothschild of the Journal World reports Peck as saying, when asked about the comment, that he was just joking:
Asked about his comment, Peck was unapologetic. "I was just speaking like a southeast Kansas person," he said. He said most of his constituents are extremely upset with illegal immigration and the state and federal government response.He said he didn't expect any further controversy over his comment. "I think it's over," he said.

No, asshole--it's just beginning. You don't get to dictate whether others may feel outrage at your colossally offensive remarks. Your cavalier, contemptuous disrespect for human life is, in a word, appalling.

Kansas GOPer: Let's Shoot Illegal Immigrants Like Pigs TPMDC

Archdiocese of Philadelphia turns over a new rock

Twenty-one priests have been placed on administrative leave following a review of suspected child sexual abuse by members of the Catholic Church in Philadelphia, according to a statement from the city's archbishop. The church investigated 37 priests identified in a grand jury report as remaining in "active ministry with credible allegations of child sexual abuse," according to Cardinal Justin Rigali. In addition to the 21 announced Tuesday, three other priests have already been placed on administrative leave after the report was released in February, Rigali said.

But the Catholic Church keeps investing time and money trying to prevent consenting same-sex adults from exchanging vows, insisting that it's those people who are a grave moral danger. Uh huh.

Bonus hypocrisy: one of these accused pillars of moral authority was actually in charge of investigating reports of kiddie-fucker priests. Nice.

21 priests put on leave after review of suspected child sexual abuse – CNN Belief Blog - CNN.com Blogs

UCLA student goes on "Anti-Asian Rant"

I think Fox and Friends just found their new spokes-douche:

"Seriously, without fail, you will always see old Asian people running around this apartment complex every weekend. That's what they do -- they don't teach their kids to fend for themselves. You know what they don't also teach them? Is their manners. Which brings me to my next point: Hi. In America, we do not talk on our cell phones in the library! I swear, every five minutes I will be -- OK, not five minutes, say like, 15 minutes -- I'll be like deep into my
studying, into my political-science theories and arguments and all that stuff, getting it all down, like typing away furiously, blah blah blah... and then all of a sudden, when I'm about to like, reach an epiphany -- over here from somewhere, 'OHHH! CHING CHONG LING LONG TING TONG? OHHH! So being the polite nice American girl that my momma raised me to be, I kind of just gave him ... 'It's the library, like we're trying to study, thanks!' And then it's the same thing five minutes later. But it's somebody else, you know? I swear they're going through their whole families, just checking on everybody from the tsunami thing. ... Like, you seriously should go outside if you're going to do that."

UCLA student Alexandra Wallace goes on "Anti-Asian Rant" - Canada Pop Culture Examiner.com

Hello, parents?

Teachers and students cited several issues and incidents that have occurred recently, most during the current school year. In one instance, a teacher drew an "S" on a student's hand and repeatedly referred to the student, who was wearing a T-shirt that read "Gay is Good," as a sinner throughout class, according to a complaint with the district provided by a teacher.

A complaint? Really? That's all? What parent, upon hearing that his child had been abused and publicly humiliated in this fashion--by the very people he entrusted with the child's welfare, no less--wouldn't storm right down to that classroom and punch that teacher's head into her fucking chest?

Anti-gay incidents alleged at high school Local News PE.com Southern California News News for Inland Southern California

Religion is genetic?

Southern Baptists argue that discrimination protection should be granted only on the basis of "immutable characteristics." Oh, and they think that sexual orientation is not an immutable characteristic--but religion is.

“It is clear that imposing this ordinance could lead to disastrous moral and ethical conflicts including trampling on the conscience protections of many residents of the Metro area,” wrote Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission; Randy Davis, executive director and treasurer of the Tennessee Baptist Convention; and Robert B. Sumrall Jr., executive director of the Nashville Baptist Association. The proposal “would elevate sexual orientation and gender identity to the same level as such immutable characteristics as race, ethnicity and religion, creating a preferential status not enjoyed by other groups,” Land, Davis, and Sumrall wrote.

 Nashville’s Clergy Split Over Equality Bill Religion The Advocate

Boston, New Hampshire?

"The Revolutionary War started in New Hampshire," says United States Representative aligned with the Tea Party, which is named for the Boston Tea Party, which is a precursor event to the Revolutionary War. Which started in Lexington and Concord. In Massachusetts.

YouTube - Bachmann: Lexington and Concord, NH?