I never thought I'd target the editors of a national and well-respected newspaper in the Traditional Families Say The Darnedest Things section of this blog, but here goes ...
Last Friday, the Washington Post profiled Brian Brown, the leader of the National Organization for Marriage — the group now infamous for the ridiculously over-the-top-melodramatic anti-gay marriage video "The Gathering Storm."
Called "Opposing Gay Unions With Sanity & a Smile," the WaPo piece paints Brown as a "pleasantly, ruthlessly sane" saint, even though the man is leading the fight against marriage equality and doing everything in his power to discriminate against an entire group of law-abiding and tax-paying citizens.
How very Christian of him. And how cultus-Kool-Aidus of the Washington Post!
What's next WaPo, a tribute to segregationist George Wallace on the anniversary of his death next month?
It would be easy for me to quote from the most asinine parts of the Post's Brian Brown love-fest, but I think it's important that you read the entire thing, so that if you decide to write to the paper to express your outrage over the piece — and I hope you do — you do so with the stench of vomit on your breath.
To help in your letter writing effort, be sure to also read the entry in yesterday's Media Matters' blog titled "What the WaPo's National Organization for Marriage profile left out." In doing so you'll discover that Brian Brown is not pleasant or sane, but rather a well-dressed menace, a horrible human being who almost always says "please" and "thank you" while thinking "God hates fags and dykes," and who, as the HRC reported today, is now being questioned over potential violations of campaign finance laws.
Society will one day see the error of Brown's supremacist ways, and he, like George Wallace, will become part of an ugly chapter in history books.
But until that day comes, the gay community should reflect on the words of Civil Rights leader James Forman, who when talking about the bigoted Wallace and the failure of society to put an end to racial discrimination said, "This problem goes to the very bottom of the United States. ... If we can't sit at the table, let's knock the fucking legs off!":
Finally, my apologies to regulars readers of this blog for being lax in regard to this section for the past couple of weeks. It's not that there's been a shortage of ridiculous things said and/or done by 'traditionalists' and those that support them, it's just that I've been busy. So, to catch up, read this, this and this incredible story, published only seconds ago, about lesbian Mary Cheney's $1K donation to an anti-gay Senate hopeful Rob Portman of Ohio.
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