NC Lawmaker Lashes Out At Burr For DADT Repeal Vote: Homosexuals Are Sexual Predators

N.C. Official: Richard Burr's 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Vote Sanctions 'Sexual Predators'
One of the surprises of the Senate's Repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," the policy banning gays from serving openly in the Military, was the vote of Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina. The reliably conservative Burr was one of eight Republicans who supported repeal. In a statement after the Dec. 18 vote, Burr made clear his doubts about the timing of the change because "making such a shift in policy at a time when we have Troops deployed in active combat areas does not take into consideration t...

Official stands by gay 'predators' remark
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A North Carolina county official, faced with criticism that has spread nationwide, says he is standing by his denunciation of gay people as "Sexual Predators." "People are entitled to their opinion and that includes me," Mecklenburg County Commissioner Bill James told The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer Thursday. "I don't expect people to agree with me. It's a political discussion and I wouldn't have raised it on my own, but [county board official Jennifer Roberts] de...

Senator Burr draws fire from conservatives over bold vote on military gay ban
Republican US Senator Richard Burr has predictably come under fire from his own party for his courageous and forward-thinking vote to Repeal the ban on gays serving in the Military. Burr, a conservative NC Republican senator, broke with most of his party and endorsed the Repeal of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” land which passed the Senate and was signed by President Obama. Normally a tried-and-true Right Wing vote on most issues, Burr said at the time that although he disag...

Anti-gay NC County Commissioner Bill James: 'Homosexuals are sexual predators'
 In North Carolina, Mecklenburg County Commissioner Bill James is in the center of a media firestorm after making anti-gay slurs many find offensive, including the inflammatory and false claim that "Homosexuals are Sexual Predators." James, a Republican, responded with furious anti-gay venom when fellow Mecklenburg County Commissioner Jennifer Roberts circulated a letter to her Republican and Democratic colleagues, asking them to sign on to a Bipartisan thank you note to...

North Carolina Republican Under Fire For Vote To Repeal DADT
North Carolina Senator Richard Burr was one of the surprise Republican votes in favor of repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell and now he's facing heat for his vote...

DADT repeal: 18 days in December
Rare is the occasion in which a president and a nation get to revel in affirming their fundamental principles. And that's exactly what happened on Dec. 22 when President Obama signed the bill that will pave the way to ending the 17-year-old ban on gay men and Lesbians serving openly in the Military. Don't Ask, Don't Tell was a wrong-headed and discriminatory law that destroyed careers and compromised National Security. Good riddance. There have been many pieces chronicling how we arrived at that...

The Repeal of DADT: To March or to Sashay into the Future?
By Paul A. Ibbetson On December 22, 2010, President Barack Obama signed a law that Repeals the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy for gays wishing to serve in the Military. DADT was enacted by President Bill Clinton in 1993 and was a considered by many liberals a compassionate turn from the military’s previous ban on gays’ serving in the Military. In a somewhat ironic turn of fate, in order to move the Homosexual agenda forward Barack Obama would have to classify the social

Right Wing Round-Up
Salon: Mosque foes launch Bieber Boycott. McEwen: The 2010 Five Most Embarrassing Moments of the Anti-Gay Right Caught on Video. Alan Colmes: Mecklenburg, NC County Commissioner: “Homosexuals Are Sexual Predators.” Happy New Year everybody! RWW will return Monday, January 3rd....

Michael Medved's theory of bunghole pain and pleasure.
Via Joe My God ("Michael Medved: Lesbian Sex Is Better, Because It Hurts To Take It In The Ass") and Truth Wins Out ("Michael Medved, Are You Speaking From Personal Experience Here?"), clear evidence that Wingnut "film and culture critic" Michael Medved thinks a lot about bungholes. Of men. And how he thinks they are being used. You have to read this to believe it: "The politically correct attitude not only insists that Heterosexual and Homosexual relationships are equivalent, but also erase...

Michael Medved: Lesbian Sex Is Better, Because It Hurts To Take It In The Ass
"The politically correct attitude not only insists that Heterosexual and Homosexual relationships are equivalent, but also erases differences between relationships between two women and relationships between two men. If men and women are profoundly different-and both science and common sense tell us they are- then an all-female couple is even more different from an all-male couple than either Homosexual bond differs from a Heterosexual union. "This distinction helps explain the oft-noted quirk...

Va. House Speaker Bill Howell proposes Repeal Amendment to Constitution
"Any provision of law or Regulation of the United States may be repealed by the several states, and such Repeal shall be effective when the legislatures of two-thirds of the several states approve resolutions for this purpose that particularly describe the same provision or provisions of law or Regulation to be repealed." After a meeting in Richmond on December 14, at which Speaker Howell made his case for the “Repeal Amendment” to a group of Virginia Political Activists, he explaine...

2011 Predictions
First, we must start with Baseball…as that is more important than anything else. There is not consensus amongst the Bearing Drift brethren. Kirwin, habitually, picks the Phillies. Big shocker from Krystle: The New York Yankees will come back stronger than ever with Jeter. Look for them to win the 2011 World Series (fingers crossed). [Not!] Then, of course, Leslie has to chime in: The healthy Red Sox will dominate the AL East, with a line-up that looks like this: Jacoby Ellsbury CF, Dustin...

Gay Rights Activists' Outlook Somber, As Euphoria Over DADT Repeal Subsides
New Haven -- The long-awaited Repeal of the Military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy marked a modern day Civil Rights milestone. But while Activists and like-minded pols at first celebrated an achievement long in the offing, that cheeriness has quickly been replaced by political somberness. Whereas conventional wisdom holds that legislative victories beget future ones, there was no clear sense that the president's signing of DADT's Repeal would have such a Domino Effect. The battle over the mil...

Obama DoJ: DADT Repeal Ends Their Appeal
Barack Obama’s Department of Justice today argued in a Federal Court that the “Repeal” of Don’t-Ask-Don’t-Tell signed by the President (which provides a pathway via certification to the Congress by the Military, the Secretary of Defense, and the President that the DoD is ready to end DADT) means that there’s no need for them to continue their appeal of the Log Cabin Republicans’ case in the Ninth Circuit: it’s moot. In a late Wednesday filing to th...

Former President Katzav convicted of rape
Israel's 8th President, Moshe Katzav, has been convicted of two counts of Rape by a three-judge panel of the Tel Aviv District Court. Katzav was also convicted of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment in two other incidents. The court also said that he lied in his Testimony. Former president Moshe Katsav was charged with raping former Tourism Minsitry worker "Aleph," in the Tel Aviv District Court on Thursday morning. "The event in the accused's office happened," the judges said. "Aleph said no...

Israel ex-president Katsav convicted of rape
Stumble This! Tel Aviv — Israeli former president Moshe Katsav was convicted of two counts of Rape on Thursday, capping a four-year Scandal that shocked the Jewish State and leaves him facing at least eight years in Prison. As a Tel Aviv court handed down the verdict, which also convicted Katsav on charges of Sexual Harassment, indecent acts and obstruction of justice, the visibly distraught 65-year-old muttered "No, no." The ruling comes after a trial that lasted a year and a half and in...

Belgian Catholic Leader Says Church Does Not Have To Compensate Sex Abuse Victims
The Controversial prelate appointed less than a year ago by Pope Benedict XVI to push the liberal-leaning Catholic Church in Belgium in a more conservative direction has sparked yet another uproar by telling a government commission that the church has no obligation to compensate Victims of Sexual Abuse by priests. "The civil court must determine the compensation and the offender [the accused priest] must pay," Archbishop André-Joseph Léonard of Mechelen-Brussels told a parliamenta...

Senate 2012: How Did It Go So Wrong So Fast?
Ugh. It’s not even 2011 and that’s my sentiments about the 2012 Republican nomination battle. While most of the state is not paying attention to this intra-party nonsense, the posturing by the Candidates and soon-to-be Candidates has been awful. There’s no other word for it, simply awful from top to bottom. With the selection of a primary, the stage was set for former Senator George Allen to ascend. Bob Marshall and Jamie Radtke’s only chances were a convention, so with ...

Video: GOProud chief defends conservatism from MSNBC tool
I wonder what inspired this booking. Did Uygur think Barron was going to come on and join him in a round of right-bashing because of the CPAC Boycotts? Or was the point simply to have him on so that Uygur could laugh derisively for the benefit of MSNBC’s viewers when Barron inevitably defended Conservatives? As background on this, read Gabe Malor’s post at Ace’s site this morning listing some of the socially conservative groups who still plan to attend CPAC notwithstanding GO...

What Should We Expect from the New GOP House?
After watching the pathetic  Republican “cookie-crumble” in the “Lame Duck” Congress, what can we realistically expect when the “new” GOP majority is sworn in?  Will they deal the Democrats fits or make a deal with The Devil? Richard Falknor of the Blue Ridge Forum ponders the potential of a big disappointment. Will the New GOP-led House Fight Smart and Tough? During the lame-duck session, the Senate GOP leadership apparently didn’t consider th...

NC Politician Year End Report Card
As 2010 comes to a close we have an opportunity to look at whose popularity rose, fell, and stayed the same among the major politicians in North Carolina over the course of the year. Here's a quick breakdown of how the net Approval Ratings of Bev Perdue, Richard Burr, Barack Obama, and Kay Hagan shifted from the end of 2009 to the end of 2010: Politician End of 2009 Approval End of 2010 Approval Shift Bev Perdue 27/53 (-26) 35...

Groups Opposed To DADT Repeal 'Latching' On To Shower Issue
Groups opposed to the open service of gay and Lesbian members of the Military will continue to fear-monger about gay and straight service members showering together to sexualize the open service issue, Jarrod Chlapowski of Servicemembers United told TPM in an interview. "I see that as being a talking point to just raise fears and draw attention to their general opposition to the issue and that's not something that I think will go away anytime soon," Chlapowski said. In the wake of the Repeal o...

MSNBC Host Laughs At Republican For Being Gay
“I have an easier time being Openly Gay with Conservatives than I do being a conservative with other gay people,” says Christopher Barron, chairman of GOProud which is a group of Homosexual Republicans, and Ed Schultz guest host Cenk Uygur (who is every bit the imbecile Schultz is but without the broadcast prowess) sort of proves him right by laughing derisively at him. Which illustrates how liberals play Identity Politics. If you’re a minority or gay or a member of some other ...

WND on DADT: Officer asks to be relieved of command over repeal
"I did not give up my Constitutional Rights and freedom of religion when I joined the Military. I don't believe in subjecting myself to all of the behavior modification and sensitivity training. They're going to try to push the position that this is an acceptable lifestyle." -- an unnamed Army lieutenant colonel, who, according to WND, has "asked to be relieved of command rather than order his Troops to go through pro-homosexual indoctrination." Alvin posted earlier about the "butt sex" obse...

Sharing My Vision of Wholeness: Our Pathways Into Deep Meaning
Here’s a piece that means a lot to me: it is perhaps the one single statement that says the most about how I see the sacred. It has been posted here on NSB before, but not for some years. This essay has been published elsewhere, in late 2004 -in a journal called Vision in Action- but it was originally written to be a talk that had the pleasure of giving in a few venues around the country. It is, perhaps, my most positive vision. And thus I choose it as my offering here to us...