DISQUS

Teddy, your strange comments are indicative of the forced homogenization that lgbts of color have to deal with from the gay community.

Just who are the representatives of lgbts of color in government? Futhermore, when the lgbt of color communities are given full verbal representation and visibility in the lgbt community at large, then we can talk about being in this together.

Amen! I went to the 1993 March on Washington and I found it to be colossal waste of time and energy. What we should do is organize in each community and trade resources. Those of us who have blogs should organize ourselves also.

Because we black folks aren't falling for all of this foolishness. We are too busy working for a living.

It's amazing that very few people are paying attention to how we view Obama. They just assume that we love him (which we do) and that's it.

The scuttlebutt is that we aren't surprised with how vicious things are against him. "You know they aren't going to let one of us run things without raising a major amount of hell" is the inference I am getting.

But here I thought the report never said anything about conservatives. I think the question is very apropo. Why are you all jumping on the report if you are not mentioned in it?

So according to you, SPLC is "indirectly linked to the Mexican government." That's the exact words from the link claiming that SPLC is sending out misleading statements. I think we know what direction THAT site is coming from.

And then he is going to be speaking at one of those "tea bag protests" next week. This guy has never visited some of the schools in need of the stimulus money.

Stupid junk. The threats were hideous but the other comments were just dumb. Teachers should be asexual? I guess when teachers get pregnant, they should be barred from the classroom.

24 Dot Com, how many site are you on?

This is getting BEYOND ridiculous. Folks, PRESIDENT Obama is an American citizen and he is our president. show some patriotism for a change.

Not mine yet either. Sometimes it takes them a while.

Hey Matt!

Excellent piece and did you check out the comments on the One News Now page? Earlier they weren't exactly in the corner of those against the dance.

One correction though - One News Now is a propaganda piece for the American Famly Association and Donald Wildmon, not James Dobson.

Don't fall for the religious right's line of lies on this. That part about the pastor "being arrested" comes from an intentional misquoting from the transcript (via the Traditional Values Coalition) of the Congressional hearing:

http://www.goodasyou.org/good_as_you/2007/05/tv...

I agree with Mr. Weigel.

Keyes, as usual, rambles. He reminds me of a restaurant which tries to fill its customers up on appeitizers because it has no entrees.

Really though, there is NO conspiracy. This issue has been settled. Obama doesn't owe anyone anything other than to be a good president. So get over it, folks.

My guess is that the Democrats didnt want to distract anyone with the drama. FOX News would have had a time distracting everyone with it.

This situation just reminds us that no one is going to give us what we want unless we hold their feet to the fire.

The religious right does it even with politicians who suppor them. We need to do it with those who support us.

Just one thing - I did NOT know anything about your past until the situation took place. No one told me anything not even you.

That is all I have to say about the situation.

Nelson, your immature behavior is giving a perfect reason as to why I cut you off.

Also you keep saying that it was about an endorsement from Peter. Peter had nothing to do with this. And I did address it. It was your dishonesty to me. You know what I speak of and I don't feel that I have to go into detail about it further.

Stop playing the victim because the only one responsible for anthying done against you is you. Now all of this other stuff you are talking about - me threatening people for support you - I don't know what you are talking about.

I find it ironic how conservatives were playing the gay and black community against one another via the Proposition 8 vote.

Meanwhile, two black men affiliated with conservatives (i.e. Alan Keyes and Clarence Thomas) are playing integral parts in trying to deny Obama the presidency.

Not putting down my brothers and sisters but it is ironic.

You know, it's easy to pull out the straw man arguments. It enables you to distract from the issue. To me, there is a barometer of whether or not these books should be in a public libary.

I’m usually not one for censorship but I am for standards. And I have a hard time believing that anything put out about the lgbt community by the anti-gay industry or their allies belong in a public library without extreme scrutiny on its credibility.

The anti-gay industry has a track record of relying bad research (Paul Cameron) or distorting legitimate research (i.e. Elizabeth Saewyc, Robert Spitzer, Patrick Letellier, Robert Garafalo, Carol Gilligan, Lisa Waldner, Joanne Hall, Francis Collins, etc. )

And this track record of lies should not be ignored simply because the anti-gay industry was able to find enough guillible students and their parents to try and play a game of semantics.

I don’t think a book should be included in a library’s selection simply because a group holds a press conference and sidesteps the issues of accuracy by appealing to emotions and religious beliefs

When choosing books, libraries should always adhere to high standards and the highest of all of these are veracity, or truth.

I'm sorry but there have been NO lawsuits threatened or lodged against Ms. Kern.

This claim is just a ploy to take attention away from her comments.