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Hey, Newsbusters — Christians DO commit honor murder

We have a DVR and I record NCIS and NCIS: Los Angeles because the former is one of my favorite shows and the latter has Linda Hunt, which makes it just interesting enough to tolerate. I also squirrel away various movies for my father, so on Tuesday I recorded “Gone with the Wind,” and something else instead of “NCIS: Los Angeles.” I watched my recording of “NCIS” yesterday, so I was not surprised to see Mike Sargent at Newsbusters take issue with the “NCIS” plot where (spoiler alert) a newly converted Muslim Marine is killed, while he was praying, by his brother (was he wearing a West Point uniform?) for shaming the family by becoming a Muslim — in other words, he was honor-murdered in much the same way that Muslims murder THEIR family members who convert to Christianity.

Wait, is it hateful of me to point that out?

Well, that’s not ALL — the man’s father was a retired colonel who had a religious awakening after his wife died that was so profound he became a minister of an unspecified, but clearly hate-filled Christian denomination, and HE was so shamed by his son’s conversion that he paid his son’s Marine buddies to beat him up to get him either to convert back, or stop converting — the writers made it sound like the conversion was a long involved process, but last I heard, all you have to do is recite a prayer — I think it’s the one Obama loves to recite in his excellent Arabic, but I could be wrong. Oh, AND the honor murdered Marine’s wife was cheating on him. Only the noble, upright, good, African-American Muslim chaplain, who was a fount of Islam-promoting quotes, supported him through all the unjust trials and tribulations heaped upon him after embracing the one true faith.

I really never thought “NCIS” would have a jump-the-shark plot for me, but this is close.

However, I have to take issue with Sargent’s assertion that Christians do not honor-murder:

The issue with this is clear: I have yet to see a report citing a Christian suicide bomber, or a Christian honor-killing, anywhere in the world. And while not all Muslims are terrorists hell-bent on killing all non-Muslims, an inordinate amount of terrorists are Muslims. Nor are these terrorists particularly upset with a lack of acceptance of Muslims by the Christian West – in fact, the issue seems to be more based non-religious points. In the end, equating Christians to extremist Muslims is more than a stretch – it’s intellectually dishonest.

Think hard, think VERY hard. There IS a group of people that Christians honor-murder without a peep of protest, remonstration, repudiation or consternation from conservatives in general and social conservatives in particular.

Christians honor-murder their gay and lesbian teenagers by throwing them out of the house when they discover they are gay or lesbian.

Randall Terry threw out his gay son, Jamiel, when he was a teen.

I have found no evidence of any Christians denouncing Terry for this — although Jamiel is alive, I doubt that he is doing as well as he would have with a very prosperous father paying for his college tuition and living expenses.

Alan Keyes threw out his teenaged lesbian daughter, Maya, after SHE spoke at a protest in Maryland to mourn the death of one of her gay friends who was thrown out by his parents as a teen and died of starvation.

The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force has a downloadable report on homeless gay and lesbian teens and summarizes the problem at the linked page as follows:

Of the estimated 1.6 million homeless American youth, between 20 and 40 percent identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT).

Why do LGBT youth become homeless? In one study, 26 percent of gay teens who came out to their parents/guardians were told they must leave home; LGBT youth also leave home due to physical, sexual and emotional abuse. Homeless LGBT youth are more likely to: use drugs, participate in sex work, and attempt suicide. Also, LGBT youth report they are threatened, belittled and abused at shelters by staff as well as other residents.

Christians: you do honor murder. And your churches and your friends and your political party ALL seem to approve and smile and even feel sorry for YOU instead of your abandoned, betrayed child, or the child you drove to suicide.

So — Mike — I want to know: are you going to denounce honor murders of gay and lesbian teens by their own Christian parents? Or gloat and say they have it coming? Deny, deny, deny? Or redefine the practice to make it look good?

When I write about second-class citizenship being costly, destructive, and even deadly to homosexuals, THIS is an example. And when I write about the solutions I am trying to connect good, honorable people with the reality that on the subject of homosexuality, the religious leaders who denounce it have led them astray for reasons of personal greed and lust for power and that equality for homosexuals will make our society more stable, more moral, more supportive for marriage, safer because more people will be allowed to serve in our Armed Forces, and more loving because fewer children will be thrown out of their homes and abandoned children will have more potential homes to adopt them.

P.S.

Actress Beatrice Arthur died on April 25, 2009, at the age of 86, and I wrote a remembrance of her here. It was announced at the end of October that in her will she left $300,000 to the Ali Forney Center for homeless gay and lesbian teens in New York City. After Ellen has the story, along with some lovely photos and video clips:

The Ali Forney Center’s executive director, Carl Siciliano, said in a statement, “We are overwhelmed with gratitude that Bea saw that LGBT youth deserve as much love and support as any other young person, and that she placed so much value in the work we do to protect them, and to help them rebuild their lives.”

The center plans to purchase a new building to house 12 additional youths with the funds bequeathed by Bea Arthur, and name it in her honor.

“We work with hundreds of young people who are rejected by their families because of who they are,” Siciliano said.

In fact, the center works with over 1,000 young people a year, offering emergency and transitional housing in seven locations, as well as drop-in services that include clothing, food, HIV testing, medical and mental health treatment, and educational assistance.

Bitchslap for John Aravosis: Democrats are losing on healthcare reform because their proposals stink — it's not a leadership thang, you fool

H/T for the video to Kathy Shaidle. Note to visiting HillBuzzers: clearly Bob Hope is referring only to Dr. Utopia Democrats.

Dear Moe Lane drew my attention to the rant by John Aravosis at Americablog against the Democratic leadership for not being able to get the ever-changing and sometimes top secret healthcare reform legislation through the Senate without thorough consideration and debate or consultation with constituents, quick-quick-quick, so that, before Christmas, we can nationalize one-sixth of the U.S. economy and consummate our transformation from a dynamic capitalistic and meritocratic democratic republic that is the financial engine of the global economy to a stagnant, socialistic tyranny of a tiny elite who exert their power through the fell ministrations of self-serving bureaucrats.

Surely, Mr. Aravosis is saying, when you can choose to go from such a paradise to such a hell, the only reason to decline is because of weak leaders.

So — bitchslap — with bonus cluebat — for John Aravosis: while he clearly believes everything he’s been told to believe about the healthcare reform bill — for example, that it IS a healthcare reform bill when it is nothing of the sort — for heaven’s sake, did he bother AT ALL to read the proposals or any real analyses of them such as the fine work of Prof. William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection? — THE PROBLEM IS WITH THE BILL, not the leadership. The legislation itself is bad, and the more people look at the havoc it will wreak on our healthcare system AND our capitalistic democratic republic — the more they oppose it.

So I would like to reassure John that the Democratic leadership he is maligning is indeed crafty and ruthless and utterly unburdened by any considerations of conscience or ethics in the pursuit of their goals, so maybe they will get their healthcare reform/rationing/socialistic takeover bill enacted yet. But right now, deprived as they are of the army Obama has called for to operate against civilians within our borders in order to impose their will, we have just enough rule of law remaining for Democrats to fear defeat in 2010 because God forbid they should have to start looking for REAL jobs in an economy suffering from the stagnation they have done so much to create.

Why I think the approval of gay marriage in Washington, D.C., will stick

Allahpundit over at Hot Air is pondering why the vote to approve gay marriage by the City Council in Washington, D.C., today was so lop-sided in favor, 11-2, with ex-crackhead-and-adulterer Marion Barry casting one of the opposing votes, when D.C. is a majority black city and blacks have reneged on their support for equality for homosexuals that they promised when they were down and we were all part of a rainbow coalition.

Blacks support homosexual equality when it is framed as a civil rights issue, but greedy black ministers hell-bent on nation-building, especially those inspired by Black Liberation Theology, want everyone under their influence to be making babies, because numbers are power in a democracy, so they have re-branded the issue of homosexual equality to one of morality and succeeded in turning the black community against the gay community. (Also, don’t tell anyone, but I think a lot of the antipathy black ministers stir up against homosexual equality is a way to denounce whites and Jews by proxy, since the openly gay and lesbian community is predominantly white. Plus, homosexuality is the one safe sexual topic any minister, of whatever race, can denounce these days from the pulpit without getting laughed at — think masturbation — or making parishioners so angry they walk out and never come back — think fornication and adultery. It’s just not safe to shame people any more, by cracky.)

Gays and lesbians wholeheartedly supported and support black civil rights and I think our community still has not processed the level of betrayal we have experienced at the hands, pulpits and podiums of people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, who disappears every color but black from the rainbow coalition now whenever he talks of civil rights and the claims of women and other minorities to equality.

Well, I lived in Silver Spring, Maryland, just across the border from D.C., from 1983 to 2002, and I think I can tell you why the D.C. City Council voted in favor of gay marriage: gays and lesbians in D.C. are extremely active politically and very, very generous donors. What this means is that gays and lesbians have parties and invite D.C. City Council members AND THEY SHOW UP because it gets them votes, campaign workers and campaign donations. But it also means that we have gotten to know them and they have gotten to know us. So the conservatives who think they can defeat same-sex marriage equality by demonizing gays and lesbians to the D.C. City Council, or anyone else in a city where everybody really does know everybody, ARE OUT OF THEIR MINDS.

Gays and lesbians have worked their asses off to make Washington, D.C., a better place — not just for gays and lesbians, but for everyone. Just one example is that when I founded a group in the early 1990’s for gay and lesbian computer users, to help out gay rights organizations, and Giant had its program for donating computers and equipment based on the value of the receipts turned in, one member got us organized to collect from the gay community our Giant grocery store receipts to donate to a junior high school in a disadvantaged area with mostly black pupils. Gays and lesbians have done — and are doing — this type of community-building out of a genuine belief in equality for other minorities and because we will always BE a rainbow community.

I wish the leaders of the organizations working for gay and lesbian civil rights would see that the success of same-sex marriage equality in Washington, D.C., has to do with the love, passion, friendliness, kindness, idealism, hard work and generosity of the gay and lesbian community and the fact that so many people in D.C. have gay and lesbian friends that it is hard for any demagogue to demonize us successfully — and that they use this model everywhere we are working for our equality to be recognized in law.

If you are a fan of A Conservative Lesbian … please second my nomination for Grande Conservative Blogress

Cynthia Yockey, A Conservative Lesbian -- with bassoon, just before playing for the Bel Air Arts Festival in Bel Air, Maryland, September 2009.

If you are a fan of, well, me, or, if not me, my writing, I would be most obliged if you would second my nomination for Grande Conservative Blogress over at Gay Patriot’s place. I have been nominated, but Daniel, formerly known as Gay Patriot West, tells me that isn’t enough — lots of people have to second the nomination for me to be considered for inclusion in the list of finalists.

And, um, here’s the thing — I expect I DO need as many people as possible who like this blog to go over to Gay Patriot and second my nomination on account of there’s a teensy-meensy chance that I am on thin ice, as it were, because poor dear Daniel, who was very supportive a few months ago when I was under my first organized leftie attack (for supporting Sarah Palin — ha! like THAT would stop me!), asked me what I thought of being called a “dyke diva” and I rather gave him an earful, as follows:

I’m glad you asked — actually, I am more a feminine lesbian and not a dyke at all: for a community that professes to dislike labels, we actually define these words with some precision. Anyway, in the late 1980’s I founded a group for feminine lesbians called the Lesbian Ladies Society in the Washington, D.C., area, and word got back to me that lesbian rap groups — comprised of dykes — actually discussed at their meetings whether or not my group should be allowed to exist — like they had a vote!

It is a bizarre irony that feminine lesbians are far more likely to be harassed and abused in the lesbian community — by dykes — for being feminine than they are in the straight community for being lesbian. The last poll I looked at on the percentage of the U.S. population that is gay and lesbian said it is four percent gay males and two percent lesbian. My personal opinion, based on my observations from that time, is that lesbians are at least four percent of the population, but that the missing two percent is comprised of feminine lesbians — who are not the same as femmes because we prefer other feminine lesbians as partners — who have been driven out of the lesbian community by the dykes. My Lesbian Ladies Society meetings were always 20 percent African-American, while other lesbian events I attended were usually only five percent African-American — in an African-American-majority city! — so the hostility and insults and rejections my members reported to me must have been particularly devastating to the African-American lesbians, especially the ones over 50.

The intolerance of dykes toward feminine lesbians, the reprisals I experienced personally for founding a group that served a neglected sub-culture in the lesbian community and that never tried to convert any lesbians into appearing feminine, and my inability to redeem any promises of inclusion by the liberal lesbian community — such as wheelchair access for my paralyzed life partner, a request we made for SIX YEARS to lesbians who well understood their obligations because they were at the very top of the disability rights community — all of these factors played a large part in my realization in the fall of 2008 that liberalism is an Animal Farm where I would never be one of the more equal animals and that fiscal conservatism is the philosophy that truly serves individual liberty and which creates the conditions for individuals to realize their full potential on the terms they set for themselves.

OK, now YOU’RE probably sorry you asked, but since the heart of your question is, “What should you call me?,” and since my blog is named “A Conservative Lesbian,” telling you to call me “a conservative lesbian” may be a tad redundant, then “conservative feminine lesbian diva,” or “conservative lesbian diva,” or “conservative lesbian diva with a killer sense of humor and love of God and country,” will have no alliterative punch at all, but will be on the money and most acceptable.

So — anyhoo — I really would be much obliged, if you like this blog, if you would go on over to Gay Patriot to second my nomination — I need a lot of people doing that to make the list of finalists being considered for Grande Conservative Blogress of 2010. All you have to do is write a comment along the lines of, “I second the nomination of Cynthia Yockey, A Conservative Lesbian.”

Thank you, thank you very much.

Obama hits a new low — in the polls, I mean, because with Obama and the expression 'new low,' you have to be specific

Yesterday, 12/12/09, was Obama's previous lowest approval rating at -16.

Today Obama built on his previous new lowest approval rating of -16 yesterday to plummet to his newest new low of -19 today. I wonder what is making American voters so testy with Obama — so “ungovernable.” (Hee-hee-hee-hee-hee!)

Wasn’t getting the Nobel Peace Prize in a box of Cracker Jacks on Dec. 10 supposed to burnish Obama’s image and plump his popularity? Or did Americans listen to his acceptance speech and conclude the Obama Doctrine for peace and war is to do — what? In that speech, didn’t he really announce that he has no idea how to intimidate foes who have no fear of being called RAAAAACISTS?

Perhaps it was the revelation that the Senate’s version of the healthcare reform legislation will have lifetime caps on care. So, there will not be much call for death panels, after all. You will hit your limit and then you’re Soylent Green. Just lie back, think of America and all that carbon you won’t be exhaling any more.

Or, perhaps word is getting around that Obama’s pledge to skyrocket energy costs for every consumer and business with cap-and-trade legislation is founded on the biggest scientific hoax in history and that it was perpetrated with the intention of destroying capitalism while enriching the hoaxers. I hate when that happens.

Oprah gets temporary pass from under the bus to boost Obama's ratings — um, do a White House Christmas special

About the time that Oprah’s Dec. 13 ABC White House Christmas special with Barack and Michelle Obama was announced a couple of weeks ago, a tabloid newspaper ran a story about how puzzled and hurt Oprah was that even though she got Obama selected and elected as president, Obama would not accept her calls and had shifted the blame to Michelle. Imagine — Oprah was under the bus!

However, also about that time, Obama’s Rasmussen approval rating sank to -15 and hasn’t gone above -10 since. In fact, today (12/12/09), Obama’s approval rating hit a new low of -16:

Obama approval rating of -16 on 12/12/09 is a new low for his presidency.

I’m sure it was just a happy coincidence that Obama could re-ignite Oprah’s dreams of political power and influence by calling her out from under the bus — which I bet is only temporary, but which she thinks is the correction of a huge, inadvertent mistake — to use her popularity to raise his own.

If it doesn’t work — and probably even if it does — it’s going to be back under the bus for Oprah– until the next time Obama finds her useful.

How is Obama able to use and double-cross people so consistently and yet his marks always seem surprised when he does it to them?

Make this viral: how Republican senators can stop the healthcare rationing bill with parliamentary procedure

Eric Erickson at Redstate explains how Republican senators can kill the healthcare reform/rationing bill now before the Senate:

The Founding Fathers created a Republic, but 60 Senators are poised to take it away. With the pending disaster of the passage in the Senate of a bill nationalizing one sixth of the U.S. economy and our entire healthcare system at a cost of over $2.5 trillion, we are faced with a crucial question: are the Republican senators using every means at their disposal to stop this looming, tyrannical abuse of power? Unfortunately, the answer appears to be “no.”

The Senate, unlike the House of Representatives, has parliamentary rules and procedures that give the minority the ability to stall legislation. In fact, unlike the House, the minority have the ability to virtually paralyze the Senate. Doing so is not something we would want or expect for every bad bill that comes through Congress, but the proposed healthcare legislation is probably the worst piece of legislation ever considered by the United States Congress. It is the most intrusive, most damaging, most costly, most dangerous bill to the economic and personal freedom and liberty of individual Americans that Congress has ever considered. If there is any bill that deserves being stopped by shutting down the Senate, it is this one.

There are a whole series of parliamentary maneuvers that could be used by Republican senators to stop this bill. There is a hard backstop to the current process (Christmas). The Republicans’ goal should be to prevent Reid from passing the bill before that time. If he goes past Christmas and is forced to adjourn or recess, the momentum will shift in favor of those opposing the bill.

The details of the parliamentary maneuvers are here.

It actually is possible that many senators do not know parliamentary procedure well enough to know they have these tools at their disposal.

And it is flabbergasting that so few voices have been raised by Tea Partiers, Republicans and conservatives to let Republican senators know that they MUST make a stand WITH THE WEAPONS OF PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE and utterly defeat the Obama/Reid/Pelosi healthcare reform bill.

Please help me make this viral by sending the link to Erickson’s post to everyone you know. We can defeat this disastrous legislation if even one brave Republican senator uses the parliamentary procedures Erickson describes.

Iowahawk explains how to put the 'hockey stick' on ice

Iowahawk understands statistical analysis — something to do with his day job and all — and his column this week is educational, rather than humorous, on the subject of Climategate. He walks his readers through the process of deriving the famous “hockey stick” graph, which purports to prove global temperatures are rising at such a catastrophic speed that only the immediate destruction of capitalism and the global economy will appease the Sun God and cool the planet. This will be catnip for my scientist friends, but you should be able to follow everything if you have an average understanding of high school math and science.

For a smart and comprehensive round-up on Climategate and the Obama administration’s power grab over the economy by declaring it entirely subject to EPA regulation due to the menace of carbon dioxide, see The Anchoress from 12/7.

Oh, and I know a week or so ago everyone was linking “Hide the Decline,” which is a parody based on “Dragging the Line” from Tommy James and the Shondells, but I love it and I can’t resist adding it here even if I’m late:

Scambaiting

Scambaiting is pretending to scammers to be just about to take their bait, then pulling back and leading them on for as long as you can until you are bored of toying with them or they figure out they’ve been had. Think of a mother duck leading the fox away from her nest by pretending to be injured and looking like an easy mark, while remaining just out of reach. Instapundit recently drew my attention to this lovely example of the sport — here is a sample.

12:29 PM Scammer: i need your help?

me: What do you need?

12:30 PM Scammer: $1,000 is all we need

me: In which currency?

12:32 PM Scammer: 600 pounds is all we need

me: Oh, dear….

How soon do you need it?

12:33 PM Scammer: we need it now

the next available fluight leaves in 2hrs time and we got to be at the airport in 1hr time

12:34 PM me: But I don’t see how I could get money to you that quickly

Scammer: you can have it wired to me vis Wetsern Union

do you know any WU outlet nearby?

me: Hold on, I’ll check….

12:35 PM Scammer: ok

12:36 PM me: Why, yes! There is one right near Fahrfivgnugen, MA, on Swindler Street! That’s only 5 minutes from here!

'Nobody's gonna rain on my blog tirade'

I love The Bloggess and had no idea she has such a lovely singing voice!

I’m going to have to start watching “Glee.” And going to bed on time — by coincidence, it was exactly 1:26 am here when The Bloggess said she was up at 1:26 am.

Update, 12/13/09, Sunday: See another side of The Bloggess and another dimension to why I love her so here.