Washed up preachy crooner and
homophobic robo-call voice actor Pat Boone continues to grope desperately for an audience long after his recording career reached its natural end. That was sometime in the '60s, around the moment when the first head shop opened its doors.
Since no one is buying his albums anymore, Boone is seeing what else people will buy. By peddling right wing commentary on the site
Joe calls
Wing Nut Daily.
His latest compares the marriage equality supporters marching in the weeks since the passage of Prop. 8 in California to the terrorists who killed some 200 people in Mumbai.
That's right. Pat Boone thinks people protesting for equality under the law and people who set off a bunch of bombs and shot strangers with automatic weapons have a lot in common.
Are you unaware of the raging demonstrations in our streets, in front of our churches and synagogues, even spilling into these places of worship, and many of these riots turning defamatory and violent? Have you not seen the angry distorted faces of the rioters, seen their derogatory and threatening placards and signs, heard their vows to overturn the democratically expressed views of voters, no matter what it costs, no matter what was expressed at the polls? Twice?
I refer to California's Proposition 8. You haven't heard about the well-oiled campaign to find out the names of every voter and business that contributed as much as $1,000, or even much less, in support of Prop 8? You haven't heard about the announced plans to boycott, demonstrate, intimidate and threaten each one – because they dared to vote to retain marriage as between one man and one woman? You haven't seen, on the evening news, prominent entertainers and even California Gov. Schwarzenegger, urging the demonstrators on, telling them they should "never give up" until they get their way?
Assuming you have become aware of all this, let me ask you: Have you not seen the awful similarity between what happened in Mumbai and what's happening right now in our cities?
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Hate is hate, no matter where it erupts. And hate, unbridled, will eventually and inevitably boil into violence. How crazily ironic that the homosexual activists and sympathizers cry for "tolerance" and "equal rights" and understanding –while they spew vitriol and threats and hate at those who disagree with them on moral and societal grounds.
He goes on to say "Every homosexual citizen has the same, identical rights as any other American." Except in California and most other states, Pat. Where we cannot marry the people we love. And in all those states where we can be fired just because we're gay. Where we can't adopt or become foster parents. Where we can't join the armed forces without being forced to lie.
Hey, Pat. I can't give blood because the FDA still has
that archaic policy that covers all gay men. So no, for these and many more reasons I wake up every day with fewer rights than you do.
Slavery was abolished, blacks and women obtained the rights to vote, and these true rights were not obtained by threats and violent demonstrations and civil disruption (though these things did occur, of course), but by due process, congressional deliberations and appropriate ratification.
I guess he's saying that even without the Civil War, the women's suffrage movement and the civil rights revolution, America would magically have made all those changes anyway. That hundreds of thousands of voices raised as one didn't force the courts and lawmakers to move inexorably toward progress. That we are where we are just because America is
nice. And that we're going to become a better nation if only those nasty gays would just be quiet.
Pat's forgetting something. Those changes weren't made by putting the rights of the minority up for a popular vote. Those changes were made after people rose up and fought for their rights. After people demanded that their government treat them as equals.
Sorry, Pat. The people are speaking once again. If you can bother to stop listening to your scratchy old LPs you just might be able to hear them.
Oh... and one more thing. I'm really not into the leather/fetish scenes so forgive me if this question is a little naive. But does that dog collar mean you're a bottom?
