News Round-Up: March 12, 2019

Austin Wolf finds his light

Some news items you might have missed:

• 'Fitness obsessed' InstaHunk Austin Wolf (above) knows how to find the dramatic gym lighting for maximum selfie impact.

• A man wrote in to an advice column after he met his girlfriend's parents and realized he'd once hooked up with the dad.

• Donald Trump threw a Twitter rant over so-called 'presidential harassment' after the New York attorney general’s office issued subpoenas to Deutsche Bank and Investors Bank for records relating to the financing of four major Trump Organization projects and a failed effort to buy the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League in 2014.

New York State and its Governor, Andrew Cuomo, are now proud members of the group of PRESIDENTIAL HARASSERS. No wonder people are fleeing the State in record numbers. The Witch Hunt continues!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 12, 2019

• Hate group leader Bill Donohue pens an op-ed for the Catholic League whining passage of the Equality Act will result in "affirmative action for the sexually confused."

• A new app will help #MAGA Trump supporters find restaurants that are safe spaces for their red hats and white nationalist views.

• Media Matters for America has released several recordings of Fox News host Tucker Carlson calling into a favorite radio show in the early 2000s using homophobic, misogynist and racist slurs. #WhoIsSurprised?

• Dido drops a beautiful acoustic version of “Mad Love” from her new album, Still On My Mind.

I find her voice to be so pure; and her music has a chill, relaxing effect on me. Hit play below.

Catholic League announces boycott of Guiness Beer over St. Patrick's Day Parade sponsorship

Anti-gay Catholic League president Bill Donohue has called for his promised boycott petition against Guinness beer for their pulling sponsorship of the St. Patrick's Day Parade over LGBT exclusion.

From the Catholic League website:

Gays have never been barred from marching in any St. Patrick’s Day parade—they simply cannot march under their own banner. Neither can pro-life Catholics. The message of the St. Patrick’s Day parade is simple: it is to honor St. Patrick. It is not about any other cause. That’s why we have parades that celebrate other causes: it’s called respect for diversity. In 1995, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 9-0 to sustain the right of private parade organizers to determine their own rules for participation. If this ruling were otherwise, then groups that seek to veto the message of any parade would be allowed to march, thus undercutting the purpose of the parade. This would effectively kill freedom of speech and freedom of assembly.

Guinness is showing its disrespect for diversity, its support for intolerance, and its contempt for the First Amendment rights of everyone associated with the St. Patrick’s Day parade. Make no mistake about it, Guinness chose to boycott this parade because of its quintessentially Catholic nature: radicals who hate the moral teachings of the Catholic Church fingered this parade because of its religious significance. If Guinness reinstates its sponsorship of New York’s St. Patrick’s Day parade, this campaign will end. Until it does, I support the Catholic League’s boycott of Guinness.

I doubt Guiness is shaking in their boots.

Remember - when the haters pull out their boycotts it's standing up for morals. When gays decide to boycott, we're "bullies."

Right...

Catholic League President Bill Donohue invited to march in NYC Gay Pride Parade

Recently, Catholic League mouthpiece Bill Donohue had applied to march in NYC's LGBT Pride parade carrying a "Straight is Great" banner in a challenge to its inclusiveness following controversy over gay exclusion from the St. Patrick's Day parade.

Now, NYC Pride has happily invited Mr. Donohue to march in the :

In response to email communications from Bill Donohue, President of the Catholic League, NYC Pride representatives provided instructions for the March’s online registration system.

“Mr. Donohue and his group are free to participate in the 2014 March. His group’s presence affirms the need for this year’s Pride theme, ‘We Have Won When We’re One.’ Straight is great – as long as there’s no hate,” said David Studinski, March Director of NYC Pride.

Chris Frederick, Managing Director of NYC Pride, added, “Straight allies are great. We have thousands of straight people participating in the Pride March, including Catholic groups, who support LGBT youth, families and married couples.”

On February 27, 2014, Donohue gave a video interview with World Over with Raymond Arroyo in which he stated, "If I wanted to get into their gay pride parade with my own float with big banners saying 'straight is great,' they would have a right to feel put-upon and I wouldn't do that to them."

You can watch Donohue talk about the idea of his marching in the LGBT Parade here.

You'll note he immediately assumes we would want to bar him from being in our parade. And thus the difference between Donohue and his ilk. Once again the LGBT community shows our inclusiveness in happily allowing people to join us in our celebration.

It's a shame that Donohue can't learn the same lesson of inclusion himself.

Mr. Donohue has been an outspoken opponent of legal recognition of LGBT people, loving LGBT families, the science of sexual orientation and HIV/AIDS education.

He continually refers to marriage equality as "crazy" and "one of the most bizarre ideas in human history," and he has equated the marriage equality movement with the "minority of people in South Africa who took away the rights of Black people."  On multiple occasions, Mr. Donohue has referred to AIDS as "self-inflicted" and due to going against “natural order.”

And yet, in spite of all that, aren't we gays great?  WE want to include everyone, even our haters.

Yay us!

See you at the parade Bill!

Catholic League President refuses to follow Pope Francis' shift from bashing gays

CNN's Chris Cuomo and Catholic League President Bill Donohue duel over the Pope's recent comments that said that the Roman Catholic Church has become unduly obsessed with condemning abortion, gay marriage, and contraception. The church, he said, should emphasize compassion and mercy instead of “small-minded rules.”

Bill Donohue is not having any of it.

Cuomo: You have bashed on these issues for years and years. Most infamously, recently, saying that the Church had a homosexual problem, not a pedophile problem. I mean really incendiary, flagrant, divisive stuff…. You’re saying you won’t do that anymore?

Donohue: Oh no, I will always tell the truth...

Cuomo: Well, that wasn’t the truth.

Donohue: If 81% of the victims are male and 100% of the victimizers are male, and if 78% of the victims are post-pubescent, the word in the English language is not pedophilia, it’s called homosexuality.

When Donohue asked Cuomo if he thinks he “made up those figures,” Cuomo replied, “I think you’re parsing them, I think you’re cherry-picking them and I think that the most important part is your motivation. You just heard what the Pope said. Why wouldn’t you try to move past this parsing rhetoric and try to be what your church is supposed to be about?”

Cuomo told Donohue that he thinks the Pope is giving a message of love and understanding, adding that the Pope may think – 'Jesus wasn’t about what you’re doing right now.'

“So you think the nuns on the bus that are bringing everybody together by going out there in favor of Obamacare against what the Bishops want. They’re the ones who are divisive, typically on the left, but not exclusively,” Donahue said.

Cuomo responded, “I’m thinking what he wants is for you to spend less time bashing nuns….”

(via CNN)

Catholic League Prez Bill Donohue - "Marriage has nothing to do with love"

Current TV's John Fugelsang spars with Catholic League President Bill Donohue over gay marriage, the Catholic League's feud with Bill Maher and the priest sex abuse scandal.

Just one little gem from Donohue:
"This idea of two men getting married is the most bizarre idea in human history... Christians have an obligation, particularly Catholics to follow natural law. The whole purpose of marriage is to have a family.  It's not about making people happy.  It's not about love."