• February 12, 2012
  • SENATE APPROVES GAY HATE CRIMES/WAR BILL: The Senate finally approved after 10 billion years a measure to include gay people and all sorts of wacky gender hybrids under the “hate crimes umbrella,” as part of a massive massive war/death/killing Defense Appropriations bill. Now gays can get married! [NYT]

{ 42 comments }

shortsshortsshorts October 23, 2009 at 1:56 pm

Does this mean we can no longer slap them around on transit?

Advocatus_Diaboli October 23, 2009 at 1:58 pm

It’s just like Germany in the 1920s. Right? It’s definitely just like something right before something else bad.

AbstinenceOnly Ed October 23, 2009 at 1:58 pm

A pink slip would send an unequivocal message! Show your disapproval by sending your congress a pink slip, lavender negligee, or chartreuse teddy, whatever is closest at hand, to show how much you hate the gays and want to reclaim sissy colors for good ol’ fashioned fagstompin’ self-loathin’ closeted ‘murricans!

ChernobylSoup v2 October 23, 2009 at 1:59 pm

I guess I have to go apologize for calling the junior high band director a gaywad in 1982.

Scruffy_The_Janitor October 23, 2009 at 2:01 pm

I can finally come out of the closet to my family at thanksgiving dinner.

magic titty October 23, 2009 at 2:01 pm

[re=442542]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: Yes, but you can still choke a bitch, if need be.

RoscoePColtraine October 23, 2009 at 2:02 pm

But if you outlaw hate, it will only be the outlaws who hate. (I cut and pasted the pro-gun argument due to laziness.)

hobospacejunkie October 23, 2009 at 2:05 pm

Poor Jeff Sessions will have to cancel that lynching party he’d planned for Saturday night.

freakishlystrong October 23, 2009 at 2:07 pm

It was brilliant attaching this to the “massive massive war/death/killing Defense Appropriations bill”. No rock hard Republic can vote No on that. Oh, some did? Because of the gay thingee?
Never mind.

Come here a minute October 23, 2009 at 2:08 pm

Warning — gay hate is still not a crime if it is used to throw people out of the military.

hockeymom October 23, 2009 at 2:09 pm

Is this the bill from which Sen Inouye (D, Hawaii) is going to strip the Franken anti-rape/no-binding arbitration for defense contractors amendment?
Because if so, that’s a really douchebag thing to do, Senator “I’ve received close to 300-grand from Defense Contractors” Inouye.

Senator’s number 202-224-3934

proudgrampa October 23, 2009 at 2:10 pm

Apparently, the irony in “hate crime / war appropriations” bill escapes everyone in Washington…

What if they gave a war and no one funded it???

When will they ever learn…

ChernobylSoup v2 October 23, 2009 at 2:10 pm

Can we now posthumously prosecute Reagan for willfully ignoring that whole AIDS thing?

FlownOver October 23, 2009 at 2:13 pm

[re=442563]hobospacejunkie[/re]: Does the new law say “and,” or “or?” ‘Cause if it’s “or,” Sessions can still string up all the fag tranny Jew coloreds he can round up.

Extemporanus October 23, 2009 at 2:13 pm

[re=442568]Come here a minute[/re]: I was thinking along similar lines:

Exactly how many gays does this appropriations bill allocate to our armed forces fighting hate over there so that we don’t have to fight it here?

x111e7thst October 23, 2009 at 2:14 pm

[re=442542]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: We certainly are no longer permitted to enjoy doing so.

shadowMark October 23, 2009 at 2:15 pm

Right now Roman Polanski has a dozen books open on his bunk in jail and he’s flipping through sheet after sheet of computer printout and he’s got three lawyers on various cell phones–CELL phones–and he and his lawyers are desperately trying to find some wording in this bill that can be construed to mean sticking it in an unconscious tween girl is an orientation.

RoscoePColtraine October 23, 2009 at 2:16 pm

What a dilemma this was for the Republicans. They had to ponder which was stronger, their love for the troops or their hatred of teh gayz. It was like the end of Sophie’s Choice multiplied by any of the Saw flicks.

dum librul October 23, 2009 at 2:16 pm

Take heart, Republicans, you can still fire as many trans people as your black little hearts desire. And if you frown hard enough, HRC will ensure it stays that way for many more years.

But yeah, in a span of one week we’ve had 30 Republican senators voting for rape and then 30 more again voting for hate. Rape and hate are the only weapons with which to fight off George Orwell and stuff that is written in George Orwell’s books.

SayItWithWookies October 23, 2009 at 2:19 pm

[re=442566]freakishlystrong[/re]: It’s a gay amendment — the problem is, it’s not allowed to admit that it’s a gay amendment.

McDuff October 23, 2009 at 2:21 pm

So now when a gay is stomped to death or a black man is dragged to death behind a truck, a couple of overworked FBI agents show up, ask a couple of questions, and mutter under their breath to the local sheriff that the dude probably deserved it. Yep, problem solved.

Humpback October 23, 2009 at 2:24 pm

Ya’ know, that headline–”gay” “hate” “war” “crimes”–a time-traveler from the 1950′s would have no idea what you were talking about.

Lascauxcaveman October 23, 2009 at 2:26 pm

[re=442548]ChernobylSoup v2[/re]: I guess I have to go apologize for calling the junior high band director a gaywad in 1982.

Yes, but only if he was a gaywad. If he was actually a normal, then the new law doesn’t apply. Weird, huh?

Extemporanus October 23, 2009 at 2:27 pm

[re=442542]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: It’s now considered a hate crime not to slap gay ass when riding the F-Line.

However, all other gay slapping must be conducted in the privacy of one’s own pants pocket.

RoscoePColtraine October 23, 2009 at 2:28 pm

This is just another case of the federal government meddling in local/provincial affairs. What do they think this is…a private family argument concerning what to do about the brain-dead wife on life support?

Extemporanus October 23, 2009 at 2:28 pm

[re=442578]RoscoePColtraine[/re]: Thankfully, a sister’s love is stronger than death.

freakishlystrong October 23, 2009 at 2:29 pm

[re=442582]SayItWithWookies[/re]: So we now have closet amendments? U.S.A!11 U.S.A!11

ChernobylSoup v2 October 23, 2009 at 2:34 pm

[re=442587]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: Yeah we pretty much called everyone gaywads back then. Gaylord had a short stint of popularity though.

Good times.

coolcatdaddy October 23, 2009 at 2:35 pm

[re=442579]dum librul[/re]: The New GOP – now with even more Hate and Rape!

RoscoePColtraine October 23, 2009 at 2:39 pm

It troubles me greatly that when these Republicans face the voters to ‘splain that they voted against funding the troops because they weren’t about to give the police any help with hauling in the folks who wish to reserve the right to assault faggots, the voters will understand. Because there was another side to this, you see.

Crank Tango October 23, 2009 at 2:42 pm

[re=442597]ChernobylSoup v2[/re]: I prefer the more sportsmanly “fagbait”

hockeymom October 23, 2009 at 2:43 pm

[re=442598]coolcatdaddy[/re]: family values!

bitchincamaro October 23, 2009 at 2:47 pm

For the troops. And the fags.

bitchincamaro October 23, 2009 at 2:56 pm

[re=442582]SayItWithWookies[/re]: The amendment that dare not speak its name.

Mr Blifil October 23, 2009 at 2:57 pm

There’s a pounded in the ass reference to be made here somewhere.

Naked Bunny with a Whip October 23, 2009 at 2:59 pm

This legislation also requires you accept hugs from furries or risk jail time.

ChernobylSoup v2 October 23, 2009 at 3:00 pm

[re=442585]Humpback[/re]: The owner of Pilot gas company, which owns a bunch of huge truckstops along the interstates, was asked how he came up with the name. He said it was back in the ’50s and it was either going to be Pilot or Gay Gas, which he liked because the signs would be cheaper since he could use the letter G twice, as in

Gay
a
s

He says now he’s glad he went with Pilot.

Accordion-o-rama October 23, 2009 at 3:04 pm

[re=442553]Scruffy_The_Janitor[/re]: See “A Thanksgiving Memory” by the National Lampoon.

shadowMark October 23, 2009 at 3:13 pm

[re=442542]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: It means that when anyone here starts to type Eat a bag of dicks except for illustration purposes the jackbooted thugs will kick in your door and wrestle you to the ground before you even get to the dicks so just watch it!

Decker October 23, 2009 at 3:27 pm

[re=442569]hockeymom[/re]: Exactly. What’s to keep Inouye from stripping out this too, once his contracting buddies come to him whining about how they can’t shoot some truck driver from Paducah in the head when he refuses to suck their dicks in Afghanistan?

PoignancySelz October 23, 2009 at 3:36 pm

Did anyone actually read this bill? I wonder if Wiccans are covered.

snideinplainsight October 23, 2009 at 3:52 pm

In the future everyone will make non-binary gender choices. In the future, mustard and ketchup will just be points along an infinite line of condiments. Time will be both continuous and discrete. The totality will be infinitessimalized. The internet will be infundicular – it shall be larger on the inside than outside. Cats and dogs will hybridize and merge. Consciousness shall be de-localized and randomly accessible. Concepts such as ‘hardware’ and ‘software’ shall no longer have meaning. Yankee fans and Red Sox fans will share the same homes – perhaps even the same bathrooms.

Yet, Conservative and Liberal shall become farther and farther away in their perceptions of objective reality.

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