A more precise headline would be, “Bully terrorizes gay Christian children in anti-gay sermon while congregation laughs.” Seriously: gay children were in fear of their lives during the sermon by Pastor Sean Harris shown below. Another pastor wrote to the Fayette Observer that the gay and lesbian Christian teens she counsels not to kill themselves include children who are members of Pastor Harris’s church.

Yesterday PJ Media published my post, “A Contrarian View of Dan Savage’s Rant,” which compares the offensive language of Dan Savage to the threats of violence against four-year-old boys by Pastor Sean Harris. If you read it there, I link the full video, but here is the clip that got my attention:

Transcript:

“So your little son starts to act a little girlish when he is four years old and instead of squashing that like a cockroach and saying, “Man up, son, get that dress off you and get outside and dig a ditch, because that is what boys do,” you get out the camera and you start taking pictures of Johnny acting like a female and then you upload it to YouTube and everybody laughs about it and the next thing you know, this dude, this kid is acting out childhood fantasies that should have been squashed.

Can I make it any clearer? Dads, the second you see your son dropping the limp wrist, you walk over there and crack that wrist. Man up. Give him a good punch. Ok? You are not going to act like that. You were made by God to be a male and you are going to be a male. And when your daughter starts acting to Butch you reign her in. And you say, “Oh, no, sweetheart. You can play sports. Play them to the glory of God. But sometimes you are going to act like a girl and walk like a girl and talk like a girl and smell like a girl and that means you are going to be beautiful. You are going to be attractive. You are going to dress yourself up.”

You say, “Can I take charge like that as a parent?”

Yeah, you can. You are authorized. I just gave you a special dispensation this morning to do that.”

(H/T: Good As You, a Leftist gay blog.)

From time-to-time I see Ace using the following quote — this time in reference to proposals that the government fight the obesity epidemic by forcing people to eat better and exercise more — and I am always surprised that he never makes the connection that however benevolent you believe it may be to force your religion on people through the government, it is tyranny:

As C.S. Lewis wrote, benevolently-intended tyrannies are the worst of all:

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

via fixerupper

Not even a more-in-sadness-than-anger resignation to the idea that freedom must be abolished — no, they’re positively giddy about it!

They would strip the freedoms away from Americans to vindicate a busybody impulse to slim people down?

If they’re willing to jettison freedom over so trivial a reason — what reasonwouldn’t justify ending the American birthright of freedom?

What would not, in their eyes, justify the coercive power of the state squashing individual autonomy?

H/T Instapundit

Thoughts for Earth Day: Oil only kills wildlife when there’s an accident, but wind energy kills birds, bats and insects — including the ones needed to pollinate crops – when the turbines are working as intended. And how do the wind farms kill birds and bats? The air pressure change near the turbines ruptures their lungs. Wind power isn’t green energy, it is red from being drenched in blood.

Dear Stacy gloats about the supposed Leftist hypocrisy of Out magazine firing all its staffers and hiring back a select few to work as freelancers willing to work without health insurance, benefits and steady paychecks. Ha! This is really just more proof that the gay community is a model of applied fiscal conservatism. After all, lesbians and gays cannot depend on any of the social institutions that lavish their largesse upon straight people: the family, religions, the government. We must depend on ourselves and one another.

That is why lesbians and gays choose entrepreneurial careers in large numbers. That is why the gay community creates its own charities, non-profits, services and businesses to serve its needs. That is why gays need taxes to be low and government small, so they have the discretionary cash for these purposes.

If gays ever want to have the power to make the Democrats keep their promises of gay equality, all they have to do is take a break from donating to and working for Democrats and — this is the key — start acting like they are willing to listen to lesbian and gay conservatives explain the advantages of fiscal conservatism.

Update, 4/20/12, Fri.:

Dear God, give me strength! Daniel Blatt, who blogs at Gay Patriot, cannot tell the difference between the following two concepts:

1. the unalienable rights all persons have
2. fairness.

One of the founding principles of conservatism is that life is not fair. We seek equality of opportunity and accept there is no such thing as equality of result without the application of force to deprive people of some measure of their liberty. So when Daniel seeks to expose the false reasoning of Leftist gays when he poses the question, “Can government make life fair for gay people? (Should it?),” you would think he would be on firm ground. And he would be, if he stuck to drawing distinctions between free market economies and socialist/redistributionist planned economies.

But noooooooo!!!! Daniel is NOT defending the principle that government cannot make life fair by ensuring equality of results — and must not deprive people of their liberty in a foolish quest to try. Instead, Daniel ridicules the bedrock conservative principle that one of the very few things government SHOULD do is guarantee equality of opportunity — in this case for gays. This means federal, state and local laws banning job discrimination against lesbians and gays.

Obama infuriated the gay community on April 11 by refusing to sign an executive order to end employment discrimination against gays working for federal contractors.

So, the answer to Daniel’s question, when it comes to employment and every other right of equal citizenship — such as marriage equality, housing and public accommodations — the government can and must make life fair for gays.

I made this video because I could not help imagining Obama’s conversation with David Axelrod over making him a dog-eating meme laughingstock until the end of time.

The Obama campaign is working hard to create distractions from Obama’s record. The image of the Romney’s Irish setter, Seamus, having bouts of diarrhea in his kennel strapped on the roof of the family station wagon during a family vacation in 1983 must have looked like the perfect way to demonize Romney.

Then a Daily Caller commenter named “Flatfoot” ruined everything. He reminded the Daily Caller’s humor blogger, Jim Treacher, that Obama boasted of eating dog meat during his youth in Indonesia. When PETA and DogsAgainstRomney.com tried to whitewash this as cultural and/or a youthful indiscretion, Treacher published a YouTube video of the dog-eating passage being read aloud by Obama himself for the audiobook version of his autobiography, Dreams from My Father. (The link has a bonus video of the “Morning Joe” contributors on MSNBC barely able to discuss the topic for laughing.) Now #ObamaEatsDogs is a hashtag on Twitter.

Ace, et al., have collected some especially delicious Photoshops — here are a couple of samples:

See Treacher for many more hilarious Obama dog-eating Photoshops.

Dear Keith Koffler, the White House reporter who blogs at White House Dossier, has rounded up the best tweets on #ObamaDogRecipes.

Michelle Malkin notes this scandal has given a sinister “new flavor” to the Obama school chant from 2008 — and links to the coverage at her new site, Twitchy.

And Allahpundit turned up a new Downfall parody where Hitler discovers that Obama has eaten his dog:

If you enjoy this video, I would love to make more. However, Xtranormal charges for characters and scenery. I take care of my father for room and board while I’m recovering my health and creating a career that will support me in the future. So if this video made you laugh and you can spare a few bucks, I’ll use the money to cover some pressing medical issues, make more videos and to buy the tools I need to improve this blog and make money. Thank you!

Update, 4/20/12, Fri.: Thank you, Prof. Jacobson, for making me “Post of the Day” at Legal Insurrection. Welcome, Legal Insurrection readers! For my readers, if you click the link, you will see a car bumper decorated in a fashion often seen in areas with high concentrations of openly lesbian liberals. But not one “Obama 2012″ sticker. Hmmmmm. I wonder what to make of that.

Update, 4/26/12, Thurs.: Allahpundit at Hot Air features a delicious clip from MSNBC (!) of David Axelrod suddenly eager to change the subject from dogs.

Dear Moe Lane inspired this post by noticing that Tumblr is a thing. How did this happen? Here’s the money quote from the video, which I urge you to watch because the young lady is both witty and wise:

Tumblr is life. Tumblr is probably going to take priority over your friends, homework and other obligations and responsibilities. It’s a Tumblr thing.

A political commentary blog like this one is tough to monetize. One of the reasons I’ve been quiet here is that I have to put my time into activities that make me healthy or wealthy — preferably both. I must become self-supporting while my father is still alive. Failure is not an option. I have a total passion to write this blog and have no trouble thinking of posts I would love to write every day. But you need a ton of traffic to make money from advertisements or affiliate links (such as reviews linked to a product on Amazon).

The other potential income streams are donations, subscriptions and posting an Amazon wish list. The donations to this blog have transformed my life HUGELY for the better and I am very grateful.* And the subscribers give me a huge boost to my morale, far out of proportion to their subscription amount. To make a living from this blog, I won’t just have to find my tribe, I will have to create one — which I’m totally stoked to do, by the way.

A political blogger is selling advocacy, wit and wisdom on spec. We have the business model of hippies — “Donate whatever you feel” — and panhandlers — “Help me with my crisis!”

Or, more accurately, we have the business model of worthy causes — charities, churches, non-profits, political parties and politicians: we must persuade supporters that our value to causes they support is worth their money. Fiscal conservatives fight to keep government small, taxes low and liberty safeguarded so that people have the discretionary income to give to the causes they choose.

Niche bloggers — the ones who have targeted markets that pay money for information products and physical items that they sell and the affiliate programs they promote — monetize their Tumblr blogs as follows (click the link for more details and links — also here):

1. Contextual ads, such as Google Adsense
2. In-text advertisements
3. In-image and in-video advertising
4. Affiliate programs, such as Amazon Associates or ClickBank
5. Banner ads
6. Sponsored posts (someone pays you to write something)

By the way, for a list of the top 10 ways to monetize a niche blog on WordPress, as opposed to Tumblr, dear David Risley is my go-to guy. The only thing I would add is that niche bloggers can build an opt-in e-mail list and use it to promote affiliate products and do joint ventures with other marketers in their own niche and related niches. Check out his podcast, “The Blog Program,” — show #2 lists 11 ways to monetize a blog.

*To the donors who sent me to CPAC: I will be explaining this week what happened to me the day after CPAC that was a big setback in my health and general progress. I still plan to write about it and I’ve just about re-gained all the ground I lost that day. The short version is that my working memory took a big hit, which plunged me into a two-month black hole.

… carping that his coming out post linked in his Facebook coming out update should have been more fabulous. Check out the full “guy comes out on Facebook” thread. The following were some of my favorite reactions from his friends — I recommend clicking to read the story because their interaction as they geek out on the stylishness of his coming out post is hilarious (assuming you are a geek):

[Commenter A]: Good work, [gay guy], it takes a lot of guts to post things on a plain HTML page these days. You’re an inspiration to us all Oh, and well done on the coming out as well. It’s good to see people accepting things like this. I think we can all agree that gay scientists had it rough in the past.

[Commenter B]: Have you told your family you don’t use style sheets? That’s the hardest part.

This matter-of-fact, no biggie reaction by this young gay man’s friends illustrates why Fox contributor and granddaughter of Pres. Herbert Hoover, Margaret Hoover, devoted one chapter of her book, American Individualism, to telling Republicans why they must embrace gay equality to remain viable as a party. Republicans just won’t attract young people with their current paradoxical branding of, “We’re about liberty and equality, except for you, you and you!” Kids these days! Where did they get the idea that the following statement includes lesbians and gays: “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Speaking of the best ways to come out, here’s my nomination for the “Best Coming Out Letter EVAH!”

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Over at the Conservative Commune, Joy McCann has an excellent post on “How to talk to the undecided voter” who voted for Obama in 2008. I recommend reading it. This is the group that is unhappy with the current economy and unemployment rates — especially if their own unemployment rate is 100 percent — but which does not follow political news closely, believes the mainstream media are fair watchdogs rather than unscrupulous propagandists, and has no economic or political philosophy to guide them in their choice of party or candidates. Due to their own honesty and idealism, they feel secure voting for the candidate making the best offer because, ahem, why would he or she lie? Wouldn’t the media catch them?

(Note to any liberals who have wandered in: in 2008, Pravda was mocking the U.S. press for its bias in favor of Obama. Pravda.)

The group to whom Obama promised the most and has delivered the least is lesbians and gays. They may be a harbinger of the behavior of the disappointed Obama 2008 voter in 2012. Judging from the comments on “Obama Advisers Reportedly Debating Gay Marriage,” by John Aravosis, which I recommend you read, gays finally have started to track Obama’s promises and they have noticed they don’t match what he actually delivers. As a result, they are refusing to donate and volunteer for Obama this time around — some are threatening to stay home on election day. So the point I would add to the discussion is that we need to be making lists of when Obama said one thing and did another.

Note to John Aravosis:

1. Gays are voting for Romney in the belief he will govern as a fiscal conservative and the hope that his social conservative policies will fail. We do not believe Romney is a closet social liberal. We are concerned that he is a closet fiscal liberal and we consider this a bug, not a feature. You really need to get a better grip on the philosophies underlying fiscal conservatism and social conservatism.
2. What Republicans are saying Obama supports gay marriage? Because all the ones I know like to rub it in that he doesn’t.
3. Democratic gays and lesbians belong to a party that, in 2012, does not support their equality and has the gall to pose as vacillating instead in order to string them along and keep their money, volunteer labor and votes. The gay community only thrives because it embodies fiscal conservative values of self-reliance and entrepreneurship. If you REALLY want to throw a scare into the Democrats and have some leverage, start making a show of listening to conservative lesbians and gays so they understand you have an alternative and you’re considering it.

Did I say you legally can be fired in 29 states in America due to your race or religion? Dang. I meant sexual orientation. You can be fired because you are gay, no matter how well you are doing your job, in 29 states. In America. While Obama is president and head of the Democratic party, which claims to support gay equality. Even though it did not pass ENDA, the Employment Nondiscrimination Act, which would protect gays from job discrimination, or repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, when Democrats controlled Congress and the White House from 2009 to 2011.

In fact, in September 2009, at the height of their powers, Democrats showed their true colors on gay equality and told gays that they would definitely repeal DOMA and pass all the laws needed to ensure gay equality as soon as hell froze over, but not a minute before. (Democrats do not deserve any credit for the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” because they didn’t do it until it was clear that the Log Cabin Republicans were about to prevail in their lawsuit to overturn the policy.)

And now, true to their word, Democrats are resisting including a plank in the party platform giving unequivocal support just for marriage equality, never mind protection from job discrimination.

Obama’s status of “evolving” on gay marriage took a baby step this week when he was cornered into releasing a statement through a surrogate that he “does not support” — which isn’t quite the same as opposing, is it? — a North Carolina referendum that would “make marriage between a man and a woman the only marriage the state would recognize.” The referendum will be voted on in North Carolina’s May 8 primary ballot.

Come November, Washington state, Minnesota, Maryland and Maine will have referendums on marriage equality on their ballots, so it will be instructive to see how far leftist gays will push Obama and the Democrats to deliver on their promises of support for gay equality. One of the most powerful strategies they could use to succeed in this is to start making a big show of willingness to hear lesbian and gay conservatives explain what fiscal conservatism has to offer the gay community. Show them that gays DO have options. Dear Human Rights Campaign, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, GLAAD and PFLAG: it’s called leverage, and I’m ready when you are.

On March 30, 2012, Facebook will change all profiles to its new “timeline” format. I found a graphic today explaining “10 Things You Need to Know about Revamped Facebook Pages,” but it is not embedding properly so I am just going to link it. What I like best about is that it tells you the dimensions in pixels to use for your photos and graphics. If you check it out, be sure to enlarge the graphic to a readable size by clicking it.

This video is about 30 minutes, but it is a handy summary of Obama’s record on Israel. It is important because what Obama says and what he promises always have to be tracked. What he says must be checked to see if it is consistent with other statements on that issue — or if what he said was what a particular audience wanted to hear for him to get what he wanted. His promises must be tracked to see what he actually does since he often reneges or he fulfills his promises in a way that betrays its recipients. Obama’s track record on Israel is particularly appalling.

Dear Jeff Dunetz, aka Yid with Lid, asks, “Can you judge Obama by his Jew-hating friends?”

Yes, you can, and that judgment was very influential in my vote against Obama in 2008, thanks to the reporting of Ben Shapiro, who is now an editor for Breitbart.com — and whom I got to meet at CPAC last month (thank you, donors!).