h/t: Joe.My.God

By Michael Crawford
Cross-posted at Bilerico

I don’t mean to offend drag queens when I ask that question, but look at this video from Progress Accountability and see for yourself.

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By Michael Crawford

Andrew Sullivan appeared along with Naomi Klein and Will.I.Am on Real Time with Bill Maher and eviscerated Sarah Palin. Here is a taste:

She is a farce. It is a joke. It is absurd. It is something [McCain's pick] that should dismissed out of hand as the most irresponsible act any candidate has any made.

h/t: Joe.My.God

By Alex Blaze
Cross-posted at Bilerico

It turns out that the reason why Sarah Palin opposed paying for rape kits with city money, instead sending the bill to the victims, might not be what we thought. Personally, I just thought that like most law-and-order nuts, she was simply sexist and thought that crimes against women just count less. It couldn’t have actually been the $14,000/year; Sarah Palin billed tax payers more just for her own food.

hekebolos at DailyKos suggests that it’s about what the emergency contraception that rape kits contain (from a May 2000 article on a law that passed that year specifically in response to the Palin administration’s refusal to pay for these kits):

The new bill would also make law enforcement agencies that are investigating a sexual assault responsible for the costs of testing victims for sexually transmitted diseases and emergency contraception.

More after the jump.

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By Richard J. Rosendall
First published September 11, 2008 in Bay Windows

I’m sick of the phony reasons some gay people give for opposing Barack Obama. I am not talking about my friends in Log Cabin Republicans, who prefer John McCain for broader ideological reasons. I am talking about angry Hillary Clinton supporters.

For example, Sirius OutQ talk-radio host Larry Flick, still upset that Clinton had not won the Democratic nomination, slammed Obama on Aug. 28 for opposing same-sex marriage. Yet Clinton holds the same position on marriage — except that she would only repeal Article 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, whereas Obama favors total repeal.

Flick challenged Sirius Left host Mark Thompson, an African American minister and activist with whom I’ve worked for years, on his support for Obama. Flick expressed outrage that Obama accepted help from “blatant, aggressive homophobes” Donnie McClurkin and Illinois state Sen. James Meeks. Yet Clinton enjoyed support from homophobic Bishop Eddie Long of Lithonia, Ga., and from former D.C. City Council member Vincent Orange, who as a mayoral candidate in 2006 called his opponents morally unfit for supporting marriage equality.

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By Bil Browning
Cross-posted at Bilerico

I don’t know why I’m continuously amazed at the sheer chutzpah of the Republican ticket. While the dastardly duo has clearly sunk to the lowest possible depths in an attempt to keep control of the country, the lengths they are willing to go still shocks me.

This latest news that Sarah Palin is refusing to cooperate with the bipartisan investigation into her alleged improper use of the Governor’s office to demand her ex-brother-in-law’s termination from the state troopers. When her public safety commissioner refused to fire the trooper, she canned him instead.

She’s claiming that the investigation has been “tainted and run by partisan individuals” because state senator Hollis French, the Democratic lawmaker managing the investigation is an Obama supporter. Keep in mind that the legislature deliberately made the investigation non-partisan, Palin supported the investigation originally (while suddenly finding evidence that her office just might have tried to influence the termination), and the person investigating her is an independent counsel.

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By Waymon Hudson
Cross-posted at Bilerico – Florida

More information is coming out about Palin and her quest to ban books from the Wasilla Library during her time as Mayor. A New York Times article details disturbing information about Palin’s push for censorship of books she considered “immoral”. Care to guess the focus of her ire?

Daddy’s Roommate, a book that helps kids understand same-sex families.

Laura Chase, the campaign manager during Palin’s first run for mayor in 1996, as well as Palin’s mayoral predecessor John Stein, both confirmed that she pushed to have the book removed from the library because it “didn’t belong there.” Ms. Chase read the book, found it inoffensive, and suggested Palin read it. Palin’s response was that she “didn’t need to read that stuff.”

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By Michael Crawford

Okay, this clip from last night’s Saturday Night Live is just for fun. But the barbs that fly between Tina Fey as Sarah Palin and Amy Poehler as Hillary Clinton are the kind of sharp commentary lacking from much of the traditional media’s reporting on this election cycle.

By Michael Crawford

With little more than 50 days to go before election, we are coming down to the wire in being able to reach out to friends and families about why this election is so crucial to the LGBT community. The information that gets shared here on LGBT for Obama is a great resource to help explain why a vote for John McCain is a vote against LGBT people and our families.

So spread the word about why an Obama victory matters and get involved.

Tuesday

America: Yours, Mine, and Ours – Pt. 1 – Terrence Heath

LGBT Political Roundtable – The Republican Convention – Michael Crawford

Wednesday

The Chickens are Voting For Colonel Sanders – Joan Garry

Thursday

Obama Pledges ‘Equality for All’ - Michael Crawford

McCain: Impropriety and Double Standards We Can’t Believe In – Jeremy Hooper

LGBT Groups Step Up Campaign Efforts – Michael Crawford

Saturday

Did Sarah Palin Seek to Ban Gay Book? – Michael Crawford

By Michael Crawford

You may have heard the reports that as mayor of Wasilla Sarah Palin considered banning books from the local library. Now the traditional media is finally picking up on the story. Among the book she may have looked into banning was Pastor, I am Gay by former PFLAG regional director Reverend Howard Bess.

Palin, now the Republican Vice-Presidential nominee, was elected mayor of Wasilla in 1996 with strong support from the Wasilla Assembly of God. The Assembly of God is well known for preaching anti-gay rhetoric from the pulpit.

Good Morning America aired this investigative report into the controversy: