Nutjob From the Nutmeg State

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Tuesday's primaries may feel like ancient history now, but you should know about one candidate who thought calling for the execution of LGBTQ people was a winning strategy.

Jadon MacCormack ran in the Republican primary for a seat in the Connecticut legislature. Along the way, MacCormack said in a radio interview, "I believe that every sodomite is a pervert," and perverts should get the death penalty.

MacCormack noted he doesn't want individuals to take it upon themselves to execute queers. No, the government should be in charge of that. How restrained of him.

Just imagine the 4th of July festivities in the Connecticut capital of Hartford:  parades, concerts, and public hangings.

MacCormack got some votes, but he lost the primary. Since the Christian podcaster also believes Catholicism is a false religion, the Salem witch trials were morally justified, and Israel worships the devil, he should just ditch politics and appoint himself Grand Inquisitor.

Much easier, and a cool title.

If the Shoe Fits

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Nancy Mace called any elected Islamic official "a threat to America." She's volunteered to check bathroom stalls not just for trans people but Muslims as well. She says, "I can hear a Muslim flush. They can't be allowed to use our hand dryers and soap dispensers. Not on my watch."

Paul Rudnick

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Today's PSA

 

Pet Peeve

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It strikes me as unlikely that you need another reason to detest our president.

I'm gonna give you one anyway.

In a recent newsletter, an animal shelter here in western Washington described the problem thus:  "Economic woes are playing a dramatic role in increased intakes and longer lengths of stay for animals at shelters. Shelters are struggling to keep up, and it’s getting more difficult by the day to sustain operations while adhering" to a no-kill policy.

In other words, inflation and the cost of living under Trump have made it scary hard for people to keep their pets, and shelters around the nation are floundering.

I defy any lesbian who reads this to get a wink of sleep tonight.

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One of Scouting America’s biggest gatherings has eliminated dedicated spaces for gay youth, women and scouts of color as the organization faces pressure from the Pentagon to pull back diversity efforts.

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Guess

 

As It Should Be

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Later today I'll be officiating the wedding of my nephew and his girlfriend.

I'm so glad straight people are allowed to marry, too.

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Original thought is like original sin:  both happened before you were born to people you could not possibly have met.

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Wish I'd Thought of This

 

Hate Crime Hell

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I was just settling in to watch the WNBA All-Star Game—thereby proving my lesbian bona fides—when a friend texted me about likely homophobic violence in Germany today.

A person or persons drove a vehicle into a crowd at a Berlin Pride event. One individual has died and 16 people have been injured.

I'm sure all the victims would've preferred a less painful way to prove their LGBTQ bona fides.

Couldn't Choose Just One

 

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We had this ridiculous CHIPS Act where you give billions of dollars to a company, and they didn't even know what the hell to do with it . . . And of course, the standards were so high if you weren't transgender, as an example, uh, you didn't qualify. So they get the money, they hired— they look all over for transgender people to run the company, large portions. They couldn't find them. They weren't into the chip business, I guess.

In a July 15 speech in Pennsylvania, Donald Trump gets the bends on dry land, claiming that a technology law his predecessor signed requires chip manufacturers to hire transgender executives

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More Than a Dummkopf

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Jens Spahn, a bigwig German conservative politician, has long opposed surrogacy, which is banned in his country.

Spahn said in 2015 that "as a gay man and a Christian, I find it personally very hard to warm to the idea of a rented womb."

Recently he got over his misgivings, as he and his husband not only rented a womb but furnished it.

The womb belonged to an American, an option European gay couples exercise to get around restrictions in their countries. (So expect Donald Trump to slap a tariff on American uteruses.)

Baby Georg was born to Spahn and his husband. The latter posted an Instagram picture of the couple, with Spahn pushing a stroller, captioned "We Are Family." Spahn told a German publication, "Georg is our greatest joy. This feeling is almost impossible to put into words."

Fellow conservatives had no trouble putting criticism into words, and his political opponents sang out the word "hypocrisy." The strudel hit the fan, and on Saturday Spahn resigned.

In his resignation letter, Spahn wrote, "Over the ‌past few days, I have come to realize that my personal happiness — starting a family with my husband and becoming a father — is incompatible with my ​political office."

I speak some German, but I regret that I don't know how to say, "Dude, duh."

The Force Was With Her

 

Change of Plan

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I genuinely intended to watch Donald Trump spew election lies last night. But when the moment arrived, I just couldn't face it, and I turned to much lighter television instead.

I chose Looney Tunes over loony tunes.

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The writer E. Jean Carroll has collected over $5.6 million that a jury awarded in her sexual abuse and defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump, court records and her lawyers said.

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The Grim Peeper

 

Lindsey, You Hardly Knew Ye

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As a rule, I don't assign gayness to somebody unless that person has confirmed it.

Except in the case of Lindsey Graham. I believe the Republican senator, who died suddenly last night at 71, was gayer than Liberace's candelabra.

Graham consistently denied being gay, and he did his home state of South Carolina proud by voting against queer rights early and often. After the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in 2015, Graham announced,"I am a proud defender of traditional marriage."

While thinking to himself, "As God is my witness, I shall find my Rhett Butler."

But the hypocrisy of "Lady G" in this arena actually bothers me less than what came later. While briefly chasing the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, Graham called Donald Trump a "race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot" and "unfit for office."

Turned out he was more right than he knew. But after Trump won the presidency, Graham performed a transformation that any drag queen would envy. He became Trump's adviser, golfing buddy, and robust defender. 

On the night of Jan. 6, 2021, after the attack on the Capitol, Graham announced dramatically on the Senate floor, "Count me out. Enough is enough." But that was the adrenaline talking, and the senator soon returned to Yorkshire Terrier status.

Trump has ordered that flags be flown at half-staff this week. He said Graham "was like a member of the family to me."

If that's not the sorriest epitaph I've ever heard, I'm a palmetto tree.

Pressing Question

 

The Unwell

 

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Let's hope Donald is just as successful in his attempts to rig the midterms as he was in his attempt to rig the World Cup.

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Only Way I Can Explain It

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Lots of folks have an opinion on the rape allegation against Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner. Even former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

"The one thing I know about Republicans: When we had a very bad candidate and found out, we didn’t vote for that person. We walked away," McCarthy said on Fox News.

Sad. Obviously ol' Kev has early Alzheimer's.

The Rainbow Reaction

 

The GG Question

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It's here, the 250th birthday of the United States. If you're American, how do you feel about our country today? (If you're not, feel free to comment, too. Like I would leave anybody out on a day celebrating democracy.)

Rocking the Boat

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A long-planned gay cruise in the Mediterranean has hit a whirlpool.

Provincial officials in Turkey have denied the cruise ship permission to dock next week, citing groups on board "known for behaviors that do not align with the structure of our society and our moral values."

Safe to assume they're not talking about vegetarians.

It turns out that Broadway superstar Patti LuPone is performing on board, and Evita isn't happy. "A ship—a magnificent ship—full of well-heeled gay men. And me. Denied entry to Turkey simply because of who is on board," she wrote on Facebook.

The Turks had best beware. In ancient times, Greek goddesses held sway there. But their wrath was nothing compared to a modern diva.

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You can love America and also delight in watching Trump’s vain vision of America’s 250th celebration fizzle like a sparkler in a sprinkler.

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Folklore

 

Pride 2026

 

Here's evidence that I (on the right) marched with my church in Seattle's Pride Parade yesterday. The crowd seemed both celebratory and defiant, which, by the end of the procession, was more than could be said for my knees.

The Horror

 

That Was Then

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It was 11 years ago today that the Supreme Court made marriage equality the law of the land.

If that hadn't happened and Jim Obergefell stood before this present crop of justices, they'd give him a choice between conversion therapy or scrubbing the Reflecting Pool.

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How many more gay people must God create until we realize that he wants them here?

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Pastor Odious

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Allow me to introduce you to Jackson Lahmeyer, megachurch minister.

The founder of Pastors for Trump, Lahmeyer has ended his bid for a congressional seat from Oklahoma, thanks to a report in the Daily Mail tabloid. It seems the married Lahmeyer exchanged thousands of racy text messages with a former beauty queen who worked on his campaign.

In one message, the father of five says he "enjoyed those lips." In another, Lahmeyer tells her of going to a strip club after leaving Mar-A-Lago.

Just another fundamentalist minister who moonlights as a hypocrite?

Not quite. Lahmeyer previously claimed that "witchcraft-practicing lesbians" started Black Lives Matter. And he posted that the "Antichrist will be a HOMOSEXUAL of Jewish descent."

Lahmeyer's sexting scandal won't land the two-faced HETEROSEXUAL bigot in nearly enough trouble for my taste. If you ask me, the witchcraft-practicing lesbians have shirked their duty by not coming up with a spell for these occasions.

My Fave So Far

 

Mama Mia

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Once close right-wing allies, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Donald Trump are now as compatible as Risotto alla Milanese and Kool-Aid.

Trump's claim that Meloni "begged" him for a photo at the recent G7 Summit has cheesed off the Italian leader, who called the assertion "totally fabricated."

CNN points out that Trump has a lengthy history of lying about individuals begging him for things, especially when the person, formerly supportive of Trump, turns critical, as Meloni has over tariffs, the Pope, and the Iran war. "Rather than risk looking spurned, he pretends that he was the spurner."

It's about "face-saving dominance," the zillionth example of Trump's addiction to hypermasculinity. And telling whoppers.

What former supporter will he use this tactic against next? Don't be surprised if Trump claims that Marjorie Taylor Greene is begging him to appoint her special ambassador of heckling.

June 19 Does Double Duty

 

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Riley Gaines just swam the DC reflecting pool and came in fifth, right after the algae.

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Miss Lindsey's Dream Come True

 

Lordy

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Even by Trumpian standards, this one was bananas.

In the Oval Office on Thursday, Donald Trump declared that states are snatching people's children and forcing them to transition.

"Where your child leaves your house, and they take your child from you, in some cases . . .  Think of it, in six states, they take the child and do what they want to do. What they do is, is— I don’t even want to talk about it! No transgender mutilization of your children."

That's not a typo. He really said "mutilization."

I know it's easy to say our president is a buffoon, but now he actually sounds just like Moe Howard of The Three Stooges, who often threatened, "I'll murderize you!"

Why, I wonder, have states gotten in the habit of kidnapping and performing surgery on kids? Is it a moneymaker, a way of paying for roads and bridges? Or do state officials simply like to dress up as the Child Catcher in "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?"

Trump failed to mention which six states are doing this dreadful thing. So I'm forced to guess:  East Dakota, Upper Carolina, Lower Slobbovia, Calisota, Missitucky, and Moosylvania.

And they should all be ashamed of themselves.