Attack of the Gays: Multiple entries about how being gay is wrong...
Apparently today is "Gay Bashing" day and I just simply wasn't informed. Rather than do just one article today, I'm going to mash together two articles with similar themes and hope none of you notice...

First, Gays vs. Oil? Who knew there was a competition?

The article, in a manner that I am certain was meant to specifically entertain me, starts off with the following:

"Anyone else reminded right now of that Eddie Izzard bit, where he walks around and asks people whether they would prefer "cake or death?" As you might imagine, most people choose cake."

But without some context I'm also rather certain that no one reading this has any idea why that is related. Long story short, a group of radical Christians located in Maine (the Maine Family Policy Council) has issued an opinion piece earlier this week in which they compared the BP oil leak in the gulf to the "flood of immorality" in the United States. However, not content to leave it there, they continue by saying that at least the oil spill will eventually be dealt with and therefore the oil spill is much better than the "gay problem".

Some part of me just wants to laugh at that. Something which is destroying the earth, the wildlife, and has already taken human life and is bound to take more is better than a group of people who are commonly caring, compassionate, and want to give help in a way that no one has ever given it to them. There's a typo here right? But no, this is a rather common consensus with with conservative Christian nut-jobs. This which are, in truth, not actually mentioned in the so called "good book" are much worse than things that are preached over an over again simply because some man in a white robe who's been dead for hundreds of years said so once...can someone please explain why it is so hard for these people to think before they speak?

This brings us to article 2 for the day, though.

Apparently someone has taken the comments of groups like this further to heart than others and started applying it to her workplace...and unfortunately for the world she's a doctor...

Dr. Maria New of Florida has decided that women should not ever like other women or, for that matter, should not wear pants, play with action figures/cars, or do anything that is "un-feminine" so she has decided to start treating her maternity patients with an experimental hormone which, as of right now, has not been approved by the FDA for ANYTHING, none the less what she wants to use it for. This hormone, dexamethasone (which my memory keeps telling me I last heard of as a poison but I could be wrong) is being used in the hopes of "preventing these new babies from expressing romantic feelings for other girls or acting in an un-feminine manner".

I'm sorry, but there are so many things wrong with this. First, I was rather certain that most Christian groups were against the whole "playing God" thing. Also, since when do people get praise for possibly poisoning pregnant women? Lastly, how is a doctor of all people getting away with actions such as this without being sued out the ass and put on trial by the medical board?

In a single week it seems we've gone from the Condom Fairy to the Dr. Kavorkian of the unborn. I think that one of the comments on one of the articles put it best though, and we those words I leave you.

"I'd love to take this lot out in the Gulf of Mexico, toss them overboard then say, 'Well, it's not as bad as gay marriage!'"

This is Tyrror from TehPainfulTruth and sometimes...the truth hurts...