The Christo-fascist, anti-gay Christian Right, continues its attacks against gays and lesbians by targeting businesses that in any way support equality for gays and lesbians or treat gays and lesbians with dignity or respect. They cannot tolerate treating gay people as human beings.

The American Family Association, headed by the looney Don Wildmon, dropped a threatened boycott of Ford Motor Co. after claiming the company had given into its demands to stop advertising in gay magainzes and supporting gay organizations. At first it appeared that Ford had caved in to the AFA's bigotry, when the company pulled advertising of some of its automotive brands from gay magazines. However, after meeting with leaders from several gay organizations, Ford issued a statement affirming its policies of providing benefits for gay and lesbian employees and said it will continue to advertising some car models in gay magazines. Apparently the AFA was lying about its secret deal with Ford.

Focus on the Family announced that it is withdrawing its funds from Wells Fargo Bank because of that company's support of gay and lesbian organizations. Wells Fargo also refused to cave in to ant-gay bigotry and affirmed its support of gay and lesbian organizations.

Now the homophobic Christian Right are attacking the new gay-love cowboy movie Brokeback Mountain, claiming the film is propaganda for the homoseuxal agenda. (Wasn't the Passion of the Christ propaganda for the Christian Right?) Anyway, why are these so-called Christian so afraid of same-sex love? Why can American society tolerate violence between men, applaud men who kill other men in war, and men who beat each other in boxing and wrestling rings, but refuse to accept two men loving each other or, gasp, kissing!

While they claim that showing two men kissing or showing love and affection is "sick", "evil" and "gross," I think the real reason they fear it is that they know it is not "gross" at all, that they fear that it will tempt all the repressed homosexuals in their churches. I think Freud was right about the problems repressed homosexuality causes in society, and the more some men protest against men loving other men, the more I think they are repressing their own natural feelings. It is essential to compulsory heterosexuality and hegemonic masculinity to repress same-sex love between men.

Brokeback Mountain is getting lots of critical praise and is a leading contender for Oscar awards.. so it may be a historically important movie if enough theaters will show it and hopefully enough straight people will see it to appreciate a great love story.

Every year the right-wing Christo-fascists scream and yell that Christmas, and Christians, are under attack by the secular "liberal" media and liberal groups like the ACLU and People for the American Way. In reality, these liberal groups are protecting the Constitution and defending the "separation of church and state" from the Christo-fascists who believe the United States should be a theocracy in which the government and laws are based on their fundamentalists (irrational) religious beliefs.

"Christmas" is not under attack from liberals, it is under attack from corporate consumerism. People are free to celebrate Christmas or Hannaka or whatever religious holiday they wish, but the government cannot sanction or endorse any religious groups holiday. The government must be neutral and separate from Christianity or an other religion.

Secularists are under attack. If we speak up to defend our constitutional right to be free FROM religion we are viciously attacked by the right-wing media and their goons. This last week U of Kansas professor Paul Mirecki was forced out of his position as chair of the religious studies dept. for trying to teach a class on "Intelligent Design and other Myths." In emails to students he referred to the Christian fundamentalists who were forcing Creationism to be taught in the public schools as "fundies." For that he was attacked and forced out of his job...

I wish there was a real war on religious fundamentlism in the United States. I wish more "liberals" would defend the SECULAR Constitution of the United States from the Christo-fascists.. but it looks like it is only a few of us who are willing to speak up and risk getting attacked and loossing our jobs to stand for the truth..

Harold Ford Jr. is starting to pay a political price for his vote in favor of the anti-gay Federal Marriage Amendment in the House of Representatives. The Advocate reports that pro-gay San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom backed out of a fundraiser for Harold Ford Jr. after learning that Ford had voted for the FMA, urging him to cancel the event.

Ford thought, probably correctly, that voting for the FMA and opposing gay marriage will help him in his campaign for the U.S. Senate in Tennessee. Now he will face problems getting support and raising money outside of the conservative south in more liberal states. It may not be enough to stop his campaign, but hopefully he and other Democrats will learn that they cannot get away with opposing gay rights to win political offices in the Democratic Party.

Tennessee gay Democrats should be doing more to oppose Harold Ford Jr. and support his opponent, Rosalind Kurita, who seems to be more progressive, but I'm not sure how gay supportive she is. If I'm not mistaken, I believe she voted for the TN anti-gay marriage amendment.

Too bad we don't ahve a strong state or local chapter of the Stonewall Democrats to organize in this campaign.