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A Young Gay Trump Supporter Confronts the ‘Politics of Personal Destruction’

Posted on | September 1, 2016 | Comments Off on A Young Gay Trump Supporter Confronts the ‘Politics of Personal Destruction’

 

Lucian Wintrich is an artist in New York who lost his job because of his “Twinks for Trump” campaign. (“Twink” is gay slang for an attractive young male.) If you think Democrats are pro-gay, you should know what kind of persecution they inflict on gay Republicans:

Wintrich had his social media accounts shut down, was continuously harassed, and then ultimately fired from his job at one of New York’s largest advertising agencies.

In a stunning exception to its normal partisan cheerleading for Democrats, NBC News did a surprisingly fair story about Wintrich:

 

At the LGBT for Trump event Milo Yiannopoulos hosted during the Republican National Convention, I briefly met Wintrich. Liberals have a habit of assuming all gay people are Democrats, the same way they assume all women, all black people, all Hispanics and all union members are Democrats. However, the Republicans are a party of ideas, and there is nothing about the ideas of economic freedom, national security and social conservatism that puts them off-limits to any group. The common liberal belief that all gay people are necessarily “oppressed” by social conservatism, for example, ignores the kind of a live-and-let–live attitude that most conservatives have toward what used to be euphemistically called “alternative lifestyles.” The Bible-believing Southern Baptist in Oklahoma isn’t interested in using federal authority to “impose his morals” on gay people in New York or San Francisco, but he resents very much the way liberals want to use federal authority to impose their morals on his community in suburban Tulsa. This is how the “Bake Me a Cake” issue arises, with militant gay activists as cultural bullies, and this in turn involves the Compulsory Approval Doctrine:

As a result of Supreme Court decisions . . . homosexuality has now gained the status of a constitutional right, which means that disapproval of [homosexual behavior] is effectively prohibited. This new dispensation, which we might call the Compulsory Approval Doctrine, has the consequence of abolishing religious liberty. “Marriage equality” requires universal recognition of same-sex unions. Woe be unto the baker who, for religious reasons, refuses to provide a cake or the florist who refuses to provide flowers for a gay wedding.

We need no speculative theory of the causes of homosexuality to understand this. The controversial “born this way” explanation of homosexuality does not hold up under scientific scrutiny, but that’s not the point. The conflation of conservative Christianity with “hate” is a liberal propaganda claim that Christians have failed to counter effectively, and Democrats exploit this to their advantage by encouraging gay people to buy into a victimhood mentality. As with women (victims of Republican “sexism”) and minorities (victims of Republican “racism”), this Democrat message doesn’t work if members of these Official Victim groups openly support the GOP, so Democrats brutally attack gay Republicans.




 

Category: Donald Trump, Election, Gays, Media Bias

In The Mailbox: 09.01.16

Posted on | September 1, 2016 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.01.16

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
90 Miles From Tyranny: Mommie Dearest – Hillary Clinton, the Joan Crawford Of Presidents?
EBL: Clinton/Trump Candidate Forum September 7 In NYC; Matt Lauer To Moderate
Twitchy: Blurred Lines – Looks Like Clinton Foundation Exec And Huma Were Up To Some Shady Stuff
Glenn Reynolds: The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!
Ed Driscoll: Tom Wolfe Hunts The Biggest Of Prey In The Kingdom Of Speech


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Importance Of Having A Budget
American Power: Graduate Student President Milan Chatterjee Leaves UCLA After Being Harassed By Anti-Israel BDS Operatives
American Thinker: Hillary At Bay
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily News
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – Danger Close by Amber Smith
Da Tech Guy: Trump In Mexico – A Disaster For The Hillary Campaign
Don Surber: Trump Schools Hillary On Foreign Policy
Dustbury: Diamonds Are Forever
Fred On Everything: More On Eugenics – What Fun
Jammie Wearing Fools: Clown Kaepernick Now Wearing Socks Depicting Police As Pigs
Joe For America: Trump Outlines His Immigration Policy In Arizona
Pamela Geller: Passage From Koran To be Read At Funeral of Woman Killed By Jihadi
Power Line: Are Polls Missing Covert Support For Trump?
Shark Tank: Alan Grayson Insists His Political Career’s Not Over [Unfortunately, he’s probably right. -ws]
Shot In The Dark: Gotta Hand It To The Brazilians
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler Announcements – Ultimate Islamic Shoe Fighters League
The Lonely Conservative: Clinton Now As Unpopular As Trump
The Political Hat: Rise of The Banana-Less Republics
This Ain’t Hell: Marine General Frank Peterson, RIP
Weasel Zippers: C Of E Warns Priests Not to Wear Clerical Collars In Public
Megan McArdle: Why Obamacare Can’t Be What Its Supporters Want


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Category: Linkagery

In The Mailbox: 08.31.16

Posted on | August 31, 2016 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.31.16

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Louder With Crowder: Top Five “Climate Change” Myths Debunked
EBL: Mr. Trump Goes To Mexico?
Michelle Malkin: Colorado’s Anti-Fracking Crackup
Twitchy: Smells Like Victory! Mary Katherine Ham And The Rock Are Cooking Up A Tantalizing Plan
Brandon Morse: That Lyft Driver Showed Us How Every Business Should Respond To SJW Bullies


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: That’s Not Funny
American Power: Trump Ahead By Three In USC/LA Times Poll
American Thinker: The Democrats Own The Ills of The Inner Cities
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Da Tech Guy: Baldilocks – With Ignorance And No Bliss For All
Don Surber: Blame Joe Manchin For The Price Of EpiPen
Dustbury: Tebow Unbowed
Jammie Wearing Fools: Hate Group SPLC Labels “White Lives Matter” A Hate Group
Joe For America: The Benghazi E-Mails Are Officially Recovered!
JustOneMinute: Sitting Out The Anthem
Pamela Geller: REVEALED – UK Taxpayers Forked Out One MILLION Pounds To Hate Preacher Anjem Choudary, Other Jihadis
Power Line: The Public Option Rears Its Head
Shark Tank: Grayson Loses Big On Florida’s Primary Election Night
Shot In The Dark: Dezinformatsiya
STUMP: End of Summer 80% Pension Funding Extravaganza! [With GIFs worthy of Sarah Hoyt! -ws]
The Jawa Report: Islamic State Of Losing – This Jawa Dance Party Dedicated In Loving Memory Of Abu Mohammed Adnani
The Political Hat: Modern Cult Of Telos
This Ain’t Hell: National Vietnam Veterans Foundation Closes Doors
Weasel Zippers: NY Child Services Investigating Anthony Weiner
Megan McArdle: Modesty Could Have Averted The Anguish Of Obamacare


Category: Linkagery

Feminists Are Lying Hypocrites

Posted on | August 30, 2016 | Comments Off on Feminists Are Lying Hypocrites

The feminist SJWs (“social justice warriors”) who accused #GamerGate of harassment were engaged in harassment themselves:

A group allegedly dedicated to stopping online harassment and abuse used the same tactics it claimed to abhor to harass those it disagreed with politically.
Crash Override Network, founded by Zoe Quinn after she became well known for being publicly shamed online by an ex-boyfriend, targeted people with whom it disagreed with — most notably, people who supported the Gamergate movement. . . .
Quinn used her new celebrity status to found Crash Override Network, which was supposed to stop online bullying. But internal chat logs from members who would eventually create the group, leaked by a member of the group, reveal that it used tactics such as doxxing (by which a person’s private contact information is published online in order to intimidate them) to harass people in the Gamergate movement or those who members of CON had a personal grudge against.
For example, the group discussed trying to contact the superior officer of a Purple Heart recipient who had expressed support of Gamergate to try to silence him. The group also discussed contacting Google in an attempt to get Justine Tunney fired after she also voiced support for Gamergate. . . .

Read the whole thing. Feminists are lying hypocrites. In other shocking news, fire burns, water is wet and Lindy West is still fat.

 

Category: Sex Trouble

‘Trailer Trash’ and ‘Crazy Bitch’: Surrogate Mom Claims Abuse by Drewitt-Barlow

Posted on | August 30, 2016 | 1 Comment

 

When a San Diego woman agreed to be a surrogate mother for two gay Brazilian men who wanted to become fathers, she did not expect an ordeal that would leave her deeply in debt and mocked as “trailer trash” by the British millionaire whose agency brokered the surrogacy contract.

Megan Hoffner said she was left nearly $80,000 in debt, mainly from unpaid medical bills, after her dispute with the British Surrogacy Center, owned by millionaires Barrie and Tony Drewitt-Barlow. In 2015, Hoffner told her story to the Sunday Mail of London, sharing emails in which Barrie Drewitt-Barlow called her “trailer trash,” “a crazy bitch who deserves to be locked up” and an “utterly selfish cow”:

Millionaire businessmen Barrie and Tony Drewitt-Barlow present themselves as the poster boys of British surrogate parenting.
But for one surrogate the decision to work with their British Surrogacy Centre (BSC) has proved to be disastrous.
The Drewitt-Barlows were the first gay couple named on a surrogate baby’s birth certificate and went on to have four more children, set up their surrogacy agency and star in reality show The Parent Makers.
But 5,000 miles away in San Diego, Megan Hoffner claims she has been left £60,000 in debt, stands on the brink of losing her home and is embroiled in a legal fight which has taken her to the edge of financial ruin.
It is a complicated tale mired in claim and counter-claim from which no one emerges unscathed.
‘This whole process has been a disaster,’ she says.
‘The low point for me was going into hospital for an emergency Caesarean section and waking up to find nobody would tell me if the twins I was carrying were alive or dead. I still have nightmares and anxiety attacks to this day.’ . . .

Read the rest at the Sunday Mail. The Drewitt-Barlows were in the news again today when they appeared on a British TV program with their own now-16-year-old twins, Aspen and Saffron. Critics have called the commercial surrogacy industry a form of human trafficking:

That something is not quite right about surrogacy has been evident for some time. Ever since the commercial surrogacy industry kicked off in the late 1970s, it has been awash with scandals, exploitation and abuse. From the infamous “Baby M” case – in which the mother changed her mind and was forced, in tears, to hand over her baby – to the Japanese billionaire who ordered 16 children from different Thai clinics. There has been a total commodification of human life: click; choose race and eye colour; pay, then have your child delivered.
Then there’s the recent case of the American surrogate mother who died; or the intended parents who refused to accept a disabled child and tried to get their surrogate to abort; not to mention the baby factories in Asia.

Several countries have outlawed the womb-for-hire business.

 

Category: Gays

In The Mailbox: 08.30.16

Posted on | August 30, 2016 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.30.16

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Proof Positive: Colin Kaepernick’s New Tattoo
EBL: It’s Burning Man Time Again And I Know Someone Whose Schedule Just Opened Up…
Twitchy: Shaun King Speaks “Whole Truth” About “Ugly” National Anthem – But Did He Leave Something Out?


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: On Welfare
American Power: RIP Joe Hicks, 1941-2016
American Thinker: Everything You’ve Been Told About Gayness And Gender Is Wrong
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily News
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – Way Of The Reaper
Da Tech Guy: Trump’s Focus On Chicago Violence A Good Thing
Don Surber: Naked Hillary Posters Hit Hollywood
Dustbury: Second Verse, Just A Bit Worse
Fred On Everything:
Jammie Wearing Fools: People Demanding You Respect Kaepernick Awfully Intolerant Of Jerry Rice’s Opinion
Joe For America: KKK Grand Dragon Endorses Hillary Clinton
JustOneMinute: Old Dogs, Old Tricks
Pamela Geller: Kerry – Media Would Do Us All A Service If They Didn’t Cover Terrorism So Much
Power Line: Do Liberal Policies Produce Economic Growth? No.
Shark Tank: Marco Rubio – “Patrick Murphy Is Not Entitled To The Senate”
Shot In The Dark: The Dog Ate The Entire Mainstream Media’s Homework
STUMP: Much Ado About Discount Rates – Illinois And The Actuaries
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – Islam A Religion That Respects Women
The Lonely Conservative: This Ad For Gary Johnson Is Awesome
The Political Hat: The Colonizing Decolonizers
This Ain’t Hell: Ronald Read, The Frugal Veteran
Weasel Zippers: Out Of 10,126 Syrian Refugees Admitted To The U.S. By The Obama Regime, Only 25 Are Christians
Megan McArdle: Why Trump Needs A Real Campaign Apparatus


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Gay Couple Display Their Teen Children on British TV; Viewers Not Impressed

Posted on | August 30, 2016 | 2 Comments

Barrie and Tony Drewitt-Barlow with two of their surrogate babies.

Barrie and Tony Drewitt-Barlow became famous in 1999 as the first British gay couple to become parents through surrogacy. The Drewitt-Barlows have made a fortune through their British Surrogacy Center (BSC), a controversial “rent-a-womb” business.

The BSC is part of the commercial surrogacy industry, which women’s rights groups have criticized as a form of human trafficking that exploits women in developing nations as human incubators to hatch designer babies for wealthy clients in Britain, the United States and Europe. Reuters reported in 2013 how embryos were created via IVF, using eggs and sperm harvested from the parents or from donors, then implanted in the wombs of surrogates hired in India for $6,500 to carry the babies to term. One clinic based in Mumbai “has produced 295 surrogate babies — 90 percent for overseas clients and 40 percent for same-sex couples — since it opened in 2007.” Since then, India has banned commercial surrogacy, as have Nepal and Thailand, but the industry has moved its operations to Cambodia and other countries in search of poor women to serve as hired baby-makers. Swedish feminist Kajsa Ekis Ekman has called surrogacy “reproductive prostitution.” A 2012 report from the European Center for Law and Justice condemned surrogacy as a “violation of human rights,” yet the Drewitt-Barlows and their lucrative baby business continue to be celebrated by many in British media.

In 2014, a British TV network launched The Parent Makers, a reality show about the Drewitt-Barlows and their business, featuring the couple’s five children, Saffron and Aspen, now 16, Orlando, 12, and Jasper and Dallas, 6 — all of whom were born to surrogate mothers in the United States.

This week, the Drewitt-Barlows have been on a P.R. blitz, with media features about the two oldest children who just turned 16, receiving such gifts as a Porsche and a Rolex watch for their birthdays. Today’s appearance on the British ITV network program This Morning, however, did not go so well, because viewers noticed the glum faces of the two teenagers who appeared with the couple they call “Dad” and “Daddy.”

 

They appeared on This Morning today to mark the teens’ 16th birthdays, but Aspen and Saffron did not look happy to be there.
Nasty trolls pointed out that the kids barely cracked a smile during the chat, and called them out via Twitter. . . .
One posted a picture of Saffron’s face, writing: “Smile? #ThisMorning” another added: “#thismorning the attitude on that 16 year old girl…”
A tweet added to the site stated: “Someone tell that 16 year old girl to crack a smile…” and it was followed by: “Those twins look so happy, the girl had a face like a smacked ass and the boy looks like he strangles cats…”
Several other trolls branded the twins “spoilt brats”, insisting their wealthy dads may have been overattentive while the kids were growing up.
One wrote: “Another batch of stupid parents trying to buy love from their equally stupid, ungrateful kids ???? #ThisMorning”
Another added: “Level headed? They seem like miserable spoilt little brats… @itvthismorning #thismorning.”

Viewers especially noticed daughter Saffron’s grim face with comments like, “She is so miserable looks like she wants to murder someone.”

 

 

The Drewitt-Barlows have been criticized as rich bullies. In 2013, the couple sued the Church of England demanding religious recognition of same-sex marriage. In 2014, when an Australian activist named Luke McKee criticized the Drewitt-Barlows’ baby business, he received an email in which Barrie Drewitt-Barlow boasted “my vast wealth and contacts will crush anyone” who opposed him.

UPDATE: ‘Trailer Trash’ and ‘Crazy Bitch’: Surrogate Mom Claims Abuse by Drewitt-Barlow




 

Category: Gays

ISIS Buried Thousands in Mass Graves

Posted on | August 30, 2016 | 1 Comment

The Associated Press reports that ISIS terrorists buried their victims in “mass graves . . . scattered across Iraq and Syria”:

In exclusive interviews, photos and research, The Associated Press has documented and mapped 72 of the mass graves, the most comprehensive survey so far, with many more expected to be uncovered as the Islamic State group’s territory shrinks. In Syria, AP has obtained locations for 17 mass graves, including one with the bodies of hundreds of members of a single tribe all but exterminated when IS extremists took over their region. For at least 16 of the Iraqi graves, most in territory too dangerous to excavate, officials do not even guess the number of dead. In others, the estimates are based on memories of traumatized survivors, Islamic State propaganda and what can be gleaned from a cursory look at the earth. Still, even the known victims buried are staggering — from 5,200 to more than 15,000.

(Via Memeorandum.) Gosh, it’s almost as if the “religion of peace” isn’t quite as peaceful as some people would have us believe.

 

Category: Iraq, Islam, Syria, Terrorism
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