Tim Pawlenty on whether being gay is a choice

Traditional Marriage? Hows that Working Out for Society

a Pro Marriage Pledge - Rick Santorum Signed the Anti-Gay Pledge and Interferes with other people's marriage though he vowed to himself he would not interfere in others marriage.. hmm..

a Pro Marriage Pledge - So a Pledge to Hate and Discriminate against Me cuz of Who I Love.

Rick Santorum on "Family Leader" Anti-Gay Pledge

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Who Supports Hate? Rick Santorum

I Certainly Don't Pry into the Lovers, the Marriages of guys like Rick Santorum, so why in the world does Rick Santorum spend his time vowing to stop me from loving. Or to vote in judges that will discriminate against me?

Rick Santorum is kind a hypocrit here is Rick Santorum? he says, he pledged to not interfere "with anyone else's marriage" yet signed and Anti-Gay Pledge to Stop me from Marrying whom I want? What?

Hate is Hate. Tolerance is Tolerance.

Bob Vander Plaats - Same Sex Marriage - Judging How Others Live - STOP Hate - Promote Live and Let Live.

If you Don't Like Gay Marriage - Don't Marry Someone Gay

"Whoopi Goldberg and the ladies of “The View” went off on the anti-gay pledge that asks GOP presidential hopefuls to oppose any “redefinition of marriage,” and likens same-sex couples to polygamists and adulterers.

“The Marriage Vow – A Declaration of Dependence Upon Marriage and Family,” is the creation of “The Family Leader,” an Iowa-based conservative Christian group, and its CEO, Bob Vander Plaats.

Source
http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2011/07/ladies-of-the-view-go-off-on-the-family-leaders-anti-gay-marriage-vow/



Live your Life, Let Others Live Theirs.
You have No Right to Tell me or anyone who to Love,
how to love .. your Spirituality, Sexuality, Choices,
or the life you were born to live is where you need to
focus and not on stopping others from living and loving in
the life that they choose for them...

Stop Hate
Promote a True Live and Let Live Society, Period.


Posted by Investigative Blogger Crystal L. Cox
and well ya I am a Lesbian, a Woman Who Loves Women
and Does NOT hate men but in fact defends and supports
men's rights just as much as women.

I Fight for what is Right, I Fight for Justice for all and
for Live and Let Live Regardless of the Size of Your Pocketbook,
how you dress, who you are, your race, gender, sexuality or spirituality.

You Are Loved: Montana Pride Documentary Trailer - Vanessa Naive, Jeff Dougherty.

Vanessa Naive -  Jeff Dougherty
You Are Loved: Montana Pride Documentary





You Are Loved: Montana Pride Documentary Trailer from Vanessa Naive on Vimeo.

""You Are Loved" is a documentary chronicling Montana Pride celebrating the diversity of all walks of life.

The full length film will be released in early August 2011. Website with more information on the release, plus DVD sales with special features coming soon.

Producer/Director - Vanessa Naive
Videographer/Editor - Jeff Dougherty
Title Graphic - Tom Marsh
Music - "Sweet Disposition" by The Temper Trap

SPECIAL THANKS TO: Tom Marsh, John Ohlson, Electra Sexton, the Montana Drag Queen community, and everyone involved who made this possible"

You Are Loved: Montana Pride Documentary

this is Funny making Fun of Government Official - Gay and Lesbian Rights

Great for Constitutional Rights and Free Speech. Bad for Promoting Gay - Lesbian Hate.

So There it Is, Supreme Court Says
Free Speech is Good.

So Let's Here YOUR Voice ~ Speak Your Truth. ~ Blog

"Supreme Court rules for anti-gay church over military funeral protests
By Bill Mears, CNN Supreme Court Producer"

Washington (CNN) -- A Kansas church known for its angry, anti-gay protests at funerals of U.S. troops won an appeal Wednesday at the Supreme Court in a case testing the competing constitutional rights of free speech and privacy.

In an 8-1 ruling, the justices said that members of Westboro Baptist Church had a right to promote what they call a broad-based message on public matters such as wars. The father of a fallen Marine had sued the small church, saying those protests amounted to targeted harassment and an intentional infliction of emotional distress.

"Speech is powerful. It can stir people to action, move them to tears of both joy and sorrow, and -- as it did here -- inflict great pain. On the facts before us, we cannot react to that pain by punishing the speaker," Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the majority.

At issue was a delicate test between the privacy rights of grieving families and the free speech rights of demonstrators, however disturbing and provocative their message. Several states have attempted to impose specific limits on when and where the church members can protest.
The church, led by pastor Fred Phelps, believes God is punishing the United States for "the sin of homosexuality" through events including soldiers' deaths. Members have traveled the country shouting at grieving families at funerals and displaying such signs as "Thank God for dead soldiers," "God blew up the troops" and "AIDS cures fags."

Westboro members appeared outside the 2006 funeral for Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder in Westminster, Maryland, outside Baltimore.

Snyder's family sued the church in 2007, alleging invasion of privacy, intentional infliction of emotional distress and civil conspiracy. A jury awarded the family $2.9 million in compensatory damages, plus $8 million in punitive damages, which were later reduced to $5 million.
The church appealed the case in 2008 to a federal appeals court, which reversed the judgments a year later, siding with the church's allegations that its First Amendment rights were violated.
Albert Snyder, Matthew's father, said his son was not gay and the protesters should not have been at the funeral.

"I was just shocked that any individual could do this to another human being," Snyder told CNN. "I mean, it was inhuman."

Church members said their broader message was aimed at the unspecified actions of the military and those who serve in it. They believe U.S. soldiers deserve to die because they fight for a country that tolerates homosexuality.

In his opinion, Roberts noted the Snyder family was not a "captive audience" to the protests conducted several hundred yards away.

"Westboro stayed well away from the memorial service," Roberts wrote. "Snyder could see no more than the tops of the signs when driving to the funeral. And there is no indication that the picketing itself in any way interfered with the funeral itself."

The court therefore concluded Snyder could not collect damages from Westboro.
But the chief justice showed little sympathy for the message Westboro promotes.

"Westboro believes that America is morally flawed; many Americans might feel the same about Westboro. Westboro's funeral picketing is certainly hurtful and its contribution to public discourse may be negligible," he said. However, "As a nation we have chosen a different course -- to protect even hurtful speech on public issues to ensure that we do not stifle public debate."
The ruling was a narrow one, dealing with the specific, unusual facts of this appeal. Such vocal protests at military funerals are almost entirely confined to this one small group. Roberts said on the free speech question, it was enough to rely on "limited principles that sweep no more broadly than the appropriate context of the instant case."

Only Justice Samuel Alito dissented. He said the church's "outrageous conduct caused petitioner great injury, and the court now compounds that injury by depriving petitioner of a judgment that acknowledges the wrong he suffered," he said. "In order to have a society in which public issues can be openly and vigorously debated, it is not necessary to allow the brutalization of innocent victims like petitioner."

The Supreme Court has never addressed the specific issue of laws designed to protect the "sanctity and dignity of memorial and funeral services" as well as the privacy of family and friends of the deceased. But the high court has recognized the state's interest in protecting people from unwanted protests or communications while in their homes.

The justices were being asked to address how far states and private entities such as cemeteries and churches can go to justify picket-free zones and the use of "floating buffers" to silence or restrict the speech or movements of demonstrators exercising their constitutional rights in a funeral setting.

A majority of states across the nation have responded to the protests with varying levels of control over the Westboro church protesters. In Wednesday's case, 48 states and dozens of members of Congress filed amicus briefs in support of the Snyders.

Church members told the court they have a duty to protest and picket at certain events, including funerals, to promote their religious message: "That God's promise of love and heaven for those who obey him in this life is counterbalanced by God's wrath and hell for those who do not obey him."

The congregation is made up mostly of Phelps and his family. The pastor has 13 children and at least 54 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

He described himself as an "old-time" gospel preacher in a CNN interview in 2006, saying, "You can't preach the Bible without preaching the hatred of God."

Church members have participated in several hundred protests across the country.
In 2009, the high court blocked Missouri's effort to enforce a specific law aimed at the Westboro church. Phelps, daughter Shirley Phelps-Roper and other church members had protested near the August 2005 funeral of a soldier in St. Joseph, Missouri.

State lawmakers later passed the Spc. Edward Lee Myers Law, criminalizing picketing "in front of or about" a funeral location or procession."

Source of Post

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/03/02/scotus.westboro.church/?hpt=C1

So we can look at this as Hate and Feed the Hate, or we can pray for them to the Great Spirit, Call in the Angels and Bring in Love and Light. And be a part of the Greater Good.

If we NOW stand in their Right to Free Speech We Now Rise in that Supreme Court Decision of Constitutional Rights of Free Speech and we Speak our Mind, Our Truth. And we Speak for the "other" Constitutional Rights" that those who hate gays and lesbians violate.

I Fight for the Right for TRUE Live and Let Live For US All.

Regardless of our Spiritual Belief, our Lifestyle, Our Religion, Race, What We Eat, What we Choose as our Health Care or What We want to do in a Day - We, You, I have a Right to TRUE Live and Let Live - and to NOT be persecuted, discriminated against, beaten, or have my Constitutional Rights Violated in ANY way for the Life I want to ALLOW myself to Live for Me in the Way I Please.

I Want Live and Let Live For EVERY One of YOU.

And if Part of that is Hating Me because I am Woman who Loves Women,
well then So Be It, that is Your Constitutional Right.

Crystal L. Cox

Investigative Blogger

Crystal@CrystalCox.com

Butch Voices Conference 2009: Boys Dont Cry and Beyond:

Making a Stand for the Rights of Gay and Lesbian Youth

Live and Let Live for All Regardless of Income, Gender, Spiritual Belief, Race or Sexual Orientation.

It is Time To End the Silence.

If We Do not Make a Stand for Them RIGHT NOW, We are Certainly Part of the Problem and in No Way Part of the Solution.

Gay and Lesbian Teens are thrown out of their homes, beaten, discriminated against and even kill themselves... and all over the Societal pressure of whom they love... Hatred for Love.

STOP Hate... It is Our Time..

I Say "Not on My Watch" !!!

I ask You to Say no More Hate on Your Watch !!!

Live and Let Live for ALL of You is
What I Make My Stand For every Day.

I Do This Regardless of Your Gender, Whom you Love, your Past, Your Race, your Present, your Income Status, your health condition or your Spiritual Belief.

The Truth is the Truth Regardless of any of the above. And YOU all have a right to a peaceful quality of life just how you know your life should be for you. You do NOT deserve to be persecuted in any way from this life you live based on what you know is best for you.

There is a New Documentary Following the Lives of a few LGBTQ Teens, Check it out.. get educated and make a stand. Even if your stand is only to defend in a conversation, to not join in a hateful remark, or to simply be kind to a LGBTQ Teens. It is Our Watch, and time to Stop Hate and to support LGBTQ Teens.

"Breaking The Silence is a student created documentary, following the lives of four LGBTQ Teens of all different ages, and their struggles throughout high school.
The purpose of this film is not to expose any specific individuals or institutions for insensitivity, but to make it known and show that discrimination is happening in high schools everywhere.
This film is meant to inspire change in the culture of schools across the country and to love and honor the LGBTQ community."

Source of Breaking the Silence Quote and Breaking the Silence Website.
http://breakingthesilencethefilm.com/index.html

Being Gay is Not a Sin, Being Gay is Not Evil, Being Gay is Not Wrong.

I Fight Every Day for the Hope of True

Live and Let Live for You ALL.

I Receive Death Threats Often for Speaking the Truth, for Giving Voice to Victims Worldwide. I Do not know their Sexual Orientation nor Do I Care. I Do not Know their Spiritual Believe, nor Do I Care - all I know is they need heard and they need protected.

I Fight for "Live and Let Live" No Matter your Gender, your Age, your Spiritual Belief and certainly irregardless of whom you choose to LOVE !!!

This Film is Important, Timely and Give Great Hope.

You making a Stand for the YOUTH right Now is VERY Important. To be beaten, killed or take their own lives in the name of Love .. in the Name of Being True to Themselves and in The Name of simply loving someone .. . well it is seriously on the wrong side of the Moral Compass.. we Can Make a Difference and It is Our Time to Do So...

Live and Let Live for US All. That is My Quest.

What you Choose for Your Life... What your Born to Be... Who You are is Not Something that you should be persecuted for. Live and Let Live... For ALL ~ that is My Mission.

I am a Lesbian. I care deeply about what happens to all the victims I write about. I do not protect them, defend them, empower them, tell their truth based on their Sexual Preference nor on their Personal relationship with who they deem as "God" or "Goddess" to them. I give them voice because it is The Right Thing to Do, That Simple.

I stand in integrity, honor and truth in exposing corruption, exposing the dark, and giving voice to those who find themselves unheard as the lack of justice takes their life as they know it. I do this regardless of their personal life in ANY way.

To me it is Flat Out Wrong to hate, beat, guilt, shame anyone for who they love - as really it is none of your business, for one. And you want to be left to live your life in a way that is true to you so you must be willing to give this.

Silence is Betrayal ~ I Stand With the Gay and Lesbian Youth to Say, You are Loved, We are with You ~ Be True to You and Don't you Dare Be ashamed, and DO NOT even Think of Taking your Life... you are a Valuable, Beautiful, Amazing Part of this World and We Need you In it. Stay here and LOVE.. Live.. Enjoy Your Life doing What you Love....

Be True To You.. Do Not Be Ashamed...

Enough is Enough ...
Make a Stand

Give Voice to the Gay and Lesbian Youth ~

Hear them RIGHT NOW !!!

http://breakingthesilencethefilm.com/about.html

Una Stamus

Crystal L. Cox

Investigative Blogger

Out Lesbian

Crystal@CrystalCox.com