Bigotry

And that’s why God is going to punish us hardcore.

“Why being different is bad and sex is scary.”

Malcolm Butner made national news last year for Facebook postings extolling the Confederacy and denouncing gays and lesbians.

A Tennessee hardware store owner is expressing his dissatisfaction with the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on same-sex marriage by displaying a “no gays allowed” sign at his business.

Clip description: “If you love covered bridges and discriminating, book your trip to Indiana today.” (“Paid for by the Indiana Board of Terrible People.”)

Calling yourself a Christian does not give you special privileges in this country. Calling yourself a Christian does not make you a better American than me. And calling yourself a Christian does not absolve you from rights and responsibilities that all Americans have. This is not, nor has it ever been, a Christian nation, and the rest of us who don’t practice your beliefs do not exist here for your will and pleasure.

ENID, Okla. – A restaurant in Enid, Okla. is coming under fire for his restaurant policies that critics now say have crossed the line to discrimination.

Jimmy LaSalvia, the co-founder and former executive director of GOProud, a U.S. political action group representing gay conservatives, announced Tuesday he was leaving the Republican party due in part to the “tolerance of bigotry in the GOP.”

MINNEAPOLIS — Former Minnesota punter Chris Kluwe says his special teams coordinator made anti-gay comments while Kluwe was with the Vikings, an allegation the coach “vehemently denies.”

The LGBT community has deceived itself into thinking that if we just sidestep the lies and distortions and solely focus on “telling our stories” as ordinary people seeking fairness under the American system, our problems with those who oppose our right to equality will dissipate. It’s high time that the LGBT community realize that this belief is a false bill of goods that serves as a pitiful Band-Aid to a problem that requires more than stories designed to yank at the heart strings; indeed, such efforts make it look as if we are begging for “tolerance.”