This is the city: Los Angeles, California. I work here. I'm an ex-mayor. Los Angeles is a magnet for people from all over the world. Some of them run for public office. Inevitably some of them stray from the golden rule and rule for those that have the gold. That's when I go to work. My name is Yorty. I'm a dead pol.
LAFD Command Staffer Made Homicidal, Suicidal Threats During '21 Domestic Violence Attack
By Daniel Guss
@TheGussReport on Twitter - During a presentation on March 8th celebrating International Women's Day, LA City Hall's most powerful women posed for photos and made inspiring comments about women in leadership.
Simultaneously, three of them, Mayor Karen Bass, Councilmember Monica Rodriguez and LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley, dodged this column's questions about disturbing videos in the LAFD's and LAPD's possession showing a female member of the Los Angeles Fire Department's command staff making repeated homicidal and suicidal threats during and after her violent attack on her then-live-in domestic partner, who is also female.
Prop H8: what you can do about it (or 'What's really wrong with this picture?')
Homosexuality is not abnormal or illogical. Homophobia IS.
'Phobia: An intense, abnormal, or illogicalfear of a specified thing.' - Answers.com
For the cause:
To be more specific, it was 'hypocritical, recently-polygamist so-called Latter Day Saints' who stole our rights.
For your consideration:
Over the last two decades, research findings have pointed to disproportionately high rates of suicidal behavior among LGBT adolescents and young adults. Suicide attempts in this population have been linked to a variety of factors including gender nonconformity, lack of support, family problems, violence/ victimization, early sexual debut and mental health problems, notably depression and substance abuse or dependency. How these factors converge to produce suicidal behavior among different groups of sexual minority youth, however, remains only partially understood.
- American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
For the children:
Overall, the belief that children of lesbian and gay parents suffer deficits in personal development has no empirical foundation.
- American Psychiatric Foundation
If there was never any discrimination against gays, would this even be a question? The same goes for any other minority group. Is it their behavior or lifestyle that marginalizes gay families or is it the reaction of society to that private behavior? The churches and some of their followers have been tormenting the gay community and their children for years and then complaining that gay couples put their children in harm's way by simply existing. Talk about rigging the system!
In fact, it is not we who stigmatize our children; outdated, contradictory religious dogma and those who choose to follow it and then claim 'faith-based' hate do that well enough already thank you very much. A transsexual friend of mine had her jaw shattered recently. Indeed, violent homophobia is justified in the minds of many, so why didn't we put a stop to it? Because an out-of-state church bought enough votes to perpetuate it?
Yes, because gay families are so abnormal. See? We're a bunch of perverted freaks. Taking walks on the beach, loving our families, and enjoying the simple things in life. We should be exterminated for our insolence, 'dontchaknow?'
