This disgusts me.

The right to blog and the right to remain private or face consequences because of a blog or MySpace page is coming into sharper focus in Amarillo after Tejas Broadcasting officials fired a KBZD Energy 99.7 disc jockey Monday morning for sexual content on a MySpace page created for the station and on another for himself the company said was “inappropriate and inconsistent” with the company’s policies.

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Vicki Wilmarth, an Amarillo attorney who specializes in employment law, said this was the first instance that an employer-employee conflict concerning a MySpace page had erupted so publicly in Amarillo.

For Wilmarth, the debate centers on two issues.

The first, she said, was Pascullo can’t claim that anything he posts on the Internet is private.

“(Employers) have a right to look on the Internet just like anyone else,” Wilmarth said.

The second issue is that homosexuality isn’t a protected class for discrimination.

“They are not breaking any law by discriminating against somebody on the basis of their homosexuality,” Wilmarth said. [Link]

First off - she’s right. Employers do have that right, and I’ve personally used it when doing hiring evaluations. I google people’s name, and see what comes up. More often than not, they have already given me their website address on a resume, but I always like to check to see what’s out there, especially if I’m looking for skills related to web design.

Second off - she’s right again. In most states it is still completely legal to discriminate based on sexual orientation and/or gender identity. There are only NINE states that protect GLBT employees. That’s right, NINE. You can be a superior employee, and be fired just because you are gay, whether it has anything to do with your job or not. Comforting isn’t it? For those of you who live in the multitude of states that permit that…what are you doing there??

Third off - apparently saying you are gay is now “sexual content”. But I suppose for all those folks on myspace.com who have “straight” listed as sexual orientation, that has no sexual connotation at all, so we can just ignore them. But if it says anything else, bi, gay, questioning, unsure, well then we better just fire them because that’s naughty and perverted and condoning sex! (Can’t we take the sexual out of homo, and hetero, and bi?)

Fourth off - he wasn’t flashing about his naughty bits on myspace, and he wasn’t soliciting people for sex. Did they actually READ the profile? The news/media seems to be able to report the “concerning” text of the profile, and there’s nothing there that’s all that troublesome, but then I forget…we certainly wouldn’t want the good god fearing citizens of the planet to have impure thoughts, now would we?

I’ll let you in on a little secret…I’m having an impure thought about this stuff right now and it has nothing to do with the word “gay“.

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You wake up to discover that the cat has thrown up all over the floor, eight times. The pilot light went out on the hot water heater in the middle of the night and you have to take an ice cold shower. All of your shirts are in the washer and smell like mildew because you forgot that you put them in there two days ago. Your car won’t start until you pump the gas for five minutes. You’re late getting onto the highway and so traffic is a disaster and you wind up being 43 minutes late to work.

On those days, don’t you wish there was a God who could just make it all right for you? Wouldn’t it be nice if God could clean up the vomit, instantly heat the water, wash your shirts daily, and always keep your car full of gas? But what darn luck…you don’t believe in God!

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And not just a gay republican, in this case. A gay republican pedophile alcoholic.

This is not what the GLBT community needs.
Well, we need more gay republicans, and we need more republicans knocked off their high moral horse…but we don’t need pedophiles associated with the community. Maybe this will get people to realize that the people with “integrity” that they voted into office, don’t have as much integrity as originally advertised.

And this quote…I just don’t even know what to say……adultery is a garden variety sin???

“It’s much harder to defend yourself against something like this than the garden variety sin such as adultery or murky campaign contributions,” he said. “This is not garden variety. This creeps people out.” (Link)

References:

Congressman resigns after e-mails revealed - News - MSNBC.com

Read exerpts from the emails here

This one was just too good to pass up…and I have to say, my deepest sympathies to the Lioness for having her home invaded so blatantly.

And God said: Try staying out of the lion’s den

KIEV, Ukraine - A man shouting that God would keep him safe was mauled to death by a lioness in the Kiev zoo after he crept into the animal’s enclosure, a zoo official said Monday.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13157554/

And followed with this wonderful display of arrogance…

Man tries to convert lions to Jesus, gets bitten

TAIPEI, Taiwan - A man leaped into a lion’s den at the Taipei Zoo on Wednesday to try to convert the king of beasts to Christianity, but was bitten in the leg for his efforts.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6396422/

Take that all you people who thought “praying” for me would make me more like you.:-)Really…I’m not bitter. I just wish people would grow up.

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Power of prayer flunks an unusual test - Heart Health - MSNBC.com
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