Day of Action?

By Jeff Simpson

Yesterday, was Wisconsin Family Action council's, led by Julainne Appling, "day of action" at the Wisconsin Capitol.

While there was much comic gold, such as this:

"Thank you for being here...... Our country was made as a country under God." Senator Glenn Grothman

Or this

"We need a moral compass in government."   Rep. Andre Jacque

As funny as those two get, the Speaker took the prize for all time irony!

 "We are going to encourage families to stay together."  Speaker Robin Vos

No word yet if he was able to actually keep a straight face!  

The only thing missing was Roger Rivard!  

Nuff Said!  

Will You Marry Me!

By Jeff Simpson 


We just came out of what Scott Walker officially recognized as "National Marriage Week".   This made Wisconsin Family Council Giddy with excitement.    Fresh off their (not)surprising endorsement of election loser, Roger "some girls rape so easy" Rivard, the organization  "advancing Judeo-Christian principles and values" jumped all in on National Marriage week.  

Julaine Appling, president of Wisconsin Family Council says, “Governor Walker’s proclamation rightly identifies the benefits of marriage and the costs of marital breakdown, not only for the men, women and children directly involved, but also for the entire state.” The proclamation reads in part, “Marriage breakdown takes a toll on the emotional, physical and financial well-being of the entire family, and increases the public cost for human service programs.”  

So says the unwed, living with her female friend Julaine Appling, who has spurned numerous offers to help her find true love!  

I wonder if she discussed this at a forum featuring Glenn Grothman, Robin Vos, Michelle Litjens, Jeanne Tarantino and Charlie Sykes?   

LGBT Rights!

I went to a wedding recently.  Ok, it wasn't a wedding.

I went to a wedding reception recently.    Ok it wasn't a wedding reception. 

I went to a ceremony recently where two people exchanged their vows and joined their lives.   Ok it wasn't really that either.   

I went to a party/reception, where two people stood in front of friends and family and told everyone that they were committed to building a life together.

Not a priest, pastor or rabbi in sight!

See the problem is,  that the couple were two women, who met, fell in love, and decided to commit to each other.  Not just in their love but also in their everyday life.  They have a child together, a mortgage, care payments, house repairs, grass to mow, driveways to shovel etc... They have decided that they want to share everything together as they go through this journey called life.

Unfortunately for them though, the one thing that they can not share is wedding vows.  We as a society have decided to tell them that their love and decision to be together is not acceptable to us.  Heck in Wisconsin we even wrote it in our Constitution that LGBT people will never be equal and do not deserve the same rights as straight people.   Isn't that special! 

In Minnesota today, they will also be voting on an Anti-Gay marriage amendment, written by a republican legislator who was cheating on her husband at the time.  In Wisconsin the same group that was the driving force behind our anti-gay marriage amendment are avid supporters of multiply divorced Robin Vos and Roger ' Some girls rape so easy" Rivard!  Yet do not get the irony. 

All hope is not lost however, the ridiculous "dont ask dont tell policy" has been ended.   There is much support for LGBT equal rights, even from the NFL!  The messaging has gotten better and eventually they will be on equal footing with all of us!  

That being said, we still have much work to do.   In the meantime I just wanted to be clear about something.   If you tell me that you have LGBT friends, and do not support equal rights, then they are not your friends.   What kind of friendship is based on not wanting your friend to have equal rights?    Who would support suppression of rights to a family member?  

Also when you say you support equal rights and still support politicians who adamantly oppose equal rights, then your not being honest with someone.   

I do not care if you are a democrat, republican, libertarian, independent or apathetic, it is time to put hatred and bigotry aside and allow our LGBT friends and family equal rights!

Push the politicians, talk to your friends, educate your children and your church,  how important this issue is and how wrong we are on it right now!    

Let's make sure my friends can soon have an actual wedding ceremony for me and my wife to gladly attend! 

Here is a brilliantly done video that two women made in opposition to the Minnesota Anti Gay marriage Amendment. 

Watch this video and tell me again why we will not allow them to get married?  

This IS What Hypocrisy Looks Like.....

My old friend Julaine Appling was profiled in the Capital Times today.  The UNMARRIED and childless Julaine Appling is ahead of the anti-gay group Wisconsin Family Action,and also has "lived" with a female colleague for "many years".  There is obviously nothing wrong with that, unless of course you ask the Wisconsin Family Action hate group.  

In lieu of President Obama's recent announcement of support for gay marriage, the anti gay rhetoric has been ramped up, so the CT thought they would give Ms. Appling a forum to do so.  She did not disappoint!

I would submit that (Obama’s announcement) was the culmination of decades of the media and education sending a message that “marriage is whatever I want it to be, marriage is about my personal happiness, it’s about me!”

It’s not about me. It’s about children. Now, there are couples who choose not to have children and that’s their right, but the bulk of them do have children. What we know (is) the way we prepare the next generation to become the workforce, the taxpayers, the geniuses, the entrepreneurs … is for them to be brought up by a married mom and dad.

Then she talked about where her views come from:

CT: A poll recently showed that the vast majority of people — even those born during the 1940s — have had pre-marital sex.
Appling: No polls and no societal drift will ever make right wrong and wrong right. I come at life from a core set of beliefs. My worldview is fixed firmly in one source, and that is Scripture. That is my external, objective, forever-settled truth.

Unfortunately, they did not ask her what Scripture she is referring too.   But wait there's more.

CT: What do you say to somebody who says he or she wants to follow Christian guidelines but is attracted to members of the same sex?
Appling: I can understand that. You have to make a decision and you may need help to make this decision. People have left gay lifestyles by the droves successfully. I believe they need to talk to people, maybe they need to speak to both sides but they at least need to speak to the side that says you can go in another direction.
Same-sex attraction is real. The question is do you have to act on it? I would submit you don’t have to act on it.

I wonder how exactly people have left the "gay lifestyle" in "droves", any documented cases?   Finally the kicker.  The one where she shows exactly who she is and why her opinion means nothing.

CT: And what if Walker wins and the GOP keeps its majorities? What’s the next step for your movement?
Appling: We’ll pick up where we left off to make sure that we get language to protect religious freedom. We’ll be working on divorce modification as it relates to couples with minor children. Things like changing the waiting period (required before a divorce is finalized).

I am sure she will have no problem working with multiply divorced Robin Vos to make sure divorce is harder to get.  She can always enlist the help of  Luther Olsen, Steve nASS, Scott Suder, Scott Krug, or Dan Knodl.  

She can also count on the help of two of her most important allies.    Her wonder twin, the unmarried childless Glenn Grothman, and also Rep. Don Pridemore who also thinks that women should stop complaining about their husbands and remember the time:

 By now, most people have heard of the Wisconsin GOP’s efforts to label single parenthood as a form of child abuse. There’s no basis in the claim, of course, and is simply another way to shame women (who comprise the majority of single parents) for not existing within a narrow and rigid social structure. A new wrinkle has surfaced as the bills’ co-sponsor, Representative Don Pridemore (R-Heartless Scumbag) has gone on the record as opposing divorce even in the event of a abusive spouse.
So if you are a woman regularly being beaten by your husband, you are a bad mother if you seek a divorce.
“If they can refind those reasons and get back to why they got married in the first place it might help,” said Representative Don Pridemore.