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Gohmert: Hate Crimes Bill Would Legalize Necrophilia, Bestiality ...

Last night, led by Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-PA), lawmakers convened a special session of floor speeches urging a repeal of "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell." Extreme right-wing and anti-gay Texas Republican Rep. Louis Gohmert called Murphy's proposed DADT repeal a "perverse ... social experimentation" and that soldiers were being "held hostage by a sociological attack." Gohmert then launched a bizarre and  vitriolic rant that claimed the Matthew Shepard hate crimes bill would lead to legalization of necrophilia, pedophilia, and bestiality. Oh and Nazism, too.

If you're oriented toward animals, bestiality, then, you know, that's not something that can be used, held against you or any bias be held against you for that. Which means you'd have to strike any laws against bestiality, if you're oriented toward corpses, toward children, you know, there are all kinds of perversions, [...] pedophiles or necrophiliacs or what most would say is perverse sexual orientations but the trouble is, we made amendments to eliminate pedophiles from being included in the definition.

Gohmert adds that he is "not a racist" and once voted for Alan Keyes, the extreme anti-gay Republican.

Oh that's right. Keyes is "black". Forget that sometimes. Watch the crazy, via Think Progress, WHEN YOU JUMP.

Angry Anti-Abortion Activists Protest Obama at Notre Dame

One of the numerous, middle-aged anti-abortion protesters—oops, "students" says the Associated Press—that interrupted President Barack Obama's commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame.

The AP says "hundreds of Notre Dame students"  protested the event "to express their anger over Obama's support for abortion and embryonic stem cell research. Bishop John D'Arcy, whose diocese includes Notre Dame, joined the students, calling them 'heroes' for expressing their anger over the Roman Catholic school's invitation to Obama." Far right, anti-gay black wingnut Alan Keyes was arrested twice this week.

AFTER THE JUMP, watch video of the angry older "students" interrupt our president. If this guy is a student, he is truly at the post-post-post graduate level. Money quote from John Aravosis: "There's an astroturf quality to some of these religious right protests. You'd think, if the students were truly upset that Obama was coming to their school, that some—uh—students themselves might protest?"

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Anti-Gay, Black Republican Keyes Makes Another Presidential Bid

More problems for the Republican National Committee and state party chairs. As the Republican "brand" continues to lose its value—donations, popularity, traction—among voters, another disruption has been introduced into to the 2008 election cycle: Alan Keyes has announced he will once again run for president.

The social conservative, anti-gay black Republican ran for president in 1996 and 2000. He also ran unsuccessfully for Senate from his home state of Maryland, and, as the GOP's affirmative action candidate against Barack Obama in Illinois in 2004. Keyes says he is running for president because he is"unmoved" by the "lack of moral courage" shown by the current Republican presidential field. Keyes will participate in tonight's "Values Voters" debate in Florida and is expected he will compete for the same social conservative base as Sam Brownback, Mike Huckabee and Fred Thompson.

Keyes has become infamous or his anti-gay rants, once calling gays "selfish hedonis[ts]." In 2004, his daughter Maya Marcel-Keyes came out as lesbian. Alan Keyes stopped speaking to his daughter and refused to continue paying for her college education because she is gay.

Alan Keyes announces for President! [RenewAmer]

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The Kid Stays Out the Picture [R20]

"Sure, there are lesbians in the ghetto. They're generally the product of a culture where families already have been destroyed." Conservative pundit Star Parker becomes the latest critic to attack Mary Cheney's newly-discovered social conscious ...

While attempting her own historical revisionism. In a particularly ugly column, Parker discounts most black gays and lesbians as never having "had the opportunity to grow up in an intact family and to understand what it means to have a man in your life." Using this methodology, how does one explain Maya Keyes, the young black lesbian activist who grew up in the wealthy, suburban, two-parent home of arch-conservative Alan Keyes? FYI to Star: Luv the perm.

· In a letter to the editors of the Washington Post, Bishop Alfred A. Owens Jr. has kinda-sorta-but not really apologized for his now-infamous "no faggots and sissies" Palm Sunday sermon. No one is impressed.

Ron Oden, the openly gay mayor of Palm Springs and candidate for State Assembly, now campaigns via a daily video blog.

· In a rare closed-door session, the Senate Judiciary Committee sends the Family Marriage Amendement to the floor. "If you want to leave, good riddance," ranking thug chairman Arlen Specter told Russell Feingold (D-WI) who refused to participate in the blatantly partisan parliamentary maneuver.

· Dwight Hayden sentenced to life behind bars for the brutal 2004 murder of gay rights activist Brian Williamson