What a brave and unusually intelligent child. I am simply stunned that a 10-year-old would take a stand like this.

The United States Postal Service has unveiled a design for the “Celebrate Scouting” stamp that will be issued to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Scouting movement in the U.S. The stamp will be sold in the summer of 2010, coinciding with the Boy Scouts of America’s anniversary on February 8, 2010.

This is yet another slap in the face of LGBT people by the Obama administration. While the USPS is an independent government agency, it is specifically required by the U.S. Constitution. For the postal service to issue a stamp that promotes an organization that actively discriminates against LGBT people and those with religious differences is shameful.

This is more proof that it is business as usual when it comes to our government supporting this group that teaches hate and intolerance to children.

If you want to stop this, please contact the UPSP at 1-800-ASK-USPS or via email. Agents are available M-F 8am -8:30pm ET, Sat-Sun 8am - 6pm ET.

The rabidly anti-gay Westboro Baptist “God Hates Fags” hate group spent Veterans Day at Arlington National Cemetery, spreading the word of hate and intolerance.

In another disturbing story from Memphis, Donnie McClurkin, an “ex-gay” preacher who is now devoted to persecuting LGBT people, called gay people “vampires” at a youth conference for the Church of God In Christ. It isn’t difficult to figure out who really sucks.

One man has been arrested and another remains at large after police spotted them trying to set fire to a flag pole outside of the Memphis Gay and Lesbian Community Center.

Ross Burton was arrested after resisting arrest and sustaining injuries to his face. He has been charged with aggravated assault and vandalism.

According to Bianca Phillips of the Memphis Flyer, this was the second incident of vandalism at the center in two months. Previously, a billboard for National Coming Out Day was destroyed.

Many people assume that these kinds of acts are committed by teenagers. However, Burton is a 23-year-old man who apparently has nothing better to do than commit childish acts of vandalism at an LGBT community center. Let’s hope this moron gets charged with a hate crime.

Right wing blogs and the tabloid press have come to the defense of Medhat Mohamed, the homophobic New York cab driver who threw a gay couple out of his cab for hugging.

Mohamed lost his job and faces losing his cab driver license after he became enraged at the sight of his male passengers embracing in the backseat of his cab.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg was quotd as saying, “I thought the taxi driver’s behavior — if it is as reported — was a disgrace.”

Today, a columnist for the New York Post came to Mohamed’s defense and accused one of the victims of being “media savvy” in an opinion editorial that features a photo of Mohamed looking very sad (above). Since she works for Rupert Murdoch’s sleezy tabloid newspaper, columnist, Andrea Peyser could also be condemned for media savvy. Using her logic, she simply can’t be trusted because her experience in the news business automatically makes her suspect.

THIS man does not deserve to be treated like a criminal.

Cabby Medhat Mohamed is the new poster boy for sexual intolerance in this libertine city. He’s been branded by Council Speaker Christine Quinn as potentially the biggest bigot ever to scar the populace. Mayor Bloomberg labeled the distressed driver a “disgrace.”

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But Medhat Mohamed is no bigot, and he’s not a disgrace.

He’s also not a prude, a gay basher, a homophobe or the more colorful invective that’s been lobbed in his direction by a chorus of yuppies with a large bone to pick.

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Judge Judy has a saying, “If something doesn’t make sense, it isn’t true.”

It simply doesn’t make sense that two men would single this cab driver out and make up a lie about him. What would motivate them to do such a thing? There are plenty of corporations with deep pockets to go after if this were a scam.

This article tags along with the one I wrote earlier today about South Park and Comedy Central. A few days ago, a straight friend recommended a DVD on Netflix by a young comic named Daniel Tosh. She rated it five stars and swore that I would love it.

So, I rented Daniel Tosh: Completely Serious and set out to watch the program. He said the word “faggot” once, then again. Then, he told the following joke:

“Did you hear that there is a blood test to determine whether or not someone is gay? It is called an AIDS test.”

Seriously. That’s what he said. And, the audience laughed.

I don’t know why my friend thought that I would enjoy this guy’s hateful routine. I lost my best friend to AIDS. I have witnessed the deaths of dozens of others over the years.

I tried to write a review of the DVD on Netflix, but they don’t allow people to use the word “faggot” on their website. I wonder why it is okay for them to rent DVDs in which an idiot comic uses the term and not allow customers to warn others about the objectionable content.

I did some research on Daniel Tosh and learned that he has his own show on Comedy Central called Tosh.0. I Tivo’d the program to see if Tosh uses similar homphobic material on TV.

I only watched the show for about five minutes and Tosh told another AIDS joke. He showed a YouTube clip of two monkeys having sex on the hood of a car. He snickered at the clip like a middle school kid and then said, “I bet that monkey has AIDS.”

So, it appears that AIDS jokes are part of this man’s routine. However, he is an equal opportunity hater. Here is a clip in which he does a routine called “Is it racist?”

Recently, the creators of the adult cartoon show South Park and Comedy Central were called out by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) for an episode in which the word “fag” was used dozens of times. GLAAD issued a statement in which they objected to the episide, explaining that “fag” is a slur that is rooted in homphobia and that casual use results in worsening the hostile climate that many gay and lesbian people face in their daily lives.

One thing I have learned about South Park fans over the last few years is that they can be as crude and insensitive as the show itself. It makes sense that people who are devoted to a program that “ridicules everyone” would not react well to GLAAD’s objection to an episide focused on the primary anti-gay slur. The sad thing is that many of the fans who jumped to South Park’s defense are gay and lesbian.

Many gay and lesbian fans of the show were quick to condemn GLAAD, calling the organization “thin skinned” and “overly PC” for speaking out about the issue. Ironically, those are the same words often used by those who use slurs and other forms of hate speech to defend themselves.

Rather than try to understand why GLAAD objected to the program, many gay and lesbian people seemed all to eager to throw them under the bus for simply doing their job and ensuring that LGBT people are not defamed in the media. Many LGBT people do not know what GLAAD has been able to accomplish over the last two decades. They are the reason why journalist no longer use terms like “admitted homosexual” to refer to gay and lesbian people. They are the reason why being gay, lesbian and bisexual is not referred to a being a “lifestyle choice” by legitimate newspapers and magazines.

The statement from GLAAD reads in part:

Though this seems to represent a well-intentioned effort by the creators of South Park to delegitimize a vulgar anti-gay slur, the fact is that the word is and remains a hateful slur that is often part of the harassment, bullying and violence that gay people, and gay youth in particular, experience on a daily basis in this country. It is an epithet that has real consequences for real people’s lives. Just this year, an 11-year-old Massachusetts student named Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover, unable to endure the unrelenting anti-gay bullying and name-calling he experienced at school, committed suicide.

The creators of South Park are right on one important point: more and more people are using the F-word as an all-purpose insult. However, it is irresponsible and wrong to suggest that it is a benign insult or that promoting its use has no consequences for those who are the targets of anti-gay bullying and violence. This is a slur whose meaning remains rooted in homophobia. And while many South Park viewers will understand the sophisticated satire and critique in last night’s episode, others won’t - and if even a small number of those take from this a message that using the “F-word” is OK, it worsens the hostile climate that many in our community continue to face.

Anyone who has been involved in raising children over the last 10 years can tell you that many of those who watch South Park and lack the ability to understand satire are children.

The day after every new episode of South Park aired, my nieces and nephew came home quoting lines from the show. They were not allowed to watch it at home, yet it was the talk of the elementary school playground. Kids repeat everything they hear on the show like little parrots and share it with their classmates.

So, you can be certain that the words “fag” and “faggot” were spoken in record numbers in U.S. schools on November 6, the day after the F-word episode of South Park aired. One can only assume that those boys who are perceived to by gay did not have a good day in school.

GLAAD issued a thoughtful, well-reasoned statement about their concerns regarding this issue. It is disappointing that so many LGBT people are so devoted to a cartoon show that they would attack GLAAD for doing what is an invaluable service.