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Jan Moir Award for Shoddy Journalism #2

Here is my second nomination for the Jan Moir Award for Shoddy Journalism – the moist, moustachioed homophobe Joseph Farah. In this article, he takes the sketchy details of one tragic case and presents them as proof that any same-sex marriage will inevitably lead to drink, drug and disease-fuelled murder. What do you think we should send him as a prize?

Manslaughter with a twist

Posted: January 02, 2010

A manslaughter trial begins next week in Portland, Maine, that should be of interest to the entire nation. The story begins last year on April 22, when Malcolm Bruce LaVallee-Davidson made a widely reported and emotional plea at the civic center for a statewide same-sex marriage initiative as he stood with his homosexual partner – maintaining that they “were already married in the eyes of God.” What few in the civic center forum knew then was that just four days earlier, LaVallee-Davidson had shot dead with a .44-caliber handgun Fred Homer Wilson, in a South Portland basement after wild night of drug taking and drinking. Wilson was a member of a local homosexual sadomasochistic leather club. Lavellee-Davidson’s faux spouse was not in attendance that evening. Don’t miss David Kupelian’s culture-war classic, “The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised as Freedom”. Lavallee-Davidson embracing his partner at same-sex marriage hearing. It took the work of the Christian Civic League of Maine and Maine’s Family Policy Council to bring the details to light. Somehow, LaVallee-Davidson’s heartfelt plea for same-sex marriage was bigger news than the fact that he killed a sadomasochist acquaintance four nights earlier. But it gets worse. In November, the attorney representing LaVallee-Davidson suggested his client may have been suffering from AIDS dementia when he killed Wilson – setting up the possibility that he might plead guilty by reason of insanity, spending a brief time in treatment before being released back into the general population. On the other end of the scale of justice, he could face up to 40 years for conviction on manslaughter charges. This is an amazing story of the intersection of deceit, debauchery and violence. Video accounts of LaVallee-Davidson’s testimony April 22 at the civic center was actually used to promote the same-sex marriage law before it was revealed he was facing manslaughter charges from a killing that occurred just four nights earlier. On the positive side, the voters of Maine voted down the same-sex marriage proposition – like so many others across the nation. But, less than a month later, Maine’s top legislators were meeting with homosexual leaders to plan the next move in imposing same-sex marriage on the people of Maine. Here’s a case with enough twists and turns and intrigue to keep Nancy Grace and Court TV busy for months. Yet there has been scarcely anything reported about it outside of the Portland area. And even what has been reported there is sketchy. Why? Because the facts don’t fit the paradigm of the media’s bent toward homosexual activism. Homosexual behavior is just like heterosexual behavior, they tell us. Well, I have a feeling that if the shoe were on the other foot, a case like this would have received much more national media attention. Let me give you a hypothetical example. Let’s pretend that it was a married Christian who got up and made the impassioned plea against same-sex marriage. It later turned out he had killed a prostitute with whom he was cavorting in a stupor induced by the use of drugs and alcohol. Would that be a story? You bet it would. It might even be a movie of the week. The three major networks would be covering it along with the cable news shows. The New York Times and the Associated Press would have teams of reporters up in Maine right now preparing for the trial of the century. Is there any doubt? Think about that. That’s the double standard we face in trying to figure out what’s really going on in our world. We’re often forced to read between the lines of news accounts to get the facts. Jury selection in the LaVallee-Davidson case opens Jan. 8, with the trial scheduled to begin Jan. 11.”

Click on his ridiculous face to view the original article at World Net Daily.

Inverted Commas

The UK’s right-wing press have been getting all worked up about homophobia this week. (And no, not in the usual way, where anything short of public lynching for anyone straying outside traditional gender stereotypes is considered Political Correctness Gone Mad.) This time, the Daily Mail and its ilk appear to be on the side of the gays. Yes, a newspaper which is traditionally less lenient than Mein Kampf when it comes to sexual minorities is condemning someone for making discriminatory remarks about homosexuality… But oh, it’s Jonathan Ross they’re condemning… Ah. I see.

In this story, Jonathan Ross, natural nemesis of the Daily Mail, has got into trouble for a comment on his radio show. All of a sudden the media’s staunch gay-bashers are outraged on us deviants’ behalf. The tabloids, the news, and a whole host of rent-a-slebs are all leaping in to defend us from him. Yes, in their opinion, we’re bad, but he’s worse. If there really is a Gay Mafia, as factions of the press would have us believe, then those same factions will be hoping that Ross has woken up at some point this week with a horse’s (or Hannah Montana’s) severed head in his bed, all for saying: “If your son asks for a Hannah Montana MP3 player, you might want to put him down for adoption before he brings his … erm … partner home.” Which, of course, would be an awful thing to say, if he’d actually said it. The thing is, he didn’t.

YES! HE DIDN’T SAY IT!

What he actually said was this: “If your son asks for a Hannah Montana MP3 player, you might want to already think about putting him down for adoption in later life when they settle down with their, erm, partner” (recording here, evidently posted by someone who was too angry to listen to it properly.) Earlier on the radio show, they’d been having a discussion about same-sex parents being able to adopt children, and Ross was referring to the hypothetical male Hannah Montana fan and his hypothetical future gentleman-friend being able to adopt a child of their own in later life! Even the dubious “erm, partner” comment appears to be a callback from an earlier discussion about what to refer to a gay chap’s boyfriend as. What he said made perfect sense in context, but has not only been taken out of it, but completely fabricated. Let’s hope that a few more people realise that @Wossy has been wronged before he receives any further punishment.

Amazonfail

It’s all gone horribly wrong over at Amazon this weekend. It seems that someone (or something) at the online bookstore has celebrated Easter with a censorious purge on any books that contain themes that might make Daily Mail readers uncomfortable. Anything from the biography of Ellen Degeneres to “The Well of Loneliness” by Radclyffe Hall has vanished from the rankings system on the grounds of “adult” content (Hall’s steamy sex scene consists only of the line “…that night they were not divided”, which is about as filthy as it got for Victorian lesbians until Sarah Waters’ “Tipping the Velvet”, also stripped of its ranking in the past couple of days). Non-sexual titles on such topics as gay parenting have been de-ranked, whereas bizarrely, all those dreadful religious books about “curing” homosexuality remain.

More details here.

An interesting take on it here.

Also, the slightly more sinister conspiracy theory here.

Still, whether policy-change, meta-glitch, or the successful manipulation of a software weakness by one or more right-wing nutters, it needs to be sorted out. Now.

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