Janet Folger, head of Faith2Action, wrote a completely unhinged column at WorldNetDaily in support of the madness of homophobic Mayor Jim Naugle, who wanted to install $250K autocleaning toilets to prevent the nonexistent gay sex that occurs in the public beach restrooms.
The Homosexual Agenda’s opposition to Naugle, in her mind, is that the LGBT community and its allies are proponents of nonstop man-on-man sex in beach restrooms. [Oh, nevermind Naugle’s decade-long obsession with gays and how he believes they are going to take over the city.]
Folger:
Mayor Naugle has also come under fire for saying “Rev. D. James Kennedy is a great man.” He was right about that, too. And as Dr. Kennedy stood with Anita Bryant when she was railroaded by the homosexual lobby, we stand with Mayor Naugle now.This kind of insanity was quite viral, because I was paid a visit over at my pad by Active Christian Media, there to hawk its Naugle support videos. Watch and weep.I thank God for this mayor who is sticking up for children who, after playing a game of soccer, may wander 50 feet into the library to ask the following questions:
Q: “Mommy?” Why is that part of our library closed off?
A: Well, Johnny, Ft. Lauderdale Commissioners Cindi Hutchinson, Charlotte E. Rodstrom, and Carlton B. Moore voted to take out the books that everybody can read and replace them with homosexual pornography. (Call them at 954-828-5004)Q: Mommy? What’s homosexual pornography?
A: It’s what you saw in the public restroom earlier.Q: Mommy? Why are those people so angry at the nice mayor?
A: Because he wants to protect you from all of it.
Left: “Mayor Jim Naugle Under Attack by Homosexual Activists.” Right: “Mayor Jim Naugle Awarded Protector of the Family Award.”
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Anita Bryant! What a blast from the past. Remember how shocked she was when the fundies dumped her after she left her husband? Talk about getting gobsmacked by a big dollop of sauce for the goose…One of the funniest bits on the old Saturday Night Live played off Bryant’s gig as spokesperson for the Florida orange growers, just before she became America’s Sweetheart Homophobe, when she would exclaim brightly, “Orange juice, it isn’t just for breakfast anymore.”
In the SNL skit, Bryant (played by Jane Curtin) was at an anti-gay strategy meeting when someone offers someone else some OJ. The guy says “No thanks, I’ve already had breakfast,” whereupon Curtin starts screaming hysterically, “IT ISN’T JUST FOR BREAKFAST ANYMORE!! I’m sorry, but if it’s one thing I hate worse than gays, it’s the scum who think orange juice is just for breakfast!
Maybe humor is the best way to deal with these people.
My co-blogger has coined a word to describe Naugle and his supporters–crupidity. We’ve also been toying with the idea of trying a Dan Savage-esque contest to come up with a definition for Naugle, a la Rick Santorum.
My co-blogger has coined a word to describe Naugle and his supporters–crupidity. We’ve also been toying with the idea of trying a Dan Savage-esque contest to come up with a definition for Naugle, a la Rick Santorum.
Unless the Mayor’s been witness to these occurrences first-hand :: ahem::, then I can’t see why he’s making all these allegations. And if it’s man-on-woman sex, or even woman-on-woman sex, is he OK with that? I had to ask. Also, with the population that Florida has, will any one major group take over? My thoughts exactly …
What’s all this about porn in public libraries? I somehow suspect that it isn’t what they say it is.
And Incertus Brian, I think the obvious definition is to engage in anonymous gay sex in a public bathroom. As in, “Man, I was out naugling last night. Some hot young spring breaker; it was awesome.”
What’s all this about porn in public libraries? I somehow suspect that it isn’t what they say it is.
We’ve talked about it a lot on our blog, being as the 4 of us are living in or near Fort Lauderdale, but here’s the basics–the Stonewall Library and Archive is a collection of gay and lesbian documents, etc. that tells the stories and culture of gays in south Florida. There’s some adult material included, none of which is on the shelves. The city is moving it to a wing in a public library where. like any other archive, most of the materials will be closely monitored. It won’t be on the shelves where just anyone can get at it. But Naugle presented it as “they’re gonna put Honcho on the shelves where your five year old can see it!”
In short, Naugle’s a lying piece of shit.
cheesebombs! cheesebombs!
OK, I’ll stop.
Matthew,
It’s the Stonewall Library and Archives according to some news articles I read. http://www.stonewall-library.org/ Seems pretty innocuous to me.
Of course I’m sure these lovely people would have no difficulty explaining Genesis 19.8 to their children.
“Mommy, why did that man suggest that those other men rape his daughters?”
Fundies irk me.
So the appropriate response to “Mommy?” Why is that part of our library closed off?” is actually “Well, Johnny, that’s where the library decided to put a non-browsable, non-circulating collection of historical documents.”? Nice.
How would a self-cleaning toilet keep people from having sex in a bathroom?
How would a self-cleaning toilet keep people from having sex in a bathroom?
It wouldn’t. In fact, I imagine it would make the situation much easier, seeing that the thing locks and the doors stay locked (depending on the unit) from 10 to 20 minutes, plenty of time for a quickie if you’re into that sort of thing. Much less chance of getting caught than doing it in a stall where anyone can walk in.
Now, I know this is about homophobia, and not just garden variety illiteracy, but I’m having fun imagining the “Mommy, why is part of our library closed off?” vignette playing out if the archive they were developing was, say, a research wing for the study of something really boring like estate law?
I mean, there is such a thing as a non-circulating library… I love how WND isn’t aware that these sorts of things exist.
It also harks back to an old cartoon I once saw somewhere (methinks Calvin & Hobbes) which played with the concept of “adult themes” in films — they were all about taxes, root canals, getting enough fiber, etc.
Naugling as gay bathroom sex is nice, but it lacks the universality of “santorum” - I suggest naugling should refer to all sex in a public bathroom, regardless of the gender of the participants.
I think it’s also important to note that these self-cleaning robotic toilets (we’ve taken to calling them the Crapbot 3000 model) will cost the city $250,000 each. I guess that’s a little bit cheaper than your average house in South Florida, but still. Seems excessive. Especially in a state where the higher education budget is about to be slashed by up to 10%, where the housing market seems to be collapsing, and where no one follows traffic laws because there aren’t enough cops to enforce them.
But argue for a little fiscal responsibility– and point out that the police have arrested approximately ZERO people on charges of water closet debauchery– and they claim you’re advocating sex in public.
And as Brian and others have pointed out, the “gay porn in the library” thing is just moronic. Jim Naugle’s against literacy period.
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This is one of those areas where “be respectful of religious people” (a la “Don’t Let’s Be Beastly To The Germans”) shows what a load of complete nonsense that sort of deferral is. This is not a public morals issue, it’s either a sanity or a lying bastard issue.
Regarding sanity: There’s no gay sex problem in those toilets, according to the police chief; the mayor insists that there is, to the point of almost frothing about it. If the mayor were to insist that, say, Chinese body organ thieves congregated there would he be treated as if he weren’t nuts? No. But he’s talking about obsessing over Teh Gays and public morals, a form of religious-based mental illness that is granted magic protection from mainstream criticism. Can you imagine the mockery of the evening news crews if he claimed that aliens were breeding there? You can laugh at a crazy person, unless that crazy person’s mental illness takes the form of a mainstream faith or component thereof.
The other possibility is that this is a cold, calculated attempt to demonize gays. “We have to spend a quarter million dollars to stop [nonexistent] gays from having sex almost in front of your children” is on a base moral plane with “we have to spend a quarter million dollars on extra security for the library because blacks are always stealing books so that your kids can’t have any”.
Let’s not forget that wonderful Roman rule of criminal inquiry: who benefits? One of the things that I learned from living in a small town was to question who has a piece of a contract when a bafflingly unnecessary public project is advanced. You can usually bet your next three meals that it is somebody closely connected to the mayor .
I thought George Michael had that one covered. Then again, maybe he could be the name for cruising in the bushes. “Man, met this hot guy in the fens, we Michaeled for hours!”
togolosh: Yeah, you’re right. Anonymous bathroom sex of any type. To really mock him it should still be anonymous.
Definition of “Naugle”: semen found on the floor of a public restroom.
As in “Oh god, I had to use the restroom in the bar… and I sat in Naugle!“
Ew! That’s worse than when I sat on my own cigarette.
What is it with the wingnuts and their absolute obsessive drive to rewrite history into some fantasy? I’m pretty damn certain it was that hideously awful dried-up husk of a woman Bryant that was the one trying to railroad US, not the other way around … hell, there are discriminatory hateful policies and laws still in place thanks to her insanities.
Around the time that Anita Bryan was at her homo-hating peak there was a wonderful cartoon in a Canadian weekly.
Picture if you will, a baffled, “normal” looking young man, sitting in an armchair with a newspaper. He is looked confused, meeting his parents’ eyes as they glare at down him with ramrod-straight like guardsmen, vibrating but silent rage and disapproval. Says the lad, “What’s the big deal? All I did was throw out my Anita Bryant records.”
The really weird thing about Janet’s little ‘Q & A Mommy bit’ is that she did it on her radio show the other day when Naugel was on and would switch to these really freaky kid sounding voices when she was doing the children’s part of her bit.
Very, very freaky.
Matthew - I suspect that much of what is called ‘anonymous’ sex isn’t really anonymous. More like “first name only sex” or something like that. The reason it’s important is that a hetboy like me has a much better shot at getting his Naugling Badge if the anonymous requirement is dropped.
If anybody is oversexualizing children, it is these fundy wackjobs who seem intent on explaining each purportedly *gay* act in excruciating detail to the youngest of tots, all in the name of decrying said acts.
Such bullcrap results in those same kids accusing others in the schoolyard of all sorts of insane and explicit stuff not meant for young children to process. This has happened to my kids, and, believe me you, I pitched some major fits over ten year olds screaming this crap at my 5 and 7 year olds! Talk about child abuse - my kids know a LOT of gay people, but they were unaware of the supposed mechanics of their sexuality until these lovely little “conservative Catholic” brats came along and started spouting explicit stuff like their parents made them watch it or something!
BTW, somebody should explain exactly why Mayor Naugle is promoting (gasp) UNISEX TOILETS! Oh, yeah, calvinball rules. Silly me.
Ms Kate:
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: These homo-hating zealots think about gay sex way more than any actual homosexual I’ve ever known.
Ditto.
And sex in general, really. Sexually repressed people usually have amazingly dirty minds. To the point where sometimes I can’t even figure out what the innuendo is supposed to mean, besides being somehow vaguely sexual.
Oh, and the part about all of this that really kills me: The police have said that it’s not even an issue. There haven’t been any incidents.
The fundies are ignoring this crucial aspect: They’re trying to prevent gay sex that isn’t even happening.
I know, I know, but it still kills me.
Oh, it’s happening…in their minds.
Mayor: No, in the public restrooms.
Marge Simpson: Yes, honey, the public restrooms in your mind.
Surreptitious sex in a public toilet–why, it’s the NAUGLE-HIDE!
*runs*
Let’s not forget that the fundies are, metaphorically, trying to drive a spike through gays as a way of stabbing at the rest of us. One of the reasons that they hate gays so much is that for gays, their sexuality is an integral and unavoidable part of their natural human identity. For the fundies, sexuality should never be a part of anybody’s natural human identity, period. Given that it is, and is unavoidably so, and given gays are the most vigorous advocates of that reality, it is natural that fundamentalists and killjoys would loathe them as much as a secret police thug hates the sound of a free voice speaking to a listening crowd.
Okay, everybody’s over at the Harry Potter thread and nobody’s here! I can run around naked! Whoo-HOO!!
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My, this is fun!!!!
six-oh-seven-nine, cover your shame!
[neighbor] six-oh-seven-nine, I can see your doodle.