Team GLBTS call to action!

Krinklyman's Homohater Hall of Shame goes all the way to the top today, singling out the squinty puppet boy in the White House for recognition by the HHS. President Bush endorsed the "Marriage Protection Week," Oct. 12-18, that was announced last week by the Family Research Council, Concerned Women for America, Focus on the Family and representatives from over 20 other ultra-conservative, anti-gay organizations.  One of the coalition's goals is to build support for a Constitutional amendment to permanently deny civil marriage to same-sex couples. The President has now revealed his true, homohating colors in endorsing the notion that marriage needs "protection" from gays. We hope people across the country join us in saying unto President Bush, shame on you! But that's not all! We want you to DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!

HomoCadets, get your decoder ring out of your Queer Gear kits! Open the ring to find the secret "closeted" letter and remove all occurrences of that letter in the following encoded message:
BQUQSH QHATEQS GQAYQSQ
Using the friendly relay stations in Vermont and Ontario, send the message to all your HomoBuddies to alert them to action! Tell them to increase their efforts to destroy conservative "values" . . . we've got to stand up to the homohaters now!

An email action campaign can be joined at the Human Rights Campaign website. Click here for a form letter to sign and send to important people!

Californians fail group intelligence test

Psychologists at the University of California Davis are being criticized for a recent experiment which had unforeseen consequences for the participants. The situation is reminiscent of ethical problems with the infamous Milgram experiment in which subjects were forced to give what they thought were electric shocks to an experimental collaborator in another room. UC Davis psychologists Molly Magdalene and Carter Cartography designed an experiment in which participants faced an extremely realistic scenario of making a crucial political decision. They wanted to know if people could be discouraged from making obviously smart political choices by factors like fame and wealth which ostensibly have nothing to do with politics. Researchers concocted a scenario in which the economic woes of an enormous state's economy were blamed entirely on the governor by a person whose wealth was his only qualification for political action. In this phase, experimenters hypothesized that advertising money is really all it takes to change voters' minds about an issue. This hypothesis was borne out, with 56% of participants electing to get rid of a governor who had been elected just months before. Participants were then given the choice between many candidates for replacement, most of whom had no political qualifications whatsoever. Many of these 135 candidates were what psychologists call "distractors," only there to disguise the choices that experimenters are really interested in. The three choices Magdalene and Cartography were looking at consisted of two experienced state politicians, one liberal and one conservative, and an unqualified, inarticulate foreigner with a history of sexually harassing women. The experimenters' hypothesis that fame would win votes despite the actor candidate's lack of political experience, explicit refusal to have a platform, and association with minor scandals was confirmed. Unfortunately, in their quest to avoid the artificiality of the laboratory setting and create a realistic experimental set-up, researchers unwittingly made the process meet the requirements set down in California's constitution for a gubernatorial recall election. Now the experimenters' collaborator, bodybuilder and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, is set to actually become California's governor.

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