I'm a Homosapien, too.

Determining a person’s civil rights based on whom they sleep with is completely un-American. Either we’re all equal under the law and the Constitution, or none of us are guaranteed any rights as citizens. It’s as simple as that.

As more and more gay-bashers and bigots slither out of their cesspools into the media glare to spread their hatred, decent Americans need to stand up and smack them down before any more damage is inflicted on the republic and its gay and lesbian citizens. That our current government happily trades in this kind of discrimination pisses me off to no end, and all sorts of stories are starting to emerge in the wake of the GOP’s ongoing campaign of homophobia:

An Alabama lawmaker who sought to ban gay marriages now wants to ban novels with gay characters from public libraries, including university libraries .

A bill by Rep. Gerald Allen, R-Cottondale, would prohibit the use of public funds for "the purchase of textbooks or library materials that recognize or promote homosexuality as an acceptable lifestyle." Allen said he filed the bill to protect children from the "homosexual agenda."

"Our culture, how we know it today, is under attack from every angle," Allen said in a press conference Tuesday.

Allen said that if his bill passes, novels with gay protagonists and college textbooks that suggest homosexuality is natural would have to be removed from library shelves and destroyed.

"I guess we dig a big hole and dump them in and bury them," he said.

And then there’s the defrocking of a Methodist minister solely because she is an active lesbian…

Following a two-day ecclesiastical trial, the jury voted 12 to 1 to find the Rev. Irene Elizabeth Stroud, 34, guilty of violating the United Methodist Church's ban on "self-avowed practicing" homosexuals in the clergy.

And the networks have been so cowed by (or are beholden to) conservatives in power that they are much more concerned about the political content of the ads they run than any of their hyper-violent, misogynist, stereotyping programming: both NBC and CBS refuse to air an ad by the United Church of Christ that promotes its acceptance of all people. The tag line of the ad is: “Jesus didn’t turn away people. Neither do we.” What’s so controversial about that? Well, it seems that they show two women with their arms around each other in the diverse crowd of folks that are welcome into their churches (see the ad here).

First we propose to enact laws denying them equal rights as heterosexuals. We seek to ban and bury "gay" books. Then, we do all we can to discourage their acceptance within our societal institutions (churches, schools, etc.). When do we start rounding them up in cattle cars?