Last month, the Dove World Outreach Center — a church in Gainesville, FL that attracted attention last year for erected a sign reading “Islam is of the devil” — posted a new sign stating “No homo Mayor.” The message was directed at Craig Lowe, an openly gay candidate in Gainesville’s mayoral race run-off. “We don’t feel as though the city should be represented by a homosexual,” said Terry Jones, a senior pastor at Dove World. When the media raised questions about whether such advocacy violated the church’s tax status, Dove World changed its sign to just say, “No Homo.” Despite this homophobic campaign, Gainesville elected Lowe as its newest mayor yesterday. However, he won by just 35 votes, so there will automatically be a recount. If Lowe takes office, he will be “among about 30 gay or lesbian mayors nationwide.”
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April 14th, 2010 at 12:02 pmJust love watching reichwing christianity in action. Their love of all God’s works sure is something to behold, eh?
April 14th, 2010 at 12:02 pm‘No homo Mayor’? How childish. ‘We don’t feel as though the city should be represented by a homosexual’. Really? I feel Government shouldn’t be run by Homophobic, Xenophobic, hypocrtitcal Repugs either.
April 14th, 2010 at 12:02 pmthe Dove World Outreach Center — a church in Gainesville, FL that attracted attention last year for erected a sign reading “Islam is of the devil”
Dammit! I keep building my irony meters stronger and stronger and the wingnuts still keep breaking ‘em.
April 14th, 2010 at 12:04 pmSuccess is always the best revenge. Congratulations to the mayor-elect.
April 14th, 2010 at 12:06 pmA hearty UP YOURS, bigoted XianFundie pricks!
April 14th, 2010 at 12:07 pmWhich homos would Jesus hate?
April 14th, 2010 at 12:08 pmYet further confirmation that leaving the horrible, bigoted and primitive “religion” known as Christianity was the best move I’ve ever made.
April 14th, 2010 at 12:08 pmGainesville is an incredibly progressive little city…smack in the middle of incredibly reactionary, hate-mongering bible country. Gotta love the contrast.
April 14th, 2010 at 12:11 pmJ.@8, As a lapsed Catholic I understand how you feel. These guys only look to the Old Testament for their brand of God. Whereas, i look to the New Testament. The concept of Jesus and forgiveness and compassion is lost on them.
April 14th, 2010 at 12:12 pmIsn’t it a college town? That would explain a lot.
April 14th, 2010 at 12:12 pmWow. That’s some serious ugliness.
Exactly how does the sexuality of the Mayor affect job performance or the lives of the people of the city? Will they be unable to stop thinking about gay sex for four years?
For Mayor Lowe: CONGRATULATIONS!!!
April 14th, 2010 at 12:15 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Looks like those same 9,000 TeaBaggers that they keep shipping around will show up there soon to protest.
April 14th, 2010 at 12:17 pmWow G-ville did it, props to the town.
April 14th, 2010 at 12:18 pmHe’s going to complain that he received a bomb threat from a “homo militant group” next…
April 14th, 2010 at 12:19 pmEnnuiDivine (a valued asset of Page Industries) says:
Gainesville is an incredibly progressive little city…smack in the middle of incredibly reactionary, hate-mongering bible country. Gotta love the contrast
That’s due in large part to Gainesville being the home of UF , so there tends to be more educated people among the populace. Go twenty miles in any direction though , and you’re in Deliverance country.
April 14th, 2010 at 12:19 pmI’m sure Timmy Tebow’s upset though.
April 14th, 2010 at 12:20 pmralph the wonder llama, official spokesllama for the Llama Milk Council® says:
Dammit! I keep building my irony meters stronger and stronger and the wingnuts still keep breaking ‘em.
Damn, that is a heaping helping of irony, isn’t it?
Dove World Outreach Center, my ass! :-D
April 14th, 2010 at 12:21 pmFlspeedy says:
I’m sure Timmy Tebow’s upset though.
His mom will comfort him.
April 14th, 2010 at 12:22 pmTime for Pat Robertson to warn Gainesville of the dangers of thumbing it’s nose at god.
Congrats to Mayor Lowe!
April 14th, 2010 at 12:23 pmLOL! I forget which troll is obsessed about Tebow. I suspect it more than a ‘Man crush’…
April 14th, 2010 at 12:25 pmTerry Jones of Dove Outreach Center certainly does sound like a raging queen, albeit closeted.
Jones is typical of modern-day evangelicalism, which has abandoned any notion of advocacy for the poor and the misfortunate, and instead concentrates itself on gaining wealth and power.
What is it about the christianists and the wee wee?
These people have constructed a whole cult focused on the proper placement and function of the male sexual organ.
Women count only as vessels of procreation and later as housekeepers, nothing more.
April 14th, 2010 at 12:28 pm#7 – RUCerious Kimbundu nzúmbe says:
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“Which homos would Jesus hate?”
April 14th, 2010 at 12:08 pm
The Gongress-critters in the Republican party? Tap, tap, tap!
Oh, was that a rhetorical questions?
April 14th, 2010 at 12:29 pmConsider this a rhetorical answer! ;-)
Congratulations to the new mayor of Gainesville.
Congratulations to the enlightened citizenry of Gainesville.
I suggest that the mud-slinging holy roller a$$holes clean up their act and try to implement even a twentieth of the decency that Jesus Christ preached.
April 14th, 2010 at 12:31 pmGo Gators!
April 14th, 2010 at 12:33 pmThese bastards also flipped out when Annise Parker was elected as mayor of Houston.
April 14th, 2010 at 12:34 pmTIME: What Houston’s Gay Mayor Means for Texas.
Damn, that’s like a dog whistle for trolls. When they show up you’re cleaning up the poop today! :)
April 14th, 2010 at 12:38 pmWow. No trolls. I wonder if they are in Boston listening to Screeching Palin?
April 14th, 2010 at 12:40 pmNo Homo?
WTF, man?
You aren’t a man of the cloth! You are the devil and your followers are the devil spawns.
April 14th, 2010 at 12:40 pmP.D. says:
Wow. No trolls. I wonder if they are in Boston listening to Screeching Palin?
Ugh. That means there will be footage of it later.
My dog just whimpered and curled up in the corner. I wonder what that voice sounds like to a dog? It must be horrific.
April 14th, 2010 at 12:42 pmZooey@31, Oh yeah. MSM will cover it all day. Although on the plus side, I heard her Alaska show is a stinker. All ready the Discovery Channel is wondering what to do about it.
April 14th, 2010 at 12:46 pm“Dove World Outreach Center?” Who runs that, Pastor Orwell?
We got a gay mayor in Portland OR. Of course, we only elected him because he’s named after beer.
April 14th, 2010 at 12:46 pmAnd that fake interview show was losing ratings continually during the first episode. So sad.
April 14th, 2010 at 12:50 pmDear Lord, Kitty Kelley on MSNBC? Whitney Houston? Is this news? Christ. Maybe I should just go out and weed my garden.
April 14th, 2010 at 12:50 pmRUCerious Kimbundu nzúmbe says:
Which homos would Jesus hate?
Homosapien.
April 14th, 2010 at 12:51 pmShayne@34, It’s what I always say. Just because people find you interesting, doesn’t mean they respect you. Look at Palin. She is like a car-wreck. You CAN’T help but to look. But then you don’t like what you see. Glenn Beck too. Just because he has high ratings doesn’t change the fact that that many people think he is crazier that a sh*t house rat.
April 14th, 2010 at 12:53 pmNO RELIGION!
April 14th, 2010 at 12:56 pmGood Lord, churches can be so hateful.
April 14th, 2010 at 1:01 pm“Last month, the Dove World Outreach Center — a church in Gainesville, FL”
it is against the law for churches to support a political candidate and keep their tax exempt status. time for these clowns to start paying taxes.
April 14th, 2010 at 1:02 pmBozo The Neoclown says:
“Last month, the Dove World Outreach Center — a church in Gainesville, FL”
it is against the law for churches to support a political candidate and keep their tax exempt status. time for these clowns to start paying taxes.
It sure would be nice if the IRS did their job and started enforcing those rules. If you want the Talibornagains to get out of politics , revoke their tax exemptions. The threat of having to pay taxes on the money they con out of the rubes would make them rediscover the value of church-state seperation.
April 14th, 2010 at 1:09 pmholy rollers suck
April 14th, 2010 at 1:13 pmugh, Will post on correct thread.
I have no doubt Jesus would have taken the same approach as Dove World, had he ever talked about homosexuality. /snark off
April 14th, 2010 at 1:17 pmThe crazy extremist religious types (Christian, Muslim, etc.) MUST…MUST have someone to HATE.
For many years…the crazies here in the U.S. had the “Reds Under the Beds” and assorted Commies.
Seems that those types just weren’t generating enough FEAR to keep the masses in line, SO…born was the hate campaign against the homos. They have a new, vague “something” that they can preach hate and fear about. There are probably millions that don’t even know anyone gay (but they chuckle along with or love them some gay types on the TV machine)but, when they get all “ginned up” by the preacher types, they spew the same rotten, garbage and lies. They are so blinded by the “faith” that they can’t see truth and reality.
The whitey rightys these days are getting an extra added bonus with the n****r in the White House. …double bang for the buck, so to speak.
April 14th, 2010 at 1:28 pmwho ARE these people???
April 14th, 2010 at 1:34 pmI would like to see the people who own or lease property near the church erect signs that are designed to embarrass the church like “How many Dove World church goers are adulterers?” or something similar. A few of those type signs and I am sure Dove World may want to take down their offensive signs.
April 14th, 2010 at 1:44 pmWhat, are you telling me that there are gays in Florida ????? I shudder to think of it.
/snark
In all seriousness, if his best political message is “Vote for me because my opponent is gay” then it really doesn’t sound like he has very many substantive points to run on.(not to mention, it doesn’t sound like he has too much in the brain either).
April 14th, 2010 at 2:00 pm32 P.D. – I don’t know what is going on at the Discovery Channel, but when I think of the Disc Channel’s usual clientele and Palin’s background, I’m getting a picture of a show on nature, for Tree Huggers, hosted by a lady shooting the nature from an airplane.
April 14th, 2010 at 2:05 pmOne headline I HOPE never to see:
Conservative guy attempts assassination on openly-gay mayor…
April 14th, 2010 at 2:08 pmMeanwhile, back in DC, our “fierce advocate” in the White House has ordered his Congressional liaison to tell Congress NOT to get rid of DADT, has order his DOJ to SUPPORT DADT and DOMA, and is continuing to lie, back-stab, and roll the bus over his former millions of gay and lesbian supporters.
April 14th, 2010 at 2:24 pmJust wait til election time comes around, fierce advocate.
Florida? Are you sure?
April 14th, 2010 at 3:21 pmUSCKitty, Private 1st class, Human Slave Division of the Grand Feline Army says:
One headline I HOPE never to see:
Conservative guy attempts assassination on openly-gay mayor…
April 14th, 2010 at 3:42 pm–
You never will. Thanks to freedom of speech CG can talk shit all he wants about gay rights and we have the right to spread the word that CG is a bigot playing a losing game. And report him if he says something stupid about assassinating people based on race, sexuality, religion or anything else. Besides he’s too afraid to leave his closet to do any serious harm to anyone.
I was down that-a-way last year visiting a childhood friend.
April 14th, 2010 at 4:11 pmI knew there was something about that town I liked, besides the butterfly rainforest exhibit.
Cool.
According to statistics, half are divorced and remarried and according to Jesus himself and the Bible are “living in a state of adultry.” That doesn’t included the ones creeping around and cheating. So Huckabee’s congregation and he’s hating on gays and they’re frogged up living in adultry.
myroro, I voted your comment up.
April 14th, 2010 at 4:40 pmEvery mayor that has ever been elected to any city on planet earth is a “homo.”
Which species do these backward hicks think should be holding offices?
Hate thy neighbor as thyself.
April 14th, 2010 at 5:04 pmA place called “Dove World” is concerned about gayness…For god sake why not just call yourself “Teacup Tabernacle”….
April 14th, 2010 at 6:50 pmIs everyone aware the Westboro freakoids are headed to Tampa this month? Should be interesting to see them say anything nasty at all about Central Florida military personnel or anyone else… those guys in Hillsboro and Pinellas don’t take prisoners…
April 14th, 2010 at 7:38 pm… and Gainesville is the home of the U of F, guys… consider it slightly exempt from the neighborhood nuttiness…
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April 14th, 2010 at 8:21 pmI live in Gainesville and voted for Craig Lowe.
Proud that I did now that he needed every vote!
And I didn’t even know he was gay. Cool!
We could use more openly gay pols instead of the secretly gay ones that inhabit the Republican caucus.
Oh and Charlie Crist.. Run as an independent already.
April 14th, 2010 at 10:13 pmBtw, anybody that has been around a bit in North Florida knows Crist likes poles more than holes. Come out of the closet please. But I guess it is too late for that.. too bad you went the Repubelickan route.
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April 15th, 2010 at 10:23 amand voted for Craig Lowe.
April 15th, 2010 at 10:28 amProud that I did now that he needed every vote!
And I didn’t even know he was gay. Cool!
We could use more openly gay pols instead of the secretly gay ones that inhabit the Republican caucus.
What is it about the christianists and the wee wee?
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