I get it. Zapf supports unobtrusive, quiet, seen-and-not-heard Gayz, not the people – those rotten “activists” – who are the reason Gay people have any rights at all.

Don’t tell me what she thinks of black people and other minorities. I don’t think I could stand it.

I love them all and would ‘be seen’ in a photo with them. I believe they all live in sin and frankly all are very unhappy people and had horrible childhoods as well.

Yeah, it was all her cousins’ fault they had unhappy childhoods, & aren’t “happy” now, I’m sure.

What a really, truly, unspeakably, yada yada awful person. Really.

For whatever reason God allowed people to choose homosexuality. So, there must be a reason for it, although I don’t get it…

For some reason, God allows people who choose to be hateful, whiney, sociopathic douchebags to run for political office. I don’t get it…

My sources in Hillcrest tell me she’s gay.

Doesn’t everyone write ferociously gay-bashing homosexual-hating e-mails saying that you want to keep people from having jobs in schools or being elected to anything based on their sexual orientation?

So true. God knows everyone has done that from time to time. You just hope they never get dug up, you know, by some muck raker on a crazy campaign to make you look bigoted against gay people or something.

“No, really! Some of my best friends are pole-smokers. And I don’t mean that as a pejorative!”

As Athenae would say, Jesus tits.

Did she mention her golf score?
Just asking.

Nice, San Diego. Nice. Three gay cousins, huh? So, it sorta runs in the family, huh? Can’t help but make us wonder about Zapf. If any of the cousins were to take this opportunity to run for office, they’d have it made.

Well, of course. Dingbat fonts, dingbat beliefs. Same thing.

(ETA: I knew that BFA would be useful someday.)

Right. Her cousins couldn’t possibly be unhappy because of people like her who believe they live in sin and will burn in hell forever, could they?

If one of her opponents can’t work Zapf Dingbat into a campaign ad, they deserve to lose. Nothing like a little font humor in a close-fought campaign against a neo-fascist I always say.

You’ve got to hope that the rest of Zapf’s extended family is more tolerant than this self-absorbed witch. Because I can’t imagine any sane, sensible person coming out to Zapf. Moving far, far away, yes. But coming out, no.

(And she’s just put a spotlight on them, too. She’s willing to be “seen” with them. Ah, family values.)

“This is what keeps good people from running for office,” she said.

So that’s what it is. Well doggone it how about a statute of limitations on prospective candidates’ observations about fags, beaners, boogies, ragheads, slopes, etc? It’s the American Way.

Mrs Dingbat obviously is of the unfortunately still way too common homophobic douche bag variety, but what I really loved in the post was the insight on voters:

voters love empathy… as long as it doesn’t cost anything

A truer word was never spoken.

“….So, there must be a reason for it, although I don’t get it, like so may (sic) other things that don’t make sense.”

Well at least she knows she’s clueless…..some real self awareness there.

I believe they all live in sin and …

Doesn’t Christianity teach that we’re all sinners?

IOOIYAX — It’s Only Okay If You’re An Xtian. If you’re not a practicing member of the cult, you don’t get coverage. And if you’re gay, you can’t join the cult. QED.

I’ll tell you something else that doesn’t make sense – DNA, I mean come on, is it all twisty like that? and those colors? who writes the tiny letters on the strands? And another thing: atoms, can’t see ‘em so how do we know, and why is it only men have atoms apples? Just one more thing, left-overs on the loaves and fishes? Come on, doesn’t make sense, couldn’t the disciples do a head count? jeeeshh people.

It’s always struck me as fascinating how the God of a bigot always harbors the same prejudices as the bigot that believes in him – but I doubt they’re intelligent enough to recognize that fact.

Every good SoCal Christun’ knows Zapf’s mistake wasn’t the email. It was her career choice. The preferred path of the bigot on the left coast is the California beauty pageant circuit. I suggest she start fake breast shopping now, before it’s too late, by picking up the latest copy of the L.L. Beanbags catalogue.

“…and then used against me to try to destroy me and my family.

That “and my family” really pisses me off. A sure sign of a weasel. It’s all your fucking fault, and people hate you for it, not your family.

She doesn’t get that homosexuals only want to alter marriage to make it fit better and look more fabulous on all of us.

I think the unexamined question here is why *three of her first cousins* had miserable childhoods–that’s kind of a serious indictment of her aunts and uncles, and therefore of her own grandparents. But we have to cut her some slack. Her first sentence:

“I absolutely want to keep homosexuals out of public office and not be allowed to influence our schools, textbooks, altering marriage, children and on and on.”

Is actually a plea to the public, isn’t it? Sort of “stop me before I kill again.” Its just very badly punctuated. She writes “I absolutely want to keep homosexuals out of public office” and since the “I want to…” is left dangling I read it as “I want…not to be allowed to influence our schools, textbooks, altering marriage, children, and on and on.” Its as much an indictment of herself and her desires as it is of the imaginary homos going for public office. I’d be willing to keep gays out of public office if people like this woman would, indeed, recuse themselves from trying to influence everything else.

aimai

Yea, yea, I’m waiting on TBogg’s headline for Tebow’s Wonderlic score.

You beat me to it. Does this woman have even three functioning brain cells? The way she speaks about her cousins is horrible. I would ask them if they would want to be photographed with HER!

Hee! That was fierce.

Bad news there, though, is that Tebow’s score was the same as Brett Favre’s, which will only further the St. Tebow narrative.

Zapf said she doesn’t understand why her past comments were newsworthy. “This is what keeps good people from running for office,” she said. “Everyone’s got something. It’s going to be a little sentence plucked out, taken out of context … and then used against me to try to destroy me and my family.”

Yeah! I mean, see, me, I used to have sex for money, and now I can’t even get elected to a freakin’ school board in this town! Like everybody hasn’t done it or something. Totally unfair.

The difference between me and Ms Dingbat, of course, is that I no longer have sex for money (or at least do so in the totally different and absolutely okay sex-with-one-person-for-mortgage-and-health-insurance way), but she still probably thinks queers choose to be that way because of their fucked up childhoods and now they’re miserable because they know they’re going to hell, and should be quarantined somehow from normal people.

Which, btw, is what’s going on there. This is someone who thinks homos are all homo because they were abused by other homos when they were kids, but that the abuse is not what makes them miserable, the homoness is what makes them miserable, knowing they’re big homo sinners who are disappointing God and are doomed to hell. It’s a surprisingly common belief for some reason. They seem to feel that being abused can fuck you up just enough to make you queer but not enough to be at all responsible for how miserable you are. I could be the Anti-Queer and I’d still be miserable, and I could be the butchest thing in a toolbelt and be totally happy–except, as pointed out by previous commenters, when confronted with asshole keep ‘em away from the children! attitudes like this.

I’d love to comment on Lori, but I’m just so tired her brand of asshattery-it’s just not worth the time or effort anymore.

Instead, I’m off to hump the jukebox.

I’m working on it. Stop hovering over my shoulder!

Well done

Also, even though I know this will not make them stop, can I just say how much I hate wingnuts constantly using the word “destroy” to mean “deliver appropriate criticism?”

Lovely cycle they have going.

A. You and all your fundy friends believe that homosexuality is bad.
B. Based on your belief, you act shitty toward homosexuals.
C. All the shitty treatment makes the homosexuals feel miserable.
D. The misery of the homosexuals reinforces your belief in A.

+100 skadillion.

Also, I’m not sure what Zapf has going for her, aside from having a modestly awesome last name, but it ain’t brains–if she had bothered to look up a picture of her correspondent, she might have recognized that he’s a barely-disguised-as-human Gul Dukat, and how could anything good come out of that association?

They’re living in sin.
Because they can’t get married.
We must keep them from getting married.
Otherwise, they won’t be sinners
and we can’t keep reviling them
for living in sin.