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Remember the disgusting ad attacking and ridiculing the LDS (Mormon) Church from the supporters of California gay marriage?

The television ad:

And, remember the California Catholic Conference condemned the ad?

The California Catholic Conference on Monday condemned the ad as “bigoted and intolerant.”

Most Rev. Stephen Blaire, Bishop of Stockton and President of the California Catholic Conference, commented in a press release, calling the ad “a blatant display of religious bigotry and intolerance” and expressing dismay any public media outlet would air it.

“The YES on 8 campaign is not about discrimination and intolerance; it is about restoring the traditional definition of marriage for the good of society and children,” said Bishop Blaire. “All individuals and groups, whether religious or not, have both a right and a responsibility to participate in a civil debate about this important issue. From the beginning of this campaign the Catholic Conference has stressed the importance of mutual respect and denounces this type of religious bigotry.”

This ad and the violent demonstrations targeting the Mormon Church are bigotted, intolerant, and border on “HATE CRIMES.”

If this conduct is how the homosexual community wishes to win the hearts and minds of religious people of all faiths to their cause – well, good luck with that.

Homosexuals and others who support gay marriage should condemn this bigotry.

President-Elect Barack Obama is NOT getting off to a good start as he is forced to apologize to Nancy Reagan about a quip he made about seances.

Flap thought it was Hillary Clinton that had those?

Didn’t President Ronald Reagan’s widow consult an astrologer after he was shot?

Anyway it is not good form to insult a former First Lady of the United States with a cheap shot laugh that was too clever by half.

Flap thinks it is going to be a rocky ride…….

Ok, the McCain Campaign and the Republican National Committee will get their damn clothes back. The ‘Cuda is sorting them herself today with an aide. And, surprisingly, Palin NEVER went shopping herself – debunking another rumor.

The question now is what’s going to happen with the clothes. The Republican National Committee has said they’ll be donated to charity. The New York Times reported anonymous advisers describing the campaign as incredulous about the shopping and saying Republican National Committee lawyers were likely to go to Alaska to conduct an inventory and try to account for all that was spent.

Stapleton said Palin has no notice of any RNC lawyers coming to town. She said Palin asked that everything not belonging to her — including clothes — be taken off her campaign plane in Phoenix before she returned to Alaska on Wednesday.

That didn’t happen, Stapeleton said, so Palin and another aide were going through the luggage in Wasilla on Thursday, sorting through what belongs to Palin and what does not.

The clothes are “not her property. It’s the property of either the RNC or the campaign and so they have said it will go to charity. The governor would love for it to go to an Alaska charity but I don’t know,” she said.

Nicolle Wallace who was the brain donor in charge of managing the Alaska Governor gave her mea culpa on the Today show earlier this morning. Guess Wallace wants to have a GOP campaign job after this campaign fiasco featuring Maverick Mac, Davis and Schmidt.

Randy Scheunemann, Team McCain foreign policy aide who was assigned to Sarah Palin defended the Governor today.

Randy Scheunemann, McCain’s foreign policy aide, contacted the Anchorage Daily News at Stapleton’s request Thursday and defended the governor. He praised Palin and said anonymous attacks from other staffers are “disappointing and dishonorable.”

“It’s really amazing, I think it’s unprecedented in terms of presidential politics to have this level of vindictiveness and pettiness. It’s like these people fell out of favor with a middle school 14-year-old girls’ clique. It’s really unbelievable,” Scheunemann said.

Scheunemann, who played a major role in preparing Palin for the vice presidential debate, said he doesn’t believe the claim that Palin thought Africa was a country and not a continent.

“Her debate performance speaks for itself. … The idea that she could stand up on the stage with somebody who’s been in the Senate for 35 years and discuss domestic and foreign policy as effectively as she did, and yet somehow she doesn’t know who is in NAFTA and doesn’t know that Africa is a continent and not a country is laughable,” he said.

The Africa as a country or continent smear is a little hard to believe. Maybe she made a speaking error as everyone does. Flap is still waiting for Barack Obama to name all of those 57 states he mentioned during the campaign.

So, will Sarah Palin accept Bill O’Reilly’s offer to go on his show on Fox News next Monday and respond to these rumors/smears?

Probably not Monday since it has just been announced that Greta Van Susteren will be interviewing Palin on her Fox News show Monday.

But, Sarah will have plenty of opportunities to tell “HER” story since Oprah, Barbara Walters and Larry King all want to take with her.

Stay tuned…..

These graphics paint the winning picture for the Yes on Proposition 8 campaign which restored the traditional definition of marriage (man and woman)in California on Tuesday as a California Constitutional amendment.

Proposition 22 was the initiative statute law that was overturned in May by the California Supreme Court. It, also defined marriage as a man and woman.

No surprise that support for gay marriage was concentrated around San Francisco and coastal areas of California which voted overwhelmingly no on Proposition 8. Most of the land mass of California voted to ban gay marriage, including the Latino and African-American communities. The anglo or white community of voters favored gay marriage.

So, did the Obama campaign which attracted MORE African-American voters to the polls actually aid Proposition 8 passing?

Apparently.

Go over to the Los Angeles Times site and play with their interactive maps. It is very revealing.