Yawn.

He sounds cranky - I think his massage appointment was cancelled.

...the swill people will spew when they sense their power at risk.

Right-wing bloggers call US moonbats. Crikey, mate. If this dimwit isn't a moonbat, I don't know what is.

San Francisco values. Bring 'em on!

As someone else said, somewhere in these letters or elsewhere... if San Francisco is such a terrible place, why does everyone want to live there? Why is San Francisco real estate some of the most expensive and desirable in the world?

The family-values crowd oughta contemplate on that as they burn in their venom.

I, for one, will continue to gloat for awhile. Watching reality bite these dildos is a signal pleasure we don't often get to indulge.

Of course, the dems in congress are probably going to be as careful as a virgin at a frat-party... this crazy alarmist weirdness on the right is just a way to keep the troops interested. The really amazing part is that anyone takes people like this dude seriously, at all. What a freak.

Reverend Lou Sheldon probably knows more about gay activity than most gay men and women. If he weren't making so much money bilking the christians with his fear mongering, he could easily make a fortune as a one stop source for all that is gay. I guess grifting christians just pays better.

The only "religious" people being persecuted in this country are atheists.

Go shove a cross up your ass Lou. Why are you so fixated on gay people's sex lives? I know why and so does your buddy Ted.

...space in these exalted pages to every nut-ball who says something outrageous. Sheldon no doubt has his believers, just as there are those who put rattlesnakes in their jockey shorts and call it religion, but do we care? Do we pay attention? I hope not.

That's what happens when these Jesus freaks get on meth amphetamines, they start jibber-jabbering a mile a minute. Don't worry, he'll crash in a few days and won't remember any of this except for an inexplicable pain in his rear end.

Rev. Sheldon says he tried to "inspire" his supporters. I suspect that, rather than filling them with the Holy Spirit, he instead just spouted a bunch of Hot Air.

First, we stick a stiff subpoena up Cheney's flabby ass. repeat as necessary. hold the lubricant.t

but sometimes I think it might be worth "converting" just to piss off these guys.

Don't get me wrong, I think that this guy is a crazy as a loon, too, but has it ever occurred to you guys that there are significant numbers of voters out there who are religious and who have been mislead by folks like this, but who, rightly or wrongly, feel genuinely threatened. When you ridicule this guy, many of those threatened people can't see the distinction and think that you are ridiculing them. And many of these threatened religious voters, while somewhat conservative, are fed up with divisive politics and do know that the Bible only mentions homosexuality twice, but poverty hundreds of times. They could, with a bit of hand holding, be Democratic voters.

Perhaps the best response would be that we're sorry that you think that we're going to do that, we assure you that's not true, even if we did, it would be unconstitutional, but let us demonstrate to you just how fair and even handed we'll be to believers and non-believers alike.

In other words, don't attack the man who advances the concerns of those who could eventually vote for our candidates, even if he is a fool.

Back in the 1980's Lou and his "followers" stormed the L.A. Board of Education in an attempt to stop the Board's approval of Project 10, an outreach for gay and lesbian students started by Virginia Uribe. He, and they, failed.

Later, at a fund raising dinner in the western San Fernando Valley, Lou said he and his TVC would take this issue and ride to Sacramento and eventually to having private, religious schools receive tax money for their unfettered instruction. He and they, failed again.

Undeterred, and with some serendipity, Lou discovered that railing against gays and lesbians was a lucrative pitch for his "Christian" group, and he rose to some national prominence and enough money to fund his living and his effort--the perfect ponzi, eh wot?

All that said, the Texas PI lawyer is correct. There must be a way to undo the damage done to Lou's contributors. It makes no sense to bash the bashers. That just continues the foolishness. (But revenge bashing is sooooo sweet! No. NO! Bad boy. Bad boy.)

To squeaky-voiced Lou's followers: you've been misled. Join us. WWJD? Certainly he didn't bash anyone other than religious leaders of his day.

That sending out this email could get him thrown into prison? I mean, obviously the Democrats are going to outlaw, or at the very least demonize anything or anyone that diverges from their world-view. I mean, dissent is all well and good, but come on, you are either with the Democrats or with the forces of evil.

Give , give , give I need dough.

to listen to some of the "all gay all the time" lefties forever and ever and ever and ever wanting to go on and on and on and on and

on about how EVERY last blasted thing is a gay issue,

you almost think sheldon has a point.

Is anyone else sick and tired to death of listing to people on the left and right talk about homosexuality ALL the fricken time.

Does anyone know of a fairly recent analysis of Sheldon's actual influence on public opinion and policy? I would love to read it. My impression has long been that Sheldon has a tiny, mostly family, following in terms of people actually in his pews. And even groups akin to the AFA don't seem to take Sheldon into their crazy fold often -- he seems a bit of a black sheep among the religious right. So is he little more than the media attention he garners when doing or saying extreme things? That can of course give someone power sooner or later but does he have any real power now? I'd love to see a good report on this because when I see commentary like this on Sheldon now I tend to think "who cares?"