R. John Tannyhill, III (DDS, MD, PC) is a bigot

You might be looking at that headline and thinking, who?!? Let me explain...

I was looking at the searchable Prop 8 donor list at the LA Times' website and decided to search on Colorado. When the results came up, I held my breath as I looked for family, co-workers, or friends who might have donated to Yes on Prop 8.

Luckily, no one who fit that description appeared on their list. I was, however, mortified to see the oral surgeon my entire family has used - and the one I referred Susan to when she needed some work done this summer - in the top 10 donors from Colorado to Yes on Prop 8 (he was tied for 10th with three other donors). I feel absolutely nauseated that the tremendous amount of money we spent at his office has gone toward supporting the stripping of civil rights from a group of people in a state in which this bigot doesn't even live.

There isn't much I can do about this now except to make sure that he never sees another dime of my or my family's money again. Oh yeah, and to hope this blog entry shows up in any search results on his name when people are researching whether or not to utilize his services. Mr. Tannyhill practices out of Centennial, Colorado.

I will be posting the names of other businesses in Colorado who also deserve to be boycotted due to their bigotry. While the list at the LA Times website isn't all that complete (I couldn't find any of my contributions to No on Prop 8 there), where I can tell that the person(s) who donated own the business they listed as their employer, I'll be listing that here in the next couple of days.

Powerful video

Here's another powerful video which was posted by TerranceDC over at Pam's. I know most of my readers read her blog too, but I have a group who don't so this is mostly for them.

Why I love Keith Olbermann

Please watch this special comment if you haven't seen it already:







I promised more on prop 8 in my last post but, honestly, I have been too upset and angry to post anything rational since then. I'm still collecting my thoughts and hope to have something new up soon but still need to calm down a bit more before I do.

California = 52% douche

Despite the other good news last night, I can't be happy this morning knowing that California (CALIFORNIA, for fucks sake!) has voted to strip fundamental civil rights from gay and lesbian Americans.

Who was behind this? Here's a paragraph from a story in the LA Times [emphasis added for certain readers of this blog]:

On the other side were an array of conservative organizations, including the Knights of Columbus, Focus on the Family and the American Family Assn., along with tens of thousands of small donors, including many who responded to urging from Mormon, Catholic and evangelical clergy.

More later...

It's here!