Les Kinsolving, Homophobe

Les Kinsolving declared in his March 8 WorldNetDaily column that "I strongly disagree with the current campaign of militant homosexuals to promote acceptance of their orientation, and with their creation of the word 'homophobia.'"

Why? Perhaps the word "homophobe" is a pretty accurate description of Kinsolving, and it's a truth he'd rather not have pointed out.

Kinsolving, WND's White House correspondent, has never been terribly fond of gays (as ConWebWatch has detailed), repeatedly using his perch to rail against what he calls the "Sodomy Lobby." It's an attitude he brings into the White House briefing room; he asked during one 2006 press briefing, "Did the president watch any of the Academy Awards for prostitution and sodomy last night?" which he justified in his WND column by grousing that "'Brokeback Mountain"' won three Oscars for its romanticizing of sodomy -- one of our nation's most extensive and deadly health hazards."

But he has ratcheted up his hatred over the past year, particularly regarding the subject of gays in the military.

In an Oct. 19 column, Kinsolving denounced a judge who issued an injunction against the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, claiming she would “force the acceptance of openly announced buggers into the barracks.” Kinsolving asserted that it was a “very dangerous and disease-ridden judicial decision,” adding: “The recruitment of self-announced homosexuals would also cause a major medical problem given the sexual orientation's high rates of AIDS and syphilis.”

Kinsolving ignored the fact that comprehensive medical testing is typically a part of any pre-deployment health screening process in the military. (Screening guidelines and policies can be found here.) Moreover, U.S. military regulations require continued testing of all active-duty personnel every two years for HIV, and experts in nations that have lifted their bans on open service by gay men and lesbians have said that the rate of HIV infection among the troops has not increased.

Kinsolving went on to ask his readers to “imagine a Marine Corps general – whose combat record includes numerous battle honors for extraordinary courage -- issuing the following orders” on segregation of homosexual and heterosexual inmates. He doesn’t explain what one’s combat record has to do with following orders that exist only in Kinsolving’s imagination. He also asserted, “Forcing any heterosexual midshipman to room with any self-announced homosexual midshipman would be an appalling denial of basic rights.”

Kinsolving followed up in a Nov. 30 column claiming that repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell will "almost certainly put an end to our all-volunteer armed forces" and "compel reinstitution of the draft" because "a large number of long-serving personnel who would retire as soon as possible -- rather than submitting to such a horrendous invasion of privacy as being lusted after by the numerous lobbies of militant homosexuality" That claim, however, is contradicted by the experiences of pretty much every other country that implemented inclusive policies.

In a Dec. 7 column, Kinsolving complained that a senator's statement that sexual orientation shouldn't be used to determine the contributions any man or woman makes to our military "invariably suggests that all sexual orientations should be eligible for military service. That would include pedophilia and bestiality." He added that a similar statement by President Obama "also raises the question about the armed forces accepting such additional alternative sexual orientations as necrophiliacs, coprophiliacs and urophiliacs."

In a Dec. 21 column, he grumbled: "Since practicing non-monogamous homosexuals have this nation's highest per capita rate of AIDS, why should they be recruited but not other alternative sexual orientations?" He then listed a number of "alternative sexual orientations" that he apparently considers equivalent to homosexuality, including pedophila, necrophilia, bestiality, "incest practitioners," and "klismaphiliacs (sexually stimulated by enemas)."

Kinsolving then approvingly quoted the founder of WND's favorite gay-hating groups, MassResistance, calling Sen Joe Lieberman a "shameful disgrace and embarrassment to orthodox Jews everywhere" for "desecrat[ing] the holy Sabbath to go to work – the U.S. Senate – and vote to force the U.S. integration of homosexuality into the U.S. military."

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Kinsolving devoted his Feb. 1 column to "imagined letters of gratitude" to the White House for allowing "no limitation at all regarding who any Americans love" and still serve in the military. The letters start with someone who wants to serve in the military with his horse "whose nuptials were solemnized by a Massachusetts notary public who must remain anonymous (as must Mable and I)," and ends with, "We who have suffered rejection, denunciation and prosecution due to our sexual orientation of necrophilia rejoice in your announcement that "no American will be forbidden from serving the country they love because of who they love." We hope for your assistance in making it possible for our orientation to serve in hospitals and in the Graves Registration Command," with stops at pedophilia and polygamy.

Kinsolving concluded by asking, "Do any of these four other alternate sexual orientations have anywhere near the HIV/AIDS and syphilis rates – or the hundreds of thousands of deaths – as this nation's homosexuals?"

(Kinsolving sure spends a lot of time obsessing over what pedophiles and necrophiliacs think. Is there something he wants to tell us?)

And in an April 5 column, Kinsolving touted how Rowan Scarborough of the Washington Times "was leaked a copy of our armed forces training material for 2.2 million active and reserve troops," which he said was attributable to Scarborough being "one of the best veteran reporters and columnists in our nation's capital" (actually, it's likely more attributable to his a right-wing hack, as ConWebBlog documented back in 2007 with his attempt to smear a CIA official who was an outsider to the particular management regime he favored).

Noting a statement from the manual that "Commanders may honor a request not to shower with known-gay service members," Kinsolving added:

In a brief interview with Scarborough, I cited that and asked: "If they allow that refuge from the possibility of excessively peering homosexual eyes in the showers, what about the presence of peering by announced homosexuals in the latrines?"

Scarborough replied, "Nothing at all about that in that training material!"

Kinsolving went on to declare as "grim news" that the Supreme Court has ruled "private consensual sexual activity to include consensual sodomy, regardless of sexual orientation, is a protected liberty under the 14th Amendment." Then he wrote:

QUESTION: Do the U.S. Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces know of any sexual orientation with a higher rate of AIDS and syphilis than homosexuality, which has led to so many thousands of deaths? And if homosexuals in our armed forces are medically examined for AIDS and syphilis when they are accepted into the armed services, should they not be re-examined whenever they return from leave – given the possibility of an AIDS- or syphilis-infected civilian lover, together with this homosexual armed forces member's possible promiscuity in search for others in barracks or aboard ship?

Gays in the military is not the only source of Kinsolving's recent anti-gay animus. For instance, in an Oct. 17 press briefing, he asked then-press secretary Robert Gibbs: "Presuming the president supports the Transportation Safety Administration's pat-down searches of airline passengers and that he believes they will never have male security personnel patting down female passengers, what if any of these male security personnel are not heterosexual?"

Kinsolving also loves his old-school gay-bashing, such as in an Aug. 17 column that used a New York Times editorial as an excuse to indulge his fallacious reasoning that homosexuality equals pedophilia equals bestiality equals necrophilia:

Surely there is an enormous majority of the United States that has very strong moral disapproval of the Massachusetts-based NAMBLA – the North American Man/Boy Love Association.

If the adult males in this organization can demonstrate to Judge Vaughn Walker of San Francisco that their young boyfriends are with them in bed by choice, why should moral disapproval be any proper basis to deny rights to adult pedophiles and their (often younger than teenage) lovers?

Will the New York Times also endorse a constitutional right for polygamy?

Polygamy's practitioners are so often arrested and imprisoned, though polygamists have nothing of the AIDS and syphilis rates of this nation's homosexuals, who co-habit with multiple partners.

Another alternative sexual orientation with none of the AIDS and syphilis rates of homosexuality are the zoophiliacs, or practitioners of bestiality.

Should this alternative orientation also be tolerated if the human practitioner can demonstrate that his animal lover did not resist or run away but willingly participated?

And when will there be such tolerance for that sexual orientation called necrophilia, or the sexual attraction to corpses?

Or for those who engage in incest? Does the New York Times editorial department believe that if marriage is a constitutional right for two men or two women that there also is a constitutional right of brothers to marry brothers (or their fathers) and sisters to marry their sisters (or mothers)? And if not, Times people, why not?

And in a July 21 column, Kinsolving endorsed quarantining AIDS victims:

Is there any record that President Obama's fellow Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt ever disagreed with, or took any action against, authorities of his native state of New York, for their years of quarantining Mary Mallon?

In 1915, working under an assumed name in New York City's Sloane Maternity Hospital (where I was born in 1927), she spread typhoid fever to 25 doctors, nurses and staff – two of whom died.

They were only a few of those she infected and killed.

She was sent to a penal institution, North Brother Island, off the Bronx, where she was kept in quarantine until her death in 1938.

If "typhoid Mary" Mallon was so isolated for so long, to protect the public from typhoid, when will New York and the United States begin protecting the public from spreaders of the far deadlier disease of AIDS?

In the same March 8 column in which he expressed his displeasure at the existence of the word "homophobe," Kinsolving more than ably proved that he is one, using much of it to describe what he called "my imagination of what just might possibly happen later this year" but is just some bizarre takeoff of the recent Supreme Court decision upholding the right of Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church to protest the funerals of American soldiers:

Since May Day 2011 took place on Sunday, when the U.S. Supreme Court was not in session, the militant homosexual organization No Tolerance of Homophobia, or NTH, planned its day in court for Monday, May 2.

On that day, they were able to obtain four seats in the Supreme Court's courtroom, when the nine justices gathered to hear final arguments in a number of cases.

Three male members of NTH and one female member were seated in four different areas of the spectator's gallery.

During a brief pause, when one attorney yielded to another, the first NTH member, a large man with a thunderous voice, stood up and called out: "WHY SHOULD THIS COURTROOM BE MORE SACROSANCT THAN MILITARY FUNERALS?"

As two of the Supreme Court's police officers rushed to this row and had to weave their way around several seated spectators before they could seize him, he kept bellowing the same question as the justices sat, amazed and somewhat shaken at the disruption.

The guards were in the process of dragging out this protester when, from the second row, there came another loudly protesting vocal dissent: "THANK GOD FOR DEAD SUPREME COURT JUSTICES! AS FOR YOU, JUSTICES, YOU'RE GOING TO HELL!"

This attracted the attention and action of the only two additional Supreme Court police officers on hand who raced down the aisle and seized the second protester.

As this second demonstrator was being dragged out – while he kept shouting – yet a third protester cried out from a different location (and with no available police to seize him) the following: "YOUR MAJORITY RULING CITED CONNICK v. MYERS: 'SPEECH ON PUBLIC ISSUES OCCUPIES THE HIGHEST RUNG ON THE HIERARCHY OF FIRST AMENDMENT VALUES AND IS ENTITLED TO SPECIAL PROTECTION.' SO WHY ARE YOUR POLICE SEIZING US WHEN WE ARE EXERCISING OUR FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS? WHY DO YOU BELIEVE THIS BUILDING IS ENTITLED TO EXCLUDE CRITICS OF ITS DECISION TO ALLOW CRITICS TO DISRUPT FUNERALS OF THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE SERVICE OF OUR COUNTRY?"

As some of the justices began rising to leave, their came the shrill voice of a female protester: "YOU WHO HAVE ALLOWED DISTURBERS OF HEROES' FUNERALS OUGHT TO KNOW THAT YOUR POLICE OUTSIDE HAVE NOT ALLOWED ANY PROTESTERS ON THE COURTHOUSE STEPS OR EVEN IN THAT HUGE AREA IN FRONT OF THE COURT. HOW IN THE NAME OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT SHOULD A COURTHOUSE – AND ALL AROUND IT – BE BARRED FROM PROTESTERS, BUT NOT CHURCH AND SYNAGOGUE WORSHIP SERVICES?"

First, who knew that "militant homosexuals" spoke in all caps?

Second, the irony is that Kinsolving clearly hates fags just as much, if not more, than Fred Phelps does.