No one's entirely sure how it happened, but over the past few months, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones went from being a raving paranoid lunatic to being a raving paranoid lunatic that people actually listen to for some reason.

Since Jones apparently has an audience now, he decided to use his newfound voice to go on the fucking craziest transphobic rant ever. Normally, anti-LGBT rants tend to veer insane, but this is crazy in a way that just goes above and beyond the shit we've seen before.

They’re saying in high schools, in junior highs now, they’re going to have – men can decide to be in the women’s bathroom if they want. You’re like ‘well big deal, that’s their gender.’ It’s all about these fake rights that don’t exist versus my basic liberty being taken. It’s not that I’m against people that think they’re a woman or a man or whatever. I don’t even care. Give me a break. It’s not even on my radar screen. I could care less. I care about people…

I don’t want my daughters growing up in a country where some transvestite comes walking into the thing hopped out of their brain on drugs vomiting and crapping all over the place. [SOURCE]

. . . Dafuq did I just read? None of that made any sense. You could throw a can of alphabet soup at the wall and the end result would be more coherent and less goddamn nuts than anything posted above.

On the other hand, we really need to thank Jones. Yes, what he said was patently wrong and illogical and butt-fucking delusional, but Jones has done something magical. He scrubbed off the shiny veneer of family values and showed anti-LGBT rhetoric for the raving paranoia it is. God bless you, you clueless troll.

A long, long, long, long, long time ago, people used to treat illnesses with leeches and exorcisms because, well, they were morons. Before the advent of modern medicine, people were fucking idiots who didn't know shit about treating the sick. Thankfully, we got smarter and stopped trying to cure everything with evil bloodsucking monsters.

Except not really, because reparative therapy is still a thing in the US, despite the fact that literally everything we've seen of it proves it doesn't work. Thankfully, New York is going forward and trying to pass a law that would ban reparative therapy for minors.

Legislation introduced Friday by Sen. Brad Hoylman (D-Manhattan) would bar mental health providers from trying to change the sexual orientation of anyone under the age of 18.

If enacted, a licensed mental health provider who ignored the law would be cited for unprofessional conduct and subject to licensing sanctions.

Hoylman will co-sponsor the bill in the Senate with Michael Gianaris (D-Queens). It is being carried in the Assembly by Deborah Glick, a Manhattan Democrat who is a lesbian. [SOURCE]

Here's the weird part: this is New York we're talking about. One of the most progressive places in the world, and even they're still practising this reparative therapy. Seriously, what the hell? You guys have tiny super-computers in your pockets and a Rover on Mars, but you still think you can pray yourself straight? That's . . . incredible. It's literally incredible.

Attack ads are pretty par for the course during election season, to the point where it's become more common for people to vote against someone than to vote for someone. Going negative isn't just expected: it's the only way to win an election at this point.

Chances are, you've probably seen this commercial, which features Justin Trudeau stripping while glitter flies around his name. Oh Conservative party, you truly put the B in subtle.

Turns out, that "strip show" was for charity, most of those accusations were complete misrepresentations, and according to the Star, the accompanying flyer really hammers in the anti-femme/homophobic undertones.

The flyer produced for Conservative MPs to be sent to constituents contains several negative bullet points about Trudeau that are written in a cursive font, while the points lauding Prime Minister Stephen Harper are in a bolder print font.

The letter “i” in Trudeau’s first name is capped with a star in the Conservative materials — like a pre-teen girl might apply to her name.

[...] “I think (the ads) are meant to weaken his standing particularly among middle-aged men, who are really the core of the Conservative government’s coalition, so they’re trying to shore that up ... the idea that this guy’s not a man’s man, and maybe therefore not worthy of our vote,” said Coletto.

So a guy who isn't stereotypically masculine or straight can't be the leader of Canada? Cute, cute bitches. There's a reason this ad has gone over so poorly that people are donating to the Liberals: because this shit is just high school cattiness on a nationwide platform. I get that going negative is kind of a prerequisite, but this is just immature.

Have you noticed how gay marriage opponents are increasingly grasping at straws? I mean, they didn't really have a strong rational position to stand on to begin with, but now it's . . . it's all somehow gotten sadder. 

Like Pat Robertson. He used to just be the crazy religious guy on TV, and now he's just -- actually, he hasn't changed a bit. But the world has changed around him while he sat by, stubborn and bitter. You can only be told that your entire world view is wrong so many times before you go from crazy to batshit insane, which I'm guessing is why he's now trying to tie the gay rights movement to a baseless conspiracy theory believed only by the dumbest members of society. Well, at least he knows his audience.

The reverend offered a history lesson by noting the French Revolution was 'spurred by the writings of a group called the Illuminati.' The organization's writings were meant 'to destroy the family, to destroy the state, to destroy capitalism and to destroy the church.' Robertson charged, of course, this is what gays want to do.

'But is it really just about marriage or does it go far beyond that: to destroying the traditional family and building a country without God,' he asked. [SOURCE]

Except none of that is true.

The Illuminati was a pro-intellectualism group that supported the separation of church and state as well as feminism. There was never actually any proof that they were behind the French Revolution claims, other than a book written about conspiracy theories.

So for those of you keeping score, Pat Robertson read a book that had no proven ties to reality and believed the entire thing without question. Play us off, Carlin.

As you might remember, Rocky Campana was a gay man who attempted to kill himself last year and ended up being taken off life support. What you may not have known is that Rocky was an organ donor, and after he passed on, his organs could be used to help others.

At least they would have if it weren't for the fact the Trillium Gift of Life, the Windsor agency responsible for organ donations and transplants, refused to accept his organs, and Campana's mother claims it was because her son was gay.

Nancy Campana's son Rocky was an organ donor, but none were used after his death.

"I was asked if he was a gay male and I said, 'yes.' And I was asked if he was a sexually active gay male or if he had a partner and I said, 'yes,'" Campana said of a conversation she had with Trillium Gift of Life following Rocky's death.

She said the tone of the conversation changed, and the family was later told they could not donate Rocky's organs.

"When I got off the phone to relay that to both [Rocky's father] Rob and a lot of Rocky's friends ... many of them broke down," she said. "The gay ones said, 'Nancy, we can't donate blood; they're not going to take our organs.'" [SOURCE]

Wait, really? The kid dies tragically young, volunteers his organs to those who desperately need them, and you're just like "no thanks." Jesus. You know what's more "high risk" than organs from a gay man? No organs whatsoever.