Not pleased.
Not pleased.
  • Not pleased.

I was just going through my notes from this week’s Doe v. Reed case and I came across a little tidbit I’d forgotten. After the oral arguments inside the Supreme Court chambers, everyone decamped for the marbled front steps of the building for the traditional post-argument press conferences. Lawyers for both sides tried to put their spin on the morning’s events and then, after they drifted off, supporters of both sides pressed forward to speak.

One of them was a large fellow in a beige suit and a muted American flag tie who I recognized as Larry Stickney, executive director of Washington Values Alliance and an original backer of Referendum 71, the anti-gay measure that led to Doe v. Reed. Stickney was not a happy camper (the man is quite skilled in the incoherent ranting department).

First, presumably riled up by a morning that hadn’t seemed to go his way, Stickney admonished “the people in ivory towers and gated communities” for abandoning “the little people.” Then he went on to describe the awful harassment his supporters had already suffered. No specific instances were cited by Stickney, other than a story about the R-71 campaign manager forcing his family to sleep in their living room for fear of the gays—and no reason was given for that relocation, other than the fact that bedrooms have windows. (And living rooms don’t?)

Finally, Stickney turned to the media, describing his deep-seated fear that the names and addresses of his supporters would be funneled through “the homosexual blogs, the Huffington Post, to the San Francisco gay blogs and right to the gay community in Washington.” (I’m not sure why he decided the information needed to be re-routed through San Francisco.) Then he called out The Stranger by name. I didn’t get his exact words, but the basic gist of it was that the paper is home to a bunch of raving homosexuals who regularly harass him, his family, and his supporters. Or something like that.

Maybe Stickney’s fury had something to do with these articles by Dominic? (For those who haven’t read them, it turns out Stickney isn’t just any old bigoted defender of “traditional” marriage; he’s also a thrice-married alleged wife-beater. Now that’s hypocrisy.)

In any case, congratulations to Stickney on some impressive raging on the Supreme Court steps, and congratulations to The Stranger for being on the tip of his tongue when it happened.

23 replies on “Mr. Stickney Goes to Washington. (And Furiously Calls Out The Stranger on the Steps of the U.S. Supreme Court.)”

  4. On a mountain of skulls, in the castle of pain, I sat on a throne of blood. What was will be, what is will be no more.

    Now is the season of evil.

  7. There’s an awful lot of little people who live in gated communities: I was up in Gold Bar the other weekend, and there was a whole subdivision of cheap houses behind a communal gate.

    Why anyone would need a “gated community” in a pretty little town like Gold Bar is beyond me.

    As for this guy, I’m glad he makes the distinction between the “homosexual blogs” and “the San Francisco Gay Blogs”. Not many people understand the vast chasm that separates those two groups.

  8. Isn’t contorting the flag into a tie a violation of the flag code?

    Seriously, why can’t the people who try to wrap themselves in the flag actually read the fucking rules about how you’re supposed to use the flag?

  9. He probably was referring to this article, in which Mr. Holden published the full names and neighborhoods of several signers of R-71.

    The names added nothing to the article, except something the other side can point to and say, “See? Harassment.” Nice work, Dominic.

  17. “forcing his family to sleep in their living room for fear of the gays”

    NOT THE LIVING ROOM, THE GAYS CAN NEVER FIND YOU!!111

  21. Any anti-gay rant has to include “San Francisco”. See the related term; “San Francisco values” (often used to attack Nancy Pelosi (who isn’t homosexual!?)).

    Much like after 9-11, every rant had to include “mushroom cloud”.

    Buzzword, button-pushing, devisive us vs. them tyrannical propaganda technics are becoming ingrained and organic. Even for stupid fucks with outdated faux notty pine wood paneling.

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