New Jersey not getting WorldNet Daily office. Darn.

(semi-cross-posted at my blog)

I know, it's sad, isn't it?  Founding editor and all around lunatic Joseph Farah at World Net Daily has decided once and for all that New Jersey will never get a World Net Daily office, or see his beautiful (gag) face again.

Why?  Because you can't openly discriminate against the gays anymore.

At least, that is, until some future legislature and governor repeals the incredibly inane, unjust law that prohibits discrimination against people on the basis of their sexual behavior.

That's what's in store for New Jersey employers in three months now that Gov. Jon Corzine signed the bill that amends the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination by adding "gender identity or expression" to the list of protected characteristics.

I know scary, isn't it?  But it gets better:

Wait a minute! Farah, did you say "adulterers"?

Yes, of course. Isn't adultery a form of sexual expression? Isn't a proclivity to group sex? Isn't an inclination to prostitution? Isn't bestiality? I mean, really ... what's the quantitative or qualitative difference? Is it simply that practitioners of bestiality haven't yet organized politically? Believe me, it's coming!

Yep, that's right. By outlawing discrimination based on gender-identity or sexual-orientation, Governor Corzine has now paved the way to legalized bestiality. It'd almost be amusing if so many people didn't eat this crap up and swallow it whole. It's not quite Santorum "man-on-dog sex" quality, but he's getting close. His fascination with bestiality does, however, make you wonder what he thinks the 'F' in 'KFC' stands for.

But he's not done, by a long shot. I especially like this bit.

So, after this law takes effect later next year, an employer in New Jersey no longer has the right – and I use that word advisedly – to hire people of good character, who are morally upright. He doesn't even have the right to set standards of behavior in his own place of employment. Should a homosexual "act out," as they like to say, in his place of business, he better not even think about firing him. Should a man wear a dress to work in his store, he better not think about disciplining him. (Or, maybe he'd like that! Who knows any more?) Should a lesbian kiss her girlfriend in the kids' department of his retail store, he'd better not think about lecturing her on inappropriate behavior.

Ah yes, there it is. The bigotry in all it's glory. Homosexuals don't have sex, they "act out". Because of this new law, New Jersey is suddenly going to be overwhelmed by incidents of man-on-man sex on the conference room table or on the couch in the reception area.

Dude, unless you're working on a porn set, chances are you're going to get fired for that pretty much anywhere you work, if not arrested.

I also got a kick out of that bit about lecturing the lesbian for kissing her girlfriend in the kids section of a department store, since that happens so often. Of course, I'm partly confused by the semantics of that comment, namely the "lecturing her" part. I'm left wondering which of the women deserves the lecture. Do you just lecture the butch one, or the lipstick lesbian? Of course it could just be that only one of them is really gay and the other is just "experimenting", but even then, which one would he choose?

The best part, though, is when he closes his editorial by lamenting on the loss of individual rights. At first I found that a tad ironic, but then I realized he wasn't talking about the rights of the millions of gay and trans-gendered people in this country. He was talking about his rights. Fuck everybody else.

On the other hand, the worst part is that Farah doesn't even mention what the law really does. The law actually creates civil unions in New Jersey, which makes this nothing more than another veiled attack on gay marriage. Since they can't block civil unions in New Jersey anymore, they're forced to change tactics. Now they're going to spread fear and outrage by claiming it's not about gay rights, it's about employer's and individual rights. Be prepared to see a lot more of this.