Here’s an experiment we’d like you to try out there, wherever you live, and see if you get the same response we get in Chicago.

Today on Halsted here in Boystown, the Human Rights Campaign was at it again, walking the street with clipboards trying to get people to sign up for sponsorships.

We have a rule: none of us will make a scene, shout things, or heckle these volunteers as they walk the street stopping people.  It’s not our business.  We write about what we think of the Human Rights Campaign and its blind support for Dr. Utopia and his Magical Nonexistant Unicorn Parade of Meaningless Promises. Thousands of people a day read what we think of the Human Rights Campaign.  So, we don’t intrude on the interactions their volunteers have with random people in Chicago.

BUT, if these Human Rights Campaign volunteers approach US, and engage US, and ask US to support them, then we let them know, politely, just what we think of these idiots. Which sounds something like this:

“We will never again support the Human Rights Campaign, and on a regular basis tell everyone we know not to support you either, because from June to November 2008 you gave every cent donated to you to the Obama campaign.  Clearly, you do not need money if you can so freely give it away.  Clearly, you can’t be trusted with money if you lavish it on someone who has no intention of doing anything for the LGBTQ community.  Do you know what Obama did on June 29th, 2008 instead of marching in the Chicago Gay Pride Parade?  He got his hair cut and played basketball at the East Bank Club. He has done absolutely nothing for the LGBTQ community and pays only vague lip service to DADT and DOMA issues. He is not supporting marriage equality in Maine and Vermont…and he did not instruct his followers to defeat Prop-8 in California, which passed because of the enthusiastic support of black Obama voters. Joe Solomonese and the Human Rights Campaign will never again have our support because they put all their hopes into the world’s largest do-nothing narcissist. You should be ashamed to be out supporting an organization that is clearly so stupid and shortsighted”.

Without fail, these Human Rights Campaign people try to interrupt us at least 12 times during the above, but we plow through it.  They weakly claim Obama didn’t march in any parades, but we remind them that he marched in lots of parades, such as the August 2008 Bud Billiken Parade in Chicago.  He just doesn’t march in gay parades.

They also try to lie and claim the Human Rights Campaign didn’t give its donations to Obama…but we know damn well it did.

Then they claim “Oh, he’s supportive of gay marriage,” but can’t think of a single substantive thing he’s done in support of it.

These are very low-information and poorly trained volunteers — who almost ALWAYS storm off in a huff when challenged like this.

Like Dr. Utopia himself, these people are used to being praised and fawned over, just for existing.  “Who doesn’t love the Human Rights Campaign?  Who doesn’t love Obama?  Who doesn’t love kittens?”.

Kittens don’t promise everyone the world, then laugh at how stupid they were to believe them, and occupy the most powerful office in the world for almost a full year without doing jack squat to keep any of the hundreds of thousands of promises they made just a year ago.

That’s why everyone loves kittens.

And why we think the Human Rights Campaign and its volunteers deserve every scolding they can get.