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09/30/2009
We don't want to ruin your days, Linds. We also don't want you to ruin our marriages/truths/families/rights/protections
Yesterday we showed you how the Concerned Women For America's Lindsey Douthit is prone to misrepresent the lay of the political land. Today we show you that she's also prone to fits of dramatic hyperbole regarding people of faith, and...
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'Hair' cut: What turned musicals' top dog$ into principled barbers
Today's New York Times has a really nice piece about the Hair producers' decision to close the Sunday 10/11 matinee of the hippie-loving Broadway show so that the cast can attend and perform at the National Equality March: That unusual...
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SFMM: Well you see, we delete because sticking our fingers in our ears is just easier
We've been banned from commenting on Stand For Marriage Maine's Facebook page, despite the fact that we have not posted one hateful comment (even when faced with their side's extreme hostility). And we've received anecdotes and screencaps from others who...
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Video: Coral Ridge Ministries grabs low bar, plunges it to unexplored depths
Disgusting, negligent, easily verifiable lies in the name of Jesus: Now, of course the websites for which the ACLU of TN actually fought included those for groups like Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), The Gay Lesbian...
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Video: The United Southern Baptists of Gohmertville
You have to wonder: Rep. Louie Gohmert (Very Far R-TX) does know that he's a Congressman of the United States and not of the Baptist Church, right?" Watch this: AIM: DC Conversations - Rep. Louie Gohmert and Sen. James Inhofe...
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Perception as a weapon: We'd de-arm both employers and Tony P.
In order to help make their anti-ENDA case, "pro-family" folks like the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins have been turning to attacks on the "perceived sexual orientation" aspect of the measure, saying dismissive things about those who've filed discrimination suits...
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09/29/2009
Maggie's the victim?! Well you must excuse me, for my gag reflex feels victimized...
Oh, it's just so easy for the social conservatives to reduce our movement like so: [Maggie Gallagher] herself is constantly vilified on homosexual websites. Google her name along with LGBT and you will read page after page of mockery and...
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Stand For [Nails in Sodomites' Coffins], Maine?
What sort of motivation is really fueling Maine's "yes on 1" campaign? Well consider this exchange, this is currently taking place on Stand For Marriage Maine's official Facebook wall: Stand For Marriage Maine [Facebook] Nails in coffins? Our lives as...
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Dear 'Concerned Woman' Lindsey Douthit:
Ms. Douthit: We see that you, writing on behalf of the Concerned Women For America, have decided to preserve yet another set of unprincipled, unfair denunciations of the Employment Discrimination Act to the annals of recorded history: Let’s Be Frank,...
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Hole-y falter
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Laurie Has To Mar 'Mes'
Speaking about the American Library Association's "Banned Books Week," a local columnist's endorsement of the event, and the supposed "danger" that the gay-themed tomes on the banned books list might have on the young psyche, our ol' pal Laurie Higgins...
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All this and Andy Rooney's gay cousin
Wish "60 Minutes" would air Morely rather than Lesley LGBT-centric coverage? Well fret not, my fellow homo journo lovers, for here! networks and The Advocate are teaming up for a show where it won't be Safer to Stahl on gay...
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Hey, where'd Tim go?
Yesterday, Stand For Marriage Maine posted a link to a recent Portland Press herald opinion piece, wherein local conservative Tim Rusell spoke of the supposed harm that marriage equality will pose to religious institutions. Here is the Google proof that...
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Betty vs. the 'agenda' of learning in peace
Betty Peters is not only a member of the Alabama Education Board, but also a leader of the very far-right, very homo-hostile Eagle Forum. And she is now using that dual role to take on the "radical" idea that gay...
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09/28/2009
Video: How to Be Taken Aback, America
Brian Camenker's MassResistance organization is so extreme in its homo-hostility that it is one of only eleven to have been chosen to appear on the Southern Poverty Law Center's anti-gay hate groups list. Yet that little nugget of anti-civil, anti-rights...
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Video: Phyllis in on how 'evil' we are
That grand doyenne of social conservatism, Phyllis Schlafly, still thinks that we gay folks (including, presumably, her own gay son) are attacking marriage. But you'll be glad to learn that, according to Phyl-Schlaf, we 'mos aren't attacking nearly as hard...
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A small gift for Family Day. But a cute and thoughtful one, nonetheless
Today is Family Day. And in his proclamation addressing the occasion, President Obama has made sure to mention our families: FAMILY DAY, 2009 ------- BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Our family provides one of...
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Some jobs are simply too important for eVite
Cleve Jones wants our president at the upcoming National Equality March. We all do. He's kind of a big deal. Our main strategy to get him on site? Turning to our friends while playing The Beatles: Rock Band and casually...
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09/27/2009
Step 1: Locate receipt. Step 2: Place America in its original packaging. Step 3: Drive to store. Step 4: Tell customer service why you're unhappy with nation.
This weekend, social conservatives held a so-called "How to Take Back America Conference." Ya know, because even though it was a majority of voters who went to the polls last November to wash away the soul-numbing bad mojo that plagued...
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Video: ♪'Walking with my feet ten feet off of...'♪ -- whoa, look at that billboard!
Forgive us, social conservatives, for not being sympathetic to your constant "gays are militant!" cries. But it's just that we have a hard time lending a sympathetic ear to your assessments, considering we live in a world where people go...
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Forgive me father, for I have to bust up this monolithic myth
For the next two weekends, Maine Catholics are being shown a DVD that essentially tells them it is their moral duty to vote against marriage equality for same-sex couples. Fortunately, a group calling itself Catholics For Marriage Equality is here...
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09/25/2009
Video: Now if we could only marry presidential support with in-Oval Office-ness
We've been asking for years: This year, he's started to accept our proposal: Embedded video from CNN Video
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Has anyone seen the keys to my opulent float?
We of course realize that some people and groups think the LGBT community is most accurately illustrated by the most spirited, preferably assless-chapped of pride parade attendees. But it's still shocking to hear it: Peter LaBarbera's website "Americans for Truth"...
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Lo giving 'Kept' a go
Coming soon to a Logo near you: The show, tentatively titled Kept will air on all-gay, all-day channel Logo. It will focus on fabulous Manhattan party boys who like boys living the high-life. They're hoping that there may be some...
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Get off my screen, 'culture war' cause célèbre!
Being man and not "culture war" machine, this in-need-of-relaxation writer decided to take a brief break from his queer duties and relax with some TV. So I chose to flip on Stardust Memories, one of the few Woody Allen flicks...
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Video: 'It won't work!'
No on 1 TV Ad: "Proud" [No on 1] And our side's teacher? She's a bonafide public school employee, who doesn't hold a dual role of serving as the state director of any public policy organization. That distinction matters. We...
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Video: R-E-S-P-E-C-T (take care of LGBT)
From Sean Chapin: Response to Yes on 1 Ad - Show Some Respect [YT] Yes. For years, we gay kids have been told to respect hetero-only proms, "smear the queer" games, the straight-washing of our historical icons, the opposite-sex-only parenting...
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Reversal of (un)fortun(at)e: Karma bill now only one that WBC owes
As much as it pains us to say: We actually agree with this ruling: A federal appeals court reversed a $5 million judgment (originally an $11 million judgment, which was reduced) against Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church, ruling that the...
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Video: And they wonder why they weren't invited on the committee panel?!
Hey Carrie Gordon Earll, professional "ex-gay" advocate: ENDA protects on the basis of sexual orientation in general, not just homosexuality/bisexuality in particular! So if someone decides they want to get with someone of the opposite-sex after being with someone of...
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Hungry for victory: Maine faithful deny selves of food in hopes of denying gays of wedding cake
We were too busy gorging ourselves on pizza (with our gay spouses) to notice that this event began yesterday in the state of Maine: Portland Diocese We, not to be outdone, will lick every last morsel off of every last...
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09/24/2009
On second thought, orphanages don't sound so bad
Did you think it was impossible for the anti-gay Liberty Counsel to come up with a program even more obnoxious than this year's "Proud to be a Right-Wing Extremist" membership card drive? Oh, then you have seriously underestimated this particular...
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Maine kids groups: Gays are not a scary bogeyman!
First the pediatricians. Now a consortium of other groups who know a thing or two about protecting children in real life terms are coming out against those who "protect children" in the abstract: For Immediate Release: Child Welfare Advocates from...
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Video: Duplicity, duplicated
Everything to do with children echo chamber [YT]
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The Vatican and your 'I dos': How Canon Law is putting a cannon to your equality
In Maine, the Catholics are coming out in a major way against marriage equality. In New York, Archbishop Timothy Dolan is telling the press all about the "character flaw" that is homosexuality. And we've recently learned that the church's influence...
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Charla's school
This comes from the student application for Calvary Chapel Christian, the school where Stand For Marriage Maine's star teacher, Charla Bansley, teaches: *Source: CCCS application So let's recap: The teacher (and anti-gay activist) who the "Yes on 1" campaign is...
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Is Bruce Hausknecht deliberately missing the point?
On Monday, we showed you how Focus on the Family writer was failing to actually acknowledge the real, on-the-ground concerns that DOMA poses to gay-headed families, with the conservative figure instead choosing to talk about children only as a liberal...
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ENDA begins anew
Principled repudiation of shameful discrimination:
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09/23/2009
Audio: The King and I (and you and her and anyone who values equality)
Congressman Steve King (R-IA) wants to stop your equality. You know, so that you want turn his state into a mecca for same-sex marriage and socialism, which will eventually lead to incestuous unions: *Source: WorldNetDaily Now if you'll excuse me,...
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Video: Charla bans LGBT? Not a new development
Yes on 1's 'teacher', Charla Bansley: More than SFMM wants you to know [YT] *** **SEE ALSO: Here's the "Yes on 1" ad, and a rundown on some of Charla's connections to the Maine campaign and the larger "pro-family" community:...
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Audio: Some apples from the 'teacher'
We've dug up some more audible nuggets from Stand For Marriage Maine's latest video star, Charla Bansley, which even more fully detail how ridiculous it is for the "Yes" campaign to to refer to Ms. Bansley as a mere "teacher."...
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09/22/2009
Video: Now they're using their own troops as 'teachers'?!?
The new "yes on 1" ad is up. Or actually, we should say the reworked "yes on 1" ad, as it's nothing more than a repurposed version of an old Prop 8 spot: The same old lies and fears and...
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Video: Before watching SFMM's ad, watch a mother's heartbreak
Yes, Stand For Marriage Maine: Anti-gay bias certainly does have "everything to do with schools": **UPDATE: S4MM has now released their "everything to do with schools" ad. Go watch, while keeping Ms. Walker and her late son firmly in your...
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Tomorrow in Maine: We seize upon a teachable moment!
Get ready, kiddies -- Maine's anti-equality side is about to make us sound like the schoolyard bully who bullies the slightly smaller schoolyard bully: MEDIA ADVISORY, Sept. 22 /Christian Newswire/ -- The following is submitted by Stand for Marriage Maine:...
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Weird, I walk past St Patrick's all the time and have no desire to hurt it
We've been busy tracking the Catholic influence in Maine, where the Catholic-dominated National Organization For Marriage and the influential Portland diocese (and its head, Bishop Malone) are wielding considerable influence in the unrighteous fight to roll back CIVIL equality. But...
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Video: This isn't even low road, just a ridiculous detour
We've seen some ridiculous campaign ads before. But the following spot from the New Jersey gubernatorial race, which is an official video that was put together by Republican foe of marriage equality Chris Christie, has got to be in the...
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Video: Robbing the gayness, taking it to the Banks
Back in March, we showed you some clips of a Connecticut church, Manifested Glory Ministries, trying to "exorcise" a gay man's "demon." Today on the "Tyra" show, Ms. Banks follows up with the victim and the... -- well, they all...
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Mike abandons organization the way Maine's 'yes' campaign abandoned him
You know Mike "gays cause bad weather/graffiti/economic crises" Heath, the longtime, very far-right leader who the more "mainstream" anti-equality folks at Stand For Marriage Maine have been desperately working to keep in the closet? Well, it looks like they're not...
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They who remedy boo-boos are now working to prevent a historical one
If there's any group that truly protects children, it's pediatricians. And guess what? In Maine, that group has unequivocally come out against those who toss around rhetorical "protect children" claims as a way to justify their discrimination: For Immediate Release:...
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Audio: Our own DOMA (Defiance of Maggie's Act)
- The Defense of Marriage Act was itself a fight that was picked against marriage. Our marriages. And in fact, when DOMA was being passed, Maggie Gallagher wanted the fight to be an even stronger one. She thought DOMA was...
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Unlike the Cat-a-holics, who just want us to enjoy pussies
We've found even more evidence that Catholics (led by Bishop Malone) are trying to do to Maine what Mormons did to California. On 9/13, they of course held their special collection for the cause of banning equality. This past weekend,...
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