Good As You: Hate Crimes Legislation Roundup
07/08/2009
When it comes to advancing peace, FRC's motion is loco
This story is from 2007: A boy of 15 lay down in front of a train to commit suicide after being teased at school about his sexuality, an inquest was told yesterday. Moments before he died, Jonathan Reynolds sent harrowing...
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07/03/2009
Bias-motivated crimes: You can accurately analyze, or you can Rush
Wanna see a clear example of how Rush Limbaugh deliberately misleads his leaders? Well here, check this out. This is a transcript from yesterday's show: RUSH: I want you to hear this. June 25th, a week ago, Senate Judiciary Committee,...
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07/01/2009
Perkins: Waah! We don't get to stall this bill like we have in the past. Waah!
Of Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat Leahy's (R-VT) plan to finally get inclusive hate crimes legislation passes after the July 4th break, the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins (or his ghostwriter) today says the following: In a letter to members...
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06/29/2009
While we were away: Robert Knight again acted like opportunistic hearsay is same as fact
Since 2000, professional anti-gay activist Robert Knight has been running with the claim that a gay activist involved in the Clinton administration inadvertently revealed hate crimes legislation's "true agenda." And now that the debate is back on the table for...
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06/28/2009
While we were away: DeMint left bad taste in truth-loving mouths
With hate crimes legislation threatening to make the world just a little more peaceful for LGBT people, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (Very Far R-SC) recently became the latest conservative figure to blatantly use fear, lies, and intimidation to dupe decent...
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While we were away: Holder v. hate
Eric Holder at Senate Judiciary Committe on the Hate Crimes Bill 6/25/09 [YT] **MORE: Sen. Reid and HRC's Joe Solmonese at Hate Crimes Press Conference:
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06/27/2009
While we were away: TVC discovered, failed to master YouTube
The Southern Poverty Law Center has long cited the Traditional Values Coalition as being one of America's twelve anti-gay hate groups. But with lazy and lie-filled YouTube contributions like the following, we think it's only a matter of upload time...
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06/09/2009
Report: Hate crimes bill to bum ride with another vehicle
According to the Washington Blade, the Senate will pass inclusive hate crimes legislation as an amendment to another bill rather than as a separate, standalone bill: Senate to pass hate crimes bill as amendment [Wash Blade] So far there's no...
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05/15/2009
Audio: Another twosome who hopes Jesus was lying about the lying thing
Even as some groups either openly or quietly distance themselves from the batshittery, the more unscrupulous opponents of hate crimes legislation are still purveying egregious lies about what is and is not a defined sexual orientation. This from the Concerned...
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05/12/2009
Anti-gay group backs off paraphilia claim -- yet no flying pigs outside our window?!?
The Traditional Values Coalition, Congressman Louis Gohmert (Far R-TX), Focus on the Family, WorldNetDaily, Liberty Counsel, American Family Association, Congressman Steve King (As Far R as Louis-IA), Concerned Women For America, and countless others have failed to back away from...
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05/08/2009
Great, Bruce. So give us back your 'special' protections
If the issue of lowering the voting age to 16 were to arise, we may have some arguments against the change. But we're not going to act as if the newly suffraged sixteen- and seventeen-year-olds would be getting any sort...
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05/06/2009
Video: 'Factor' Fiction
Bill "I'm an independent even though I'm SO not" O'Reilly is now carrying water for the far-right and their "pedophilia is a sexual orientation" claims: Yes, Bill, and here is a list of other things that Rep. Baldwin didn't want...
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05/01/2009
Audio: Their lies molest my ears. Is that too a 'sexual orientation'?
You know, it's one thing to read about grown adults opportunistically lying so as to convince the public that there are "over 30 sexual orientations," which supposedly include things like pedophilia. But it's often more startling to actually hear them...
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Focus on the startling willingness to lie about sexual orientation
Add Focus on the Family to the list of "pro-family" groups (and lawmakers) willing to flat-out lie and claim pedophilia as a "sexual orientation": The U.S. House voted Wednesday to create a new class of crimes based on the traits...
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04/29/2009
Advancing hate's regression: House comes through
The House passed inclusive hate crimes legislation by a bipartisan 249-175 vote: U.S. House Passes Inclusive Hate Crimes Bill [HRC] Now it's on to the Senate, then to President Obama. Or if you're one who opposes the measure, it's on...
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Live: As if you were a fly on Barney Frank's lapel
If you want to follow today's debate and vote on H.R. 1913 (THE LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT HATE CRIMES PREVENTION ACT OF 2009), then you can do so right here. Just click your preferred way of streaming C-SPAN (Windows Media or...
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04/28/2009
A powerful friend can make all the difference
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ____________________________________________________________________________ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 28, 2009 STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT ON H.R. 1913, THE LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT HATE CRIMES PREVENTION ACT OF 2009 This week, the House of Representatives is expected...
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Resisting fellows who get in bed with fellows makes strange, hate-certified bedfellows
Is it "ethical" for a Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission VP to stand side-by-side with the leader of an SPLC-certified hate group? Is it responsible for two U.S. Congressman to do the same? And what about one concerned...
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04/23/2009
We love to tell you when anti-hate advances
The House version of LGBT-inclusive hate crimes legislation made its way out of committee today: Hate crimes legislation cleared a hurdle Thursday, winning approval from the House Judiciary Committee. Committee members backed the bill, 15-12, following a second day of...
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04/22/2009
What about protecting fair-minded lawmakers from feet dragging?
As a way of stalling/killing/bumblef**king LGBT-inclusive hate crimes legislation during today's Judiciary Committee markup, various Republican congressmen proposed amendment after amendment that would've added everything from pregnant women to American nationals who've been the victims of violent crimes committed by...
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Audio: Wherein Matt Barber seeks a more internal rights rollback
Ladies and gents, hold onto your hates, because we are about to give Matt Barber a genuine compliment. That's because we actually applaud him for, in the first half of the following clip, admitting for the first time (to our...
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04/21/2009
We don't wanna jail your preachers, Matt. Your straw men are another story
Deceive. Deceive. Deceive. Deceive. Deceive. Sorry. Go read this little quip that Matt Barber has written, and then we'll get back to you: In short, this bill places newfangled "gay rights" in direct conflict with our enumerated constitutional rights. It...
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Video: Poignant
Pass Federal Hate Crimes Protections Now – vote is coming! [HRC]
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04/20/2009
Denying actuality: Not a 'traditional value'!
It's that time of year again: Time for the Traditional Values Coalition, an SPLC-certified hate group, to blatantly lie about the science behind sexual orientation in a way that puts a whole host of paraphilic behaviors under the "orientation" umbrella,...
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04/01/2009
FRC: Fallacious Reasoning Continues
Truth, schmuth. For the Family Research Council, it seems a handful of cherry-picked anti-gay condemnations are more biblically sound than the book's ideas about not bearing false witness: A "hate crimes" law is really a "thought crime" law that punishes...
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02/20/2009
False claims? Fear-mongering? Dodging the real issue? It must be a 'pro-fam' hate crimes discussion!
Watch between 1:17 and 6:15. Focus on the Family's Tom Minnery and Stuart Shepard are lying through their teeth AND THEY KNOW IT: Okay, so the implication is that any criminal in the world can say that their faith leader...
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12/05/2008
We like that he's protected on basis of (chosen) religion. Why does Mike care so little about us?
Want insight into the kind of bullet we dodged by not electing a President Mike Huckabee? Well... The kind of bullet that uses far-right talking points about post-Prop 8 "attacks," as if these isolated incidents are in any way comparable...
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10/28/2008
Ground that we wish we weren't gaining
This from the AP: WASHINGTON – Hate crimes incidents decreased slightly last year despite a surge in those targeting gays and lesbians. The FBI reported more than 7,600 hate crimes incidents in 2007, down about 1 percent from the previous...
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12/06/2007
'Blade': Hate crimes officially bashed
This from the Washington Blade: Capitol Hill sources are telling the Blade that the hate crimes measure has been stripped from the National Defense Authorization Act. The House passed a freestanding hate crimes bill in May, but lawmakers in the...
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11/20/2007
Video: About as raw and real as it gets
This is a potential question for the CNN/YouTube Republican debate. One that desperately needs to get picked: Why does it so desperately need to be asked? Well, let's look: Fred Thompson: Opposes LGBT-inclusive hate crimes legislation. Mitt Romney: Opposes LGBT-inclusive...
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11/19/2007
And now for our annual look at hate
It's that time of year again, kids. The day when the FBI releases its latest hate crimes statistics: Hate crimes state for 2006 [FBI] In terms of gays: Sexual orientation bias is said to have been the basis for 15.5%...
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10/05/2007
Hate crimes opponents: Focus on their Desperation
So you might have heard that Anthony Fortunato, one of the men allegedly responsible for the 2006 death of openly gay New Yorker Michael Sandy, has come out and said that he's had closeted encounters with other men and that...
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10/02/2007
Your actions are what are 'In-Defensible', Tony
From a short piece he's entitled "In-Defensible," Here is Tony Perkins speaking about the LGBT-centric hate crimes legislation that was recently passed by the Senate as an amendment to the Department of Defense authorization bill: "By hijacking the bill and...
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10/01/2007
New rule: 'Advocate' honoree's wrong on some gay issues
This is how Advocate "Person of The Year" Bill Maher spoke about hate crimes on his show Friday night: "So – so Congress passed – the Senate passed this – or voted on this hate-crime legislation ...they attached it to...
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09/28/2007
Concerned Women For De-Rationalizing America
In a press release wherein they decry the Senate for advancing hate crimes legislation as part of the Department of Defense Authorization bill, the reliably unprincipled folks at the Concerned Women For America make the following comments: "Senators humiliate our...
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Hate crimes passage: Nothing but a dinner party icebreaker
Responding to yesterday's cloture vote on the Matthew Shepard Act, the always affable Andrea Lafferty of the Traditional Values Coalition says the following: “Why are Americans seeing such an onslaught of pro-homosexual/drag queen bills being rammed through the House and...
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09/27/2007
Breaking: Right-wing's most lied about bill advances
Holy mother of bias prevention! By a 60-39 cloture vote, the Senate has advanced their version of the much-debated hate crimes legislation: Senate votes 60-39 for cloture on hate crimes legislation; voice vote adds Kennedy-Smith hate crimes amendment to Department...
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09/21/2007
Tony's red-haired red herring
So in our time covering the ins and outs of the anti-gay industry, we've seen its proponents take MANY leaps in logic. However, this latest from Tony Perkins' "Washington Update" column just might take the reason-hopping cake: When comedian Kathy...
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09/06/2007
Wherein Tony uses a rubber to protest protection
So what sort of graphic does the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins (or one of his minions) would use to highlight a story regarding democrats' attempts, among other things, pass gay-inclusive hate crimes legislation? The word "hate" with a cross...
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08/24/2007
Video: False witness witnessing falsely
So there were lots of things that made us take pause in last night's fantastic Christiane Amanpour Report, "God's Christian Warriors." However, this little clip featuring Rick Scarborough just made us plain angry: And in fact, our annoyance is partly...
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08/16/2007
No, No -- condemning gays at every turn in NO WAY leads to violence
In a long piece wherein he criticizes laws that protect gays from hate crimes (with a specific focus on the Canadian version of such protections), Christian writer Timothy Bloedow makes man bold assertions. However, it is the following that made...
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08/07/2007
Report: 'The decider' closer to reminding us why he's unworthy of that role
The ultra right-leaning Washington Times newspaper has provided more evidence that the president will veto hate crimes legislation, should it pass the Senate and make its way to his desk. White House spokesman Tony Fratto is quoted as saying: "The...
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08/06/2007
Hey opposition: Preachers are not above the law!!
While the following statement will likely fall on the typically deaf ears of our opposition, we are going to try to say this one more time in hopes that maybe just maybe they will someday start to value logic that...
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08/02/2007
TVC takes baby step towards 'slightly more truthful'
So you might remember that back in May, we found the Traditional Values Coalition deliberately misrepresenting a certain section of House debate involving federal hate crimes protections. Since that time, we have seen numerous "pro-family" types repurpose TVC's version of...
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07/24/2007
Wherein a nickname for a political tactic allows us to reminisce
The Family Research Council has reportedly been "robo-calling" homes in Nashville, TN, encouraging locals to call Senator Lamar Alexander's office and tell him "to vote no on any hate crimes bill that grants special protections to people because of their...
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07/23/2007
Wherein we actually sort of defend Tony's ability to discriminate
Here is a recent passage from our ol' pal at the Family Research Council, Tony Perkins. Enjoy: Earlier in the week I wrote about thought crimes legislation and the plight of a Canadian pastor who's on trial for allegedly running...
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07/20/2007
Hey evangelicals, guess what? IT'S NOT ALL ABOUT YOU!!!!!!!
We're beginning to think our opposition has just completely given up on swimming in the waters of reality. For an example of why we say this, check out this excerpt from One News Now regarding the effects proposed federal hate...
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Breaking: Far right lies have duped at least 33,000
The notoriously anti-gay Coral Ridge Ministries has reportedly gathered 33,000 petitions lashing out against proposed federal hate crimes legislation, which they plan to deliver to Prez Bush and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConell this week. A roster that will come...
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07/19/2007
With things like war on table, Senate temporarily puts 'hate' on shelf
As you might have heard yesterday, the Defense Authorization bill to which the Senate version of the proposed hate crimes legislation was amended, has been pulled from the floor. Translation of this boring political jargon: There's no Senate passage of...
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07/18/2007
Seeking an end to gay demonization -- that's a true 'family policy'
So the Family Policy Network thinks they have found an ace in their anti-hate crimes legislation hole. In their quest to discredit the need for protections for LGBT individuals, they are working the idea that it is actually GAYS who...
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