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02/28/2011
Video: Midwifing marital meddling
As we continue to have a national conversation about the so-called Defense of Marriage Act, we think it's important for everyone who positions his or her self as an expert on the subject to look at what might be the...
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Report: American public to learn of House GOP's misfocus by week's end
From The New York Times' Caucus blog: With Republicans upset at the Obama administration’s abandonment of the Defense of Marriage Act, Representative Eric Cantor, the Virginia Republican and majority leader, said on Monday that the House would take action by...
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Marrriage equality: Albert Mohler concedes the 'do', ponders the 'why?'
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary president Albert Mohler cites the following three reasons for why so many Americans now support same-sex marriage: A PROGRESSIVIST UNDERSTANDING OF HISTORY A RADICAL INDIVIDUALISM THE CLAIM OF MORAL AUTONOMY FIRST-PERSON: Why do so many Americans...
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Audio: What Maggie Gallagher said/didn't say in MD
Maggie at Friday's Maryland House hearing: Right, she all that. But how does Maggie "respect" gay people when legislators aren't listening? Well, she comes out and admits that she sees homosexuality as "unfortunate", tells gays that they can "always control...
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DOMA: The way it looked on the day
9/10/1996: It was my seventeenth birthday, and I was peeved my parents were dragging their feet about whether or not I could go to a Dave Matthews concert one night later. I was hardly even aware of the national developments...
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And now this moment in futile consumer activism
The American Family Association claims this: Over one-half million people have signed a pledge to boycott The Home Depot until it agrees to remain neutral in the culture and political war over homosexual marriage. [AFA] Peter LaBarbera backs this: Letter...
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Video: Godwin's Law, Colson's reality
On its DOMA defense page, Chuck Colson's eponymous center has posted the following write up and video, which likens modern day Christians' "stand" against pro-LGBT activism to Pastor Martin Niemoeller's past stand against the Nazis and Hitler: Administration Will Not...
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Hey CBN: Why not ask Peter Sprigg about 'exporting' or criminalizing certain humans?
Another responsibility-shirking piece from a sympathetic outlet: [CBN] Ooh, ooh -- our turn: Here's Peter Sprigg saying he'd like to see gays "exported" or criminalized: *SOURCE: Gays seek immigration reform [Medill Reports] *SOURCE: MSNBC No Peter -- we certainly don't...
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CWA: Playing political football while bias's candle burns
Here's the snarky graphic the Concerned Women For America are using to address the Obama administration's DOMA decision: [SOURCE: CWFA] Get it? The President is a de facto Emperor Nero, the golf club is a stand-in fiddle, and America is...
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Video: Bob Vander Plaats spends another countless hour talking about gay people
Iowa's Bob Vander Plaats warns twos and twos of supporters about those bisexuals who innately want to marry multiple partners and those fathers who want to marry their children: The Gay Marriage Battle Continues [KIMT] Ya know, there's been a...
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DOMA decision: It's not [insert President] won't defend [insert case] Mad Libs
Here's a novel new meme building in socially conservative circles: In an exclusive interview with Newsmax.TV Friday, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said President Barack Obama’s decision not to fully enforce the Defense of Marriage law eventually could lead to...
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Video: When Maine's self-appointed 'marriage protectors' gained nothing, hurt many
As we gear up for a potential ballot fight in Maryland, we have no choice but to learn from what's already happened. As gut-wrenching as it may be: Question One from Fly On The Wall Productions on Vimeo. Question One:...
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02/27/2011
'Congregants, please open your 'Us Weekly' to Kunis 3:12...'
Baptist Press columnist Kelly Boggs has determined LGBT-inclusive pop culture to America's reigning religious faith: During the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards, two pop culture goddesses kissed. Singers Madonna and Britney Spears intimately embraced to an ecstatic ovation. The televised...
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Video: MassResistance bears 'Falsettos' witness
Back during the holiday season of 2009, Southern Poverty Law Center-designated hate group MassResistance was causing all kinds of a stink over a local high school's choice to present a certain musical. The play in question: Falsettos, James Lapine and...
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Did you try to stop a Catholic ceremony this weekend? No? Well that's nice, but...
With marriage equality obtaining passage in the state Senate and expected to do the same in the House, Maryland Catholics are pulling out all stops in order to fulfill their goal of using faith-based theological opinions to halt *CIVIL* rights...
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If 'domination' is your goal, NOM, have at it. We'll stick with education
If by "dominates" NOM means "eats up the most amount of time using the same rhetorical talking points and unrelated asides that could never hold muster in an actual court of law (which is why you don't see Brian Brown...
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02/25/2011
Homosexuals on the verge of a nuptial breakdown
And now we'll hear the calm, measured, respectful thoughts of conservative radio host Jeff Kuhner: The homosexual rights movement is on the verge of destroying marriage. If successful, it will permanently alter society. And President Obama is playing a pivotal...
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Video: What we can expect when #MARRYland goes to referendum
First, "Protect Marriage Maryland" head Robert Broadus will fault the pro-equality side for being motivated, diverse early birds who are able to organize their peeps. Then he'll say all kinds of other stuff about his personal faith, our public policy,...
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Justice League: Finding common Sens. for #DOMA repeal
Sen. Feinstein announces #DOMA repeal plans [G-A-Y] Sen. Patrick Leahy: I Will Cosponsor Feinstein's Bill To Repeal DOMA [J.M.G.] Sen. Gillibrand: i look forward to Working w/ Sen. Feinstein on repeal of DOMA [G-A-Y] Sen. Patty Murray supports DOMA repeal...
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Video: Will Phillips to Maggie Gallagher 'Don't be so aggro, dude'
Aggro: Aggressive, argumentative [Urban Dictionary]
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Archived: MD House Judiciary debate on marriage
**NOTE: If you hit the Swap arrow (4th down on right), and then hit the rectangle right above the arrow (3rd down on right), you'll get one centered playback window. *** *REMINDER: Yesterday, the full Maryland Senate passed marriage equality.
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Enough with these empty 'defense of marriage' calories!
Above all else, the anti-LGBT community's intellectual dereliction regarding DOMA can be summed up by this highlighted bullet point from Focus on the Family's supposed "Defense of Marriage Act Fact Sheet": [SOURCE: Focus on the Family] See it? The concept...
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But NOM, we both know Jim Garlow has more Beelzebubian interests
The ever-far-right-leaning National Organization For Marriage is today using Pastor Jim Garlow to instruct us all on *CIVIL* marriage: Pastor Jim Garlow on Presidents, Governors and Attorney Generals Who Break Oaths [NOM Blog] Though if it's all the same to...
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Video: 'We'll have more on this historic civil rights development for gay Americans, provided that Tara Reid stays out of trouble'
There's Something About Marry [Daily Show]
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FRC's 'state of marriage': A picture worth a thousand 'you're factually wrongs!'
If The Family Research Counsel thinks they know so much more about DOMA, marriage, and constitutional law than the rest of us, then they really should look at their own, silly "Defend DOMA" site: [FRC's "Defend DOMA" site] For on...
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One prez hopeful who won't be rooting for 'The Kids Are All Right'
Remember when Mike Huckabee compared gays' kids to puppies? Yea, well -- he's now downgraded gay families to "our little guinea pigs" status: "I believe that we're in denial about potential problems as we see more and more homosexual couples...
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02/24/2011
Partisan special interest group tells nation's churches how to think/vote/pray
President Obama has directed the Department of Justice to not defend in our civil court system a federal law (DOMA) pertaining to civil marriage. So naturally, Family Research Council staffers are responding the best way they know how: By instructing...
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25-21!!!!! Maryland Senate passes marriage bill!
*** *And now for my favorite piece of audio from today: Maryland Senators Pugh (D) and Raskin (D) accurately note the definition of marriage, much to Sen. Reilly's (R) chagrin:
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Video: 'His left-wing lawyers he brought in from Harvard' #populismyeayea
[CBN] Oh, those pesky Harvard lawyers (coming from Maggie "Yale, Class of '82" Gallagher). Oh you gotta love that false, folksy populism.
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Report: Conservatives to show problem-plagued nation how misprioritized they are
From the AP wire: "The ripple effect nationwide will be to galvanize supporters of marriage," said staff counsel Jim Campbell of Alliance Defense Fund, a conservative legal group. ... "The president has thrown down the gauntlet, challenging Congress," said Tony...
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Video: Equality Matters vs. Not To Me It Doesn't
[ABC News]
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Sure thing, @GayPatriot. As an 'I Hate Slurs' party rep, I condemn this phrasing
A few minutes ago, conservative GOP blogger Gay Patriot publicly Tweeted this site the following messaging/video: Now, I guess GP's implication was that this site and this writer would not condemn this union supporter's usage of the slur, since labor...
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Best Supportive Actor nominee:
[NY4ME]
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Liberty Counsel's Matt Barber: 'The Muslim religion is Satanic'
Lest you think his hyperbole is confined to gays: ** *Our complete Matt Barber Archive
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Flashback Thursday: Unconstitutional DOMA's first time-wasting minutes
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Video: MD Senator can't wait for state to waste millions on unconstitutional vote
The bill hasn't even passed the Senate (tonight, hopefully). But in Maryland, some Republican lawmakers are already fetishizing the potential Prop 8-like referendum that might greet the Old Line State: "You know in the Senate Finance Committee...when a sponsor of...
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Warren piece: 'Ex-gay' book books current-Kay
Over the past two years or so, Christopher Yuan has become a more and more prominent face within the "ex-gay" advocacy movement: And now Christopher and his mom Angela have put that "change" activism into a forthcoming book, titled Out...
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Video: Pat Robertson vs. 'their way of doing sex'
Just minutes ago on "The 700 Club" "Some of these radical gay groups are willing to do in anything in the world to have their way of doing sex legitimized by this country." [CBN] Yes, gays: Forget cigarettes. Mailing "Was...
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Video: Jordan Sekulow's DOMA (Defense of Mixed Analogies)
Most of the Christian Broadcasting Network's report on yesterday's DOMA news is a "yea, right, whatever" kind of situation filled with the same pre-written scripts you;d expect to hear from the "protect marriage" crowd. But for one "you seriously can't...
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Because why shouldn't our weddings provoke gun rhetoric?
[WND] And yet it's marriage licensing that concerns us?
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So wait, NOM: Has the fight begun or not?
The fight just begun? Has not yet begun? Will begin soon? So what were Prop 8, Maine, and all the other times NOM used its agenda to stifle civil rights: Mere tiffs? Because if you asked our brains, ring fingers,...
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Arcadia fire: Equality advocates Focus on 'Protect Marriage' mayor's keynoter
The mayor of Arcadia, CA, one Peter Amundson.... ...has invited Focus on the Family's vice president of Ministry Outreach/Pastoral Ministries, H.B. London Jr., to keynote an upcoming community breakfast. This leaves an understandably bad taste in some of the more...
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02/23/2011
Photo: FRC's predictably fair, nuanced, esteemed take on complex legal matter
Obama Comes Out of the Closet on Marriage [FRC] First reaction: Why is his neck so long? Second reaction: If the President just did something as bold as declare war, why is everyone I talk to far more interested in...
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Video: Hell hath no feisty like a gay collegian street-preached
Auburn University: [NitroHotMusic] Meanwhile, the local wind wishes everyone would stop screaming into it.
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And now this: Sen. Feinstein announces #DOMA repeal plans
Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) issued a statement today following Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision on lawsuits challenging the “Defense of Marriage Act.” The law defines marriage for federal purposes as only between a man and a...
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IA Republicans introduce 'The Courts Are But A Suggestion Act of 2011'
Iowa conservatives Republicans are literally willing to uproot the separation of powers and responsible rule of law in order to hurt gay families. This from Jason Clayworth: County recorders would be prohibited from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples and...
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Video: Maggie find television's most sympathetic shoulder #DOMA
We're not sure who the National Organization For Marriage rep is in this clip, Maggie Gallagher or Fox News' so obviously biased (and on some points factually wrong) Megyn Kelly: NOM Criticizes Obama For Declaring ‘Gay Is Like Black’, Promises...
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AFER wants stay to go; CA wedding planners all like, 'uhm, yea -- u$ too'
Today just keeps getting newsier (and blue text-ier): San Francisco —Today, the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER) and its legal team — led by Theodore B. Olson and David Boies — filed a motion with the United States Court...
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(CONFIRMED) Report: Obama admin will no longer defend #DOMA (Sec. 3)!
@NationalJournal Developing... *** *MORE from Capehart: "A well-placed and trusted source tells me that, any minute now, Attorney General Eric Holder will issue a statement announcing that it will no longer defend so-called Defense of Marriage Act lawsuits in court."...
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Video: Bobby socks, hula hoops, and principled fortitude
2011: "It Gets Better..." 1951: "...By Going to ElectroShock Therapy" A nice look at a brave few: via: Video: Coming Out in the 1950's [Bilerico]
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