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05/31/2012
Video: Two average American parents talk kids, family, values
Tune in Sunday, June 3, at 9/8c for more from Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka! [OWN] Well no wonder social conservatives are so concerned—they're all in bare feet! Someone could step on a nail and get tetanus. [:sigh:] Those...
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Video: Eugene Delgaudio fights 'horror' of accepting schools; ignores horrid penmanship on poster board
Many of you know Eugene Delgaudio from his notoriously histrionic emails against even the most basic level of LGBT acceptance. But while the printed word is reliably better, I feel you should know that there is a movie version as...
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Audio: Silly caller—NOM's Roback Morse only wants to *make* Nazi comparisons, not acknowledge them #glaadcap
She said it. She said it quite clearly, indeed. And proudly, presumably. NOM's Jennifer Roback Morse spoke at length about how “the parallels” between Nazi Germany and contemporary America “are really quite chilling,” based solely on America's growing support for...
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Are we not citizens? Are we not taxpayers? Are our families not deserving of focus?
Focus on the Family's Bruce Hausknecht, in reference to today's historic ruling against the Defense of Marriage Act (so-called): “This is simply another round in the legal wranglings over the definition of marriage in this country, and marriage supporters can...
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How NOM's seemingly limitless cash well is shaping Maryland
This year, the National Organization For Marriage is trying to drive a wedge between gays and [insert whoever] in every single state where our rights are on the ballot, masterminding the fifty state plan from the cozy NOM office on...
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One Million Moms again reminded their kids could be gay, again try vainly to stop reality
Just to keep track of the so-called One Million Moms' spring crusade against LGBT Americans: They don't want popular lesbian talk show hosts endorsing retail They are shocked—SHOCKED!—that a retailer would advertise its wedding registry to all potential grooms and...
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The ever-increasing attempts to make us into a nasty, undeserving 'other'
Not to sound alarmist, but I can't help but notice the recent uptick in articles like this, which aim to paint us as a roving, tyrannical monolith that has to lie in order to convince the world that we're fit...
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Audio: Maryland pastors take on Satan's tactics (a.k.a. increased peace of mind for gay families)
Harry Jackson admits that his coalition doesn't have the support of basically anyone in a place of power, authority, or legal scholarship. However, this marriage alliance does have the audacity to accuse gays of following "the tactic that Satan has...
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First Circuit panel declares DOMA unconstitutional; affirms precedent set by court of 'no duh'
Breaking now: BREAKING: TWO REPUBLICAN JUDGES DECLARE DOMA UNCONSTITUTIONAL | A three judge panel of The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit just handed down a decision declaring the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional. [MORE: ThinkProgress]...
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NOM's civil unions chutzpah
I've opined at length about the National Organization For Marriage's civil unions position, which fluctuates in tandem with political opportunism. But I gotta say, the anti-equality org's latest take on the subject might be its most unbelievable yet. KEEP READING:...
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Gallagher thinks her marriage 'defense' lessens confusion; is confused
Maggie Gallagher's heading to Minnesota this weekend, where she will make her (Catholic) case for why she is right and the rest of us are simply "confused": [Chesterton Academy] The age of confusion? Well maybe, Maggie, this debate is "confused"...
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NOM blogger to married gays: If you think your marriages are permanent, you're wrong
This tweet from the National Organization For Marriage's Culture Director is simply precious: As I look down at the ring on my diligently typing finger, here in my state where my neighbors have supported my legal marriage in every credible...
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05/30/2012
In a few day, some 'family' group will tell you this ad threatens America...
This is J.C. Penney's latest, featuring dads Todd Koch and Cooper Smith playing with children Claire and Mason: It's gorgeous. When the attacks come—and oh, they will come—remember that the peaceful beauty of love has already won, even if a...
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Video: MD marriage folks celebrate ability to collect sigs; sadly for them, ability to stop clocks remains elusive
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Maine marriage 'protectors': Help us shame gay dads on Father's Day!
It's not just marriage rights. It's our pride itself that they are gearing up to counter: There's something particularly noxious about using a warm, family holiday against us. Even at my and my father's roughest life patch, I know he...
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Exodus 'denounces' FRC decision (i.e. we're doing good work)
On Friday I told you about the Family Research Council honoring the truly extreme Ron Baity with the org's top honor. Well now, not only has the Southern Baptist Convention gone on record against Baity's rhetoric (which is only public...
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NOM hopes extra shot of pretense will caffeinate sluggish boycott
In two months and nine days, the National Organization For Marriage has been able to accomplish what its counter forces were able to accomplish in just one twenty-four hour period. That is: NOM has finally garnered 40,000 signatures to its...
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FRC to Obama: 'We believe that 'the wages of sin is death''
The ever-esteemed Family Research Council is continuing to use President Obama's historic marriage announcement to both raise its profile and fill its coffers. This time, FRC is doing so by citing Franklin Graham's eek-inducing claim that the President is "shaking...
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Video: Spitzer works to cure his work on the non-'cure'
As many of you know, Dr. Robert Spitzer recently apologized for his much-trumpeted study that seemed (at least at glance read) to lend some sense of credence to the "ex-gay" movement. Wayne Besen wanted and got more from the noted...
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05/29/2012
Kansas pastor: Government should kill gays
Curtis Knapp, pastor of Seneca, Kansas' New Hope Baptist Church: "Oh, so you're saying we should go out and start killing them? No, I'm saying the government should. They won't, but they should." SOURCE: "Homosexuality and the Need For National...
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MD pastor on killing gays: 'I will be very honest with you, my flesh kind of likes that idea'
In his fifty minute sermon titled "Homosexuality and the Bible," Oakland, MD, Baptist pastor Dennis Leatherman makes it clear that he believes gays cannot be thrown in prison without equally punishing adulterers, and is generally consistent about the Scriptural limitations...
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Another pastor, another list of reasons why gays will break marriage
We gays are not humans, but rather slippery slopes on whose backs innocent children, cherished institutions, and even society itself will ultimately slip and fall. Or so the common condemnations go: "If marriage is not a reflection of God's design...
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More from Colin Powell: Yes to married gay soldiers
From NPR's "The Diane Rehm Show":
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Video: President Obama committed heresy, says anti-gay hearsay
The reliably hostile-voiced Matt Barber accuses President Obama of lying about Jesus: Of course in truth, President Obama, like most civil marriage equality advocates, has been completely open to the possibility that someone like Matt Barber might disagree with his...
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Surprise, surprise—Knights of Columbus already in Maine's marriage piggy bank
As of now, there are four listed contributors fueling the so-called Protect Marriage Maine coalition. To no one's surprise, the Catholic Knights of Columbus organization is the current top donor: [Maine Campaign Finance] Ya know, for an org. named after...
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Out of the church and into the street war: Mike Heath calls on Mainers to battle their 'evil' 'enemy' (i.e. gays)
Mike Heath, the fifteen year leader of the Christian Civic League of Maine and current head of a PAC trying to stop marriage equality in the Pine State, has come right out and said it: he wants local congregants to...
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Video: Richard Cohen strengthens marriage movement's unbreakable 'ex-gay' ties
This past weekend's World Congress of Families conference was sponsored by Focus on the Family, the Alliance Defense Fund, and a number of other groups working to shape policy here in America. The conference also featured an appearance by National...
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Maryland Marriage Alliance turns to 'corporate' prayer; that's one way to get Mitt's attention, I guess
As the Maryland Marriage Alliance ramps up their campaign to stop the recently-passed-and-signed marriage bill from taking hold, the coalition is again turning to religion to stop our civil marriage rights. In fact, the MMA has hired a prayer coordinator...
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Decrial of mouse-eared gays joins white pants in post–Memorial Day tradition-dom
It's that time of year again: the annual period where social conservatives, led by the Florida Family Association's David Caton, accuse joy- and Space Mountain–loving gays of using Disney World as an LGBT recruitment center: "There will be perhaps as...
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05/25/2012
More insight into NOM's weekend gig
Over on NOM Exposed, I write about the quite extreme conference that National Organization for Marriage president Brian Brown is speaking at this weekend. Now Peter LaBarbera, whose AFTAH group is a partner organization of that conference, has done me...
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NOM Political Director: 'Not a chance in God’s green earth that African-Americans support same-sex marriage'
This quote, from the former Prop 8 campaign head and current political Director for the National Organization For Marriage, is almost too unbelievable for words: A Washington Post-ABC News poll released Wednesday put support for gay marriage at 53 per...
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Audio: Tony Perkins admits what I said all year: #Amendment1 was nakedly biblical effort
Amendment One managed to change the *civil* constitution, callously turning the North Carolina's most precious governing document into even more of a weapon against same-sex couples' legal rights. It also happened to be the most obviously, openly faith-based state campaign...
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NOM EXPOSED: Come for 'Solutions to Homosexual Behavior’, stick around for NOM president
How does NOM go global? Take a look: Stay for 'Solutions to Homosexual Behavior’, stick around for NOM’s president [NOM EXPOSED]
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Video: Memorializing a very pro-gay/anti-gay May
A pastor's call to beat, put to a good beat: (Andy Mullady via Andy Towle)
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WHOA! Even the SBC is distancing itself from FRC honoree Ron Baity (and Charles Worley and Sean Harris)
Baptist Press, a publication of the Southern Baptist Convention, wants you to know that their work against LGBT equality has nothing to do with a few people who you've read about (and in some cases were first discovered) right here...
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Video: Focus on the Family teaches us how to deny civil unions with personal faith, 'ex-gay' therapy
Carrie Gordon Earll and Stuart Shepard believe that the Bible is against gays and our marriages, and that "people who live homosexually" can and should stop doing so. That, to them, is acceptable reasoning to deny tax-paying citizens of this...
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What FRC just honored: Man who says gays are 'warped, infested, twisted' with 'depraved gray matter'
I've already shown you many video clips of new Family Research Council award recipient Ron Baity. Now check out this, from Baity's website: [Return America] Tony Perkins just personally exalted this rhetoric and handed Mr. Baity FRC's highest prize. Feel...
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OMG VIDEO: FRC awards Ron 'gays worse than maggots' Baity with 2012 Watchmen Award!!!!!
Let's look at Ron Baity: - Implies that gay people are worse than maggots: - Compares gay people to murderers: - Wants to "save" gay people so they will "quit being homos": - Claims accepting gay people would make society...
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05/24/2012
Video: Tony's never been to the homes he daily decries (cc: @tperkins @brookebcnn)
SOURCE: CNN CNN's Brooke Baldwin asked a great question of guest Tony Perkins. BALDWIN: "Have you ever been to the home of a same-sex couple, Tony?" The Family Research Council president's predictable answer: "No." He, a man who dedicates an...
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As demanded by its middle word, Maine Education Association supports marriage equality
A learned stance: It was announced today that the Maine Education Association (MEA), the union that represents public school teachers throughout the state, has endorsed the ballot question that would allow same-sex couples to marry. Mainers will vote on it...
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Audio: Stern, Takei take on Pastor Worley
Some language NSFW:
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Friday: Maryland Marriage Alliance to pray for gays' defeat, repentance
Tomorrow and on subsequent Fridays thereafter, those working to stop *CIVIL* marriage equality in Maryland will be holding webcast prayer sessions designed to "confound the enemy": For those who find the beach to coarse, start your Memorial Day weekend with...
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Video: From today's FRC Watchmen conference #wotw12
More "gay saving" from this morning's plenary session at the Family Research Council's Watchmen on the Walls conference: *NOTE: The "ex-gay" advocating speaker, Jesse Connors, is working from the same Liberty Univ. video I showed you earlier) 'God Is Working'...
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WA equality combatants wanted mad rush, are settling for slow trickle
While acknowledging that the National Organization For Marriage/Preserve Marriage Washington team will likely get the 120,577 signatures they need to put marriage on the ballot (because most any campaign can), Laurel Ramseyer notes a compelling facet of that current effort....
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The never-ending anti-LGBT doings of cable news' go-to conservative voice
From time to time, someone who works in the mainstream media will question why I think groups like the Family Research Council deserve so much attention on their anti-LGBT work specifically. Some of them don't understand why I say that,...
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Audio: FRC Sr. VP Tom McClusky likens same-sex marriage support to condoning suicide
"It should be pointed out though, that contrary to what the President apparently thinks, the Golden Rule alone tells us nothing one way or the other about supporting same-sex marriage. It isn't about merely protecting our neighbors' preferences but rather...
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Video: The 'change' Mitt Romney supported at Liberty University
A few weekends back, Mitt Romney courted the graduating class of Liberty University with a thoroughly anti-LGBT speech that denounced marriage equality and exalted the "values" of the school. So here now, listen in as Liberty University's own Dr. Will...
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NYT to social cons: Stop trying to solve LGBT people!
The New York Times' editorial team states the obvious: that scientifically-shunned "ex-gay" therapy "should have been rejected long ago": Dr. Spitzer’s admission that his study was deeply flawed should discredit, once and for all, those claims of social and religious...
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Target seeks Pride; AFA seeks fall
Oh, Target. The company really just wants to add a little chichi caché to the discount retail experience, yet it seems that every couple of years, it can't help but find itself involved in a political controversy. Recently, said controversies...
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05/23/2012
Video: President says LGBT equality is 'who I am'
**RELATED: #ObamaPride launches; #MittOnceBlessedMAPrideButWouldNeverDoSoNow yet to drop [G-A-Y]
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