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04/11/2013
AFA senior staffer backs bans on 'homosexual conduct'; 'it can be done'
If you think the American Family Association plans to stop at our civil rights, you are simply not paying attention. The latest from its most visible personality: But hey, it's not like GOP superstars still cater to this incendiary voice....
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Groups that constantly denigrate the LGBT person resent—RESENT!—being held to account
On its site right now, Focus on the Family runs the claim that homosexuality is "a particularly evil lie of Satan." The American Family Association's decades of personal slights could never be fully rounded up (it would took several volumes...
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Audio: Agema, Perkins want to save gays from living like dying alcoholics, destroying society; but they love us
On yesterday's edition of his AFA Radio show, Family Research Council president Tony Perkins hosted proudly anti-gay Republican National Committeeman Dave Agema. The latter spent his time using junk science ("study after study after study") to portray gay people as...
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Anti-equality crowd crafts new symbol (*by co-opting one pro-equality movement's been using for five years)
Anti-gay activist Dran Reese thinks she's found a new emblem: The new campaign, "God's Marriage Bow," was created by the Salt & Light Council, who is backing a new movement. They want supporters of traditional marriage to wear white bows...
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Why anti-gays are losing: Because their commentators insist Satan is our thought leader
From conservative commentator Paul Kokoski: The Bible tells us that Satan has the ability to "appear as an angel of light." Nowhere is this more evident than in the radical attempt to promote homosexuality in society today as something good....
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04/10/2013
NOM EXPOSED: NOM Comm Director’s problematic rejection of nondiscrimination
NOM Comm Director’s problematic rejection of nondiscrimination[NOM Exposed]
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The American Family Association's annual advocacy for truancy
They never really get any mileage out of these annual attempts to turn themselves into the "victims" of the anti-bullying Day of Silence. But they still try: The same groups who foster an anti-LGBT climate continue their penchant for shirking...
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Video: Anti-gay movement gets new theme song; 'here comes your disease/someday soon my God will bring you to your knees'
And now this, a gentle ditty for a loving movement: [SOURCE] (h/t Scott Hutcheson)
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Video: NOM's Roback Morse out to 'right' Bill O'Reilly, Megyn Kelly; riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
In more comments that I could ever fully track, National Organization For Marriage employee Jennifer Roback Morse has told us that Catholicism is what truly guides her advocacy against marriage equality. She has admitted that she and her fellow conservative...
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04/09/2013
Sen Mark Pryor opposes equality (a.k.a got bad advice, just alienated younger voters, could very well get primaried)
Sen. Manchin (D-WV) has said nothing, and Sen. Landrieu (D-LA) has said she supports equality on a personal but not a political level. But now we have one Senate (D) who is officially on record against equal civil rights for...
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Finally, an honest conservative owns his movement's drive to make us unequal
From Liberty Counsel and Liberty University personality Matt Barber: @jmattbarber I fully and emphatically support your embrace of this silly meme, Matthew! Go ahead—make this the official flag under which your movement marches. Tell the American public that your rights...
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Video: YouTuber 'cures' attraction to women with zombie vids, self-baptism, debates w/ 'the enemy'
My heart goes out to anyone who is hurting, as this YouTuber so clearly is. However, I think she might be focusing on the wrong components, and I know she's offering the wrong advice:
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Anti-LGBT agenda is FRC's cash cow; media should milk it
Yesterday on GLAAD blog, I made note of the Family Research Council's extreme and pronounced stand against homosexuality, and I made the case for the media noting the harsh resistance whenever and wherever an FRC staffer appears. Today, a related...
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Conservative writer attacks MSNBC host (and child) in one of the most mean-spirited pieces you will ever read
American Thinker writer Jeannie DeAngelis is presumably fine with any of the countless occasions where social conservatives use children to foster their cause, be it in ads (see countless anti–marriage equality spots), public appearances (see the current Boy Scouts campaigning),...
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You guys, Ryan Anderson has an 'obligation' to take away our marriage rights; be respectful of his burden
The only reason why the matter of equal marriage rights is up for a debate is because certain citizens have decided it is their (largely faith-motivated) duty to stand in the way of what is the obviously right and fair...
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04/08/2013
GLAAD: What news outlets must show whenever Tony Perkins speaks on LGBT issues
What news outlets must show whenever Tony Perkins speaks on LGBT issues [GLAAD]
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Sen Johnson (D-SD) comes out for equality!
A press statement emailed to G-A-Y: SENATOR JOHNSON SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY Washington, DC- U.S. Senator Tim Johnson today announced that he has decided to support marriage equality legislation. Johnson's statement is below. "After lengthy consideration, my views have evolved sufficiently...
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Video: NOM 'March For Marriage' attendees says gays are 'mixed up,' 'legalizing licentiousness,' don't have 'normal' 'lifestyles'
Dan Joseph works for the conservative Media Research Center but identifies as a social libertarian. Here he is giving you a taste of the harsh tone that I personally experienced at the National Organization For Marriage's recent marriage march: (*video...
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News from NOM World: Down is up, discriminators are victims, 50+ yr marriage decline is gay people's fault
Check out this obtuse chart and claim coupling that NOM is currently pushing on its Facebook page: Wow, we really did some damage between 1960 and 1990! Must have been the fault of all of those gays who were marrying...
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NOM EXPOSED: NOM re-ups promise to bully Illinois Republicans (i.e. elect more Democrats)
NOM re-ups promise to bully Illinois Republicans (i.e. elect more Democrats)[NOM Exposed]
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Ed Peters (father of NOM's Thomas Peters) says pro-gay Catholics can't take communion
The son is the Communications Director for the National Organization For Marriage. The father is doing this: Edward Peters, a Detroit professor and legal adviser to the Vatican, and the archbishop of Detroit, Allen Vigneron (pictured), are telling Catholics who...
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Man who worked on 'Lie To Me' to speak at event designed to do same
Tim Clemente has produced, written for, performed stunts, and even acted on shows like Lie To Me, Criminal Minds, NCIS: Los Angeles, and The Unit. Later this year, he will involve himself in new kind of drama when he shows...
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LGBT groups scared of people named Norma, apparently
The Liberty Counsel's star spokesman: Oh please, Matt. Gays love many Normas: NORMA DESMOND NORMA RAE NORMA JEAN To name just a few. So on this one, you're just plain wrong, Matt Barber. We gays love our Normas. It's Ida...
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Pastor: Keep relationship with LGBT kids (*so you can rescue them from 'repulsive' 'lifestyle' like a 'real man' would)
This is a mixed bag of extremities. One one hand, it's great that Pastor Michael Martin of Arlington, Tennessee's Oak Spring Baptist Church is telling his congregants that blood is thicker than water. On the other hand: he's selling truly...
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Denigration 2.0: FRC spruces up site; says gays threaten society, can't be 'affirmed'
The Family Research Council has revamped its website. This is how the homosexuality section now looks and reads: Homosexuality [FRC] Translation: Feel worse about yourself, scared LGBT kids of America. Our next steps: Make sure this, FRC's stated belief that...
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Opposition desperate to make equal civil rights seem like this year's 'Gangnam Style'
Emily Kreps, writing for the Pennsylvania Family Council: Even our own senator from Pennsylvania, Bob Casey, Jr. has turned his back on his Catholic faith and announces he now supports so-called “same-sex marriage” to appease the special-interest lobby. It’s the...
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04/05/2013
Sen. Landrieu's misguided political calculation
It's certain that her 2014 reelection plays into this answer: [Sen. Mary] Landrieu told CNN National Political Correspondent Jim Acosta in an interview Friday that she personally believes "people should love who they love and marry who they want to...
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Video: Mike McManus says 'perverted' gays were largely molested, want to destroy marriage
Mike McManus was one of the three media personalities (Armstrong Williams and Maggie Gallagher being the other two) who the Bush Administration paid to endorse marriage policy. Now listen in as this same Mike McManus says that gays have a...
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Snowe thaws: (Former) Senator joins (current) trend
Olympia Snowe, who served for eighteen years as a Republican U.S. Senator from Maine, is now coming out for marriage equality: Now out of Senate, Snowe supports same-sex marriage [CNN] Snowe joins her successor, Independent Angus King, on history's right...
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Red State's Erickson: 'Little moral difference' between incestuous and gay couples
With the writing so clearly on the wall, expect to see even mainstream voices like Erick Erickson say this kind of stuff with increasing frequency: "If life comes down to who you love and who loves you back, if a...
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Sen Donnelly (D-IN), Sen Heitkamp (D-ND) come out for marriage; only four Dems remaining
Donnelly: Heitkamp: **Where we now stand: Four Democrats [Mark Pryor (AR), Tim Johnson (SD), Joe Manchin (WV), Mary Landrieu (LA)] and forty-three Republicans (all but Portman and Kirk) have yet to sign on to equality. Both independents (King and Sanders)...
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LaBarbera protects America from gay people's locked lips
Is it just me, or do the white boxes make the covers look ten times more provocative (and thus hotter)? [Peter LaBarbera's Americans For Truth] I wonder if Peter travels with some to-go boxes in his pocket. Like he's at...
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ADF's five supposed 'victims' of marriage equality? All from states that didn't have marriage equality at time of incident!
Yesterday, I showed you that ridiculously fearful (and patriarchal) graphic that the anti-LGBT Alliance Defending Freedom is using to suggest fathers across America must protect their families from the "evils" of same-sex marriage (seen at left). Today, let's look at...
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NOM desperate to find a meme people will actually like
The pro-discrimination group's latest stab at virality: It's an obvious play on the historic "Keep Calm and Carry On" signs which found new trendiness in dorm rooms about two years ago. But of course for NOM, calmness is defined by...
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04/04/2013
Sen Bill Nelson (D-FL) comes out for equality; only six lingering Dems
I'm at an event and can't easily expound or link out, but I did want to note tonight's news that US Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) has reversed his opposition to marriage equality and come out on history's right side. This...
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Video: Isaac Newton used apple to explain deep cosmic truths; now watch Focus on the Family do opposite
Can't wait for the highbrow sequel involving the "proper" placement of bananas.
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Duggars, Bachmann to join some of the most anti-gay voices in the nation at Liberty Counsel conference
Reality TV stars Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar are two of the listed speakers for the upcoming "Awakening" conference. Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann is another. But who, exactly, will be joining the U.S. Rep and TLC stars at this Liberty Counsel–produced...
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ADF's laughably fearful fundraising graphic
According to the stock photo description, the image is meant to be a father protecting his family: [iStockPhoto] But when the anti-equality legal team at the Alliance Defending Freedom puts the family in front of the Supreme Court, it becomes...
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NOM's 'Anti-Defamation Alliance' spokesman promotes column saying gays must be celibate
In a new column, Catholic writer Taylor Marshall condemns homosexuality as a sin and then concludes with this one and only option for gay men and women: Persons with homosexual inclinations are called to chastity - not matrimony. By the...
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NOM Comm. Director hangs up on gay caller; 'I'm just saying I'm hanging up if the question is more than 15 secs'
I've done my share of media, be it friendly, hostile, or somewhere in between. When the callers and host are clearly on the other side, it can certainly be frustrating. However, you have to take a breath, but your tongue,...
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Why the anti-gays are losing: Their pundits cite 'flinging of one's own feces' to deny our natural nature
"There’s also the licking of one’s own genitals, the flinging of one’s own feces, and the eating of live prey and then vomiting it back up to feed your offspring in nature, too. You’ll excuse me if I think we...
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NOM slurs our families: 'quote/unquote families of gay parents and kids'
I'll have more on Mark Levin's lengthy chat with a startlingly combative Thomas Peters. But for now, listen to this short clip of the National Organization For Marriage's Comm. Director slipping with his fear quotes and pretty much admitting that...
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04/03/2013
NOM's Ruth Institute claimed it had Chicago Bears' support; was intercepted; fumbled
I and other activists have been working behind the scenes (and publicly) today trying to get clarification as to why the National Organization For Marriage's Ruth Institute was claiming that the Chicago Bears team is in support of their exceedingly...
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Why the National Organization For Marriage fails; well, one reason
Look, they surely wanted tens of thousands. For a national march in D.C., a crowd of five figures or more is always the goal. When you have a national pool from which to recruit potential attendees, you have to aim...
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Flashback: When Oprah's shoulder were heavily padded and gays' ring fingers were legally naked
YouTuber "nicole360meadows" posts this fascinating and surprisingly frank blast from a not-so-distant (but legally, vastly different) past. 1991:
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If Maggie Gallagher could self-assess the way she self-victimizes, marriage discourse would be infinitely more productive
Ever the victim, that Maggie Gallagher: I have tried hard to say we should treat gay people with respect as friends, neighbors and fellow-citizens. But I have been thwarted by progressives’ insistence that the opposite of 'agreeing with me' must...
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Video: Twin pillars of misinformation, Staver & Barber, conflate, blame, fear-monger as if their jobs depend on it (*hint: they do)
Two Liberty Counsel/Liberty University personalities who have made it quite clear that they simply do not care for or support the welfare of LGBT people will now warn America about the whole host of supposed horribles that are connected to...
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Audio: John Stemberger warns inclusive Scouts will cause boy-on-boy molestation
John Stemberger, the Florida anti-gay activist who is heading a new pro-discrimination scouting effort called "On My Honor," insists that his effort is not designed to keep gay boys out of scouts (saying it's only about gay activism). But then...
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NOM's latest hero: Father who doesn't care to dance at son's wedding
One must have heroes: "the gay marriage"? Well maybe if son Salmon keeps trying, he will find one specific gay marriage that dad might back.
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'Jesus before the High Court'
The Family Research Council's latest take on last week's Supreme Court proceedings: Hey, here's an idea: Christians of both pro- and anti-equality faith can stand in obedience to the religious prescriptions that they place on the ceremonial component of their...
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