« July 2013 ||
Return to today's G-A-Y posts
|| September 2013 »
08/13/2013
More obvious animus from a NOM employee
Jennifer Thieme (pronounced "tea-me") is the Finance Director of the Ruth Institute, a project of the National Organization For Marriage's Education Fund (NOM's c3 arm). And this is what Ms. Thieme thinks of the Pride flag: [Facebook] Defacing? Disrespecting? Usurping...
(click for full post)
Erick Erickson gives thoughtful consideration to the deep complexities of gender, identity
Not really: Hear that, transgender children? The conservative blogger has determined that you and your doctors are engaging in a lie. Suck it up and grab a properly gendered toy, ASAP! No word if Mr. Erickson will use the latest...
(click for full post)
08/12/2013
Brian Brown vs. 'young' Log Cabin prez
Log Cabin Republicans president Gregory T. Angelo is a fully grown man, not all that many years separated from National Org. for Marriage president Brian Brown. But NOM is of course in the business of belittling anyone who opposes the...
(click for full post)
NOM's agenda will never stop at marriage (or America), example #567,342,121
The National Organization For Marriage's named religious liaison has said jaw-dropping things about gay people in the past. However, he might have just crossed a new line in his promotion of a draconian law that even anti-LGBT activists have been...
(click for full post)
Hey, NOM's latest 'victim': Why did you compare our President to guy with ring in his nose?
Dick Odgaard is the latest person who NOM is trying to turn into a hero because of his desire to not serve gay couples at the wedding venue that he and his wife run. He is also been a participant...
(click for full post)
NOM: You must choose between gay wedding cakes or the cross
This is not my mockup. This is an actual image that the National Organization is now using to smear gay people as being contrary to Christianity: [NOM] Of course what NOM is really defending, if you read the related text,...
(click for full post)
National Republican Congressional Committee now accepts reality of marriage equality!
The National Republican Congressional Committee has launched a snarky smear against Sean Eldridge, a Democratic candidate who is running for the NY-19 seat that Republican Chris Gibson currently holds. And while this is an attempt to make Eldridge seem like...
(click for full post)
GLAAD: After comparing loving committed couples to kidnap and sexual assault, Sandy Rios earns spot on #GLAADCAP
After comparing loving committed couples to kidnap and sexual assault, Sandy Rios earns spot on Commentator Accountability Project [GLAAD]
(click for full post)
FRC's VP of Church Ministries: Saying gays are pawns of the Devil doesn't make me a hater
Here is the Family Research Council's Vice President of Church Ministries, Kenyn Cureton, giving one of his favorite speeches about gay people being controlled by our "malevolent master" the devil as we fight for the "evil" world that we desire....
(click for full post)
Video: Just your average father of a U.S. Senator saying my marriage is an affront to God
At this weekend's Family Leadership Summit, an event sponsored by an organization whose head believes homosexuality is a public health risk, Rafael Cruz, the father of U.S. Senator Ted Cruz ( R), told the crowd that marriages like mine are...
(click for full post)
Man who hoped to define Boy Scouts by its discrimination will now define gay people for you
John Stemberger, the anti-gay activist who will forever be identified with his militant pushing to keep the Boy Scouts discriminatory against gay adults and minors, thinks he knows what it means to be gay in modern America. Here, let him...
(click for full post)
'We're the victims' is anti-LGBT crowd's broken record; here's Joseph Farah's latest track
If WND publisher Joseph Farah is consistent, he will start advocating against nondiscrimination protections that speak to race, religion, gender, national origin, disability, etc. But he of course won't do that. Like all social conservative voices, he knows that nondiscrimination...
(click for full post)
08/09/2013
FRC's VP of Church Ministries: We may have to use armed resistance against our government; God 'not a pacifist'
What you are about to hear is a ten minute audio clip of the Family Research Council's Vice President of Church Ministries, Kenyn Cureton, scaring congregants of a Tennessee church into believing that our nation could devolve into a bloody...
(click for full post)
FRC's latest 'tragedy': Soldiers who obtain freedoms for which they fight
Lt. Col. Robert Maginnis (USA-Ret.), a Family Research Council Senior Fellow, is still reeling over the fact that the Supreme Court essentially destroyed the Defense of Marriage Act. In his disbelief, he goes after the "tragic" and "travesty"-making soldiers who...
(click for full post)
NOM EXPOSED: Thanks for the shout out, Brian Brown—but scrutiny is not ‘harassment’
Thanks for the shout out, Brian Brown—but scrutiny is not ‘harassment’[NOM EXPOSED]
(click for full post)
Happy Friday! Here's the AFA's top surrogate calling for my criminalization
In a column where he both suggests "that we take whatever public policies we have adopted with regard to IV drug abuse and use those same policies with regard to homosexual behavior" and that we use policies governing adult film...
(click for full post)
08/08/2013
The freedom to marry (*and not feel like part of the problem)
The Associated Press is running a fairly interesting report on everyday supporters of marriage equality who are now feeling more freedom to enter into their own different-sex marriages now that same-sex marriage is an increasing legal reality: NEW YORK (AP)...
(click for full post)
Video: President's birthday party? A gay orgy, natch
Nancy Pelosi should be arrested, and the President (an "arab Muslim," of course) is a secretly gay man in an Reverend-Wright-arranged marriage who surrounded himself with other men at his recent birthday celebration for obvious reasons. So says this obviously...
(click for full post)
I'm not hostile to those non-existent, deep-end-dwelling sinners!
It's no surprise that every last one of the comments is hostile to LGBT equality. After all, the Christian Civic League of Maine framed Equality Maine's efforts to create safe and inclusive schools as a "reeducation" plan. When people who...
(click for full post)
08/07/2013
At least the IFI admits it wants to ban us
The other side hates when we use the word "ban." For years, the National Organization For Marriage even ran a directive that told supporters to stay away from the "ban" word because they know it helps our side. But I...
(click for full post)
NOM EXPOSED: NOM’s regional director is right—red states are ripe for marriage equality!
NOM’s regional director is right—red states are ripe for marriage equality![NOM EXPOSED]
(click for full post)
Expect the Ruth Institute to delete my advice in 5, 4, 3, 2...
[SOURCE]
(click for full post)
GLAAD to Donald Trump: Tell the Family Leadership Summit that homosexuality is not a public health risk
GLAAD to Donald Trump: Tell the Family Leadership Summit that homosexuality is not a public health risk [GLAAD]
(click for full post)
Disliking LGBT people is inborn? Really?
The anti-LGBT movement has spent decades, countless dollars, and many squandered hours strategizing ways to fight against us. They've come up with many different campaigns to go after us, but most of all of them relying on the idea that...
(click for full post)
Read: Focus on the Family 'empowering parents' to shun LGBT-inclusive schools
It's back to school time, which for Focus on the Family's resident education analyst, Candi Cushman, means another year of convincing parents that basic tolerance of LGBT people in public schooling is tantamount to "indoctrination." She even has props: Watch...
(click for full post)
Desegregation, women's suffrage, and—the right to condemn gay people?!
The American Family Association's most visible (and viscously vocal) spokesperson: Ah, yes—the right of a non-persecuted majority to undermine a long-marginalized minority. Such a noble fight! Clearly Bryan posts this stuff to rile people up. It's not working. People like...
(click for full post)
Audio: FRC's Sprigg (again) claims homosexuality is 'harmful to the people who engage in it and to society at large'
A caller calls in and claims there is no difference between being gay or lesbian and being a thief or a dope pusher. The Family Research Council's senior policy fellow and lead researcher, Peter Sprigg, is more to eager to...
(click for full post)
08/06/2013
I'll take 'Slippery Slopes Conservatives Use Because They Think It'll Trip Us Up' for $200, Alex
(click for full post)
NARTH now selling its snake oil on Vimeo
America's house of "ex-gay" propaganda, NARTH, apparently believes that its science-defying teachings can be valued in dollars. Eight dollars, in fact: [NARTH on Vimeo] And there are others for sale, too, all for eight bucks. But really, who can put...
(click for full post)
CBN links 'gays, druggies, and misfits'; pretends it didn't
This was the initial headline and report: [Google News] But apparently even the Christian Broadcasting Network knows when it goes to far. The decidedly anti-LGBT network yanked, scrubbed, and reposted this report under the milquetoast headline: Only thing? The report...
(click for full post)
Group leading fight against civil marriage equality in IL: 'Satan wants to destroy marriage'
And now the latest from the organization leading the charge to tell certain taxpayers of a supposedly church/state-separated Illinois that they cannot obtain a civil marriage license: [IFI] My suggestion to IFI: If this is your concern, then press lawmakers...
(click for full post)
The only thing GLSEN is 'infiltrating' is the schoolyard 'smear the queer' game
We recognize transgender children for one primary reason: because transgender children exist. But to hear Alliance Defending Freedom's Matt Sharp tell it, a trans child is on part with a kid who wants to eat junk food all day. Oh,...
(click for full post)
Anti-gay YouTuber so tired—SO.TIRED!—of hearing about marriage equality that he makes 21 min video about it
(click for full post)
08/05/2013
Can someone in D.C. please messenger definition of 'defend' to NOM's office? K, thanks
My answer: "Remind my husband, here on his birthday week in this tenth wonderful year that we've been lucky enough to share together, of all the many things I love about him and our (soon-to-grow) family." How do you respond...
(click for full post)
GLAAD: Harry Jackson thinks he's found Hollywood's big secret: Fake gays
Harry Jackson thinks he's found Hollywood's big secret: Fake gays [GLAAD]
(click for full post)
Yup, Maggie—and a better country every time a state wins marriage equality!
An interesting post from Maggie Gallagher, who actually seems to be applauding America's diversity: [SOURCE: NRO] Oh, I'll totally admit it: this country is amazing! Good thing we either dodged (in the case of the Federal Marriage Amendment that Maggie...
(click for full post)
Young conservative leader should condemn FRC's reckless rhetoric; this is me telling him as much
It began with a tweet about TLC reality star and new Family Research Council Action Executive Director Josh Duggar, and his saying that his show will continued to film him while he serves the aggressively anti-gay organization. But then it...
(click for full post)
Video: Openly straight couple risks own marriage's sanctity, backs radical equality agenda
Their reasons are varied, but their commitment is firm. The gays should be free: Thanks for the support! Now please stop using "ret*rded" as an insult.
(click for full post)
To the back of the bus. Literally.
This does not help the anti-gay far-right's insistence that theirs is the true civil rights movement of our time: “I saw him look at us, look down at his hands and he looked so angry,” McCoy said. “He just blurted...
(click for full post)
08/02/2013
Video: PA Democrats say Gov. Corbett is on wrong side of public opinion, history
With marriage equality grabbing daily headlines in his state, Pennsylvania's Republican governor has been noticeably mealy-mouthed about where he personally stands. The local Democrats have noticed, and they are calling on him to either own his past comments on the...
(click for full post)
We're wild! We're lawless! We have parasols!
This is the latest cover of the latest edition of WorldNetDaily's weekly publication: [WND Weekly] Well, you all might think I'm wild, WND editors. But you know something I wouldn't do? I wouldn't ever lift a private person's personal photo...
(click for full post)
'People call us names!' cries org that takes people's civil rights
NOM's the victim, in case you haven't heard: [NOM] Funny, I've probably written more words about the National Organization For Marriage (both here and at NOM Exposed) than any commentator working today, and I've never used any of those terms....
(click for full post)
Video: Lesbians raise Christian woman; woman repays them by condemning their lives
Galling: Loving the Homosexual Community from The Foursquare Church on Vimeo.
(click for full post)
FRC prays God has bought into far-right's strategic 'victim' meme
From the Family Research Council's weekly "prayer targets": [FRC] God is all like, "Huh? Aren't Christians a large majority in America? Don't you in the America part of Earth still operate in a political reality where candidates pretty much have...
(click for full post)
'Homosexualist Justice Anthony Kennedy'
The decidedly extreme Scott Lively has written yet another rabidly anti-gay column, this one about the Pope. You know his usual pattern: Blah, blah, blah…gays…blah, blah, blah…terrible…blah, blah, blah…I'm obsessed. It's all pretty boring, frankly. There, is however, one thing...
(click for full post)
After so much marriage talk, Maggie Gallagher seeks 'change'
I have heard that Maggie Gallagher is trying to figure out where to take her career now that she's no longer with NOM and no longer writing her column. But I can honestly say that I didn't expect her to...
(click for full post)
Black Conservative Summit boasts multiple speakers who blame Satan for gays, LGBT rights
Linda Jernigan is an "ex-gay" activist who frequently claims Satan is behind both gays and the LGBT rights movement. William Owens, the National Organization For Marriage's religious liaison, claims homosexuality is not natural, says President Obama is a Judas for...
(click for full post)
08/01/2013
If you lie about the majority of people long enough...
…it's still a damn lie. Here's the National Organization for Marriage's Chris Plate repeating the claim that the vast majority of Americans are with him: “And that majority of Americans – despite what we see in polls by liberal-leaning CNN...
(click for full post)
Tony Perkins: Justice Kennedy should be impeached
The Family Research Council president might be a fan of President Reagan, but he's sure not fond of one of the GOP superstar's Supreme Court picks. Listen how he wants to punish Justice Anthony Kennedy for his DOMA decision: [SOURCE:...
(click for full post)
On Catholic Charities, Ryan T. Anderson is being either disingenuous or deceptive; wrong either way
Catholic Charities accepts state funds which is why Catholic Charities must follow state nondiscrimination law. If Catholic Charities in Massachusetts, Illinois, and elsewhere did not want to enjoy the privileges that come from public money/state contracts, then Catholic Charities would...
(click for full post)
Return to G-A-Y homepage
© G-A-Y /
www.goodasyou.org
