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04/07/2014
Video: Illinois inequality activists lobby for dangerous, offensive, anti-scientific snake oil
Calling it "pro healthy change therapy counseling" and "pro-heterosexual counseling and therapy," false advertiser Peter LaBarbera makes the case for a scientifically discredited form of "therapy" whose days are numbered:
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BREAKING: SCOTUS won't hear 'I want to discriminate against gay clients' case
The U.S. Supreme Court just denied cert in the Elane Photography case: [Supreme Court] Lower court stands. Good news for gay couples who deserve fair treatment in public accommodations; bad news for those discriminatory photographers who are not good enough...
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Just in time for Passover, American Family Association's Fischer post sixteen tweets (for now) blaming gays for Holocaust
Here now, the American Family Association's senior issues analyst cites one of the most anti-LGBT men in America (and Uganda) to push wholly discredited theories about gay people fostering a genocide that targeted them as well: But hey, it's not...
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Why modern marriage discrimination is nothing—NOTHING! HOW DARE YOU? I'M 'PROTECTING SOCIETY!'—like its closest predecessor
Congressman John Lewis is Black. John Lewis was married for forty-four years (wife Lillian passed away in 2012). John Lewis was one the biggest civil rights leaders of the 1960s. Congressman Lewis marched, fought, and bled for the cause. This...
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Former NOM associate Jennifer Roback Morse: Equality movement is totalitarian ('stronger' than fascist)
In a column where she yet again debates the easily understandable concept of LGBT equality, pretending it is abstract and undefined (a well she keeps pumping to no avail), Jennifer Roback Morse, who was a top National Organization For Marriage...
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Elaine Donnelly, professional military discrimination advocate: Trans soldiers want to serve so military can pay for surgery
Having lost and lost hard after decades of fighting for LGB military discrimination, activist Elaine Donnelly is now turning full attention to the transgender men and women who dare to fight and possibly die for their nation. Here's Donnelly's new...
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04/04/2014
Just when you think the Family Research Council can't get more deceptive...
Check out this completely deceptive nonsense. In its writeup on the Firefox story, the Family Research Council (in words attributed to president Tony Perkins and "the aid of FRC senior writers) writes the following about the Mozilla situation, quoting progressive...
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With call to boycott Firefox, NOM becomes first/only LGBT-focused group (on either side) to make this call
Despite what the company itself has to say about Mr. Eich's choice to resign.... [SOURCE] ...many conservatives are hellbent on claiming that LGBT groups like GLAAD and the Human Rights Campaign forced Mozilla to fire their CEO, that these same...
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Video: Liberty Counsel's latest 'protect marriage' ad is just lazy
I've seen my share of ads about matrimony and the supposed harms that committed married people like me supposedly pose to it. This new one from Liberty Counsel is notable to me for one thing: it's frigging boring. Here's the...
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Brian Brown: How dare someone trained to understand law put his opinion above a popularity contest?
NOM's keyboards are surely tired of writing "condemn" or one of its synonyms: [NOM] So tell me, Brian: Which of our past "considered judgments of the people of America" would you put above the judges that stepped in and did...
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'Gay agenda' dances into Liberty University's artistic mission; good job, team
Liberty University's Alluvion Stage Company list one of its key objectives as being "To uphold and execute the mission of Liberty University through theatrical arts." So it is interesting to see that this school, which has a decidedly and undeniably...
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AP: Fed. judge will strike down Ohio's marriage ban
Developing. *Hmm, it seems like the AP overstated. My trustworthy pal Chris Geidner says: Chris's full report here: Federal Judge Plans To Strike Down Ohio Marriage Recognition Ban [Buzzfeed]
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GLAAD: Fox News again pretends something other than animus brings Tony Perkins on-air
Fox News again pretends something other than animus brings Tony Perkins on-air [GLAAD]
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GLAAD: Robert Oscar Lopez is angry that GLAAD gives a spotlight to his words
Robert Oscar Lopez is angry that GLAAD gives a spotlight to his words [GLAAD]
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Liberty Counsel spokesman claims LGBT activists want Christians dead
And now these loving Christian claims (and graphic) from Liberty Counsel/ Liberty University's Matt Barber: Christians, buckle up. Your whole world is about to change. The Rainbowshirts are emboldened and they’ve broken out the long knives. ... They smell blood...
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Maggie Gallagher: Fortune Teller
Maggie Gallagher has been virtually absent from the marriage debate for the past six months or so. But now the grande dame of the inequality fight is back to offer up an "I told you so": "Endorse gay marriage, or...
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04/03/2014
For all you need to know about Mississippi's license-to-discriminate law, look over Gov Bryant's shoulder
The Family Research Council actively lobbied for Mississippi's license-to-discriminate law, so it was no surprise to learn that FRC prez Tony Perkins was invited to the Gov. Phil Bryant's signing ceremony. Although Gov. Bryant might be surprised to learn just...
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No, Brendan Eich did not hold the same position as then-candidate Obama. Stop saying that.
President Obama, while U.S. Senator and presidential candidate Obama, was on record as opposed to Proposition 8. He called it "divisive and discriminatory;" he called it "unnecessary" and "not what America's about." Brendan Eich, the now-resigned Mozilla CEO, gave $1000...
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Always-boycott-happy anti-LGBT crowd back with more ludicrous 'free speech' claims
Check out this petition from ActRight, the spinoff project of National Organization For Marriage president Bran Brown: [ActRight] Tell me where, exactly, someone is stifling Eich's speech? He made the donations that he made, as he had the right to...
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Video: Honey Maid shows corporate America how to handle nasty anti-LGBT attacks #ThisIsWholesome
Just watch: Off to the story to pick up some Teddy Grahams! *** The company favorited my tweet of this post:
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FRC's smokeless gun of the week
All week long, on social media, on president Tony Perkins' radio show, in the organization's daily "Washington Watch" column, and now in its weekly "prayer targets," the Family Research Council has been pretending like a new vid that came to...
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Anti-gay Boy Scouts alternative bars Jewish adults, too
You probably know that the Boy Scouts of America now accepts gay youth yet still bans gay adults. That came back into light this week, with a story about the national BSA dismissing a gay scoutmaster solely because he told...
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04/02/2014
North Carolina candidate for U.S. Senate to join deeply anti-gay event
Mark Harris, a North Carolina pastor who has a long history of fighting for discrimination against LGBT people in his state, is currently in a race to be the GOP nominee for U.S. Senate, hoping to face off against Democrat...
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Cloudwelder, Virion, NOM, ActRight: A flurry of names raise just as many questions
About a year ago, I stumbled on the name "Virion Strategies," which I found as a random mention on the main website of pro-discrimination special interest group the National Organization For Marriage. Since then, I've been hunting for whatever information...
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Anti-gay activist forgets his movement's steady stream of boycotts; clearly he needs a Starbucks pick-me-up
In an attempt to make pro-equality people look bad for expressing hesitancy toward the Firefox browser, since it has come out that the parent company's CEO donated to the deeply discriminatory Proposition 8 campaign, California activist Randy Thomasson lays the...
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GLAAD: Newsweek's co-owner thinks strong support for so-called "ex-gay" therapy isn't relevant to the magazine
Newsweek's co-owner thinks that strong support for so-called "ex-gay" therapy isn't relevant to the magazine [GLAAD]
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04/01/2014
Video: OR gubernatorial candidate equates 'sin' of same-sex marriage w/ murder; local serial killers busily register for china
I'm kind of obsessed with this (R) candidate for governor of the state of Oregon: (*gay comment comes at 2:15) [OregonLive.com]
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GOP in Nevada's most populous county stops placing bets on marriage discrimination
Republicans in the Las Vegas, NV, area are giving social conservatives nationwide a first taste—an amuse-bouche, if you will—of what they can all expect in a few short years: Marriage definition pulled from Clark County GOP platform [AP via Las...
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Mark Regnerus will never learn
As you likely know, a federal court recently smacked down Mark Regnerus' conservative-fueled "research," with the (Reagan-appointed) judge pointedly declaring his supposed findings on same-sex parenting to be "entirely unbelievable and not worthy of serious consideration." That was much deserved,...
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NOM's two cofounders: 'BOYCOTT MOZILLA!' versus 'How dare people boycott Mozilla?!'
From the Facebook page of National Organization for Marriage co-founder Robert George: [Robby George] From the blog of National Organization For Marriage co-founder Maggie Gallagher: Does a commitment to diversity and inclusiveness include people who oppose gay marriage? Not to...
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Video: The reliable myopia of an unmarried, childless marriage and parenting 'expert'
I've always considered the far-right's myopic attacks on LGBT-headed families to be among the nastiness, but things took an obvious turn for me in the latter part of last year. When I became a parent, every word that the usual...
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GLAAD: Michigan AG relegates one anti-LGBT brief to birdcage—but is it all that different?
Anti-LGBT Family Research Council presses Mississippi to pass license-to-discriminate law [GLAAD]
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Liberty Counsel continues penchant for inciting 'revolution'
While they share common attack lines, most of the prominent anti-LGBT spokes folks stand out to me for certain niches that they feel. For Liberty Counsel's Mat Staver, it happens to be his seeming attempts to lead us to revolutionary...
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