Good As You: AFA Roundup
05/04/2010
AFA again listening to wrong end of horse
Dr. Francis Collins has pointedly repudiated the way that the fringe social conservatives at the so-called "American College of Pediatricians" have used his work: Statement from NIH Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., in Response to the American College of...
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04/21/2010
BREAKING: American Family Association viciously slurs 'sick queers'
To highlight a new article where Focus on the Family's Carrie Gordon Earrll teams up with outrageously over-the-top homo-hostile Matt Barber to condemn President Obama's memo to the Department of Health and Human Services directing that America's hospitals secure visitation...
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04/15/2010
He who recently compared gays to heroin abusers joins Focus on the Family in anti-gay SCOTUSness
Yesterday it was a Peter LaBarbera-Focus on the Family coalition. Today it's the American Family Association's most reliably over-the-top personality, Bryan Fischer, who is automatically disqualifying potential Supreme Court nominees on the basis of their sexual orientations: If we elevate...
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03/01/2010
3/5s compromise, Dred Scott, plantations, and McCarthyism: Award for most offensive historical inaccuracies in one column goes to...
More from the far-right's newest liability, American Family Association personality Bryan Fischer. This time the topic is potential Don't Ask Don't tell repeal and the way those who support discrimination are supposedly being treated, with a supremely odd interpretation of...
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02/24/2010
From shoot up to shut up: Bryan Fischer now wants us to be closeted mutes
Last month, the American Family Association's Bryan Fischer suggested gays should be "detoxed" in the same way as IV drug abusers. But now he's weakened his position. Now Bryan just thinks that this world's rich, decent, creative, contributive, charitable, peaceful,...
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02/09/2010
Don't drop the soap (opera): Far-right's faux DADT dramas come up all wet
This from the American Family Association: Gays showering with straights? Absolutely. If President Obama, congressional Democrats, and homosexual activists get their wish, your son or daughter may be forced to share military showers and barracks with active and open homosexuals...
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02/01/2010
'Invalid argument' indeed
You know Bryan Fischer, that American Family Association radio personality who compared homosexuality to IV drug use and who suggested that we LGBT folks should be "detoxed"? Yea, well -- you might wanna go over to the AFA site and...
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01/31/2010
Black tar lesbian heroines
This from the American Family Association's Bryan Fischer "It might be worth noting that what I actually suggested is that we impose the same sanctions on those who engage in homosexual behavior as we do on those who engage in...
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11/16/2009
What the hell does the AFA want, Jesus wrapped in swaddling skinny jeans?
This year, The Gap specifically mentions Christmas in its ads: Yet that's still not good enough for the American Family Association, an organization that will boycott any outfit that they find to be either too pro-gay or too "anti-Christmas." This...
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09/16/2009
The AFA: We picket their 'fence'
To highlight an "action alert" on DOMA, the American Family Association is today running this image: Which leads to only one question, really: When did the world's linguists change the word "fence" to the word "iscrimination"? So weird that we...
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08/18/2009
We'll take the high road
Rev. Don Wildmon, founder and chairman of the American Family Association, has been hospitalized in critical condition for treatment of meningitis. Christian leader hospitalized with meningitis [AP via ONN] We wish the Wildmon family well. Despite the fact that their...
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08/07/2009
AFA vs. AAA: The former is certainly earning its 'F'
The American Family Association is going after Triple-A for offering family memberships to gay-headed households. It's the same old anti-LGBT nonsense. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. What's interesting, however, is how fully most everyone who has read their piece seems...
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07/21/2009
Dropping e: Smarter than the AFA's usual habits
The American Family Association has issued a new Pepsi boycott form, which they are encouraging their followers to post at their local supermarket in order to warn shoppers about the evil "homosexual agenda™" that they perceive as existing within every...
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07/07/2009
Photo: 'Hey, ya know what I'll do? I'll take one of them pink triangle thingies and I'll put it on a DC road sign. Heh, heh, That'll show them sodo-homo-gays!'
In order to protest the area's new de facto same-sex marriage recognition, the American Family Association has changed this popular D.C. road sign... ...into this: *Photo source: One News Now Ya know, because hetero marriages are benign and welcome. But...
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07/06/2009
Failing boycotts: The choice of a past generation
And now for a segment we like to call: Let's get started, shall we? These were the stock prices on the week that the American Family Association announced their boycott of Pepsico and all related products: And here now is...
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06/30/2009
When do we think the AP will start caring about this?
We've seen the American Family Association's One News Now site take liberties with the AP wire many times before, but this latest one, covering yesterday's White House Pride event, just might take the journalistically unethical cake! Here's the AFA's take:...
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The AFA: Could find 'controversy' in a TV test pattern
You may have seen "The Goode Family," an ABC-TV show that spoofs political correctness: It's another show that follows the ever-popular "take on any and everything" thats become an animated television cliché in recent years. But if there is any...
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06/10/2009
In economic downturns, anti-gay wrath seems to be the one sure bet
The American Family Association officially announced their anti-gay boycott of Pepsico at the beginning of January: This is how Pepsi's stock looks today: Pepsico [Yahoo! Finance] Wow, good work, AFA! You condemn a company for merely acknowledging gay existences, and...
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05/05/2009
Can't forget the fear quotes
It must be tough to be a copyeditor at the uber-conservative One News Now. Having most likely trained in proper journalistic procedure, your instinct is to write the word marriage as all your credible journalism training has told you it...
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04/28/2009
The Pageant Driven Life
Wow, the social conservatives are totally crushing hard on Miss California. In fact, in the eyes of the American Family Association's Tim Wildmon, Carrie Prejean has surpassed Rick Warren on the hierarchy of anti-gay heroes: What I was most impressed...
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04/27/2009
Swine Flu not yet a pandemic. Lying about sexual orientation officially is
Another day, another "pro-family" group blatantly lying about what does an does not constitute a sexual orientation. This time it's the American Family Association who is denying science and mixing in bags of crap like Klismaphilia (an attraction to enemas)...
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04/03/2009
AFA's 'ethical' 'journalism' on our legal marriages (no quotes)
The American Family Association is still altering the Associated Press' text on their One News Now site. This is how they are presenting the fantastic, amazing, fair-minded Iowa decision: Iowa court: Ban on same-sex 'marriage' unconstitutional ["AP" via ONN] Oh,...
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03/25/2009
Incidentally, drinking Pepsi makes foxes pee
The American Family Association is continuing its boycott of PepsiCo, for the sole reason that they perceive the soft drink giant as being too gay-accepting for their overcaffeinated liking. And now they're bringing the extremely fringy PFOX (Parents and Friends...
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03/18/2009
On some anti-gay rally cries, moderates wear the pants
It's unclear whether these comments come from gays who monitor One News Now for anti-gay content, or from actual "pro-family" people who are themselves sick with the way groups like the American Family Association try to make hay out of...
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03/16/2009
Reader sends us lighthouse/implication that our mind is soiled
Reacting to an almost four-year-old post wherein we quite unabashedly and unapologetically said that the American Family Association's propagandistic "It's Not Gay" video is "polluting minds," a reader has sent us this reply: Yea, it's the pride flags that sully...
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03/12/2009
So boycott won't peter, AFA goes after same
Yet another group is lashing out against last week's "Family Guy." But in a typically opportunistic turn, the American Family Association is using their outrage over the episode to fuel their floundering Pepsi boycott: Pepsi and Fox joined hands to...
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03/04/2009
Audio: Phonin' in the phony
Blogger Addie Stan has come across a new robocall that the American Family Association is using to support their hostile, fallacy-filled propaganda piece, "Speechless: Silencing the Christians." Listen in: So wait a minute. They make a documentary with scene after...
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03/02/2009
Uneasy 'Silence' befalls Mich. Again.
Some Michigan-based social conservatives were pissed when the anti-gay, fallacy-filled propaganda piece "Speechless: Silencing The Christians" was kept off of local airwaves. So tonight, a group working under the humorously long name Kalamazoo Citizens Voting No to Special Rights Discrimination...
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02/24/2009
Audio: Biting the hand that promotes you
A day after he bellyached about the "gay Oscars" to anyone who would listen, Moveiguide's Ted Baehr went on "Liberty Live" radio to again talk about standing against that pesky liberal Hollywood. This clip, while not specifically gay, made us...
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02/17/2009
Pushy AFA pledges more
The American Family Association has created cards that they are asking their followers to hand out to friends and loved ones. The cards encourage folks to join the AFA in their anti-gay, anti-progressive crusades, part of a campaign that they...
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02/12/2009
WAAH. I can't demonize gay people. WAAH. Futzing with others' lives should be a right. WAAH.
Here we go. The American Family Association, as expected, is now claiming victim status after resounding outcry kept their fallacy-filled propaganda piece, Silencing the Christians, off of Grand Rapids, MI, airwaves. This from the AFA's One News Now: AFA is...
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02/11/2009
'Silencing'? Try Sing'n lies!
A few days ago we told you about "Silencing Christians," a website and video campaign that those reliable lil at the American Family Association have cooked up for the sole reason of making gays look like brute militants hellbent on...
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02/09/2009
If this is silent, we'd hate to see the AFA's loud
If you haven't already heard on other sites: The far-right extremists at the AFA, taking a brief break from boycotting yet another American company for so much as burping in a gay-friendly manner, have launched a new website wherein they...
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01/30/2009
Audio: 'I think people should live and let...oh wait a minute, someone just farted in a gay-friendly manner. Grab my torch'
The American Family Association fights against every gay rights protection under the sun. They also attack anyone who even somewhat supports gay people, using the most hurtful of words and tactics. Like, for instance, back in 2005 when the group's...
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01/25/2009
Facepalm book
See it for yourself: The AFA on Facebook **Alternately, see why we would be frightened by the group (and it's 30,000+ members): Complete AFA roundup [G-A-Y] **UPDATE: Interestingly, the page seems to be filled with as many liberals, gays, and...
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01/21/2009
For 'pro-fams', ignoring actuality is King
The "pro-family" community talks nonstop about the sanctity of marriage. They present a married man and woman as two unique halves that come together as one, sharing all of life's ups and downs for all of eternity. Soul mates who...
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01/19/2009
AFA poll: White House will warm Obama's cold feet
We in the LGBT community might be skeptical about Barack Obama coming out in full support of our marriage equality. However, the "pro-family" readers of the AFA's One News Now seem ever-more resigned to the possibility that our incoming chief...
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When it comes to biased personalities, AFA rolls out the mat/t
Mat Staver (pic.) is an omnipresent anti-gay lawyer who has gone to court against our rights more times than we care to count. The Liberty Counsel head also has a penchant for fibbery, like that time last summer when he...
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01/15/2009
'No son, your school can't have that new computer because gay people eat soup'
We've told you about how the boycott fetishists at the American Family Association are lashing out against the Campbell's soup company because the brand was "radical" enough to -- and you better sit down for this one -- advertise in...
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01/12/2009
Audio: SHOCKER -- AFA unhappy with Robinson invite
When we speak out against the Rick Warren inaugural invite, we are working from a place that says a ceremonial inauguration is not the place for a faith leader who has so vocally condemned gay lives and loves. But when...
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01/08/2009
SPLC's 'hate' fence: What's the tipping point?
Question: If an organization routinely gives positive reinforcement to an SPLC-declared hate group, should that group also be put in the "active U.S. hate groups" category? We ask this after seeing a new One News Now story in which the...
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Breaking: AFA staffers soon to become Coke addicts
Here we go again. After months of threats and buildups, the American Family Association has officially announced plans to boycott Pepsi because of the soft drink manufacturer's gay support: AFA's Latest Soon-To-Fail Boycott [J.M.G.] ::Yawn:: I need a nice Pepsi...
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12/23/2008
Wherein we resist the urge to use 'soup to nuts' headline
Last week we told you how the unrepentant extremists at the American Family Association are now targeting Campbell's because the soup company did the "radical" thing of advertising in a gay magazine using actual gay people. Well we're happy to...
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11/13/2008
Bias: The choice of a past generation
The American Family Association, a group who will boycott a company whose CEO even vomits in rainbow colors, has found a new receptacle for their misplaced ire. This from an AFA release: PepsiCo gives $500,000 to promote the gay agenda...
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10/24/2008
Rock the vote, AFA style
The Denver Post recently ran an article on Focus on the Family's Love Won Out , and the "ex-gay" movement in general. As part of said article, the paper ran an online poll asking readers if they believe gays can...
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10/13/2008
Yes, I'll have some Chicken Mcfibbers with a side of Lies
Remember how we told you that the AFA is claiming a "victorious" conclusion to their anti-gay McDonald's boycott? Yea, well there is a growing body of evidence that the AFA is being just as fallacious with this "win" as they...
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10/09/2008
AFA: Golden Arches have bent our way
When the American Family Association ended their anti-gay boycott against Ford, they claimed all sorts of wins. Only problem? The motor company repeatedly denied that they'd made any of the corporate changes that the AFA was touting. Well fast forward...
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10/02/2008
Is it the AFA or Miss Cleo?
We've seen the American Family Association run some disingenuous polls in the past. But the one currently running on their One News Now site takes the fallacious cake: But hey, we'll run with it. CONGRATS, JOE!!! What's your assessment of...
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09/17/2008
AFA decries McDonald's 'group rate agenda'
The American Family Association's McDonald's boycott is an unmitigated failure, with Mickey D's stock once again closing at a high yesterday. So desperate boycotts call for really desperate "action alerts." Like this one, in which the AFA try to may...
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09/16/2008
Superfluous word, pointed usage
The following headline, with a certain unnecessary detail about the adoptee, is running on the American Family Association's One News Now site: We predict it will be followed up later today with this story: But actually, on second thought, they...
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