Good As You: Alliance Defense Fund Roundup
12/07/2012
Group arguing against us in court: Gays 'caught in the snare of sexual sin'; equality fight is 'evil'
As you watch the Supreme Court this morning for news on the Proposition 8 and DOMA cases, remember that the legal organization most engaged in these battles on the anti- side, the so-called Alliance Defending Freedom, is involved in these...
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12/06/2012
ADF confuses itself with Webster's, own echo chamber with America
The anti-LGBT Alliance Defending Freedom (formerly the Alliance Defense Fund) is passing around this graphic on social media: Well that'll show us! They name a limited reality that doesn't match fact, make it look like an official definition, couple it...
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07/09/2012
A name change for ADF; fair-minded legal teachers still give them a D, F
The largest anti-LGBT legal outfit in the country, the Alliance Defense Fund, is going through the change. The house that discrimination built will now be known instead as the Alliance Defending Freedom: Alliance Defense Fund is now Alliance Defending Freedom...
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02/20/2012
National Pray for [the Dissolution of Gay People's Marriages] Day
Not content with Valentine's Day and all its related love mumbo jumbo mucking up the month of February with good, positive, heartfelt vibes, the rabidly anti-LGBT Alliance Defense Fund has created another holiday for month's end. This one involves praying...
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02/01/2012
Austin Nimocks like a kid at Xmas; sadly, it's NH rights he wants to unwrap
That they continue to "culture war" against us is bad enough. But it never ceases to shock or amaze me to learn of just how excited our organized opponents get when thinking about robbing us of rights: "Republicans in New...
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11/22/2011
Video: Alliance Defense Fund solicits cash, features financially oppressive DOMA
It's that time of year again. Time for the anti-LGBT groups to marry the good year-end vibes and the sense of giving with their own hostility for LGBT equality, in hopes that some will add good ol' fashioned discrimination to...
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10/20/2011
Alliance Defense Fund attorney says gays bring harms upon selves, that it doesn't get better
Brian Raum and his colleagues at the ADF regularly go to court for the decided purpose of making life less equal and fair for LGBT citizens and their supporters. But as Brian will now insist: It's actually LGBT people who...
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08/01/2011
TO: Olson & Boies; SUBJECT: The obvious animus underlying proponents' work
I've been showing you the over-the-top words and actions of the Liberty Counsel, opining about the New York anti-equality crowd's ill-thought-out decision to connect their case to overturn marriage equality with that reliably off-message legal outfit. But really, at the...
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07/18/2011
ADF pens NY clerk memo (a.k.a. casting call for future 'protect marriage' campaign ad)
With less than a week to go before in-state same-sex marriages are set to begin in NY, the far-right crowd is stepping up the victimization meme. The latest comes in the form of an Alliance Defense Fund memo, which all...
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06/20/2011
ADF's unreleased polling methodology: If you engage with this post, you're disqualified
In all press releases pertaining to the "poll" they conducted with GOP research firm Public Opinion strategies, the anti-gay Alliance Defense Fund has neglected to include any data or methodology. Fortunately, we were able to find an unreleased methodology memo...
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06/06/2011
Weird, Prop 8 legal eagles: Why didn't you make 'rebellion against God' claims in Judge Walker's court?
If we told you a group was referring to gay people's marriages as... A Rebellion Against God by a Small Band of Activists. ...you, like many in a public that's rapidly polling with majority support for marriage equality, would probably...
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03/30/2011
Pres. Bush upping 'Defense' budget
His wife and at least one of his daughters may be on record as marriage equality supporters. But not yet the former president himself, which frees him to headline a mega pricey fundraiser for America's most prominent anti-LGBT legal group,...
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03/16/2011
But you are, David. You are obsessed.
Alliance Defense Fund Senior Counsel David French wrote an article entitled "Are Christians 'Obsessed with Gays and Abortion?'" An article that's gone all over the conservative mediasphere, from the National Organization for Marriage to National Review Online to the Ruth...
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03/12/2011
Alliance Defiance: Why is the ADF scared of fair discourse?
A few days ago, a Guest commenter went on the Alliance Defense Fund's blog and asked for factual clarity on a couple of points. So this site offered up some practical truth, specifically in regards to the Ocean Grove,NJ, pavilion...
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03/10/2011
The Alliance Defense of Marriage Act Fund
Favorite part: The way this young ADF staffer derisively spits out certain words in disgust (like "marriage" at the :48 mark): Prayer as the first tactic? May be easy to dismiss. But hey, the religious right essentially convinced a mid-'90s...
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Truth v. FearMongering: ADF warns of faith-based jailing
The Alliance Defense Fund's latest claim: First, a federal court in California ruled in Perry v. Schwarzenegger that the teachings of Southern Baptists and Roman Catholics indicating homosexual behavior is sinful are “harmful” to those engaging in this conduct. The...
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01/10/2011
ADF in app form: For when Angry Birds fails to adequately frustrate
New to the iTunes app store: Tips on how to effectively write off people's lives and loves as "problems]s] that can still be remedied"? Yup, there's an app for that!
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12/14/2010
Audio: Gays marry in 'chaos', honeymoon at 'place of dark thinking'
The Alliance Defense Fund's Jordan Lorence wants to thank those of us who support marriage equality. For you see, we have forced Jordan and his colleagues to go into "places of dark thinking" and develop a "common body of wisdom"...
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12/08/2010
Laugh all you want, kids. If you weren't concerned about the SPLC list, you'd ignore it.
Yet another "pro-family" figure is publicly making light of the Southern Poverty Law Center's latest additions to its anti-gay hate groups list so as to mask their private concern with the same. And this one, from Alliance Defense Fund Senior...
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12/06/2010
Video: ADF wants followers to pray; if that fails, they'll pray the 'activist judge' meme sticks
Of course they won't really stick their necks out and ask Santa for a win. There's only room on the wishlist for a crock pot, not a crock legal ruling.
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11/02/2010
Last time we checked, basic training doesn't include a religious test
He starts his piece with a psalm. He then segues into his own harrowing tales aboard a U.S. Navy destroyer, putting the balance between chaos and peace squarely in the heavens. And then he moves on to saying this about...
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08/23/2010
'Our intent is to swamp them out': The first words of one extremely biased baby
Because of the weak (and much-criticized) defense that they helped shape in the Prop 8 federal trial, the Alliance Defense Fund and its allied litigators are heavily in the news these days. But how did this conservative Christian legal organization...
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8's Parts: Courts should look to sum, not some
Although Judge Vaughn Walker's federal court decision on Proposition 8 has brought the same-sex marriage conversation into a more prominent light than it's seen in years, there is an ancillary component that's being overlooked. A particularly interesting side argument that,...
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08/20/2010
Alliance Defense Fund: Loves A.G. refusals in Central time, not so much in Pacific
We've already posted a lengthy take on why it's disingenuous for the Alliance Defense Fund and supporters to treat domestic partnerships one way in California and another way in Wisconsin. Now let's look at another issue related to that matter:...
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Alliance Defense Fund: Loves domestic partnerships in Pacific time, not so much in Central
As everyone is focused on the Alliance Defense Fund and the case they've been making against marriage equality in the California courts, we want to take a pause and look at another fight that this very same outfit has put...
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08/18/2010
Alliance Defied: Fun!
Oh, it just gets better and better. The Alliance Defense Fund and the Liberty Counsel are still in a public war of words that essentially boils down to "I know you're anti-gay, but what am I?" vs. "My bias can...
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08/17/2010
Video: ADF wants more cash & prayers; still neglecting facts & witnesses able to withstand scrutiny
Alliance Defense Fund continues to blame everything but their own shockingly inadequate case on behalf of civil inequality: But you really can't blame the ADF for relying on cherry-picked and de-contextualized quotes from the 136-page decision. It's kind of like...
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08/13/2010
It really is Friday the 13th: We're admitting MassResistance is right about something
The Liberty Counsel was first. Then it was Chuck Colson. Now MassResistance is joining the chorus of anti-LGBT voices who are willing to say, quite correctly, that the Alliance Defense Fund argued a very shitty pro-Prop 8 case: We had...
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08/04/2010
Eating their pwn: Liberty says Alliance Defense FAILED
Now THIS is funny. The anti-gay legal beagles (with a taste for gay bones) at the Liberty Counsel are lashing out at the anti-gay legal kegels (who flex their anti-gay muscles) at the Alliance Defense Fund for not doing enough...
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06/16/2010
ADF: Antagonistically Denying Freedom
It's not the Americans who usurped the independent judiciary's ruling who are threatening our nation. No, no -- according to the Alliance Defense Fund's Brian Raum, it's the big, bad gays who want to protect their minority rights from majority...
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06/08/2010
Video: Money for nothing, soul-kicks for free
It's that time of year again: The Alliance Defense Fund needs cash. And once again, it's the gays on whose backs they're hoping to finance their civil rights-clobbering gavels: Pass the bar, only to place gays underneath the bar of...
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04/27/2010
Fun with automation: FRC's noxiously anti-gay/anti-national security presser edition
Tomorrow at 2PM Eastern time, the Family Research Council is joining with the Alliance Defense Fund to host a press conference about Don't Ask Don't Tell, where the two groups will continue to fulfill their childhood dreams of keeping their...
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04/20/2010
And yes, Mr. Nimocks: Straw men can be fired on the basis of their bullsh*t-iness
Speaking about the supposed limitations that workplace non-discrimination protections for LGBT people will supposedly pose to Christian business owners, the A Lie in Defiance of Fun Alliance Defense Fund's Austin Nimocks says this: "A law that would require an organization...
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02/24/2010
Organized anti-marriage crowd: 'Look at the poll - but only the part that we can exploit!'
So far this morning, we've seen both Focus on the Family and the Alliance Defense Fund tout a recent Washington Post poll as being reason why D.C. residents should get to vote on marriage equality. ADF: Alliance Defense Fund and...
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01/22/2010
Wherein the ADF tries, fails to recast 'Good Night and Good Luck'
From time to time, we've seen proponents of anti-gay measures and ideas liken themselves to Joseph McCarthy's blacklist victims. But it never gets any less offensive. This latest one from the A Lie in Defiance of Fun Alliance Defense Fund's...
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01/11/2010
What's at stake: The strawmen martyrs that they've propped up as 'victims'
This is how the ferociously 'mo-hostile lawyers at the Alliance Defense Fund sum up the "stakes" in the federal Prop 8 trial: FOCUS OF HEARING – WHAT IS AT STAKE? A federal court decision overturning Proposition 8 may not only...
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11/19/2009
Breaking: Arch conservatives fail to rob NY gays of benign happiness
Fantastic news out of New York, as the rabidly anti-gay Alliance Defense Fund has again been struck down in their attempt to role back out-of-state marriage recognition. And this time: The decision came down from the state's highest court: New...
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11/18/2009
But, but, but, but, but --- what about the right to mob rule?!
If you follow the so-called "culture war," it should come as no surprise that the reliable homo-hostile Alliance Defense Fund is challenging the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics' ruling against putting marriage equality to a ballot initiative. But just...
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11/13/2009
'Question 1 opponents': The far-right's newest faux monolith
Maine Marriage Equality is a website started up by college student Adam "Sunny" Flanders. During the Question One campaign, the site provided a steady stream of information about the fight to preserve marriage equality. Now that the anti-gay side has...
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10/15/2009
I'm married. NY recognizes it. They want to take it away. This sh*t be personal.
FACT: New York has a history of recognizing marriages that were legally performed elsewhere, even if they weren't legal in the Empire State itself. Common-law marriages are one instance. Another is in the case of unions from states where the...
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10/13/2009
Arizona group still out to protect New Yorkers from themselves
The Alliance Defense Fund has already bit it in lower courts. But hell hath no fury like a conservative legal group that wants you to believe that its somehow been scorned. Thus the reason why the Arizona-based crew is back...
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07/23/2009
We-Have-Every-Right-to-Be-Mad Libs
The tired, reliably hostile story, for those who care: Urgent lawsuit filed with Wis. Supreme Court to stop violation of marriage amendment [ADF press release]
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05/19/2009
Give 'em an inch or a mile -- they'll still demean ours lives and loves!
Q. Religious protections are unneeded in marriage equality bills, because we are talking about civil marriage and not religious ceremony. But what makes these special accommodations even more enraging? A. The fact that these stipulation never, ever, ever appease the...
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04/24/2009
ADF to Iowa: Bias by us should be protected from bias
It's sometimes reasonable for folks to invoke the "cancer of tyranny" when talking about same-sex marriage and the denial of the same. But not when the folks in question are the anti-gay people who have turned this national conversation into...
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04/01/2009
Just kidding: ADF sticks to ridiculous 'child protection' script
Kids are not a marital requirement. Gay couples raise children, even without marriage rights. Same-sex couples do not deprive kids of a parent -- they simply change the two-parent structure. Legal same-sex marriage does not stop anyone from setting up...
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03/09/2009
Video: A movement desperately clinging to relevancy
During some of this video, you can hear wind blowing into the microphone. But unfortunately the rest of the it is not nearly as substantive: Yawn. Pretty palm trees though. What's Left of the Constitution? 3/9/09 [YT]
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02/24/2009
4/20: The 'Truth' is that their booking will rightfully raise some eyebrows
On 4/20/09, the tenth anniversary of the tragic Columbine shooting, American citizens will spend the day remembering victims, mourning losses, and continuing the national conversation about how we can more fully protect our children while at school. Unfortunately on that...
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02/13/2009
Hey ADF: NY doesn't recognize your out-of-state anti-wedding!
Despite many lower court losses, the Arizona-based Alliance Defense Fund is still poking its nosey nose into New York state marriages. This from an ADF release: ALBANY, N.Y. — Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund filed documents Wednesday seeking to...
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02/03/2009
A D, F maybe: The grade we'd consider if judging their constitutional fairness aptitude
Every so often, the Arizona-based Alliance Defense Fund (or A Lie In Defiance of Fun, as we affectionally call them), will pop up in New York with another attempt to undermine the Empire State's laws regarding gays and their rights...
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01/30/2009
Audio: Don't they bore themselves?
"Homosexual Agenda." "Undermine the institution of marriage." "Special treatment." "Forcing acceptance on the rest of us." If we were bound to only a handful of hyperbolic phrases, we would fill quite stifled. We would also question why, despite possessing our...
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