Good As You: Gay Roundup
11/12/2010
IFI sees civil unions wall-writing, prepares new battering rams
With a civil unions vote pending in their state legislature, the Illinois Family Institute is coming out guns a'blazin' to stop progress in The Prairie State. For starters, IFI has created bulletin inserts for local faith leaders to share with...
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Audio: Brian Brown, Sean Eldridge, judges unfairly targeted for simply doing their jobs
Considering what we've heard from her in the past, we're not surprised that Fox News' Lauren Green seems to obviously side with Brian Brown in the following segment. Like, for one example, when she follows a point about gays not...
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11/11/2010
Maggie Gallagher: Putting 'brave' face on basic benefit denial
Yesterday we showed you a couple of disconnects in the way Maggie Gallagher carries out her war on gay people's ring fingers. (1) We showed you how she claims she doesn't want to disrespect gay people in general, even though...
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11/10/2010
Pray, so Jim DeMint can do God's work of firing gay teachers
Sen. Jim DeMint (Very Far R-SC) wants to bar out gays and sexually active unmarried females from becoming teachers. He's never met a LGBT rights policy for which he'd cast a vote. He also thinks that a Republican cannot be...
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Video: In Oregon, Maggie wants to take her 'they'll call us bigots' claims off table; Elsewhere, the table is so crowded with her claims, it -- like NOM's house of cards -- is near collapse
Here's Maggie Gallagher speaking to Focus on the Family: "Gay activists treat Americans who disagree with them about same-sex marriage like bigots." [SOURCE] Maggie in her syndicated column: "When I entered this debate in 2003, gay marriage advocates scoffed at...
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Video: Basic rights as a panel debate: Oregon edition
I've had the pleasure of seeing Basic Rights Oregon's Jeana Frazzini speak, and she's quite awesome. Here she is awesomely and ably speaking for *civil* marriage equality, despite Maggie Gallagher and Oregon state Rep. Dennis Richardson's largely faith-motivated attempts to...
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11/09/2010
Giving truth the Schlaf: Iowa For Freedom edition
Another completely misrepresentative take on the recent "Iowa For Freedom" campaign, this time from conservative doyenne Phyllis Schlafly: "The powers that be in Iowa tried to tell Iowa voters that they had an obligation to vote yes on the three...
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11/08/2010
NOM loves CNN marriage poll; we love that civil rights are not to be popularity contests
The National Organization For Marriage is touting a CNN Exit poll from last week's midterms, which suggests this breakdown in marriage support among voters: [SOURCE: CNN] Okay, so first off: It's a poll. Salt/grain/take. Especially in a midterm election. Especially...
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11/04/2010
Video: Before & AFER: The path to what's next
AFER 2009-2010 from American Foundation for Equal Ri on Vimeo. Equality: a Reminder from Prop 8 Foes – the American Foundation for Equal Rights [LGBT POV]
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11/03/2010
Video: Protecting the Democratic 'brand
One of the brightest spots of the night for LGBT people in New York and nationwide:
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11/02/2010
Fun with 'First name, Last Name' fields: Iowa For Freedom (so-called) edition
*** *SEE ALSO: Our complete Iowa For Freedom Archive
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11/01/2010
Video: Iowans should vote on careers, not one personal whim
Fair Courts For US
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Video: Gays 'struggle': That's the best Jim Garlow's willing to offer
Jim Garlow was one of the leading anti-equality voices in the 2008 Prop 8 fight. But don't think he's insensitive, fellow constitutionally deprived citizens. No, no -- Jim understands that we're all "struggling with same-sex attraction," and that's why we're...
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10/31/2010
Grass? On the other side, 'pro-family' money is always greener
Fair Courts For US *** *SEE ALSO: Our complete Iowa For Freedom Archive
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10/30/2010
Video: Hey Iowa For Freedom: Rejecting state DOMA law doesn't mean ignoring it!
Here's some more proud point-missing from the Iowa For Freedom coalition. This time from a voter who believes the state Supreme Court justices "ignored" the DOMA law, even if in reality, the Varnum panel quite openly and honestly found the...
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10/29/2010
Not a Sen.: Gillibrand's marriage support predates statewide constituency
People are always saying that Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's support for marriage equality was a convenient turnaround done after she was appointed to Hillary Clinton's vacated Senate seat in January of '09. This site even felt that way in the beginning,...
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Video: Gays/Pilgrims? Well, both did find inaugural freedom in Massachusetts
In Iowa, Eric Cooper is the Libertarian party's nominee for Governor. He also might just be the one candidate who understands civil marriage equality the most: (NoisyEyeDoctor) Can doesn't mean should. Personal whim need not translate into public policy. Religious...
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10/28/2010
We're having nun of it: NOM's been dishing it in MN for months
The mailers in question don't even revolve around marriage equality. But since the National Organization For Marriage's thoughts revolve around little else, they'll do all they can to drum up a little controversy and connect it directly to gay Minnesotans'...
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'Unimagined rights', detailed by advocates of gay-less fantasy world
This is what the Iowa Supreme Court's unanimous Varnum opinion actually says about "unimagined" rights: In fulfilling this mandate under the Iowa Constitution, we look to the past and to precedent. We look backwards, not because citizens’ rights are constrained...
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Audio: Iowa for (reductive, one-dimension retention)
Obfuscation, thy name is "Iowa For Freedom": (click to play audio clip) *AUDIO SOURCE: FRC Iowa Bus Tour Underway [FOTF] Right. Okay. So let's start with Maggie Gallagher Srivastav. Her first soundbite: "Nobody should be unaccountable, and in Iowa, the...
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10/27/2010
Maggie's reliably myopic glimpse at faith-based bullying
For the second time in as many weeks, Maggie Gallagher has dedicated her syndicated column to the matter of bullying and suicide, with an underlying intent of absolving the climate cultivated by anti-LGBT groups like her National Organization For Marriage...
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Iowa For Freedom (to paint gays as a degradation)
Iowa For Freedom speakers continue to reveal the obvious: That their current campaign against Iowa's Supreme Court justices has absolutely nothing to do with jurisprudence and everything to do with the faith-based war against same-sex marriage: “It’s a degradation of...
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Bob Vander Plaats' muddled school civics
The Iowa Supreme Court didn't make law. They didn't execute law. They most certainly didn't amend the constitution. In the 2009 marriage equality decision, the unanimous panel of justices did nothing more than determine that the "protect marriage" crowd has...
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10/26/2010
'Abnormal' obsession: Career voice of anti-gayness slurs LGBT teens (again)
The latest from Family Research Council president Tony Perkins: [Tony] Perkins: Gay Teens Are Suicidal Because They Know They Are "Abnormal" [RightWingWatch] Well of course Tony thinks we're abnormal: He's already revealed on multiple occasions how he thinks we're "held...
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@IowaForFreedom/@JudgeBus: A faith-based war on gays' ring fingers with judges as the convenient vehicle
Most of the other folks associated with the judicial retention campaign are more mealy-mouthed, making it sound as if the so-called "Iowa For Freedom" effort is made up of a non-partisan, non-faith-based coalition that cares solely about civil law and...
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10/25/2010
@JudgeBus Day 1: Aggressive, willful ignorance as substitute for fact
- "The people" vs the "arrogant, rogue judges" - Ensuring that the law passes the constitutional smell test (i.e. the very role of a judge) is somehow "making law" for the first time in U.S. civil rights history. - "The...
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Right, NOM: Paladino's so 'pro-marriage', his love exceeded even his own nuptial bond
-He's sent around a bevy of racist, sexist and pornographic emails. -He had an extramarital affair that resulted in a daughter. -He's threatened to "take out" reporters who ask too man questions. -He says he doesn't want children "brainwashed into...
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Snooki costumes out of stock, Bob Vander Plaats opts for scary activist judge mask instead
Iowa for Freedom's Bob Vander Plaats continues to scare state voters into believing that marriage equality for same-sex couples is just step one on a road that will lead to repossession, empty gun racks, and death panels. This from The...
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Video: Gay Paladino supporter found; hunt for unicorns, Bigfoot still ongoing
A Gay Paladino Supporter Calls In [Signorile]
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10/22/2010
♫ In New York, concrete jungle where dreams [were turned into nightmares 50 times this year]♫
Well this is certainly trending in the wrong direction: NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police say suspected anti-gay bias attacks are up slightly this year amid several high-profile incidents in recent weeks. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said so...
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Video: 'Terry Branstad can't have it both ways'
Yes! Finally. An apt articulation of law, the role of the independent judiciary in determining the constitutionality of said law, and the reason why the conversation between a unanimous high court decision vs. a public vote on minority rights is...
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10/21/2010
Circular support squad fired up for Patrick Murphy
*EARLIER: Today's web chat with the Congressman
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Today, 1:30PM: Get to know Patrick Murphy in a Homo-textual sort of way
Our Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-PA) live chat, starting at 1:30 EST. Get your questions ready: Live Chat with Rep. Patrick Murphy *ActBlue page: LGBT For Murphy **Past chats: Palm Springs mayor Steve Pougnet (challenging Rep. Mary Bono Mack in CA's...
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Video: But there *is* such thing as an activist edit
*** *The original ad *Our complete Iowa For Freedom archive
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Video: Iowa for [acting like a paparazzo chasing Lindsey Lohan]
The anti-LGBT, anti-judicious, far-right-connected, very well-financed roustabouts at "Iowa For Mob Rule" "Iowa For Freedom" continue their bullying habits. This video has been posted to IFF's official YouTube site: (*this is Judge David Baker and Chief Justice Marsha Ternus, two...
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10/20/2010
New NOM/Iowa For Freedom strategy: Iowa judges wrong b/c of distance from Boston
*NOTE: This is the ad referenced in this post. *** *UPDATE: Here's what scholar Mark McCormick actually said, sans fear noises and editing: "There is no such thing as an 'activist judge,' in the sense that I'm aware of --...
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Audio: When we seek equal American pie slice, Ken has beef
Ken Hutcherson, noted anti-gay and officiant at Rush Limbaugh's recent wedding (yes the same one that featured Elton John), analogizes the gay/anti-gay "culture war": (click to play audio clip) *AUDIO SOURCE: Ken Hutcherson [Peter LaBarbera's local radio show] Never have...
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So what, Brian Brown, you just took our high court-backed civil rights for sport?
The entire focus of the Proposition 8 campaign -- THE. ENTIRE. FOCUS! -- was on telling California citizens that gay people, via their unmufflered civil marriages, would reshape society, harm children's lives, and warp religious freedom in ways dissimilar from...
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Video: 'Stand Up. Stand Out. Stand Army Strong'
*** *SEE ALSO: Lt. Dan Choi, You’re In The Army Now! [New Civil Rights Movement]
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10/19/2010
Video: S.O.S issues same
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Iowa For Freedom: Fostering needless controversy, pretending its neither
Perhaps more than any other campaign coalition we've ever witnessed, the so-called Iowa For Mob Rule Based on Personal Faith Whims "Iowa For Freedom" crew has displayed an incredible desire/ability to have whatever conversation they feel like having, wholly independent...
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AFER puts it briefly: It's right, fair, and decent!
American Foundation for Equal Rights, the rock stars leading the charge to rid the world of the discriminatory dung that is Proposition 8, have filed a response brief to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, addressing why, exactly, Judge...
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10/18/2010
Gallagher advises future Bucks; we advise you to hear what else she's said
After saying that she sees nothing "substantively wrong" in U.S. Senate candidate Ken Buck's answer that being gay is essentially a choice (with a possibly birth component, like alcoholism), professional backer of marital bias Maggie Gallagher posits the following as...
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'Why do you oppose judicial activism?' (*And by 'you' we mean only those who jibe with our preconceived narrative)
A comment we tried to leave on the so-called "Iowa For Freedom" coalition's blog: [SOURCE] Three days later, not one comment has been approved. But hey, we're only talking here about state Supreme Court justices careers, the role of the...
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10/14/2010
NOM is not MLK: A 10 point examination
We were up all night, kept awake by the noise from the rolling around going on inside of Martin Luther King Jr's grave. So that gave us time to think about a few more things that are super annoying about...
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10/13/2010
Video: Maddow on #DADT plan for today, now, this hour: 'This is incoherence'
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NOM: Packer backers
LDS Elder Boyd K. Packer recently referred to same-sex marriage as one of "Satan’s many substitutes and counterfeits for marriage." Or, according to the National Organization For Marriage: Packer merely "defended tradition": It's kind of an extraordinary moment. Elder Boyd...
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'I have a scheme': NOM still co-opting Martin Luther King's legacy
The latest from the National Organization For Marriage: *** *The actual text from MLK's "Give us the Ballot" speech: "Give us the ballot, and we will no longer have to worry the federal government about our basic rights. Give us...
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Tomorrow: New 'Housewives' premieres yet Andy Cohen still made other plans -- that's how you know it's important
It's a bit of a rebuilding year for New York's Empire State Pride Agenda. A new Executive Director. New staff in other key positions. A new governor and a host of new legislators come January. And then there's the aftermath...
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Squashing Tony's negligence, from a mom who knows the danger all too well
There's been a bit of a make-good from The Washington Post, following the fallout from the paper's careless decision to run Tony Perkins' factually-challenged propaganda without insight or pushback. Late yesterday afternoon, they posted a response piece penned by Sirdeaner...
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