Good As You: MassResistance Roundup
11/15/2011
MassResistance calls grieving mother shameless; apparently confused said mother for mirror
This comes from anti-LGBT group MassResistance's take on a recent Bay State anti-bullying hearing: [SOURCE: MassResistance] "Well-scripted speech"?! Really? Because I think if these good "values voters" at MassResistance think a little harder, they might come up with a few...
08/05/2011
Video: Book on 'pro-gay' Romney keeps fantasy genre alive
Already made your way through your summer reading list yet still yearning for more? Have an interest in politics? Enjoy stigmatizing and marginalizing a rich, vibrant, and sizable portion of the population and the politicos who support their rights? Have...07/06/2011
MassResistance proudly touts victory over safe schools; watch your back, clean air!
MassResistance, a group that's been on the Southern Poverty Law Center's anti-gay hate groups list for over three years now, is taking credit for budget cuts relating to the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools: Although it's difficult to...03/10/2011
Maryland's considerable MassResistance factor
One big, unreported secret out of Maryland is how much influence the far-right, uber-fringe, bathroom-stalking group MassResistance is having on that state's marriage debate. Anecdotally: This writer heard all kinds of MassResistance talking points debated on the House floor. Claims...02/14/2011
MassResistance has been futile. So yes, Maryland -- *please* copy their test paper!
Because of a penchant for thoroughly over-the-top activities like covertly filming transgender human beings as they try to use a public restroom in peace, MassResistance has the reputation of being one of the fringe-iest of all the statewide "pro-family" groups....01/14/2011
MassResistance suggests 'Globe' shun; we suggest 'Globe' put that honor next to Pulitzers
MassResistance is a highly marginalized anti-LGBT group, known in the Bay State for antics like covertly filming people while they go to the restroom: So one really has to laugh when one sees MR calling on all conservatives to boycott...12/13/2010
MassResistance angry with Scott Brown; Scott Brown's clearly done something right
At an earlier, Coakley-ier time, Brian Camenker from the Southern Poverty Law Center-designated hate group MassResistance was all kinds of into Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA): (← click to play audio clip) But now -- oh, but now. Well here, let's...08/02/2010
Video: Mass' most overheated gets all steamed up, shouts
MassResistance, one of only a tiny number of anti-LGBT groups on which the Southern Poverty Law Center has bestowed their "hate group" label, has been on a mission lately to convince the national TEA Party that they need to take...06/14/2010
Video: Mass Persistence
We need to take a minute and thank Southern Poverty Law Center-designated "hate group" MassResistance. Because even though we could do without their interstitial commentary about the supposed "bizarreness" of the Boston gay pride ceremony, we are totally grateful that...03/15/2010
MassResistance stakes out bathroom; FRC has toilet paper on shoe
What does "pro-family" activism mean? Well if you're MassResistance, it means filming unsuspecting people as they go to the bathroom and making meticulous note of the pee-bound peeps' heights, as if they are robbers in a convenience store: Total extremists,...02/25/2010
Brian, Brown: Overheated MA org shows more proof of personal Scott bond
Before January's special election, we noted that Brian Camenker, head of SPLC-designated "hate group" MassResistance, claimed then-candidate Scott Brown (R-MA) as someone he had "known personally for several years": (click to play audio clip) *SOURCE: Faith 2 Action, 1/12/10 It...01/20/2010
We'd rather lose than delight MassResistance
Congratulations, Massachusetts! You've just elected a U.S. Senator who absolutely thrills MassResistance, one of only eleven American groups whose anti-gay hostility has reached a low enough point to make the Southern Poverty Law Center's official hate groups list: But on...01/19/2010
Audio: Newly 'Minted reason why Brown win should worry LGBTs
Sen. Jim "governments should not be in the business of promoting a behavior that’s proven to be destructive to our society" DeMint (Very Far R-SC) becomes the latest rabidly anti-gay voice to endorse Scott Brown: Jim DeMint Endorses Scott Brown...01/18/2010
2 out of 3 historically negligent historians agree: Scott Brown will 'tear down that wall'
"We can't recall ever having seen the kind of enthusiasm and passion across the state - among Republicans, Independents, and even many Democrats - for a any candidate, particularly a Republican, that we're seeing for Scott Brown! In many ways...Do you want a Coak or a particularly overheated cup of TEA?
The Scott Brown supporters at SPLC-certified hate group MassResistance... MR's Brian Camenker on Brown ...have posted a series of photographs from a weekend rally in support of the Republican senatorial candidate. Don't kid yourself, folks: The anti-gay, anti-progress, anti-Obama-at-all-costs TEA...01/15/2010
SPLC 'hate group' is all kinds of about Brown. That should make you see red/get your green!
This is what the fringe, radical anti-gay group MassResistance looks like: So is this: This Memorial day, here in Massachusetts in 2007, the homosexual lobby dominates our State House, and is filing bills to push their agenda further than ever....10/07/2009
Photo: What the Huck?
MassResistance is one of only 11 groups in the nation to take their homo hostility far enough to earn the Southern Poverty Law Center's anti-gay "hate group" label. So you have to ask yourself: Why doesn't that little fact raise...09/28/2009
Video: How to Be Taken Aback, America
Brian Camenker's MassResistance organization is so extreme in its homo-hostility that it is one of only eleven to have been chosen to appear on the Southern Poverty Law Center's anti-gay hate groups list. Yet that little nugget of anti-civil, anti-rights...08/24/2009
Bedfellows. Strange?
We've already shown you how Maine's "official" anti-marriage equality campaign is indelibly connected to the state's most diarrhea-mouthed anti-gay activist, Mike Heath. Now that same campaign is getting backing from another fringe group who they surely wish would stay in...08/03/2009
'How to counter extremists' workshop to apparently feature giant mirror
For some movements, a like-minded group's appearance on the Southern Poverty Law Center's hate groups list would serve as an indicator that maybe, just maybe, that particular outfit is engaging in the sort of extremist rhetoric that deserves, at the...07/14/2009
But, but, but -- we want this company to print our rights-depriving hostility without restraint!
*FACT: To "block" a website means to prevent users from seeing it. Placing a content warning on a website is not a blocking -- it's merely a heads up for users who might be offended/upset/enraged/sickened by certain site elements. *FACT:...05/01/2009
A certified hate group: The cornerstone of NH marriage foes' policy?
So what sort of tactics is Cornerstone Policy Research, the organized conservative group that's opposing same-sex marriage in the state of New Hampshire, using to resist equality? Well in a new blog post, that organization is linking to a document...04/15/2009
Camenker: Why can't we have LGB with our Tea?
You know that TEAbag situation that America is facing today? No, not that one. The one where outraged members of Team Anti-Obama are gathering to protest the president's policies on -- well, we don't think many of them even know...02/12/2009
FTM: Fighting Transgender Misconceptions
Yesterday in Massachusetts, a transgender non-discrimination bill was introduced. This from a MassEquality press release: Today, legislation to ban discrimination against transgender people in the Commonwealth was introduced with 104 original cosponsors, including majorities in the Senate and House. The...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...11/10/2008
Time's unrelenting march: Good for anti-gays?!
Want a good laugh? Well check out this conclusion that the rabidly anti-gay MassResistance, an SPLC-certified "hate group," has formed in reaction to Tuesday's election returns: "We continue to believe that all this can and will be won. History is...10/30/2008
Well that takes a Mass off our minds
Remember how the MassResistance group was working to obtain petition signatures in hopes of getting a reinstatement of the 1913 law that, up until July, had prevented out-of-state gays from marrying in the Bay State? Yea, well -- they failed....10/26/2008
The Wirthlins and a certified hate group: How deep were the ties?
So you know Robb and Robin Wirthlin, the Massachusetts parents who are using their tale of school "indoctrination" to convince Californians to vote for Proposition 8? Well there is growing scrutiny surrounding the Wirthlins' past allegiances, particular when it comes...10/24/2008
Say 'gay people stink like cheese!' [::snap, snap::]
Anyone who attempted to write a book about the wacky antics of Massachusetts anti-gay group Mass Resistance (an SPLC-certified hate group) would quickly find themselves with enough "you can't make this stuff up!"-like material for a multi-volume set. This latest...08/29/2008
Wherein we actually applaud the Mass. Family Institute's restraint
So you know how the rabidly anti-gay MassResistance group is fighting to have the Bay State's ban on out-of-state same-sex marriages restored? Yea, well in a development that shows just how out-of-step MR is with even the organized "pro-family" community,...08/26/2008
MASSively annoying: Anti-progress progresses in Bay State
And now in "Geez, can't they leave that poor dead horse alone?" news: Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has approved paperwork that had been filed by the radically anti-gay Massresistance group. And what does the paperwork entail, you ask? Well,...08/20/2008
Referendumb: MR explains flawed and fruitless endeavor
On Friday, we briefly told you about the radically anti-gay MassResistance group's plans to challenge the recent legislative move that opened the door to out-of-state gays wishing to marry in the Bay State. Well now MR has more fully detailed...08/15/2008
Can't they let bygone laws be bygone laws?
Not willing to sit by and let loving, monogamous, tax-paying couples from around the country enter into a civil contract with themselves and their government, the MassResistance organization, an SPLC-certified "hate group," is now trying to reverse the recent repeal...07/31/2008
Remember Lot's wife, Rep. Sciortino, as she's apparently your constituent
We can't decide if this photo caption, currently running on the website of the rabidly anti-gay MassResistance group, is more offensive to Rep. Sciortino, gays and lesbians, the representative's constituents as a whole, foes of Biblical persecution, students who are...07/15/2008
Yea, MR? He 'berated' you? Really? That's what you're going with? Interesting.
Wanna see an example of the sort of unapologetic misrepresentations that have led MassResistance to earn such dishonors as being declared a certified "hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center? Well check this out. This is a video that...07/03/2008
If only she'd worn her 'Get a Life, MassResistance!' shirt
If you're familiar with the anti-gay MassResistance organization (branded as a bona fide hate group by the SPLC), then you might know that they have a penchant for posting photos from various gay rights events and then writing some sort...06/10/2008
Gay pride: Destroying the sanctity of Celtics b-ball
To kick off gay pride week, Boston mayor Thomas Menino and various other city officials held a ceremony in which they raised a pride flag at city hall. So it should come as no surprise that Massachusetts' most vehement anti-gay...05/23/2008
Video: Wherein FOX News doesn't even fake objectivity
This is Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly interviewing Brian Camenker of MassResistance (a certified "hate group," according to the Southern Poverty Law Center). See if you can tell where she stands on this complex issue: Cutest part? When Megyn says,...03/28/2008
Those who protest anal enterings are themselves entering annals
They've been paying their dues for years, struggling to reach the pinnacle of their industry. And now, for the virulently anti-gay folks at MassResistance, the hard word and long hours have finally paid off. For in the Southern Poverty Law...03/10/2008
The photo op looks nice, but is the truth less impressive?
In order to lend legitimacy to the efforts of Massachusetts parent David Parker to have pro-acceptance children's books removed from public schools, the not-so-gay-friendly folks at MassResistance are today running this picture and text: But look at the postcards the...02/13/2008
Some never recover from learning teen crush was gay
This is how MassResistance's Amy Contrada introduces a new piece that's she penned in opposition to transgender acceptance: "The culture of death has created a compulsion in the souls of the homosexual radicals and their "trans" allies, driving them ever...02/08/2008
Mitt's crash? It took a village, Brian
The most outspoken 'mo foe in all of Massachusetts, Brian Camenker (who you might have seen in an old segment that was re-run on last night's episode of "The A Daily Show"), is now taking credit for Mitt Romney's departure...12/24/2007
Weird, we've always thought of their work as cheap
The extremely radical MassResistance group has always accepted and even sought lucre in order to fund their rabidly anti-gay endeavors. However, judging by a new image they've placed on their homepage, it seems they want 2008 to become the year...12/21/2007
MassResistance raises the bar on mature photo labeling -- again
Remember a few weeks back when we showed you how the MassResistance group had made the mature choice to label a photo of Bay Windows reporter Ethan Jacobs with the word "weasel"? Well check this out. On the group's blog,...12/12/2007
Project 'Run, it's the gays!'
We all know that the MassResistance group is not so forward-thinking in terms of gay acceptance. But what about in terms of their fashion? Well, the good folks at Bay Windows are exploring that exact topic in a newly published...12/07/2007
MassResistance: Raising the bar on mature photo labeling
Remember yesterday when we had a little fun with the labels that a Concerned Women For America staffer chose for a certain video clip? Well today we turn our attention to the anti-gay activists at MassResistance and their labels for...11/13/2007
It's you who do the 'tricks', MassResistance; we just bust up your hoaxes!
What he is saying is that in order to help his push for gay acceptance, he and his team had to show that the TRUE threat to safety in public schools was anti-gay bias, not pro-gay acceptance!
...However, the reality of the situation is that while it certain was done as a way of de-stigmatizing homosexuality, the term wasn't adopted out of cold, calculate deception -- it was adopted as a righteous way to fight the cruel and unjust treatment that had up to that point plagued (and still to this day plagues) a vibrant sect of the population!
