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Video: Pastor JD Greear equating preaching against homosexuality w/ preaching against slavery

As soon as he said it, Twitter blew up with religion reporters and others in the crowd expressing shock that South Carolina Pastor JD Greear would use his address to the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission to compare the "good" he sees in preaching against homosexuality circa 2014 with the actual good of preaching against slavery in the 1860s. Now here's video:

Let's now make it really awkward and go back to the impetus of the very convention to which he is sp...

Jars of Clay frontman goes gay-positive; Feet-in-Mud movement goes apesh*t

In the Christian music world , there are few bands bigger than Jars of Clay. Jars of Clay's frontman is a man named Dan Haseltine. Dan Haseltine has spent the past three or four days tweeting all kinds of positive stuff about gay people, our right to marry, our worth, and our deserved defense against our judgmental detractors.

True to form, the rabid anti-LGBT movement is staring to call for his head. Or at least his career:

Steve Deace, host of The Steve Deace Show and cultural commentator, do...

Audio: Exceedingly anti-gay radio host ticked at SBC leader for calling out hosts just like her

Janet Mefferd is one of the most anti-gay Christian radio hosts out there, regularly playing host to (and agreeing with) fringe voices like Peter LaBarbera and Matt Barber so that they can push their sweepingly offensive views.

Russell Moore, the head of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, is also very anti-gay—let's be clear about that. However, he's been moderating a bit in recent months, even admitting that his side's fight for marriage is pretty mu...

Stamping his feats: Randy Thomasson equates Harvey Milk with disasters

When I posted video of Stephen Colbert's satirical take on the new Harvey Milk stamp, I noted how the comedian's faux outrage over LGBT matters often closely mirrors (or is even more muted than) the anti-LGBT crowd's actual reactions. Case in point:

SaveCalifornia.com notes the hypocrisy of the postal service's "Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee," which claims it solely "commemorates positive contributions to American life, history, and culture," saying "disasters will not be commemorated on...

Riiiiiiight, FRC. And 'Desperate Housewives' is still TV's hot new show, too

In 2004, marriage equality was lagging somewhere in the 30% range. In some southern states, it was in the low teens.

To hear the Family Research Council tell it, that's where it still is. Based on a new NY Times poll that shows support in reliably red states like Arkansas and Louisiana is below the current national average (shocker!), the Family Research Council is pushing this ridiculous claim:

"While the media is busy declaring an end to the debate, the reality is that most voters are just a...

After death do us part: Indignity of Idaho's marriage ban threatens lesbian veteran's final wishes

Like all marriage bans, Idaho's is destined to end up on the ash heap of history. But for now, proud veterans must still take time out of their mortal lives to fight for their own personal ash heaps' final resting spots:

"Protecting marriage—what a crap stain on history. America will be deeply embarrassed by this someday. Some of us just got an early start.

NOM's Chair to Oregon: We have a right to tell courts our personal, conservative Catholic opinions!

No one in the state of Oregon who would have true standing to do so sees an interest in defending the state's discriminatory marriage law. This is a big statement—one that the people of Oregon made when they voted for the elected officials they chose to represent their interests.

But the National Organization For Marriage, a pro-discrimination special interest group based hundreds of miles away should get the right to come in and state their Catholic-driven objections, simply because they feel...

Nice try, anti-equality movement, but the lesbian 'throuple' story makes our argument, not yours

Social conservatives are itching to make hay about a story of a lesbian trio who live together and are planning to raise a family:

Nice try, I guess. But no. Three times no.

The fact of the matter is that this is not a legally married trio. Two of them are married to each other, and the third woman is connected via as much legal paperwork as is available to enjoin the three. They are not legally married because it is not legal for three people to legally marry under civil law—and no marriage eq...

Jodie Foster in 2013: 'I am'; Jodie Foster in 2014: 'I do'

Congrats to the veteran actor, who recently married Alexandra Hedison:

Jodie Foster Marries [E! Online]

But was it Jodie, or was it her mother, with whom she had switched bodies? Freaky.

AFA promotes its new app in only way it knows how

We've gone through all of their examples a bajillion times and pointed out all of the distortions, excised details, and bad arguments that they use to turn these supposed examples of persecution into national examples of how marriage equality harms America. No use doing it again.

Instead, just have a good laugh at how AFA is incapable of doing something as straightforward as promoting their app without making it all about us and their obsessions therof:

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I truly adore the idea that an AF...