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Gee, Bryan, can't understand why federal courts are rejecting you gay = incest view

Court after court continues to rule in favor of equality. They are all wrong, says in-no-way-legally-trained American Family Association analyst Bryan Fischer. And these judges are wrong, naturally, because gay people are more similar to pedophiles and people who sleep with goats than they are to heterosexuals.

Move over, Jeffrey Toobin:

So when it comes to the “right” of homosexuals to marry each other (there never can be a “right” to same sex marriage since it is impossible for there to be mo...

Former NOM sr. associate admits shift: Moving away from intellectual arguments, focusing on spiritual

Jennifer Roback Morse, who was one of the National Organization For Marriage's top surrogates in the years between Prop 8 and the Supreme Court cases, is just one of the latest to pretty much admit that her side has lost the argument. In a recent speech to Biola University, Morse admits that [a] the Supreme Court essentially issued a "rolling Roe v. Wade" that will ultimately give marriage equality to the entire nation and [b] that she must now, begrudgingly, move on to arguments base more in...

Prop 8 defense attorney now planning lesbian daughter's wedding

The Associated Press reports an astounding footnote that you can use to regale your friends this weekend:

[Charles] Cooper, the lawyer who argued before the Supreme Court in favor of upholding California’s ban on gay marriage learned while he was handling the case that one of his children is gay and now is helping her plan her wedding with another woman

Prop 8 lawyer's views on gay marriage evolving [AP via UT San Diego]

In a related story: Antonin Scalia will do a guest arc on Modern Family as...

If you can't afford your event, NOM, perhaps you should just cancel

Even though it got virtually no attention last year, and even though its bussed-in crowds were quite dismal (something honest conservatives even admitted), the National Organization For Marriage is insisting on having a second "March For Marriage" in D.C. They just need their supporters to pay for the damn thing:

We are in the midst of intense preparations for the March, taking place this June 19th. We are securing permits, organizing logistics, signing contracts, making arrangements with spea...

A hill of beans: 'Ex-gay'-defending legal firm selling coffee to fund discriminatory endeavors

Exceedingly anti-LGBT lawyer Charles LiMandri is the head of the operation, and anti-LGBT activist Maggie Gallagher is the chair of the board. Their star client is the "ex-gay" advocacy firm JONAH. This is how the so-called Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund is now funding their anti-LGBT endeavors:

[Defense Fund Coffee]

True to its cause, I hear the coffee will curdle in the cup whenever a gay person even thinks of adding...

Which is weak. I'll stick with Starbucks.

Anti-gay talker Steve Deace lets LGBT movement know: we're about to sue churches, apparently

In truth, the consumer fraud legal case involves an organization, not a church. And no one is trying to hide it. For the past year-and-a-half, the Southern Poverty Law Center's lawsuit against Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing (JONAH) for allegedly violating New Jersey’s Consumer Fraud Act when it provided its so-called "conversion therapy" services to impressionable gay clients has been firmly imprinted on public record for consumption by anyone with an ability to access Google. We...

Video: A new low for Robert Oscar Lopez; anti-gay 'bisexual' peddles offensive claims on Bryan Fischer's show

This afternoon, self-proclaimed bisexual Robert Oscar Lopez took his "gay parents are child abusers" shtick to the most incendiary forum in America:

Game over, ROL. With this, all credibility is gone. Forever. Out the door. You are an anti-gay activist who clearly puts that agenda above all else. Stop pretending, big guy.

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*On second thought, I guess he's not pretending. In one of the most insane pieces of anti-LGBT commentary I've ever read, he writes in American Thinker: "If I have to choose...

Southern Baptist's ERLC dedicating national conference to gay people, discrimination; better luck next year, homeless

There are many topics to which the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission could dedicate its national conference. But why tackle any of the actual social ills that truly harm the world when you can instead spend the weekend talking about gay people and our civil rights?

[ERLC conference]

Just remember, it's BYOS (Bring Your Own Stones). With all the casting they'll be doing over the two days, they'd never be able to provide enough for everyone.

Ironically enough,...

Photo: NOM thinks its discriminatory cause is young and hip; adorable

Here's another graphic the pro-discrimination, Catholic-driven, poll-bleeding special interest group the National Organization For Marriage is using to support its forthcoming march in support of inequality:

Millennials are in fact for more marriage, which is why every single poll shows this population supporting marriage equality in massive numbers. The problem here is NOM's wording. What NOM is really seeking are millennials who are in favor of marriage discrimination—they just don't have en...

An inside look at POTUS's evolution circa 2011–2012

Having been in and around conversations with people who had varying degrees of separation from the administration, the year or so leading up to President Obama's public stating of support for marriage equality remains one of the most fascinating times of my political life. Most everyone agreed that the big guy in charge was really with us, but there were so many opinions about when and how he would get there, often at great odds with one another, even among those with key insight. It was a fr...