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Video: FRC confuses its rabidly anti-LGBT (among others) agenda for 'light'

This is an organization topped with senior staff members who have called for the "exporting" and criminalization of gays, claims gays are "vile" and factually headed for "eternal damnation," and that we LGBT activists are "simply pawns in the hands of their malevolent master"…"the Devil." Please, someone—turn off the "light."

WV: Lambda Legal looks to one state's historical misstep, hopes to salvage future

Lambda Legal has filed suit seeking to dismantle West Virginia's version of those 21st century legal abominations that we call "marriage amendments." Joe has the details:

WEST VIRGINIA: Lambda Legal Files Suit To Overturn Marriage Ban [J.M.G.]

Frank Schubert's CA coalition: Supporting trans studentss is to use them 'as weapons in a culture war'

As you probably know, the anti-LGBT crowd in California (a team headed by NOM's political director, Frank Schubert) is trying to reject a recently passed law that mandates basic safeguards for transgender students in the Golden State's public schools. Now check out this text from a bulletin insert that the coalition is distributing to Golden State churches:

FULL INSERT [Privacy For All Students]

The proponents of the bill are recognizing the truth that certain students do, in fact, identify as...

Poll: Most Americans aren't itching to fire LGBT workers without cause

A new TargetPoint Consulting survey shows that 68% of registered voters, across party lines, support federal law protecting LGBT people from workplace discrimination:

Poll: Big support for anti-discrimination law [Politico]

Shouldn't shock us that Americans support this non-brainer law, considering basic nondiscrimination is something a majority of Americans have long supported. But what's really frustrating is that this data, like prior data, also indicates that most Americans (eight out of te...

Scott Lively to run for MA governor (*if his claim that gays will bring the EndTimes isn't fulfilled first)

This is not a joke. I mean, the very idea of his candidacy is a joke, but the announcement is legit:

September 30, 2013



PRESS RELEASE

For Immediate Release

Contact Scott Lively 413-250-0984

Sdllaw@gmail.com



Lively to Run For Massachusetts Governor



Statement of Pastor Scott Lively:



After long contemplation and prayer I am convinced that I should run for Governor of Massachusetts. I will run as an independent.



The people of this state need a candidate who can clearly and unapologetically articulate Bibl...

What the pro-discrimination set has slated for Values Voter Summit

With one of America's most proudly and exceedingly anti-LGBT conferences only twelve days away, let's take a second and look at some of what the Family Research Council has planned for this year's so-called "Values Voter Summit." Here are three breakout sessions that specifically mention marriage and related matters:

Values Voter Summit Breakout Sessions [FRC]

In the first one, you have young people trying to convince America that polls are reversible, the youth vote's staunch LGBT support will...

NJ Mayor of The Year hopes to become first mayor of History's Right Side

If the recent ruling in favor of marriage equality holds solid, New Jersey's Mayor Of The Year, David DelVecchio (D), has vowed to perform the state's first same-sex marriage:

NEW JERSEY: Small Town Mayor Vows To Perform State's First Same-Sex Marriage [J.M.G.]

Good for him. Grandkids read history books; history books always smile kindly on civil rights champions. Always.

National Organization For [stocking scientifically-discredited propaganda on nonfiction shelves]

The National Organization For Marriage's Ruth Institute continues the recent trend of admitting that the supposedly marriage-focused organization is really just another arm of the larger anti-LGBT agenda. In a new blog post, with NOM branding squarely intact, the Ruth Institute is trying to lend credence to so-called "ex-gay" advocacy books that seek to tell gay people that we can and should "change," equating those books' "banning" with the banning of tomes that actually hold merit:

FULL BLOG...

Winning team sticks to winning cause: Olson/Boies to fight VA marriage ban

With eyes clearly on the Supreme Court, Prop 8's winning odd couple has announced plans to continue the fight for full marriage equality:

WASHINGTON — Ted Olson and David Boies aren’t done fighting in court for marriage equality. On Monday morning, they will announce they are joining a lawsuit filed in July seeking to overturn Virginia’s ban on marriage between same-sex couples.

KEEP READING: Prop 8 Team, Ted Olson And David Boies, To Fight Virginia Marriage Ban [Buzzfeed]

If the anti-gay orgs...

IFI hopes you spend late Oct. day scaring neighbors w/ tricks in hopes of seizing stomach-churning treats

Just in time for Halloween comes this event, which is 100% built around spreading fear about same-sex couples and our families:

**REMINDER: IFI is one of the most hostile of any of the statewide groups fighting against us. Its leadership has said some of the most vile and revolting things imaginable about LGBT people, making the IFI one of the few state family policy groups to land on the SPLC's lists of active anti-gay hate groups.