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Every Republican In Rhode Island Senate supports freedom to marry

The Rhode Island Senate Republican Caucus just sent over a press release sharing the good word:

As a united Senate Republican Caucus, we are proud to add our voices to reaffirm the principles of freedom and equality under the law.



Rhode Island Senate Republican Caucus



Senator Dennis Algiere

Senator David Bates

Senator Dawson Hodgson

Senator Nicholas Kettle

Senator Chris Ottiano



*Note: The Rhode Island Senate GOP Caucus the first legislative caucus of either political party in any state to unanimously...

Freedom, AFA style: 'If you are a Marxist, Socialist, Communist, Muslim, we are not going to allow you into our country'

Proudly incendiary voice Bryan Fischer of the aggressively anti-gay American Family Association doesn't fully agree with his caller that all immigrants must accept Jesus before entering America. He does, however, believe "Islam itself is one giant sleeper cell" and that Muslims, along with the other groups I named in the headline, must be banned from U.S. entry.

Clip is cued up:

They want our rights and an echo chamber; can't have either

They want our rights and an echo chamber; can't have either [GLAAD]

John Stemberger wants the Boy Scouts to be a discriminatory organization; here's how he's spinning that fact now

Anti-gay conservatives like John Stemberger own the Boy Scouts, apparently. Oh, and of course gay people, by virtue of being ourselves, are promoting/acting out/injecting/[insert scary thing that implies gay people are incapable of proper socialization] because that is what John Stemberger always claims:

"The real issue is this: Homosexual-rights activists are not satisfied with membership in good standing and being allowed to fully participate [in the Boy Scouts] like everyone else. They want...

FRC vs. 'homosexual activists and atheists' (a.k.a. their scapegoats and cash cows)

Another day means another Family Research Council fundraising plea. Another FRC fundraising plea means another attempt to miscast the antagonists who are supposed destroying American and its institutions:

[FRC email blast]

Because that's the way the FRC piggybank works, you see. If it doesn't bank on a clearly (mis)stated adversary (or adversaries), people might start noticing how long it has been getting fat off of discrimination and divisiveness.

Delaware's anti-equality group turns houses of worship into houses of *civil* discrimination

The state's major anti-equality group, the Delaware Family Policy Council, is encouraging local faith communities to pit their tax-exempt churches against the tax-sustained state:

Bulletin insert created by Delaware Family Policy Council

Video: NOM's Roback Morse says there's too much noise in marriage debate;

She, the NOM personality most likely to tell gay people they are only allowed to be celibate, energized fives and fives of people with a folksy speech built around city vs. country divisiveness and advice about closing your ears (/mind) to the pro-equality side's arguments:

SOURCE: M4M flies in nice lady from big city to tell rural Minnesotans not to let metro push them around [Bluestem Prairie]

Equality won't happen on your watch, Jen? What, does that mean you brought prop blinders to accompan...

NOM prez tells France to ban gays, save civilization

My pals at Le Mariage pour tous tipped me to this, Brian Brown's latest attempt to shape French politics. This is continuation of the "International Organization For Marriage" plan that I exposed this week:

ROUGH MACHINE TRANSLATION OF BRIAN's LETTER:

Dear French resistant to denaturation of marriage



It is with great admiration that I address you from the United States, this message of support and encouragement.



I saw in Paris with my own eyes, on January 23, the quiet power of your engagement an...

Boy Scout document dump;lots of words about what today means (and doesn't mean)

Building on my earlier note about the Boy Scouts backing a plan to allow gay youth but not gay adults, G-A-Y reader Laurie J. Rich sends these along. I'm reading and processing along with you:

Membership Resolution Media Statement FINAL by G-A-Y

Executive Summary of Study Findings by G-A-Y

Proposed Membership Standards Resolution by G-A-Y

Membership Standards Frequently Asked Questions by G-A-Y

Every LGBT-centric thing Dzhokhar Tsarnaev tweeted or retweeted

I searched his confirmed Twitter account for gay, lesbian, and all associated terms (slur and non). This seems to be the sum total of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's LGBT-centered tweets or retweets. Mostly retweets and mostly benign child's play (although the third one down seems a little threatening):

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*Wait, hold up—in the hours AFTER the bombing, he seems to have tweeted about Westboro Baptist. The other end of the conversation is blocked, so I can't fully confirm. But judging by context and time fr...