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December 19, 2012

And the award for most delusional year-end video goes to…




Starbucks is thriving. Damian Goddard is saying ridiculous stuff on a near-daily basis, and his whole "Marriage ADA" project has fallen on deaf ears. That "most pro-marriage platform" led to a major GOP drubbing at the November polls. NOM merely co-opted the Chick-fil-A thing, and there are some signs that the company is now backing away from the anti-equality movement and the horrible press it brought. All of the GOP primary candidates were highly unelectable without a snowball's chance of b...

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Published on December 19, 2012 17:35

'Ex-gay' advocate Sharon Kass still trying to turn fiction into science


Just got this email:


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Crap.


The truth will remain out and proud.


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**More on Sharon Kass can be found here and here.



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Published on December 19, 2012 08:42

Last minute (and top rated) gifts for residents of history's right side (*or those who need to get there)


Some suggestions for your last minute gifting, including one from a guy you might know:


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MORE GREAT TITLES AT LINK: Top Rated in Gay & Lesbian Nonfiction [Amazon]



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Published on December 19, 2012 06:07

Tony Perkins: Gays 'targeting' Salvation Army because it's Christian, don't care about needy


Just in time for Christmas, here's Tony Perkins framing the millions of gays in America as both anti-Christian and anti-needy:


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Or, Tony, it could be because this very same George Hood has admitted that the hiring of gay employees "chews[s] away at the theological fabric of who we are" and has lobbied against LGBT rights worldwide. That's not the same thing as simply being Christian anywhere but within the myopic bubble that is religious right politicking.


And by the way, Tony, I will be up...

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Published on December 19, 2012 05:29

December 18, 2012

Facebooker finds 'thier' 'lisbian' 'rites' absolutely 'sicking'


Both of these comments were left on the Facebook wall of a national organization geared towards helping LGBT youth:


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I am spellbound. Which makes one of us who is bound by the confines of spelling.


Stay in school, kids.



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Published on December 18, 2012 16:41

'Change' from the inside: Truth Wins Out looks behind 'ex-gay' poster couple's chosen portrait


Wayne Besen and his team have unveiled a comprehensive new examination of an "ex-gay" poster couple that doesn't seem to be living the life that their supportive organizations claim them to be living. Shocker, I know.


I encourage you to read, in full:


TWO Investigation: ‘Ex-Gay’ Rock Star John Paulk Exposed As Fraud…Again [Truth Wins Out]


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Published on December 18, 2012 12:23