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Libby Phelps on her family's CT plans: 'It's just sad all around'

"It's just sad all around. I wish that [Westboro Baptist Church] wouldn't picket the CT shooting, however I still think the First Amendment guarantees their right to protest. The government shouldn't be deciding which views are acceptable and which ones aren't. I always thought it was wrong and got uncomfortable when I was shown and told to be happy about the pain caused by tragedies like the CT shooting. If WBC focused more on what people could do to possibly avoid such tragedies instead of...

Audio: Conservative warns of 'hundred of millions' Americans rising up against pro-equality court

Matthew Franck is just flat-out lying when he denies religious resistance to interracial marriage the existed in 1967. And that's just the beginning of his flawed read:

A Closer Look [Relevant Radio]

Hundreds of millions? Weird, considering most National Organization Marriage rallies look much more like sparsely attended family reunions than they resemble any sort of national resistance movement.

Mainers who are unaware that their side's fear claims were B.S. talking points

The Christian Civic League of Maine asked its supporters to predict how the state's marriage equality law will affect their lives, and what follows is a sampling of the responses. My favorite is the person who now plans to refer to his marriage as a "pre-2013" marriage:

I’m afraid that the gay agenda will be forced into public schools. This is something I don’t agree with at all. Kids need to worry and learn about kid things, not why a man is with another man, or a woman with another woman, et...

Video: Al Qaeda is attacking us because some boys want to become pastry chefs

Cooking food with a lightbulb leaves America vulnerable to attack:

If you are this threatened by young boys who practice become the next "Ace of Cakes" or "Cake Boss" (among the thousand of other male bakers and pastry chefs), then you might want to ask yourself what's really cooking within your own own overheated kiln.

Incoming U.S. Sen Tim Scott: POTUS will destroy SCOTUS

Is the Supreme Court about to become an ideological "organization" (no longer a court) that will destroy the three branch system as we know it? Yes, according to the spring 2012 predictions of Tim Scott, a man who will soon get to vote on the future nominees:

LeoJansen.Net

Can't wait to read his "activist judge" press releases in 2013! Two of them in particular.

WND publisher Farah joins the 'more Sandy Hooks are coming to godless America' parade

The vehemently anti-LGBT Joseph Farah joins Bryan Fischer, Mike Huckabee, and James Dobson (for now) in telling America that it didn't pray hard enough to stop Sandy Hook:

Next year will mark the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court decisions that removed prayer from the public schools of America. Just look what has happened since. It’s not that God is exacting punishment on America as a result. He is giving America over to the desires of its wicked heart.



We are reaping the seeds of the whirl...

Video: Entirety of Internet too obtuse to glean Bryan Fischer's deep, measured meaning

On Friday, internet thinkers and commentators (from all political stripes) reacted wholly appropriately when the American Family Association's Bryan Fischer suggested that the Connecticut massacre that had happened just hours earlier was due to a lack of prayer and obedience to God. But true to the same, responsibility-shirking form that the social conservative commentariat most always takes when called out for their rhetoric, Fischer is now pretending that everyone who reacted to him (and fe...

Another 'values' conservative suggests my marriage causes school shootings

Add former Focus on the Family president James Dobson to the list of social conservative commentators who think that "social issues" like marriage equality are the proper focus for an America in need of reasoned debate:

AUDIO AND TRANSCRIPT: Dobson: Connecticut Shooting was God Allowing 'Judgment to Fall Upon Us' for Turning Our Back on Him [RWW]

He's still got it, that Dobson! Just when you think he's done playing condemnatory games with broken hearts—BAM! Back in action before you can say "Re...

And Brian Brown brings up the rear with negative sixteen points

U.S News and World Reports is hosting another online debate around marriage equality, this one focused on whether the question to be left to the states. This is how the leader board looks right now (1:51 PM on 12/17):

Go read and vote here: Should Same Sex Marriage Be Left to the States? [UsNews.com]

This one is interesting, because Brian actually takes the same "no" position as how pro-equality opponents. Except, of course, Brian's federal government view only goes one way: the way that makes...

Audio: TN preacher links shooting to gays before calling (in same breath) for shooter to be strung up, burned

Pastor Sam Morris from Dunlap, TN:

"Have you noticed that equal rights in America is a sham? It is not equal rights—it's equal immorality. It's equal as long as you are a sodomite or as long as you are a prisoner or you're a murderer, you can be immoral and get equal rights—Amen. But I'll tell you something right now—you know what they need to do with that little boy that shot himself, that twenty-year-old boy? They need to string him in public and set his body on fire and leave it out there t...