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February 18, 2015
CPAC readies a marriage panel; its last?
The Conservative Political Action Conference, colloquially known as CPAC, gets under way next week. And just like in past years, there will be a marriage (in)equality panel:
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No surprise. The political conservatives have been politicizing this issue, from the negligently wrong side of things, for many years now; why wouldn't they give it another go at this, their premier political event?
But you have to wonder if this might be their swan song performance. By CPAC 2016, it's highly likely t...
February 17, 2015
Video: Rep. Gohmert, Gov. Huckabee, other radical anti-gay activists in new trailer for fear doc
In the last teaser clip, we saw longtime anti-gay/pro-discrimination activist Janet Porter carrying a lantern through darkened woods, the suggestion apparently being that America is lost in a fog of gayness and only Ms. Porter's light can guide us home. In this new and extended one, Porter beings by saying the gay rights movement is "like a tank in Tiananmen Square" before introducing a who's who of fringe activists about whom we will soon be able to ask, "um, who?"
The final film will reporte...
Truly beyond the pale words from someone the right wing media keeps promoting
As with every activist I've challenged over ten years time, everything I know, write, feel, or care about relatively minor player Robert Oscar Lopez comes from the words, speeches, articles, amicus briefs and advocacy work that he, per his own will and volition, chose to put on the record. When he talked, I listened and documented his constant barrage of jaw-dropping comments, and then I voiced countering opinions about them. That is called discourse.
But this is how he, someone who mainstream...
Does even NOM realize that 'holiness' should be separated from civil marriage?
Over the weekend, the National Organization For Marriage updated its "March For Marriage" organizing site with some information about this year's (non)event. This is how it read:
But this morning, NOM updated the page so that it reads like so:
Good for NOM removing the "journey of holiness" talk. For one, civil discrimination has never been a holy journey, and this time is no different. But also, talk of "holiness" is something that people of faith really need...
February 15, 2015
SNL's forty years of gay visibility: As messy and imperfect as America's own journey (#SNL40)
Having come into being in the mid-'70s, a time when the gay rights movement was itself coming into its own, the forty year history of Saturday Night Live is a sort of archival document of our visibility, our treatment in the media, and overall picture of acceptance. Like that larger course, SNL's treatment has been a bumpy roller coaster, with highpoint jokes that laugh with us and low point jokes that very much laugh at us. But while some will make you groan and others will make you cheer (a...
February 13, 2015
What NOM's Ginsburg 'demand' is really all about
You've probably heard by now that the National Organization For Marriage, a fail-prone organization that hasn't won just about anything in the past three years and has installed shepherded a nation where the majority of the states and the population have and largely support same-sex marriage, is "DEMANDING" that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg recuse herself from the the upcoming marriage cases because of recent comments in which she said she feels the American public will accept full equality. H...
Anti-gay SCOTUS justice clearly prefers crayons, colored pencils
One of the high court's most anti-gay members:
‘Don’t paint me as anti-gay,’ says Scalia [Washington Blade]
To which I respond: "Oh, so you'd prefer I use these?"
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*RELATED: Here Are the 7 Worst Things Antonin Scalia Has Said or Written About Homosexuality [Mother Jones]
Maggie Gallagher pushes GOP to ignite anti-gay 'culture war'; where (and from whom) have we heard this before?
If the GOP sweeps in 2016, Maggie Gallagher knows what she wants to be her party's top priority. It's the unfettered right to deny LGBT people goods and services, natch:
If the GOP would like to leave a legacy that makes a difference, I would argue for generous anti-discrimination protections for those who favor or oppose gay marriage (unless they work for an organization whose substantial purpose is to favor or oppose gay marriage).
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If social conservatives want to be taken seriously as a p...
February 12, 2015
FRC prays SCOTUS 'will rule in the fear of God'
With all hopes lots, social conservatives aren't even hiding their belief that courts of civil law should operate like churches, and particularly red line ones at that. The latest example comes from the Family Research Council. In its latest round of prayer targets, the DC special interest group is instructing its supporters to pray that United States Supreme Court will decide the upcoming marriage case based on what FRC believes should be their godly fears about civil marriage equality:
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