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July 24, 2015
NOM to lasso the White House with a rosary. Or something.
No longer needing to pretend they are something other than the thoroughly Catholic organization they've always been, the National Organization For Marriage has announced this little stunt:
[NOM]
I love how it's all about supposedly men and women coming to gather, but then they say "Our goal is to have at least 500 men (and women) gathered..." As if women are just some separate, lesser, parenthetical element to the men.
At this attempt to turn the White House into the Vatican, NOM will be...
July 22, 2015
NOM's new plan? To beat up its org-crushing loss until it becomes a win.
Legislatively? Nope. The bad laws they passed were unconstitutional, and recent years have turned in our favor anyway.
Electorally? Nope. The last four states to vote for marriage went in favor equality, and all credible polling for a few years now shows majority support for marriage equality.
Judicially? Puh-leeze! In addition to two crushing Supreme Court blows in two years' time, scores of federal courts have sided with fairness over discrimination.
We all know NOM knows how to beg for mon...
July 21, 2015
By the time you read this headline, we'll be ten more seconds beyond stagnant anti-gay 'culture wars'
Since it's summer vacation time, perhaps you've found yourself at a theme park. And at said theme park, perhaps you've found yourself sitting on some sort of tram watching the tableaus of an attraction play outside your moving window. When your car stops and the tour guide is engaging you and your fellow passengers in the show, you might have observations or opinions or debates with your fellow riders or whatever else about the subject matter in front of you. You paid for your ticket; you're...
Video: America cannot wait—to purchase American Family Association radio equipment? Huh?!
I see Bryan Fischer's wife among this collection of southern-accented actors:
America Cannot Wait from American Family Studios on Vimeo.
Join our campaign today! Visit www.afa.net/americacannotwait.
Um, AFA, I'm pretty sure that your ability to make yourselves heard is a big reason why we—and even the Republican "we" among us, increasingly—are turning the page on the ugly "culture war" chapter that the family Wildmon imposed on this country. Hell, Bryan Fischer alone is better than the best...
Huckabee 2016: 'cause church and state aint gonna marry themselves
Skin and sin are rhyming words, y'all:
July 16, 2015
EEOC does wonky, under-radar thing that could lay groundwork for definitive nondiscrimination protections
This is big step toward comprehensive civil rights protections beyond marriage:
WASHINGTON — The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has ruled that existing civil rights law bars sexual orientation-based employment discrimination — a groundbreaking decision to advance legal protections for gay, lesbian, and bisexual workers.
FULL: Sexual Orientation Discrimination Is Barred By Existing Law, Federal Commission Rules [Buzzfeed]
In a related story, wrong-side-of-history activists have una...
Maggie Gallagher, now that you've lost on marriage, might you lose these deceptive ways as well?
In a new post on the 2016 campaign site that she and her conservative pals at the American Principles Project are trying to make happen, Maggie Gallagher writes under this headline and premise:
New Poll: Huge Drop in Support for Gay Marriage [Pulse 2016]
To make her claim, Maggie starts with a May 2015 Gallup poll that indicated 60% of Americans support the right of same-sex couples to marry. Then she took a just-released Reuters-Ipsos poll that shows 51% support the legal right (with 14%...
July 15, 2015
Crowdfunding discriminatory business owners: Perfect statement on anti-gay movement's current affairs
It came out today that Aaron and Melissa Klein, the (former) Oregon bakery owners who infamously turned away a lesbian couple and who rely admit they have turned away other gay customers in the past, have raised over $350,000 via a Christian crowdfunding site. Presumably the bulk of these funds are from supporters who think they were wronged and deserve recompense for the pesky policies of their state getting in the way of their "right" to discriminate, just as we've seen with similar situat...
The religious anti-gay crowd: They never understood the marriage fight; now they don't understand their loss
Over on the Family Research Council's blog, one of the viciously anti-LGBT group's more recent hires, Travis Weber, posts yet another bit of defiance in the wake of the Supreme Court's marriage equality decision. In this one, Travis makes the case that many churches will never accept the ruling:
[T]here is the unspoken assumption that after the Supreme Court speaks those who object to its decision will roll over and submit.
In the vast majority of cases that would be true. In this instance...
July 14, 2015
Professionally discriminatory Americans to waste more precious mortality fighting battle we've already won
Some of the funniest failed characters in all of anti-LGBTdom (Peter LaBarbera, Janet Porter, Willie Owens) are vowing to keep fighting forever to stop same-sex marriage. In :
New Coalition Pledges To Fight Gay Marriage [Texas Observer]
In an overcompensating fashion reliable of this movement, they are calling the coalition "REAL MARRIAGE." You know, just in case their seeming need to pull themselves away from their own spouses in order to focus on strangers' marriages didn't make their co...
