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January 30, 2015
NOM's 'International Org. For Marriage' gets an Executive Director
For the past few years, the National Organization For Marriage has been paying Opus Fidelis, a Catholic technology firm, to handle much of its social media and web work. The head of Opus Fidelis is David Lejeune, a man with deep international ties within the Catholic church.
Apparently David Lejeune will be the head of NOM's spinoff, the International Organization For Marriage, whenever that long gestating effort gets under way. At least that is how he was listed at a recent event held at the...
January 29, 2015
FRC prays for judges, governors, legislators to ignore marriage equality rulings
From the Family Research Council's latest round of prayer targets:
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Would be funny. Would be, that is, if judges, governors, and legislators ignored FRC. Sadly they do not.
Read: AFA plays innocent about making Bryan Fischer a known pundit; no one's buying it
Here's the American Family Association saying they repudiate (a small percentage of) the nasty rhetoric former senior spokesperson Bryan Fischer, in an obvious attempt to coax the Southern Poverty Law Center into removing the AFA from its active hate groups list:
Here's the Southern Poverty Law Center having none of it. NONE. OF. IT:
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BTW, this Patrick Vaughn, who penned this whole "we're so innocent" routine, recently wrote this about gay people and our unions:
Homosexuals have fought doggedl...
Yes you will coexist with civil marriage equality, Tony Perkins; that's a demand, not a request
On yesterday's edition of his viciously anti-gay radio show, proudly discriminatory commentator Tony Perkins demanded that people like him will never accept marriage equality regardless of the fact that we already have thirty-six* states, full federal rights, and the very likely prospect of fifty-state equality by year's end. Because it's "lawlessness," insists Perkins, and "lawlessness cannot reign" until someone "takes out" God.
Here's the clip:
Mr. Perkins, you can rip up every same-sex wedd...
January 28, 2015
Report: The AFA has fired Bryan Fischer as Director of Issue Analysis
Astute readers will note that whenever I've written about infamously over the top anti-LGBT activist Bryan Fischer, I've most always referred to him by his prominent title at the American Family Association. It's pretty obvious why I've done this: because I've wanted to make sure to connect Bryan's jaw-dropping rhetoric, which has managed to disparage just about every minority group (and how!) in the handful of years that Bryan's been in the public eye, directly to his employer. I knew that i...
Video: These Alabama anti-gay protestors sound exactly like parody versions of Alabama anti-gay protestors
Federal judges are wrong. Because ABOMINATION:
Audio: Activist judge Roy Moore gives rambling, unconvincing interview to Tony Perkins
Roy Moore, Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court and longtime conservative activist, is certainly enjoying a few minutes of notoriety from his latest publicity stunt. If you haven't heard, that's the one where he's insisting that Alabama government can simply ignore federal court rulings that strike down the state's marriage ban as unconstitutional.
Most legal scholars are dismissing the PR act for what it is, and some groups are even pursuing ethics charges against Moore. For his part, M...
NOM reveals plan for taking people's money even though they've clearly lost
National Organization for Marriage president Brian Brown has big plans for how he will justify his employment even though his shockingly ineffective and fail-prone organization has actually helped exacerbate his movement's losses:
I have to tell you, I am really excited about our opportunities this year. We're in the best position we've been in in years thanks to the support of you and other members of NOM.
With a solid pro-marriage majority in both the House and the US Senate, populated by rea...
January 27, 2015
Openly anti-gay Chief Justice of AL Supreme Court vows to openly defy marriage equality
His name being so associated with conservative activism, it's easy to forget that Roy Moore is actually the Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. And here is his latest transgression:
In a letter to Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley, Moore details what he calls “legitimate concerns” about whether the federal courts have the authority to consider the constitutionality of Alabama’s marriage laws — asking the governor not to enforce the ruling.
Citing the Bible and an 1825 letter from Thomas Jeffe...
