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'Weekly Standard' asst. editor equates Tim Cook with man who pits God against him

Jim Swift, assistant editor of the conservative Weekly Standard, thinks Tim Cook, in coming out as a proud gay man, sounds just like another newsmaking company leader:

A southern-born CEO invoking religion regarding his views on homosexuality, lobbying for what he believes in, and using his company to financially and publicly support those views?

Indeed, we have a heard a story like this before.

Before Tim Cook, this perfectly described another CEO and son of the south: Daniel Truett Cathy of C...

Michigan pastors make unfortunate lifestyle choice; say they'll go to jail rather than not discriminate

A group of Michigan pastors, working under the moniker of "No Gay Civil Right," has declared that they will not comply with any LGBT-inclusive nondiscrimination law that might pass in their state. Pastor Stay Swimp, a humorously over-the-top activist preacher, explains it like so:

"Let there be no doubt that, if you should decide to go forward with this grave injustice, I, every born again believer I know, as well as every pastor you see here today, shall disobey your unjust law,” ....“Here we...

PFOX's Quinlan says SBC leader's opposition to 'reparative therapy' is cruel

At this week's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission conference, Russell Moore, top dog of that Southern Baptist enterprise, came out against so-called "reparative therapy." Then he and his allies proceeded to spend a large percentage of that conference telling gay people they can't be gay (celibacy was their main suggestion). Because let's be clear: the Southern Baptist Convention is light years away from accepting us; they are just increasingly willing to admit that the barbaric attempts...

That Idaho wedding venue posts new 'rules and regulations'; will still perform non-Christian weddings

The Hitching Post, that for-profit Idaho venue that has repurposed itself as a solely religious enterprise in order to exclude same-sex couples, has posted the new policies for who can and who cannot marry there. The gist: Even though they are claiming that they are waaaaaaaaay to Christian to every marriage same-sex couples (or polygamists or bigamists, which they say in the same breath), they will totally marry people who ascribe to faiths other than Christianity. Because let's get real her...

Another deceptive thing about NOM's duplicitous anti-Hagan ad

Yesterday I showed you the increasingly desperate National Organization For Marriage's new ad targeting incumbent US Senator Kay Hagan, and I mentioned how her Republican colleague, Sen. Richard Burr, also praised and approved of the federal judge that NOM is faulting Hagan for supporting. I also noted how that judge, Max Coburn, was ultimately confirmed by a unanimous vote in the Senate.

But I just thought of something else: There was a second U.S. District Judge, one William Osteen, who also...

NOM trying to shape Arkansas politics without even learning state's abbreviation

This is the official YouTube copy of NOM's new ad attacking incumbent US Senator Mark Pryor and advocating for his GOP opponent:

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A title that would be great if Mark Pryor was running in Alaska. But considering Arkansas' abbreviation is AR, NOM might want to go for a rewrite.

Then again, the organization has absolutely no ties to this, a state that they are simply carpetbagging. Why should anyone expect the anti-gay opportunists to know anything about the state, its voters, or its repre...

Video: Focus on the Family staffer who calls homosexuality 'particularly evil lie of Satan' hangs out in Chicago's Boystown

Glenn Stanton, a longtime anti-LGBT activist is somewhat notorious for his claim that homosexuality is a "particularly evil lie of Satan" (a claim that still runs on Focus on the Family's website, by the way). Stanton also believes same-sex marriage "actually deconstructs humanity itself" and that same-sex parenting turns children into "human guinea pigs." To name just some of his many slights.

But he loves us, natch. And he wants to be our friend, of course. And to prove it, he's spending hi...

Video: Another new NOM ad targets Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AR); uses James O'Keefe video as source

I've already written about the attempt at a "gotcha" from conservative hidden camera activist James O'Keefe, in which a local gay youth leader's hearsay suggestion to what she believes to be a potential donor is accepted as fact. Now this same conjecture and video is the basis for a new NOM ad attempting to making US Senator Mark Pryor, who is on record as being opposed to same-sex marriage, into a faker. Like the disingenous one targeting Kay Hagan in North Carolina, this one is also from NO...

What the heck is 'NOM Victory Fund'?

At the end of the National Organization For Marriage's disingenuous new ad attacking US Senator Kay Hagan for joining her Republican colleague in recommending, and all of her colleagues in confirming, the District Judge who recognized that North Carolina's marriage amendment is, in fact, unconstitutional, the text lists some new organization and URL for NOM:

"NOM Victory Fund"? New to me. And it's new to everyone, in fact, since NOM only bought that domain last week:

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The site has...

Video: NOM reminds North Carolinians that they, Thom Tillis forced state into unconstitutional mess

Thom Tillis, the Republican nominee for US Senate, championed North Carolina's marriage bill. When it went to ballot, the National Organization For Marriage and its team masterminded the costly campaign that forced both sides to squander time and resources.

Now, with Tillis running against pro-equality incumbent Kay Hagan and the unconstitutional marriage ban that Tillis and NOM pushed nothing but a bad memory, NOM is, for some strange reason, reminding Tar Heel voters of the always wrongheade...