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This week across Iowa: NOM, FRC, other anti-LGBT groups, figures work to sway election toward discrimination

Just a heads up if you live in Iowa: a whole lot of people who oppose basic freedoms for certain kinds of citizens who happened to have been born a certain way will be traversing your state in hopes of moving the needle toward inequality and inequality-minded candidates. Here are the details (with link to full sched.):

FULL: Anti-LGBT bus tour [FFF Fund]

I just hope they have good wi-fi on the bus. There will likely be more pro-equality developments this week and they'll surely want to learn ab...

Benham brothers yet again equate ISIS beheadings with treatment of anti-gay Christians

This video is three hours of anti-LGBT personalities like Tony Perkins and Mat Staver trying to sway the upcoming election. I haven't watched the whole thing because I am not a masochist. But I do want you to see this one part, which is cued:

"What's happening with swords over in the middle east is happening with silence here in America."

I just want to apologize to all of the families around the world, including those who might oppose LGBT rights, who have lost loved ones to actual beheadings....

Anti-gay group says anti-gay groups helped America become less anti-gay

Even though MassResistance, the anti-equality organization that has been fighting a lost cause in the Bay State for many years now, has almost no "successes" under its own belt, its overseers fancy themselves as all-knowing political operatives who could have saved their movement. And in a new post, this state org. is calling out the entire national coalition that has fought against, going so far as to accuse the anti-equality legal teams of "malpractice" and the associated movement of "ideol...

And Alaska makes 30!

Congratulations, citizens. You now live in an America where a whopping thirty states have marriage equality, including both of the non-contiguous ones:

3:14-cv-00089 #38 by Equality Case Files

Make your own jokes about seeing equality from your house.

Video: Conservative who believes in equality vs. man who has (several times) likened homosexuality to drug addiction

Tony Perkins has spent the past decade saying truly terrible things about LGBT people and LGBT rights. Ted Olson is a legal scholar who, despite (or because of?) his conservative beliefs, believes in civil marriage equality.

In Fox News and mainstream media outlets, this constitutes an equally-matched debate:

Note Tony's deliberate use of the phrase "back alley." You're going to be hearing lots of that kind of talk, with folks like Tony adding hyperbole like that in order to make the court acti...

Breaking: Marriage equality in North Carolina and Idaho!

Both late-breaking on this Friday afternoon:

I literally don't know where this puts us in the current state count. As someone who's been laboring in this movement and on this issue since the fight over state #1, I can tell you that's a great problem to have.

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*UPDATE: I think it's twenty-nine states. And yes, I know that I desperately need to update my marriage map.

@AustinRuse defames me, pretends to know heart of gay teen (cc @CrisisMag)

Even after the conservative Public Discourse ran an apology and correction separating my commentary writing from others who have chosen to write people's employers, target their family members, call for their firing, etc., Austin Ruse, the very anti-LGBT activist who works for C-FAM, has written yet another piece linking me to actions I never performed. Here are some pertinent snippets:

Jeremy Hooper, who works with the thugs at GLAAD, runs a site called “Good as You,” went after Janna but the...

Cardinal Burke: Parents should shield kids from gay family members

Cardinal Raymond Burke, former ArchBishop of St. Louis, is now the Cardinal Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura. This essentially means that he is second only to the Pope in terms of judicial authority within the Catholic Church.

And now here he is putting to lie the idea that the Catholic Church is becoming more accepting:

“If homosexual relations are intrinsically disordered, which indeed they are — reason teaches us that and also our faith — then, what would it mean t...

NOM's unwitting, fitting typo

From the anti-gay National Organization For Marriage's latest e-blast:

[NOM]

For once I believe them. The ever-resolute NOM's clearly learned no lessons from the Supreme Court or any other recent actions that repudiate their cause.

Although in this same email Brian Brown does admit NOM's cause is "on the ropes." So maybe a few more "lessonings" will lead to a lessening soon enough.

WV family group condemns 'sodomites;' says same-sex parenting is 'premeditated child abuse,' God will 'give us our just due'

Whether or not this will go down in history as the week that the marriage equality fight was officially won remains to be seen. However, I'm pretty sure this will, in fact, go down as the week that social conservatives lost their ever-loving (or at least hetero-loving) minds. As state after state moves toward the right, fair, and inevitable, groups and leaders are seemingly trying to outdo themselves with crazier and harsher statements.

Here's the West Virginia Family Foundation's contribution...