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NOM, Focus on the Family, FRC to help elect more Democrats in November

The National Organization For Marriage loves to talk about its efforts in New York state in 2012 and how it supposedly destroyed pro-equality Republicans in that election. But what they never talk about is how they actually helped to elect more Democrats, since the anti-equality Republicans they put up to challenge the moderates mostly lost their races, handing the edge over to pro-equality Democrats. Many local Republicans in that state (my state) were really annoyed with what the out-of-sta...

Can you honestly assess anything, Tony Perkins? #VVS14

Reacting to an ad that has clearly struck a nerve, Tony Perkins (/his ghostwriter) writes the following. Pay particular attention to the part I've highlighted:

[FRC]

Nice attempt to turn it around on Dan, Tony (/Tony's ghostwriter). But in truth, the ad makes *no such claim* about Tony Perkins' personal assessments of Dan Savage. Instead, the ad mentions a claim that the Family Research Council, in a letter signed by one Tony Perkins, once made about the It Gets Better project, the anti-bullyin...

In which I give NOM a more insightful Bill Owens quote

The anti-gay National Organization For Marriage is running this new attempt at a photo meme featuring one of its affiliate leaders, Rev. Bill Owens:

[SOURCE: NOM]

Oh, but we can do so much better when it comes to quoting Owens. Here's my "favorite":

[SOURCE]

Oh no, you're not a bully, Mr. Owens. You just compare gay people to those who have sex with bulls. What a civil rights legacy!!

A look at three #VVS14 breakout sessions

In an August radio appearance, Tami Fitzgerald insisted that all of the world's gay people are "defying what they were created to be," echoing similar comments she has made in the past. She will be speaking at one of the upcoming Values Voter Summit's breakout sessions:

Joseph Farah has insisted that marriage equality, which he calls "one of the most radical ideas considered since child sacrifice," will quickly bring down America. Janet Porter, who has become so fringe that even most of the an...

LGBT orgs let GOP know just how awful #VVS14 really is

Considering Tony Perkins, the exceedingly anti-LGBT head of the organization that hosts the Values Voter Summit, has touted his personal friendship with Reince Priebus, I don't expect the GOP chair to actually use the annual conference's 2014 edition (which will be held in the nation's capital this weekend) to make a strong and overdue point about homo hostility and how the Republican party would be better off if it finally moved beyond it. However, I very much applaud national LGBT orgs for...

Video: Aggressively anti-gay single man Stacy Swimp is going to save marriage, destroy the NAACP

Stacy Swimp is a very anti-gay man who embraces his condemnation of homosexuality. And now he, an unmarried man working in tandem with the fringe conservative Thomas More Law Center and activists like "ex-gay" Janet Boynes, is going to save the "traditional marriage" fight for his side while also destroying the pro-gay NAACP in the process. It's unclear how he's going to do this, but the first stop is this airport Marriott:

Phyllis Schlafly: It's 'not just the gays' who murdered the American family

Phyllis Schlafly has written a new book (published by WorldNetDaily) titled Who Killed the American Family? But don't get the wrong idea, "the gays"—we didn't perform this murder all by ourselves. See, in an email promoting her book, Ms. Schlafly admits we had some accomplices in this familial homicide:

Who Killed The American Family? [TX Eagle Forum]

Yes, that is where Ms. Schafly's long held and wrongheaded career has taken her: she is literally now playing "culture war" Clue in hopes of dete...

Beheadings, loving marriages make AFA writer wonder where God is

In a piece for the aggressively anti-gay American Family Association, Digital Media Editor Ray Rooney Jr. runs down some of the things that make him stop and question whether God's eye is even focused on Earth. In one paragraph, he lumps together barbaric beheadings with, um, well—here, take a look:

Militant Islam has declared war on all Jews and Christians but our civic and religious leaders keep telling us that Islam is a peaceful religion. This, despite the fact that videos showing the barb...

Video: A reminder that marriage equality won't silence spineless anti-gay a*holes

You know what's a horrible thing to do? Scream at a couple when they are in the middle of their wedding ceremony.

You know what's a true blight on our social fabric? Anti-gay hostility.

You know how anti-gay hostility is typically delivered? In a cowardly way.

Put the three together and you have the basis of this news report out of California:

(h/t: Towleroad)

'Ex-gay' org. excited to be 'featured exhibitor' at #VVS14

Values Voter Summit 2014 will feature Governor Sarah Palin, prominent GOP US Senators like Rand Paul and Ted Cruz, several House Republicans, and a whole host of prominent conservative movers and shakers. One of the big exhibitors on hand at this, one of the premiere conservative events on the conference schedule, will be a group with a sole focus on "changing" gay people:

PFOX: Ex-Gay Is Real, Change is Possible



PFOX to Exhibit at Values Voter Summit and Promote Second Annual Ex-Gay Awareness...