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Video: Man misapplies personal trauma to sexual orientation science

I truly feel for this man for having to endure the childhood trauma and subsequent string of bad choices that he describes. But he needs to stop pretending that his experience is definitive or that he is qualified to tell the worlds' millions of happy gay people that their sexual orientations are of Satan and "changeable":

WND's editor fundamentally misunderstands nondiscrimination law (part 3 of 3)

In his third post on the same subject in just the past week, WND (formerly WorldNetDaily) founder and editor Joseph Farah yet again misses the point about nondiscrimination law and its application. Here's a pertinent snip:

Think about it. It’s really simple. If the folks who want to have a same-sex marriage are protected by laws honoring “sexual orientation,” why don’t those same laws protect the “sexual orientation” of the caterers, the florists, the bakers and photographers?



Don’t get my poin...

Video: Why is this shockingly anti-gay (among other things) speech happening in a Connecticut public school?

According to both the video description and a separate advertisement for the event this speech from Umar John took place earlier this month at Hillhouse High School in New Haven, CT. It will take only about a minute for you to see why it's deeply problematic (even if technically legal) for a public school to have its name connected to such a speech:

@1:05: "Some of you gay—you sick. Some of you hate black people—you sick. Some of you married to white women—your ass is as sick as them all."

I...

Fined NY event space to host same-sex wedding receptions (*but no ceremonies for anyone)

Liberty Ridge Farm, the upstate New York business that was fined for turning away a lesbian couple who sought to book the space for their wedding, has agreed to allow same-sex couples to hold their wedding receptions on the site. But there's a catch: the business has stopped performing wedding ceremonies for anyone, gay or straight.

The following link, like all the links I've found, comes from conservative media, which is yet again framing this as a "mean gays" story:

The family will continue...

Another day, another far-right pastor pushing Christians to civil war

After first calling to mind to both Pearl Harbor in December of 1941 and the Titanic in April of 1912, Rev. William Cook, the exec. director of something called the Black Robe Regiment of Virginia (which he describes as "a clergy-led army of Christian patriots"), writes the following about America circa 2014 and Christians' supposed need to rise up and war against it:

A word about abortion and homosexuality



God created the first government in Adam, “male and female created He them.” (Genesis 1...

Joseph Farah still clueless about nondiscrimination law

Earlier this week, I showed you how WND (formerly WorldNetDaily) founder and very anti-gay person Joseph Farah was using all kinds of easy-to-counter hypotheticals in order to diminish the case for fair nondiscrimination protections for gay, lesbian, and bisexual consumers. Now he's back with an even worse talking point:

The fact is that to bestow special legal rights and privileges to minority groups based on their sexual orientation is de facto discrimination against the sexual orientation o...

Hobby Lobby president to join extremely anti-gay activists at 'Star Spangled' event

The Benham brothers routinely equate LGBT rights with Satan. Tony Perkins equates homosexuality with drug abuse and says it's a fact that gay people will face eternal damnation. Mark Harris has admitted he doesn't want people to see homosexuality as "fine and dandy." Rick Scarborough insists that AIDS is God's judgement for homosexuality. Mike Huckabee believes homosexuality is a changeable "disposition," which he directly compares with alcoholism. Sen. Ted Cruz has made it his legislative mi...

FRC's Sprigg admits his side put up 'weak defense' in 7th Circuit

Everyone on the pro-equality side who has listened to the audio from this week's hearing at the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals (involving marriage cases out of Indiana and Wisconsin) is extremely pleased with how things went down. Folks are particularly overjoyed with Judge Richard Posner, a Reagan appointee, who beat back the opposition with tough and pointed questions that served to expose their lack of credible arguments. Most court watchers believe it was a good day for the case for equ...

Photo: The latest totally convincing, in no way silly attempt at a meme from anti-gay Ruth Institute

Sorry advocates for civil marriage equality, but we have officially lost. The Ruth Institute, a former NOM offshoot that has since gone it alone, just drove a state in our reasoned, rational, winning constitutional arguments:

[Ruth]

WHOA, WHOA, WHOA! A stake? And a rope? And a trite phrase about what said stake and rope do to the state?! MIND = BLOWN!

Of course on the other side of the rope, off camera, is the captive state being all like, "HELLLLLP!! SOMEONE!!! PLEEEASSE!!! PEOPLE WHO THINK THE...

AFA's Fischer: Time for Christians to 'get up in somebody's grill' like Jesus would

The problem with Christians involved in politics is that they are just too nice. At least that's the latest movement-delegitimizing musing from the American Family Association's most senior and most omnipresent (and most hostile) voice:

It's time to be done with the "nicer than Jesus" mentality. It never has worked and it never will work. It only fools us into thinking we are being Christ-like when in reality we are only being wimps.



The odd thing is that Christians who have lost their spine an...