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Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

MSNBC’s Willie Geist unveils Jesus on a frying pan
(video: Atheist Media Blog at YouTube)

The Quotable Henry Rollins

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

“Let the record speak for itself. The Catholic Church does not approve of homosexuality; their position on pedophilia, however, is not as clear. I am sure most Catholics do not approve of pedophilia, but the executive branch of Catholicism seems to have difficulty convincing some of us that they are willing to do what is necessary to make sure that the members of their staff who are active sexual predators are brought to justice. I can’t see any sane person not wanting someone who harms innocent children taken out of circulation as soon as possible. Relocating them is tantamount to enabling them further. Maybe there should be a television show called To Catch A Priest. I’ll watch.”

Henry Rollins, poet, activist and punk rock legend, on the Catholic church’s expulsion of the pre-school-aged child of two Boulder, Colorado lesbians, from his editorial It’s Time for Gays to Start Discriminating Against the Catholic Church

NOM peas itself in new California ad

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

Two Peas Same Liberal Pod – Tom Campbell Barbara Boxer Proposition 8 California (video: NOM at YouTube)

They’re back! The carpetbagging con artists of the Washington DC-based National Organization for Marriage are back in California trying to win friends and influence elections.

According to Eric Ross, writing at The Examiner:

On March 15th, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) launched a new TV ad to attack a Republican candidate for supporting marriage equality. Their new video titled, “Two peas, same liberal pod,” compares Republican Senate candidate Tom Campbell with Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer.

NOM’s strategy is as transparent as its interstate double-dealing is not. The California candidates aren’t extreme enough on marriage equality? Surprise. And, for good measure, NOM thinks they can sucker a few fiscal conservatives into supporting the lunatic theofascist wing of the Republican party by mentioning the right’s great Satan — taxes.

Fancy that coming from the comedy team of Maggie Gallagher and Brian Brown — the radical religious reich’s go-to grifters when it comes to the elimination of the fundamental rights of gay and lesbian Americans. Gallagher and Brown are two peas in a pod that’s barely managing to stay a step ahead of the IRS and their ethics and legal challenges in multiple states.

Brief filed against college fundies

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

The junior theofascists of the (as yet unrecognized) Hastings College of Law’s Christian Legal Society continue to insist that it’s their god-given right to discriminate against their fellow students while pocketing funding from the victims of their discrimination.

Last March, I blogged about the case of the christians-only campus club demanding recognition and, thereby, funding at UC Hastings College of Law:

These anti-gay, Christians-only campus groups are not willing to abide by established non-discrimination policies that cover race, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, disability, etc, although these non-discrimination policies apply equally to all other groups on campus.

These days, one is unlikely to find a whites-only fraternity or a no-Latinos chess club on any campus in the US. So why should these Christian groups be handed an exemption, not to mention receive official recognition and funding — some of which is derived from fees paid by GLBT and non-Christian students?

Backed by their Alliance Defense Fund legal goon squad, the poor oppressed christianists, who claim it’s their First Amendment rights that are being violated, milked their 15 minutes of infamy all the way to the US Supreme Court.

It’s gratifying to learn, via Americans United for Separation of Church and State, that AU has joined the American Jewish Committee and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism in filing a friend-of-the-court brief on 15 March urging the justices to rule in favor of the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law in the pending case.

Maddow takes down JD Hayworth

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

Rachel Maddow calls manure on the GOP’s JD Hayworth
(video: The Rachel Maddow Show)

Last night, Rachel Maddow called out Arizona’s potential candidate for the US Senate, JD Hayworth, for making shit up about marriage equality in Massachusetts. The MSNBC host pointed out that despite Hayworth’s insistence, the Massachusetts Supreme Court never defined marriage solely as “the establishment of intimacy.” It’s clear the Republican wannabe candidate made his remarks about marrying horses for no reason other than to denigrate gay and lesbian relationships and to score big brownie points with the GOP’s freaky, animal-sex-obsessed theofascist wing.