Tag Queer Rights

Appeals court nixes legal maneuver to force Schwarzenegger and Brown to defend Prop H8

Bad news for the anti-gays at the Pacific Justice Institute. On Monday, the Christian legal goons attempted to sue the Governor and Attorney General of California, and, thereby, force them to defend California’s heinous 2008 ballot initiative, Proposition 8. The Associated Press’ Lisa Leff has that story. Fast forward to today, and, without explanation, the [...]

God Delusioned: Molotov Mitchell

“A handful of pencil-necked, metrosexual socialists in Washington can’t possibly defeat a nation of red-blooded, God-fearing patriots. … The spirit of Thomas Jefferson is alive and well in Honduras — especially in Honduras, where their Marxist just tried to tamper with their constitution, and guess what happened? The Honduran military took that socialist dictator wannabe [...]

The Quotable Dan Savage

“Let me be clear: I don’t want the GOP to pick up gay votes and I have no intention of voting Republican myself. Ever, ever, ever. But if Dems are worried about gay and lesbian progressives sitting out this election and the GOP managing to pick up the votes gay conservatives idiots, well, here’s how [...]

God Delusioned: Sally Kern

“Here in America we’ve had what maybe three known real big terrorist attacks on our nation. But every day our young people especially, all of us, but our young people especially are in a sense bombarded with the message that homosexuality is normal and natural.” — Sally Kern, Oklahoma state legislator and Christian, following up [...]

‘Focusing on the bully’ means focusing on Focus on the Family

AC360 – Focus On The Family: Anti-Bullying Efforts Promotes Homosexuality In Kids (video: Anderson Cooper’s AC360º via SuchIsLifeVideos at YouTube) Imagine the passionate arguments that Focus on the Family’s Candi Cushman would be making if it were, instead, Christian children who were being ruthlessly and brutally bullied. They’d probably be the usual Poor Oppressed Christians™ [...]

God Delusioned: Steven Anderson

“You want to know who the biggest hypocrite in the world is? The biggest hypocrite in the world is the person who believes in the death penalty for murderers and not for homosexuals. Hypocrite. The same God who instituted the death penalty for murderers is the same God who instituted the death penalty for rapists [...]

Jeff Sharlet talks Ugandan anti-gay genocide with NPR’s Fresh Air

NPR has a piece up on Jeff Sharlet, the author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, who talks about his encounter with the author of Uganda’s infamous exterminate-the-gays bill, Christian MP David Bahati: “Sharlet accompanied Bahati to a restaurant and later to his home, where Bahati told Sharlet that [...]

NOM carpetbaggers warn DC residents to watch out for carpetbaggers

NOM-funded mailers are flooding DC with BS (graphic: The National Organization for Marriage) The National Organization for Marriage’s modus operandi is spending oodles of mystery manna from their Mormon and Catholic financiers while blitzkrieging from state to state, meddling in local political affairs, targeting gay-friendly politicians, suing state-level election ethics boards, and influencing elections with [...]

Matt Baume’s brilliant takedown of NOM’s Prop H8 lies

Takedown of NOM’s Lies About Prop 8 (video: stop8org at YouTube) Well done, Matt. Over at http://stop8.org, we see a lot of silly claims about Prop 8, but the new radio ad put out by the National Organization for Marriage last week is just out-and-out deceitful. It’s packed full of lies and misrepresentations, so we [...]

CA solons oppose DOMA, Matt Barber needs a refresher course in the concept of representative democracy

Says Porno Pete‘s toady little sidekick Matt Barber, director of cultural affairs at Liberty Counsel: “This is an unfortunate testament to the level with which the government at nearly every level is completely out of touch with the very people that it purports to represent.” Right. That or it’s a fortunate testament to the people [...]

The Quotable Steve Schmidt

“There is a strong conservative case to be made in favor of gay marriage. Marriage is an institution that strengthens and stabilizes society. It is an institution that has the capacity to bring profound joy and happiness to people and it is a matter of equality and keeping faith of one of the charters of [...]

God Delusioned: Joseph Farah

“Where are the other high-profile conservatives and Republicans who recognize what’s happening here? Am I the only one willing to stand up for marriage as an institution of one man and one woman? Am I the only one willing to stand up for a U.S. military unencumbered by perverse social experiments? Am I the only [...]

NOM’s ‘gathering storm’ has become an ‘earthquake’

How do they love us? Let us count NOM’s lies. Exodus Ministries stripped of tax-exempt status in New Zealand ~ NOM Blog An earthquake is beginning: If “gay is like black,” then “Christian is like racist.” The early warning signs are now taking place all over the globe. In New Zealand, Exodus Ministries was just [...]

That’s Gay’s Bryan Safi focuses on Focus on the Family

That’s Gay Salutes: Focus on the Family (video: Current TV at YouTube) Current: This week, Bryan Safi salutes Focus on the Family for making sure children aren’t tricked into giving up homophobia as they head back to school. Even pictures of cute animals aren’t safe anymore! For more Bryan, tune in to infoMania on Thursdays [...]

NOM: ‘GOP elites try to throw marriage under the bus’

Apparently, the National Organization for Marriage just got the memo. The common sense end of the GOP is about to throw the gay-hating, Bible-banging nutters who hijacked their party under the bus. But don’t pop that cork quite yet. As does anything that issues forth from Queen Maggie and her personal Igor, Brian Brown, this [...]