Newsmakers

According to Liberty Counsel's Matt Barber, there is a conspiracy afoot to use the media to indoctrinate/desensitize children to “sexually immoral behaviors” through television programs like “Glee.” [ Read more → ]

LGBTQ equality rights activist Dan Choi has been dealt a setback in a court case resulting from his arrest during a November 2010 White House protest of the now repealed "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy that banned openly gay service members in the U.S. military. [ Read more → ]

Speaking at the the Values Voter Summit on Saturday, the vehemently anti-gay Bryan Fischer, spokesman for the American Family Association, warned of the "threat" of "the homosexual agenda," said the nation must choose "between homosexuality and liberty, because we cannot have both," and said gays are a threat to public health. [ Read more → ]

GOP presidential long-shot Rick Santorum on Friday told attendees at the Values Voter Summit that a vibrant economy is dependent on traditional marriage, and that President Obama has ordered military chaplains to "break the law" by requiring them to perform same-sex weddings. [ Read more → ]

Iowa congressman Steve King, who once claimed that gay rights will lead to children raised in warehouses, told the Values Voter Summit that marriage equality for gays and lesbians will lead to the downfall of civilization. [ Read more → ]

Steve Jobs, the iconic American CEO and innovative co-founder of Apple -- who many credit with transforming the personal use of technology with products such as the iPod, iPad, iPhone, iTunes, and thee Mac computers -- died Wednesday. He was 56. [ Read more → ]

"Homosexuality is a sin -- I believed it before, and I still believe it now," says Joel Osteen. Appearing Tuesday on CNN’s “Piers Morgan Tonight,” Osteen, the pastor of mammoth Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, said his beliefs are rooted in scripture. [ Read more → ]

The new Chairman of the anti-gay National Organization for Marriage has some thoughts on marriage equality advocates: "Evil will always be with us." [ Read more → ]

GOP Presidential candidate Herman Cain, appearing on ABC's "The View" on Tuesday, said he feels being gay "is a choice," and that if elected President, he would reinstate "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," the former ban on openly gay military service members. [ Read more → ]

Cindy and Mike Jacobs host a weekly television program where they discuss current events, like how abortion curses the land and how such sins then causes natural disasters. On the last two episodes, anti-gay activist Michael Brown, author of “A Queer Thing Happened to America” explained that the ultimate agenda of gay activists is to put Christians into jail. [ Read more → ]

The U.S. Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals has sided, in part, with a U.S. Marine Corps Sergeant who wore parts of his uniform while appearing in gay porn videos. [ Read more → ]

U.S. Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) and his domestic partner Marlon Reis, on Friday announced the birth of their son, Caspian Julius. Polis becomes the first openly gay member of Congress to become a parent. [ Read more → ]

FORT DODGE, Iowa -- Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on Friday called same-sex marriage "a temporary aberration that will dissipate." [ Read more → ]

Allow us to present part one million in our never-ending series chronicling how the AFA's Bryan Fischer can say whatever he wants about gays or Muslims, or both, and will never have to worry that anything he says will in any way threaten to undermine his standing with Republican leaders or within the Religious Right movement. [ Read more → ]

American Family Association spokesman Bryan Fischer will not only be speaking at the upcoming Values Voter Summit, but will immediately follow Mitt Romney. Today, People For the American Way is calling on Romney and fellow Republican presidential candidates to condemn Fischer’s unmitigated bigotry rather than lending it legitimacy by appearing with him. [ Read more → ]

The National Hockey League said it won't discipline Philadelphia Flyers' Wayne Simmonds for hurling a homophobic slur because Simmonds said he can't remember what he said, and because none of the referees on the ice could verify what was said. [ Read more → ]

The Los Angeles Dodgers is the latest Major League Baseball team to come out in support of LGBT youth by contributing their message of inspiration the the "It Gets Better" Project. [ Read more → ]

Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday called it "reprehensible" when audience members at a Republican presidential debate last week booed a gay soldier. [ Read more → ]

Lesbian actress Leisha Hailey -- who starred in "The L Word" -- was escorted off of a Southwest Airlines flight on Monday after a flight attendant said passengers complained after witnessing her kissing her girlfriend. [ Read more → ]

Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, warns that gay rights activists seek to “reduce [Christians] to the level of the Ku Klux Klan” and that gays are “recruiting” children, which is a form a child abuse, while claiming that homosexuality is “incomprehensible.” [ Read more → ]