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University students block Chick-fil-A from student center over anti-gay donations
BOSTON — Students at Northeastern University have blocked fast-food chain Chick-fil-A from opening a restaurant on its Boston campus, citing the chains financial support of anti-gay rights organizations.
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Family Research Council launches fundraiser to stop ‘fake marriages’
WASHINGTON — The virulently anti-gay Family Research Center has launched an aggressive new fundraising campaign to “Stop Fake Marriages” in the U.S., because, according to the FRC, 2012 could be the “tipping point” year in the battle for marriage.
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NC pastor who argued against hate group designation says gay men need diapers
Patrick Wooden, one of the chief organizers for the North Carolina amendment to ban same-sex marriage, claims that by the time gay men reach their middle ages they “have to wear a diaper or a butt plug just to be able to contain their bowels” because of “what happens to the male anus.”
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Anti-gay hate groups protest SPLC for calling them anti-gay hate groups
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — About a dozen African American pastors joined anti-gay extremists on Tuesday in condemning the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for using its “hate group” label to describe faith-based organizations that demonize the LGBT community, characterizing it as part of an orchestrated liberal plot.
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Newt Gingrich secures endorsement of anti-gay ‘family’ group he helped fund
Thrice-married Newt Gingrich has secured the endorsement of Don Wildmon, the founder of the vehemently anti-gay American Family Association. One of the cogs in Gingrich’s vast network of business enterprises and front groups, ReAL Action, has provided $125,000 to the AFA’s sister organization, American Family Association Action.
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Report: Chick-fil-A donated nearly $2 million to anti-gay causes in 2009
New IRS 990 forms reveal that fast-food restaurant chain Chick-fil-A donated nearly $2 million to anti-gay groups in 2009, reports Equality Matters.
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Intelligence Report author on Bryan Fischer: ‘A well educated fraud and pious bully’
Idaho journalist and LGBT activist Jody May-Chang, co-author of the latest Intelligence Report from the Southern Poverty Law Center, is out to expose American Family Association (AFA) spokesman Bryan Fischer for the “well educated fraud and pious bully” that his is.
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SPLC examines role, history of FRC, AFA in ‘demonization of LGBT people’
The Southern Poverty Law Center on Friday issued a ground breaking intelligence report that examines two of the most powerful and influential organizations in the American anti-gay lobby — the Washington D.C.-based Family Research Council (FRC) and the American Family Association (AFA), headquartered in Tupelo, Miss. — calling them the “chief purveyors of lies about LGBT people.”
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Romney to share stage with Bryan Fischer; PFAW urges candidates to denounce bigotry
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.
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Family Research Council statement needs a little ‘editing’
Last year when the Southern Poverty Law Center named several religious right groups as anti-gay hate groups, many of them united (with the Family Research Council – one of the groups named – leading the way) in a campaign with the semi- catchy title of Start Debating/Stop Hating…