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It’s not enough to call them bigots…
We know that religious right groups peddle distortions designed to demonize the LGBT community. However we really should do more than simply declare them bigots. Members of the right tend to embrace that definition…
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Focus on the Family’s ‘CitizenLink’ facing $2.3 million budget shortfall
In an interesting turn of events, Focus On The Famliy’s political arm — CitizenLink — has fallen on hard times, reporting a budget shortfall of $2.3 million dollars.
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New York’s vague new marriage licenses will lead to animal marriages
The town clerk of Ledyard, N.Y. — Rose Marie Belforti — has finally responded to the controversy over her recent decision to not sign marriage licenses for same-sex couples, and wondered if there was another agenda that would result in allowing marriage between non-humans.
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‘This animal. This cretin. This travesty. This demon.’ A Christian speaks out against Tony Perkins
This is Tony Perkins. No, not the actor who played Norman Bates in Alfred Hitcock’s Psycho. This Tony Perkins is much, much scarier. This Tony Perkins makes blood spiraling down a bathtub drain look like a cup of cherry Kool-Aid spilled at a Girl Scout fundraiser.
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Pour a cup of coffee, pull up a chair, let’s have a conversation, shall we?
It’s really up to us to defend ourselves, our families, and our freedoms and the best way to start is to dispel these lies, this hateful propaganda foisted upon the American public by these so-called “loving” Christian groups and expose them for the hate mongers they truly are.
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Petition launched to get Congress to call out false anti-gay testimony
While there is a need for levity and a desire for all sides of issues involving the gay community to be heard, the constant calling upon of these “morality groups” for Congressional testimony in spite of their irregularities mentioned does present a problem in terms resolving the issues of the gay community in a fair manner.
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Gay activist calls for boycott of retailers supporting Christian Values Network
San Francisco based gay activist and blogger Roy Steele is organizing, and calling for a nationwide boycott of retailer’s enrolled in the Christian Values Network (CVN) shopping web portal, including Sears, Walmart, Sam’s Club and Target.
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NOM whining that Al Franken ‘ambushed’ Tom Minnery during DOMA hearing
Over two weeks after an incident in which a Focus on the Family spokesperson was busted during a Congressional hearing for distorting a study, the National Organization for Marriage is trying to sneak in a defense of that spokesperson.
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Apple pulls iTunes store from anti-gay ‘Christian Values Network’
Apple has removed their iTunes store from the “Christan Values Network” (CVN) after more than 22,000 people signed a petition on Change.org asking the technology company to stop allowing the funding of anti-gay organizations such as Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council.
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Tom Minnery’s lies are commonplace in religious right data
Minnery’s misreading of study in order present a bad picture of same-sex households is commonplace in religious right data. Often times, religious right spokespeople will cite studies which have nothing to do with same-sex households in order to claim that these households are not the best place to raise children.