Matt Barber of Liberty Counsel is clutching his pearls and cranking up the faux outrage machine once again, this time over a pamphlet sent out to management at the Department of Justice that offers suggestions on how to maintain a positive work environment for LGBT employees. And he lies about the content of that pamphlet …
Category Archive: Equality
May 21 2013
Texas Judge Uses ‘Morality Clause’ to Split Up Couple
Here’s another appalling case of a judge using a divorce or custody agreement to punish someone just for being gay. A Texas judge is ordering a mother’s lesbian partner to move out of the home they share because of a morality clause that he inserted into the woman’s divorce decree.
May 15 2013
Poor Wingnut’s Heart Breaks Over Marriage Equality
The Minnesota House of Representatives passed a bill to make marriage equality the law in that state on Thursday and the wingnuts are losing their minds over it. It actually reduced one Republican legislator to tears, which she attributes to an entirely fake reason:
May 14 2013
FRC Prays to Stop Marriage Equality in Minnesota
The Minnesota House of Representatives voted in favor of a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in that state and the Family Research Council is firing up their prayer warriors to keep it from becoming law because, “It will require divine intervention.”
May 12 2013
Brown Continues to Play Pretend
One thing I find endlessly amusing about Brian Brown of the National Organization for Marriage is his ability to bury his head in the sand — or up his ass — and continue to pretend that a majority of Americans are opposed to marriage equality. Notice the careful wording he used on the Janet Mefferd …
May 12 2013
Buehner and Swanson Explain The Gay
Kevin Swanson and Dave Buehner of Generations Radio are so far out on the lunatic fringe that John Hagee must envy them. On a show last week, they gave their utterly simplistic and offensive explanation for why people choose to become gay. I’m sure this will all sound familiar to you:
May 11 2013
Fischer Doubles Down on Ferguson’s Bigotry
Niall Ferguson may be apologizing furiously for his idiotic comments about John Maynard Keynes not caring about the future because he was gay, but Bryan Fischer is piking up that ball and running with it. Because gays are responsible for the collapse of the economy, for reasons he never bothers to explain. Man, those gay …
May 10 2013
Wingnut Imagines a Conservative ‘New Majority’
Wallace Henley has an “exclusive” column in the Christian Post — like the Worldnutdaily, by “exclusive” the Post seems to mean something so mind-numbingly idiotic that no one else would publish it — fantasizing about a “new majority” that steamroll both political parties in the name of anti-gay bigotry and anti-woman policies.
May 09 2013
Archbishop Makes Terrible Anti-Equality Argument
Salvatore Cordileone, the archbishop of San Francisco, is beside himself over the state of Rhode Island becoming the 10th state to legalize same-sex marriage. And he’s offering a transparently ridiculous argument in opposition to it. This is just staggeringly stupid and hypocritical:
May 08 2013
Limbaugh: We Must Tolerate Intolerance
Rush Limbaugh made this tried and stupid argument about tolerating intolerance, one you’ve probably heard a thousand times before about how unfair it is that bigots get criticized for intolerance so why aren’t we showing them the tolerance we demand for others?
May 08 2013
Seriously, Niall Ferguson?
Niall Ferguson is a prominent and influential historian of economics at Harvard. He’s also married to Ayaan Hirsi Ali. And boy did he step in it with some recent comments at a private gathering of wealthy investors, when he said that John Maynard Keynes’ economic policies were flawed because he was gay and childless.
May 08 2013
NOM: GOP Wouldn’t Survive Marriage Equality Shift
With Republican Party consultants and power brokers increasingly recognizing that the party must become more inclusive, the religious right is frantically trying to preserve its influence over the party platform. Brian Brown of the National Organization for Marriage gave an interview with USA Today in which he said that if the GOP accepted marriage equality, …
May 08 2013
Delaware Gets Marriage Equality
Delaware has become the 11th state to guarantee full marriage equality on Tuesday. The state legislature passed it by narrow margins in both chambers and the governor signed it almost immediately. So that’s another state where all straight marriages will immediately become meaningless and all children will be turned into soylent green, or whatever the …
May 07 2013
Iowa Supreme Court Issues Key Equality Ruling
The Iowa Supreme Court issued a ruling saying that if a married gay couple gives birth, the non-procreative parent should be listed as the second parent on the child’s birth certificate. The Iowa high court ruled in favor of marriage equality in 2009. The new ruling states:
May 06 2013
The Difference Between Tim Tebow and Jason Collins
Hemant Mehta absolutely nails it when discussing a cartoon that appeared in the Chicago Tribune after NBA player Jason Collins became the first American male athlete in a major sport to come out publicly as gay. The cartoon tried to compare Collins to Tim Tebow:
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