Via Mediaite: President-elect Donald Trump has a Thanksgiving message out on YouTube tonight calling for peace and unity across America. “It’s my prayer that on this Thanksgiving,” he said, “we begin to heal our divisions and move forward as one country, strengthened by shared purpose and very, very, very common resolve.” Trump acknowledged that “emotions are raw and tensions just …
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Yesterday NOM president Brian Brown called his supporters “pathetic” because he can’t even scrape up a few thousand dollars in a summer donation drive. In today’s money beg, he continues the wise fundraising strategy of berating the very people he’s trying to swindle. In fact, he effectively accuses them of being apostates. An excerpt: I imagine that Anthony Kennedy, the …
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The Associated Press reports: A federal judge has refused to overturn the suspension of Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, ruling Thursday that doing so would improperly interfere with the state judicial proceeding that could result in Moore’s ouster for an order he issued about same-sex marriage. U.S. District Judge Harold Albritton threw out Moore’s lawsuit against the Alabama Judicial Inquiry …
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After three days of relentless mocking on social media, hate group leader Brian Brown has finally surfaced to declare that Saturday’s hate march was a huge success. This, despite a physical head-count by ThinkProgress showing that only 237 people turned out. And that count included babies, passersby, counter-protesters, and the media. Brown writes: I’m writing with great news — the …
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At this writing hate group leader Brian Brown is speaking to a crowd in the DOZENS for NOM’s fourth consecutive anti-gay marriage march. ThinkProgress reporter Zack Ford is tweeting out hilarious photos from the scene and some of those are embedded below. You may recall that last year’s march drew a paltry 3000 and that was before the Supreme Court …
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Whomp, whomp: Joe, When I suspended my presidential campaign, I vowed to never stop fighting for our shared conservative values. Today, I have an important announcement, and I want you to be the first to know. You see: the Washington Cartel has done everything in their power to defeat me — but I’m not giving in. While my campaign for …
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Politico reports: Attorney General Loretta Lynch likening the controversial North Carolina bathroom law to Jim Crow laws is “a bunch of crap,” Ben Carson said Monday. Announcing a counter-suit against the state, Lynch said North Carolina “created state-sponsored discrimination against transgender individuals” that violates federal law. “This is not the first time that we have seen discriminatory responses to historic …
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The Hill reports: Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) returned to the Senate on Thursday, two days after ending his presidential campaign. Alex Burgos, a spokesman for Rubio, posted a video of the senator walking in the Russell Senate Office Building, saying that “Senate staff welcomed him back to the office.” The video shows Rubio’s staff clapping as he walked toward his …
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Loony tunes hate group leader Janet Porter, creator of the anti-LGBT documentary starring Ted “Kill The Gays” Shoebat, was destroyed by her GOP incumbent opponent tonight in her bid for the Ohio Senate. Porter attacked her opponent’s bill for a state license plate which celebrates baseball by saying this: “There’s 100,000 Ohio kids who will never play baseball because their …
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The Supreme Court has denied cert on Liberty Counsel’s appeal seeking to overturn New Jersey’s ban on ex-gay torture. How many losses does this make for Liberty Counsel in just the last year? Mat Staver is missing Antonin Scalia: “In a country born on the will to be free, it is a sad day when that nation turns its back …
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Last month the appellate division of the New York Supreme Court told Alliance Defending Freedom to take a hike when they affirmed New York’s public accommodations laws in the case of an upstate wedding venue that had been fined for turning away a same-sex couple. Today the ADF announced that they are surrendering. The Associated Press reports: The owners of …
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Talking Points Memo reports: Conservative rocker Ted Nugent believes that gun control is a Jewish-led conspiracy. A meme shared Sunday on Nugent’s Facebook page alleges that Jewish leaders, including Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, are behind a concerted effort to confiscate Americans’ guns. The meme showed a small Israeli …
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Yesterday Mike Huckabee assured supporters in Des Moines that he would not drop out after tonight. “I’m not getting out of the race. I’m staying in and I’m going to do great tomorrow night and keep going and win the White House.” Yeah, so much for that. Expect Huckabee to endorse Ted Cruz shortly.
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Via press release from the ACLU: The Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court today affirmed that it is illegal for businesses to discriminate based on sexual orientation. The New York Civil Liberties Union victory came in the case of Melisa and Jennifer McCarthy, who were turned away by the Albany wedding venue they chose after the venue owners …
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Last year former Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear threw a hissy fit over the “unreasonable” legal fees demanded by the good guys in his state’s losing battle against same-sex marriage. Beshear left office last month, tossing that hefty bill in the lap of incoming wingnut Gov. Matt Bevin, who now has to eat a $1.1M shit sandwich courtesy of a ruling …
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Brian Brown surely knows, as even fellow hate group leader Tony Perkins has admitted, that Roy Moore is just spinning his talibangelical wheels in an attempt to screw with Alabama’s gay couples. But hey – here’s yet another desperate shot at getting a few more idiots on NOM’s money beg list. From the petition: Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore has …
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According to yet another frantic money beg from Brian Brown, the president is secretly conspiring behind closed doors with LGBT activists in an evil Satanic plot to destroy White Jesus and God’s Holy Creation of male/female complementarity. Or something! Send money! Brown writes: What a president does in public isn’t the only place where his influence is felt; sometimes what …
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As you know, the Liberty Counsel lost virtually every single battle this year. Same-sex marriage: LOST. Ex-gay torture: LOST. They couldn’t even fucking keep Kim Davis out of jail. But send money! They’re heroes! From Mat Staver: Earlier this year, Liberty Counsel asked, “What would happen if, instead of quiet retreat, many thousands of individuals, agencies, charities, churches and schools …
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The Liberty Counsel is a little late to the hate group year-end money beg cavalcade. They write: The past year has been an incredible journey for Liberty Counsel. A special free report contains an overview of some of the situations and cases that our legal team handles every day. We advocated for youth in New Jersey when the government dictated …
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Trump didn’t even win TIME’s readers poll, but he’s still got the super-sadz about losing to Angela Merkel.
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