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Porno Pete LaBarbera has just announced the formation of the “Americans For Truth Academy,” which will train young people how to properly hate faggots and dykes and foster violent crimes against them. For a mere $99 donation, you can buy a budding young bigot a Scholarship In Hate™. We’re delighted to announce the debut of our ongoing “Americans For Truth …

An Islamic cleric in Saudi Arabia has issued one of the most bizarre fatwas yet. Via Salon: As many of us know, women and men in Saudi Arabia must be careful not to mingle, as the insanely strict Islamic law bans mixing between the sexes who are not related. Recently, the Saudis have issued a fatwa that forces women who …

Last week I quoted Iowa Family Policy council head Chuck Hurley who said “blah blah something blah evil gays blah eternal hellfire blah God’s gentle love.” Etc. Today Hurley is burning in that special lake of shame reserved for politicians who get completely creamed at the polls. From One Iowa via press release: Pro-equality legislator Ako Abdul-Samad scored a decisive …

A federal appeals court in Boston has denied NOM’s latest attempt to continue shielding their list of donors from Maine as is required by state election finance law. But it’s not over yet. The group, known by its initials “NOM” contributed nearly $2 million to last year’s successful campaign to overturn Maine’s gay marriage law. Opponents say NOM has failed …

We can’t know what horrible pressure or threats that have been placed on Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga to have the situation come to this latest development. From the Malawi-based newspaper The Nation: In a dramatic twist to the tale of Malawi’s convicted but pardoned gay lovebirds, the man, Steven Monjeza, has dumped his homosexual ‘wife’ Tiwonge Chimbalanga to marry …

The anti-gay Hawaii Family Forum is being challenged for spending far more on lobbying than is allowed by federal law. Pro-gay activists are calling for the group to lose its tax-exempt status over the amount spent to fight the state’s still-pending civil unions bill, which awaits approval from the governor. Under federal tax law, Hawaii Family Forum may use no …

Today the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act failed to move out of the New York Senate Judiciary Committee by ONE vote. And who was the lone dissenting Democratic vote that killed the bill? Our old nemesis, the evil Sen. Ruben Diaz. Via press release from the Empire State Pride Agenda: Today the Senate Judiciary Committee took up the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination …

20/20 takes a look at the kids of the Westboro Baptist Church, including one daughter who has been cast out after rejecting their hate. Watch this.

“For years, those struggling with alcoholism have benefited from Alcoholics Anonymous. Like homosexuality, there is rarely a cure. There is a control through a process, which is guarded by absolute secrecy. It is an equivalent to ‘Don’t ask, Don’t tell’. The process has worked well for some time without the charge that it is discriminatory. “The Archdiocese for the Military …

Led by Atlas Shrugs blogger Pamela Geller, a group called Stop The Islamization Of America staged a giant rally in downtown Manhattan yesterday in protest of the planned 13-story mosque and Islamic welcome center to be built two blocks away from Ground Zero. Gothamist reports: Michael Simons, 47, a retired Port Authority detective who for a time was buried in …

The Plaid Crew comments on the new issue of Vermont Catholic: This is the actual cover of the current issue of Vermont Catholic magazine, the monthly publication put out by the Diocese of Burlington. No joke. Less than a week after an almost-$18 million settlement with the remaining 26 plaintiffs (you know, all those kids who were diddled by priests …

Ted Haggard says he’s a different and better man since he was outed as a rentboy patron. He says that gays will be welcome in his new church, and that while he still opposes same-sex marriage, he now feels that gays should have “every civil right.”

Detail Magazine’s Matt McCallester has chronicled a few of the “gay exorcisms” that still take place in some of the nation’s evangelical churches. Here’s how one went down: “You need to be delivered from homosexuality,” the prophet said into a microphone so that all the church could hear. Kevin was embarrassed, but he stayed put. This was no normal preacher—she …

Over the last seven days… Illinois: Pastor Christian J. Johnson and his wife arrested for car theft and meth possession.Maryland: Pentecostal Bishop Roan Samuel Faulkner arrested for sexually assaulting a female parishioner.Canada: Bishop Raymond Lahey set to begin trial for possession of child pornography. Lahey has also been accused of molesting an orphan boy in his care.New York: Pastor Phillip …

The following statement was just sent to the Washington Post by the Family Research Council. Inaccurate internet reports have been circulating indicating that the Family Research Council lobbied “against” a congressional resolution condemning a bill proposed in Uganda. The Uganda bill would have provided for the death penalty for something called “aggravated homosexuality.” Unfortunately, those spreading these false rumors deliberately …

The Washington Post’s David Weigel has picked up my post about the Family Research Council lobbying against a congressional condemnation of Uganda’s “kill gays” bill. Gay City News and blogger Joe My God dug into the lobbying records of the Family Research Council and found that among the “Civil Rights/Civil Liberties” issues that the FRC’s Tom McCluskey and David Christensen …

“Happy sexual deviance month–or, as this President likes to call it, Gay Pride Month. Under this administration, every month feels like one long same-sex parade. For the second year in a row, however, the White House decided to make it official, weighing in with its second proclamation for ‘Gay Pride Month’ detailing how homosexuals and cross-dressers have “enriched’ American life. …

It’s time for the Southern Poverty Law Center to reclassify the Family Research Council as an official hate group, not merely anti-gay as they are now listed. According to the FRC’s official lobbying report for the first quarter of 2010, they paid two of their henchmen $25,000 to lobby Congress against approving a resolution denouncing Uganda’s plan to execute homosexuals. …

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has written a letter to Congress demanding that they vote against ENDA. An excerpt: While the Church is ardently opposed to all unjust discrimination on the grounds of sexual inclination, whether homosexual or heterosexual, it does teach that all sexual acts outside of a marriage between one man and one woman are morally wrong. …