Tag Archives: Values Voters Summit

FRC Launches Publicity For VVS 2015

Kelvin Cochran was fired for proselytizing at the workplace and the Benham brothers lost their show after Right Wing Watch publicized a host of vile anti-gay statements, including their claim that gay people are controlled by Satan. And of course, the Kleins were fined for violating public accommodation laws in Oregon, which added sexual orientation to those protections seven years …

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Matt Baume: The Map To Rights Bans

Clip recap: “Scheming villains thirst to rollback the progress our nation has attained toward full LGBT equality. But, could they actually do it? Insidious laws like Arkansas’ innocent-sounding Intrastate Commerce Improvement Act (sb202) may provide the roadmap.”

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Perkins Celebrates Hate Summit On Fox

Tony Perkins is again fashioning himself as a king-maker, therefore hate summit straw poll winner Ted Cruz is going to be our next president. Perkins and host Megyn Kelly then go on to denounce any criticism of Cruz. And notice the dismissive comments about not-anti-gay-enough Rand Paul. “He’s trying. At least he put forth an effort,” shrugs Perkins.

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Caption This

That’s the eldest son of the Duck Dynasty clan. You’ll recall that the Benhams gave the same treatment to Rick Perry and Bobby Jindal.

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Bachmann Walks Back Marriage Comment

During the FRC’s hate summit, soon-to-be former Rep. Michele Bachmann told Michelangelo Signorile that gay marriage is no longer an issue, adding, “In fact, it’s boring.” After being called out by fellow wingnuts like Bryan Fischer, Crazy Eyes is walking back that comment. Via World Net Daily: “What I said is that this won’t be the issue that drives the …

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Erick Erickson: Evolutionists Are Stupid And Jealous Of Heaven-Bound Christians

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Benham Brothers: We’re Like ISIS Victims

And Jesus!

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Staver: How Dare They Call Me Anti-Gay!

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Ted Cruz Wins Hate Summit Straw Poll

Shocking. Sen. Ted Cruz won the 2014 Values Voter Summit straw poll for the second year in a row on Saturday, following an extremely popular speech Friday in which the Texas Republican promised a kind of salvation from the Obama presidency. Cruz earned 25% of the 1,900 votes cast at this weekend’s Values Voter Summit to be president, less than …

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LIVE VIDEO: FRC Hate Summit, Day Two

On the schedule for this morning beginning at 8:45AM: Sandy Rios, Mat Staver, Tony Perkins, Mark Levin, Star Parker, and Todd Starnes. Not quite the star power of yesterday, but today guarantees to provide even more anti-gay animus. UPDATE: The event has concluded.

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Tony Perkins: Jeb Bush And Chris Christie Were Not Invited To FRC Hate Summit

Perkins won’t say so, of course, but Bush wasn’t invited because he’s “soft” on immigration and Christie wasn’t invited because he dropped his same-sex marriage appeal to the New Jersey Supreme Court.

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Palin Mocks Obama At FRC Hate Summit

In a speech laden with so many teabagger catch phrases randomly assembled from fridge magnets and bumper stickers that it was impossible to count, Sarah Palin dug out a coffee cup from under the podium to give her impression of President Obama saluting with a coffee cup. The audience, of course, roared. Nobody on Twitter seems know what the speech …

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Brian Brown At FRC Hate Summit

Brian Tashman writes at Right Wing Watch: Back from defending anti-gay laws in Russia, Brian Brown of the National Organization for Marriage introduced Rick Santorum at today’s Values Voter Summit. Brown spent most of his time pushing back on claims that the GOP’s opposition to abortion rights and LGBT equality is dragging down the party, suggesting that Republicans would win …

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Sen. Ted Cruz At FRC Hate Summit

Cruz was introduced by Brent Bozell, who is best known around here as the guy who appeared on national television to describe the president as a “skinny ghetto crackhead.” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) took the stage Friday morning at the 2014 Value Voters Summit and delivered a fiery sermon full of Christian imagery and calls for the president to demand …

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Tweet Of The Day – Michelangelo Signorile

Michelle Bachmann just told me re: gay marriage, “it’s not an issue anymore,” runs off,adds, ‘In fact it’s boring.’ #ValuesVoterSummit — Mike Signorile (@MSignorile) September 26, 2014

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Seen At The Values Voter Summit

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LIVE VIDEO: FRC’s Hate Summit

C-SPAN2 is also covering the event live.

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Perkins: The Left Fears My Hate Summit

“Pop Quiz: What annual event has the Left so worried that they are spending tens of thousands in advertising dollars to stop? You guessed it; the Values Voters Summit. In the Washington Post, leftwing groups including GLAAD, (known for its failed campaign to fire Duck Dynasty‘s Phil Robertson,) the anti-Christian Southern Poverty Law Center, and the George Soros-funded ‘Faithful America,’ …

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LGBT And Civil Rights Groups To GOP: Denounce The FRC’s Values Voter Summit

A coalition of LGBT and civil rights groups today published a full-page ad in the Washington Post, demanding that the GOP denounce this weekend’s Family Research Council Values Voter Summit. Here is the text in full: Dear Mr. Priebus, Fifteen years ago, your predecessor called for party members to shun the Council of Conservative Citizens because of the group’s “racist …

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Final FRC Hate Summit Roster

After yesterday’s addition of Sarah Palin, the Family Research Council dropped about a dozen crackpots and deleted their “invited but unconfirmed” names from its Values Voters Summit speakers roster. In addition to the confirmed fuckweasels above, Maggie Gallagher will lead a panel titled “Moral Decline Causes Big Government.” Mat Staver will sit on a panel titled “The Assault On Constitutional …

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