Monthly Archives: April 2011

Fox Anchor To Donald Trump: Your Birther Claims Are Helping The Democrats

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Quote Of The Day – Alan Simpson

“We have homophobes on our party. That’s disgusting to me. We’re all human beings. We’re all God’s children. Now if they’re going to get off on that stuff—Santorum has said some cruel things—cruel, cruel things—about homosexuals. Ask him about it; see if he attributes the cruelness of his remarks years ago. Foul. Now if that’s the kind of guys that …

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Mitt Romney Makes It Official

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George Takei has A Ringtone

Listen here.

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Robert Knight: Washington DC Is Secretly Run By Gay Capitol Hill Staffers

This bit of nonsense from Coral Ridge Ministries’ Robert Knight was quoted in the linked story about the anti-gay “Awakening” conference I posted earlier today. Right Wing Watch now gives us the video.

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Birthers Ramp Up The Crazy: President Obama Had Secret Brain Surgery

Britain’s Daily Mail tabloid reports that the latest conspiracy theory sweeping wingnut blogs is that the president has had secret brain surgery. In pictures, Obama appears to have a long scar which goes up the side of his head and over his crown. Some conspiracy theorists claim they are scars that you would see on someone who has had brain …

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ARIZONA: Federal Appeals Court Blocks Gov. Jan Brewer’s Anti-Immigrant Law

Today the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court’s ruling that Arizona does not have the right to create its own laws on immigration. The original law was enacted in April 2010 after Arizona officials argued that they needed their own immigration law to deal with the growing problem of unauthorized immigration from across the Mexican border. In …

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Photoshop Your Life

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MARYLAND: Gender Identity Bill Dies

Following a vicious campaign of lies by anti-gay Christianist groups, Maryland’s gender identity anti-discrimination bill has died in the state Senate. Julie Bolcer reports at the Advocate: Maryland senators voted on Monday to recommit the Gender Identity Anti-Discrimination to the judicial proceedings committee, effectively killing any prospects for the bill to pass this session, which ends at midnight. Shortly before …

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Pastor Terry Jones: I’m Thinking About Hanging Mohammed In Effigy

Unswayed by the dozens of people killed in reaction to his burning of the Koran, Pastor Terry Jones now says he’s thinking about putting the prophet Mohammed “on trial” with an effigy hanging to follow. “As far as judging Muhammad, it would take place in the same way. We would try to obtain experts on both sides of the bench, …

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TONIGHT: Save The SF Eagle Meeting

As I noted yesterday, San Francisco’s venerable Eagle Tavern is scheduled to close at the end of the month. Tonight community activists will meet to discuss “strategies for fighting the Eagle’s closure, as well as the ongoing crisis of loss of gay property ownership in San Francisco and the continuing erosion of our iconic gay bar scene.” Facebook event page …

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SATURDAY: Record Store Day

This Saturday is Record Store Day, an annual celebration of the nation’s dwindling music retailers in which acts such as the Beastie Boys make in-store appearances and issue special releases for the day. This is the one day that all of the independently owned record stores come together with artists to celebrate the art of music. Special vinyl and CD …

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PFOX “Ex-Gays” To Hand Out Lying Propaganda On Day Of Silence

The “ex-gays” at PFOX are asking students, parents, and teachers to distribute their brochures during this week’s Day Of Silence. Because since the pro-gay kids will be silent, they can’t complain. “We invite schools to distribute our ex-gay brochures year round,” said Regina Griggs, PFOX’s executive director, “but this Friday is especially important because it is considered a ‘day of …

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TOO MUCH HATE: American Family Association Rewrites Bryan Fischer

Right Wing Watch notes today that for the third time in recent weeks, the American Family Association has rewritten the hate speech of their spokesbigot, Bryan Fischer. Here’s what Fischer originally said: Allowing Muslims to immigrate into the United States, a Christian nation by origin, history and tradition, without insisting that they drop their allegiance to Allah, Muhammad, the Qur’an, …

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Sienna Poll: 58% Support NY Marriage

According to a Sienna Poll released today, 58% of New Yorkers now support marriage equality. The Pride Agenda reacts via press release: “Today’s Siena poll results are yet another indication of ever-increasing support in New York for allowing loving, committed same-sex couples to marry. State legislators who have not supported marriage equality in the past should take note that New …

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Catholic League Publishes Full-Page Anti-Gay New York Times Ad

The Catholic League today published a full-page ad in the New York Times in which blowhard Bill Donohue blames the church’s pedophilia scandals on homosexuality. An excerpt: The refrain that child rape is a reality in the Church is twice wrong: let’s get it straight—they weren’t children and they weren’t raped. We know from the John Jay study that most …

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Signorile Interviews NOM Defector

This morning SiriusXM host Michelangelo Signorile posted an interview with NOM defector Louis Marinelli. Hit the link and listen to Marinelli’s explanation for his dramatic change of heart.

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God Hates Justin Bieber

Whackadoodle anti-gay Pastor Steve Anderson, who last year proudly accepted his hate group designation, says that God hates Justin Bieber because the kid isn’t masculine enough.

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Olympian Carl Lewis To Run For NJ Senate

Nine-time Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis will today announce his intention to run for the New Jersey Senate as a Democrat. Lewis emailed a media advisory to reporters saying he will be giving a speech at 2 p.m. at the Old County Courthouse in Mt. Holly to “make an announcement regarding his political plans.” Democrats have been in talks with …

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