“My Dearest Maureen, I have a confession to make. While some may think you sound like a delusional weepy woman, don’t listen to them. You see, I was in on those meetings with the bishops when we hatched plans to stick it to women and sabotage the Democrats. We met over drinks. Plenty of them. Except for one bishop who …
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Fight Hate With Money For Gay Causes
Rev. Mark Sandlin proposes sending donations to LGBT causes in the name of North Carolina’s Pastor Charles Worley. Not only will it be a wonderful opposing response to Pastor Worley, but it does several other wickedly beautiful things. One, it helps fund organizations who are actively working against this kind of exclusion and bullying. Two, it puts Pastor Worley on …
Read More »Homophobia Around The World
Buzzfeed has posted a horrifying photo essay.
Read More »Pastor “Beat Gay Kids” Denounces Pastor “Put Them In Concentration Camps”
New York State Moves Primary Date
Yesterday Gov. Cuomo signed a bill to move New York’s primary to Thursday, September 13th. Because from now on we can’t do anything official on any September 11th. “I believe that Sept. 11 is a day that people should reflect on what happened,” the assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, said last week, as the issue was being discussed. He added that …
Read More »ILLINOIS: Hate Group Demands Right To Pull Kids Out Of Anti-Bullying Lessons
Maureen Dowd On Catholic Lawsuit
“The church insists it’s an argument about religious freedom, not birth control. But, really, it’s about birth control, and women’s lower caste in the church. It’s about conservative bishops targeting Democratic candidates who support contraception and abortion rights as a matter of public policy. And it’s about a church that is obsessed with sex in ways it shouldn’t be, and …
Read More »WASHINGTON: Car Wash & Hate Drive
Source.
Read More »Anti-Scott Walker Ad
Polls currently show Walker surviving the recall.
Read More »Sunday: NYC Zombie Bar Crawl
Details.
Read More »Norway Abolishes State Church
Norway’s parliament has officially dissolved the national church. The bipartisan measure to create a separation of church and state will officially be presented on Tuesday, reports Norway’s TV2. The nation will not have an official religion, and the government will not participate in the appointment of church deans and bishops. Svein Harberg, the spokesman for the Church, Education, and Research …
Read More »Now Popular On Facebook
Via Friendly Atheist.
Read More »Climbing The Greasy Pole
Lots more photos at Buzzfeed.
Read More »Trump: Let Me Speak At GOP Convention
Dolan: Obama Is Strangling Our Religious Freedom To Control Women’s Bodies
New From Mainers United
Photo Of The Day
JMG reader Aaron Heier writes: “It’s happening. The street sign is up & ready for the unveiling just outside of the San Diego LGBT Community Center today at 5PM. It’s the first Harvey Milk Street ever.”
Read More »Maggie: Polls Are Meaningless
“Polls are just static snapshots. [snip] Obama, by endorsing gay marriage, has broken through the media silence imposed on those who oppose gay marriage, generating new, unexpected and highly visible expressions of opposition. All of a sudden, pastors across America are preaching against gay marriage. Conservative talk radio shows are addressing it. People are hearing that their friends and neighbors …
Read More »Obama’s Evolution: No Effect On Polling
A just-published NBC/Wall Street Journal poll today confirms what previous surveys have revealed. Two weeks after President Obama announced he supports gay marriage, a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows that his announcement — politically — looks to be a wash. In the poll, a combined 17 percent say it makes them “much more likely” or “somewhat more likely” …
Read More »Two Minutes Of Minnesota Hate, Vol. 21
They don’t hate us, they swear it!
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