“The people who avoid a debate are the ones afraid of losing. That’s why the groups like GetEQUAL and others are forming what is basically a mobile protest unit. Yesterday, its activists rallied outside the offices of King & Spalding–only to learn that its attorneys had bailed on the case. So what did they do? Hopped in the car, drove …
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Today In Ambiguously Gay Advertising
Dozens of you have sent in the below Budweister ad in which some are seeing a gay subtext to a soldier’s coming home story. I’m not seeing it.
Read More »Trump Takes Credit
“Today I’m very proud of myself, because I’ve accomplished something that no one else has been able to accomplish. I want to look at it, but I hope it’s true. But he should have done it a long time ago.” – Donald Trump, who went on to demand the president’s college transcripts. Trump also claimed that a CNN poll shows …
Read More »Obama Releases Birth Certificate, Birthers Leap Out Of Tall Buildings Nationwide
Talking Points Memo: It’s surreal and weird and faintly ridiculous that it’s come to this. But this morning the White House caught the press corps seriously off guard by handing out copies of the anti-Holy Grail of birtherism, the fabled ‘long form’ birth certificate. The president will speak to this issue in a press conference this morning. So far there …
Read More »Andrew Sullivan On “Hunky Jesus”
“I am a First Amendment absolutist, as readers know. And I’m also a solid defender of the right to blasphemy. But there are smart ways of doing this, ways that illuminate broader issues – think of ‘The Book Of Mormon’ or any South Park episode. And then there are smug, cheap and unfunny shots at the faith of other people. …
Read More »BRITAIN: Court Rejects Catholic Bid For Exemption From Gay Adoption Laws
A British appeals tribunal has rejected the demand of the Catholic Church that they be exempted from laws banning discrimination against gay adoptive parents. As we’ve seen happen in several U.S. cities, church adoption officials say they’d rather close their doors and let children go without families than abide by the law. Leeds-based Catholic Care have said they will have …
Read More »AFA: Obama Ignored Easter!
Except for his hosting of the Easter Prayer Breakfast and his drop-in at the White House Easter Egg Roll. But as we know, facts matter little to the American Family Association, whose audience laps up the lies without question.
Read More »David Barton On Earth Day
“Are you kidding me, Earth Day in the schools? We’ve got to save the Earth? I mean, that’s like a tick trying to save a whole heard of cattle. I mean, ticks go along for the ride, they don’t manage the cattle, they don’t tell them where to go. And that’s our arrogance in thinking that we can do something …
Read More »Focus On The Family On King & Spalding
With side attacks on the president and Vaughn Walker.
Read More »A Book For Exhausted Parents
A sample verse: “The cats nestle close to their kittens now. The lambs have laid down with the sheep. You’re cozy and warm in your bed, my dear. Please go the fuck to sleep.”
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