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Immediately after the president and Hillary Clinton denounced Uganda’s pending “kill gays” bill at today’s National Prayer Breakfast, Cliff Kincaid, president of an American Christian propaganda group, issued a press release defending the bill as necessary to prevent “homosexual imperialists” from continuing their campaign to fuck as much AIDS into the children of Uganda as possible. Cliff Kincaid, president of …

According to World Net Daily, a group of Christian pastors and head of the Michigan chapter of the American Family Association have filed suit against U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, claiming that the recently passed hate crimes act violates their civil right to be hate-filled anti-gay bigots. Which, of course, it doesn’t. The complaint states Christians now can become the …

Echoing the words of the American Family Association, Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council said tonight that the Supreme Court decision to overturn sodomy laws was “wrongly decided” and that homosexual behavior should be outlawed. Sprigg appeared on Chris Matthews’ MSNBC show tonight to debate Aubrey Sarvis of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network about today’s DADT hearings in the …

American Family Association radio host Bryan Fischer has called for sending homosexuals to prison for forced reparative therapy, a move he says is sanctioned by the Bible. Below, he responds to an email from a complaining listener. Thanks for writing me about my comments on my program regarding homosexuality. It might be worth noting that what I actually suggested is …

The TSA has launched an investigation of employees at their Orlando field office after learning of an office board game being played to mock gays, women and minorities. The board, resembling the TV game show “Jeopardy,” includes categories such as “pickle smokers,” “our gang” and “creatures,” which sources said were names used by managers for gay men, African-Americans and lesbians. …

Although the Hawaii House approved a civil unions bill last year, yesterday they voted to postpone a new vote indefinitely thank to enormous pressure from Christian groups. Last week the Hawaii Senate approved the bill by a veto-proof majority. The state House, conflicted by emotion and election-year politics, voted yesterday to indefinitely postpone action on a civil-unions bill. The voice …

A school system in Virginia has pulled a revised version of The Diary Of Anne Frank after a Christian parent complained about the book’s inclusion of previously redacted bits about homosexuality. Culpeper County public school officials have decided to stop assigning a version of Anne Frank’s diary, one of the most enduring symbols of the atrocities of the Nazi regime, …

The anti-gay American Center For Law & Justice has opened a branch in Kenya, another ominous indication of the Christian right’s continuing push to demonize gays in Africa. From their site: The Christian response to all that is happening [in Kenya] has been ad hoc and reactionary. This has seen several laws passed that eroded the value system that we …

(Via – New Civil Rights Movement)

Pastor David Grisham has launched a website calling for the boycott of Houston because of its openly lesbian Mayor Annise Parker. Via Houston Press: “The main reason for the boycott is simply because it’s about the only way that people in the rest of the state of Texas — outside of Houston — can actually take a stand for righteousness …

Three weeks after same-sex marriage became legal in New Hampshire, the state’s bigots are already hard at work towards repealing the law. Two proposed bills, one to repeal marriage equality and the other to amend the state constitution, will be heard today by New Hampshire’s House Judiciary Committee, where the bills are expected to die. Opponents know their chances of …

God will bring judgment on an unrepentant nation if the perversion of civil unions is legalized in Hawaii. The bill is likely to fail again, so we’re safe! For now.

Alarmed by the imminent prospect of happy homo skipping gaily down the aisle in Washington DC and jealous that Harry Bishop wears the mantle of the state’s most famous bigot, Maryland state House Delegate Emmett Burns has introduced a bill that would ban recognition of same-sex marriages from any foreign or domestic jurisdiction. The bill also declares that such unions …

The authors of the anti-gay Manhattan Declaration, which calls for the disobedience of any laws granting LGBT rights, want to increase its number of signatories from 370,000 to one million. Working to help them reach that noble goal are Catholic archbishops. Via press release: Cardinal Rigali of Philadelphia (right), Archbishop Wuerl of Washington, DC (left), Archbishop Dolan of New York …

YES (14)Sen. Jim Whelan (D-Atlantic)Sen. Bob Smith (D-Middlesex)Sen. Barbara Buono (D-Middlesex),Sen. Raymond J. Lesniak (D-Union), co-sponsorSenate President Richard Codey (D-Essex)Sen. Teresa M. Ruiz (D-Essex)Sen. Sandra B. Cunningham (D-Hudson)Sen. Brian P. Stack (D-Hudson)Sen. Nia H. Gill (D-Essex)Sen. Loretta Weinberg (D-Bergen), co-sponsorSen. Robert M. Gordon (D-Bergen)Sen. Nicholas P. Scutari (D-Union)Sen. Joseph F.Vitale (D-Middlesex)Sen. Bill Baroni (R-Mercer) NO (20)Sen. Jeff Van Drew (D-Cape …

This time with the support of 39 GOP Congress members, Stand For Marriage DC has once again filed a petition to force putting marriage equality to a vote in Washington. Same-sex marriage supporters and opponents faced off in D.C. Superior Court for a hearing Wednesday on whether the city should be required to allow a ballot initiative that would define …

It takes a lot of work to amend the Iowa state constitution, but anti-gay forces there have launched the first salvo in a campaign intended to result in the 2014 overturn of marriage equality. From the petition of LUV (Let Us Vote) Iowa: Whereas: Marriage as established by God should be recognized by the civil power as legally, morally and …

It’s that time of year when you thank all the fellow bigots in your life, so New York’s Catholic Church has sent Sen. Ruben Diaz and his fellow “No Homo Marriage” voters a note of appreciation for all of their hard work in keeping those dirty queers down. “On behalf of the Bishops of New York State and millions of …

Box Turtle Bulletin directs us to this new video from Rick Warren’s former BFF, Pastor Martin Ssempa, who is mighty pissed about Warren’s late-but-welcomed denouncement of Uganda’s “kill gays” bill. BTB’s Jim Burroway points out that Ssempa outright lies when he claims that child rape is not against the law in Uganda.