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From the Justice Department: Adam Michael Nettina, age 34, of West Friendship, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to using the telephone to threaten a group that advocates for LGBTQI+ people. As part of his plea agreement, Nettina also admitted sending messages to Maryland and Virginia state delegates due to their statements in support of transgender people. According to court documents, on …

Fox News reports: One of the nation’s largest Catholic advocacy organizations has issued a letter to the Los Angeles Dodgers announcing an upcoming ad campaign calling for a boycott of the baseball club. CatholicVote President Brian Burch addressed the letter to Dodgers principal owner Mark Walter and CEO Stan Kasten. “We wrote to you last week with a reasonable ask: …

The Washington Post reports: A Maryland man has been charged by federal authorities with making threats of violence to a D.C.-based LGBTQ organization in a voice mail left on March 28, a day after the mass killing at a school in Nashville. Since the shooting, which left six people dead, conservative commentators and Republican politicians have exploited reports over the …

The Hill reports: A controversial conservative Catholic organization is urging parents to “Hide the Pride” during Pride Month — by checking out any LBGTQ-related books they see at their local libraries so that no children will see them. The group, Catholic Vote, says “recent polls” show “American moms and dads do not want their children exposed to sexual and ‘trans’ …

The right wing Catholic advocacy site Catholic Vote has come out against Donald Trump in a lengthy rant calling him a promiscuous womanizer who even opened a sinful titty bar in one of his casinos. An excerpt: Donald J. Trump left his first wife and married his mistress, only to leave her a few years later for another mistress. Reportedly …

Still stinging from national ridicule over its Not Alone video, Catholic Vote tries to make a funny:  The Catholic owners of “Joe’s Hardware” in Atchison, Kansas are defending themselves against a federal lawsuit that accuses them of violating equal protection laws because they refused to sell a same-sex extension cord to a customer last month. The plaintiff in the lawsuit …

(Tipped by JMG reader Gil)

Poster by Scott Wooledge. His review at Memeographs: The auteurs at Catholic Vote have created an instant classic Christian cinematic masterpiece to rival Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas. Not since National Organization for Marriage’s “Gathering Storm” of 2008 have we seen delusional hyperbole, paranoia and self-pity lifted to such delirious heights. Like an episode of The Bachelor or a Lindsey Lohan …

In the comments of the post below this one, JMG reader Sam points us to this takedown of Catholic Vote by AdWeek: About halfway through this two-and-a-half-minute film from conservative nonprofit the Catholic Vote, its treacly, overlystylized message becomes clear. These Catholics are nervous about revealing their stance on same-sex marriage because they’re (spoiler alert!) against it. That stance is …

A few days ago Catholic Vote went viral with a video which declared that they are no longer afraid to say that they don’t like gay people. Here’s a response clip.