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“Perhaps the biggest story related to Kathy Griffin’s salacious stunt on CNN’s New Year’s Eve broadcast with Anderson Cooper was the almost deadening silence it engendered from any quarter. Does it matter what Griffin did? To put it more generally, does what we see and hear have any effect on our behavior, particularly the behavior of young people? Does it …

“So in this, my final column, I say my farewell to optimism and my hello to hope. What is the difference? Optimism is a prediction; hope is a virtue. My hope rests on this: The truths to which I’ve dedicated my life, both professionally and personally, are too important to ignore, too foundational to be abandoned, too much a part …

The 911 operator in Springfield, Illinois fielded an unusual emergency call from the local Catholic church in late November.  The story was published yesterday by the Illinois Times. The pastor of St. Aloysius church on Springfield’s north end has been granted a leave of absence after he called 911 from the rectory and told a dispatcher that he needed help …

Tom Monaghan, the founder of Domino’s Pizza, has filed a lawsuit to prevent employees from using the company health plan to get birth control. Monaghan is a devout Catholic and believes that using contraception is “gravely immoral,” according to his court filing. The suit adds that prior to the Affordable Care Act’s passage, the company specifically sought out insurance that …

Now seen in Times Square and Bill Donohue is super pissed. The Catholic League has battled it out with Silverman’s group in the past, even posting opposing signs on each end of the Lincoln Tunnel in 2010. But Catholic League spokesman Bill Donohue said Silverman went too far this year. “This year it’s different,” he said. “This is vile. When …

Another find by Good As You blogger Jeremy Hooper.

NOMexposed today revealed that Brian Brown’s crew has purchased the above URLs in an apparent plan to sow infighting among LGBT people. Earlier this year secret NOM documents exposed the hate group’s plan to incite anti-gay hatred in the black community.

As you’d guess, this wedding vendor isn’t being “forced” to do anything.  They aren’t even going out of business, despite Brian Brown’s typical lie. An Annapolis wedding vendor plans to ask Maryland’s General Assembly to give his company and others like him the right to refuse services to gay couples on religious grounds. “The law exempts my minister from doing …

“In stark contrast to the findings of a rogue judge in California who himself was engaged in a long-term homosexual relationship, the federal court in Nevada has quite properly found that true marriage serves an important public purpose and is entitled to protection. This important ruling shows how far out of the mainstream the decision in the Proposition 8 case …

ICYMI, these are about this.

(Via Good As You) UPDATE: Kluwe is firing back on Twitter. Enjoy!

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The Corporate Morality Center today issued a dire warning to UPS over their new funding decision regarding the Boy Scouts. Attacking organizations which support traditional sexual views may have unintended and possibly life-threatening consequences. For example, a day after the Human Rights Campaign repeated the charge that the Family Research Council was a “hate group,” an employee of another LGBT …

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NOM’s blogger Thomas Peters appeared on PBS Newshour to declare that he is optimistic that his theofascist organization has a bright future.

The red-caped Catholic loons of Tradition, Family & Property, who have staged numerous “attacks” against them, are claiming that their hidden camera caught “homofascists and supporters” as they destroyed anti-gay marriage signs that TFP placed outside a college bookstore in Portland, Maine.

NOM is funneling truckloads of jewel-encrusted Vatican money into the Minnesota marriage battle. The National Organization for Marriage has poured $1.65 million into Minnesota for Marriage, and nearly all of that came this month, new campaign finance records show. The group gave another $225,000 on Wednesday.  All told, Minnesota for Marriage raised more than $3.7 million so far this year, …