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“What do Olson and Boies think they are doing? Watching accounts of this trial unfold this week I had a big “aha” moment. It’s now clear: Ted and David think they are conducting the Scopes trial! When this trial began I told you: gay marriage activists were putting 7 million Californians on trial. But this week it got worse: They …

Writing on NOM’s blog, Maggie Gallagher claims that Prop 8 would never have happened had San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders not come out in support of marriage equality. San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders testified today in the Prop 8 trial, in favor of misusing the Consittution to overturn the rights of 7 million Californian voters. Here’s the interesting thing most …

Fierce! (Via – Oh No They Didn’t)

America’s two most-reviled homophobes are battling each other about a repulsive remark that Peter LaBarbera attributed to the Liberty Counsel’s Matt Barber. It all started over Barber’s announcement that he would lead a wingnut boycott of CPAC if GOProud was allowed to remain a co-sponsor. Round One, Porno Pete: It boils down to this: there is nothing “conservative” about — …

Pioneering televangelist Oral Roberts has died. Evangelist Oral Roberts died today in Newport Beach, Calif., due to complications from pneumonia, according to a news release from OralRobertsNews.com. His son, Richard, and daughter, Roberta, were at his side, the release said. The founder of Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association and Oral Roberts University was 91. There will be a private family internment. …

“We are not completely certain that we want her in a nightclub setting at the hours specified in the contract. As you can understand, this is in direct conflict with who she is. Her reputation as a Christian is more important than any public appearance attention or monetary compensation.” – Francine Prejean, explaining why her daughter, Miss Ladyfingers USA, will …

After weeks of shamed silence during which NOM scrubbed all mention of Carrie Prejean from their website, Maggie Gallagher has at last commented on the Miss Ladyfingers USA scandal in a column published on the wingnut site Townhall. I hope young women watching learn something from Carrie’s ordeal; ideally something like: Don’t have sex with men who aren’t willing to …

You think she couldn’t get crazier, and then she proves you wrong.

“I love the gay press. I really am impressed with gay journalists, as a group. I like reading the marriage issue in the gay press because they cover it as if what happens matters, whereas if you read The New York Times, it’s always about how this is going to affect who gets elected president.” – NOM founder Maggie Gallagher, …

It was a cavalcade of bigotry on parade yesterday at the Focus On The Family’s Values Voters Summit. First up, Maggie Gallagher describes being “extraordinarily moved” by Carrie Prejean’s words at Miss USA, then Miss California Fake Tits herself takes the podium to tell the audience that God himself was speaking through her.

“What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass. We will do whatever it takes to make sure this doesn’t pass. Right now, we are looking at reaching down the throat and ripping the guts out of freedom. And we may never be able to …

Our most recent Swag Tuesday winner is Stephen, who will be attending Rites XXX: The Black Party courtesy of the Saint-At-Large. Interestingly, Stephen will not be bestowing his other ticket on his boyfriend. Party in the balcony! I kid, I kid. Advance tickets are available online here. RELATED: The promoters have asked me to mention that despite what this year’s …

Westboro Baptist Church’s Fred Phelps and his daughter Shirley Phelps-Roper have been banned from entering the UK. Just yesterday we learned of their plans to protest a British staging of the Matthew Shepard play, The Laramie Project. Two members of the Westboro Baptist Church, an American religious sect which calls for homosexuals to be killed, have been banned from entering …

Westboro Baptist Church says they are going to the UK to protest a production of the Laramie Project. The Telegraph asked Shirley-Phelps Roper why they are coming. “You KNOW his word – you had great light in your land in the 1600s with the vast array of John’s (Knox, Bunyan, Brown, Gill, Trapp, etc., etc.) and you have Bible’s everywhere! …

Seeing as how four of the ladies of The View are single mothers, Ann Coulter totally picked the wrong forum today to promote her book, which claims that all social ills are caused by single mothers. It’s a smackdown. Things start in the first clip at the 5:00 mark.

Santa Christ has brought you an early present. Via Page Six: WE HEAR…THAT although we didn’t think it would be possible to silence Ann Coulter, the leggy reaction- ary broke her jaw and the mouth that roared has been wired shut… Did she finally call the wrong dude a faggot? It IS her favorite word.

After the Westboro Baptist Church nutters slithered into Silverton, Oregon yesterday, a supportive crowd of counter-protesters showed up to rally for their newly-elected transgender mayor. The counterprotesters outside City Hall in this Marion County town today significantly outnumbered the protesters who inspired them: three young women and a man from a Kansas church, here to register their disdain with the …

Shirley Phelps-Rogers, daughter of Fred Phelps, is in court this week charged with negligent child abuse, endangering a child, flag mutilation, and disturbing the peace. Phelps-Rogers brings her 10 year-old son to the Phelps clan’s funeral protests, which constitutes child endangerment, according the charges. The good mother claims her son willingly attended the protests.