What does "pro-family" activism mean? Well if you're MassResistance, it means filming unsuspecting people as they go to the bathroom and making meticulous note of the pee-bound peeps' heights, as if they are robbers in a convenience store: Total extremists, this MassResistance group. Extremists who score personal meetings with the likes of Scott Brown, but extremists nonetheless. Which is precisely why they are one of only a handful of groups to land alongside Westboro Baptist Church on the Southern Poverty Law Center's anti-gay hate groups list. Because they have earned it. So why should you, a ...

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Charles LiMandri (NOM and Carrie Prejean's attorney) is a man who is on visual record sharing his belief that gays are all abused as kids, that drawing pictures of army tanks could possibly turn gay kids "normal," that LGBTs have a higher rate of violence, that gays are incapable/nondesirous of monogamy, and that the LGBT community's true goal is to attack religion; a man who created a Powerpoint presentation which links to uber-disgraced researcher Paul Cameron to support anti-gay claims, and even refers to "sodomy" as a "crime against nature"; and someone who has referred to marriage ...

Tulsa World, Oklahoma's second most-circulated newspaper, has come out against Republican state senator Steve Russell's proposal to prevent federal law enforcement from acting in accordance with LGBT-inclusive hate crimes law: The bill apparently does not seek to repeal federal or state hate crimes protections in place that are based on race, national origin, religion or disability. But it excludes hate crimes perpetrated on the basis of actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity, two categories added to a federal hate crimes law last fall. There's no good reason, in this day and age, for the bill's passage. But if ...

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No awkward dancing, chaperoned fun, or rented clothes. But hey, how about a national TV appearance as a consolation prize? The Wanda Sykes Show [Fox] Hmm. Maybe a little weird that Wanda invited Constance to present the award? She is, after all, a teenager who came out and stood up to her conservative small town school officials. We're thinking that maybe we can find something to engrave and send in her direction as well, right? *** **SEE ALSO: April 2nd was the original date for the dance. If her school won't hold it - then let's dress up in support of equality ...

The Washington D.C.- and Princeton, NJ-based National Organization For Marriage wants to tell Californians how to vote in the Republican primary/general election: Weird, we always thought peas were a good thing. When exactly did we start placing a premium on the kind of empty calories that NOM serves up? Don't fall for this, CA. Peas (and peace) grow in organic California grass, not in dubious astroturf. *** **Karen Ocamb has more on Campbell: CA GOP Senate candidate Tom Campbell – pro-marriage equality, opposes Prop 8 court challenge [LGBT POV] **SEE ALSO: NOM is also targeting D.C. with anti-equality robocalls: ...

Okay, so we're about to show you a couple of things, and we're not exactly sure what it is that we're showing you. But here are three things that we do know. (1) There's a company called Vemma, which involves the marketing and selling of "health and wellness" drinks: (2) The company, as well as the multi-level marketing plan attached to it, is nothing if not controversial. The internet is filled with sites questioning the legitimacy of the plans, with the words "pyramid scheme" even tossed around by some. Detractors are direct, but so are supporters: Report: Vemma Corporation Is ...

Got an hour? Well it's a rainy Friday and this writer's tired and kind of meh, so I don't wanna write an epic post that will fill that time. Sorry. It's been a busy week. And I drank last night. I'm human, not machine. But perhaps you'll instead want to spend sixty minutes or so with Maggie Gallagher's favorite sparring partner, Andrew Sullivan, as he opines on the politics of gayness. You might agree, you might scream in frustration. But whatever you do, just shhhhh -- I'm going to try to take a nap. G'night: Andrew Sullivan, "The ...

Standards regarding sexual behavior are in place in the armed forces. Neither a female nor a male soldier can shtup anyone, anywhere they please. Is this going to change once Don't Ask Don't Tell is repealed? Sir, no, sir. But forget about this reality for a second, as the far-right needs to co-opt the concept of sexual behavior so that they can justify their resistance to openly LGBT people themselves: "The issue is about conduct, period"? Well yea, if we're talking about the conduct of a male soldier simply saying, "Oh yea, I'm married -- his name's Jon." Because our sex lives, ...

In January, we told you how the PFOX was crowing about a supposed win involving Disney which pertained to their right to propose a shareholder resolution that would force the Mouse House to officially list "ex-gays." At the time, we pooh-poohed PFOX's press release on the grounds that it wasn't of any consequence whatsoever. True to group form, they were simply trying to turn a minor, procedural molehill into some kind of "ex-gay"-validating mountain, and we weren't having any of it. Well fast forward to this week. Professional "ex-gay" Greg Quinlan went to Disney to present the aforementioned shareholder ...

NYC has an out City Council Speaker. That's pretty inspiring for local LGBT kids, letting them know that they can be whatever they want to be, and that nobody's biases against them are allowed to stop their dreams. Especially since virtually nobody in the five boroughs has ever turned Christine Quinn's seat into a controversy simply because of her sexual orientation. That's just not the spirit of New York City. But leave it to the self-appointed moral authoritarians on the religious right to take what the vast majority of Big Apple residents have come to know as benign, easy, peace, and ...

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Because of Elton John's recent quip about Jesus possibly being a gay man, a Georgia man by the name of Neal Horsley declared that "Elton John Must Die." Because of that ass-crazy insanity, Mr. Horsley has now been arrested: Georgia Man Jailed For Death Threats Against Elton John Over Jesus Comment [J.M.G.] ♪ Someone saved my life tonight, Atlanta PD ♪ ...

Earlier this week, Janice Shaw Crouse wrote that marriage equality for same-sex couples constitutes "a sham that will devalue all marriages, and said that gay couples "live together to form a household in defiance of the prevailing moral codes to render meaningless an institution that has been the bulwark of the family and society throughout history." And of course last month we all saw Janice at CPAC, suggesting that progressives' goals should be likened to those who created Hilter Youth. Because as a Concerned Woman For America, she must protect the world by ad hominem denunciations of ...

The cliché is for a couple to get married and then get lazy and gain weight. A D.C. Ben & Jerry's store is helping one gay couple along in fulfilling that fate: Keith Spangler and Andreas Vellios plan to exchange vows inside the Georgetown Ben & Jerry's Scoop Shop on Thursday. Gay Couple to Get Married at Ben & Jerry's in Georgetown [DCist] Congratulations, boys! And don't worry too much about overdoing it. The honeymoon should be good cardio. ...

• The so-called Manhattan Declaration is unabashedly hostile to LGBT equality.

• The Manhattan Declaration excludes any American who is not a conservative evangelical.

• The Manhattan Declaration publicly touts signatures from Scott "the gay movement is a nuclear bomb" Lively, someone who's getting growing (and more eye-opening) attention for his belief that the Uganda "kill gays" bill is a "step in the right direction"; from Andrea Lafferty and Lou Sheldon of the Southern Poverty Law Center "hate group" the Traditional Values Coalition; from Peter Akinola, a man who says "homosexuality does violence

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Scott Lively is an official signatory to the rabidly-anti-gay-yet-supposedly-"mainstream" Manhattan Declaration. Those behind the document (Focus on the Family's Jim Daly, NOM's Robby George, Chuck Colson, etc.) leave Lively on their list at their own peril. Here's the latest reason why: *** *Others close to Lively: Here is the acknowledgements page from Scott's web-based book Redeeming the Rainbow: Redeeming The Rainbow [Lively] ...

Obtuseness, thy name is the Family Research Council: "When same-sex weddings kicked off in D.C. yesterday, the city wasn't seeing anything but dollar signs. In an absurd article in today's Washington Post, reporters tried to argue that counterfeit marriage could be the economic salvation of the city's economy. In a region with 12% unemployment, local officials claim that redefining marriage "will create 700 jobs and contribute $52.2 million over three years to the local economy." Not so fast, says FRC. The last census counted 3,678 same-sex partner homes in D.C. Assuming that number has stayed roughly the same, then the ...