Wanna see how cruel and crass our opposition can sometimes be? Well check this out. In reaction the news that a workshop designed to help gay youth and their fathers learn to accept themselves and each other was cancelled, the reliably over the top folks at WorldNetDaily are running this headline: Disgusting. The workshop they are discussing was to be a thoughtful examination of the issues that gay youth and their fathers sometimes face. It was meant to foster understanding of those kids who are gay (no how-to manual needed), cutting through the hyper-masculine heterosexism that can ...

Reporting from Cannes, the folks at the Cinematical blog have brought us the first official image from the ad campaign of the upcoming gay-themed film I You Phillip Morris, in which Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor will play cellmates-cum-lovers (pun absolutely intended). Check out the cute billboard: The film is expected to be released in early 2009. It'll be the one that social conservatives are loudly condemning. Cannes 2008 in Pictures: Day One -- Movie Posters Everywhere [Cinematical] (H/t: Towle) ...

Social conservatives are upping the ante in their war against McDonald’s, the restaurant that no doubt raised them. People like the American Family Association are absolutely seeing red over the fast food chain’s National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. McDonald’s apparently attempted to quell their rage, but only ended up making them more mad, according to an AFA Action Alert… McDonald’s is still trying to distort their support for the homosexual agenda by twisting words. While McDonald’s says it is not a member of the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, the NGLCC website proudly lists them ...

In a piece chastising ABC's "Brothers and Sisters" for recently airing a same-sex commitment ceremony, Kristen Fyfe of the Culture and Media Institute makes the following offensive connection between gays who pledged a lifetime of monogamy and siblings who schtup each other (highlighting our own): Entertainment TV has long been a vehicle to bring controversial cultural topics into the living rooms of American families: Maude's abortion aired in 1972 before Roe v. Wade entered the cultural lexicon, Murphy Brown opted to have a baby out of wedlock, and homosexuality came into homes weekly via Will and Grace. Weddings – ...

This is, at least, an approaching coherent approach to reforming abortion law:Andrew Lansley, the shadow health secretary, told MPs on Monday he would seek to make it easier for women to have an abortion at an early stage, while lowering the time limit for late procedures.The relaxing of rules refers to support for the lifting of the requirement for the signatures of two doctors. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out across the political right - where, as has been demonstrated at length, the desire to reduce the week limit is part of an agenda towards the ...

Should a person who has fought her entire adult life against full equality for not only gays and lesbians but also women be honored with an honorary degree? No, says PFLAG. Which is exactly why the group is asking St. Louis, Missouri's Washington University to reconsider their decision to honor to Phyllis Schlafly, the doyenne of social conservatism who, despite herself having a gay son, has been making life tougher for gay people longer than most of us have been alive: PFLAG Decries Honorary Doctorate for Schlafly [Advocate] Now, the university defends itself by saying that they are ...

You know how social conservatives make all sorts of protestations about constitutional marriage bans, saying they're designed only to "protect traditional marriage." Yea, well guess what? They're blowing more smoke up voters' arses than an enema bag filled with lit cigarettes! This from the Detroit Free Press: An amendment to the state constitution approved by voters in 2004 to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman also prohibits public employers from providing health care and other benefits to the same sex partners of employees, a divided Michigan Supreme Court ruled today. The court majority found that language in the ...

South African social conservatives aren’t big on the follow-through. After about 400 people made a stink last week about small town Knysna’s forthcoming gay pride parade, not one protester showed up. The gays, meanwhile, mostly followed the bum cover rule: Event co-ordinator Juan Lerm had promised Mayor Eleanore Bouw-Spies that paraders would cover up. There were lots of muscled torsos, but only one pair of cutout trousers (baring a rear set of tattooed cheeks) slipped the attentions of Pink Police marshals. Local resident Lance Arundel, who previously marched as Archbishop of the Moon, came as Mr Bean this year. Modestly dressed ...