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Religious right hate groups say Obama probably gay

2012-05-16T16:10:00.002-04:00

As Right Wing Watch notes, this nut is cited by AFA, FRC and all the rest of their ilk:Paul Cameron of the Family Research Institute is an “expert” cited by groups like the Family Research Council, Concerned Women for America and the American Family Association, among others in the Religious Right. While his claims have been consistently discredited, Cameron is still a favorite of opponents of...

Wash Post continues canard that marriage hasn't changed since the beginning of time

2012-05-16T12:29:00.006-04:00

Marriage via Shutterstock A guest writer, Matthew Franck, writes in the Washington Post today about marriage equality. And of course, he begins with the canard that marriage hasn't been redefined since the beginning of time. Franck refers to: "the only meaning of marriage ever known in human history."Really, Matt? The "only meaning" ever known? Really? Tell that to Mitt...

Slave state Virginia says gays can't serve as judges

2012-05-16T08:00:00.008-04:00

Virginia is more developed economically than Alabama and Mississippi, but intellectually you're dealing with the same crowd. (It's no coincidence that the famous Supreme Court case that struck down inter-racial marriage bans is called Loving v. Virginia.) It's a pretty state, but that's about all it's got going for it. Avoid Virginia like the plague if you're ever looking for a...

Video: 1951 fashion show

2012-05-15T19:05:00.002-04:00

Those two guys sure seemed to like those swimsuits :)

Video: Evolved

2012-05-15T17:22:00.002-04:00

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GOP kills civil unions bill in Colorado

2012-05-15T11:59:00.000-04:00

More evidence that the Republican party is now a wholly owned subsidiary of the far right.

How gay marriage may just get Obama re-elected

2012-05-15T10:01:00.003-04:00

Obama via Shutterstock From a piece I penned for the Daily Beast this morning. In this part of the piece I'm talking about liberal frustration with the President the first few years when it seemed he was almost afraid of change. The turning point for many progressives was the repeal of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy in December 2010. While the repeal was obviously a big deal to...

Obama endorsement of gay marriage likely to woo young voters, women

2012-05-15T08:00:00.001-04:00

Vote photo via Shutterstock Boston Globe: President Obama’s endorsement of legal same-sex marriage is likely to resonate with young voters and women, two blocs where Obama is already strong, a new Gallup poll indicates. Gallup on Monday published more detailed results of its annual Values and Beliefs survey, which last week showed 50 percent of Americans believe gay marriage should be legal....

GOP, religious right scared about backlash on marriage debate

2012-05-14T15:25:00.000-04:00

It's fascinating when both the lead religious right hate group and the head of the Republican party play nice on same-sex marriage. LA Times: Sen. Rand Paul, who said he wasn't sure President Obama's views on marriage "could get any gayer," was rebuked by an influential evangelical leader Sunday. Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, appearing onCBS' "Face the Nation," strongly...

Mitt Romney's grandson has two mommies

2012-05-14T13:30:00.001-04:00

How sad that the Romneys have decided to discard 3,000 years of tradition.

Argentina now leads the world in trans rights

2012-05-14T11:33:00.002-04:00

Tango via Shutterstock Que bárbaro. Activists say Argentina now leads the world in transgender rights after giving people the freedom to change their legal and physical gender identity simply because they want to, without having to undergo judicial, psychiatric and medical procedures beforehand.

Hillary Rosen slaps down Mary Matalin's coded bigotry

2012-05-14T08:00:00.003-04:00

Boy, it really was a day of coded bigotry from the right wing pundits on the Sunday talk shows. First, I got lectured to on CNN by a straight white guy about how offensive it is to compare the gay civil rights struggle to the civil rights movement of the 60s. When I quoted Coretta Scott King equating the gay and African-American struggles he quickly backed down, muttering that Mrs....

Video: I debate same-sex marriage, and sex with turtles, on CNN

2012-05-13T18:40:00.001-04:00

I'm in Chicago and don't have any business clothes with me, so you get casual John for this appearance. Also, the glasses, which are a first for me and TV - I'm getting cataract surgery later this week, so not permitted to wear the contacts. Anyway, back to the substance. The segment was supposed to focus on media bias vis-a-vis President Obama's marriage equality announcement this past week. ...

Newsweek calls Obama the first gay president

2012-05-13T14:13:00.002-04:00

Hmm.

Bush's 2004 pollster tells GOP to embrace same-sex marriage

2012-05-12T11:54:00.000-04:00

A fascinating memo from George W. Bush's 2004 pollster, Jan van Lohuizen. In it, he argues that it's time for the Republican party to embrace gay marriage because the polls on the subject are changing so quickly. He even notes that this isn't just a generational issue, where the younger generation is simply better than the older, but rather that support for marriage equality is growing...

Romney flip-flops today on gay adoption, now against

2012-05-11T19:53:00.000-04:00

Romney seems to have decided that the only way can win the general election against President Obama is to swing even further to the far-right than he did during the primaries (I know the primaries aren't over, but they really are). This is actually quite surprising. He's going to turn off independents if he keeps pandering to the far right. From CBS News: Republican presidential...

Romney defends traditional marriage, which in his family's case means polygamy

2012-05-11T16:52:00.000-04:00

The Daily Dish has a video of Mitt Romney talking about defending the traditional definition of marriage that's existed for 3,000 years. In the case of Romney's family, that traditional definition involved polygamy. As the Daily Dish notes, Romney's family even abandoned the United States for Mexico, after the US government clamped down on polygamists over a century ago.Romney says that...

Arizona's gay, anti-immigrant, immigrant-loving sheriff quits Congressional race

2012-05-11T14:40:00.000-04:00

Who didn't see this one coming? The disgraced Republican sheriff who was outed after his undocumented Latino boyfriend exposed their relationship is ending his run for Arizona's Fourth Congressional District seat in order to focus on running for re-election as Sheriff. Or so he claims. I'm sure this decision had nothing to do with the fact that his fundraising all but dried up in the...

Top Romney aide gleefully outed transgender woman, ending her political career

2012-05-11T11:12:00.006-04:00

Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom Eric Fehrnstrom is called Mitt Romney's "most trusted" adviser. Well it seems that Mr. Romney's most trusted adviser is alleged to have "glee"-fully outed a transgender women, ending her career in politics. This from GQ: Fehrnstrom saved his cheap shots for smaller-time Massachusetts pols. When a political activist and gadfly named Althea Garrison was...

The story of Obama's evolution, starting with a blogger named Joe

2012-05-11T10:00:00.001-04:00

I have to give Peter Wallsten and Scott Wilson credit at the Washington Post for crediting our own Joe Sudbay with being the person who got President Obama to say he's evolving on gay marriage. A lot of reporters fail to mention who hit was who got the ball rolling on this issue. Liberal bloggers were seated around a big table in the Roosevelt Room, peppering President Obama with policy...

Why gay marriage won't hurt Obama at the polls

2012-05-11T08:00:00.000-04:00

From Linda Hirshman: Anti-gay-marriage whites are not voting for Barack Obama. Forty-nine percent of white folks oppose gay marriage, but 74 percent of Republicans oppose gay marriage. And the Republican Party is almost entirely white. Where are the 48 percent of nonwhite voters who oppose gay marriage? Where are almost all nonwhite voters? In the Democratic Party. Even if every single black...

New online tool shows which states give LGBT citizens legal protections

2012-05-10T17:15:00.000-04:00

The Guardian released an interactive tool showing which states give LGBT citizens which rights and protections. It's sad that this is something that needs to be made, but it's a powerful tool. It show's protections in the areas of marriage, hospital visitation, adoption, employment protections, housing protections, hate crimes and school harassment policies. Really worth...

Classmate: Romney is lying about anti-gay bullying incident

2012-05-10T15:47:00.000-04:00

A former classmate of Mitt Romney's says he thinks Romney is lying about not remembering an incident at prep school in which he allegedly physically bullied a suspect gay classmate. The Romney camp is reportedly so worried about the story that they're urging friendly former classmates to step forward and defend Romney. Messy, messy, messy.

On gay marriage, Obama is leading the world and catching up at the same time

2012-05-10T14:55:00.000-04:00

An interesting piece from AP on how Obama's embrace of gay marriage may have larger implications for gay couples around the world. Obama's announcement Wednesday that he supports gay marriage boosted the hopes of gay rights groups around the world that other leaders will follow his example. Vatican and other religious officials who oppose gay marriage stayed largely silent, while others denounced...

Obama is "leading a war on traditional marriage," says Rush Limbaugh, currently on his fourth marriage

2012-05-10T13:10:00.000-04:00

I'd love to know in what tradition it's okay for a guy to get married four times: He then wondered if Obama's "war on traditional marriage" was similar to the "war on stay at home working mothers" and the "war on the catholic church." Limbaugh accused Obama and liberals for trying to "turn traditional institutions on their head," which forces him to get involved. "People like me, who are...