Fundie Watch: July 2007
We Are The Beast
Filed by Marti Abernathey | July 28, 2007 2:23 PM |This kind of display dispels the notion by some in the civil rights community that GLBT people aren't being dehumanized. This is a screen shot from a video by Max Blumenthal that was taken at the Christians United for Israel's...Read More
Lame headline of the day
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 26, 2007 6:43 PM |From the Daily Mail: Charity forced to turn away children by Labour's new gay law It's referring to the new inclusion of sexual orientation into the UK's non-discrimination law and how a Catholic adoption agency decided to close down instead...Read More
The madness of Mayor Naugle's supporters
Filed by Pam Spaulding | July 26, 2007 4:19 AM |Bil blogged yesterday about Matt Foreman's speech at the Flush Naugle rally, but I thought I'd pass on this bit of fun. Janet Folger, head of Faith2Action, wrote a completely unhinged column at WorldNetDaily in support of the madness of...Read More
Kenn's site is down
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 18, 2007 3:00 PM |Yesterday I responded to one of Kenn Gividen's homophobic rants on his blog. He responded to my post later that night, and I copied it to the comments section of that same post here at TBP. Well, I just went...Read More
Phelps and the new monument
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 18, 2007 1:12 PM |Fred Phelps is trying to get a monument built to Matthew Shepard's death in Casper, WY: In response to Casper's new historical monument plaza, an anti-gay pastor in Kansas has renewed his request to have his own monument in town....Read More
AOL sucks
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 17, 2007 3:07 PM |Dinesh D'Souza has never been able to stand the gays, but I don't think that his assumption that gays are the proper recipients of violence was ever as apparent as in this post at AOL's NewsBloggers: Putting on my Clausewitz...Read More
Easy way to rile up Kenn Gividen: Take him off your blogroll
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 17, 2007 2:34 PM |Well, TBP is really hitting the big time. We now have the American Taliban out there writing entire blog posts responding to our site in general. Several months ago, we found out that the illustrious godhatesfags.com linked us, but they...Read More
Peter LaBarbera uses young man's death for cheap political points
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 16, 2007 10:16 PM |Peter LaBarbera has really hit rock-bottom here. I'm not going to link to his latest tantrum because it'll just improve his Google rank, and fortunately Jim Burroway has put it all together on his blog. From Jim: Peter LaBarbera is...Read More
Watch out for the group marriage menace!
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 16, 2007 1:55 PM |Just in case you didn't have enough to worry about, Elizabeth Marquardt gives you one more: GROUP MARRIAGE! Yes, as fewer and fewer people are getting married and are forming new living arrangements outside the bounds of Holy Matrimony, Marquardt...Read More
The end of Pride
Filed by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore | July 16, 2007 8:01 AM |Joel Rozen called me the other day to interview me for a story he's writing for Creative Loafing in Sarasota, Florida about the fact that this year’s PrideFest was canceled by the organizers due to fears that it was becoming...Read More
Hate crime fundie follies
Filed by Pam Spaulding | July 14, 2007 9:02 PM |Here's a fun video of homobigoted pastors rallying on Capitol Hill against hate crimes legislation on Wednesday. Lies upon lies. Rusty Lee Thomas, who's mentioned in an earlier post, is seen bleating this winner: "Yes, I dare state that...Read More
Racist, homophobic liar tries to get out of jury duty
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 11, 2007 1:26 PM |From MSNBC: A Cape Cod man who claimed he was homophobic, racist and a habitual liar to avoid jury duty earned an angry rebuke from a judge on Monday, who referred the case to prosecutors for possible charges. "In 32...Read More
Shocker: former Surgeon General felt political pressure
Filed by Jen Jorczak | July 11, 2007 11:20 AM |As the Senate preps for confirmation hearings on his anti-gay would-be successor, former US Surgeon General Richard Carmona tells Congress: The administration... would not allow him to speak or issue reports about stem cells, emergency contraception, sex education, or prison,...Read More
World Net Daily takes on Big Sodomy
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 09, 2007 11:22 AM |After last week's ex-gaying of Michael Glatze, which happened with a yawn as the cycle of ex-gays being pornographically paraded around right-wing news sources just continued as it always does, Donald Hank thinks he's stumbled on a way to end...Read More
Reparative Therapy for Racism?
Filed by Terrance Heath | July 06, 2007 4:07 PM |I don't know if there is such a thing as "reparative therapy" for racism, but if there is then "ex-gay" spokesman Stephen Bennett may want to sign up after his latest slip. Good As You has the skinny, including an...Read More
Shirley Phelps-Roper charged
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 06, 2007 1:24 PM |Shirley Phelps-Roper, daughter of Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church, was formally charged today. From the Wichita Eagle: Shirley Phelps-Roper, 49, of Topeka, was charged with negligent child abuse, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, flag mutilation and...Read More
Prayer good; compassion bad
Filed by Jen Jorczak | July 03, 2007 2:00 PM |Today, the Indianapolis Star writes about Jeanne Atkins, devout Catholic, cheesecake producer, and mother of gay stroke victim Patrick Atkins. Except that the Star left out that last bit. The entire article is about a (blessedly, optional) prayer group she's...Read More
Michael Glatze, ex-gay
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 03, 2007 11:49 AM |What's with editors of queer magazines nowadays? Just after we found out that Venus magazine editor-in-chief Charlene Cothran ex-gayed herself (not resulting in attraction to men, mind you, but a self-described celibacy), WorldNetDaily says it has the inside scoop on...Read More
Shirtless Jesus Superhero!
Filed by Marti Abernathey | July 02, 2007 7:21 PM |In my search for the latest in transgender news, sometimes I come across an unexpected gem. Yesterday I came across this post entitled "We Must Reclaim American Values!" In the post was a photograph of a young man with...Read More
Bishop says gays cause flooding
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 02, 2007 5:57 PM |It looks like the roast beefs have their own version of Fred Phelps: The floods that have devastated swathes of the country are God's judgment on the immorality and greed of modern society, according to senior Church of England bishops....Read More
