Fundie Watch: April 2008
Reviewing Elaine's Re-Invention Tour
Filed by Steve Ralls | April 29, 2008 12:00 PM |As the nation pauses to celebrate the release of a new gift from her Madge-sty, another girl from Michigan is launching her own Re-Invention Tour . . . but with a decidedly less-thrilling tune. Elaine Donnelly, who gave up the...Read More
Hagee still blames gays for Katrina
Filed by Waymon Hudson | April 26, 2008 3:30 PM |It looks like McCain supporter John Hagee still blames us for Hurricane Katrina. Hagee has long said that Katrina was God's judgment for a "massive homosexual rally" that was planned for the Monday following the storm. McCain has refused to...Read More
Don't insult my daddy
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 25, 2008 4:05 PM |Here's something from an ex-gay North Carolina pastor: "Get up on your feet so I can knock you down again!" I stood horrified in the hall as my father yelled at my mother lying on the floor at his feet....Read More
Warren Throckmorton's Day of Silence counter-programming is wrong
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 25, 2008 11:29 AM |Today is GLSEN's Day of Silence, when students all across the country remain silent at school in solidarity with the silence LGBT youth feel when it comes to expressing their identities, sexualities, and genders and the violence they face when...Read More
Elaine's Wild Ride on the Sapphic Slip 'N Slide
Filed by Steve Ralls | April 21, 2008 10:23 PM |There she goes again. Elaine Donnelly, the ever-so-coiffed defense-department-damsel-in-distress, is having Sapphic visions of a Slip 'N Slide ride with openly lesbian Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin. And of course, it has something to do with Tammy's mile-high adventure with a woman....Read More
Big Sky Country Gets Bigger
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | April 21, 2008 10:46 AM |I just got back from book-touring in my home state, Montana, and can report that the world-famous "big sky" is getting a little bigger for LGBT issues. It's springtime in the Rockies, with cottonwood trees coming into bud. The chinooks...Read More
Florida Amendment sponsors roll out new campaign of hate
Filed by Waymon Hudson | April 18, 2008 1:45 PM |The group behind the Florida "Marriage Amendment" has launched a new website and media blitz. Not surprising, all of the press conferences announcing the effort took place at churches around the state. It seems they aren't even trying to hide...Read More
Gaydar alert?
Filed by Mike Rogers | April 15, 2008 8:45 PM |For me the gaydar hits right as that guy with the goatee starts speaking......Read More
Right Wingers Push for AZ Marriage Amendment
Filed by Serena Freewomyn | April 15, 2008 9:00 AM |Members of the Arizona legislature are making another concerted effort to place a measure on the November ballot that would amend the state's constitution to prohibit same sex marriage. As proof positive that this is really just about how much...Read More
Sally Kern: Called Out by Clergy
Filed by Steve Ralls | April 14, 2008 9:15 PM |The following is an op-ed from Rev. Loyce Newton-Edwards, president of PFLAG Oklahoma City, which appeared over the weekend in the Oklahoma Observer. Archbishop Desmond Tutu once observed that, "You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you,...Read More
From the Office of Sally Kern
Filed by Steve Ralls | April 09, 2008 12:09 PM |Oklahoma Representative Sally Kern just doesn't seem to learn: Tape recorders are decidedly not her friend. It's been just over a week since the midwest's favorite homophobe told her local paper, The Oklahoman, that PFLAG supporters from the state took...Read More
Politician uses "Day of Silence" to attack opponent
Filed by Waymon Hudson | April 08, 2008 6:30 PM |A County Commissioner from Hillsborough County, Florida has just sent out a nasty anti-gay email to his supporters to oppose the National Day of Silence scheduled for April 25. In the e-mail, Commissioner Brian Blair told his supporters that the...Read More
Look what Timothy Kincaid found....
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 07, 2008 2:21 PM |With all this talk about Obama's pastor, it's interesting not only how McCain is getting away with pandering to the Religious Right's lowest common denominator, but how no one in the mainstream media has even cared to look up what...Read More
When Jerre Met Sally
Filed by Steve Ralls | April 03, 2008 2:15 PM |If Oklahoma Representative Sally Kern wants to talk about terror, Islam or cancer, she should look up Jerre Fine in the Oklahoma City phonebook. Fine, a veteran of the United States Air Force, was based at Fort Gordon, Georgia, and...Read More
Larry Craig Ponders Veep Nomination
Filed by Don Sherfick | April 01, 2008 7:32 AM |Boise, Idaho - After receiving a call from the John McCain campaign that he was on the presumptive Republican Nominee's short list, Idaho Senator Larry Craig hastily called another press conference. This time his wife was not by his side,...Read More
