Fundie Watch: July 2008
More Anti-Gay Violence Strikes EuroPride
Filed by Waymon Hudson | July 31, 2008 | 1:00 PM |I posted earlier this week about the two gay men that were robbed and stabbed at EuroPride in Stockholm by men yelling homophobic slurs. The incident is being classified as a hate crime by Police. Unfortunately, more horrendous anti-gay violence...Read More
The Sound and The Fury
Filed by Steve Ralls | July 31, 2008 | 11:00 AM |Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. - Macbeth,...Read More
Report Finds Attorney General's Office Broke the Law
Filed by Waymon Hudson | July 30, 2008 | 9:00 AM |The Department of Justice has released a scathing report against White House liaison Monica Goodling, an aide to former Attorney General Roberto Gonzalez. The report, entitled "An Investigation of Allegations of Politicized Hiring by Monica Goodling and Other Staff in...Read More
California Fundies Sue Over Prop 8 Language Change
Filed by Waymon Hudson | July 29, 2008 | 4:00 PM |The supporters of Prop 8, California's constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage, are worried. California Atty. General Jerry Brown recently changed the measure's ballot title and summary from "to provide that only marriage between a man and a woman...Read More
The Daily Show Takes on Donnelly
Filed by Steve Ralls | July 29, 2008 | 3:00 PM |Jon Stewart skewers Elaine Donnelly and her "arguments" against gay service members. "Even her blouse," Stewart says, "is mocking her anti-gay stance."...Read More
David Davis's crusade against the gays
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 29, 2008 | 12:00 PM |Richard Smoak, the judge in the case of Heather Gillman (the girl in Florida who wanted to wear pride gear to school, was forbidden by her principal, and then sued and won a case against the school for freedom of...Read More
McCain comes out against gay adoption... Again.
Filed by Waymon Hudson | July 28, 2008 | 1:00 PM |I guess we'll be hearing from his campaign to "clarify" his position again. In a Sunday interview on This Week with George Stephanopolous, McCain- who first said he was against gay adoption, then had his campaign backtrack on it- is...Read More
Greetings Government Workers!
Filed by Robert Ganshorn | July 26, 2008 | 11:00 AM |My Hoosier Republican ladies are at it again! With the side note "I'm stirring the pot again" she has forwarded the message below to me that she has not written, but believes. Now I would like your help in answering...Read More
It's a joke, until someone ends up dead
Filed by Mike Rogers | July 25, 2008 | 12:00 PM |When I first heard that anti-gay Oklahoma legislator Sally Kern was caught taking a gun int the state capitol, I made a joke out of it......Read More
Sally, Get Your Gun and Elaine? Keep Talking
Filed by Sara Whitman | July 25, 2008 | 10:00 AM |As if Elaine Donnelly wasn't enough comic relief, in comes the news that Sally Kern has been caught packing some heat in the Oklahoma State Capitol building. "Anti-gay Okla. lawmaker caught with gun at Capitol" Seems Sally carries with her...Read More
Cloaked in Bigotry and All Wrapped Up in Pearls
Filed by Steve Ralls | July 24, 2008 | 4:00 PM |This morning's Washington Post includes a must-read by columnist Dana Milbank, who dissects and deciphers yesterday's testimony by Elaine Donnelly at the Congressional "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" hearings. Milbank reports: Donnelly treated the panel to an extraordinary exhibition of rage....Read More
Florida Fundies using Trans-Scare Tactics
Filed by Waymon Hudson | July 24, 2008 | 2:00 PM |The rightwing group, Citizens for Good Public Policy (insert eye roll here), have launched a campaign to repeal the recently passed gender identity protection clause in Gainesville, Florida. In January, commissioners voted to include the phrase "gender identity" in the...Read More
Culture Wars, good little soldiers, and deserting the party
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 23, 2008 | 1:00 PM |Don Wildmon thinks that California could be the last battle of the so-called Culture Wars: "If we lose California, if they defeat the marriage amendment, I'm afraid that the culture war is over and Christians have lost," said Wildmon, "I've...Read More
Why We Hate On Gays
Filed by Monica Roberts | July 22, 2008 | 4:00 PM |I love Kirk Franklin, and not just because he's ahem, a fellow Texan. He fused traditional call and response style gospel singing with contemporary R&B and hip-hop tunes. It put a fresh, funky spin on gospel music, African-American style. I...Read More
Breaking News: COPA Not Copacetic
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | July 22, 2008 | 2:00 PM |It has taken ten years, but the long and bloody battle over COPA (the Child Online Protection Act) has finally taken one more gory step towards a possible victory for free speech. As one of the plaintiffs, I hope the...Read More
Sally Kern's protege?
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 19, 2008 | 9:00 AM |Oklahoma Commissioner Brent Rinehart is mailing out ridiculously homophobic and just plain ridiculous comics as part of his re-election bid. Click to enlarge. He says: "It's more or less a story of my experiences of the last four years of...Read More
Fred Phelps's church to protest Tony Snow's funeral
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 17, 2008 | 5:00 PM |They do have a knack for consistency, the Phelpsians: they hate just about everyone. Yes, today they're marchin' on former White House press secretary Tony Snow's funeral. The problem with him is that Bush signed a law banning funeral protests...Read More
Massachusetts might lift out-of-state marriage ban
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 15, 2008 | 1:00 PM |The Massachussetts legislature is considering repealing their ban on out-of-state same-sex couples from marrying in that state, and there's a good chance it'll pass: Senator Dianne Wilkerson, who is championing the issue in the state Senate, said she is "extremely...Read More
Bathroom Politics, Again
Filed by Simon Aronoff | July 14, 2008 | 8:30 AM |Like many of you, I've had my personal bathroom run-ins. Snidely concerned citizens (aka, gender police) letting me know that I was in the "wrong bathroom" throughout my life (too butch as a woman, too fey as a man). And...Read More
When bigots shop
Filed by Jerame Davis | July 13, 2008 | 9:00 AM |Bil and I stopped by the local supermarket Friday night for a few items and wow, what a treat we had in line in front of us. I risked my life to snap a few photos of the scene to...Read More
Case in point: playing with fantasy characters too much can warp a fragile mind
Filed by Bil Browning | July 12, 2008 | 12:00 PM |It's been a merry-go-round of rightwing nutjobs in the ole Indiana blogosphere lately, hasn't it? This week even brought us a retro trip to the 80's courtesy of Veritas Rex blogger Aaron Baker. Baker somehow manages to connect the US...Read More
You should see him when he finds shrimp on the salad bar
Filed by Bil Browning | July 11, 2008 | 10:00 PM |Okay - Even the Veritas Rex fundies don't think abortion is the #1 issue facing America today. WTF? I'm almost afraid to do a post about this, so I don't give the idiot a bigger ego. It pretty much stands...Read More
Truth Wins Out launches campaign to keep Daddy D out of the Radio Hall of Fame
Filed by Pam Spaulding | July 11, 2008 | 11:00 AM |I'm also up for nominating James Dobson for the fundie fraud Hall of Shame, but this will do for now. Wayne Besen of Truth Wins Out has kicked off a drive to ensure that the mastermind behind Focus on the...Read More
Gay man sues Bible publishers
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 10, 2008 | 12:00 PM |Here's an interesting item. Bradley Fowler, a gay man, is suing two Bible publishers for mistranslating the Bible and causing him "demoralization, chaos and bewilderment." The lawsuits also blames the publishers for causing "me or anyone who is a homosexual...Read More
McDonald's stuff: Peter LaBarbera's not up on AFA talking points, is a pretty terrible parent
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 10, 2008 | 9:00 AM |Peter LaBarbera isn't paying attention to the AFA. He wrote up a whole post about why he's joining the boycott of McDonald's, and he links to info found on HRC's Corporate Equality Index: For those not playing along at home...Read More
Desperate times call for desperate lies
Filed by Mike Rogers | July 07, 2008 | 2:30 PM |SHOCKER! Staver continues his campaign of misinformation. In a world of soundbites, it's fun to get one in here and there that explains exactly what the right wingers do, turn to lies if the truth won't assist them. We all...Read More
Bolthouse Farms Update: Tony Perkins ain't too bright
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 07, 2008 | 1:30 PM |Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council (the thinking person's right-wing anti-gay, anti-woman, anti-sex hate group) has an "Alert" out concerning Bolthouse Farms. Apparently, some gay people deciding not to purchase Bolthouse Farms products is an "intimidation tactic." I missed...Read More
Someone play the Cheers theme
Filed by Bil Browning | July 05, 2008 | 6:00 PM |Making your way in the world today Takes everything you've got; Taking a break from all your worries Sure would help a lot. I left out the part about "where everybody knows your name" for a reason. Because there's nothing...Read More
The AFA is boycotting McDonald's
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 03, 2008 | 1:00 PM |High on their successful boycotts against Disney and Ford, the AFA has decided to take on another corporation that's better integrated into American culture than they are: McDonald's. And, no, this has nothing to do with the fact that Grimace...Read More
ZOMG! They Banned the BIBLE!!!!!!!!!111111
Filed by Mercedes Allen | July 03, 2008 | 10:00 AM |Yes, it's true. That is, World Net Daily has sounded the panic alarm once again: "Section 8 of Senate Bill 200 is a wide open door for any judge to censor anything that condemns homosexuality, including Scripture," Lundberg [state Rep....Read More
Obama's promise to change faith-based initiative funding pisses off the Religious Right
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 02, 2008 | 3:00 PM |Obama isn't making friends with the extremists elements of the evangelical community with his plan to expand funding of faith-based initiatives and prevent organizations that receive that funding from discriminating: "For those of who us who believe in protecting the...Read More
American Family Association Tilts At Cultural Windmill; Hilarity Ensues
Filed by Tyrion Lannister | July 01, 2008 | 2:30 PM |Remember when, way back when, you could say things like "we attended a truly gay affair last evening" and not have to worry about people thinking you went to a party with a sling. Not so since those damnable homosexual...Read More
