Fundie Watch: August 2008
Crist names Ultra-Conservative to Florida Supreme Court
Filed by Waymon Hudson | August 29, 2008 5:00 PM |Gov. Charlie Crist has selected Charles Canady to sit on the Florida Supreme Court, filling the vacancy left by Justice Raoul Cantero III. According to WMNF Radio: Canady, a former GOP congressman, is best known as being among those who...Read More
Gainesville Florida LGBT Rights Repeal to go before Voters
Filed by Waymon Hudson | August 29, 2008 4:00 PM |The Supervisor of Elections has certified that enough valid signatures were collected by Citizens for Good Public Policy to put a repeal of civil rights protections for the city of Gainesville's LGBT population. The issue will now go before voters....Read More
Massachusetts Equality Opponents At It Again
Filed by Sara Whitman | August 28, 2008 1:00 PM |Seems the folks in Massachusetts that are against equality- you know, the ones who think marriage is only for them, not everyone, the laws and systems cannot be shared equality without having them get cooties- have successfully petitioned the Attorney...Read More
Potecting marriage in Idaho...
Filed by Mike Rogers | August 28, 2008 12:00 PM |Apparently blow jobs in train station and airport bathrooms is not enough to put Larry Craig's marriage on the rocks... But a same-sex wedding card? Whoaaaaaaaaaah! Hallmark stores refuse to sell company's own wedding cards: NAMPA, Idaho - A manager...Read More
Why Does Elaine Donnelly Hate God's Rainbows?
Filed by Steve Ralls | August 27, 2008 5:00 PM |"Rainbows... only idiots chase them." - Larry Kersten Why does Elaine Donnelly hate God's rainbows? In a recent post at the National Review Online, Mrs. D. lashes out at the colorful creations in the sky, insinuating - in addition to...Read More
Way to give faith-based programming a good name
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 26, 2008 12:00 PM |The Kentucky arm of Teen Challenge, a faith-based rehab program aimed at adolescents, has "given up" its $50,000 federal grant. They obviously should never have been receiving it in the first place: Teen Challenge, Americans United pointed out, requires participants...Read More
AFA's at it again, this time with Hallmark
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 24, 2008 4:30 PM |The AFA is asking for a boycott of Hallmark because they're publishing bland same-sex marriage congratulations cards: Ask them to stop promoting a lifestyle that is not only unhealthy, but is also illegal in 48 states. Hallmark Greeting Cards has...Read More
McCain Antoinette
Filed by Waymon Hudson | August 22, 2008 4:00 PM |"If there be no bread, let them eat cake" -- Marie Antoinette. The historical portrait of Marie Antoinette is one of legendary excess and disconnection to the common man. When confronted with a starving populace, myth has it that she...Read More
Remember the Anti-Gay Florida Principal? He's now a Local Hero
Filed by Waymon Hudson | August 21, 2008 6:00 PM |I'm sure readers will remember David Davis, the principal at Ponce de Leon High School in Florida whom the courts said led a "relentless crusade" against gay students at the school and "embarked on what can only be characterized as...Read More
Bobby Jindal: A Decadence We Can Do Without
Filed by Steve Ralls | August 21, 2008 5:00 PM |Next Thursday, I'll be heading to New Orleans to join my friends who call the city home for its annual Labor Day debauchery, also known as Southern Decadence. It will be the first time I have been to the city...Read More
Remember the Anti-Gay Florida Principle? He's now a Local Hero.
Filed by Waymon Hudson | August 21, 2008 5:00 PM |I'm sure readers will remember David Davis, the principal at Ponce de Leon High School in Florida whom the courts said led a "relentless crusade" against gay students at the school and "embarked on what can only be characterized as...Read More
Elaine Donnelly's Radical Culture Change
Filed by Steve Ralls | August 20, 2008 11:00 AM |Right-wing "military" activist Elaine Donnelly, fresh off of her critically disastrous appearance before the House Armed Services Committee, is again maligning the professionalism of our troops, the capabilites of military commanders and the common-sense of the American public. In an...Read More
John McCain promises to re-criminalize homosexuality
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 19, 2008 5:00 PM |This deserves its own post separate from the one I wrote on Rick Warren's presidential forum earlier. No, he doesn't say that in so many words, but that's exactly what would happen: Neither candidate shied away from a question about...Read More
Marriage and Religion in the public square: No, they don't have to
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 19, 2008 3:00 PM |Here's Obama at Rick Warren's presidential forum on same-sex marriage: When asked to define marriage, he told Warren, "It's a union between a man and a woman." "For me as a Christian, it is a sacred union. God's in the...Read More
Bill Donohue takes on Towleroad
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 19, 2008 11:00 AM |Bill Donohue of the Catholic League (that one dude typing away, all alone with his delusion that he represents anyone in the Catholic community) is picking on Towleroad and Bitch PhD. because they got DNC credentials. He called them all...Read More
Fundie meltdown of the week: Michigan Huck for Veep supporters
Filed by Pam Spaulding | August 17, 2008 1:30 PM |The right wing bible-beaters are really having a tough week. Take this crew in Michigan calling itself "Huck's Army." The fringe supporters are threatening to abandon support of John McCain if the rapist/murderer-releasing, Christian Reconstructionist-supported, Man-On-Dog wannabe, former Arkansas governor,...Read More
Colbert takes on the DOJ
Filed by Waymon Hudson | August 17, 2008 12:00 PM |Stephen Colbert takes on the Department of Justice's illegal hiring practices and Monica Goodling in this hilarious segment of "The Word." You may remember Goodling rejected many lawyers for career prosecutor positions, including a lesbian, because they weren't conservative...Read More
Fox News Smears Next Top Model Transgender Contestant
Filed by Waymon Hudson | August 16, 2008 4:30 PM |A transgender woman will be one of the 14 women who will compete on the new season of America's Next Top Model on The CW (returning September 3). 22 year-old Isis, a former non-profit worker who identifies herself as "a...Read More
Rick Warren will host a presidential debate tonight
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 16, 2008 10:30 AM |He'll be hosting a presidential debate tonight, and Rick Warren says he'd have trouble voting for an adulterer: ...TAPPER: Would you have compunctions about voting for someone who had cheated on his wife? WARREN: Absolutely I would. Absolutely I would....Read More
McCain's VP Requirements? Must Hate Gays
Filed by Waymon Hudson | August 15, 2008 10:00 AM |So what is McCain looking for in a Vice-President? One thing is for sure- they have to be anti-gay. In an interview with the Weekly Standard, McCain muses about VP picks: I think it's a fundamental tenet of our party...Read More
Counter-programming is not the answer
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 12, 2008 4:00 PM |The Religious Right is counter-programming Rick Warren's meeting with McCain and Obama: Huckabee, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, and Lou Engle, the leader of The Call, a young adult movement, plan to hold a news conference Friday calling on...Read More
The Politics of Fear- Subtle Racism is still Racism
Filed by Waymon Hudson | August 12, 2008 1:00 PM |I remember the uproar that occurred over the Scott Howell attack ad against Harold Ford Jr., the former black Congressman from Tennessee. The slimy video featured a somewhat ditzy-sounding blonde telling the then-candidate Ford to "call me," which sent a...Read More
It's official: Florida Gov. Charlie Crist endorses marriage amendment
Filed by Pam Spaulding | August 09, 2008 12:00 PM |OK, people, he's now out of the closet on this issue, anyway. Express Gay News clears up the question of the week - does the governor want the GOP VP slot so badly that he'll sh*t on gays and lesbians...Read More
She's Baaaack . . .
Filed by Steve Ralls | August 07, 2008 4:00 PM |A few words of wisdom for Oklahoma State Representative Sally Kern: Sometimes, silence is golden. The Oklahoma City lawmaker, who infamously compared gays to terrorists . . . said she never said the things she said . . . and...Read More
Disturbing Video: The Law Is "Supposed To Discriminate" Against Gays
Filed by Nadine Smith | August 05, 2008 10:00 PM |Florida State Rep. Darryl Rouson says he didn't remember calling gay people immoral during a television program in 2006 or describing them as unfit to adopt children. He did not remember saying this: "I think it's wrong to allow adoptions...Read More
Fundies Get Ready for the "Armageddon of the Culture War"
Filed by Waymon Hudson | August 05, 2008 4:00 PM |According to Right Wing Watch, pastors gathered earlier this week at more than 200 sites throughout California, Arizona, and Florida to be pushed by national Religious Right leaders like Tony Perkins, Harry Jackson, Maggie Gallagher, and Chuck Colson and others...Read More
Religious Right Targets Transgender Community
Filed by Steve Ralls | August 05, 2008 9:00 AM |This morning's Washington Examiner includes a front-page story about the effort in Montgomery County, Maryland, to roll back legal protections for the transgender community. Right-wing groups, the paper reports, are pushing a November ballot initiative to repeal a measure that...Read More
Westboro Baptist Church caught fire this weekend
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 04, 2008 1:00 PM |No one was hurt, so we can joke around: A fence and garage at Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church became engulfed in flames early Saturday, according to the Topeka Capitol-Journal Web site. The fire did not spread to the church...Read More
