Fundie Watch: November 2008
Last Chance to Sail Along with the WND Wingers
Filed by Pam Spaulding | November 30, 2008 4:00 PM |WingNutDaily has a conservative cruise slated for after the new year, so you better sign up for your spot soon -- apparently there are berths available... Why you should join WND's pre-Obama cruise A special message - and radical offer...Read More
Possibly the weirdest Christian Fundamentalist press I've ever gotten
Filed by Gina de Vries | November 28, 2008 5:30 PM |...and that says something. On her blog Gina de Vries wrote a eulogy for [DC Madame Deborah Jeane] Palfrey, stating, "I always do what Nana (Franscesa, my great-grandmother) taught me to do when grieving -- light candles, say prayers, cook...Read More
Marriage, Polygamy and Gays
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | November 26, 2008 11:00 AM |One of the religious right's standard splutterings is that legalizing same-sex marriage will open the door to legalizing polygamy. Many of us have dismissed these splutterings as just another boogeyman that the right is conjuring up...one that will make voters...Read More
Haters promise to "Rise above the Hate"
Filed by Waymon Hudson | November 25, 2008 4:30 PM |The poor, beleaguered, anti-gay bigot forces that waged campaigns across this country based on homophobia, fear, and intolerance have now had enough of the "hate" being directed at them and their anti-equality allies in the wake of the Nov 4th...Read More
Fundies Launch "Protect DOMA" Website
Filed by Waymon Hudson | November 24, 2008 3:00 PM |The Alliance for Marriage Foundation, which you may remember as the group that drafted the Federal Marriage Protection Amendment, has launched a "Protect DOMA" website and started a campaign to "preserve the federal Defense of Marriage Act." Here's the goal...Read More
The wonder that is Sarah Palin - on-screen turkey slaughter at her presser
Filed by Pam Spaulding | November 21, 2008 6:00 PM |Paging Tina Fey, we need one more skit from you... it doesn't get any better/worse than this. The failed GOP Veep candidate gabs about the greatness of small business and happy turkeys while the fowl is offed behind her. And...Read More
Newt Gingrich and "Gay Fascists"
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | November 21, 2008 12:30 PM |Good grief, Newt Gingrich is "teaching" history again. On the Bill O'Reilly show the other day, Gingrich came up with his biggest lie about history yet. He said, "I think there is a gay and secular fascism in this country...Read More
God Files a Prop 8 Amicus Brief
Filed by Sara Whitman | November 20, 2008 2:30 PM |Isn't part of religion having some humility? You know, all that bowing heads and stuff? What's up with this group, The Kingdom of Heaven, World Divine Mission? They have filed an amicus brief on behalf of God. Not Jesus. Or...Read More
Did God Create Marriage?
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | November 18, 2008 12:00 PM |When Mormon volunteers walked door to door to urge yes on Proposition 8, their first talking point was: "God created marriage." According to a New York Times report, if the householder agreed with #1 in principle, the Mormon walker then...Read More
Where Is That "Traditional Marriage" They Keep Talking About?
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | November 13, 2008 10:00 AM |In 2005 I published a long article in Gay & Lesbian Review, about the history of marriage in the West. Researching it was an illuminating experience. It got me clearer about what the real issues are, and how they're being...Read More
Indiana Family Institute condones anti-gay slurs
Filed by Bil Browning | November 12, 2008 9:15 AM |After years of running a gay blog, I've become used to the regular insults and slurs that are submitted in the comments section. Sadly, I doubt some people could deal with the regular blows to the psyche gay people get...Read More
Should We Be "Attacking" the Mormon Church?
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | November 10, 2008 8:30 PM |I'm seeing the fearful comments from a few LGBT people about how we shouldn't be "attacking" the Mormon Church. They are raising an issue that we shouldn't try to get the Mormons' tax-exempt status revoked. By "attacking religion," they say,...Read More
Why Punish Only the Mormon Church? Let's Get Them All
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | November 09, 2008 10:00 AM |A movement is afoot to punish the Mormon Church by getting the IRS to strip them of their tax-exempt status. I agree 110 percent. But why stop at the Mormon Church? Let's see to it that all the "yes on...Read More
When the "Will of the People" Goes Wrong
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | November 07, 2008 4:00 PM |With the election over, religious righters are smugly insisting that "the will of the people" has spoken the final word on same-sex marriage. Voters in California, Arizona and Florida denied us the right to marry in their states. "The people's...Read More
Historically Black Homophobia
Filed by Terrance Heath | November 07, 2008 2:00 PM |Note: I plan on writing something about black voters, the passage of proposition 8 in California, and the discussion that has ensued about whether the former failed in part because of the latter. In the meantime, I thought I'd republish...Read More
Now Comes the Hard Part
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | November 05, 2008 9:30 PM |After 21 months of hard work by the Obama campaign, and anxiety by voters and supporters, it was a wonderful moment last night -- a moment that was shocking in its unexpectedness. The million people that spontaneously gathered in Grant...Read More
Hate and Bigotry Pass in Florida
Filed by Waymon Hudson | November 05, 2008 2:30 PM |Florida's Amendment 2, the dangerous and deceptive "Marriage Protection" Amendment, has passed. A supermajority of Floridians, 62% (4,662,558) versus just 38% (2,851,598), has decided that our state needs to enshrine hate, bigotry, and homophobia in our state constitution. And my...Read More
'TheCall': A day-long religious frenzy for Yes on 8
Filed by Pam Spaulding | November 03, 2008 11:00 AM |Saturday "TheCall," a 12-hour rally to boost support for Yes on 8, was held in San Diego's Qualcomm stadium. The festival of fundies believe they will save marriage, the homosexuals and the state of California by communing during the movement's...Read More
Help Win Marriage in New York...
Filed by Bo Shuff | November 02, 2008 9:30 PM |Marriage Equality, decided by a Legislature and signed by the Governor, is a possibility in New York in the next year if the Democrats are able to win back control of the New York State Senate. The measure has passed...Read More
Listening to TheCall
Filed by Karen Ocamb | November 02, 2008 8:00 PM |Once upon a time, I would have been afraid to cover TheCall - the Christian rally that promised to pray for the passage of Proposition 8, the antigay marriage initiative on the California ballot. I would have felt like I...Read More
FL: Palin rally is something out of 'All About Eve'
Filed by Pam Spaulding | November 02, 2008 2:30 PM |I don't know how many of you all are fans of the 1950 classic film All About Eve... The film stars Bette Davis as Margo Channing, a highly regarded but aging Broadway star. Anne Baxter plays Eve Harrington, a willingly...Read More
Breaking: FL Court Grants Emergency Hearing in Amendment 2 Battle
Filed by Waymon Hudson | November 01, 2008 12:30 PM |As I've been reporting, there is a legal battle brewing in Florida around Amendment 2, the so-called "Marriage Protection" Amendment. And now they will have their day in court. Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Mary Barzee Flores has granted the request of...Read More
