Fundie Watch: December 2008
Rick Warren is trampling on MLK Day and it's OK
Filed by Guest Blogger | December 26, 2008 4:00 PM |Editors' note: Guest blogger Matt Hennie is a freelance journalist in Atlanta. A product of the legacy media (those printed newspaper no one seems to be reading anymore), he jumped into the blogosphere in September with the launch of Project...Read More
Rick Warren's ridiculous damage control efforts
Filed by Alex Blaze | December 23, 2008 4:30 PM |Rick Warren's feeling the heat and he's trying to dodge it. The image to the right will live on in infamy. It's Rick Warren at the Out off the Closet thrift store in LA with his new gay friend. It...Read More
Words Matter: Hate and Bigotry
Filed by Waymon Hudson | December 23, 2008 3:00 PM |The intense discussion about the Rick Warren choice for the inauguration here and in the media has really been both enlightening and surprising. I've been overjoyed to see the concerns of our community get national attention (which is always a...Read More
Why I don't donate to the Salvation Army bell ringer
Filed by Alex Blaze | December 23, 2008 12:00 PM |Stuff like this just makes me sick: Equality Texas mourns the death of Jennifer Gale, a 47-year-old transgender homeless woman who died yesterday. Jennifer's body was found Wednesday morning. She was lying in an outdoor walkway at the First English...Read More
Rick 'Bearing False Witness' Warren: What he really said on gays, pedophilia, incest
Filed by Matt Comer | December 23, 2008 11:00 AM |Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church, gave a message to his congregants recently. He addressed the controversy over the invite he received to lead the inaugural invocation. Addressing his repeated comparisons of gay relationships with incest and pedophilia, Warren said...Read More
New DHHS rules hurt queers' medical care access
Filed by Alex Blaze | December 22, 2008 1:30 PM |I posted last week about the Bush Administration's new rules regarding the conservative creation known as the "right to conscience" (basically, the right to violate, with impunity, basic medical principles if medical professionals say a procedure goes against their personal...Read More
Conversations with God Hates Fags/Westboro Baptist Church
Filed by Yasmin Nair | December 21, 2008 8:30 PM |I promised I'd post a transcripts of my conversations with people in God Hates Fags, so here's a brief account of my encounter made available only on Bilerico. Links will take you to my previous Bilerico posts. It's Monday, December...Read More
1 of 18,000 Being Attacked This Holiday Season
Filed by Waymon Hudson | December 20, 2008 5:30 PM |My "homosexual agenda" is pretty much the same everyday. Wake-up, give my husband a kiss on the cheek, give one of our dogs his allergy medicine and make sure there is food in their bowls, decide if I can skip...Read More
Rachel Maddow on Rick Warren
Filed by Waymon Hudson | December 20, 2008 1:00 PM |Rachel Maddow gets real about the Warren Fiasco on the Thursday edition of her show. .msnbcLinks {font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 425px;} .msnbcLinks a {text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal...Read More
Rick Warren: gays are immature and slutty
Filed by Michael Crawford | December 20, 2008 9:30 AM |Despite his Mr. Rogers-like public persona, it is increasingly clear that Rick Warren is nothing less than professional anti-gay James Dobson in a cardigan sweater. Check out this clip of Warren being interviewed by Ann Curry on the Today Show...Read More
Should "Inclusion" Include Everyone?
Filed by Waymon Hudson | December 19, 2008 2:30 PM |It is pretty obvious to anyone how I feel about Rick Warren being chosen to deliver the blessing on inauguration day. Warren is a unabashed bigot draped in religious clothing who hates the entire LGBT community. And let's be clear,...Read More
Man does not live by doughnuts alone
Filed by Alex Blaze | December 19, 2008 1:30 PM |365Gay is reporting that Geoff Kors, who led the No on Prop 8 campaign, has decided to boycott the inauguration because of Rick Warren's invocation. I suspect he won't be the last. What's getting me about this is the straight...Read More
The More Things "Change", the More They Stay the Same...
Filed by Waymon Hudson | December 18, 2008 5:30 PM |With the crushing defeats at the ballot box for our community this past November, the one bright spot, the glimmer of hope, that I held on to was Obama's election. While I may not always have agreed with all his...Read More
Obama picks arch-homophobe Rick Warren to deliver inauguration invocation
Filed by Alex Blaze | December 17, 2008 5:30 PM |This is unbelievable. Just when you thought the era of insane right-wing pastors having the president on speed-dial was over, Obama goes and shows that it's not: Aretha Franklin and Dr. Rick Warren, an evangelical minister of the Saddleback Church,...Read More
Did Mat Staver Really Just Say That? Seriously?
Filed by Waymon Hudson | December 17, 2008 3:30 PM |Sometimes you read something and have to do a double take. One of those shake-your-head, cartoon-sound-effect "Huh??" moments. That's what happened when I read the Liberty Council's Mat Staver's quote in the Florida Baptist Witness. The article was discussing the...Read More
God didn't make you gay!
Filed by Michael Crawford | December 17, 2008 1:00 PM |Sorry to break the news to you, but God didn't make you gay. Or, so says Christian Hosoi, a professional skateboarder who became a born-again Christian after being incarcerated for trafficking crystal meth....Read More
Conservative media going intellectually bankrupt
Filed by Matt Comer | December 16, 2008 4:30 PM |Cliff Kincaid, the editor of the conservative Accuracy in Media, took to the web to share his hatred-laden viewpoint that "Pro-homosexual media is going bankrupt." I guess it's a shame that conservative personalities like Kincaid are causing their media to...Read More
Fred Phelps's Westboro Baptist Church/God Hates Fags Tries to Protest Chicago's Center on Halsted
Filed by Yasmin Nair | December 16, 2008 1:30 PM |These guys are not giving us any rest. As some of you know, I've been covering and photographing the group as it makes its way through Chicago. Most recently, on Saturday, December 13, they decided to picket the (LGBTQ) Center...Read More
The Lost Art of Language
Filed by Waymon Hudson | December 16, 2008 12:00 PM |I'll admit it. I am fascinated by the way we communicate with one another- what we say, how we say it, and what we really mean. I've delved into it here before, from the language of gender (I still get...Read More
GLAAD responds to Becket Fund "No Mob Veto" ad
Filed by Guest Blogger | December 15, 2008 2:30 PM |Editors' note: Rashad Robinson is the Senior Director of Media Programs at GLAAD. Last week, GLAAD issued an action alert about a full page ad in The New York Times paid for by The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, an...Read More
Dr. Firpo Carr masturbates dogs?
Filed by Alex Blaze | December 14, 2008 10:00 AM |Pam posted yesterday about Dr. Firpo Carr's crazy homophobic column in the LA Sentinel, Los Angeles's African American paper. Jim Burroway gave him his Peter LaBarbara Award for his outrageousness, and Jasmyne Cannick gave him her "Negro Please" Award. Accolades...Read More
Want to see a Grade A homobigot? Meet Firpo W. Carr
Filed by Pam Spaulding | December 13, 2008 2:30 PM |Oh, and let's not leave out lesbians. Law enforcement agencies are struggling with a new phenomenon. "Butch" lesbians who physically abuse "lipstick" lesbians can easily penetrate the defenses of women's shelters where victims seek refuge since they, too, are...Read More
Fred Phelps's war on Christmas
Filed by Alex Blaze | December 12, 2008 2:00 PM |Yasmin Nair took the photo on the right during the Westboro Baptist Church's recent appearance in Chicago. It looks like they hate Christmas now, along with fags, dykes, America, Sweden, and Pakistan. This wouldn't be the first Christian group to...Read More
Even Michelle Malkin is making fun of "Truthers" like Advance Indiana
Filed by Jerame Davis | December 11, 2008 5:00 PM |In an article dated December 5th, Michelle Malkin laments the people she calls "Truthers" - the conspiracy kooks who come up with the stupidest shit possible to undermine a political candidate. While she lays mostly into the left in her...Read More
No on "Gay Is Black"
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | December 10, 2008 9:00 PM |"Gay is the new black." It's slick as a slogan, but dangerous as a dogma. I understand what its purveyors are trying to do with it. But it's dangerous ground to stand on, and already is blowing up in their...Read More
Yes, there is a Biblical argument for same-sex marriage
Filed by Alex Blaze | December 10, 2008 1:30 PM |Lisa Miller wrote up a defense of same-sex marriage from the Biblical perspective in Newsweek earlier this week that I haven't had a chance to link to. It's a lot of the same arguments that queer, Christian and Jewish theologians...Read More
God Hates Fags Comes to Chicago
Filed by Yasmin Nair | December 09, 2008 3:30 PM |The Westboro Baptist Church, also known as the group God Hates Fags, came to Chicago this past week. They were a no-show on the 4th, when they were supposed to protest outside Obama's Senate office. However, the event attracted two...Read More
Message to the religious right - this isn't just about marriage, it's about history
Filed by Guest Blogger | December 06, 2008 2:00 PM |Editor's Note: Alvin McEwen is a blogger who tracks and catalogs religious right distortions about the gay community via two blogs (Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters and Anti-Gay Lies and Liars). He is also a board member of the South...Read More
"Ex-Gay" Raises Money to Target LGBT Youth
Filed by Michael Crawford | December 03, 2008 6:00 PM |File this under "Oh, no she didn't!" One time "militant homosexual" and current "ex-gay" demagouge Charlene Cothran has announced a new ministry aimed at ex-gaying LGBT youth. I am also thankful to introduce The EVIDENCE Ministry, Inc. God has been...Read More
Report: anti-gay org to run ad in NYT blaming gays for 'Campaign Of Violence' in wake of Prop 8
Filed by Pam Spaulding | December 03, 2008 5:00 PM |You knew this was coming -- it was only a matter of time before the emotion and outrage in the LGBT community after Prop 8 would be turned into a rampaging mob of heathen homosexuals persecuting Christians. The Blend has...Read More
Vatican Cheers on Anti-LGBT Discrimination
Filed by Waymon Hudson | December 02, 2008 5:00 PM |Someone better head to confessional. The Times Online is reporting that the Vatican has come out strongly against a United Nations declaration formally condemning anti-LGBT discrimination, saying that the declaration would lead to the decriminalization of same-sex unions. The nonbinding...Read More
Your Tax Dollars at Work
Filed by Waymon Hudson | December 01, 2008 5:30 PM |It's very clear that the economy is in the toilet. The national crisis is trickling down (is that what they meant by "trickle-down economics"??) to the states- with education, healthcare, first responders and hundreds of other programs being slashed to...Read More
