Fundie Watch: January 2011
65 Years After Auschwitz & Christianists Have Learned Nothing
Filed by Michael Hamar | January 30, 2011 1:00 PM |As noted by Bob Felton at >Civil Commotion, January 27, 2011, was the 65th anniversary of the day that Allied forces liberated Auschwitz and discovered the full extent of the horrors of the "Final Solution." The hatred and malicious denigration...Read More
The Black Civil Rights Movement Is Dying, Finally
Filed by Rev Irene Monroe | January 28, 2011 3:00 PM |Last week, Martin Luther King tributes were taking place across the nation. And the spirit of MLK and the courageous acts of our foremothers and forefathers of the civil rights movement are etched indelibly in many of our hearts. But...Read More
If Edgar Allen Poe Used Twitter
Filed by Bil Browning | January 27, 2011 7:00 PM |Gee, Pete, feeling a little guilty about murdered gay Ugandan activist David Kato Kisulle? It's like reading the 140 character edition of an Edgar Allen Poe short story....Read More
Park51 Senior Advisor Says Gay People Were "Overwhelming"ly abused
Filed by Alex Blaze | January 27, 2011 6:00 PM |An imam who was brought on board as a senior advisor for the Park51 project in Manhattan (the Islamic community center that was demagogued through the election season last year that we haven't heard much about since, for no reason...Read More
Canada: Is the Conversation Lurching to the Right?
Filed by Mercedes Allen | January 27, 2011 5:00 PM |It's been a busy time for the Canadian far right, as conservatives and Christian nationalists try to follow the US example of pushing the conversation so far to the right that even Gandhi looks like Josef Stalin. Is it working?...Read More
Elton John, David Furnish and Baby Magazine Cover Censored
Filed by Karen Ocamb | January 27, 2011 10:30 AM |Styleite.com reported that the managers of Harp's Supermarket in Mountain Home, Arkansas put a "family shield" over the cover of US Weekly not "to protect kids from Snooki or Kim or any other standard tabloid trash. No, they're trying to...Read More
Ted Haggard Is a Bisexual, 21-Year-Old, Masturbation Guy
Filed by Alex Blaze | January 27, 2011 9:30 AM |Instead of an urge to go to high school students and tell them there's so much more for them out there, I feel the urge to run to Ted Haggard and just kiss him for being so precious. Ted Haggard,...Read More
The LGBT Movement Is for Promoting Freedom, Not Islamophobia
Filed by Alex Blaze | January 25, 2011 1:30 PM |Yesterday, in posting about LGBT lesson suggestions that the UK's government approved, I may have spoken too soon. I wrote: Anyway, the fact that the arguments there are weak-sauce says something about the opposition to LGBT people. If this were...Read More
Courage Campaign Launches 'Issa Watch'
Filed by Karen Ocamb | January 21, 2011 12:00 PM |Even before the Republicans officially took over the House in the new Congress, Southern California conservative Republican Rep. Darrell Issa was gleefully rubbing his hands in anticipation of all the investigative hearings he could hold as chair of the House...Read More
The Ballad of Sarah Palin
Filed by Bil Browning | January 21, 2011 11:00 AM |Earlier this week brought us the Battle Hymn of Sarah Palin, but Lady Bunny has now joined the fray with The Ballad of Sarah Palin. If you thought watching two old people warble out the praises of the Half Guv...Read More
Losing Your Virginity Is Like Drinking a Cup of Spit
Filed by Bil Browning | January 19, 2011 11:30 AM |We've long bemoaned the abstinence-only sex education plan for it's outright erasure of LGBT youth who can't get married (and following the logic should never have sex therefore), but have you really examined what the kids are being taught? We...Read More
Wyoming Honors MLK Day By Debating Marriage Rights
Filed by Bil Browning | January 17, 2011 2:30 PM |While Martin Luther King Jr is being honored today for his work on behalf of equality and civil rights, the Wyoming state legislature has decided to take a remarkably different approach to justice. They will be debating a bill to...Read More
The Phelpses Get Radio Time, and GLAAD's Revisionist History Erases Homophobia
Filed by Alex Blaze | January 15, 2011 4:00 PM |After the state of Arizona passed emergency legislation to keep protests 300 feet from funerals and burials and someone organized a human shield between the funeral and the Westboro Baptist Church, a right-wing radio show has offered some free radio...Read More
Anti-gay Fundie Opens Teen Coffeeshop; Hires Child Molester to Run It
Filed by Bil Browning | January 14, 2011 1:00 PM |Everyone knows that the religious right fundies like to claim that LGBT people are more likely to molest children even though the facts say otherwise. Scott Lively, the evangelical who has been pushing Uganda's "Kill the Gays" bill, has opened...Read More
The Ex-Gay Jesus-Fix-It Perpetual Emotion Machine
Filed by Mercedes Allen | January 13, 2011 7:00 PM |(The following is not meant to absolve folks like Alan Downing, but to just show what it's like. Because the religious right would have everyone believe that it's all so simple: just pray, believe, and it will all go away....Read More
Violent Rhetoric: Compare and Contrast
Filed by Bil Browning | January 11, 2011 12:30 PM |There've been quite a few people drawing connections between this weekend's tragic attempted assassination of Rep Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) and the violent rhetoric that's been coming out of various rightwing fundie radio programs, TV shows, and politicos. After the jump...Read More
The gays scare more conservatives: Heritage Foundation pulls out of CPAC
Filed by Alex Blaze | January 07, 2011 2:00 PM |The Heritage Foundation has pulled out of the CPAC (I'm not even conservative and it's hard to imagine a conference establishing itself as the center of American movement conservatism without them): "We believe in the traditional definition of the family,"...Read More
Ugandan High Court rules in favor of LGBT advocates
Filed by Guest Blogger | January 06, 2011 3:00 PM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Jim Burroway is editor of Box Turtle Bulletin, and has been following the situation closely in Uganda since breaking the story of the three American evangelicals who held an anti-gay conference in Kampala in March 2009....Read More
Media Afraid to Report on Alleged Aversion Project Doc Aubrey Levin
Filed by Mercedes Allen | January 04, 2011 11:30 AM |Dr. Aubrey Levin, a Calgary professor and psychiatrist who is accused of sexually assaulting at least 21 male patients, is scheduled to come up for trial in June 2011. This is internationally notable, since he was alleged to have led...Read More
Prop 8 Supportive Minister Busted for Child Molestation
Filed by Bil Browning | January 03, 2011 4:00 PM |Color me surprised - a California minister who was a donor to the Proposition 8 campaign has been caught allegedly molesting children. Not only is Mr. Sanctity supposedly a man of God, he's also a foster parent and daycare provider....Read More
"Defend Christians" Lists ENDA as Top Anti-Christian "Event" of 2010
Filed by Karen Ocamb | January 03, 2011 2:00 PM |Defend Christians.org, a San Diego-based "ministry" of the self-styled Christian Anti-Defamation Commission, just-released a list of the "Top Ten Anti-Christian Events in 2010." The list is the result of an online poll "of Christians and people of good will" at...Read More
NOM: No 2009 Tax Returns Yet
Filed by Bil Browning | January 03, 2011 1:00 PM |Continuing their practice of skirting or outright violating American election law, the National Organization for Marriage has failed to file any tax returns for 2009. The group's 2007 and 2008 filings were up to 17 months late and they have...Read More
