Fox News contributor laments ‘mistake’ of letting women vote
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/05/07/fox-news-contributor-laments-mistake-of-letting-women-vote/
What the f… I swear that… Well, I really don’t have a clue how to respond to this.
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Ousted judges to receive Profiles in Courage Award – CBS News
President John F. Kennedy’s only surviving child is celebrating what would have been his 95th birthday this month by honoring three Iowa judges who were ousted after the court unanimously decided to legalize same-sex marriages.
Read More »Arizona bans funding of Planned Parenthood
http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/05/us/arizona-planned-parenthood/index.html
I tried for five minutes to come up with something clever and ironic to say her, but I just can’t without belittling the way women are being treated. What is amazing is how the far right, who claim to detest the Taliban, etc., are exactly like them.
Anti-Gay Marriage Bill Created ‘To Protect Caucasian Race’ Says Senator’s Wife
The wife of the state senator who authored Amendment One, North Carolina’s anti-gay marriage constitutional amendment that would write discrimination into their constitution, says her husband wrote the bill “to protect the caucasian race,” according to a reporter and poll workers present. [The New Civil Rights Movement]
OMM Against JCPenney (Again!)
http://www.joemygod.blogspot.com/2012/05/omm-against-jcpenney-again.html
“The new Penney catalog is all lezbified! Since the JCP corporate office told the AFA where to stick it last time, this time One Million Moms are taking their assholery directly to the poor store managers…”
Fischer: ‘It’s Perfectly Appropriate to Discriminate Against’ Homosexuality
Citing King’s line that he dreamed that one day his children would “live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character,” Fischer argued that discrimination based on behavior is justified and absolutely appropriate … and, as such, “you begin to see the implications when it comes to homosexuality because you’re dealing there with issues of content of character and you are dealing with issues of behavior and conduct and it’s perfectly appropriate to discriminate against immoral conduct.”
GLAAD Calling for Suspension After Horrific Anti-Gay Remark on Cleveland’s WMMS
http://www.glaad.org/blog/glaad-calling-suspension-after-horrific-anti-gay-remark-clevelands-wmms
GLAAD is calling on Clear Channel and Cleveland radio station WMMS to suspend radio personality Dominic Dieter for telling a father to essentially arrange for his daughter to be raped if he suspects she’s gay.
Divide and Conquer from the Horse’s Mouth
We all know — well, at least those who are of moderate intelligence — that the strategy of the right wing is to divide and conquer, compartmentalizing different groups and then systematically working them against each other until the world is a big bubbling pot of hatred. What, you don’t believe me? Well, read for yourself.
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It’s not racist — who doesn’t like KFC?
More evidence of how the right wing, anti-gay, fundie, tea party Obama haters aren’t racist.
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Special stickers for special people
Well, now. Aren’t these… special? The website that sells these prefaces the page with a message about the first amendment. Yay!
Read More »The ‘Patriot’ Movement Explodes
The number of hate groups counted by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) last year reached a total of 1,018. The truly stunning growth came in the antigovernment “Patriot” movement — conspiracy-minded groups that see the federal government as their primary enemy.
Read More »It’s always been this albatross that stood out to me as the final leg of the civil rights movement. It really came to a head during the 2004 elections, when it was used as a wedge issue, and it was a very effective tool to keep the Republicans in office and to avoid talking about other issues. Well before Prop. 8, I’ve made the point that every time we’ve stood against equality, we’ve been on the wrong side of history. It’s the same kind of argument they made when they didn’t want blacks to serve in the military, or when they didn’t want blacks to marry whites. One day the marriage equality fight will look as archaic as George Wallace standing on the University of Alabama steps keeping James Hood from attending college because he was black. People will be embarrassed to have been on the wrong side. So it’s encouraging to know that this too will seem like such a silly argument to our next generation. There are even a lot of young conservatives today for whom marriage equality isn’t an issue. It always takes government an extra generation to catch up to the people.
— George Clooney, speaking on marriage equality in The Advocate