Thoughts on how my words have consequences
I cringed when I first heard about the shooting at the extremist anti-gay group Family Research Council. I’d like to say that it was out of concern for those who work there, and I was concerned, but...
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Gang Style Chicken
08 Nov 1964, Atlanta, Georgia, USA --- Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. eats lunch with his family after church services and learning that he won the Nobel Peace Prize. --- (CORBIS) As much...
View ArticleIf We Don’t Call it “Hate,” What Shall We Call It?
One of the best lessons I ever got in professionalism came from a boss who said, Don’t just bring me a problem. Bring a solution, too. Great advice. Suggesting a solution — even if it’s unworkable, a...
View ArticleMichelangelo Signorile Challenges FRC’s Tony Perkins To Debate
Radio host and Huffington Post Gay Voices editor Michelangelo Signorile is tired of the Family Research Council’s attempt to pin the blame for last week’s shooting on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s...
View ArticleTony Perkins: “I Wrote” GOP Platform
The Log Cabin Republicans yesterday were all kinds of proud over the impact they had in helping to shape the Republican platform this week. LCR chief R. Clarke Cooper told BuzzFeed’s Chris Geidner that...
View ArticleFRC Shooter Indicted
Floyd Lee Corkins II, 28, was indicted on Federal and D.C. charges today in connection with last week’s shooting of an unarmed security guard at the Family Research Council’s Washington D.C....
View ArticleFRC seeks to refute that they are a hate group by illustrating that they are
Family Research Council released this “clarification” of the reasons that they are (correctly) listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center: Does FRC claim that “gay people are child...
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Tony Perkins Reacts
It looks like they had a conference call to coordinate their responses: This was supposed to be the morning when Americans got up and shook off the nightmare of the last four years. Instead, they...
View ArticleFamily “Research” Council Blames “Bullies” For Boy Scout Policy Change
This email went out moments ago under the subject line, “Will the Boy Scouts stand up to bullies?” For decades, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) have heroically withstood attacks from homosexual...
View ArticleGOP Slams Brakes On Rebranding Effort
The Republican National Committee is meeting in Los Angeles over the next three days beginning today, and one of the first items on the agenda for consideration is a resolution that states: WHEREAS,...
View ArticleSchadenfreude Alert
It's civil disobedience time in #Oklahoma + other states: OK (76% opposed) offers the best chance to reject the SCOTUS ruling on SSM. #tcot — Peter LaBarbera (@PeterLaBarbera) October 6, 2014 The...
View ArticleWorking Through the Five Steps of Grief
The first step in the Kübler-Ross model is denial and the second step is anger, but leave it to anti-gay activists to go through the steps in the wrong order. They hit anger first, but now they’re...
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Tony Perkins: “Winning!”
Family “Research” Council’s Tony Perkins has cornered the market on rose-colored glasses this afternoon: If liberals should be anything, it’s worried. When it comes to marriage, time is not on their...
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Where Do You Begin With Something Like This?
How about with a little bit of snark? Throughout the Family “Research” Council’s 32-year history, it has promoted the lie that gays and lesbians were far more likely to molest children, even though it...
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Michael Brown lies about Irish vote
Anti-gay activist and Charlotte pastor Michael Brown has long been fond of demonstrating his contempt for gay people, his callousness towards bullying, and his astonishing arrogance as to his own...
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Schadenfreude Alert: “A Spiritual 9/11″
America Family Association’s Tim Wildmon calls it a “Spiritual 9/11″ “We’re not surprised but extremely disappointed by the Supreme Court’s decision. I fear for our country, quite frankly, because this...
View ArticleThey Really Love Gridlock, Don’t They?
The Family “Research” Council’s Tony Perkins has joined Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnel, and GOP presidential candidates Sens. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio in demanding that Justice Scalia’s seat...
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Donald Trump To Court Anti-Gay Extremists
Time magazine has reported that the Trump campaign is actively courting religious and social conservatives as he turns his attention to the fall general election. A meeting has been set for June 21,...
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Another Regnerus-Like “Research” Paper On Gay Parents Making the Rounds
Paul Sullins, defending a flawed paper by Mark Regnerus in 2013. The Federalist website is giving this research significant play: The study by sociology professor Paul Sullins found that “[a]t age 28,...
View ArticleReports: Draft Republican Platform To Include Support for Ex-Gay Therapy
According to Zeke Miller, political reporter for Time magazine, a Republican Platform Subcommittee on Healthcare, Education, and Crime, has approved a plank offered by the Family “Research” Council’s...
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