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Feb 10, 2012, 7:33 am
I sometimes add a logo to posts that describes the Republican Party as the "Bridge to the 11th Century." The slogan is all too appropriate when one looks at Rick Santorum. Not content with attacking LGBT citizens and supporting a re-criminalization of gays through new sodomy laws, "Frothy Mix" now... Comment - Like
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Feb 10, 2012, 7:04 am
Given the arrogance and contempt for the poor, blacks, Hispanics - basically every one other than white conservative Christians (preferably with lots of money) on display in the Virginia General Assembly, it is perhaps fitting that the Mariners Museum in nearby Newport News will be hosting a major f... Comment - Like
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Feb 10, 2012, 6:38 am
While most of the country and world moves forward, Virginia is lurching backwards in time under the theocratic rule of the Republican controlled Virginia General Assembly. Bills that are the wet dreams of far right fanatics are advancing and the rights of minorities are under constant threats. Eve... Comment - Like
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Feb 9, 2012, 10:18 pm
As the Washington Post and many main stream news outlets are reporting, a coven of hate merchants and religious extremists have descended on Washington, D. C., for the annual CPAC gathering where the batshitery and far right extremism is off the charts. Barack Obama, gays, liberals of all types ar... Comment - Like
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Feb 9, 2012, 9:51 pm
My activist friends at Truth Wins Out are taking on the hypocrisy of Newt Gingrich head on. Gingrich, a thrice married serial adulterer would have the simple minded dolts of the evangelical Christian set believe that he's a champion of the "sanctity of marriage." His personal conduct tells a very ... Comment - Like
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Feb 9, 2012, 9:39 pm
As fellow LGBT blogger Jeremy Hooper notes, the far-right loves to talk about kids of gays in the abstract and would have the ignorant and uninformed believe that these children are deprived and somehow maladjusted. I can only conclude that such critics are attributing their own failings to other... Comment - Like
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Feb 9, 2012, 8:10 am
As longer term readers know, I am a member of the advisory board for the Old Dominion University Gay Cultural Studies Endowment which has as it goal establishing a self-sustaining endowment for a permanent full time post-doctorate position at the University focused on LGBT studies and cultural contr... Comment - Like
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Jan 31, 2012, 9:53 pm
Speaking of sexual abuse by priest, in a positive development a Philadelphia court has ruled that retired Roman Catholic cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua (pictured at right) is competent and his recent deposition testimony can be used at an upcoming priest abuse trial. The Church had endeavored to argue... Comment - Like
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Jan 31, 2012, 9:15 pm
While continuing to go to great lengths to protect child rapists, closing long established parishes because of supposed financial deficits, and closing down Catholic Charities operations rather than cease anti-gay discrimination, the Catholic Church hierarchy is none the less finding plenty of money... Comment - Like
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Jan 31, 2012, 8:50 pm
Mitt Romney - who as a number of blogs and news outlets have reported contributed to anti-gay organizations - has apparently won the Florida primary by a projected 16 percentage point margin - 47 percent to 31 percent against Newt Gingrich. The delusion gay hater, Rick Santorum was a distant third ... Comment - Like
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Jan 31, 2012, 8:18 pm
Dealing yet another blow to LGBT Virginians - and basically flipping all of us the middle finger - a Virginia House of Delegates panel has approved a "conscience clause" in adoption regulations that will allow Christian and other self-congratulatory religious bigots to openly discriminate against ga... Comment - Like
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Jan 31, 2012, 7:46 am
In yet another example of why I cannot in good conscience recommend that any LGBT individual ever consider moving to Virginia, a Virginia Senate committee has killed a bill that would have added employment discrimination based on sexual orientation to unlawful forms of discrimination in state hiring... Comment - Like
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Jan 31, 2012, 7:11 am
Watching the progress of the Christianist effort to pass an anti-gay marriage constitutional amendment in North Carolina has in some ways been a replay of what happened here in Virginia in 2006. The Christianists have used the same lies and underhanded tactics to dupe voters and if passed, the amen... Comment - Like
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Jan 31, 2012, 6:45 am
On Sunday, thrice married, serial adulterer Newt Gingrich said that he would continue in the GOP presidential contest all the way into August even if he loses the Florida primary. Some see this as bluster but others believe that Gingrich is such an ego maniac that he might well live up to the threa... Comment - Like
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Jan 20, 2012, 7:55 am
I've noted before that in my view Newt Gingrich is the king of the hypocrites - as are the mental cretins among the Christianist and Tea Party base of the Republican Party who have embraced a serial adulterer who we now know asked for an "open marriage" six years after he had been having sex with a ... Comment - Like
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Jan 20, 2012, 7:36 am
In welcome news seven anti-gay Episcopal parishes that broke away from the national church after the installation of Gene Robinson as bishop of New Hampshire - yet tried to retain the national church property they had been utilizing - have lost their court battle to retain the basically stolen prope... Comment - Like
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Jan 20, 2012, 6:58 am
Both the Catholic Church and Christianist oriented churches have done much to give religion and Christianity a very ugly, although accurate face. The main tenants come across as based on hate, fear and prejudice and bigotry. The result is that in America, the fast growing religious segment is made... Comment - Like
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Jan 20, 2012, 6:38 am
Those who want to punish LGBT individuals for their refusal to conform to Christianist and Mormon religious beliefs by making us legal lepers under the civil laws continue to be numerous and, frankly, they cannot die off soon enough in my opinion. They are nasty, self-centered, falsely pious, often... Comment - Like
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Jan 19, 2012, 10:57 pm
The Obama campaign must be sitting back and laughing their butts off as the GOP continues to engage in a circular firing squad. With Rick Perry withdrawing from the race today, that leaves the constantly flip flopping Mitt Romney (he's about to give folks whip lash) in contention with Christianist ... Comment - Like
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Jan 19, 2012, 10:02 pm
I have often noted that the Republican Party is - at least in my opinion - committing a slow, long term form of suicide in its quest to prostitute itself to Christianists and what might be best described as those who are tantamount to white supremacists. As the older generations literally die off, ... Comment - Like
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Jan 19, 2012, 9:37 pm
This evening's HRBOR business networking event (which was extremely well attended) was hosted by HRBOR corporate member Booz, Allen Hamilton, an international consulting firm, at its Norfolk, Virginia office. Booz Allen Hamilton for three years running has scored a 100% rating under the Human Right... Comment - Like
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Nov 3, 2011, 10:18 am
This is the kind of straight ally that I love. Eastwood correctly labels the Christianist whining about the "sanctity" of marriage as bullshit. If the Christianists at NOM and similar organizations are so worried about marriage, the first thing they ought to do is address the sky high divorce rate a... Comment - Like
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Nov 3, 2011, 7:19 am
Some of us remember the 1960's and the rebellion against a social status that demeaned and marginalized large portions of the American public, including but not limited to non-whites and non-heterosexuals. Marginalization extended not only to the denial of legal rights but also to economic marginal... Comment - Like
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Nov 3, 2011, 6:53 am
When a supposed institution of higher education seeks to impose loyalty oaths and similar batshitery on faculty and students, one would hope that accreditation authorities would take a serious look at withdrawing the institution's accreditation since obviously quality education and the pursuit of kn... Comment - Like
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Nov 2, 2011, 10:16 pm
Anti-gay bigotry - and I would submit, racism as well - is alive and well in the Old Dominion and ranges from the Governor's and Attorney General's offices to likely brain dead beauty pageant winners such as Miss Virginia USA Nikki Poteet, who reportedly went on an anti-gay rant against a gay couple... Comment - Like
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Nov 2, 2011, 9:55 pm
Part of me is enjoying Herman Cain's fiery plummet into the world of third rate liars. It's also fun watching the circular firing squad forming in the GOP presidential candidate race as all of the campaigns strive to blame some other candidate for leaking the dirt on Cain. Of course, the more the ... Comment - Like
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Nov 2, 2011, 9:30 pm
One of the constant mantras of Maggie Gallagher - who I confess to view as a complete nasty, self-enriching whore pulling down a nice six figure income marketing hatred - and her fellow professional Christians is that the citizens of the various states need to be allowed to vote on whether or not LG... Comment - Like
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Nov 2, 2011, 8:49 pm
... in Africa that have been fertile fields for the export of American Christianist and hate group ... conniption fits over the United Kingdom's threat to withhold foreign aid funds from nations that mistreat their LGBT citizens. The Daily Mail has ... I am a grandfather. I am a family man.
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Nov 2, 2011, 8:15 pm
While she has her critics within the LGBT blogosphere (some of whom strike me as jealous of Gaga's boldness that outshines their own), Lady Gaga continues to put her money where her mouth is and to use her celebrity without hesitation to fight the good fight against bullying. Personally, she won m... Comment - Like
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Oct 31, 2011, 7:15 am
I've note many times the hypocrisy of the Christian Right which wraps itself in the Bible, pretends to worship Christ but then utterly ignores the Gospel message and defines itself bu the hatred and discord which are the true hallmarks of the those who constantly proclaim their religiosity. Indeed,... Comment - Like
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Oct 31, 2011, 6:53 am
The inability of the Democrats to counter the generally untrue messaging put out by demagogues in the GOP such as Eric Cantor has driven me to distraction all too often. Part of the problems has been that Democrats and the spineless occupant of the White House are far to reticent about flat out cal... Comment - Like
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Oct 30, 2011, 9:12 am
Will the Democrats let themselves get rolled by the GOP yet again as the so-called supercommittee works to come up with a debt reduction plan? My bet - and that of Michael Thomasky at The Daily Beast - is yes. The Democrats seem to only know how to be played for fools and how to prematurely surren... Comment - Like
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Oct 30, 2011, 8:33 am
In a move that local leaders of all political stripes have sought aggressively, Barack Obama will reportedly name historic Fort Monroe which has guarded the mouth of Hampton Roads' harbor for over 180 years. On its site, fortifications have existed as far back as 1609. Fort Monroe is the largest s... Comment - Like
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Oct 29, 2011, 5:48 pm
UPDATED: Beneath the chart I have set out some highlights from a related column in the New York Times. I find it extremely disturbing to see the direction in which this nation is headed. Again, the facts disclose the utter hypocrisy and toxicity of the Christianist/Tea Party/Republican version of... Comment - Like
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Oct 29, 2011, 6:50 am
I always love it when conservatives turn on one of their own as is happening now with the Tea Party group "American Majority" which has released a statement saying that Michelle Bachmann needs to quit the GOP presidential nomination contest. What kills me the most is that the faults with Bachmann t... Comment - Like
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Oct 29, 2011, 5:57 am
I have long viewed the National Organization for Marriage as a thinly veiled criminal enterprise. The organization flouts the election campaign finance laws of one state after another and now it seems has never filed required tax returns. Why? I believe in my heart because NOM is a front organiza... Comment - Like
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