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ARCHIVE: Gay Politics
In yesterday’s Miami Herald, columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. weighs in on the “gay exorcism” scandal with wicked sarcasm:
To Manifested Glory Ministries of Bridgeport, Conn.:
Perhaps you wouldn’t mind telling me what a ”homosexual demon” looks like.
I will confess that until last week, I had no idea demons even had sexual orientations. Or, for that matter, sex. [...]
Topics: Homophobia Inc., Jesusland |
Here’s the CNN story:
The boy writhes uncontrollably on the floor, but the church members remain calm, if increasingly loud. They’re trying to drive a “demon” out of him.
“You homosexual demon, get up on outta here!” they say. “You demon, loose yourself!” “You sex demon … you snake!”
The shouts, the convulsions, the references to homosexual spirits [...]
Topics: Homophobia Inc., Jesusland |
In the video above, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow interviews former DNC Chair Howard Dean — who, as governor of Vermont, was also the first governor to legalize civil unions — about the homophobic language used by the Obama Justice Department last Thursday in its brief in support of the Defense of Marriage Act.
Hateful formulations in the [...]
Topics: Gay Politics |
Rockstar boycotters appeared at the 2009 Los Angeles Gay Pride Parade dressed in “V” masks
As if events* around the boycott against Rockstar Energy Drink weren’t surreal enough, a protest group’s appearance in the Los Angeles Gay Pride Parade yesterday took the oddness of the campaign up a notch.
Dressed in black and masked as “V,” [...]
Topics: Gay Politics |
After milking every ounce of publicity out of the hoopla around not firing Miss California, Carrie Prejean, last month for lying about having posed for nude photos, making bigoted remarks and consorting with the National Organization for Marriage, an anti-gay hate group, Donald Trump reversed himself and terminated Prejean today.
“To me she was the sweetest [...]
Topics: Homophobia Inc. |
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In a dramatic move just hours after author/activist Wayne Besen, founder of Truth Wins Out (TWO), posted a round-up of growing dissent among gay writers and activist arising from Pres. Obama’s lack of progress and even backtracking on gay issues, a decorated Air Force [...]
Topics: Gay Politics |
Given his continuing series of gaffes and dumb-ass statements, I have been wondering why the Republican Party keeps Michael Steele as chairman. But then I read about his recent comments regarding the potential of gay marriage to wreak havoc on small businesses, or at least using that message to expand the base, which right now [...]
Topics: Gay Politics |
It was, I suppose, predictable that professional bloviator Bill O’Reilly would get his panties in a twist over author J.K. Rowling’s (yawn) revelation that a character in the Harry Potter novels was gay. Rowling told an audience at Carnegie Hall last week that the headmaster of Hogwarts Academy, Albus Dumbledore, was gay.
Despite the fact [...]
Topics: Conservative Values, Gay Politics, Homophobia Inc., Politics |
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