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Hate Crimes

LGBT Activists Chastise Anti-Gay Organizations For ‘Response’ To Hate Crime Murder

by David Badash ● 1:07 PM May 21, 2013
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Scott Wooledge, a writer and founder Memeographs today posted this graphic which encapsulates the “response” from anti-gay organizations to the murder of Mark Carson.

Discrimination

Some Blaming Race, Immigration, Diversity For Anti-Gay Hate Crime Murder Of Mark Carson

by David Badash ● 7:46 PM May 19, 2013
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Some conservatives are blaming issues like “diversity,” and “immigration,” claiming they supposedly “lead to” the death of Mark Carson, the 32-year old gay man shot to death early Saturday morning in NYC’s Greenwich Village.

Analysis

LGBT People Must Forge Global Solidarity Against Extremist Anti-Gay US Evangelicals

by Vincent Warren ● 2:35 PM May 17, 2013
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Today marks the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO) when momentum to advance marriage equality in the United States is rapidly moving forward, while US evangelicals have shifted their focus to exporting hatred toward LGBTQ people internationally.

News

Obama Is ‘Setting Up The Stage To Take Guns Away From Evangelicals’ Says Fischer

by David Badash ● 3:56 PM May 6, 2013
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President Barack Obama is “setting up the stage to take guns away from evangelicals,” according to Bryan Fischer, who says Christians have already been classified as “domestic terrorists.”

News

Family Research Council Finally Scrubs Nazi Reference From Sermon Used To Fight Marriage Equality

by Andy Birkey At The American Independent ● 10:01 AM April 22, 2013
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A Family Research Council sermon said “homosexuals essentially practice Joseph Goebel’s [sic] Nazi philosophy of propaganda,” and after outcry from the LGBT and Jewish communities, FRC finally scrubbed it from their site.

Guns

Tony Perkins: Christians Must Buy Guns Because Democrats Won’t Force Americans To Pray

by David Badash ● 5:51 PM April 19, 2013
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Tony Perkins believes that the only thing that will stop a bad man from getting a gun is a prayer, and think it’s the Democrats fault that more people aren’t praying.

Bigotry Watch

GOP Lawmaker Says Gay People Are Hazardous To His Family’s Health

by David Badash ● 4:32 PM April 17, 2013
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A Republican state senator claimed today that gay people are hazardous to his family’s health, echoing some of the false claims put forth by Dave Agema, the RNC Committeeman.

Bigotry Watch

Fox News And Tony Perkins Angered Family Research Council Called Hate Group In New Army Email

by David Badash ● 1:20 PM April 11, 2013
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Fox News and Tony Perkins are angered that an email from a U.S. Army officer referred to the Family Research Council and the American Family Association, as anti-gay hate groups.

Hate Groups

Porter: Gay Marriage Is About ‘Using The Homosexual Flag As A Club To Silence All Dissent’

by David Badash ● 3:10 PM April 6, 2013
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Janet Porter says gay marriage is “about driving the homosexual flag into yet another segment of society and then using it as a club to silence all dissent — to label anyone who disagrees as a hater.”

Bigotry Watch

Totally Not Anti-Gay Dr. Ben Carson To Be Keynote Speaker At Anti-Gay Hate Group Banquet

by David Badash ● 4:41 PM April 2, 2013
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Dr. Ben Carson, the head of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University Hospital, is reportedly scheduled to speak at the fall banquet of an anti-gay hate group.

News

Perkins: Gays Are ‘In Rebellion To God’s Design,’ Turn To Suicide To ‘Fill God Vacuum’

by David Badash ● 2:42 PM April 2, 2013
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Tony Perkins says that gay people are living “in rebellion to God’s design,” and therefore turn to suicide “to fill that God vacuum.”

News

Michigan GOP Official Promotes And Defends ‘Filthy Homosexuals’ Article

by David Badash ● 1:48 PM March 29, 2013
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A Michigan GOP member of the RNC posted to his Facebook wall a link to an ancient article which cites flawed, decades-old “studies” and twisted or no-longer relevant reference materials to conclude that homosexuals are “filthy.”

Hate Groups

Native American State Rep To Anti-Immigrant Pol: When You Say ‘Illegal Immigrant’ I Think Of You

by David Badash ● 9:35 AM March 22, 2013
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State Rep. Ponka-We Victors told the Kansas Secretary of State, “I think it’s funny Mr. Kobach, because when you mention illegal immigrant, I think of all of you.”

News

Man Guilty Of Tweeting ‘Free Speech? Let’s Go Kill The President!’ Facing 5 Years In Prison

by David Badash ● 7:33 PM March 19, 2013
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An Alabama man who pleaded guilty to threatening the life of the President now faces up to five years in prison for his repeated tweets that ultimately referenced an anti-government militia group.

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