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Bigotry Watch

Watch: College Preacher Spews Anti-Gay Hate. Why These Two Students Had To Respond.

by David Badash ● 9:50 AM June 8, 2013
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This week a woman who travels the U.S. and Europe preaching anti-gay hate was spewing filth on the grounds of California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. Two college friends — both male — felt they had to respond.

News

Rand Paul Tied To Evangelical Demanding War Against ‘Pagan’ Imposed ‘Homosexual Marriage’

by David Badash ● 4:32 PM June 7, 2013
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Republican U.S. Senator Rand Paul has political and financial ties to a certified anti-gay hate group and to a Christian Evangelical political “kingmaker” and his politically-focused religious organization

Bigotry Watch

Catholics Uninvite Pro-Gay Speaker, Then Let Graduates Think He Stood Them Up

by Jean Ann Esselink ● 11:27 AM June 7, 2013
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For Catholics, the Eighth Commandment is “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.” Someone should tell Ohio Bishop Frederick Campbell.

Bigotry Watch

Political Evangelical Calls For ‘War’ Against ‘Pagan Onslaught Imposing Homosexual Marriage’

by David Badash ● 6:17 PM June 6, 2013
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The man tasked by top Republicans vying for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination to endear them with America’s Evangelicals has just published an op-ed demanding his followers “Wage war to restore a Christian America.”

News

Conservatives Waging Campaign For Christie To Appoint NOM Co-Founder To Senate

by David Badash ● 6:08 PM June 4, 2013
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Conservatives on the radical religious right are trying to get NJ Gov. Chris Christie to appoint NOM co-founder Robert P. George to fill the seat of the late Senator Frank Lautenberg.

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Catholic, Mormon Church Official Policy Now Supports Gay Youth In Boy Scouts — Holdouts Persist

by David Badash ● 12:18 PM June 3, 2013
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The Mormon Church and now the Catholic Church have stated the Boy Scout’s new policy in gay youth is OK and are urging their members to continue to support Scouting.

Bigotry Watch

GOP Lt. Gov. Candidate: ‘We Love The Homosexual’ But ‘Homosexuality Is A Sexual Behavior’

by David Badash ● 5:20 PM May 31, 2013
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Virginia GOP Lt. Gov. nominee E.W. Jackson says Christians “love the homosexual” but “homosexuality is a sexual behavior and it is a behavior that the Bible says is wrong and unacceptable.”

Marriage

Oprah: Gay People May Help Strengthen The Institution Of Marriage

by David Badash ● 10:50 AM May 31, 2013
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Oprah Winfrey says that gay people who marry may help strengthen the institution of marriage — in support of what a rapidly growing number of Americans believe.

News

New Pope In Rome, Same Old Anti-Gay Focus From The Catholic Church In America

by David Badash ● 3:33 PM May 29, 2013
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Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the highest-ranking Catholic in America, has made it clear how incredibly uncomfortable he is with LGBT people and seeing us as part of his flock.

Discrimination

Regnerus Is ‘Disgraced,’ Anti-Gay Parenting Study ‘Deeply Flawed’ Says Chief Reviewer

by David Badash ● 11:20 AM May 29, 2013
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The Regnerus anti-gay parenting “study” by Mark Regnerus is “deeply flawed” and as a result, the author himself is “disgraced,” says the study’s top appointed scholarly reviewer.

News

Religion Is Losing Influence In US, Vast Majority Of Americans Say

by David Badash ● 9:36 AM May 29, 2013
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Religion is losing its influence in the U.S., a vast and increasing majority of Americans, 77 percent, believe. Gallup interprets this as “Americans’ most negative evaluations of the impact of religion since 1970.”

Hate Crimes

Cardinal Dolan Spends A Few Seconds Mentioning Violence Against ‘Some Homosexuals’

by David Badash ● 6:25 PM May 28, 2013
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Finally, ten days after the murder of a gay man in NYC, Cardinal Timothy Dolan today denounced anti-gay violence that has increased dramatically — sort of.

Discrimination

Anti-Gay ‘Pro-Family’ Group: All Churches Must ‘Pull Out’ Of Boy Scouts

by David Badash ● 4:21 PM May 28, 2013
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Comparing openly-gay boys to “practicing adulterers,” Bryan Fischer called for “everybody that’s involved in Scouting” to “pull out” of the Boy Scouts because they are allowing openly-gay youth to join or stay in Scouting.

Health

In The War On HIV/AIDS, E.W. Jackson Fought Every Prevention Effort But One

by David Badash ● 8:32 AM May 28, 2013
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Early in the war on HIV/AIDS, E.W. Jackson virulently opposed condom distribution, safe sex-education, health clinics in public schools, and needle exchange programs.

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