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Civil Rights

Why The Boy Scouts Proposal To Allow Gay Scouts Is Anti-Gay

by David Badash ● 3:01 PM April 19, 2013
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The Boy Scouts’ proposal to end the ban on gay scouts specifically indicates gay adults won’t be allowed. Here’s why this is anti-gay, and even dangerous to gay youth.

Farce

On Our Radar – Family Planning Greets Catholic Abortion Protesters With Frisky Gay Balloons

by Jean Ann Esselink ● 8:00 AM November 11, 2012
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They gathered all the employees of the Wausau Family Planning Clinic to warn them Catholics protesters were coming to hold an “Adoration of the Eucharist.” One of the new staffers was heard to whisper, “What’s an Adoration of the Uterus?” Today Clinic Director Lon Newman and his big red dancing gay balloons are On Our Radar.

Elections

The Dark Shadow Behind Mitt Romney

by Jean Ann Esselink ● 5:53 PM November 2, 2012
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We usually characterize vice presidential candidates as being a “heartbeat away from the presidency.” In the case of Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan is not only a heartbeat away, he is one “high crimes and misdemeanor” away. Here is one more compelling reason why you need to vote!

Analysis

On Our Radar – The War on Women. What Are You Wearing?

by Jean Ann Esselink ● 8:00 AM September 23, 2012
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Modesty Matters took a table at the Values Voters Summit to persuade women to “dress like ladies.” Today, what you are wearing, (and just whose business is it anyway) is On Our Radar.

Jean Ann Esselink

On Our Radar – The “Health Of The Mother” And The War On Women

by Jean Ann Esselink ● 8:00 AM September 9, 2012
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The Romney campaign announced last week that Mitt was mistaken when he said he believed in a “health of the mother” abortion exception.” What “health of the mother” really means to women is On Our Radar.

News

Republican Braggarts Wound Themselves In The War On Women

by Jean Ann Esselink ● 1:32 PM July 3, 2012
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  Mississippi officials couldn’t stop themselves from bragging they had ended a woman’s right to choose in their state. Now they will have to explain themselves to a federal judge who has put their plans on hold.                                     [...]

Discrimination

CNN’s Ashleigh Banfield Clarifies: Gay Relationships A Choice. Being Gay, Not So Much

by David Badash ● 9:40 AM June 1, 2012
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Ashleigh Banfield, anchor of CNN’s “Early Start,” yesterday said that being gay was a choice, but clarified on her show today what she really meant.

Bigotry Watch

Bashir: You Have A Choice For President – Intervention In The Boardroom Or In The Bedroom

by David Badash ● 7:30 AM February 16, 2012
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Martin Bashir compared and contrasted Obama and Santorum, and asked, “Do you want intervention in the bedroom or in the boardroom?”

Arts

Cynthia Nixon “Would Like To Clarify … Bisexuality Is Not A Choice”

by David Badash ● 3:15 PM January 30, 2012
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Cynthia Nixon now acknowledges she is bisexual and says that being bisexual, or gay, is not a choice.

Bigotry Watch

Santorum: “Almost Remarkable” Obama Is Pro-Choice – Because He’s Black

by David Badash ● 1:30 PM January 2, 2012
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Rick Santorum says he finds it “almost remarkable” that a black man — Barack Obama — thinks he’s fit to decide who is a person and who is not, alluding to slavery.

Civil Rights

Christian Advocate: Pro-Choice Catholics Worse Than Pedophile Priests

by David Badash ● 3:42 PM November 28, 2011
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Catholic theologian and advocate Peter Kreeft says pro-choice Catholics are worse than the Catholic Church’s pedophile priests and are “straight from the devil.”

Bigotry Watch

Herman Cain: Gay Is A Choice, “Black Doesn’t Wash Off” (Video)

by David Badash ● 11:13 AM October 20, 2011
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GOP frontrunner Herman Cain continues to insist being gay is a choice. Again, demanding to be shown the science, Cain continues to operate as an ignorant bigot.

Analysis

Gay Curious – But Not The Way You Think

by Jean Ann Esselink ● 1:20 PM October 19, 2011
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Why should it matter whether being gay is a choice or the random result of the way the DNA came together?

Civil Rights

Bachmann Pushes Unconstitutional Pre-Abortion Mandatory Ultrasound Bill

by David Badash ● 7:31 PM October 8, 2011
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Michele Bachmann introduced a bill forcing all women considering an abortion to not only see an ultrasound but would require doctors to verbally describe it.