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Anti-Gay Activist Claims Beauty and the Beast Promotes Inter-Species Breeding
“Swanson said the film is promoting inter-species breeding, which he said Hollywood has been pushing since the days of Star Trek.”
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Opinion: NCAA “Reluctantly” Embraces North Carolina’s LGBT Discrimination
The NCAA said “this new law is far from perfect,” but it will reward the discrimination-minded N. C. by reopening the state for consideration in hosting its championship events.
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Life, Liberty, And The Pursuit Of Happiness Threatened By Repugnant Republicans
When the air we breathe and the water we drink are imminently threatened so that corporations can make more money, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are on the line.
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Opinion: Trump Removes President Obama’s LGBT Protections
“It’s sending a message to these companies…that the federal government simply doesn’t care whether or not they violate the law.”
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North Carolina GOP Facing Legal Challenges After Failing To Repeal ‘Bathroom Bill’
“The legislature may not be willing to undo their unconstitutional overreach and respect the rights of LGBT people, so we’ll just have to see them in court.”
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National Security Threatened By Religious Amendment In Defense Spending Bill
The Defense Authorization bill should be about making our country safe; not about codifying evangelical Republican hatred and intolerance.
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In a Microcosm of National Politics, Bigotry May Cost Republicans Dearly in North Carolina
“I wouldn’t vote for anybody that does something like that. The logic, I just can’t figure it out at all. It’s not comprehensible for me. It’s just too stupid.”
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Bigoted Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore Gets A Much Deserved Suspension
“The clear purpose of Judge Moore’s January order was to direct the probate judges…to stop complying with [legally] binding federal law.”
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Conservatives Freaked Out By Lesbian Farmers
Rush Limbaugh insists that Democrats “are trying to bust up one of the last geographic conservative regions in the country.”
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N.B.A. Punishes N.C. Bigots and Moves All-Star Game
The N.B.A. cannot successfully host our All-Star festivities in Charlotte in the climate created by the current law.
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GOP Platform Committee Embraces A Purely Puritanical Agenda
Republicans will end up with a platform that will be Victorian in its moralizing and deeply critical the modern American family.
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N.C. Republicans Rob Disaster Fund To Defend Toilet Law In Court
Governor McCrory and Republicans “diverted” $500,000 from North Carolina disaster relief to defend an unconstitutional theocratic edict in court.
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Unlike American Evangelicals, Pope Francis Says Christians Owe LGBT People an Apology
“We Christians have much to apologize for; and those apologies need not be confined to just one area. Ask forgiveness, and not just say we’re sorry.”
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Insane Donald Trump Thanks the LGBT Community for Supporting Him
“Thank you to the LGBT community! I will fight for you while Hillary brings in more people that will threaten your freedoms and beliefs.”
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Little Acknowledgment That LGBT People Were Targeted in Orlando Gun Massacre
“This is an especially heartbreaking day for our friends, our fellow Americans, who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender.”
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Minnesota GOP Candidate Goes Trump and Attacks Democratic Opponent’s Race and LGBT Identity
“I am not surprised that Republicans recruited candidates who resort to outright racist and discriminatory statements and tactics given their standard bearer, Donald Trump.”
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Woman Uses Baseball Bat On Preacher Known For “You Deserve to Be Raped” Sign
A preacher who has spent years spewing hate speech at students and at public events learned there are physical consequences for hate speech.
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School Board Allows Pepper Spray In School Suggesting Use Against Transgender Students
“It may be a pretty valuable tool to have on the female students if they go to the bathroom, not knowing who may come in.”
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N.C. Governor Sues Federal Government For Defending and Upholding the Constitution
What North Carolina is doing is “mean-spirited and inconsistent with the Constitution and decades-old federal laws because of religion.
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Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore Gets Justice and a Suspension
“Roy Moore is an embarrassment to the state of Alabama; we expect the Ethics Commission will permanently throw him out of office.”
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DOJ Warns North Carolina Its Bathroom Law Is A Serious Civil Rights Violation
“North Carolina’s HB2 is deeply discriminatory and violates civil rights law in all kinds of manners.”
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Women Are Stalked and Accosted For Daring To Use Women’s Bathrooms
“I wanted to make sure she was going to the right place. Because in times like these, you can never be too careful.”
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Theocracy Warning In Republican Strongholds Of Kentucky and Texas
The latest drive toward an iteration of Sharia Law for the cult of right-wing Christians panting for a theocracy is playing out in Kentucky.
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No, Bernie Sanders Was Not “The” Pioneer For Marriage Equality
The real pioneer for marriage equality was not Sanders or Clinton; no matter what the Sanders’ campaign or his passionate supporters claim
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Largest LGBT Organization In America Endorses Hillary Rodham Clinton For President
Clinton has made protecting and expanding LGBT rights a pillar of her campaign, and she says she will end gay conversion therapy on minors
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Republican Fail: Evangelical Bigots Did Not Counter President Obama’s SOTU
It is an abomination that an avowed religious bigot like Kim Davis was invited as a protest and counterweight to President Obama’s message
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The So-Called First Amendment Defense Act Will Destroy the First Amendment
Feeling persecuted by people suddenly having equal rights, GOP bigots developed legislation protecting just one set of beliefs – their own
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Bible, Not Gays, is All the Diversity School Needs, Say Parents
Wielding crosses like pitchforks, parents at a public school in North Carolina want a gay club out of their school and a teacher punished
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Houston Voters Gave Evangelicals the Legal Right To Discriminate Against 15 Groups
Voters in Houston Texas, the fourth largest city in America, voted to delete a non-discrimination ordinance and legalize discrimination
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3 GOP Presidential Candidates To Speak At Conference Hosted By Pastor Who Supports Killing Gays
Texas Senator Ted Cruz, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee will be featured speakers at the event.
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Faith-Based Phony Calls for Killing Non-Christians and Gays
Theodore Shoebat wants a “collectivisit society” to kill those non-Christians who don’t respect Christianity, and of course, all gay people
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Progressive Pope Endorses Christian Criminals Who Violate Law And Constitution
The Pope’s bible, the rule book containing every single one of god’s utterances, plainly says to obey the government authorities, period
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Republicans In Congress Push A Federal Evangelical License To Discriminate Law
So what evangelical Republicans in Congress came up with this week is a “novel” piece of federal legislation that mirrors the rash of religious Republican state schemes to legalize discrimination against the LGBT community.
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Hypocrisy Alert: Patriarchal Glenn Beck Says Gay Marriage is About Power
Beck, spokesman for patriarchal control, says “the [gay] agenda is control and the destruction of anyone else who disagrees,”
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Vatican Says Irish Marriage Equality Vote Was The Defeat Of Humanity
Although a weapon like same-sex marriage able to jeopardize the existence of the world’s largest religion sounds terrifying, the Vatican went a step farther and claimed the recent democratic vote in Ireland legalizing same-sex marriage is not only a clear and present danger to Christianity, it was a “defeat for humanity.”
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Mat Staver Says Transgender Rights Will Destroy Objective Reality
Mat Staver’s “moral objectivity” is anything but objective, and seems to be based on what he needs to be true in any given situation
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Survey: Americans Prefer A Gay President Over An Evangelical
It turns out that not only are Americans not the least bit enamored at the prospect of an evangelical fanatic as president, they are, by a large majority (61%), much more supportive of a gay or lesbian occupying the White House than a religious Republican seeking to rule according to Christianity.
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Gay Hotel Owners Who Hosted Ted Cruz Event Face Backlash From Activists
Two gay hoteliers who invited Ted Cruz to their Manhattan duplex, are facing a backlash from LGBT activists for hosting the Senator.
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Bobby Jindal Believes Equality Is Radical Corporate Bullying
Although there has been progress throughout America’s history, the idea of equality for every citizen has never completely caught on. Still, equal rights is purported to be one of America’s defining characteristics and it appeared to be what the Founding Fathers eventually hoped would be the case.
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Apparently, Refusing to Stone Gays Means You’re Not a Christian
Of course, the pastor saying this also needs to be stoned for not following the Law of Moses
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Democrats Fight Back Against Religious Freedom Laws By Pushing For LGBT Federal Protections
In a pointed response to the discrimination brought about by Indiana’s so-called “Religious Freedom” law, House Democrats announced a resolution to protect the civil rights of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community on the federal level.
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New Progressive Pope Embraces Old Conservative Vatican Bigotry
What the so-called more “Christ-like” Pope has not done is rescind any of the Church’s archaic moral policies his predecessors kept in place and apparently Francis has no intention of changing them anytime soon; regardless of his Fox-created “friendlier pope” public relations image.
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S.C. Says Constitution Allows Discrimination Against Women So Gay Discrimination Is Okay
The crux of South Carolina’s argument in support of discriminating against gays is that if it constitutionally permissible to discriminate against women, then it is perfectly legal to discriminate against gays.
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Ted Cruz Wants To Strip the Supreme Court’s Authority On Marriage Equality
Apparently, because too many federal courts have followed the Constitution and not the Christian bible on the question of same-sex marriage, it is likely that Cruz wants Congress to give that authority to the evangelical right to decide.
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Glenn Beck Says Opposition to Indiana’s RFRA Will Lead to Concentration Camps
The Religious Right is reacting as expected to opposition to Indiana’s embrace of religious tyranny – with lunacy and lies
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Slams Republicans’ Religious Freedom Laws
A powerful CEO of a giant corporation took the time to say what few others have; “There is something very dangerous happening in states across the country” of people using religion as a legislative weapon.
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The Real Unseen Danger of Indiana’s Legal Discrimination Law
It is why although the law appears only to target the LGBT community and allow the ‘faithful’ to legally punish same-sex marriage partners by refusing to hire, serve, or provide them with medical care, it is important to remember there is no mention of gays in the law.
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California Attorney-General Fights To Void Deadly Anti-Gay Ballot Initiative
The far right’s war on the LGBT community took a variety of turns this week.
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Minority White Christians’ Religious War On the Constitution
There is a misconception among ignorant Americans that this nation was founded on the tenets of the bible and is therefore a Christian nation
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Ben Carson Claims Prison Proves That Being Homosexual Is “Absolutely” A Choice
Potential 2016 GOP Presidential candidate Ben Carson appeared on CNN’s New Day Wednesday morning and told host Chris Cuomo that prisons prove that being gay is a choice.
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Ku Klux Klan Joins Alabama’s Religious War on Equality and the Constitution
Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, Roy Moore, has made headlines lately by elevating the bible over the Constitution in what seems to be a widely held opinion in Alabama. Because the bible says gays are an abomination to god, it drove Moore to order other state judges to ignore federal court rulings allowing courts to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
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Firing of Atlanta’s Anti-gay Fire Chief Puts Religious Right Hypocrisy on Display
“Equal rights for ALL Americans! The cultural cleansing of our nation must stop!” Except for gays and anyone else you decide is the Other
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Why it is Important Scott Lively Be Held Accountable for Wanting to Kill Gays
How long do you think it will be, if you can be murdered for being gay, before extremists go down the rest of the biblical list and find YOU there as well?
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Texas Legislator’s Biblical Proposal Abolishes Constitutional Equal Rights
Republicans and religious conservatives detest the 14th Amendment for myriad reasons, but chief among them is the guarantee of equal rights for Americans not in the biblical mold championed by Neo Christians; single mothers, atheists, Muslims, non-compliant Christians, and particularly gays.
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Conservatives March On Washington to Demand Legalized Discrimination Against Same Sex Couples
Hatred is as dangerous a contagion as extremist Christianity, and despite same-sex marriage bans being ruled unconstitutional across the nation, the National Organization for Marriage is behaving like a mortally wounded and cornered wild beast.
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How to Train Your Dragon’s Gobber the Belch is Destroying Civilization
According to Kevin Swanson, Gobber, because he is gay, is not only molesting Hiccup, he’s destroying civilization
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Rick Perry Believes That Homosexuality Is Like Alcoholism And Can Be Treated
Republican Texas Governor Rick Perry addressed the Commonwealth Club of California Wednesday night. He shocked the crowd, and perhaps put the final nail in the coffin of his Presidential ambitions, when he compared homosexuals to alcoholics.
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Gay Republican Organization GOProud Is Throwing In The Towel And Calling it Quits
The organization GOProud which was formed in 2009, is closing up shop and ceasing operations as an entity within the Republican Party.
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Marriage Equality is Stealing Rights from God? Really?
There is a real standard, of course, and it’s not God. It is called the United States Constitution, and it doesn’t mention God. That is the standard here, not the Bible
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Grand Miscalculation: How Arizona Republicans’ Anti-LGBT Views Clash with Millennials
For a political party trying to be more inclusive, you would think that telling 74% of millennials they’re wrong would not be a step in the right direction.
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Republican Bigots Place Their Hopes in Saggy Man Breasts and a Cross
Our problem is less with Putin’s fashion-sense or homoerotic subtext, than with the nonsensical nature of Republican arguments in favor of what the Russian strong-man is doing in the name of that cross dangling on his pasty, sagging, and no doubt once-manly hetero-chest.
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Vladimir Putin is Every Republican Bigot’s Wet Dream
The kid gloves have come off and these Republicans who cheer for Putin while condemning Obama have shown themselves not only to be hypocrites but to be champions of totalitarian ideology
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Republicans Call For An Armed Uprising Over Gay Marriage
Republicans and conservatives gathered in Utah to issue a call for an uprising against same-sex marriage.
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Russian TV Star Wants to Throw Gays into Ovens – ALIVE
“I’d put them all alive in the oven,” Okhlobystin told his fans. “It’s a living danger to my children.”
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John Boehner Is Trying to Emulate Vladimir Putin’s Assault on Homosexuals
John Boehner is doing his best to help the anti-gay movement increase their power in America and learn how to emulate Russian President Vladimir Putin’s assault on homosexuals.
Hate Spewing Family Research Council Asks, Why So Angry, Bro?
After years of conservatives demonizing liberalism and progressivism, atheists, Muslims, environmentalists, Pagans, moderate Christians, and, especially, members of the LGBT community, the Family Research Council is acting like they don’t understand why people are so angry. Senior Vice President Rob Schwarzwalder seems to be asking, “Why so angry, bro?” when he writes: So, the Left…
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Hate Group Westboro Baptist Church to Picket Glee Star Cory Monteith’s Funeral
Glee suffered a tragic loss when one its stars died in Canada, and it prompted hate group Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) to launch a barrage of anti-gay hate and, plan to picket the actor’s funeral.
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Conservatives Release the Propaganda Hounds in Defense of Religious Bigotry
A collection of WTF Boy Scout moments, brought to you by the party that hasn’t read the Bible they’re using to beat us over the head
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While Trying to Silence Any Mention of Gays, GOPer Calls Them the Biggest Bullies in the World
Tennessee Republican state Senator Campfield said the “gay rights community are “the biggest bullies in the world” after he proposes bill to silence any mention of gays.
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Right Wing Insanity Boils Over With Claim Marriage Equality Caused Noah’s Flood
Right wing Pastor Scott Lively hit a new level of crazy even for the far right by claiming that same sex marriage caused Noah’s Flood.
A Desperate Religious Right Renews the War on Marriage Equality
With growing desperation, the Religious Right tries to stem the liberal tide of toleration, equality, and genuine religious liberty
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The Religious Right Freaks Out Over West Point’s First Same-Sex Marriage
When West Point hosted its first gay marriage this past weekend, the Religious Right went bananas, talking about moral cliffs and decadence
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The Right Tries and Fails to turn Marriage Into a Religious Institution
Whether bible-loving opponents of same-sex marriage like it or not, marriage is not a religious institution.
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Mitt Romney is the Tip of the Republican Religious Extremist Spear
America’s worst nightmare is a Romney presidency bolstered by conservative Christians in Congress and a bible-based Supreme Court.
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The Value Voters Summit Was An All-Inclusive Un-American Hate Group
The Values Voters Summit was not an expression of American values or a representation of the Constitution’s guarantee of freedom and equal rights.
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Conservative Doctors, Nurses, Pharmacists Create Death Panels By Abusing Conscience Clause
Regardless of how a doctor, nurse, or pharmacist feels about homosexuality, or pregnant women, their religious beliefs or bigotry does not give them the right to hand down a death sentence.
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Backed by a Failed Economic Theory, Republicans Turn to Religious Extremists
Republicans have enlisted religious fanatics to forward their dangerous agenda by instilling fear that Democrats are waging a war on religious freedom.
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Mitt Romney Breaks Another Law By Hiding $10,000 Donation to Hate Group
Mitt Romney’s claim of adhering to a Bain confidentiality agreement does not explain hiding a $10,000 donation to a hate-group.
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Apparently President Obama Isn’t the Right (White) Kind Of Christian For The GOP
It is no coincidence that Republicans never questioned George W. Bush or Ronald Reagan’s allegiance to the Christian faith despite their policies, because they were white Christians.
The Media Drops The Ball With Same Sex Marriage Moral Equivalence Argument
The media hasn’t gone far enough in arguing against a referendum on same-sex marriage in New Jersey.
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Republicans Will Pay At The Polls If They Deny Gays Equal Rights
The GOP’s hate-inspired position will haunt them on Election Day if they continue promising to deny gay Americans equal rights.
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Rick Santorum Is The Antithesis Of Christ’s Teachings
Rick Santorum is a conservative, but his lack of compassion makes him the antithesis of Christ’s teachings.
The Failure of Bible Based Bigotry to Keep DADT Alive
Repealing DADT is a civil rights issue and nothing more. It is not about imposing social change on the country and is not an attack on any religion or the family. The senators and opponents of repealing DADT are attacking the civil rights of every American, and are attempting to impose their bible-based radical agenda on all Americans. Now that the Congress has repealed DADT, maybe they can repeal religion that imposes bigotry on America.
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Will Obama’s Tax Cut Compromise Wake Up Democrats’ Fighting Spirit?
Republicans were handed a sweetheart deal by President Obama in return for 13 months of unemployment benefits extensions and some college aid for parents. Obama has incurred the wrath of many in his own party and it may give Democrats renewed passion to fight.
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Bryan Fischer’s Faked Research about Gays and Lesbians
Republican hate-mongers misuse research in the same way their climate deniers misuse research, making legitimate research say something it never said.