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Jim Jordan Throws A Fit As House Democrats Stand Up To SCOTUS On Marriage Equality
Rep. Jim Jordan claimed that the Democratic bill to protect marriage equality was a plot to intimidate the Supreme Court.
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Texas Republican Prays to God to Forgive America for the U.S. Constitution
He said “Lord, we have gone to killing the most innocent amongst us,” ignoring God promising Samaria’s “pregnant women” will be “ripped open”
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Opinion: Texas GOP Bill Allows Officials to Refuse Same-Sex Marriage Licenses
“Texas Senate has no problem with taxpayer-funded discrimination against virtually anyone who doesn’t meet a public official’s personal [religious] standards.”
Republicans Think With Trump They Can Pass Anti-LGBT First Amendment Defense Act
The FADA “Prohibits the federal government from taking discriminatory action against a person” who acts “in accordance with a religious belief”
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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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The Stupid Runs Deep In Republican Ranks
It is downright stupid, and crazy, for gay Log Cabin Republicans to cling to the GOP or expect it to change and support LGBT equal rights.
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Texas GOP Platform Is Patently Un-American, Religious and Nativist
“The only solution to the current situation is for Texas to threaten to secede. Then Washington will start cleaning up its act.”
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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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Pope Fires Vatican Ambassador To America For the Kim Davis Ambush
It is clear now that the Pope hated being ambushed into meeting with the American face of evangelical bigotry, Kim Davis
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Anti-Gay Activist Claims Gays Are Treating Christians Like Jews in Nazi Germany
“In many states, it’s legal to fire someone for being gay,” says Bernie Sanders – nowhere can you be fired for being Christian
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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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Nikki Haley Enrages Religious Right and GOP by Being ‘Soft’ on Gays and Muslims
By calling out Trump and calling for respect for differences in modern marriage, Haley has placed herself between a rock and a hard place
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Alabama Chief Justice Reinstates Same-Sex Marriage Ban – Says SCOTUS Is Confused
Notorious Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice, Roy Moore, has unilaterally issued a judicial order overturning a six-month old United States Supreme Court ruling.
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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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Sarah Palin Claims Obama’s Response to Threat of ISIL is Too ‘Namby-Pamby’
Palin said Hillary Clinton is naive in thinking we’re not at war with Islam and claimed Obama is being too namby-pamby in dealing with ISIL
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Kentucky Gubernatorial Election Should Be A Wake Up Call For Democrats
Now if only Democrats would make a special effort to demonstrate to moderates that a major contributor to this country’s problems is conservative Christians and moderates pandering to evangelical fanatics forcing religion on the country, voters might wake up.
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SCOTUS Be D*mned – Bobby Jindal Says No Earthly Court Can Redefine Marriage
Jindal insists he just wants the right to live his Christian faith, but what he really wants is to force US to live HIS Christian faith
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Huckabee Wants to Thank SCOTUS for Their “Thoughts and Opinions” And Ignore Them
Mike Huckabee says he gets to decide what is constitutional or not, not the Supreme Court, which is given that job by the Constitution
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Hypocritical Chris Christie Questions President Obama’s Faith
Chris Christie, who has repeatedly told others its none of their business what he believes, demands to know what Obama believes
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Clinton Impeachment Attorney Ken Starr Isn’t Jumping Up to Support Kim Davis
Ken Starr dished out some reality to a religious freed summit audience, cautioning them that choosing which laws to obey is problematic
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Evangelical Martyr Kim Davis Secretly Met The Pope – Now Send Her Back To Jail
Apparently, 5 days in jail did little more than embolden the newly crowned martyr to thumb her nose at Judge Bunning’s condition of release
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President Obama Truth Bombs Republican Claims About Religious Freedom
Obama said Sunday that “our religious freedom doesn’t grant us the freedom to deny our fellow Americans their constitutional rights.”
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Religious Right Encounters the Constitution and Tosses its Collective Cookies
The Religious Right had a bad week with Constitution. You wouldn’t think people could be this, well, dirt stupid, but they can, and they are
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Kim Davis To Get an Award From Family Research Council for Excellence in Bigotry
Based on a fantasy version of the US Constitution, the Religious Right hails Kim Davis as a Savior and Gives her a Medal for Bigotry
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Oath Keepers Plan to “Protect” Kim Davis from Arrest by US Marshals
The group said, “This judge needs to be put on notice that this sort of behavior is not going to be accepted and we’ll be there to stop it”
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Here’s Why You’re an Idiot if You’re a Republican in 2016
Franklin Graham says that by imposing her religion on other people, the Rowan County clerk is “Fighting for religious freedom for all of us”
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Erick Erickson Predicts Civil War if Fake Christians Can’t Persecute Gays
Red State’s Erick Erickson thinks its a given there will be a civil war over marriage equality; he just doesn’t have any goods reason for it
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GOP Presidential Candidates Still Throwing Fits Over Jailing Of Bigoted Kentucky Clerk
GOP presidential candidates seeking to burnish their homophobic resumes, are rallying to the cause of jailed Kentucky clerk Kim Davis.
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David Barton’s Appalling Lie that the Constitution Puts God’s Law Above Man’s Law
Barton says the Founding Fathers were all about God’s law trumping man’s. The problem is, the idea is nowhere found in the U.S. Constitution
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A Win for Love and Marriage Equality in Rowan County as Kim Davis Goes to Jail
Deputy clerk Brian did his job on Friday morning, and Rowan County Kentucky began issuing its first marriage
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Reality Check for Religious Nuts: Laughing at You is Not Persecution
Religious nuts hate being mocked and laughed at when they say catastrophically stupid things, but that’s freedom of speech, not persecution
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Lawless Anti-Gay Kentucky County Clerk Continues To Refuse To Issue Marriage Licenses
Kim Davis continued to refuse to issue marriage licenses on Tuesday morning, a day after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected her appeal.
Christian Democrats of America Say Republican Dominance of Christianity Ending
We have been hearing for a long time that the Religious Right is dead; demographics or not, I’ll believe it when I see it lying in the road
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Bigoted Kentucky County Clerk Denies Gay Couple Marriage License A Third Time
Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis has denied a gay couple a marriage license for the 3rd time.
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Supposedly God’s Own Party, the 2016 GOP Still Doesn’t Care What Jesus Said
By the time children step foot in school again this fall, it will have been two years since Pope Francis cautioned that the Church had become “obsessed” with abortion, gay marriage and contraception. “It is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.” Indeed, it is not. Jesus never mentioned any of them….
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Christians Are Evangelicals’ New Enemy In Marriage Equality War
It is a sad fact of life that there are some human beings who cannot exist without expressing animosity, or worse, deep and extremely emotional dislike directed against individuals, groups or ideas. Indeed, hatred is nearly always associated with feelings of intense anger, unwarranted disgust and an unhealthy pre-disposition towards hostility and violence. It is…
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Note To Evangelical Republicans: This Is America, Love It Or Leave It
Evangelical Republicans hate America with religious passion because the Founding Fathers did not create a Christian theocracy
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The Problem is Not Gays but the Religious Right’s Culture of Repression
Bart Barber argues that it is “too late to prevent this nation’s social experimentation by way of the removal of sexual taboos.”
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Rick Santorum Was an Outlier of Crazy, But the GOP Has Caught Up
You can legitimately pooh-pooh Santorum and his chances of winning elected office ever again in his lifetime but he is now just a voice in the choir
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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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The Religious Right’s Full Page Denunciation of the United States Constitution
If you want a place where you tell everybody what God wants and then force everybody else to listen to you, you’re in the wrong country
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Cultural Genocide as Right-Wing Answer to Ireland’s Gay Impertinence
St. Patrick drove the Pagan snakes out of Ireland 16 centuries ago. Today, Gordon Klingenschmitt wants to drive the gay snakes out of Ireland
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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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Marco Rubio Says Marriage Equality a Real and Present Danger to Christianity
Rubio talks about being globally competitive, but does hating gays more than Putin’s Russia make us globally competitive, too?
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Matt Barber Uses Subterfuge and Deception to “Prove” Subterfuge and Deception
Barber relies on discredited studies by discredited authors to attack gays but says a discredited study proves the gay agenda is counterfeit
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Limbaugh is Wrong: Gay Activists Didn’t Kill Christianity – Christianity Did
Rush Limbaugh blames gay activists for Christianity’s demise even while he is one of the people driving Americans away from organized religion
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In Challenging the Supreme Court, Republicans Challenge the Constitution
The upcoming SCOTUS marriage equality ruling is just another opportunity for Republicans to challenge the constitutionality of the Consitution
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Amicus Tells Supreme Court that Marriage Equality Will Cause 900,000 Abortions
A hysterical claim backed up by zero facts equals the perfect Republican argument against marriage equality
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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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Religious Right: GOP Will Never Win Presidency if They Soften Gay Rights Stance
The Religious Right thinks, despite all the evidence, that doubling down on anti-gay bigotry will have better results than Indiana
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Corporations Suddenly Don’t Have Religious Freedom if They Support Marriage Equality
Corporations apparently have religious freedom if they are against contraception, but they have no right to speak up about marriage equality
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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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Brewer Whines About Checks and Balances When Court Strikes Down AZ’s Ban on Marriage Equality
A Friday ruling that found Arizona’s marriage ban is unconstitutional, and the court’s denial of a request to stay its ruling marked the beginning of freedom for same sex couples in the state.
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North Carolina Could Join the Ranks of States That Recognize Marriage Equality
It’s time for the Supreme Court to officially recognize that marriage equality triumphed over homophobia.
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Epic Fail: Ben Carson Exposes Marxist Plot to Gay Up America!
Ben Carson says it is marriage equality’s hetero opponents – not gays and lesbians – who just want to be “left alone” to be themselves.
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Eric Holder Pushes Back Against Utah by Recognizing the State’s Gay Marriages
Eric Holder set the record straight and announced that regardless of Utah’s intent to discriminate against same-sex married couples, the federal government will recognize the same-sex marriages.
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The Supreme Court Joins The Right Wing Attempt to Replace the Constitution With the Bible
The Supreme Court is likely not done facilitating theocratic tyranny or disabusing the people from their 1st and 14th Amendment rights if right wing extremists have their way.
Catholic League Calls Marriage Equality One of the Most Bizarre Ideas in History
Catholic League president Bill Donohue believes some pretty far-out things himself and he may not be the one to talk about bizarre
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Republicans Stand Opposed To Equal Rights Even After SCOTUS Decisions
The rulings have absolutely no effect on any American who is not gay, and still, those unaffected ideologues are screaming the loudest they and their rights were eviscerated with the rulings.
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Contrary to Warnings From The Right The Sky Hasn’t Fallen After DOMA & Prop 8 Decisions
Contrary to the fear mongering by the religious right, the sky didn’t fall, and there aren’t any divine storm clouds in D.C. after the DOMA and Prop 8 rulings by the Supreme Court.
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Buster Wilson Wakes Up to Discover He’s a Hate Monger
Buster Wilson complains that if he believes what he says the Bible says about homosexuality, he is a hate monger
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Why Recognizing Marriage Equality Shouldn’t be Left to the States
Roger Gorley and Allen Mansell’s story shows that being in a socially recognized committed relationship extends way beyond the equivalent of a corporate merger.
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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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Maryland Delegate Tries to Silence NFL Player’s Support of Gay Marriage
Maryland delegate Emmett Burns wrote the Baltimore Ravens demanding they silence their player, marriage equality advocate Brendon Ayanbadejo
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Note to Chick-Fil-A Bigots: If You’re Going to Quote God, at Least Get Him Right
Fundamentalist Christians have invented a position for their God in defense of their religion-based bigotry, but God himself never said it
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NOM Says Chick-Fill-A Can Endorse a Controversial Political Issue, But Not General Mills
The National Organization of Marriage accuses General Mills of hypocrisy but hypocritically supports Chick-Fill-A and condemns General Mills
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Lawrence O’Donnell Pokes Fun at Right Wing Fanatic Buster Wilson’s Meat
The AFA’s Buster Wilson said a Google boycott would put his meat to the test but it was MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell who really tested his meat
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Carrie Underwood’s Support of Marriage Equality Exposes Fundie Confusion Over Love and Hate
Carrie Underwood came out in support of marriage equalitylast weekend, leaving fundies to misread the Bible and to confuse love with hate
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The Dirty Thirty – June 2012 Edition
Today marks a new format in the Dirty Thirty, which will now include only updates (the entire updated list will be posted on its own page)
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Obama Power: 36 Point Swing in Approval for Marriage Rights
On her MSNBC show, Rachel Maddow pointed out a 36 point swing in support for equal marriage rights in the state of Maryland.
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From the Pulpit Comes a Call For a Gay and Lesbian Final Solution
A pastor’s proposal of concentration camps for gays and lesbians sounds a lot like a Third Reich style final solution to the gay marriage issue.
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The NAACP Comes Out in Support of Marriage Equality
The NAACP has come out in support of President Barack Obama and marriage equality in a press release dated yesterday, May 19, 2012.
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What the Bible Says Versus What Republicans Wish it Said
The GOP insists we obey the Bible but the Bible doesn’t define traditional marriage and it turns out God orders abortions with wild abandon
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Obama Adding a Faith Vote Director to Campaign
Obama has a religion problem. His answer to that problem is a Faith Vote Director. He has already shown that the Bible is not the exclusive property of the GOP
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Fundie Says Obama is Gay, Imprison Gays Before They Kill Kids
Discredited psychologist and anti-gay “expert” Paul Cameron, claims that Obama is gay and that gays must be imprisoned before they kill kids
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Painting President Obama as a Culture Warrior
Ross Douthat, in an op-ed for the New York Times, paints President Obama as a culture warrior who ignores the economy to his own detriment
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The Saturdays Join the @Out4Marriage Campaign
Stephen Fry’s global social media Out For Marriage campaign is getting some love from the British and Irish pop band The Saturdays love.
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Look Out First Amendment – Theocracy Inbound
Theocracy is coming to with a GOP win in 2012: they have made their position clear enough and it becomes more pronounced with each new bill
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Thank you, Mr. President! But This is Going to Get Flat Earth Ugly!
In a single moment the President has made history by endorsing same sex marriage and simultaneously became an instant target by the extreme religious parasites bent on “Reclaiming America”.
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Obama Makes History By Becoming First President to Support Same Sex Marriage
Barack Obama made history today by becoming the first president to come out in support of the legalization of same sex marriage, and his endorsement forever changes the same sex marriage debate.
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Champion the Vote Champions Faith-Based Bigotry
Bill Dallas of Champion the Vote is upset that he has to explain about gays to his little daughter. His solution is to get out the vote to vote the gay away
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The Dirty Thirty – April Fool’s Edition
The Republican assault on American liberties has continued in 2012 with continued emphasis on the reproductive rights of women and women’s health
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Chris Christie’s Dangerous Attack on the U.S. Constitution
The U.S. Constitution was written by 55 men and signed by 39, but Chris Christie says 121 men and women can’t give New Jersey a marriage law
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Prop 8: A Victory For Equality, The Constitution, And The Founding Fathers
The Prop 8 ruling was a victory for the gay community, but it was a bigger victory for equality and the Founding Fathers’ belief that the Constitution is a higher power than the Christian bible.
Rick Santorum’s False Claim that Christian Marriage is About Children
Santorum says gays don’t deserve the right to get married because gay marriage doesn’t benefit society but Saint Paul says marriage and family distracts people from God
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The Dirty Thirty – the GOP’s Rights Killing Agenda for America
With no signs of abating. Republican legislatures are if anything more eager than ever to press their rights-killing agenda for America and Americans
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Chris Christie Endorses the Popular Tyranny Founding Fathers Feared
Chris Christie has shown himself to be a proponent of the popular tyranny the Founding Fathers feared and wrote the Constitution to address
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Wisconsin High School Student Endorses Biblical Death Penalty for Gays
A Wisconsin high school student condemned gay adoption in his school paper, reminding the students that God wants gay people to be killed
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Newt Says He is Running to Save Western Civ from Pagan Culture
Newt claims that marriage equality represents perfectly natural pagan behaviors and are somehow a fundamental violation of our civilization
The Dirty Thirty Year End Edition
The Dirty Thirty Year-End edition is a recap of legislation, local, state and federal, the GOP is using to destroy America