TagsTagsIn Washington yesterday, Tea Party Founding Fathers chairman William Temple put on his ridiculous George Washington costume, complete with tricorne hat and pantaloons, and announced that he's 100% opposed to raising the debt ceiling and he'll punish any House Republicans who vote for it. Unless, that is, they do something even ...
Tea Party, Republican Party, GOP, Bad Craziness, Homophobia, Anti-Gay, DADT
The modern Republican Party openly makes alliances with ugly, bigoted hate groups; it's become so commonplace that no one even notices any more. Case in point: serial philanderer Newt Gingrich's work with the disgusting far right American Family Association to deprive gay Americans of rights: Gingrich Said to Funnel $125K ...
newt gingrich, Fundamentalism, Religious Right, Homophobia, Gay Rights, Anti-Gay, American Family Association, Bryan Fischer
Rev. Grant Storms, a New Orleans gay-hating "Christian patriot," was arrested on Friday for masturbating at a children's playground. Storms, 53, was taken into custody at Lafreniere Park after two women reported seeing him masturbating in the driver's seat of his van, which was parked near the carousel and playground, ...
New Orleans, Anti-Gay, Homophobia, Grant Storms, Hypocrisy, Crime
I may have spoken too soon when I said the Scott Walker phone call was the big story of the morning, because this story is huge: Govt drops defense of anti-gay marriage law. In a statement Wednesday, Attorney General Eric Holder says President Barack Obama has concluded that the administration ...
President Obama, Eric Holder, Defense of Marriage Act, Anti-Gay, Homophobia
After several major conservative groups bailed out of CPAC 2011 over the inclusion of gay conservative group GOProud, it looks like CPAC's organizers have learned their lesson: New CPAC Chair says no to groups that support DADT repeal or gay marriage.
CPAC, Republican Party, Extremism, Right Wing, Anti-Gay, Homophobia, Religious Right
LGF author freetoken has an excellent Page on Republican Presidential hopeful Tim Pawlenty, the smiling, affable face of the extreme religious right, as he endorses the positions of yet another rabid anti-gay hate group with "family" in its name, The Family Leader: Pawlenty Boasts His Creationist, Anti-Gay Credentials In Iowa ...
Iowa, Tim Pawlenty, Republican Party, Religious Right, Fundamentalism, Creationism, Anti-Gay
In a column for the anti-gay hate group known as the American Family Association (home of the demented Bryan Fischer), religious right leader Michael Youssef said that because of the Episcopal Church's tolerance of gays, it has "defied God" and is no longer Christian. Episcopal Church: Christian? Based on everything I ...
Religious Right, Fundamentalism, Far Right, Michael Youssef, American Family Association, Anti-Gay, Homophobia, Episcopal Church
In the latest bail-out from the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the far-right creationist climate change denial organization known as the Heritage Foundation is joining the fundamentalist groups who are afraid of gay cooties. Similar to last year’s CPAC, more than a half dozen groups say they won’t attend the ...
Religious Right, Far Right, Anti-Gay, Homophobia, CPAC, Heritage Foundation
I don't know why any good rock-ribbed conservative Tea Partier would even think of attending the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this year. I mean, look at the exhibitors! Not only are there going to be Sodomites, it's also been infiltrated by the creeping stealth global jihad: Right-Wingers Claim Muslim ...
Religious Right, Far Right, Anti-Gay, Homophobia, World Net Daily, Bad Craziness, Anti-Muslim, Frank Gaffney
The candidates for chair of the Republican National Committee had a "debate" today in preparation for the vote on January 14, and here's what I learned from watching it: • It was not a debate. At all. There was no disagreement among the candidates on any issue. They're marching in 100% ...
Republican Party, RNC, GOP, Extremism, Debate, Social Conservatives, Anti-Abortion, Anti-Gay, Anti-Sanity
Candidates for the next Chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC) are now debating in Washington, and C-SPAN has it. I used the word "debating" above, but there's no debate going on here at all. Every single candidate is an extreme social conservative, hates gay people, and wants to deprive women ...
Anti-Sanity, Anti-Gay, Anti-Abortion, Social Conservatives, Debate, Extremism, GOP, RNC, Republican Party
The Internet black hole of far right theocratic craziness known as World Net Daily is celebrating today because religious fundamentalists are abandoning CPAC out of fear of a gay planet. Two of the nation's premier moral issues organizations, the Family Research Council and Concerned Women for America, are refusing to ...
Religious Right, Fundamentalism, Far Right, Anti-Gay, Homophobia, World Net Daily, Bad Craziness
Raving right wing religious bigot Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association is apoplectic (his normal state) over the repeal of DADT: Bryan Fischer: Benedict Arnold Republicans destroy military and our national security. Fischer is concerned that "virile young men" will be molested in their sleep by sexual deviants. Character-driven officers ...
Religious Right, Fundamentalism, Far Right, Anti-Gay, Homophobia, Bryan Fischer, American Family Association
Big developments in the Senate today; the DREAM Act has been killed by nativist Republicans, but the repeal of DADT is going to pass today when the final vote is taken at 3 pm ET. The overwhelming majority of Republicans voted to continue denying rights to gays and immigrants, which should ...
Republican Party, GOP, Obstructionism, Anti-Gay, Homophobia, DREAM Act, DADT
The GOP is more afraid of gay people than they are of nuclear war: Sen. Corker Threatens Reid: If You Bring DADT Repeal For A Vote, We’ll Walk Away From START. [Poll]
Republican Party, GOP, Obstructionism, Anti-Gay, Homophobia, Nuclear War, START
A who's who of right wing politicians, religious right spokesholes, and anti-gay loons have signed a statement opposing the Southern Poverty Law Center's classification of many far right religious organizations as hate groups. LGF reader Gus 802 pasted together this picture of the statement, which they placed as an advertisement ...
Religious Right, Fundamentalism, Far Right, Anti-Gay, Southern Poverty Law Center, hate groups
Tony Perkins of the extreme fundamentalist group Family Research Council is outraged that the Southern Poverty Law Center has listed the FRC as an anti-gay hate group. Here he is seething and whining about it on Fox News, claiming he's not anti-gay at the same time as he promotes bogus ...
Family Research Council, Tony Perkins, Anti-Gay, Homophobia, Hate Speech, hate groups, Far Right, Religious Right
A coalition of religious right groups has announced that they will boycott the next Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) if the gay conservative group GOProud is allowed to attend. They've posted their letter to the CPAC organizers online, demanding that teh gheys be expelled from their midst -- including this absolutely ...
Ridiculous Hypocrisy, Religious Right, Fundamentalism, Homophobia, Anti-Gay, GOProud, John Birch Society, Fanaticism
The creep who spread the “Mark Kirk is gay” rumor in Illinois, Jack Roeser, has been promoted to the finance co-chair of the Illinois Republican party: Illinois GOP Rewards Anti-Gay Bigotry. Portrait of a political party gone insanely off the rails.
GOP, Republican Party, Extremism, Right Wing, Homophobia, Anti-Gay
For months, Hot Air listed Little Green Footballs under “Left Channels” before delinking us altogether, as a way of punishing me for leaving the right wing reservation. So imagine the sweet sweet irony as the religious right begins to reject Hot Air — because they’re not “conservative” enough: Conservatives can kiss ...
Hot Air, Ugliness, wingnuts, Hate Speech, Anti-Gay, Right Wing, Social Conservatives, Religious Right, Gay Rights
Scott Lively is one of the religious right evangelists identified by the New York Times as an enabler of Uganda’s insane death penalty law for homosexuals. Here’s a video posted by Box Turtle Bulletin with a closer look at Scott Lively’s “philosophy,” and what he described as a “nuclear bomb against ...
Uganda, Anti-Gay, Homosexuality, Gay Rights, Religious Right, social conservatism, Hate Speech, Scott Lively
Here’s the disgusting religious right story of the day, as the New York Times reports on a visit by three US evangelical leaders to Uganda that helped trigger the full scale persecution of homosexuals: After Americans Visit, Uganda Weighs Death for Gays. KAMPALA, Uganda — Last March, three American evangelical ...
Uganda, Anti-Gay, Homosexuality, civil rights, Religious Right, social conservatism, Hate Speech
After bloggers began pointing them out, Minnesota Republican State Senate candidate Mike Parry deleted more than 40 racist and anti-gay comments from his Twitter feed: Senate candidate scrubs racist comments from Twitter. Among the tweets erased by Parry was a May 27 comment about President Obama: “read the exclusive on ...
GOP, Republican Party, Extremism, Right Wing, Homophobia, Anti-Gay, Racism
Illinois Republican Senate candidate Andy Martin tries to get the GOP base on his side by accusing his primary opponent of the dreaded ghey. Here’s the transcript of Martin’s ad: I’m Andy Martin, Republican candidate for United States Senator. I approved this message because Illinois Republicans deserve the truth about their ...
GOP, Republican Party, Extremism, Right Wing, Homophobia, Fear, Anti-Gay
David Frum quotes my post about Minnesota Governor Pawlenty and his support for teaching “intelligent design” creationism to public school children, and takes exception to my remarks: A Problem for Pawlenty. Johnson’s comment seems to me radically unfair. Pawlenty is a model of sensible modern conservatism. His answers to Newsweek’s ...
Evolution, Creationism, Anti-Science, Anti-Gay, Tim Pawlenty, GOP, Republican Party, David Frum