TagsTagsThings aren't looking good for Newt Gingrich, so he really has no choice but to double down on hatred, bigotry, and ridiculous victimhood inversion memes: Gingrich Touts War Against Christianity, Gay Adoption In South Carolina. Here comes that old chestnut about a nonexistent "war on Christianity" again. GINGRICH: The challenge we ...
newt gingrich, Religious Right, Adoption, Anti-Gay, Homophobia, Victimhood
Today Newt Gingrich neatly summed up one of the most dishonest arguments from the right: that their "religious freedom" is being taken away when the government won't allow them to act on their anti-gay bigotry. It's an argument that tries to cast the offenders as victims and vice versa, and ...
newt gingrich, Religious Right, Adoption, Anti-Gay, Homophobia, Victimhood
Wow, Rick. You don't seriously believe that having a convicted criminal for a father is better for children than having two parents of the same sex, do you? MANCHESTER, N.H. -- For the second time in as many days, Rick Santorum on Friday drew attention away from his efforts to ...
Rick Santorum, Anti-Gay, Gay Marriage, Homophobia, Religious Right
Rick Santorum received another round of boos today in New Hampshire, for stating what is a completely mainstream Republican Party position: "Gays Aren't Entitled To Marriage Or Military Service." Santorum argued that gay people shouldn’t have the “privilege” of enlisting in the armed forces or marrying because “we decide what’s ...
Rick Santorum, Anti-Gay, Gay Rights, DADT, Bigotry, Homophobia, Republican Party
Ron Paul has been running like a scared rabbit away from his racist newsletters, because he knows that ugly, overt racism has become political poison. But there are some kinds of bigotry that still play well with the conservative base. Soon there will come a day when haters like Ron Paul ...
Ron Paul, Bigotry, Homophobia, Racism, Misogyny, Republican Party
Right on cue, Ron Paul's spokesman Jesse Benton is actually going to try to deny that Ron Paul wrote the overtly racist and homophobic direct-mail advertisement revealed yesterday by Reuters. Even though his signature is on it. Ron Paul’s campaign tells TPM that the presidential candidate did not write a signed ...
Imagine my surprise that more evidence of Ron Paul's long history of racism and far right fear-mongering is now coming to light. Reuters has unearthed a blatantly racist and homophobic direct-mail advertisement for the infamous Ron Paul newsletters: In ad for newsletter, Ron Paul forecast race war. A direct-mail solicitation ...
It's no secret that the Republican Party has made it part of their platform to spread hatred for gay people, but nevertheless most Republicans try to put a smiley face on it, and avoid coming right out and saying how they really feel. Except Newt Gingrich, who was asked by a ...
Tonight, Andrew Breitbart is suddenly very concerned about "vocational harm:" It is with sincere regret that I announce I must step down as a GOProud advisory member. On numerous occasions I have spoken with Jimmy LaSalvia and Chris Barron of the significant impact the practice of “outing” had in my ...
Andrew Breitbart, Right Wing, Far Right, Gay Rights, Homophobia
Rick Santorum is infamous as one of the most determined religious fanatics in US politics, an activist who believes Christian creationism should be taught to all American children in science classes, and a persistent Republican advocate for injecting fundamentalist Christian religion into the political process at every level. Speaking at the ...
Rick Santorum, Anti-Science, Republican Party, Homophobia, Right Wing, Religious Right, Bad Craziness
Rick Perry's homophobic advertisement has now smashed all YouTube records, and stands at an astonishing 450,000 dislikes. But Perry has learned his lesson. His new video, an attack on health care and "big government liberals," has ratings turned off. Take that, liberals.
Last night the Rick Perry gay-bashing ad stood at 42,000 dislikes at YouTube, so I had to check back and see where it was today -- and it's just about to go over 250,000. I think that's a fail record of some kind at YouTube, perhaps rivalled only by Justin ...
Rick Perry, Advertisement, Homophobia, Religious Right, War on Christmas
Oops. Whoever posted Rick Perry's new gay-bashing ad at YouTube forgot to turn off the Like/Dislike button.
Rick Perry, Advertisement, Homophobia, Religious Right, War on Christmas
Rick Perry's sick new campaign ad is chock full of gay-hatred and phony fundamentalist victimhood, trashing gay troops while attacking President Obama and "liberals" for a nonexistent "war on religion." What a disgusting campaign this is. I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm a Christian, but you don't need to ...
Rick Perry, Homophobia, Gay Rights, War on Christmas, Idiocy, Fanaticism, Religious Right
According to Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry, Americans shouldn't care about human rights for gays. Texas Gov. Rick Perry said today that using foreign aid to combat human rights abuses against homosexuals in foreign countries is “not in America’s interests” and attacked President Obama’s decision to require U.S. agencies operating ...
Rick Perry, Gay Rights, Homophobia, Hate Speech, Right Wing, Bad Craziness
Yesterday in Iowa, Michele Bachmann clarified her position on gay marriage -- she has no problem at all with gay people getting married. As long as they're marrying a person of the opposite sex. JANE SCHMIDT: One of my main concerns is government support for the LGBT community. So my question ...
Michele Bachmann, Homophobia, Gay Rights, Right Wing, Bigotry
Forget everything you thought you knew about Michele Bachmann. Forget her claim that census data could be used to put people in concentration camps. Forget her crazy claim that Planned Parenthood is setting up "sex clinics" in schools, with free abortions for 13-year old girls. Forget her fanatical fundamentalism, and her bizarre claim ...
Michele Bachmann, Bad Craziness, Creationism, Fanaticism, Far Right, Homophobia, Anti-Science, Anti-Choice
The religious right is all lathered up about the Rick Perry HPV controversy. They really hate that vaccine. Gardasil. It's an evil, evil vaccine that leads young women into lives of debauchery and sexual promiscuity, not necessarily in that order, by preventing the disease that would otherwise be their just and righteous ...
Religious Right, Anti-Vaccine, Gardasil, Rick Perry, Homophobia, Hate Mail, Email, Little Green Footballs
American Family Association spokesman Bryan Fischer performs a very valuable service for our country. Most public right wing religious figures make an effort to obscure their true agenda, trying to hoodwink Americans into believing they're not so extreme. But with Fischer, you're getting the real stuff -- unvarnished old-school hatred, with ...
Bryan Fischer, American Family Association, Religious Right, Homophobia, Anti-Gay, Bad Craziness
Republican Indiana state Rep. Phillip Hinkle recently voted for an amendment to the state constitution that would ban gay marriage. And now he's the latest in a long line of anti-gay Republican politicians who turn out to be gay. Emails shared with The Indianapolis Star suggest that state Rep. Phillip Hinkle ...
Indiana, Hinkle, Anti-Gay, Homophobia, Gay Marriage, Hypocrisy, Scandal
Here's a perfect illustration of the atavistic social conservative movement's death grip on the Republican Party, as even the "moderate" Mitt Romney joins Rick Santorum and Michele Bachmann to sign a bigoted pledge from the fundamentalist group "National Organization for Marriage," swearing to continue oppressing gay Americans: Romney signs marriage ...
Mitt Romney, Election 2012, Right Wing, Extremism, Religious Right, Homophobia, Gay Rights
One of the characteristics of a cult is that members systematically lie to outsiders, and you can see this behavior in almost all the religious fundamentalist groups with "Family" in their names. Today's case in point -- the testimony in the Senate's DOMA hearings by Focus on the Family’s Tom ...
Religious Right, Homophobia, Anti-Gay, Focus on the Family, Al Franken
Michele Bachmann's husband Marcus is doing some desperate damage control today, insisting that his clinics are not anti-gay, and denying he ever called gay people "barbarians". An audiotape circulating on the Internet depicts Bachmann as calling gays barbarians in a 2010 interview he gave to the "Point of View" Christian ...
Michele Bachmann, Republican Party, Right Wing, Far Right, Fundamentalism, Anti-Gay, Homophobia, Marcus Bachmann
If you had any remaining doubt about Michele Bachmann's position on gay rights: "Any of you who have members of your family that are in the lifestyle—we have a member of our family that is. This is not funny. It's a very sad life. It's part of Satan, I think, ...
Homophobia, Anti-Gay, Fundamentalism, Far Right, Right Wing, Republican Party, Satan, Michele Bachmann, Marcus Bachmann
ABC News has a report on Michele and Marcus Bachmann's family business -- the religious counseling clinics that practice ineffective and potentially harmful "Pray Away the Gay" therapies. Video Related: Clinics Owned by Michele Bachmann's Husband Practice 'Ex-Gay Therapy' Also see: In His Own Words: How I Went Undercover at Bachmann's Clinic
Michele Bachmann, Republican Party, Right Wing, Far Right, Fundamentalism, Anti-Gay, Homophobia, Marcus Bachmann