TagsTagsA Catholic preschool in Boulder Colorado has refused to admit a child with gay parents. What can you even say about an appalling story like this? Punishing the innocent doesn’t seem like something Jesus would have approved of. BOULDER, Colo. — A preschooler is caught in the middle of a fight ...
Normally, I’d just ignore this kind of nonsense, but the Hypocrisy Quotient is so high in this case that it deserves a post. Here’s yet another rant by yet another disgruntled blogger whining about being blocked from LGF (Google cache link): Charles Foster Johnson extends his Blogger McCarthyism to me | ...
The right wing blogosphere is getting weirder and weirder: Crazytown Watch: Charles Johnson Conflates Some Fringe Group With Rick Perry. Once again, I’m accused of being “crazy” because I find groups like Repent Amarillo disturbing. But not just “crazy” — I’m also sneaky and evil because I’m “conflating” Repent Amarillo with ...
Religious Right, Fundamentalism, Far Right, Homophobia, Repent Amarillo, Theocracy
There’s been talk lately in Texas about seceding from the US. Even Republican Governor Rick Perry has broadly hinted that Texas should exercise its “tenth amendment” rights. Well, here’s a website that makes me think it might be a good idea to let them do it: Repent Amarillo. This is the Texas ...
Religious Right, Fundamentalism, Far Right, Homophobia, Repent Amarillo, Theocracy
World Net Daily columnist Molotov Mitchell comes right out and defends Uganda’s bill to make homosexuality a capital offense — because “God created the death penalty” for gays. This caveman even quotes Martin Luther King as some kind of twisted support for his “kill the gays” rant. This has to be ...
Right Wing, Bad Craziness, Homophobia, paranoia, Extremism, Hate Speech, Religious Right, Uganda, Video
Ryan Sorba of California Young Americans for Freedom, who participated in the San Bernardino ACORN investigation, condemns CPAC for allowing gay Republican group GOProud to attend, then gets into a screaming match with part of the audience, yelling, “The lesbians at Smith College protest better than you do.” [Video] This is a ...
CPAC, Right Wing, Republican Party, social conservatism, Religious Right, Homophobia
So far this week, we’ve filed 31 emails in the “Abuse” folder, and here are a few of the most vitriolic and/or inadvertently funny ones. Profanities and pathetic grammar left intact for full effect. First up, we have a reader in New York City who followed a link from a Google ...
Little Green Footballs, Hate Mail, Right Wing, Homophobia, Global Warming
Are hate crime laws that give gay people special protections against violent crimes a sneaky conspiracy to persecute Christians? The short answer is no. Jodi Jacobson at RH Reality Check has the longer answer: Hate Crimes Laws: A Conspiracy to ‘Eradicate’ the Christian Right? Did you know that the passage of hate ...
Religious Right, Fundamentalism, Far Right, Homophobia, Hate Crimes, Persecution Complex
Here’s a report by Jeff Woods at the Nashville Scene on yet another lunatic speaker at the first National Tea Party Convention, homophobic theocrat Judge Roy Moore: At Tea Party, Gay-Bashing ‘Ten Commandments Judge’ Calls Obama Immoral. Leave it to the “Ten Commandments judge” to inject gay bashing into the ...
Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Homophobia, Theocracy, Judge Roy Moore
Tonight on the Chris Matthews show, in a discussion about the proposal to repeal the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, “senior fellow” Peter Sprigg of the far right religious group Family Research Council openly said he wants to see “gay behavior” outlawed. Wow. [Video] (Hat tip: Balloon Juice.)
Religious Right, Fundamentalism, Far Right, Homophobia, Family Research Council, Bigotry
Since I began to break ranks with the right wing noisemakers, I’ve been receiving an average of five hate mails every single day, often more. Sometimes it’s the same person over and over. Once someone sent me more than three dozen emails in about 10 minutes before I blocked his IP ...
Little Green Footballs, Hate Mail, Right Wing, Homophobia, Creationism, Global Warming
Imagine my surprise that linking to a piece about a disturbing Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll of Republicans prompted several hyper-emotional meltdowns in our comments, and three hate mails so far today. Apart from the insult-spewers, though, many readers wanted to know exactly which questions were asked, and where the samples came ...
Poll, Republicans, GOP, Birthers, Sarah Palin, Homophobia, Bad Craziness, Creationism
A new poll conducted among 2,000 self-identified Republicans by Daily Kos and Research 2000 shows that the Republican base is possibly even crazier than I previously thought: Poll: Republicans Think Obama Is A Socialist, And Palin More Qualified To Be President. [Item List] Oh brother.
Poll, Republicans, GOP, Birthers, Sarah Palin, Homophobia, Bad Craziness
Ryan Mauro claims that I called him a racist — I didn’t — and posts yet another one of those straw man attacks for which the right wing has become infamous: Darnit! Charles Johnson Catches Me Being a Racist! Whatever Shall I Do? Oddly, he includes no link to LGF in ...
Bloggingheads, Video, Little Green Footballs, Abortion, Tea Parties, Creationism, Anti-Science, Right Wing, Racism, Christian Action Network, Homophobia
Hateblogger Jim Hoft replies to my post pointing out that he linked to an antisemitic, anti-America Bulgarian conspiracy website, by lashing out and accusing me of “supporting child porn:” A New Low… Charles Johnson Now Supporting Child Porn in Classrooms & Fisting Kits at School Functions. Please note, Mr. Hoft: Eugene ...
Right Wing, Bad Craziness, Homophobia, paranoia, Extremism, Hate Speech, Libel
Gateway Pundit (Jim Hoft) is giddy with praise for the “Bulgarian media,” because they picked up on his disgusting homophobic smears of Obama’s education minister Kevin Jennings: The State-Run Media Won’t Touch It… But Bulgarians Not Afraid to Report on Jennings Fistgate Scandal. Hoft thinks the American media are deliberately ignoring ...
Conspiracy Theories, Hate Speech, Extremism, paranoia, Homophobia, Bad Craziness, Barack Obama, Right Wing
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
This is really going to hurt the Republican Party. Last week I noted that one of the cosponsors for the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in 2010 will be the whacked out John Birch Society, once ostracized by William F. Buckley and other sane conservatives but now brought back into the ...
Right Wing, Barack Obama, Bad Craziness, Homophobia, paranoia, Extremism, John Birch Society
All of these videos are from last night’s “prayercast” in Washington DC, posted at Right Wing Watch. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Mars), James Dobson, and the completely insane Lou Engle, praying for health care reform to fail: [Video] Rep. Randy Forbes (R-Va.), Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, and Lou Engle discuss how ...
Right Wing, Bad Craziness, Homophobia, paranoia, Extremism, Religious Right, Fanaticism, Theocracy, James Dobson, Tony Perkins, Michele Bachmann, Video
If anyone is still wondering why I want absolutely nothing to do with what the so-called “conservative” movement has become, please note that one of the cosponsors for the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in 2010 will be … the antisemitic, racist, conspiracy theory-promoting John Birch Society. There are plenty ...
Right Wing, Barack Obama, Bad Craziness, Homophobia, paranoia, Extremism, John Birch Society
The religious right’s pernicious influence in Africa isn’t limited to Uganda’s persecution of homosexuals; the Bush administration’s much-praised anti-AIDS program had a decidedly less altruistic side. SIRAKANO, Uganda — At age 45, after giving birth to 13 children in her village of thatch roofs and bare feet, Beatrice Adongo made ...
Religious Right, Fundamentalism, Far Right, The Family, Uganda, Africa, Homophobia, Abstinence, Birth Control, Women's Rights
If you’re tempted to buy into the ridiculous homophobic “fistgate” nonsense currently all over the right wing blogs, trying to take down Obama education czar Kevin Jennings in a smear campaign right out of the McCarthy era, please read this: Anti-gay ‘hate group’ MassResistance is source for right-wing media attacks ...
Right Wing, Barack Obama, Bad Craziness, Homophobia, paranoia, Extremism
Here’s a great editorial at Long Island’s The Jewish Star, responding to my post about “Why I Parted Ways with the Right:” Editorial: Losing the right to be Right. Something unheard of happened on the Internet on November 20th. Defying all historical precedent, someone actually changed his mind. Charles Johnson, the popular ...
Right Wing, Barack Obama, Bad Craziness, Far Right, paranoia, Extremism, Homophobia
Here’s a great example of what I mean when I say the religious right has a stranglehold on the GOP: NPR’s interview with Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power — a book I highly recommend. This is no conspiracy theory; it’s ...
Religious Right, Fundamentalism, Far Right, The Family, Uganda, Africa, Homophobia