Category Archives: Anti-LGBT

Nov 13 1 comments
Anti-LGBT, LGBT, Politics, Religion

Do what love requires

In a post at Bilerico.com, I write a bit on the current controversy bubbling out of the impending marriage equality vote by the Washington, D.C. City Council. The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., is threatening to pull its social services if the bill passes.

They say their religious freedoms and the freedoms of individuals and small businesses will be threatened by marriage equality.

It is clear we have to face religious issues and use them to our advantage in our next steps toward marriage equality.

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Nov 09 4 comments
Anti-LGBT, Religion

The anti-gay plan to undo hate crimes law

Both Queerty and Bilerico have commented on a WND story about a challenge next week to the new hate crimes legislation signed by Obama on Oct. 27. They say anti-gay activists are attempting to call for violence against LGBT people. I think the plan is much simpler and less sinister, but all the more susceptible to media spin.

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Nov 04 1 comments
Anti-LGBT, Politics

Want a private conversation? Take it off twitter

Along with following election results on county boards of election sites, news sites and TV, I’d also been following updates via twitter yesterday and through today. It got a little interesting this morn.

It seems I “butted in” to what others thought might have been a private conversation. The problem? They were chatting on twitter. Not exactly a place for a private chat, you know.

The complete back story and run-down after the jump…

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Nov 02 7 comments
Anti-LGBT, Religion

Want some fried chicken with your book burning?

One church in Canton, N.C., “celebrated” Halloween in a special way this past weekend. You might have seen the reports about it in the AP or in hundreds of blogs.

Amazing Grace Baptist Church planned a book burning on Oct. 31. According to their website, the event was a success. Non-church members, including the media, were shut out of the event, which was held inside (how did that work, with all that fire?).

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Sep 01 0 comments
Anti-LGBT, Media

One-sided coverage in S.C. Lt. Gov. outing

NBC WIS 10 reporter Jack Kuenzie

NBC WIS 10's Jack Kuenzie

On Monday, Washington, D.C.-based blogger and activist Mike Rogers outed as gay South Carolina Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer. With a 100 percent rack record outing anti-gay, closeted politicians, Rogers’ reporting can’t be ignored.

Try telling that to NBC affiliate WIS 10 in Columbia, the Palmetto State’s capital.

In a report by Jack Kuenzie, Rogers’ track record is ignored. His past reporting absent from Kuenzie’s account.

In the report, various websites reporting Rogers’ claims were quickly flashed across the screen, including Rogers’ BlogActive, Advocate, Towleroad, Huffington Post, On Top Magazine and Q-Notes [my employer] but failed to mention Rogers’ site by name or the blogger himself.

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Q-Notes website

Who got the precious airtime, you ask? Bauer aides and political activists aligned with him (and one, perhaps unbiased public policy professor, Dr. Robert Oldendick, from the University of South Carolina). At the end of his report, Kuenzie says a party activist told him the outing claims “are not bound by the truth” and should be “ignored by voters” and “ignored by the mainstream media.”

Maybe if Kuenzie dealt more in matters of truth, and if his reporting were accurate and complete, Columbia’s local NBC affiliate couldn’t be accused of covering for its state’s second-highest-ranking executive?

Just in case you’d like to politely ask Jack Kuenzie to file a more accurate and complete follow-up story, you can email him at jkuenzie@wistv.com.

Sep 01 2 comments
Anti-LGBT, Religion

A letter from Don

At least a year ago, if not longer, I bought a DVD from the American Family Association. Call it opposition research if you will. Of course, in the process of the purchase, I had to provide my email address along with all my billing information, including mailing address. Guess what the good ol’ AFA did? They put me on their mailing list. The upside was receiving their newsletter. Quite interesting stuff in there; like looking right into the mind of insanity, it is.

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Aug 25 7 comments
Anti-LGBT, Religion

Southern Baptists in their final death throes?

albert-mohlerDr. Albert Mohler, Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ken., says the Southern Baptist Convention is in danger of collapse.

The Associated Press reported today on a recent Mohler speech on the campus of the seminary. He told students, faculty and staff that Southern Baptists must either change and grow or die out.

“The Southern Baptist Convention is either going to become younger or dead. Here we have a big issue; we’re losing at least two-thirds of our young people somewhere along the line between adolescence and adulthood,” The AP reported Mohler saying. “A generation that has reduced religion and Christianity to what is called moralistic, therapeutic deism — believing that God basically wants them to do well and to do right and to be happy.”

The impending death of the Southern Baptist Convention should come as no surprise. For at least the past decade, if not two, the denomination has been on a death march as they forget, ignore and erase any semblance of traditional Baptist principles, faith or heritage from its ranks.

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Aug 22 4 comments
Anti-LGBT

Gays, gays and gays… Oh My!

cal_screenshotEveryone knows the radical right is, for whatever reason, absolutely fixated on anal sex. Everything they do and say always seems to come back to the “homosexual agenda.”

This week, the Christian Action League of North Carolina takes the cake. In their weekly email newsletter, the group sent out summaries of their four latest “news stories.” The group isn’t just an anti-gay group, they’re pretty much an anti-everything group. It usually isn’t surprising to see “stories” ranting against tobacco and alcohol use, supporting higher tobacco and cigarette taxes and other prohibition-like sentiments. But, this week, it was all about “teh gays.”

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Aug 05 1 comments
Anti-Gay Politicians Watch, Anti-LGBT

Any Democrat is better than any Republican

Back when Democrat Heath Shuler was running for U.S. House there was an awful lot of talk about how having any Democrat would be better than any Republican. Of course, it really doesn’t matter when the Democrat being elected is just as conservative as the Republican he replaced.

Shuler’s 11th District covers the western-most tip of North Carolina. It is a conservative district, no doubt, and he has to answer to the constituents who put him in office. But his anti-LGBT and other conservative stances make him more foe than a friend, something the Democratic Party doesn’t need as more and more LGBT people find the party distrustful and slow to tackle our civil rights.

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Aug 04 1 comments
Anti-LGBT

How nice: anti-gay leader ‘denounces’ Tel Aviv shootings

After being called out for his use of militant and violent rhetoric regarding his “Jesus revolution,” anti-gay leader Dr. Michael Brown, of Charlotte’s Coalition of Conscience, released a statement “categorically and unequivocally denouncing” the shootings at a Tel Aviv LGBT youth center on Saturday evening.

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