Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
What would America be without political satire? Some of the greatest laughs have been made from making fun of politicians. Saturday Night Live is famous for it. Jib-Jab is downright funny.
However, there is a difference between political satire and vulgar trash. Most, if not all, respectable political satires on U.S. ...
Posted in Democratic Party, Politics, United States | No Comments »
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Today Congress will hold the first hearing on the anti-gay "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy since its passage in 1993.
The hearing is at 2 p.m. and can be watched live via the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network website.
Until then, let's take a trip down memory lane, to Sept. 21, 2006, Greensboro, ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Civil Rights, Dont Ask Dont Tell, Greensboro, LGBT, LGBT Youth, North Carolina, Politics, Soulforce/Right to Serve, United States | No Comments »
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
The religious right is good at two things. Mainly, they're really good at twisting reality. They can make you believe almost anything as long as whatever they're saying includes the words "God," "Jesus," "Christ" or "Bible."
Secondly, they're really good at bending the rules, applying them to everyone else or simply ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Politics, Religion, United States | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Yeah... it pretty much sounds as though British advertising execs Ian Johnson (Out Now Consulting) and Andrew Roberts (Amro Worldwide), who've spoken extensively with Q-Notes, are calling South Carolina government officials liars.
According to Q-Notes, Johnson and Roberts say that South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism (SCPRT) officials made ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, LGBT, Media, Politics, South Carolina, United States | No Comments »
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Spagnola, a conservative blogger from Greensboro, NC, with whom I often have my disagreements, had a hilarious post on the "South Carolina is so gay" ad flap:
I can see North Carolina calling up Georgia right now:
NC: "I heard that South Carolina stopped whistling Dixie and started singing Liza Minelli tunes."
GA: ...
Posted in LGBT, Politics, South Carolina, United States | No Comments »
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Via gayzetteblog.com (Denver) we learn of an absolutely ludicrous, radical right agenda-laden hit piece on LGBT parents and their kids.
Entitled, "Gay parents = gay kids? Study: Kids raised by gay folks more likely to grow up gay," The Denver Daily News article states:
As many as 21 percent of homosexually parented ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Civil Rights, LGBT, LGBT Families, LGBT Youth, Politics, Religion, Sexuality, United States | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Minutes after the Massachusetts Senate voted to repeal a 1913 law that would open same-sex marriage to out-of-state couples, the American Family Association's OneNewsNow posted an Associated Press article detailing the legislation's passage.
They changed the headline (and all the words "gay" to "homosexual") to read: "BREAKING NEWS: Out-of-state homosexual 'marriages' ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Civil Rights, LGBT, LGBT Families, Marriage Equality, Media, Politics, Religion, United States | 1 Comment »
Monday, July 14th, 2008
David Benkof/David Bianco, who recently made waves with a string of anti-gay op-eds in gay and mainstream news publications, has decided to give up his alliance with anti-gay, radical right activists.
“I no longer feel comfortable being allied with the people running the Prop. 8 campaign, and the same-sex marriage movement ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Civil Rights, Ex-gay, LGBT, Marriage Equality, Politics, Religion, United States | 2 Comments »
Sunday, July 13th, 2008
Our fabulous InterstateQ contributor Casey Pick -- who is currently on "hiatus" while she is working for the Log Cabin Republicans -- made her debut on this site with a commentary rebuttal to my Feb. 7, 2008 post, "Why don’t they just come out and say it already?"
In that post, ...
Posted in Politics, Republican Party, United States | 6 Comments »
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
On Monday I posted again about the N.C. Christian Action League's misleading words and tactics regarding the School Violence Prevention Act (HB 1366). That was after first exposing their inaccurate op-ed written by Mary Frances Forrester, wife of anti-gay, anti-marriage amendment supporter state Sen. Jim Forrester (R-Gaston).
Late last evening, the ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, High School, LGBT, LGBT Youth, North Carolina, Politics, Religion, United States | 3 Comments »
