Marriage Equality

Anti-Gay Diatribe Opens Huckabee, Vander Plaats Event In Iowa

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Friday, 2/26/2010 3:49 pm

Let's say you have several minutes to fill before your featured guests, Mike Huckabee and Iowa gubernatorial candidate Bob Vander Plaats, arrive at your event and take to the podium to speak.

What do you do?

Well you give that time to local radio host Jan Mickelson to spend several minutes railing against gay marriage, of course, just like the Iowa Family Policy Council did earlier this week:

Christians can’t “tolerate” same-sex marriage because to do so would be to give up beliefs and accept the homosexual lifestyle as “healthy and normal,” radio host Jan Mickelson said while introducing GOP gubernatorial hopeful Bob Vander Plaats and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee at a public event Wednesday.

Mickelson was addressing a fundraiser for the Iowa Family Policy Center. The influential social conservative organization has formally endorsed Vander Plaats’ campaign and vowed to sit out the November election if he’s not the candidate.

“Personally, I think two guys pretending to be sexual mates are making a mistake,” he said. “More than that, they are violating the design of their bodies. More than that, they are sinning against their maker. More than that, they are likely to shorten their lives in this world and impair their destinies in the next.”

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Mickelson quickly turned his attention to the current situation in Iowa, saying that because a “a liberal court, a liberal legislature and a liberal governor” are standing up for same-sex marriage, groups like the Iowa Family Policy Center, and candidates like Vander Plaats, must resist.

“I’m really up for it,” Mickelson said. “I’m really up for this ruckus.”

Then Mickelson turned the podium over to Huckabee and Vander Plaats.

Religious Right Now Exporting Its Anti-Marriage Equality Abroad

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Thursday, 2/25/2010 5:44 pm

By now, we are all used to out-of-state Religious Right groups descending on places like Maine, Washington, DC, and elsewhere in order to set up shop in their nonstop effort to fight marriage equality ... but I have to admit that I never expected them to start exporting their efforts abroad.

But here they are, setting their sights on now fighting marriage equality in Mexico:

In response to a move to institute same-sex marriage in the Federal District which includes Mexico City (on March 4), more than 120 pro-family/pro-life leaders from 35 countries have signed the "World Congress of Families Leadership Petition To Save Marriage In Mexico City."

The Petition notes that "Mexico's Constitution defines marriage as between a man and a woman." Further, that all social ills begin with the decline of the family. Also "marriage substitutes ... undermine marriage and the family." The Petition observes that "children need both a mother and a father" and that those raised by two men or two women are "psychologically and socially disadvantaged."

The Petition calls on the government of Mexico City to refrain from implementing same-sex marriage and demands that the issue be decided at the national level, "with due regard to the nation's religious traditions, the wishes of the Mexican people and the needs of children and families, and consistent with Mexico's Constitution." Click here (www.worldcongress.org/special/wcf.mexpetsig.1002.pdf) to access the full Petition along with a list of signers.

U.S. signers (signing as individuals) include: Gary Bauer (American Values), Allan Carlson (World Congress of Families), Tom DeLay (former Majority Leader, U.S. House of Representatives), Joseph Meaney (Human Life International), Tony Perkins (Family Research Council), Michele Velasco (Priests for Life), Don Wildmon (American Family Association), Wendy Wright (Concerned Women for America), Maggie Gallagher (National Organization for Marriage), Dr. Paige Patterson (Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary),Yuri Mantilla (Focus on the Family) and Dr. Jerry Newcombe (Coral Ridge Ministries).

Right Mobilizes For Marriage Amendment In West Virginia

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Wednesday, 2/24/2010 2:28 pm

Yesterday, the West Virginia House of Delegates killed an effort to press for a constitutional amendment to ban marriage equality in the state.

And, of course, that means the right-wing, anti-marriage equality groups are trotting out their standard "let us vote" rhetoric for a press conference tomorrow to complain about it:

The Family Policy Council of West Virginia will hold a press conference during its "Let Us Vote" marriage rally featuring Maggie Gallagher, President of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), Randy Wilson, National Field Director for Family Research Council (FRC) and Jeremy Dys, President and General Counsel of the Family Policy Council of West Virginia. Several West Virginia lawmakers have also been invited to speak.

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WHAT: Almost half of West Virginia's state senators have signed on as sponsors to a marriage protection amendment resolution promoted by the Family Policy Council of West Virginia. The West Virginia Senate is sending a strong message that there is no legitimate reason to prevent the voters of West Virginia from settling the legal definition of marriage.

WHY: The proposed amendment, which a recent poll indicates is supported by at least 78 percent of registered Democrat voters, was introduced with broad bipartisan support, including the chairmen of three major senate committees and the vice-chairman of a fourth. If approved, the resolution, SJR 14, would allow West Virginians to settle the legal definition of marriage at a special election in 2010. It proposes a simple 19-word definition of marriage: "Only the union of one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as marriage in West Virginia."

WHERE: West Virginia Capitol, North Steps

WHEN: Thursday, February 25, noon

Right Wing Round-Up

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Monday, 2/22/2010 6:52 pm
  • Predictably, VA state Rep. Bob Marshall says he was taken out of context for his statement that disabled children are punishment for women who've had an abortion.  You can listen to the statement here and judge for yourself.

  • Utah state Sen. Mark Madsen wants to combine Martin Luther King Day with "John M. Browning State Holiday" to honor the gun manufacturer.

  • Speaking of Utah, a bill passed by the state House and Senate and waiting for the governor's signature will make it a crime for a woman to have a miscarriage.

  • I, for one, do not buy Molotov Mitchell's claim that he has gay friends for a second.

  • Wow, XPAC turned out to be even lamer than predicted.

  • Guess what CPAC-ers don't care about? Fighting marriage equality.

  • The insanity of Orly Taitz knows no bounds.

  • Timothy Kincaid gives some helpful advice to the Alliance Defense Fund.

  • Finally, remember last week when the Right was up in arms over the revelation that there were books about socialism in the White House library? Turns out, they were Jackie Kennedy's.

Barber Again Demands Judge Walker's Recusal

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Friday, 2/19/2010 3:54 pm

Imagine, for a moment, that there was a court case involving something like the posting the Ten Commandments in a government facility or opening of government sessions with Christian prayer or marriage equality and that the case was being heard by a judge who was reported to be a rather devout and committed Christian.

Now imagine what the reaction would be from the Religious Right if liberals started demanding that said judge publicly acknowledge their faith and recuse them self from the case because their deeply-held personal beliefs constituted a conflict of interest. 

Do you think that the Right would throw an absolute fit and start screaming about bigotry and discrimination? 

Of course they would ... by that isn't stopping Matt Barber from making a second demand that Judge Vaughan Walker remove himself from the Prop 8 trial:

Prop. 8 was approved by California voters in November 2008 to overturn an earlier state Supreme Court ruling that legalized homosexual "marriage," but a San Francisco newspaper recently "outed" Judge Vaughn Walker as a homosexual. Matt Barber, attorney and director of cultural affairs at Liberty Counsel, believes Walker ought to resign from the case if the allegation is true.

The Liberty Counsel attorney cites from federal law that "a judge shall disqualify himself when he knows that he has a financial or any other interest that could be substantially affected by the outcome of the proceeding," and he argues that if Walker is a homosexual and overturns Prop. 8, he would benefit by granting himself the right to marry a man. Given that effect, Barber decides that hardly represents impartiality.

He goes on to report that Judge Walker has been silent since the newspaper claim was published. "Well, the judge has said, 'No comment' when asked about his sexual lifestyle," explains the Liberty Counsel attorney. "I think he needs to comment. If in fact he is engaged in the homosexual lifestyle, there is a clear conflict of interest here under federal law."

Right Wing Leftovers

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Tuesday, 2/9/2010 6:32 pm
  • Joseph Farah vows never to give up his Birtherism.

  • Why does Janet Porter's embrace of Suzanne Somers' quackery not surprise me at all?

  • The Alliance Defense Fund is seeking a stay on Washington DC's marriage equality law.

  • Why exactly do VA Gov.  Bob McDonnell and Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli think that Planned Parenthood should not get funding from proposed "Trust Women/Respect Choice" license plates when anti-choice groups get funding from the state's "Choose Life" plates?

  • Finally, did Focus on the Family really grant an interview for an article on the John Birch Society website?  I can't find any evidence that the quote used first appeared somewhere else, so it sure looks like it.

Bishop Jackson Defends His Anti-Gay Activism

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Tuesday, 2/9/2010 2:38 pm

Just yesterday, Bishop Harry Jackson used his syndicated column to attack the Washington Post for its coverage and stance on the issue of marriage equality in the District of Columbia (having apparently forgotten all about the puff piece the paper ran on his last year).

So it was a little odd to see him show up as the focus in this new "Faith Complex" video in the Post's "On Faith" section.  Most of the interview revolves around Jackson's anti-marriage activism in DC , but around the 6:30 mark, host Jacques Berlinerblau asks him how he'd react to the news that a well-educated, well-to-do Black gay couple wanting to adopted a young black child and Jackson struggled to explain his position, saying that he could only support such a move if he "had no other choice" and even then, he'd be very reluctant and would want assurances that it wouldn't cause "further psychological damage" to the child.

Later, around the 9:30 mark, Berlinerblau asked Jackson how he feels, given his professed commitment to civil rights, to think that by his activism he is denying another minority group their civil rights.  Predictably, Jackson responded by saying that it was actually his civil rights that were being denied by the District's refusal to allow him to vote on the issue of marriage equality:

Mike Huckabee's Friends And Associates

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Tuesday, 2/9/2010 12:46 pm

Because I think it is important to keep pointing out the sorts of Religious Right leaders that Mike Huckabee regularly associates himself with, I just wanted to post this clip from a recent episode of "Huckabee" that featured Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel taking about text books in Texas:

This weekend Mathew D. Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel and Dean of Liberty University School of Law, will appear on Mike Huckabee’s show to discuss potentially dramatic changes to the framework of textbooks that are being discussed by the Texas State Board of Education (TSBOE). Huckabee and Staver will be revealing suggested changes, some of which are still under discussion. TSBOE will soon finalize the language that textbook publishers use to align their textbooks to current standards. As Texas is a leader in textbooks, most other states purchase the same educational materials. The show will begin at 8:00 p.m. on Saturday and 2:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. on Sunday, Eastern Time.

Some of the suggestions that have come forward at various times include:

* Removing references to Daniel Boone, General George Patton, Nathan Hale, Columbus Day, and Christmas.
* Including the cultural impact of hip hop music, ACLU lawyer Clarence Darrow, and the Hindu holiday of Diwali.
* Replacing the term "American" with "Global Citizen"– stating that students need to be shaped "for responsible citizenship in a global society" without any mention of citizenship in American society.
* Replacing expansionism and free enterprise with imperialism and capitalism.

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Mathew Staver commented: “To have a bright future we must know our past. Those who want to reshape America begin by rewriting our past. We repeat the mistakes of the past when we are ignorant of them. America has a rich past founded on Judeo-Christian values. To forget them, or worse, to distort them, will doom our future. That is why the textbook controversy in Texas affects every American.”

Staver has long been close to Huckabee, having served on his Faith and Family Values Coalition during his presidential campaign. 

Recently, Staver made news when it was announced that Liberty University would be withdrawing from CPAC due to the fact that a gay conservative group was allowed to sign on as a co-sponsor, which made sense considering that at last year's CPAC, Staver declared that marriage equality would inevitably lead to an entire generation of violent criminals. 

Staver and Liberty U will also be hosting a 2-day anti-gay summit later this week, while Staver and Liberty University also represented Lisa Miller, the who kidnapped her daughter and disappeared rather than abide by court ordered custody arrangements.

Right Wing Round-Up

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Monday, 2/8/2010 6:34 pm

Right Wing Leftovers

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Monday, 2/8/2010 6:21 pm
  • This was the Focus on the Family Super Bowl ad that caused all the fuss? Consider me unimpressed.

  • Hooray! Sarah Palin says it would be "absurd" for her to rule out running for president in 2012.

  • Speaking of Palin, she also spoke at a campaign event for Texas Gov. Rick Perry, where she shared the stage with David Barton of Wallbuilders.

  • The AFA's Bryan Fischer is really intent on making his point that life would be so much better if homosexuality were criminalized.

  • Carrie Prejean has gotten engaged.

  • Mike Huckabee will be headlining a fundraiser for the Minnesota Family Council in late April.

  • Finally, despite receiving undeservedly flattering coverage from the Washington Post for his anti-marriage efforts, Bishop Harry Jackson blasts the paper for its coverage of the marriage equality issue.

Right Wing Round-Up

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Wednesday, 2/3/2010 6:40 pm
  • Think Progress: All the funding for anti-marriage equality campaign in the nation’s capital came from outside of D.C.

  • David Weigel: National Organization for Marriage Lobbies for D.C. Referendum.

  • Alvin McEwen: Liberty Counsel attacking lgbt parenting again but won't comment on Jenkins/Miller case.

  • Media Matters: Judicial Watch hides facts in attack on Pelosi flights.

  • Sarah Posner: Religious Leaders Urge Obama to Condemn Ugandan Anti-Gay Bill at Prayer Breakfast.

  • Think Progress: DeMint Blocks A Wise Lesbian Latina From Serving On The D.C. Superior Court.

  • Finally, do you think this condescending attitude might have anything to do with the RNC's troubles recruiting more women candidates to run for office.

Right Wing Round-Up

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Friday, 1/29/2010 6:27 pm
  • TPM: Alleged Phone Tamperer O'Keefe To Go On Hannity Monday Night.

  • Joe.My.God: Maine Moving Forward With NOM Campaign Ethics Investigation.

  • RH Reality Check: 'Personhood' Sputtering in Colorado, Says Denver March for Life.

  • Washington Monthly: Hatch Threatens "War."

  • Finally, Pam's House Blend: Republican U.S. Rep Mike Pence: marriage equality will result in societal collapse.

Right Wing Round-Up

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Thursday, 1/28/2010 6:36 pm
  • It might help if Rudy Giuliani actually watched the State of the Union Address before he went on television to criticize it.

  • Rep. Steve King seems to think that James O'Keefe's arrest is part of some sort of left-wing plot.

  • Is Orly Taitz planning on running for office?

  • Sometime, when you see things like this, you wonder why people even bother trying to debate the issue of marriage equality.

  • Finally, Maggie Gallagher seems to be setting her side up to play the victim should they lose the Prop 8 trial, claiming that a bunch of their witnesses withdrew out of fear of having their testimony televised.

Rght Wing Leftovers

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Wednesday, 1/27/2010 6:27 pm

AFA's Video Introduced in Prop 8 Case

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Monday, 1/25/2010 5:17 pm

Today, the lawyers challenging California's Proposition 8 rested their case after showing a six-minute video of Prop 8 supporters claiming marriage equality would lead to polygamy and bestiality, including one that was produced by the American Family Association.

The video is now gone, but AFA touted it as instrumental in helping pass Prop 8:

In response to Proposition 8, the California referendum that would amend the state’s constitution to protect marriage as being only between a man and a woman, AFA produced a 30-minute documentary supporting the ballot measure and distributed it at no cost to 21,000 churches in California. The video was written and produced by AFA staffers for a small fraction of typical production costs. The video proved to be a valuable tool in the passage of Proposition 8.

As luck would have it, we grabbed a few segments of that video when the AFA put it up on their website in August 2008 and posted them to YouTube:

Right Wing Leftovers

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Friday, 1/22/2010 6:25 pm
  • A collection of right-wing leaders give President Obama a resounding "F" for his first year in office.

  • Jesse Lee Peterson is demanding that Michael Steele resign from the RNC immediately.

  • The president of the Center for Arizona Policy is outraged at Cindy McCain's support for marriage equality.

  • Apparently, Roe's days are numbered.  Of course, they've been saying this for years.

  • According to FRC "the Left is preparing a desperate 120-day assault on your values to appease its culture-of-death" and so, of course, they need donations.

  • And finally, this has got to be the most moronic post-Brown analysis I have seen yet. And that is saying something.

Cindy McCain's Support for Marriage Equality Is Why She's Not First Lady

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Friday, 1/22/2010 3:19 pm

Tony Perkins responds to the news that Cindy McCain posed for the NOH8 Campaign by suggesting that her husband lost his race for the White House because people did like her views: 

[C]onservatives shrug at the suggestion that Cindy McCain is influencing the public.

“The people of California have been very clear on this issue,” said Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, one of the groups that supported the Proposition 8 campaign in California. “They’ve voted twice to preserve the definition of marriage.”

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“There’s probably a reason she’s not first lady,” Perkins said. “People were worried about the influence she would have on social issues such as this.”

Oddly, when just about every Religious Right group in existence was ardently backing McCain during the election, nobody was raising concerns about his wife's views.  But since that he lost, it's because people were worried that she might support for marriage equality?

Right Wing Leftovers

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Thursday, 1/21/2010 6:36 pm
  • Concerned Women for America declares the Citizen's United decision the "first in a series of steps to reclaim the ideals our Founders believed in when they fought and died to establish a country where we can be truly free to speak and worship our God without government interference."

  • John McCain's wife and daughter may support marriage equality, but he most certainly does not.

  • Maggie Gallagher will be debating Jonathan Rauch on marriage on Jan. 25 at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

  • Apparently, the election of Scott Brown "put a stake in the heart of Camelot."

  • Wow, the Traditional Values Coalition really, really hates transgender people.

  • Bonus TVC lunacy: "The American people must quarantine Obama by electing conservatives to the Senate and House in November. His Al Capone management style must be brought under control. Our nation’s future depends on what each of us does this year to fight every aspect of the Obamunist agenda."

  • Finally, if you can't make it to the National March for Life, you can always Sarah Palin, Governor Mike Huckabee, James Dobson, Tony Perkins and other for the Virtual March for Life.

Right Wing Leftovers

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Wednesday, 1/20/2010 6:32 pm
  • CBN's David Brody now has his own 30 minute weekly program.

  • Cindy McCain is demonstrating her support for marriage equality by posing for the NOH8 campaign.

  • Harry Jackson and Tony Perkins will be joining Frank Pavone for the 16th Annual National Clergy Conference for the Preborn.

  • Tony Perkins says the "President's obsession with abortion and the redefinition of marriage is becoming alarmingly clear to most families in America."

  • Finally, this has to be just about the worst defense of Pat Robertson I've heard yet.

Court Throws Out Harry Jackson's Marriage Lawsuit

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Thursday, 1/14/2010 2:49 pm

The lawsuit filed last year by the Alliance Defense Fund on behalf of Bishop Harry Jackson and Stand4MarriageDC seeking a referendum on the District of Columbia's marriage equality law has been rejected:

A D.C. Superior Court judge ruled Thursday that same-sex marriage opponents do not have a right to hold a public referendum on whether those marriages should be legal in the District.

The ruling, a major victory for gay rights activists, makes it more likely that the District will start allowing same-sex couples to marry in March.

The D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics has twice ruled that a referendum or initiative on same-sex marriage would violate a city law prohibiting a public vote on a matter covered by the Human Rights Act, which outlaws discrimination against gay men and lesbians and other minority groups.

But Bishop Harry Jackson, pastor of Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, appealed that ruling in superior court. Last week, 39 GOP congressmen filed a brief in support of Jackson's appeal, arguing that the elections board overstepped its authority in denying a public vote on whether marriage should be defined as a being between a man and a woman.

In her ruling, Judge Judith N. Macaluso stated the board "properly rejected the proposed initiative" because of the Human Rights Act.

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Anti-Gay Pastor Calls Himself the 'Gayest Guy I Know'
SUBMITTED BY: Brian Tashman, Friday 05/04/2012, 3:35pm
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LaBarbera Censors 'Glee' Kiss, Posts Inflammatory Article Deriding Gay 'Pigs'
SUBMITTED BY: Brian Tashman, Friday 04/27/2012, 10:25am
Peter LaBarbara’s and the Religious Right’s long war against Glee has not gained traction outside of the frantic rants of conservative activists, so he has decided to take matters into his own hands and censor a picture of Glee characters Blaine and Kurt kissing: LaBarbera, the head of Americans For Truth About Homosexuality, also republished an article by Pass the Salt Ministries’ Coach Dave Daubenmire on the upcoming vote to restore same-sex marriage in Maine where he refers to gays and lesbians as “pigs” and “thugs.” Daubenmire also praises... MORE
NOM Chairman Hails Mitt Romney, 'We Fully Expect that he will Honor his Pledge'
SUBMITTED BY: Brian Tashman, Thursday 04/26/2012, 3:40pm
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Religious Right Groups Reaffirm Opposition to Decriminalizing Homosexuality
SUBMITTED BY: Brian Tashman, Wednesday 04/18/2012, 2:45pm
Earlier today we posted video from Truth in Action Ministries of Religious Right leaders condemning the Obama administration’s push to curb anti-LGBT violence and persecution and the criminalization of LGBT status. now the group’s president Dan Scalf is comparing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the Pharisees in John 8:1-11, who wanted to stone a woman for adultery, for her attempt to “promote homosexuality globally”: How should Christians react to our tax dollars being used to promote homosexuality globally? I am reminded of the situation religious leaders... MORE
Religious Right Defends Criminalization of Homosexuality with Warnings of God's Judgment for 'Sexual Paganization'
SUBMITTED BY: Brian Tashman, Wednesday 04/18/2012, 12:00pm
Last week, Truth in Action Ministries released a film marking the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic by arguing that the “radical homosexual agenda” is the “iceberg” that will destroy America, and today the group unveiled a new video, Is Our Government Promoting Immorality? Hosts Jennifer Kennedy Cassidy and Jerry Newcombe called for gays and lesbians to be delivered from “this deadly lifestyle” and introduced a segment featuring the Family Research Council’s Peter Sprigg, Southern Baptist Convention’s Richard Land and right-wing... MORE
North Carolina Amendment One Activist Warns Gays live in the 'Playground of Satan'
SUBMITTED BY: Brian Tashman, Monday 04/16/2012, 12:15pm
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Linda Harvey Decries Gay-Rights 'Radicals' who are 'Out to Wreck' Morality and 'Legitimize Deviance'
SUBMITTED BY: Brian Tashman, Friday 04/13/2012, 11:10am
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