- Truth Wins Out reports that the authors of a book on the health of gay men have accused Focus on the Family of distorting their research, making this the tenth time in two years that researchers have claimed that Focus on the Family misrepresented their work.
- TPM offers more information about anti-immigration zealot/accused murder Shawna Forde’s history while Blue Texan reports that Forde shared the stage with Jim Gilchrist at a 2007 event at which several GOP presidential candidates or their representatives appeared.
- Cristina Page notes that if Troy Newman of Operation Rescue can be judged by his Facebook friends, he’s got ties to some violent anti-choice activists.
- Sarah Posner points out that Rep. John McHugh, who was nominated to be secretary of the Army, has a voting record from his time in the House that “shows a disrespect for church-state separation generally, as well as a disregard for the ongoing infringement of service members’ constitutional rights from aggressive proselytization in the armed forces.”
- Spencer Ackerman catches Rep. Pete Hoekstra comparing House Republicans to Iranian protesters.
- Think Progress catches Rep. Michelle Bachmann vowing to break the law by refusing to answer questions on the US Census.
- Finally, Media Matters posted this video of Pat Robertson declaring that countries that embrace homosexuality go “down into ruin” and end up “in the garbage heap of history”:
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