stop by the NO H8 CAMPAIGN

and look around. especially check out the amazing and beautiful portraits

the NO H8 campaign

we ARE all equal whether you want to believe it or not.

watch it!

(ht: americablog)

love it!

please don't divorce us

because gay couples have just as much right to marry as straight couples. i believe that with my whole heart and my whole soul (even if i'm NOT exactly a proponent of marriage by anyone)

they want biblical law here

instead of our constitution. that would mean stoning people to death for 'crimes' such as adultry, homosexuality, dishonoring your father or mother OR BEING A WITCH (uh oh, someone could be in BIG BIG BIG trouble with THAT ).

they think stem cell research is the devil's work (while i think it saves lives)

the 'they' in this case are a small number of christian taliban members. one of them happens to be a reclusive kazillionaire

THEY are the evil ones. doesn't the bible ALSO say, judge not others lest ye be judged? i believe it do (be do be do)!



Exposed: Prop. 8 part of 'Christian Taliban's' move to make Bible the law
Muriel Kane
The Protect Marriage Coalition, which led the fight to pass an anti-gay marriage initiative in California, is now suing to shield its financial records from public scrutiny.

The lawsuit claims that donors to Protect Marriage and a second group involved in the suit have received threatening phone calls and emails. It asks for existing donation lists to be removed from the California secretary of state's website and also seeks to have both plaintiffs and all similar groups be exempted in the future from ever having to file donation disclosure reports on this or any similar campaigns.

Although public access advocates believe this sweeping demand for donor anonymity has little chance of success, it does point up the secretive and even conspiratorial nature of much right-wing political activity in California.......

............Ahmanson is a Christian Reconstructionist, a devout follower of the late R.J. Rushdoony, who advocated the replacement of the U.S. Constitution with the most extreme precepts of the Old Testament, including the execution -- preferably by stoning -- of homosexuals, adulterers, witches, blasphemers, and disobedient children..............

ok i love this

i never heard of mc flow prior to this. she's kinda kick ass!



found via page one q AND mike tidmus (again)

you go grrrl!

but candace, let's face it. chances are he is NEVER NEVER NEVER EVER going to understand. he's full of hate, fear, ignorance and goddess only knows what else. there is NO WAY a same sex marriage is going to destroy HIS marriage. oh wait, didn't HE do that all by his own dang self? whooooooooooopsssssssssssss, yup, i think he done did

A Response to the Extreme Anti-Gay Comments by My Brother, Newt Gingrich
By Candace Gingrich, Human Rights Campaign.
Note: This letter to Newt Gingrich from his sister is prompted by his outrageous statement on Nov. 14 to Fox News's Bill O' Reilly: "I think there is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us, is prepared to use violence, to use harassment. I think it is prepared to use the government if it can get control of it. I think that it is a very dangerous threat to anybody who believes in traditional religion."

Dear Newt,

I recently had the displeasure of watching you bash the protesters of the Prop 8 marriage ban to Bill O'Reilly on FOX News. I must say, after years of watching you build your career by stirring up the fears and prejudices of the far right, I feel compelled to use the words of your idol, Ronald Reagan, "There you go, again."

However, I realize that you may have been a little preoccupied lately with planning your resurrection as the savior of your party, so I thought I would fill you in on a few important developments you might have overlooked.

The truth is that you're living in a world that no longer exists. I, along with millions of Americans, clearly see the world the way it as -- and we embrace what it can be. You, on the other hand, seem incapable of looking for new ideas or moving beyond what worked in the past.

Welcome to the 21st century, big bro...........

let's go get our damn equal rights! c'mon

liked her before - LOVE her now

(found via feministing)

i guess they're NOT

focusing on their OWN families ARE THEY? (pieces of steamin' shite). because it's MORE important to intrude into everyone else's lives before taking care of their own. it's more important to instill hate and fear and misinformation to the public than act like the 'christians' (their word not mine) they claim to be (wwjd?)

while i don't wish ill on anyone (even that pile, dobson) the slow dissolution of this hate filled organization gives me great pleasure indeed

More layoffs at Focus on the Family

Ministry spent more than $500,000 to pass California's Prop. 8 gay marriage ban

By Cara Degette
UPDATE: Focus on the Family announced this afternoon that 202 jobs will be cut companywide — an estimated 20 percent of its workforce. Initial reports bring the total number of remaining employees to around 950.

Focus on the Family is poised to announce major layoffs to its Colorado Springs-based ministry and media empire today. The cutbacks come just weeks after the group pumped more than half a million dollars into the successful effort to pass a gay-marriage ban in California.

Critics are holding up the layoffs, which come just two months after the organization’s last round of dismissals, as a sad commentary on the true priorities of the ministry.

“If I were their membership I would be appalled,” said Mark Lewis, a longtime Colorado Springs activist who helped organize a Proposition 8 protest in Colorado Springs on Saturday. “That [Focus on the Family] would spend any money on anything that’s obviously going to get blocked in the courts is just sad. [Prop. 8] is guaranteed to lose, in the long run it doesn’t have a chance — it’s just a waste of money.”

In all, Focus pumped $539,000 in cash and another $83,000 worth of non-monetary support into the measure to overturn a California Supreme Court ruling that allowed gays and lesbians to marry in that state. The group was the seventh-largest donor to the effort in the country. The cash contributions are equal to the salaries of 19 Coloradans earning the 2008 per capita income of $29,133.

In addition Elsa Prince, the auto parts heiress and longtime funder of conservative social causes who sits on the Focus on the Family board, contributed another $450,000 to Prop. 8....

cinemark

or is it cinehomophobe?

Cinemark CEO gave $9,999 to anti-gay Prop 8 bigots
........Cinemark. 2700 screens in 13 countries in North and South America. It's CEO, Alan Stock, gave $9,999 to the anti-gay bigots running Prop 8 in California. Time to avoid this cinema like the plague............

you know i'd rather watch

oprah than the view (and i HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE oprah)
why are these dipshites STILL on tv anyway? i do like joy's guts and i do like whoopi (but NOT on the view).

ewwwwwwwwwwwww

Absurd View: Hasselbeck, Shepherd suggest clergy could have been jailed without Prop 8

During the November 7 edition of ABC's The View, while discussing the passage of Proposition 8, the California ballot initiative amending the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage and effectively overturning the California Supreme Court's May 15 ruling that affirmed the constitutional right of same-sex couples to marry, co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck asserted that a "priest" in Sweden was "put in jail for not wanting to perform a marriage to a gay couple, so then they put him in jail because the law stated that you could not discriminate based on sexual preference." Later in the discussion, co-host Sherri Shepherd said: "I don't want to know that my pastor -- because, you know, the church is preaching against homosexuality, and I don't want to know that my pastor could be jailed." However, contrary to Hasselbeck and Shepherd's suggestion that as a result of the California Supreme Court's ruling -- or without the passage of Proposition 8 -- members of the clergy "could be jailed" for refusing to perform gay marriages, neither the decision by the California Supreme Court, nor Proposition 8 had anything to do with members of the clergy. The California Supreme Court's ruling applied only to state officials. The ruling directed "state officials [] [to] take all necessary and appropriate steps so that local officials may begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples" [emphasis added]. ........

careful

you DO know it's 2008 and you DO know people can check up on you, right? you do know if you lie, especially in print, you're begging for trouble, right?

The truth about that "liberal" against gay marriage

Posing as a "liberal Democrat" in the L.A. Times, David Blankenhorn endorsed a California initiative to ban gay marriage. His right-wing funders must be pleased.

By Jon B. Eisenberg

Oct. 2, 2008 | "I'm a liberal Democrat." So began a widely circulated opinion piece by David Blankenhorn appearing in the Los Angeles Times on Sept. 19 in support of Proposition 8, an initiative on California's November 4 ballot that would eliminate the marriage rights of same-sex couples recently recognized by the California Supreme Court. The piece is entitled "Protecting Marriage to Protect Children." Blankenhorn's theme is: "It's perfectly natural to be a liberal Democrat but against gay marriage, because I am." Thus, he stakes the credibility of his position -- that marriage by same-sex couples is bad for children -- on his purported status as a "liberal Democrat."

Conservatives applauded Blankenhorn vigorously. A press release sent out Sept. 22 from Christian News Wire emphasized, "What is noteworthy is the source: the author of the Op-Ed piece is a Liberal Democrat, which underscores the broad support for Proposition 8 in order to protect marriage for society, our institutions, and for children in California." Gushed one blogger: "Frankly it's astonishing that a liberal could hold the kind of morality, honesty and insight displayed in this article and still call himself a liberal, but okay."

It is odd indeed when a person claims the mantle of a certain political philosophy while espousing an opinion seemingly at odds with that political philosophy. It makes you wonder: Is this person really who he claims to be?........