This week, Equality Matters discusses the extremism behind anti-gay groups in New Jersey and Washington, as well as the significance of the Ninth Circuit’s recent decision on California’s Proposition 8: iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/equality-matters/id429665764 RSS: http://equalitymatters.org/rss/m3.rss To listen to last week’s podcast, click here.
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One of the major anti-gay groups currently opposing the effort to legalize same-sex marriage in New Jersey is the New Jersey Family Policy Council (NJFPC), which claims to stand “for traditional values in the State of New Jersey.” Unfortunately, NJFPC’s website reveals that the organization’ssupposedly “traditional values” are far out of the mainstream, especially in [...]
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On February 8, CNN.com published an op-ed by fervently anti-gay pastor Ken Hutcherson, who opposes Washington State’s proposed marriage equality law. According to Hutcherson, legalizing same-sex marriage would bring God’s judgment on society, and gays and lesbians who choose to “stay the way they are” will suffer the consequences: When I read about Sodom and [...]
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And the lawsuits have begun. Today, two major non-church, faith-based organizations have decided to take it to the courts. Fighting the Obama administration for its alleged violation of First Amendment rights, EWTN filed a suit today and Priests for Life issued a news release that it was filing suit as well. This morning dawned with [...]
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In Austin, a teacher gives one of her students the “morning after” pill — and it doesn’t work out so well: Steinberg, who also was a math teacher at LBJ, gave the pill to a 16-year-old student who was crying in her class about Jan. 26 because she had unprotected sex with her boyfriend, [an [...]
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In this video, James O’Keefe’s pranksters set out to register Tim Tebow and Tom Brady to vote: The gag is that the undercover tricksters just come in and grab handfuls of voter registration forms (20 in one case), and then register the two famous quarterbacks to vote. Time and time again, they ask if any [...]
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Yesterday Anatole Kaletsky argued that the US has enjoyed a better recovery over the last two years than the UK because the US pressed on with large deficit financed spending plans whilst the UK went in for austerity and cuts. I thought Mr Kaletsky, a respected commentator, would trouble to read the [...]
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“If you listen to the rhetoric of the women who are the regime mouthpieces in foreign policy–Mad Albright, Condi Rice, Susan Rice, Hillary Clinton–the United States is not a nation-state in any conventional sense but a force for continuing revolution. Where they think the US received this divine commission, I do not know, but if [...]
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Billy Long was asked to play comedian last night at the Washington Press Club Foundation. All this might seem very funny as everyone is yukking it up with Billy, but let’s not forget most of these people including Billy Long himself voted to raise the debt ceiling $2.4 trillion more just a few months ago. [...]
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Just when you though the Congressional GOP couldn’t get any dumber–just days after John Boehner drops the investigation against the Obama administration for Fast and Furious, they are about to deliver Obama another early Christmas gift. It appears the line item veto is back, and just in time to line item veto any attempt by [...]
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