'Group celebrates Veterans Day by slamming gay soldiers' and other Thursday midday news briefs

Cookie Johnson, Magic's Wife, On Supporting Her Gay Son E.J. - We need to hear more stories about parents of color supporting their lgbt children. And this is really one of the best.

FRC honors Veterans Day by claiming gay soldiers have ruined our military - Celebrating Veterans Day by attacking gay soldiers. That's the Family Research Council for you. 

 Hawaii SB1 Protests Grow Louder As Bill Moves Forward - Anti-marriage equality protestors are fighting us hard in Hawaii but we will prevail.

 General Motors to Extend Benefits to All Same-Sex Married Couples - Good for General Motors!

  Marco Rubio To Headline Anti-Gay Fundraiser - Sorry, Rubio but no "tolerance" for this crap.

'Porno' Pete LaBarbera sad over Illinois marriage equality victory

Earlier, I wondered how one of our "favorite" anti-lgbt activist, Peter LaBarbera, would take the news that marriage equality had been passed in his residential state of Illinois.

We don't have to wait any longer to hear his whining:

"It's very sad to see the Land of Lincoln now on the verge of officially defying God with our marriage laws . . . No matter what happens through the law or what politicians do, two men will never really be married, nor will two women. Marriage is one man, one woman.Sadly, as this state, and increasingly the country, kicks God to the curb, we're setting up all sorts of new-fangled legal arrangements – and that's exactly what homosexual so-called marriage is. It will now be easier in schools to propagandize in favor of so-called homosexual marriage.We will see freedom threatened across the state from people who don't want to support, for example, homosexual marriage through their own private business. They don't want to give that as an employee benefit, benefits based on a counterfeit marriage." - Peter LaBarbera in an interview with One News Now

Blah, blah, blah. Cry me a river, Peter. Or in other words:

Election special - LGBT community rocks with stunning victories, NOM suffers losses

Last night's elections was a massive success for the lgbt community while at the same time a disaster for folks who oppose lgbt equality. Let's take a few look a some news briefs illustrating this:  

Victory Fund celebrates big wins for LGBT candidates - The Victory Fund breaks down all of our successes from last night.

 Gay Rights Victories Pile Up In 2013 - A nice overview of the year in general. If this keeps up, Time magazine should give the lgbt community the "Person of the Year" award.

 Mayor Annise Parker wins re-election to third, final term - One gay mayor wins her re-election.

 Seattle gets first gay mayor: Ed Murray - While Seattle elects its first openly gay mayor.

Illinois lawmakers vote to allow gay marriages - And let's not forget that yesterday, Illinois made it number 15. Hopefully Hawaii will be 16. I wonder how Peter LaBarbera is holding up to the news that he now lives in a marriage equality state.  

NOM living out one horrible week (and it’s only Wednesday) - MEANWHILE, Jeremy Hooper breaks it down as to why the National Organization for Marriage lost has already lost the week. And as he says, "it's only Wednesday."

'Christian' group continues to victimize transgender child

In its attempt to defeat a recently passed bill in California which would protect the rights of transgender students, a religious right group, Pacific Justice Institute, helped to spread a story about a Colorado transgender high school student allegedly harassing other female students in the bathroom.

The story was a lie and it was debunked as such, causing several publications to issue retractions or pull their reporting of the story. PJI tried to backtrack,  attempting to claim that it was "merely" highlighting the fact that a transgender student was using the bathroom and putting other students' privacy at risk. However, PJI continues to target the child, causing her to go on suicide watch.

The organization has just come out with a video showcasing the supposed "victims" of the transgender student's alleged harassment; a harassment that the organization admitted NEVER HAPPENED. This is goes beyond shameful. The idea that a supposed Christian organization would continue to push a debunked story even though it is specifically harming an innocent child is reprehensible on so many levels:



Hat tip to Gayrva.com and especially The Transadvocate who led the way in debunking this awful lie.

'Family Research Council spokesman caught lying about support for Ugandan anti-gay bill' and other Tuesday midday news briefs

Peter Sprigg flat-out lies; claims FRC never supported Ugandan law that it *TOTALLY* did support - And this is how you catch religious right spokespeople in lies. 

Pat Robertson Created Group Behind Massive Anti-Gay Hate In Hawaii’s Marriage Hearings - Those who oppose marriage equality in Hawaii are throwing everything against the wall to keep it from happening, so of course the "diseased homosexual" lie comes up.  

Why The Hawaiian Citizens’ Filibuster Against Marriage Equality Accomplishes Nothing - And Zack Ford points out why these efforts will most likely fail.  

False Right Wing Talking Points Never Die - That's lesson 1 you learn when tracking anti-gay lies. No matter how many times the lie is refuted, these folks will repeat it

Bryan Fischer voices what the religious right attempts to hide

My honest opinion is that all of this junk religious right groups are pushing against ENDA is a dodge. The truth is with or without religious exemptions, many of these groups just don't want to support the idea that lgbt citizens should be protected from job and housing discrimination.

And why is that? Well no one can articulate this better than Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association:



There are so many things inaccurate with what this man says that it will make your head spin. 

Surprise! Children react positively to marriage equality and the world doesn't explode

Anti-gay groups are constantly complaining that any idea of marriage equality would harm children by supposedly confusing them or warping their minds. I think this video of children, ages 5-13, viewing two videos of marriage equality proposals destroys that silly theory.