'Federal judge rules ban on 'ex-gay' therapy' does NOT stifle free speech' & other Fri midday news briefs

Federal judge rules ban on conversion therapy doesn’t stifle ‘free speech’ - BAM! Score one for the good guys!

Teacher Under Investigation for Unauthorized Reading of Marlon Bundo Gay Bunny Book to 1st Grade Class: WATCH - Come on folks! This is horseshit. Worse things have been read to children without complaint. This is perfectly innocent. 

LGBTQ youth are flooding the child welfare system, but they’re treated the worst - When groups like the Family Research Council, the Alliance Defending Freedom and that lying snake  Roger Severino at HHS talk about "protecting the religious liberty" of "Christian" adoption and foster care agencies, don't think for a second that they aren't deliberately creating circumstances for these kids to fall through the cracks. 

Lawmakers introduce Valentine's Day bill to make tax code LGBTQ-inclusive - Sweet! 


Lastly,  because it's the weekend and Trump is getting on my damn nerves, I'm leaving everyone this present. Apologies if you are offended and the song is definitely not NSFW. But on the positive side, I can remember when I was able move like this:

Whoever made this is gonna bust Hell wide open. 🤣😂🤣 pic.twitter.com/FI1VoRbxa4

— Did Olivia Carolyn Pope teach you heauxs nothing?? (@DamoneWilliams_) February 14, 2019

Family Research Council wants God to overlook all of the lies Trump told about his border wall

Tony Perkins and the Family Research Council wants God to overlook all of the lies Trump told about his border wall.

With all of the known lies Donald Trump has told about his border wall (from the claim that Mexico will pay for it to the false story that it is needed because illegal immigration is a crisis), what does it say about the audacity of the Family Research Council to issue a generic prayer for him in the wake of him possibly issuing a "national emergency" to bypass Congressional approval to pay for it?

From Right Wing Watch:

“Heavenly Father, we have departed far from you as a people, and to the degree we have, we have lost our common sense. We appeal to your mercy, Lord. Grant us time to repent. Save us from our foolishness and mischief. Guide our president and Congress to craft sensible measures to protect our borders, expand and strengthen our border walls, and stop illegal immigration into our country. Lord, even as the ancient Jews pleaded with you to strengthen their gates and the walls of their cities, please strengthen ours. We look to you to be our strength and our security!”

Apparently FRC has the same minuscule amount of respect for God as it does for its supporters.

'Kansas legislators targeting LGBTQ community with a series of 'nasty' and unnecessary bills' & other Thur midday news briefs

These Kansas legislators show their naked homophobia by proposing several awful bills which do nothing but simply target the LGBTQ community.

Kansas bill claims LGBTQ community is a religion to justify every kind of discrimination against it - This right here is some EVIL shit designed specifically to target LGBTQ Americans. That, and our media are so jaded about it, is the problem.

These 7 GOP Lawmakers Just Introduced Some of the Most Vile, Hateful Anti-LGBTQ Legislation We’ve Ever Seen, in Kansas - And these seven folks are behind it. There simply is no reason for this legislation. It doesn't make things better. It simply targets LGBTQ Americans.

Kansas GOP introduces the ‘most vile, hateful & disrespectful’ anti-LGBTQ bills in the country - Yes another article because we need to drill into people's heads just what these bills represent. It is about hatred and homophobia to the lowest regard. 

A rough day in Nebraska: hired gun for antiLGBT Alliance Defending Freedom gets openly mocked in Judiciary Committee hearing - oh sweet! a hate group employee gets his ass handed to him during a Judiciary Committee because the folks questioning him did their homework.

Anti-trans lesbian joins Tucker Carlson as trans-exclusionary radical feminists increasingly align with the right - See this right here is a serious problem. It's easy to falsely claim that you are "debating" an issue when you can control who gets access. Fox News won't have any transgender men and women on its network, but it will feature THIS TRASH.


Photo taken from Towleroad

James Dobson, other anti-LGBTQ activists team up to defend racist Congressman Steve King

Congressman Steve King has gotten into trouble for making racist statements and defending white supremacy, but religious right figures below are defending him.

James Dobson

With the anti-LGBTQ right, it's all about "priorities."  Isn't it simply wonderful how these religious right groups and activists took time out of their "busy schedules" of condemning the LGBTQ community to stand up for a Congressman who reportedly can't understand why white supremacy is such a bad word.

From Americans  United for the Separation of Church and State's Rob Boston:

The so-called “pro-family” Religious Right – a movement that claims to be all about promoting morals and decency – is all too happy these days to endorse any politician who agrees with them on certain issues – no matter how alarming that person’s statements and views may be. 

For more evidence of that, consider that hundreds of allegedly “moral” organizations and individuals just signed a letter to Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives demanding that U.S. Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) be given his committee assignments back. 

King lost the assignments because he has a long track record of saying incendiary, racist

Janet Porter

things and snuggling up to extreme organizations that preach hate. Although GOP leaders tolerated his antics for years, King finally went too far last month when, during an interview with The New York Times, he questioned why the term “white nationalist” is considered offensive. 

“White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization – how did that language become offensive?” King mused. “Why did I sit in classes teaching me about the merits of our history and our civilization?” 

Bill Owens

King later claimed to have been misquoted. It’s almost certainly a lie, but even if it were the case, it hardly matters – there are plenty of other damning statements by King. He has been spouting racist rhetoric for a long time and last year went so far as to endorse a candidate for mayor of Toronto who had granted an interview to a podcast run by the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website. King once retweeted a neo-Nazi and has been accused of anti-Semitism. He has also met with fascist politicians abroad and has repeatedly endorsed The Camp of the Saints, a paranoid, openly racist 1973 novel that portrays a future Europe overrun by hordes of non-whites.

 . . .  So why is the Religious Right defending this guy? Well, King also has a long

Peter LaBarbera

history of promoting that movement’s pet ideas. In 2002, while a member of the Iowa legislature, King introduced a bill requiring that public schools teach that the United States derives its strength from “Christianity, free enterprise capitalism and Western civilization.” In 2005, King, now a member of Congress, cosponsored legislation that would have stripped the federal courts of their ability to hear any legal case that would challenge any government’s decision to acknowledge “God as the sovereign source of law, liberty, or government.” He has been a reliable vote for the Religious Right ever since.

 So who signed this letter? According to ThinkProgress (click on the link to find out more details about the folks below), a number of prominent anti-LGBTQ activists:

'Anti-LGBTQ hate group plays 'religious persecution' card because of money exposure' & other Wed midday news briefs

AZ Atheists Aren’t Censoring Christians by Publicizing a License Plate Program - Dig this. Simply publicizing the fact that a hate group working to undermine LGBTQ rights, put gays in jail for simply being gay, and sterilizing transgender people is making money via an Arizona license plate program is "anti-Christian" bigotry.

Nashville signs pro-LGBTQ order while Tennessee Republicans push license to discriminate - Juxtaposition from hell. 

Will & Grace Star Sean Hayes to Be Honored with GLAAD Stephen F. Kolzak Award - Sweet! Way to go, Mr. Hayes! 

Ellen Page Reminds The World That Trans And Queer Rights Are Not Up For Debate - PREACH!!

GOP Lawmaker Under Fire for Saying He’d Drown His Kids if They Were Gay Now Says He Just Did It to Own the Libs - "I meant to do that." The Pee Wee Herman argument of homophobia.

Hate group fears the LGBTQ rights, safety being protected under the law

With Trump attempting to seize all of the oxygen in the room, it is difficult to pay attention to other crucial issues, such as LGBTQ equality. But thanks to hate group the Family Research Council, let's have a reminder:

It’s a sweeping and wrongheaded extension of #ENDA to add in sexual orientation and gender identity and at least 25 areas of law as opposed to just hiring practices.
Do not pass the #EqualityAct or its sister proposal, the Fairness for All Act. @WashTimes https://t.co/J5NYdeXm0W

— FRC (@FRCdc) February 12, 2019

Don't be fooled by the nonsense of this piece but please pay attention to the fear FRC has about any extension of LGBTQ equality. When ENDA was being considered, the group freely lied about what it would lead to and it is lying about the Equality Act and the Fairness for All Act.

Remember that FRC's entire brand is undermining LGBTQ equality and safety. Don't let them fool you as to where it stands regarding the LGBTQ community and our children:






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Family Research Council: LGBTQ rights shouldn't be protected under law because of children and  'health hazards'

2011 Flashback - 16 Reasons Why the Family Research Council is a Hate Group

'Chris Pratt avoiding legitimate questions about anti-LGBTQ history of his church' & other Tue midday news briefs

Chris Pratt need not avoid the anti-LGBTQ history of his church.

Chris Pratt Responds To Ellen Page’s Claim His Church Is ‘Infamously Anti-LGBTQ’ - I hate to be involved in this but I smell how the religious right are going attempt to use this in order to make the LGBTQ community seem like bullies. Pratt sidestepped several points about his church and I be DAMNED if the LGBTQ community will be looked at as bullies because we are making legitimate call outs, like such: 

Chris Pratt attends an anti-gay church with a history of child molestation and ex-gay therapy  

Is Hillsong Church anti-LGBT? What you need to know about its views 

Inside Hillsong, the Church of Choice for Justin Bieber and Kevin Durant  

Sex Abuse & Gay Conversion Therapy: The Dark Past of Justin Bieber’s Megachurch Hillsong

NYC Lawmaker Says Chamber Controlled By ‘Homosexual Community,’ Won’t Apologize - This is what is wrong with the media. Framing the story as if his ignorance is somehow courageous. We don't need the jerk to apologize. Call him out with the facts. Stop asking an asshole not to be an asshole.

West Virginia lawmaker says there’s no reason to punish him for comparing LGBTQ community to KKK - Second verse same as the first. Stop demanding apologies. To hell with their apologies. Call out their words. 

This Republican told LGBTQ youth that homosexuality is equal to bestiality & pedophilia - A part of a larger problem. "Ignore them" we are told by some people. You can't ignore ignorant people who have the power to make policy which will affect your life.