The Senate is finally going to vote on the Matthew Shepard Act tomorrow.  Predictably, various right wing groups are mobilizing their supporters to contact their Senators and encourage them to oppose the bill.  Here's what they're saying.

First, they try to paint hate crime protections as Orwellian thought-crime laws.

A Liberty Counsel "Alert!"  ( ( Read more... )

Today Focus on the Family and Liberty Counsel (both right-wing Christian organizations) renewed their efforts to stop ENDA by scaring their followers with inflammatory press releases.

One of the first things the Focus on the Family press release does is trot out their favorite bogeywoman (she's trans, of course).  According to them, what sorts of ( Read more... )

It drives me crazy that lesbian, gay, bi and trans people so often blame each other for the oppression that each group faces rather than fighting the real enemy-- the (interrelated) homophobic and transphobic attitudes of society at large.

Transadvocate has disappointed me again by asking (of its trans readership): "Would we be better off in the ( Read more... )

This incredibly insulting, hateful, wildly ill-informed article appeared today on the Concerned Women for America website. It is anti-LGBT in general but focuses the majority of its venom on trans people-- specifically, on trans women. The language is very inflammatory. The avowed purpose of the piece is to motivate conservatives to lobby their ( Read more... )

Yes, these people are for real, though they are so extreme that I suspect they are a tiny minority even among fundamentalist conservatives.

Ladies Against Feminism is the most reactionary anti-feminist website I have stumbled across thus far-- which is saying a lot, considering what's out there. The artwork on the site is telling. It favors early ( Read more... )

While perusing the latest issue of Brio online I discovered an article on "The Gay Marriage Debate." Brio is the Focus on the Family-published fundamentalist answer to Seventeen Magazine-- or whatever teenage girls are reading today-- I'm sure I'm dating myself. (Thirteen years ago or so when I used such magazines as primers on "appearing straight ( Read more... )

According to this article by Mike Airhart, posted on Ex-Gay Watch, an evangelical Christian group by the name of Tim Todd Ministries "has recently distributed 48,000 New Testaments - altered to conform to religious-right political views - to public-school students in the United States."

Great. Not only are they evangelizing in public schools, they ( Read more... )