Dispatches From the Culture Wars
Rick Santorum continued his bigoted and ignorant campaign by promising, during a conversation with Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, to restore the DADT policy and prevent gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military.
Rick Santorum continued his bigoted and ignorant campaign by promising, during a conversation with Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, to restore the DADT policy and prevent gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military.
GLAAD has launched what they’re calling the Commentator Accountability Project to document the rampant anti-gay bigotry among right-wing talk show hosts and pundits, and their targets are howling in outrage — and offering some amusingly idiotic rationalizations to excuse their conduct away. Kevin McCullough, for example, says that it is false to accuse him of saying that being gay kills people because he doesn’t believe anyone actually is gay.
The badly misnamed Russian Ministry of Justice has forbidden an organization in that country from establishing a Pride House for gay and lesbian athletes during the 2014 Winter Olympic games, and a Russian court has upheld that decision — using arguments that sound remarkably like the rhetoric from anti-gay groups in the United States.
As I’m sure you’ve heard by now, large group of religious right leaders gathered in Texas over the weekend to try to unite their efforts behind a single candidate not named Mitt Romney. Ignoring Rick Perry’s home state advantage almost completely, they decided to back Rick Santorum. In fact, Perry barely got a sniff.
Rep. Vicky Hartzler of Missouri, one of the wingnuttiest of all the Republicans in Congress, was on Tony Perkins’ radio show last week and openly declared her preference for Christian hegemony on government endorsement. Discussing the fact that the Air Force Academy had worship spaces for multiple religions, including Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu and pagan, the two of them said:
That’s the latest faux outrage from the religious right, who want to pass a bill in Congress to add a plaque with a prayer to the World War II memorial in Washington, DC. The Bureau of Land Management, which administers the memorial, has said it opposes altering the memorial:
In a spectacle that reveals the rank hypocrisy at the heart of the “family values” crowd, the Family Research Council just gave an award for supporting those values to a legislator who also owes $100,000 in back child support. This sentence will kill any irony meter ever made:
Wow. If you’re looking for some serious projection and hypocrisy, the Huffington Post has some astonishingly blatant examples of it. A whole gaggle of wingnut leaders is claiming that if Romney wins the Republican nomination, the Obama administration will attack him for his Mormon religion:
Right Wing Watch cites a long list of quotes from social conservatives praising John McCain’s pick of Sarah Palin as his vice president in 2008 to high heaven. They were sure she was going to turn the race around for him. It’s quite funny to read in retrospect:
Is there a bigger and more ridiculous blowhard than Bill Donohue of the Catholic League? I’d be hard pressed to name one. He’s all verklempt over an organized boycott of an organization that funds anti-gay groups and he was distributing some major league manure on a radio show with Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council.
Yesterday, Bill Donohue joined Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council, on his radio program Washington Watch. “Radical proponents of gay marriage have taken the culture war to the marketplace,” Donohue said in a statement on the CGBG controversy, charging them with declaring “economic war against any organization that embraces the Judeo-Christian understanding of marriage.” He told activists: “If these extremists get their way, they will silence the Christian voice. Which is why the bullies must be defeated.”
Is there a bigger and more ridiculous blowhard than Bill Donohue of the Catholic League? I’d be hard pressed to name one. He’s all verklempt over an organized boycott of an organization that funds anti-gay groups and he was distributing some major league manure on a radio show with Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council.
Yesterday, Bill Donohue joined Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council, on his radio program Washington Watch. “Radical proponents of gay marriage have taken the culture war to the marketplace,” Donohue said in a statement on the CGBG controversy, charging them with declaring “economic war against any organization that embraces the Judeo-Christian understanding of marriage.” He told activists: “If these extremists get their way, they will silence the Christian voice. Which is why the bullies must be defeated.”
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