Category: 3. Enemies and Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause

  • Washington Post's Coded Language on Kagan

    From FAIR: But this fantasy that New York City is some kind of alien world, where ballet and Baptists are unknown, is the crux of Parker’s argument: “It seems remote to unlikely that a woman whose life has involved Baptist churches and ballet slippers would find herself on a track to today’s Supreme Court, though […]

  • AZ Bill Bans Teaching Ethnic Studies

    Scrape, scrape: HB 2281 bans schools from teaching classes that are designed for students of a particular ethnic group, promote resentment or advocate ethnic solidarity over treating pupils as individuals. The bill also bans classes that promote the overthrow of the U.S. government. via Arizona bill targeting ethnic studies signed into law

  • Compromising on Female Genital Mutiliation

    How about not cutting up babies period? The American Academy of Pediatrics has suggested a new way to fight female genital mutilation in the United States: Allow doctors to give girls a “nick” down there. In a policy statement titled “Ritual Genital Cutting of Female Minors,” the Academy suggests that allowing such a ritual could […]

  • George Alan Rekers, Another Anti-Gay Christian Right Leader Caught With a Rentboy

    Complete lack of surprise: The profile touts his “smooth, sweet, tight ass” and “perfectly built 8 inch cock (uncut)” and explains he is “sensual,” “wild,” and “up for anything” — as long you ask first. And as long as you pay.  That man was George Alan Rekers, of North Miami — the callboy’s client and, […]

  • TN Congressional Candidates Proud of Violence to Gays

    And they are physicians, too: Physicians Ron Kirkland of Jackson and George Flinn of Memphis were among the candidates Thursday night who talked largely about how they’re against the Obama administration and its policies, according to The Jackson Sun. …  President Barack Obama has called on Congress to lift the ban, and military officials are examining […]

  • The Hypocrisy Trap

    Washington City Paper walks through several Republican-side hypocrisy traps: Bristol Palin: At some point, we forgot about why Bristol having sex was funny to begin with. The insane glee that we all derived from a teenage girl having sex before marriage became counter-intuitive—and downright creepy. We had crossed the hypocrisy bridge. We were no longer […]

  • Mississippi Disappears Gay Student from Yearbook

    Mississippi and Arizona should date: When Veronica Rodriguez opened Wesson Attendance Center’s Yearbook on Friday, she didn’t find a trace of her lesbian daughter Ceara Sturgis after a long battle with school officials to include a photo of her daughter wearing a tuxedo in the school’s 2010 yearbook.  Sturgis and her mother commissioned the Mississippi […]

  • White House Closes Park to Stifle Protest

    Shame: Police chased reporters away from the White House and closed Lafayette Park today in response to a gay rights protest in which several service members in full uniform handcuffed themselves to the White House gate to protest “Dont Ask, Dont Tell.”People who have covered the White House for years tell me thats an extremely […]

  • Traditional Definition of Divorce

    Oh Texas please just stop already: That left her fighting both the woman she married in Massachusetts and the state of Texas, which says a union granted in a state where same-sex marriage is legal can’t be dissolved with a divorce in a state where it’s not. A judge in Austin granted the divorce, but […]

  • How Sonoma County CA Completely Obliterated One Gay Couple's Rights

    They had the paperwork. They’d created the legal framework. They had done every single thing they possibly could to ensure that as they aged they would be able to take care of one another. This makes me very angry. Clay and Harold made diligent efforts to protect their legal rights, and had their legal paperwork […]