More Religious Right Seminars for Elected Leaders

Minnesota Family Council to hold marriage amendment course for legislators
When State Legislators checked their office mailboxes Wednesday, they found an invitation to attend a Minnesota Family and Marriage Summit featuring a group that the Southern Poverty Law Center identifies as a Hate Group. The summit, to be held next week, is organized by the Minnesota Family Council and the Family Research Council and will teach legislators how to pass a Constitutional Amendment banning rights for same-sex couples. The summit includes courses for legislators such as “Bull...

Winkler wants quick vote on jobs before gay marriage ban amendment
When State Legislators checked their office mailboxes Wednesday, they found an invitation to attend a Minnesota Family and Marriage Summit featuring a group that the Southern Poverty Law Center identifies as a Hate Group. The summit, to be held next week, is organized by the Minnesota Family Council and the Family Research Council and will teach legislators how to pass a Constitutional Amendment banning rights for same-sex couples. William Kristol, prominent neoconservative columnist, said he w...

Monthly jobs report shows slow growth
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly jobs report on Friday, and it shows that the Unemployment Rate declined from 9.8 percent to 9.4 percent — a decrease that is less remarkable upon further examination. The Economy added 103,000 jobs in the last month — with the Private Sector adding 113,000 jobs and the Public Sector shrinking by 10,000. When State Legislators checked their office mailboxes Wednesday, they found an invitation to attend a Minnesota Family and Marriage...

More Conservative Groups Pulling Out OF CPAC --And Blasting Gay Inclusion
Is the annual CPAC conservative Activist conference coming undone -- with the inclusion of gays being the final straw? As we've posted before, some social conservative groups have been pulling out of the annual event, due to the inclusion of the gay conservative group GOProud. As the right-wing World Net Daily, which has been hammering away at this issue, now reports, the Heritage Foundation and the Media Research Center -- an organization that cover a variety of issues, not just social conser...

WEST VIRGINIA: Christian Group Pushes For Ban On Same-Sex Marriage
The West Virgina Family Foundation plans to ask lawmakers to introduce a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. Just as they've asked for the last six years. West Virginia Family Foundation President Kevin McCoy stated: "The Marriage Protection Amendment will constitutionally protect marriage as only between one man and one woman, preventing Activist Judges from radically redefining marriage in our state. The amendment will also preserve the unique legal benefits that are provided for this s...

Hating the Sinner
Harsanyi: it’s Social Conservatism that will most often turn those with Secular sensibilities away from the right. Even within the movement, a Libertarian vs. social conservative debate has roiled on forever. This dynamic is only going to change when political expediency becomes a force more powerful than faith — which is to say the day after we pay off the National Debt. Now, it’s true that social Conservatives can be unfairly ridiculed as bigots in these debates. But sometimes,...

DADT: The Aftermath
As expected, Congress voted to Repeal the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy concerning Homosexuals serving openly in the Military and President Obama signed the Repeal into law. Despite a lot of misgivings and reasons for leaving the policy in place, some of which I made here here, Congress has commanded the entire Department of Defense to implement a new personnel policy—even as our Military fights two wars. This change will not be without repercussions. I have no special crystal ball, but h

Va. legislation would mean jail time for bullying
Northern Virginia lawmakers have introduced Legislation that would make Bullying a criminal offense and require Virginia schools to separate the perpetrator from the Victim. Del. Adam Ebbin, D-Arlington/Alexandria, is proposing to elevate extreme cases of Bullying to a class-one Misdemeanor punishable by a year in Prison and up to a $2,500 fine and enable victims to sue their harassers. In conjunction, Del. David Englin, D-Arlington/Fairfax, introduced the Anti-Bullying Responsibility Act that ...

World Net Daily: Homos And The Muslim Brotherhood Have Taken Over CPAC 2011
As part of their continuing campaign to destroy CPAC 2011 for allowing GOProud to participate, today World Net Daily announced that the nation's largest annual conservative conference is being secretly run by the "Muslim Brotherhood." For realz! With the Conservative Political Action Conference under fire for allowing participation by a Homosexual Activist group called GOProud and for a financial Scandal in which some $400,000 was misappropriated under the watch of current leadership, Frank Ga...

GLAAD To CNN: Stop Using Hate Groups To "Balance" Gay News Stories
GLAAD has issued a call to action, asking its supporters to write CNN to demand that representatives of hate groups no longer be used to "balance" the network's stories on LGBT rights. As a recent example, GLAAD cites the appearance of the Family Research Council's Peter Sprigg, who was invited to counter the opinion of DADT Repeal Activist Alex Nicholson. Among Sprigg's many detestable remarks is his call for all Homosexuals to be deported from the United States. Nicholson's qualifications w...

'Family Research Council' Expains Boycot of Conservative Conference
In an email to supporters titled, "Sticking up for the 'C' in CPAC," Tony Perkins, president of the prominent social conservative Family Research Council, explained why his group would not attend this year's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). "FRC has chosen not to partner with a 'conservative' event that places the protection of marriage on the same plane as redefining it," wrote Perkins. "Would CPAC team up with the Brady Campaign which fights to restrict--if not abolish--the Se...

Conservatives Running Away from Conservative Conference Because Some Gays Might Show Up
Uh oh! Looks like some of the heads of Conservative Movement's "values voters" wing has caught wind that some gay people are planning on attending their annual orgiastic patriot party. Can't risk being associated with those types… Some of the nation's most prominent social Conservatives are sending a message to their economic brethren by dropping out of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in response to the decision to include GOProud, a gay conse...

GLAAD Petitions CNN To Stop Inviting Anti-Gay Guests
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Againt Defamation (GLAAD) has created a petition in an effort to convince CNN to stop inviting what the organization deems “anti-gay” guests onto the network. In fact, GLAAD aims to fight against CNN’s inclusion of the “anti-gay industry” as a whole when it covers issues and debates relevant to gay and Civil Rights issues. According to GLAAD: For years, CNN has insisted on including the voices of the anti-gay industry whenever a topic t...

A Time to Choose for the Conservative Movement
Tonight, World Net Daily continued its pathbreaking coverage of what amounts to an assault on the Conservative Movement.  Ironically, this assault is not coming from outside the movement’s ranks.  Rather, it is being perpetrated by some of the key organizers of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) next month in Washington. First, WND revealed troubling information about the apparent misappropriation of $400,000 in ACU funds , embroiling Chairman David Keene ...

Christie signs Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights into law (Daily Caller)
Read more stories from The Daily Caller NPR defunding calls heat up in first week of new Congress Nothin' but paint: Jessica Szohr's sexy Lifewater ad [SLIDESHOW] Christie signs 'Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights' into law Who's afraid of the Constitution? Williams reacts: It's good for NPR because it gets the 'keeper of the flame of liberal orthodoxy out of NPR' Following the Suicide of Rutgers Student Tyler Clementi, national attention was focused on the effects of school Bullying. In New Jersey,...

Christie signs Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights into law
Steven Nelson writes for The Daily Caller. Following the Suicide of Rutgers Student Tyler Clementi, national attention was focused on the effects of school Bullying. In New Jersey, the state where the Suicide occurred, State Legislators passed and Governor Chris Christie signed into law Thursday the ‘Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights’ aiming to curtail school Bullying. The bill compels school officials to investigate and report to the state Board of Education incidents of bullying and req...

AGs Opinion On Same-Sex Marriage May Galvanize Opponents In New Mexico Legislature
AG’s Opinion On Same-Sex Marriage May Galvanize Opponents In New Mexico Legislature Yesterday, Gary King — New Mexico’s Attorney General — issued an opinion asserting that the state should recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere. Supporters of marriage cheered the decision, but conceded that it would not likely change state law, given Governor Susanna Martinez’s opposition to same-sex marriage. But today, the Albuquerque Journal is reporting that King...

What Obama Thinks of America
Sometimes the best way to find out what a person thinks about you is to find out what he tells others. That's why the report on America's Human Rights record filed by the Obama Administration with the U.N. is particularly interesting. It's more accurate to say that this first-ever report to the U.N. Human Rights Council was from the Obama Administration rather than from the United States. Its main theme is what President Obama has done in his short two years, rather than what our great country...

Good for gays, necessary for New Mexicans
Forget the ideology. For a few moments, set aside your belief that I chose to be a raging “Homosexual” whose only mission is to convert your Children, and I’ll set aside my belief that you’re a bigot whose misunderstanding of the Constitution is matched only by your religious hypocrisy. Let’s just forget about all that. Instead, why don’t we talk about something we can all agree on. New Mexico needs jobs, and all of us - gay or straight - could use...

Lesbian Episcopal Priests 'Married' by Mass. Bishop
Two of the U.S. Episcopal Church's most high-profile Lesbian priests were married to each other in a ceremony presided by Massachusetts Episcopal Bishop M. Thomas Shaw. Mally Lloyd is an official in the Episcopal diocese of Massachusetts and Katherine Ragsdale is dean of the Episcopal Divinity School. The ceremony took place on New Year's Day in Boston, according to the Patriot Ledger. Shaw, a longtime supporter of Gay Marriage, gave his parish priests permission to perform same-sex marriage...

The Honors List
The proponents of a lax Military professed shock this week at an illustration of it, after news reports emerged that the inaptly named naval captain Owen Honors had participated in "raunchy and ribald" videos aboard ship. The odd admixture of relativism and rigidity that now defines Political Correctness in the Military guaranteed his firing, though it took public exposure several years after the event to trigger the termination. Obviously, Honors has dishonored himself. But it is not at all cle...

Grassley Staff Memo On Televangelists Makes Clear Religious Right Opposition To Government Oversight
Following up on my post earlier this morning about the Grassley Televangelist investigation, the staff memo to Sen. Grassley acknowledges that transparency and accountability issues pervade here, but also makes clear a sensitivity to -- or perhaps fear of -- the religious right's antipathy toward government. The memo recommends that the IRS establish an Advisory Committee, under the Federal Advisory Committee Act, comprised of church leaders and representatives, to "consider" issues related to r...

Wayne Besen: The Tough Battle Ahead in 2011 for LGBT Equality
The trend lines point toward full LGBT equality. This was surprisingly evident last week on the Fox News Channel show Red Eye, which lampooned leading anti-gay organizations for vowing to skip this year's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) because a gay conservative group was invited. The show's host ruthlessly mocked The Family Research Council, Concerned Women for America and jokingly claimed that Peter Labarbera's Americans For Truth About Homosexuality held Shirtless meetings....

Conservative Groups Split Over Participation Of GOProud At Annual CPAC Conference
Conservative Groups Split Over Participation Of GOProud At Annual CPAC Conference The Family Research Council and a few other social conservative organizations like Concerned Women for America, American Principles Project and American Values are refusing to attend next month’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) to Protest the participation GOProud, a Gay Rights group. But Focus on Family is staying put, at least for now: “They made a mistake,” CitizenLink spoke...

Conservatives4Palin Throw Cold Water on Sarah Palins Supposed Twitter Support for Gay Rights
Earlier today, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin caused a stir with a retweet that many read as a cryptic indicator that the Mama Grizzly was poised to come out in favor of some Gay Rights. Prominent Palin fansite Conservatives4Palin.com, however, has swooped in to defend her honor, noting that Palin’s retweet of Tammy Bruce ’s sentiment, “But this hypocrisy is just truly too much. Enuf already–the more someone complains about the homos the more we s