The Westboro Baptist Church has launched a media blitz on its Twitter account posting a series of inflammatory photos blaming yesterday’s bombing on gays. They also launched a series of Tweets first announcing their plans to picket the funerals of the victims of Monday’s bombings in Boston and blaming the attack on everything from God’s […]
The Westboro Baptist Church (“WBC”) announced that they will be picketing the funerals of the victims of yesterday’s bombings in Boston. Designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, WBC is characterized on their SPLC page as “arguably the most obnoxious and rabid hate group in America.” WBC first made the announcement on their Twitter […]
It’s no great surprise that the conservative movement includes Christians possessing extreme right-wing political beliefs. Within the ultra Christian right, there are “soldiers for God” who are going out and attempting to overthrow government as representatives of God. One such individual is Bryan Jonathan Fischer, the Director of Issues for the American Family Association, regular contributor to […]
Last night on “Ask a tea partier,” Scottie Nell Hughes, News Director for Tea Party News Network, Rick Unger of Forbes.com and comedian Jim Mendrinos debate the complexities of the tea party’s views on gay marriage. Unger asks Hughes to explain, given the tea party’s roots in Libertarianism, “how can the tea party not support gay […]
On Easter Sunday, an obviously very young boy (I would guess around 11 or 12 years of age) was captured on video protesting a North Carolina church’s recent pledge to stop performing marriage ceremonies until gay marriage is legal. Having grown up in Texas, I have seen children used in such a fashion over the […]