(From blogActive) “An anti-gay State Senator in California (Senator Roy Ashburn) was arrested for drunk driving, was with another man, and sources say, was leaving a gay nightclub.” Read more
The details change, but the theme stays the same. Yet another anti-gay politician thrust vigorously out of the closet. With this one I can’t decide which detail is most striking: the hypocrisy, the drunk driving, or the oddly defiant mugshot.
Bumper stickers on sale at CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference)
And of course, it didn’t take long for the parodies to pop up:
Just in case you need any help recognizing the folks above (from left to right): Larry Craig (aka Senator Wide Stance), Reverend Ted Haggard (who now swears he’s completely heterosexual), and… huh, this third guy hasn’t been caught with any male prostitutes, I wonder what he’s doing up there…
Once again, great job Rob
HT: Slog
Article excerpt from AlterNet.org By Tana Ganeva
“How stupid would you feel if you aborted the next Tim Tebow, leaving the world with only tens of thousands of other football players?
That’s the nightmare scenario presented in a Focus on the Family ad set to air during the Super Ball. The completely irreplacable Tebow (who’s also left his mark on the world by promoting abstinence till marriage) will appear in the ad with his mom, who ignored the advice of doctors to have an abortion after contracting amebic dysentery, and wants to tell you all about that wise decision. (Several organizations are launching letter-writing campaigns to get CBS execs to change their minds about running the ad.)
Strangely, CBS has rejected issue advertising in the past. In 2004, the network refused to run ads by both PETA and MoveOn.org. The MoveOn ad made the wildly controversial point that Bush had increased the national deficit; PETA’s involved scantily clad women.
Also too edgy for CBS: the notion that Jesus espoused universal. In 2004 the United Church of Christ submitted an ad showing a bouncer blocking a gay couple from entering a Church, with the tagline: Jesus Didn’t Turn People away. Neither do we.
The network rejected the Church’s ad because it “touches on and/or takes a position on one side of a current controversial issue of public importance.”
From the Center for Reproductive Rights and featuring Jay Smooth, who video blogs at Ill Doctrine and has helped us out in the past with other informative videos, such as:
and…
If not, YOU BETTER, or SiP will hunt you down and take away your sexy license.
Let’s start the New Year off in a proactive way, by adding your voice to the Sexual Freedom Report!
This questionnaire will be the foundation for the first report on the State of Sexual Freedom in America today. If you already responded to the questionnaire, and many of you have, thank you! If not, we would really value your opinions!
As I shared with you in the first email, the Woodhull Freedom Foundation plans to publish regular reports on the sexual freedom movement, designed to help identify the social changes taking place, or that must take place for progress to be made, on the diverse issues on which we work. We are particularly interested in recognizing opportunities for already-established sexual freedom issue groups to work together.
We would like to know what you think are the most pressing sexual freedom issues this country is facing and so we are asking for a bit of your time and a lot of your knowledge and expertise.
We will treat your responses as confidential, unless you specifically give us permission to share your comments. To protect the confidentiality of our participants, we will download the responses each day and they will be taken completely offline. With that assurance, we are also asking that you provide your contact information on the survey.
I do hope that you’ll take some time right now to respond to the questionnaire. What you think really does matter to us and to this project.
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Thanks for your time and your participation!
Ricci Levy, Executive Director
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“American Evangelicals are apparently shocked that their anti-gay activism in Uganda — which mostly involves telling Ugandans that gay men sodomize boys and that homosexuals have a nefarious plot to destroy society as we know it — has actually been taken seriously by Ugandans, who, in order to stop purported child rape and total social annihilation, have bandied about the idea of executing gay people.” Read the rest of the story at Femeniste
If you didn’t already watch it, check out our earlier posts, including this one with Rachel Maddow.
The man behind this is also my go-to guy for strategy when arguing marriage equality- check out the rest of the videos on his blog: Waking Up Now
Mary Cheney had a baby, and the Republicans don’t like it. As the Huffington Post puts it, “the righty base dislikes the way she’s all gay and having children with the woman with whom she’s enjoyed a long and loving relationship.” Read the whole article
In a 12-11 vote, the Senate Finance Committee passed Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch’s measure to restore $50 million a year in funding for abstinence-only education programs. Full Story
Also passed was a measure by the Committee chairman, Democratic Sen. Max Baucus of Montana. Baucus’s measure, which passed 14-9, makes funding available for more comprehensive sex education.
Since both measures passed, it will be up to the House and Senate to decide.
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