Springfield Standing Up to Scott Lively's Message of Hate

H/T to JoeMyGod: The Hate Groups need to be brought into the light.

Transgender Protections Passed in Massachusetts

Despite the lies told by the Massachusetts Family Institute and MassResistance, a bill to protect transgender citizens from discrimination in the workplace, housing and education passed the House and the Senate.

Mass Family Institute (MFI) dubbed the bill "the Bathroom Bill" and brought up the typical "What about the children" propaganda to try and stop the bill. Even now they keep stating that the bill is for "special rights" the same argument they tried to make for denying same sex couple marriage when in reality they are just biased against GLBT people no matter what the reason.

Can't wait to read what MassResistance has to say about this now since evertime they speak people are amazed at what they have to say!

Match Made in Heaven?

MassResistance Continues to Read Minds

I just got through reading MassResistance's latest rant about a hearing held two weeks ago on an anti-bullying bill and it's HILARIOUS! The feeble mind that put together that screed is seriously distraught. For example, when a mother, who son committed suicide because of bullying, testified, they listed her as an "activist mother". However when some guy testified for MassResistance's ridiculous appeal of the last anti-bullying bill, he is listed as a "father", no mentioned of how his children might have been bullied (or are bullies? Who can tell?)

The really funny part of their observations is when Brian Camenker gave testimony:

We not only told the committee the truth, as opposed to the lies and misrepresentations they'd been hearing. But we also brought up a lot of things they hadn't ever heard before about this bill (and their reaction showed that). Most of them seemed to be listening carefully. Several of the committee members actually thanked us for our testimony, and asked us questions to elaborate on what we had said.

Now where did I read that before...flashback to Brian Camenker talking about his appearance on the Daily Show:

Camenker said that while his argument against gay marriage may not have been convincing in the footage that was aired, he may have changed some hearts and minds among the ''25-year-olds from New York City who naturally are all pro gay marriage."

''They were moved by what I said about the subject," Camenker said. ''They didn't use 99 percent of my stuff. But the arguments I said, you could tell they were visibly moved, and that I was saying things they hadn't heard before."

Of course this isn't the first time MassResistance has been able to read the minds of the people they are up against.

News News News

Hey all, it's been awhile since I've updated but wanted to send you a few news bits that have come my way. You might have seen many of them:

• Another youth has tragically taken his life because of anti-gay bullying and the "Christians" are silent.
• Teaparty Boos American Solider in Iraq and Rick Santorum says NOTHING. Later on he rebukes the booers and claims he didn't hear them (even while pausing in his response) and then even later he rebukes his condenation of the booers!
• MassResistance tries again: Once again MassResistance is trying to put anti-gay laws on Massachusetts' books. This time they are using David Parker's name and image to try and get it passed. Of course, as usual MassResistance lies in all it's PR for the bill claiming that David Parker was arrested for standing up for his parental rights when in face he was arrested for failing to leave school grounds when requested by police.
• Scott Lively, is being honored by Peter LaBarbera's American's for Truth about Homosexuality in Illinois in Oct. Lively is know for blaming homosexual for the Nazi Germany in his book "The Pink Swastika" and for supporting the anti-gay rhetoric in Africa which spawned the bill calling for the execution of homosexuals.
• Maggie Gallagher stepped down from the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) to run the Marriage Anti-Defamation Alliance because they are being denied marriages now that the gays are marrying...wait no. She started this organization because young straight kids were being bullied to death for being straight...wait no, that's wrong too. She claims she's being victimized for her stance for advocating discrimination against gay couples who only want to marry.
• Don't Ask, Don't Tell was officially Repealed!

Ex-Mormon: It Gets Better

Red Sox: It Gets Better

Double click the above picture for full screen or go to the Red Sox homepage where it is also posted!

Via: JoeMyGod

Maggie Gallagher Meets St. Peter

However, you could just as well substitute any of the anti-gay zealots for Maggie Gallagher.

MassResistance Has Another Success!

MassResistance, always eager to tout their own brilliance and intellect, has another success to add to their list: Marriage Equality in New York State:

ALBANY, N.Y. — Lawmakers voted late yesterday to legalize same-sex marriage, making New York the largest state where gay and lesbian couples will be able to wed and giving the national gay-rights movement new momentum from the state where it was born.

The pictures of New York remind me to those days (and nights) at the State House here in Massachusetts. The anti-gay side, like in Massachusetts, tried anything to keep the State discriminating against gay and lesbian couples. In the days leading up to the vote there were large groups of people "praying" it wouldn't come to pass. So I guess God spoke and said NO. They even trotted out the "ex-gays" to sidetrack it and it didn't work.

But here in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, we can all look to MassResistance and thank them for doing their part. They were in the trenches working with the rightest of the anti-gay right doing their thing:

The legislative session is scheduled to end on Monday, but as reported above, the Governor and his liberal allies will likely extend it for this bill. We are in close contact with "pro-family" advocates and will keep you updated on this. Also see our special
MassResistance page on the New York marriage battle, which we plan to update frequently until the session ends..

And surprise, surprise, when you click on the link there is no mention of the fact that they lost and marriage equality is the law in New York. MassResistance: always full of promises and never delivers.

I am reminded of Brian Camenker's appearance on the Daily Show when he seriously stated that given enough time he could link marriage equality with decreased quality of life, homelessness, air quality and crime rates only now it's becoming clear that in every successful step toward Marriage Equality, MassResistance has been in close contact with the anti-gay groups. As he said in a Boston Globe article about his appearance on the show:

Camenker said that while his argument against gay marriage may not have been convincing in the footage that was aired, he may have changed some hearts and minds among the ''25-year-olds from New York City who naturally are all pro gay marriage."

''They were moved by what I said about the subject," Camenker said. ''They didn't use 99 percent of my stuff. But the arguments I said, you could tell they were visibly moved, and that I was saying things they hadn't heard before."

Yes Brian, you changed MANY hearts in New York. Once again, keep up the good work!

MassResistance's Hands are all over New York

MassResistance is claiming to be in the middle of the marriage equality battle in New York State:

A Senate vote is expected to take place today or Friday. We've been in constant contact with key Orthodox Jewish activists, who have used our MassResistance material on "What Same-Sex 'Marriage' did to Massachusetts" in State House lobbyng. Can our side hold the line?

Of course MassResistance is still pulling out all the stops with the scare tactics about marriage equality, of course there no mention of Massachusetts having the lowest divorce rate in the country. One of the lies they're touting:

By the following year it was in elementary school curricula. Kindergartners were given picture books telling them that same-sex couples are just another kind of family, like their own parents. In 2005, when David Parker of Lexington,
MA – a parent of a kindergartner – strongly insisted on being notified when teachers were discussing homosexuality or transgenderism with his son, the school had him arrested and put in jail overnight.

If you click on the first link it's about the book "Who's in a family" and talks about all different types of families, no mention of marriages in this book. Then they bring up Mad Dad David Parker who held up in an elementary school knowing full well that if he didn't leave he would be arrest, Parker LOVES to play the martyr.

It’s become commonplace in Massachusetts schools for teachers to prominently display photos of their same-sex “spouses” and occasionally bring them to school functions. Both high schools in my own town now have principals who are “married” to their same-sex partners, whom they bring to school and introduce to the students.

MassResistance LOVES the quotation marks. They want same sex married couples to hide in the closet. Wants the teachers to lie to their students about their marriages and wants them to be second class citizens by not allowing them to talk about their families, that's right, their LEGAL families. Oh the horrors!

The wedding industry is required serve the homosexual community if requested. Wedding photographers, halls, caterers, etc., must do same-sex marriages or be arrested for discrimination.

Another lie, no one has been arrested or will be. Where do they get this shit?

Their list goes on and on with one ridiculous accusation after another and of course, ends with how these marriages are not really legal (did Brian Camenker or Amy Contrada ever go to law school?

The only thing that's changed in Massachusetts since marriage equality went into effect is that MassResistance is now labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center for their attacks on the LGBT community. They never had crediblity but they never lost that, except that now the right wing fringe lunatics picked up their rants and post them in obscure part of the country.

What did Same Sex Marriage do to Massachusetts? Make Brian Camenker a laughing stock across the country.

Swimming Pool - Straights Only

This news sickens me:

Activists in Kentucky are planning a peaceful response after two gay men with developmental and intellectual disabilities were kicked out of a public pool.

A maintenance technician reportedly cited the Bible while telling the two men they couldn't swim at The Pavilion, a government-funded recreational facility in Hazard, Kentucky.

"We own this place and can tell you to leave if we want to," the couple was told, according to the Kentucky Equality Foundation

"The Pavilion staff immediately entered the pool area and asked my clients and their staff to leave the Pavilion," Mending Hearts Executive Director Shirlyn Perkins recalled. "My staff asked The Pavilion staff why they were being asked to leave, and they were informed that 'gay people' weren't allowed to swim there."

The scary thing is that it is probably legal to discriminate against gay people in Kentucky even if you pay taxes because I do not believe Kentucky has a law banning discrimination against LGBT citizens.

Red Sox to Produce "It Gets Better" Video

This is wonderful news:

"The Red Sox organization takes the issue of bullying seriously," team spokeswoman Leah Tobin released in a statement. "It is something that has touched many of us and those we love, and it is a growing problem in our community. We are proud of dedicated Red Sox fans like 12-year-old Sam Maden who have taken the courageous step of publicly standing up against bullying of LGBT youth."

I wonder how long it will take until MassResistance starts vilifying 12 -year old Sam Maden?

Macy's and Pride

As June descends upon us tomorrow, I'm reminded of that Pride, not so many years ago when MassResistance complained to Macy's because of their transgender mannequins...yes, they said Macy's had transgendered mannequins and even took pictures of other mannequins in the store to compare and contrast. Macy's caved and gave into the crazy group only to find out how really crazy they really were and faced a HUGE backlash. Macy's made up for their faux pas and has continually supposed the LGBT community. This was more than evident in the ad below which I found in Out Magazine:

Of course, MassResistance wouldn't dare suggesting a boycott because they are powerless. No one even cares what they have to say anymore.

UPDATE: I was wrong, MassResistance IS suggesting another boycott because Old Navy is selling T-shirts celebrating LGBT Pride:

FIGHT BACK!

Old Navy REALLY needs to hear from as many of you as possible. It won't take you long, but will be effective. Let them know you will NEVER shop in their stores EVER, and you will spread the word.

Contact Old Navy NOW:

Website: www.oldnavy.com

Phone: 1-800-OLD-NAVY (1-800-653-6289)

Email: custserv@oldnavy.com

Hey Old Navy! Call Macy's and ask them how MassResistance's boycott worked out. LOL

MassResistance Takes Credit for the Sun Rising and Adds Another Success?

Well, it's possible, you see MassResistance is now taking credit for Kevin Jennings leaving his job in the Department of Education in JULY. Of course he was bound to leave his post at some point and since many people in the first term of an administration leave before their term is up, forget that! MassResistance is taking credit because their "online petition" was, I don't know, ONLY STARTED 18 MONTHS ago!

Over the past eighteen months MassResistance has waged a battle in get Congress either to have Jennings' office defunded, or have him removed. We compiled and posted a large report of Jennings' activities going back decades-- most of which MassResistance uncovered. In addition we've gathered over ten thousand signatures from across America on our online petition. And we've been communicating with various key Congressmen and their staffs, as well as other Washington DC insiders, to push this as hard as possible...

...THANK YOU to everyone across the country who signed our petition and who helped get the word out. Getting Kevin Jennings out of the Dept. of Education is a great victory for all Americans!

And who do you think is picking up their story? Why all the crazy "pro-family" "news" on the web:

• World Nut Daily
• The Right Side News (really?)

I wonder what MassResistance will claim credit for now? They never even got those signatures that they said they were definitely going to get to overturn the 1913 law in Massachusetts and I believe they're still claiming they're going to be back on the radio some time soon...yeah, right!

Focus on the Family - Losing on Marriage

The new head of the Focus on the Family, Jim Daly, had this to say about same sex marriage:

We're losing on that one, especially among the 20- and 30-somethings: 65 to 70 percent of them favor same-sex marriage. I don't know if that's going to change with a little more age—demographers would say probably not. We've probably lost that. I don't want to be extremist here, but I think we need to start calculating where we are in the culture.

So some of the anti-gay right are finally starting to see the writing the wall. In the article he also talks about getting their own marriages in order before they start attacking others. This also makes perfect sense especially for all those people claiming to "defend marriage" while divorcing like crazy, cheating on their spouses and trying to tear apart other families.

It's the End of the World as We Know It

Yep! According to a "pro-family" organization like MassResistance, the World is going to end on May 21, 2011, oh, at 6 PM:

Harold Camping, the 89-year-old Christian evangelist from Oakland, Calif., whose Family Radio broadcasts are heard in 61 languages, doesn't just think that Judgment Day will come Saturday. He guarantees it.

"It is absolutely going to happen," said Camping, who has determined after five decades of studying Scripture that May 21 marks the beginning of the end. "We do not have a Plan B at all. There is no possibility that it will not happen, because all of our information comes from the Bible.

People are going to be risen and the heathens will be left on earth to deal with earthquakes and explosions that will last until the final doomsday sometime in the fall. Wouldn't you think God would want to get it over and done with all at the same time? Hasn't God heard of multi-tasking, you know, raise up the Christians and abolish the rest of the earth all at the same time because apparently, according to Camping, God is doing it by time zones, so no lines no waiting at the gates of Heaven.

All this news reminds me of the episode of "6 Feet Under" when some guys filled blow up dolls with helium and then released them. When a "Christian" saw the dolls going up into the air she ran towards them to be risen and was hit by a car and killed. I guess she got her wish!

Sex Abuse Crisis DECREASED as Gay Priests Began Serving

A study commissioned by the Catholic Church concluded:

The sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church was caused by the influence of sweeping social changes and increasing “deviant behavior’’ of the 1960s and 1970s on priests who were inadequately trained, emotionally unprepared, and isolated, according to a new report commissioned by the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops.

Researchers at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York, who spent five years conducting the most expensive and extensive study of sexual abuse in the Catholic church to date, concluded that homosexual priests were no more likely to abuse than heterosexual priests.

If you recall Santorum and the anti-gay loonies were blaming gay priests for all the molestation when it appears that:

The report notes that homosexual men began entering the seminaries “in noticeable numbers” from the late 1970s through the 1980s. By the time this cohort entered the priesthood, in the mid-1980s, the reports of sexual abuse of minors by priests began to drop and then to level off. If anything, the report says, the abuse decreased as more gay priests began serving the church.

Another MassResistance Candidate Goes Down in Flames

Last week MassResistance was practically falling over themselves for "the real thing":

Candidate Jim Dixon, a Republican, is the real thing -- we can't stress that enough. He's a true conservative, a Tea Party guy, a solid Catholic, and very smart. He's also a Navy veteran and a commercial pilot. You can find out more about him at his campaign website. Getting a guy like him in the Legislature would be wonderful. He will help change Massachusetts back to normal.

Of course, MassResistance has NO IDEA was normal even is! Well, this Tea Partier got beat by a truly normal guy:

According to results released by Waltham City Clerk Russ Malone, Lawn won Waltham by a 987-624 margin, a difference of roughly 22 percent. In Newton, Lawn edged Dixon 374-145, taking about 72 percent of that city's vote. And in his hometown of Watertown, Lawn earned a whopping 82 percent of the vote, besting Dixon 453-99.

Massachusetts needs MassResistance to keep vouching for candidates then we all win!

Luckily MassResistance still has the Article 8 domain!

Well, Massachusetts has a new person on Mass Supreme Judicial Court, she's a woman, a mother and just happens to be a lesbian and is MassResistance is having a conniption fit!

First it started with all their anti-gay testimony at the hearing for the new justice. Me thinks Brian Camenker is probably more upset that Sally Naumann is getting more press than his ridiculous rant trying to link Lenk to the "Falsettos" production in Concord (Remember, if given enough time he can link gay marriage to bad air quality, homelessness and any other myriad of issues plaguing Massachusetts)

Sally Naumann is probably best remembered for her "testimony" at the State House when she wanted the legislators to know that gay people were responsible for the Holocaust and waved her copy of the Pink Swastika at them. Then she wanted the Concord town to admonish the school for producing "Falsettos", we know how that turned out.

Now she's writing into the Boston Globe claiming to speak for the other bigots in Massachusetts who have yet to show their face or raise their voices:

THE GLOBE’S elitist and condescending editorial condemning my testimony at the Barbara Lenk hearing was certainly predictable (“Decision on Lenk should focus on her record, not her sexuality,’’ April 29). But I speak for countless parents across the Commonwealth. And, yes, the Governor’s Council needed to hear it.

Parents are sick and tired of the homosexual indoctrination process in the public schools, which now reaches into kindergarten with homosexual-themed story books and into middle schools with the setting up of gay-straight alliance clubs.

Lenk’s elevation to the Supreme Judicial Court would only serve to accelerate the homosexual indoctrination. Lenk prominently appeared in the homosexual-themed magazine Boston Spirit as an “openly gay’’ judge who was described as helping to “create a shift in the culture.’’ Her same-sex marriage reinforces a right invented by activist judges repudiating thousands of years of Western culture. She will be used as a new role model for schoolchildren, and we can expect more anti-family judicial activism down the road.

I testified before the council that the notion that one is born gay is a myth. But the Globe’s editorial assertion that homosexual behavior is like being black or Asian has become the party line.

We need less of this nonsense, not more of it.

How bonkers is that? It's horrible that Lenk was in a gay business magazine! HORRORS! I guess Sally thinks Lenk should be ashamed of herself and keep silent, sorry Sally, it ain't happening and is never going to happen, ever hear of Stonewall?

As for Brian, well, he still gets carried in some off beat online papers across the country like WorldNutDaily and Dakota Voice who still call him a "pro-family" activist, yeah, that IS good for a laugh. His credibility here (did he even ever have any?) is gone and he needs to rely on his small group of anti-gay activists to spout his drivel. His name will always be linked to anti-gay screeds and conspiracy theories how sad is that for a legacy?

This from the Liberty Council

People are celebrating today because the mastermind of the 9/11 bombings was finally defeated. Of course, for the anti-gay zealots like Matt Barber, all they ever think about is sex, (funny how all the "straight" anti-gay people are always thinking about gay sex)