HRC's Manhattan Gala To Be Occupied

A queer contingent of Occupy Wall Street will protest the Human Rights Campaign this weekend outside their black tie Manhattan gala at the Waldorf-Astoria. An excerpt from their press release:

Queer/LGBTIQA2Z Occupy Wall Street, a caucus of the NYC based Occupy Wall Street movement, announced today that it will protest a Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Gala honoring Goldman Sachs on Saturday February 4, 2012 at the Waldorf Astoria. In contrast to the $650 a plate Gala, the Queer/LGBTIQA2Z Caucus will host a “Guerrilla Potluck” on the sidewalk outside of the prestigious hotel at 50th Street & Park Avenue from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. The Queer Caucus: 1. Condemns HRC for honoring Goldman Sachs, 2. Calls upon HRC to adopt a strategy of Full Equality by 2014, and 3. Demands that HRC create a transparent process that includes the grassroots.

The Queer Caucus points out this demand that elected officials pledge to ensure full federal civil equality by 2014.

RELATED: The HRC used to invite me to cover this event, but I guess they didn't like what they read.

NOM To Chris Christie: Take Back Your Nomination Of That Anti-Christian Homo

In perhaps their most dishonest twisting of somebody's words yet, NOM is demanding that NJ Gov. Chris Christie withdraw the state Supreme Court nomination of Bruce Harris because he supposedly compared Christianity to slavery.

Chris Christie has been the hope of millions of Americans across the country looking for honest conservative leadership. Last week we asked you to thank Gov. Christie for saying he will follow through on his campaign promise to veto same-sex marriage. This week, we have urgent and terrible news to report—Gov. Chris Christie's nominee to the New Jersey Supreme Court is not only an outspoken advocate for gay marriage, he has extreme and hateful views equating traditional Christian views on sex and marriage with slavery. This kind of intemperate and extreme view should be totally unacceptable in a GOP judicial nominee.

Governor Christie says that Harris has promised to recuse himself when the same-sex marriage comes before the court, but even this unenforceable promise misses the bigger issue: a man who cannot tell the difference between supporting our traditional understanding of marriage and wanting to enslave a people lacks common sense and judicial temperament. And to suggest that legislators should ignore the views of religious constituents, that moral views grounded in the Bible are somehow illegitimate in the public square, seriously compounds the offense.

Here are Harris' actual words:

"When I hear someone say that they believe marriage is only between a man and a woman because that's the way it's always been, I think of the many "traditions" that deprived people of their civil rights for centuries: prohibitions on interracial marriage, slavery, (which is even provided for in the Bible), segregation, the subservience of women, to name just a few of these "traditions."

Christianists are permitted to compare gay people to alcoholics, to horse-fuckers, to child rapists. But saying that the Bible endorsed slavery, which is literally true? Off with that faggot's head!

Why Obama Is Not A Christian, Part One

The first in a ten-part series from the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission. Yaaaawn.

Free Republic Founder On Mitt Romney

"How can any right thinking Christian, conservative or tea party supporter justify voting for Romney? Romney is an empty suit. A complete fraud. Worse, he's anti-tea party, anti-conservative, anti-liberty! He has absolutely zero conservative accomplishments to his name. His ONLY accomplishments in government are liberal, ie, tax payer funded abortion, gay marriage, gun control, RomneyCare, mandates, etc. He is Obama-lite. Are these voters uninformed, terrified, brainwashed, or just plain nuts?" - Jim Robinson, founder of Free Republic. See? I told you today's screaming would be delish.

Today In Laughable Hypocrisy

Remember when Brent Bozell called President Obama a "skinny ghetto crackhead"? Today his Media Research Center has launched a campaign demanding that the "liberal media" tell the truth during the 2012 election. Oh, my sides.

FRC Rips Maryland's First Lady

Newt: 46 States To Go!

Except for the ones where he didn't make the ballot!