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News Roundup for July 21, 2011
06 months ago
White supremacist Mark Anthony Stroman was executed Wednesday evening for his post-9/11 revenge spree. That spree left two South Asian men dead and one Bangladeshi man wounded in acts of revenge for the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Police in Colorado Springs, Colo., are investigating the second possible anti-gay hate crime in a month. Two homeless men were [...]
U.S. Senator Catches Anti-Gay Testifier Misrepresenting Study
06 months ago
by Robert Steinback
in Anti-Gay
A representative of one of the nation’s largest organizations opposed to same-sex marriage learned, as the U.S. Senate and the entire nation watched, to be careful what studies you cite – because someone might actually read them.
U.S. Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota caught Thomas Minnery, vice president of government and public policy for Focus on [...]
Anti-Gay Zealot Warns Gay-Friendly Measures Will Offend Muslims
06 months ago
by Robert Steinback
in Anti-Gay
Anti-gay zealot Peter LaBarbera has offered a curious rationale for why the United States should not promote the rights of LGBT people: It might upset Muslims.
In an article published Wednesday on the Christian-oriented website One News Now, LaBarbera, who is founder and president of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH), was asked for his reaction [...]
News Roundup for July 14, 2011
06 months ago
A Tuscaloosa man with a history of racist behavior was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly firing a shotgun at a neighbor. Billy Ray White, 62, posted racist signs at his home, flew a Confederate flag, and often terrorized black residents. White spotted a black man who glanced at his property, assaulted the man, grabbed a [...]
Anti-Gay Group Decides Slave Children Weren’t Really Better Off
07 months ago
by Robert Steinback
in Anti-Gay
All right, all right, so maybe the black family wasn’t better off during slavery. That’s the latest from a religious right organization that meant to attack same-sex marriage.
The conservative pro-family organization called THE FAMiLY LEADER (TFL) last week boldly issued a sweeping 14-point candidate pledge by which office-seekers would declare “a Dependence on MARRIAGE and [...]
News Roundup for July 12, 2011
07 months ago
Police in Newburgh, N.Y., are investigating a possible hate crime after a gay couple said they were beaten bloody by a group of women who attacked them at a bar because of their sexual orientation. The men also allege a police officer responding to the scene mocked their assault by the women.
The California Supreme Court [...]
News Roundup for July 8, 2011
07 months ago
A Brooklyn man was convicted today on terror charges for conspiring to travel overseas and join militants fighting U.S. soldiers. Betim Kaziu, 23, is an American-born son of Islamic immigrants from the former Yugoslavia, who said he felt stereotyped and wished to avenge what he saw as the persecution of Muslims by the United States. [...]
Gay Bashers Use Myths to Deride New York’s New Marriage Law
07 months ago
by Robert Steinback
in Anti-Gay
Les Kinsolving, a conservative talk-show host in Baltimore who claims to be a White House correspondent for the fact-challenged online conspiracy portal World Net Daily, is among the latest to employ discredited myths that LGBT people risk early death and poor health simply for being gay.
Under the headline “Pandering to deadly-disease spreaders,” Kinsolving on Tuesday [...]
News Roundup for July 6, 2011
07 months ago
A Tennessee man was sentenced today to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the racially motivated killing of a public employee. Dale Mardis, 57, brutally killed Shelby County, Tenn., code enforcement officer Mickey Wright in April 2001 and recently confessed to an unsolved murder of a Baltimore doctor three years earlier.
Gary Thomas [...]
No More Mr. Nice Guy: Patrick Buchanan and the Virtue of Prejudice
07 months ago
Conservative commentator Patrick Buchanan – for reasons that aren’t always evident to the reasonable observer – has long enjoyed credibility among mainstream conservatives despite some startlingly white nationalist, anti-Semitic and anti-gay viewpoints. He once again burnished his loathing of all that isn’t straight, white and Christian on Friday with a harangue against New York’s passage [...]