Top Ten IRS Fouls

According to a post on Alternet, for the past two years, numerous media pundits have been all abuzz over the so-called “death” of the Religious Right. There is one problem, however: Read more

Bye-Bye Mrs. Palin

Mrs. Palin, please pack your bags and take your prayin’ away the gay self back up to Alaska.  I do believe there are some wildlife that need to be shot.  Read more

The Harassment of LGBT Students

The largest ever survey of LGBT students in the USA has revealed that the majority regularly experience harassment as a result of their sexuality. Read more

Blame the Gays!

Christian fundamentalists are suggesting gays and lesbians are to blame for Wall Street’s woes, a frequently made charge in the wake of national calamities. Read more

Wasting Prayer on Hate

I’m not a deeply religious person, much less a theologian. But I wonder, like so many other lay persons who don’t have direct access to God the way that Dr. James Dobson and other evangelicals profess to have, does each human being on Earth receive an allocation on the number of prayers we can execute in a lifetime? Or is it an endless supply whereby some prayers can be wasted.

Praying for rain to sabotage a political event would fall into the waste category. So would “praying away the gay,” the theme of a Focus on the Family-sponsored conference promoted by the church that GOP vice-president contender Sarah Palin attends.

“You’ll be encouraged by the power of God’s love and His desire to transform the lives of those impacted by homosexuality,” reads the insert in the bulletin of the Wasilla Bible Church, where Palin has prayed for about six years.

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Hunting Down Gays in Iraq

The “improved” security situation in Iraq is not benefiting all Iraqis, especially not those who are gay. Islamist death squads are engaged in a homophobic killing spree with the active encouragement of leading Muslim clerics, such as Moqtada al-Sadr, as Newsweek recently revealed. Read more

Opposing Ex-Gay Activist

For at least a decade, the antigay political organizations Focus on the Family and Exodus International have promoted the myth that their opposition believes sexual orientation is determined by a single “gay gene.”

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Praying for Rain

It was reported earlier on gayagenda.com that Stuart Shepard, correspondent for the Focus on the Family network and a Dobson crony, mused on bothering God about prayers for some biblical rains to wash away Obama’s convention speech in Denver this month. Read more

Silly Sally, Facts are for Everyone

Sally Kern, a member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, says she has been called by God to be a cultural warrior. Kern, a Religious Right favorite known for her strident attacks on gay people and insistence that her version of Christianity is the only true faith…. Read more

Boycott Wal-Mart Now!

It’s got Karl Rove written all over it. It smacks of the lowest form yet of sleazy Republican intimidation tactics to disenfranchise voters and influence the outcome of the November election. And it’s got right-wing spinmeisters whipped into a mouth-foaming frenzy. Read more

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