According to a post on gayagenda.com:

Unfortunately, Americans don’t learn from the past and they shape and reshape history like a lump of clay to see it as they want to see it, which has done nothing other than prevent progress and has taken America from a nation of leaders to a nation of quivering followers…sheep who would rather grow fields of hate and starve than embrace diversity and feast.

So in the meantime, those of us who don’t fit so neatly into the box of the ‘ideal’ American (White, Christian and straight) are the ones who truly have the most to fear, but are forced into confronting those fears every single day as we fight for equality…something, even though unrecognized by those on the right, makes us much stronger and better than those who use fear to discriminate.

Read more here!

There’s a great post by Alvin McEwen on his blog Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters that does a great job of pointing out just how stupid it’s become.

According to the post:

And if Focus on the Family and these other religious right groups even cared about “family” or “reality,” they would support all family units, not just the one they think are superior.

One would think that an organization with the word “family” in its name would be more concerned with doing this rather than trying to create a caste system.

Read more and watch the amazingly stupid video here!

It would also appear that Bristol is getting to ride the coat-tails of her mother just like other celebrities have followed in the footsteps of their parents, just like Kate Hudson and Goldie Hawn, but not nearly as cute.

According to a post on Gay Rights – Change.org:

Bristol Palin is charging anywhere from $15,000-$30,000 for each speaking engagement. And she’s working on a book, too. Lovely.

Yup, it looks like yet another Palin is gonna get paid to talk about something she obviously knows nothing about…Abstinence!

More here!

According to an article on the Huffinton Post:

Changing hearts and minds is difficult, and it is actually quite remarkable how much our society has already changed in realizing the equality of LGBT people. This is a testament to the courage of every gay person who has come out and lived in a way that compelled the dominant culture to see his or her humanity. It is also proof of the capacity of human beings to grow and develop through ongoing difficult conversations and encounters that address the real but unfounded fears of people not so different from each other, that shed light on beliefs that have no basis in fact, and that share people’s genuine pain of exclusion.

Read more of this insightful post by Rabbi Irwin Kula at: Huffinton Post!

According to Credo Action:

If you thought that decisions made by the Texas State Board of Education don’t affect you, think again.

Led by far-right ideologues, the Texas SBOE recently gave preliminary approval to a plan that would radically change what children across the country learn in history class.

The ultra-conservative majority on the board (none of whom are experts in any academic discipline and many of whom are explicitly anti-science) took the curricula proposed by teachers and made more than 100 changes to “correct” the perceived left-wing bias.

But it gets worse. Since Texas is one of the largest textbook markets in the country, material written to carter to the Texas curricula will find its way into textbooks across the country unless textbook publishers take a stand.

Find out what you can do and send an email to the publishers by clicking here!

Of course, the most recent blockbuster drama, is the one starring President Obama.

But in a galaxy far, far away, Republicans have created their very own “Real USA.”

In that happy parallel universe, the President is still white. There are a few minorities around, but they’re very polite.

Nothing bad ever happens (at least nothing their fault). We’re a White Christian Nation again, at least by default.

Women stay home and nobody’s gay. The streets are safe for children to play.

There’s still some crime left, but it doesn’t matter, because it’s not in the parts of the country that matter.

People only do wholesome things for fun, and everybody owns (and carries) a gun.

Removal of aliens and most minorities has been completed, So the police are no longer needed.

There’s no sex education in school, abstinence Only is the rule.

Birth control and abortion are not allowed, because neither are necessary (at least that’s what’s avowed).

Read more at: Newsericks: News Limericks, a tongue-in-cheek rhyming account of the daily news (admittedly with a liberal bias).

Those on the far-right totally recognize this popularity roller coaster for what it is. Frustration with the situation is exactly why Peter LaBarbera and Brian Camenker held a rogue “yes on 1″ presser after weeks of being denied by the Maine campaign. It’s why Maine’s most prominent anti-gay for the past many years, Mike Heath, wrote a blog post acknowledging the forced campaign exile that we had perceived months before. It’s also why Linda Harvey wrote a piece rebuking Stand For Marriage Maine for being so quick to throw the more anti-gay (read: unfiltered and therefore more truthful) voices under the proverbial bus. And it’s exactly why some of those on the far-right have written yours truly and confirmed my spot-on insight on this topic, and why some “pro-family” moderates have issued off-record comments that are not as much denials as they are justifications.

More at: Good As You!

Read more at: GayRights.Change.org!

Read more at: Think Progress! (I do believe the Right Wing is eating their own alive!)

Read more at: Examiner.com!