Camille is a twentysomething working in the LGBT nonprofit industry. She runs an LGBT news blog at gaywrites.org.
The Supreme Court’s decision to legalize same-sex marriage was a huge win for people who believe in justice and dignity — otherwise known as the “mentally ill,” or more specifically, the “metally ill,” according to North Dakota State Rep. Dwight Kiefert. Kiefert expressed his utter disgust at the Supreme Court ruling in an incoherent, offensive, and factually flawed Facebook post on Friday. Read more
A couple of weeks ago, we mentioned that New Zealand evangelist Ray Comfort was about to release an anti-gay film called Audacity. Well, I watched it a few hours after the Supreme Court legalized marriage equality nationwide. It was an emotional day; my colleagues at the LGBT nonprofit where I work stood in a circle and cried together, my girlfriend and I sent heartwarming news clips back and forth, and I left work early to hang out at the Stonewall Inn and high-five other people who were overcome with joy at the news. And I capped off my day with Audacity, which all about the lifework of Christians to “save” doomed LGBT people like me. It did absolutely nothing to sully my euphoria from the morning’s victory, but it did give me serious pause about what actually goes on in the brains of Christian civil rights opponents around me. Read more
You’ve no doubt heard the current debate about the morality of flying the Confederate flag in the United States, particularly the one on the State House grounds in South Carolina, the state in which Dylann Roof murdered nine people at a historic Black church last week. As communities mourn those whose lives were taken in Charleston and now tackle the matter of a historically oppressive flag during tragic circumstances, American Family Association pundit Bryan Fischer has the audacity to declare that the rainbow flag is also a symbol of “slavery and oppression” and that it, too, should be taken down. Here’s the video, courtesy of Right Wing Watch: Read more
Remember that guy in California who filed a ballot initiative (that came to be known as the “Sodomite Suppression Act”) requesting the mass execution of all gay people? For only $200, Orange County lawyer Matthew McLaughlin filed a ballot initiative back in March with the following instructions: Read more
Happy Pride Month, fellow uncontrollable arsonists! May your alternative lifestyle glow with the fire of a thousand blazing freedoms. I’m paraphrasing Janet Porter, the president of conservative Christian group Faith2Action, in a video excerpt from the anti-LGBT documentary Light Wins. This one in particular is about how LGBT people are ruining the country by supposedly shutting down businesses run by vocal opponents of equality. Mike Huckabee makes an appearance, too. Right Wing Watch nabbed the clip below: Read more
