Did the Mormon Church Cheat?

By: Teddy Partridge Thursday November 13, 2008 10:40 pm

Californians Against Hate, the extraordinary activist group that produced the Grannie Blackwater ad and the Dishonor Roll of Prop 8 contributors, filed a complaint against the Mormon Church with the California Fair Political Practices Commission, the body that regulates campaign activity, alleging hundreds of thousands of dollars of unreported in-kind contributions to the Prop 8 campaign.

SF Archbishop Meddling in Politics

By: Teddy Partridge Monday November 10, 2008 12:44 am

The role of the Archbishop of San Francisco in the Prop 8 battle became clearer today: it was he who got the Mormon Leadership into the fight to pass Prop 8.

Thousand March in Silver Lake Prop 8 Protest–Equal Rights, Good Manners Prevail

By: Lisa Derrick Sunday November 9, 2008 6:41 am

Over seven thousand protesters filled Sunset Junction, the heart of Silver Lake, still the center of hardcore, funky, old school gay Los Angeles–though the past decade’s influx of straights has raised the cry of "Get rid of the baby-daddies and bring back the leather daddies!" Saturday night Silver Lake was vitalized, vivified and electrified as [...]

Melissa Etheridge Won’t Pay Taxes Because of Prop 8′s Passage

By: Lisa Derrick Friday November 7, 2008 5:43 pm

Melissa and Tammy Lynn While the grassroots are moving  to have the IRS investigate the tax exempt status of churches involved in the passage of California’s repressive ban on same-sex marriage,  Grammy and Academy Award winner singer Melissa Etheridge has another plan for those un-personed by Prop 8: Okay. So Prop 8 passed. Alright, I [...]

Equal Rights Protests in Los Angeles

By: Lisa Derrick Thursday November 6, 2008 9:23 am

Over 1000  protesters in West Hollywood, upset over the passage of Prop 8 took to the streets chanting "Equal Rights."  Around midnight, while several hundred stayed in WeHo, one large group marched east along Santa Monica Blvd and another along Sunset Bvd, then up to Hollywood and Highland Blvds where a protester was arrested when [...]

Palin’s Faith Based Cognitive Dissonance

By: Lisa Derrick Sunday November 2, 2008 9:28 am

Sarah Palin has been repeatedly linked to the New Apostolic Reformation, a fundamentalist theology whose leader C. Peter Wagner declared: I declare this to the principalities and powers who have been agents of Satan to obstruct this transfer of wealth: Your time is up! Your evil powers are broken! By the blood of Jesus Christ, [...]

Palin: Support Me Or Go To Hell, Ladies

By: Lindsay Beyerstein Monday October 6, 2008 7:04 am

Looks Sarah Palin has been doing some reading.

At a rally last week she quoted former Secretary of State Madeline Albright…albeit from bon mot inscribed on her Starbucks Mocha cup. Palin said it was providential how that quote got printed on that cup just in time for her to read it. “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t support other women,” Palin said.

Victims Say Palin Charged Them For Rape Kits

By: Jane Hamsher Wednesday October 1, 2008 2:00 pm

The powerful new ad by Planned Parenthood demonstrates quite plainly that contrary to all of the spin, Sarah Palin made rape victims pay for the kits needed to prosecute their attackers.

By Creating Despair, Will GOP Supporters Woo Grunge and Goth Vote?

By: Lisa Derrick Wednesday October 1, 2008 10:21 am

McCain-Palin campaign fundraisers court punk, grunge and Goth supporters at their online store.

Right Wing Pastors Want Tax Exemption for Their Electioneering

By: Lindsay Beyerstein Monday September 29, 2008 11:48 am

The Alliance Defense Fund, a far-right Christian legal organization, is agitating to allow preachers to endorse candidates from the pulpit. Yesterday, 33 pastors in churches across the country participated in ADF’s “Pulpit Freedom Sunday” campaign by delivering political sermons and essentially daring civil society to do anything about it.

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