All Entries Tagged With: "hypochristian"
Gayborhood News: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
By: Emily Scagel/TRT Assistant Editor– Boston, MA Report outlines how religious arguments undermine women and LGBTs A report entitled Redefining Religious Liberty: The Covert Campaign Against Civil Rights details how a network of Christian organizations has successfully fought pro-choice and LGBT civil rights legislation by saying that it infringes on religious liberty. The findings state [...]
Creep of the Week: American Family Association’s Sandy Rios
By: D’Anne Witkowski/Special to TRT– If there’s one thing kids in America hear too often it’s how totally cool and fantastic homosexuality is. Once upon a time there was a lot of anti-gay hate in schools: kids would call other kids “fag” and teachers would just look the other way, same-sex couples weren’t allowed to [...]
Creep of the Week: Matt Barber Cowardly Goes After Gay Teens
By: D’Anne Witkowski*/Special to TRT– If any of my readers have daddy issues and get off on being told “you’re a bad bad boy,” you’ll love Matt Barber’s new slash fiction open letter to the gays. Published on Feb. 25 on the WND (Wing-Nut Daily) website, Barber’s “An Open Letter to ‘Gay’ Teens” is a [...]
Creep of the Week: Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council
By: D’Anne Witkowski*/Special for TRT– As I write this gays and lesbians are celebrating the fact that President Obama called for equal rights for everyone, not just straight people, during his Inaugural address. This was the first time a President has expressed his support for gays and lesbians at this event. Conservatives, on the other [...]
Creep News: Pope Benedict XVI – Judging & Hating; His “Christian” Way
By: D’Anne Witkowski*/Special for TRT– There are a lot of things that threaten world peace: The ready availability of assault rifles. The Military Industrial Complex. Terrorism. Chemical weapons. Nuclear arms. Global warming. Religious intolerance. Greed. Power hungry dictators. The War on Drugs. Vast inequality. You know, just to name a few little things. But I [...]
Creep of the Week: Justice Antonin Scalia’s Homosexual Stance
By: D’Anne Witkowski*/Special for TRT– A famous Italian Catholic has had a big change of heart regarding marriage equality after publicly saying some pretty nasty things about gays. “I’m upset about the way I was portrayed,” this public figure said. “What you see in the media is not the real me. Gay people should be [...]
Gayborhood News: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
By: Emily Scagel/TRT Assistant Editor– Baltimore, MD Marriage equality approved at ballot box in Maryland Maryland voters approved the Civil Marriage Protection Act, which paves the way for gay and lesbian couples to receive a marriage license. This is the first time that any state has voted on and passed marriage equality on the ballot. [...]
Creep of the Week: Rick ‘Douche’ Santorum
By: D’Anne Witkowski*/Special for TRT– Look, loyal readers of my column. I know what you’re going to say: “Rick Santorum again? Haven’t you written enough about this douche bag filled with methane gas? He’s not even running for or even in office. At this point paying him any mind, even to call him a creep, [...]
Creep of the Week: The Dishonorable Bryan Fischer Now Attacks Bisexuals & Transgenders Too
By: D’Anne Witkowski*/Special for TRT– Hey, did you know that September 23 was “Bisexual Visibility Day?” I, personally, did not. So if you did nothing to celebrate, perhaps you can be forgiven since this bisexual day only exists, in official capacity anyway, in Berkeley, California. The day was intended to “recognize and celebrate bisexuality history, [...]
Romney Speech Leaves Gays Out of Tomorrow’s “Better Future”
By: Chuck Colbert/TRT Reporter– The Republican Party’s presidential nominee Mitt Romney received a rousing reception, making his way through a spirited crowd on the convention floor, approaching the podium to address delegates in the Tampa Convention Center. Last night’s choreography evoked images of the president walking through the aisles of Congress before delivering a State [...]
Creep of the Week: “Reverend” William Owens & His Judgment of Gays, Pres. Obama
By: D’Anne Witkowski*/Special to TRT– Can we just get one thing clear? If you’re black and Christian then the thought of same-sex couples makes you puke and if it doesn’t then you are a “Judas” and/or not really black and/or not really Christian. Black vs. Christian Barack Obama, that means you. At least it does [...]
Creep of the Week: Louis Sheldon, No Traditional Values, Just Hatred
By: D’Anne Witkowski*/Special for TRT– Gayship Enterprise to base, do you read me? I repeat, Gayship Enterprise to base. We are closing in on our target. The U.S.A. will soon be the U.S.G.H.L., the United States of Gay Homo Lesbos. We have permission to land. That’s the kind of message I imagine Louis Sheldon “intercepting” [...]
From Charismatic Bigot to Marriage Equality Advocate
Meet A Former Christian Who Found Love And Now Promotes GLBT Rights DALLAS, Texas – If you had asked Aaron Plaat to define “bigot” just a few short years ago, he probably would have laughed and told you he was far from the hateful word. Presently, his opinion on the question has changed. “Being honest [...]
Creep of the Week: The Hypocritical Sinless Tony Perkins
By: D’Anne Witkowski*/Special for TRT– I wince every time I see Tony Perkins’s face on TV. Perkins, the president of the vehemently anti-gay Family Research Council, often has a microphone shoved in his face whenever there’s a marriage equality story. It’s as if newsrooms across the country feel compelled to “balance” these stories by calling [...]
Virulent Anti-Gay Santorum Finally Out of Republican Race; Thank you!
By: Lisa Keen/Keen News Service– Former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum was one of the most virulently anti-gay candidates in the large field of Republican presidential wannabes who started out last year. And most political observers said early on and often that Santorum’s harsh positions against gays and same-sex marriage were dooming his chances to carry [...]
