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Colorado: Focus donates $115,266 to Maine gay marriage fight

Topix Gay News  Nov 07 09

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado - Conservative Christian group Focus on the Family donated just over $115,000 to the fight against gay marriage in Maine.
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Over $9M Spent On Maine's Question 1

Joe My God  Nov 05 09

The National Institute on Money in State Politics has sent us the above breakdown of the groups and amounts funding both sides of Maine's Question 1.
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Focus donates $115,266 to Maine gay marriage fight

Yahoo Gay News / Boston Globe  Nov 05 09

Conservative Christian group Focus on the Family donated just over $115,000 to the fight against gay marriage in Maine.
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Focus donates $115266 to Maine gay marriage fight

Google Gay Marriage News / Seattle Post Intelligencer  Nov 05 09

Boston Globe Focus donates $115266 to Maine gay marriage fightSeattle Post IntelligencerConservative Christian group Focus on the Family donated just over $115000 to the fight against gay marriage in Maine.
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Americans are Not on Board with This Gay Marriage Thing

Gay Agenda  Nov 04 09

From the NY Times: “Maggie Gallagher, president of the National Organization for Marriage, the conservative Christian group that is leading the charge against same-sex marriage around the country”, stated: “It (the loss of marriage equality in Maine) interrupts the story line that is being manufactured, that suggests the culture has shifted on gay marriage and the fight [.
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Evangelical leader Dobson leaving radio show

365 Gay News  Oct 31 09

(Denver) James Dobson, the voice of conservative Christian group Focus on the Family, will no longer host its flagship radio broadcast and is cutting formal ties with the organization that he founded more than 30 years ago, the evangelical group said Friday.
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News Brief (Ekklesia)

Yahoo Lesbian News  Oct 29 09

Supporters of gay, lesbian and bisexual people's rights have expressed support for the freedom of those who criticise them, casting doubt on claims by a Christian group who suggested that gay rights activists are trying to stifle free speech.
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53 Republicans Join Smear Campaign Agaist Gay Official

Topix Gay News  Oct 15 09

Some 53 Republicans have joined a self proclaimed "Christian" group that apparently supports the "traditional family value" of smear and innuendo campaigns has launched another attack against a gay educator working in the Obama Administration.
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Budget woes force Focus on the Family layoffs

Washington Blade National News  Sep 11 09

Budget woes force Focus on the Family layoffs 75 employees to lose jobs By Staff & Wire Reports Friday, September 11, 2009 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.
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Wisconsin AG refuses to defend new DP law against Christian group's lawsuit

Pams House blend  Aug 21 09

I wish I could say I'm surprised, but I'm really not. In a country where 42 states have anti-gay amendments voted into their Constitutions and President Obama's own Justice Department is under instruction to defend discriminatory, unconstitutional laws stripping us of our rights to due process and equal protection, we've become accustomed to this kind of hateful crap.
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AFA steals from Bilerico Project

Bilerico  Aug 20 09

Why does the American Family Institute (AFA) and their local affiliates feel that they are above both the rule of law and the the rules set forth in the Bible they claim to follow so closely?

In June of 2007, I had to send a cease and desist letter to the AFA for stealing a copyrighted photo we ran on the site.
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$6 million budget shortfall forces Focus on the Family to drop Ex-Gay program

Topix Gay News  Aug 12 09

Citing a "serious budget shortfall" the conservative Christian group, Focus on the Family has been prompted to issue a special fundraising plea, and has also decided to hand over control of its contentious "Love Won Out" Ex-Gay program to another religious organization, a FotF spokesman said Tuesday.
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Evangelical group faces ’serious’ shortfall

365 Gay News  Aug 12 09

(Denver) A "serious budget shortfall" at Focus on the Family has prompted the conservative Christian group to issue a special fundraising plea, and contributed to a decision to cede control of its contentious "Love Won Out" conferences about homosexuality to another religious organization, a spokesman said Tuesday.
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CHRISTIAN GROUP WANTS GAYS ISOLATED FROM COMMUNITY

Homovision  Aug 10 09

A Russian Christian group has asked local authorities to move all gay clubs away from residential, sports, educational, cultural and media areas.
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Better Luck Next Time

Gay Agenda  Aug 06 09

Back in the fall of 2008, the conservative Christian group the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) organized “Pulpit Freedom Sunday,” a sort-of civil disobedience event for which pastors were encouraged to use their pulpits to endorse John McCain and challenge IRS regulations prohibiting such political activity by tax-exempt institutions.
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Peter LaBarbera repeats Paul Cameron lie about homosexuality and cigarettes

Pams House blend  Jul 26 09

crossposted on Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Yet more proof regarding what I said last week about the religious right and their links to discredited researcher Paul Cameron has come about via our friend (and I use that as an extreme euphemism) Peter LaBarbera and his phony Christian group American for Truth:LaBarbera Calls for Federal Studies on the Health Risks of Homosexual Behavior More Dangerous than Smoking? Men who have had sex with men since 1977 have an HIV prevalence 60 times higher than the general population and 800 times higher than first time blood donors, the FDA reports.
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Wisconsin Book Burning Battle Goes On

Joe My God  Jul 23 09

Remember the Christian group that wants to burn a gay-themed book that they found in their Milwaukee-area library? The battle rages on and the Christianists now want the library to stock books by "ex-gays" in order to "balance" any books that positively depict homosexuality.
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Dobson Uses Tax Free Funds for Discrimination

Gay Agenda  Jul 16 09

That’s right, the extremely bigoted and homophobic James Dobson (thought this guy was going to retire) is back at it, this time with a large donation of his tax-free dollars to help stop marriage equality from entering the state of Maine.
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RachelWatch: Sharks, Slime, and the Senate

365 Entertainment and Sports  Jul 16 09

C Street Band Rachel started us off with continuing coverage of the secretive far-right Christian group The Family.
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Atheism Ad Campaign Hits NYC

Joe My God  Jun 25 09

The ad campaign promoting atheism has reached NYC. The New York commercials were inspired by the first Atheist Bus Campaign in London last January.
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