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Todd Courser Sucks At Writing Fan Fiction and Cindy Gamrat’s “In His Grip” Didn’t Mean What She Wanted Us To Think
Saturday , 8, August 2015 LGBT Rights, Religious Fundamentalism, Same Sex Marriage, Tea Party, Tealiban 2 CommentsIf you found the blog after googling Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat, welcome. In Todd’s own words, “We are living in the last days.” How many people suspected he was talking about his political career? Anyone who screams as loudly as Gamrat and Courser about the sanctity of traditional marriage is doing so out of […]
Coheed and Cambria Sing Justice Scalia’s Dissenting Opinions #lovewins
Saturday , 27, June 2015 LGBT Rights, Same Sex Marriage Leave a commentGood morning! Coheed and Cambria Sing Justice Scalia’s Dissenting Opinions from Funny Or Die
Constitutionally The Federal Government Has No Proper Role In Marriage: Loving v. Virginia Never Happened and Other Marriage Absurdity
Sunday , 21, June 2015 LGBT Rights, Same Sex Marriage, Tea Party Leave a commentTodd Courser, the man with ideas much smaller than the forehead that houses them thinks the answer to stopping gay marriage is to strip the state of the power to perform marriages. He introduced a bill this week that would only allow ordained ministers to marry couples. This means judges, mayors, county clerks, magistrates, and […]
Gary Glenn Ignores The Reason Our Founding Fathers Decided To Have Three Branches of Government: Whines Over Supreme Court Legalizing Gay Marriage
Sunday , 17, May 2015 LGBT Rights, Same Sex Marriage Leave a commentIt’s clear from watching Gary Glenn on the most recent episode of Capital Report on PBS (And what is Gary Glenn doing on evil socialist Public Television funded by private property theft i.e. tax dollars?) that he doesn’t think too highly of the Founding Fathers or the U.S. Constitution. In the first fifteen minutes of […]
Michigan Republicans Adopt Resolution Demanding SCOTUS Respect States’ Rights: Anti-Marbury v. Madison Edition
Monday , 4, May 2015 LGBT Rights, Same Sex Marriage Leave a commentStraws, meet Clutching. Right-wing religious authoritarians in the United States are terrified because they know the end of treating same sex couples as second class citizens no longer is a matter of if, but when. Their ability to discriminate against people of the LGBT community makes them cry out they’re the ones being discriminated against. […]
Michigan Women’s Music Festival Ends After 40 Years
Thursday , 23, April 2015 Community, LGBT Rights, Michigan Women Leave a commentSince 1976 in a secluded wooded setting in Northern Michigan women from all over the world gathered to share space and music at the Michigan Women’s Music Festival. This haven for lesbian and feminist folk began for the purpose of creating women or womyn-only space where lesbian feminist issues could be discussed in a safe […]
Gary Glenn Almost Apologizes To Tony Lascari For “Agenda Alert” Then Files Amicus Brief With SCOTUS
Tuesday , 7, April 2015 LGBT Rights, Tea Party Leave a commentAgenda Alert — Midland Daily News’ new news editor: political science major who “lives in Midland with (his)… http://t.co/nz4yJobcHO — Gary Glenn (@GaryGlennUS) March 22, 2015 While most people spent the last Sunday morning eating eggs and candy, Gary Glenn (R-Homophobe) Waited until the early morning to issue a statement that attempts to mimic an […]