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Gary Glenn Continues to Hate People Who Are Not Gary Glenn: My Name’s in the News Edition
Sunday , 22, November 2015 LGBT Rights, Nerd Problems, Religious Fundamentalism, Same Sex Marriage, Tea Party, Tealiban 10 CommentsGary Glenn documented every instance of his name on his Facebook page this week in relation to Rick Snyder being the first state governor to ban, then put on hold relocating Syrian refugees to Michigan. Glenn shared his press release and quotes from online news, broadcast, and print sources such as Midland Daily News, Mlive, […]
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 […]
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. […]
Fear is a powerful motivator. Words, actions and intentions we would never consider reality become perfectly normal when reacting to what scares us. Among friends, even those who are highly educated, the irrational fear that makes people accept what is simply not true is even less understandable. The Democratic Party in Michigan worked tirelessly this […]