Today's Cultural Warfare Update

Focus on the Family action item to support an anti-marriage amendment to the Texas state Constitution;

FotF article news article criticising ACLU for opposing anti-gay law in Wisconson - Republicans hire "Christian legal firm" to fight the action;

FotF article - Sen. Brownback demanding action on Federal anti-marriage act;

Bill Moyers speech about Republican pressure against PBS and NPR's news coverage;

James Dobson whines about being picked on again; Your Editor plays the world's tiniest violin, and reminds her readers again about the DECADES of blood libel his group has propagated against queers;

FotF action item and article: the showdown as begun; tells its readership to call your senators now;

FotF article; House to consider removing Pledge of Allegiance cases from court purview;

Concerned Women for America article against women in combat-support positions;

CWA launches Arizona anti-marriage amendment petition drive for 2006 elections;

CWA attacks attempts at Judicial filibuster compromise, comparing Senator Nelson (R-SC) to British Prime Minister Chamberlain and his compromise to agreements with Hitler over Austria and Czechoslovakia;

Very frothy and rather confusion CWA attack on Democratic senators and Republicans who would build a compromise solution, alleging they want judges who will reward arsonists(?);

CWA rails against hate crimes - talks about how violent reactions to interest from gayfolk shouldn't, for example, be considered a hate crime; this goes back to their longstanding position that violent reactions against queers shouldn't be officially tolerated but are understandable, "natural" reactions to the "revulsion" to gayfolk (latter quotes are terms from older broadcasts, not this one);

Traditional Values Coalition gets their two cents in, demanding a change in filibuster rules;

TVC pushing anti-marriage state constitutional amendment in California.

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