(NEWS) Today's Cultural Warfare Update

New Jersey appeals court rules against marriage equality - FotF article;

Focus on the Family/Family Research Council effort to discredit studies showing abstinence-only education programmes backfiring;

Former Alabama judge Roy Moore, kicked out of office for refusing to obey a judicial order, is considering a run for governor;

Today's Family News in Focus;

Focus on the Family starts second-round of newspaper anti-filibuster-compromise ad campaign - ads include action items;

Bush appointee Scott Bloch, head of the Office of Special Council in the Bush administration, dropped GLBT hiring/firing protections, so that people could be fired for being queer. He's one of several who have done so, and is under fire for the action. Concerned Women for America has an action item out to support him for dropping these job protections;

CWA happiness about a transman losing the latest round of a custody fight with his ex-wife in Florida - _lots_ of contempt shown for transmen in this one;

CWA intern rantfest about the horrors of a gay pride parade in DC, where she's interning ("women dressed like Oregon loggers... the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington performed, featuring a giant lookalike Ernie puppet (they even found a way to desecrate Sesame Street");

CWA attacks California Republican fundraiser for "welcom[ing] folks from the pornography industry."

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