Today's Cultural Warfare Update
Oct. 8th, 2005 12:00 pmFocus on the Family promotes new FCC website for broadcast indecency complaints;
Reality-show fundamentalist fake-candidate to run for House;
Fundamentalist evangelical ministry-based foster care house losing so far in fight to keep state funding;
Air Force Academy sued by graduate over religious harassment - he's Jewish, talks about coercion to convert;
Ohio "Choose Life" plate lawsuit (funds go to anti-abortion counseling groups) - where NARAL, the ACLU, and others sued because no abortion-rights plates were offered - dismissed from Federal court over jurisdictional issues;
FotF article on lawsuit against Massachusetts's law prohibiting marriage for non-resident citizens challenge - notable because it doesn't use scare quotes around the word marriage;
FotF article endorsing Marriet Miers because she's a "deeply committed Christian" - the irony about using a religious test to support a candidate after railing about supposed religious tests to oppose candidates is lost on them. Most of this is from the show I transcribed;
FotF derides new group opposed to creationism and its proxy, intelligent design;
CWFA article: "homosexual activists are recruiting kids into homosexual sex and a “gay” identity, using “tolerance” as a ruse";
CWFA links to LA Times article about RU-486 lawsuit;
World Magazine profile and discussion about Harriet Miers;
Traditional Values Coalition attacks "pornographic" Victoria's Secret window display in Virginia as "half-naked," "sexually suggestive," and "lesbianism" - CWA has also run items against it;
TVC: ‘Time’ Magazine’s ‘Gay Teen’ Cover Story Written By Homosexual;
TVC attacks Associated Press as "normalising gender-bending" by teens.
( Articles and excerpts )
Reality-show fundamentalist fake-candidate to run for House;
Fundamentalist evangelical ministry-based foster care house losing so far in fight to keep state funding;
Air Force Academy sued by graduate over religious harassment - he's Jewish, talks about coercion to convert;
Ohio "Choose Life" plate lawsuit (funds go to anti-abortion counseling groups) - where NARAL, the ACLU, and others sued because no abortion-rights plates were offered - dismissed from Federal court over jurisdictional issues;
FotF article on lawsuit against Massachusetts's law prohibiting marriage for non-resident citizens challenge - notable because it doesn't use scare quotes around the word marriage;
FotF article endorsing Marriet Miers because she's a "deeply committed Christian" - the irony about using a religious test to support a candidate after railing about supposed religious tests to oppose candidates is lost on them. Most of this is from the show I transcribed;
FotF derides new group opposed to creationism and its proxy, intelligent design;
CWFA article: "homosexual activists are recruiting kids into homosexual sex and a “gay” identity, using “tolerance” as a ruse";
CWFA links to LA Times article about RU-486 lawsuit;
World Magazine profile and discussion about Harriet Miers;
Traditional Values Coalition attacks "pornographic" Victoria's Secret window display in Virginia as "half-naked," "sexually suggestive," and "lesbianism" - CWA has also run items against it;
TVC: ‘Time’ Magazine’s ‘Gay Teen’ Cover Story Written By Homosexual;
TVC attacks Associated Press as "normalising gender-bending" by teens.
( Articles and excerpts )