Today's Cultural Warfare Update

Missouri House votes to remove contraception from low-income health plan; move is supported by local anti-abortion groups;

There's an unattributed quote going around saying that an unnamed Republican had said that contraception for unmarried women was supporting promiscuity; I've found a primary source with direct, attributed quote;

U. Minnesota study: atheists most distrusted minourity in America; more Americans would approve of their children marrying someone of the same sex than marrying an atheist;

Middle East Quarterly has an article raising several questions about religious Muslim enclaves and Constitutional law; I dislike the headline but feel the article raises important questions;

Focus on the Family upset at new Navy chaplain guidelines saying that prayers should be non-sectarian at command events; Pat Roberton's ACLJ is "working with the Navy Department to help refine the policy";

Florida anti-marriage amendment would ban gay and lesbian marriage and any "other legal union that is treated as marriage or the substantial equivalent thereof," meaning civil unions, domestic partnerships, and so on;

Focus on the Family reports on failure of New Hampshire anti-marriage amendment, puts out an ACTION ITEM to support a Federal anti-marriage amendment;

FotF notes Virginia denies a Vermont woman's custody claim on the basis of not recognising her Vermont civil union as legal (via their anti-marriage amendment); at the same time, a Vermont court had already awarded her joint custody after their CU dissolved (the other woman converted to Christian fundamentalism); FotF calls again for a Federal anti-marriage amendment (that includes civil unions, from context) to prevent them from having ever been married (or CUed) in the first place;

Focus on the Family promotes the American Family Association's boycott of Ford Motor;

I hate it when I'm on their side; Focus on the Family puts out an ACTION ITEM on behalf of the Afghan man who converted to Christianity and now faces the death penalty for having left the Muslim faith;

FotF attacks Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which says it will be watching for electioneering by churches in 2006;

FotF ACTION ITEM to support KENTUCKY measure to ban nearly all abortions - it's very similar to South Dakota's bill; also, to oppose an HAWAII'I bill to loosen restrictions;

President Bush reaffirms support for anti-marriage amendment, FotF appends an ACTION ITEM to support the FMA;

Creationists in Arkansas realise that geology, too, is embarrassing to creationism, so: science teachers are pressured not to talk about the age of rocks;

Andrew Sullivan catches Richard Neuhaus quoting Cameron slander-studies to imply that most gay men rape children; it's good that Andrew is learning the ropes;

Iranian-trained Badr Corps militias stepping up executions of GBLT people in Iraq; American response is, quote, "indifference and derision";

Long article in The New Republic about the origins of theoconservatism in America;

More rhetoric from CWA about judicial nominees; what's interesting about this one is that Human Events Online also runs it as their own article;

CWA rails more against RU486, demanding it be pulled from the market;

Focus on the Family ACTION ITEM against Palm Beach County (Florida) zoning code;

FotF spins poll showing opposition to GBLT marriage rights has fallen; this is interesting in that they admit outright this is a time-based fight, that the younger people are, the more likely they are to support GBLT marriage rights;

Family Research Council ACTION ITEM to support the Federal Marriage Amendment via an anti-gay petition;

AFA: Ford "proves commitment to homosexual agenda" by buying ads on CBS drama Without a Trace which included brief lesbian smoochies; YAY lesbian smoochies!;

Concerned Women for America pushes AFA boycott;

Oklahoma State House passes bill moving all library books with GBLT characters or themes out of general circulation and into special "adults only" sections; also does the same with all books with "sexually explicit references"; attacks the American Library Association as "out to sexualize our children";

AFA attacks Wal-mart for plans to carry the Brokeback Mountain DVD;

Traditional Values Coalition pushes new anti-gay "report" attacking GBLT adoptions;

TVC attacks efforts by GBLT rights groups to get the UN to recognise GBLT rights as an issue;

TVC ACTION ITEM to support a "Student Speech and Association Rights" clause (section 103) in HR609, the Higher Education Act. Anybody know what this is about?;

Focus on the Family happy to report that many Canadians still see GBLT people as morally unacceptable, pushes anti-gay "reparative therapy";

Faith and Freedom Network posts some additional "talking points" against marriage rights.

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