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Bored and feel like subjecting yourself to Concerned Women for America's fundamentalist political screeds without going through their presentation filters? It looks like they leave their streaming-media server share public, and, for bonus points, it auto-generates directory views. Cooooooooooool. I wonder what's in there! I mean, sure, it's probably just the same crap you can get to through their webpage, but then again, maybe it's not!

Today's Cultural Warfare Update

Andrew Sullivan and InOpinion notice the Focus on the Family fake letter generator, and includes a number to call Focus on the Family and protest the fakery;

Focus on the Family's latest news article and ACTION ITEM to - of course - send more fake letters to editors at newspapers across the country - see above;

FotF demands more action on fundamentalist issues in Congress;

US Conference of Catholic Bishops endorses anti-marriage-rights Marriage Protection Amendment; includes ACTION ITEM to call Senators to support passage;

11th Circuit Court of Appeals orders lower court to re-try a case ruling against anti-evolutionary-theory activists and the Discovery Institute, a creationist organisation;

Focus on the Family pushes a book on the "War on Christmas" and going on about how Christians are oppressed in America;

Focus on the Family applauds President Bush's new domestic-policy advisor, Karl Zinsmeister, who has written for Focus on the Family's in-house magazine Citizen magazine (mostly on Iraq); they're a little worried that he hasn't devoted enough time to anti-abortion activism in the past;

California governor Schwarzenegger promises to veto state Senate Bill 1437; includes ACTION ITEM to support the promised veto and to urge the house to reject it; SB 1437 would require that lesson plans not be anti-gay and that history include mentions that GBLT historical figures were, in fact GBLT - that latter part is from Focus on the Family's description;

Focus on the Family responds to Playboy saying it's the parents' responsibility to watch what children get access to, and an effort on Playboy's part to teach how to use parental controls; FotF says "the only responsible action Playboy could take is to cease its operations entirely"; FotF is on record as wanting governmental bans;

Faith and Freedom Network complains about Seattle City Light and a complaint from an employee there about them "invit[ing] its employees to participate in the Gay Pride Parade"; he sent around an email pushing the "ex-gay" movement "Love Won Out," pushed by Focus on the Family, and two people filed complaints;

FFN sends out anti-LBGT-civil-rights bill update on Referendum 65, to repeal the LBGT civil rights bill;

Family Research Council applauds passage of Internet Gambling Prohibition Act through the House Judiciary Committee;

American Family Association condemns Ford for advertising in The Advocate - specifically for advertising in an issue with an article about polyamoury, apparently; an article about gay men "promotes homosexual polygamy," which is, um, a neat trick; AFA take credit for Ford's stock drop and include an ACTION ITEM against Ford;

LifeNews: two FDA heads in a row intervened to keep Plan B off the market; they also repeat the LIE chant that Plan B causes abortions;

American Family Association/Agape Press pushes for anti-marriage amendment; runs article claiming that there can be no scriptural basis for opposing anti-gay discrimination (this in response to a religious coalition building against the amendment); also, the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina is preparing to, "forbid member churches from ordaining homosexual clergy, making public statements supporting homosexuality, or accepting as members people who have refused to 'repent of the sin of homosexual behavior'";

AFA/Agape Press rail against Massachusetts's Governor's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth, calling it "depraved";

California legislator withdraws bill confirming custodial parent's right to move after a divorce; it was backed by domestic violence groups; "Such groups 'want to insist that if there's a divorce or separation, Mom should be able to do whatever she wishes with her kids,' Sacks insists." Such as, apparently, move away from a divorced spouce. God forbid that be thought of as okay; the obvious paradigm of control here is pretty unmistakable to me;

Traditional Values Coalition urges Congress to reject AIDS funding to Global AIDS Fund;

TVC rails against the overturning as unconstitutional an Arkansas law banning recognition of adoptions by lesbian and gay people in other states, uses it to push the "We, The People Act" which would ban courts from hearing anti-gay-law cases (HR4379); also includes ACTION ITEM to support the act;

TVC endorses the anti-gay "Risk Audit Project," a Mission America effort to have Southern Baptists investigate local public schools for any sign of LGBT tolerance (including anti-discrimination codes for faculty and students) and remove children from public schools where it is found; as usual, they link to their "Homosexuals Recruit Public School Children" horror PDF;

TVC upset that Kansas governor vetoed an "abortion statistics" bill that required doctors and women to report all abortions and statistics about to the state;

TVC ACTION ITEM to support "Holly's Law," a bill to remove RU-486 from the market;

The Chicago Tribune carries an op ed saying that lesbians and gays being able to marry will make churches "suffer"; the author also criticises Lawrence v. Texas, which declared making lesbian and gay people outright illegal to be unconstitutional, without mentioning the case by name;

LA Times article on the unmarried (heterosexual) couple with children ordered to get married or move out of their home; Concerned Women for America's Robert Knight is quoted, supporting the move-out order;

CWA's Robert Knight writes on "Why a Marriage Protection Amendment is Needed," and includes the assertion that "rogue legislators are creating counterfeits" (such as domestic parnterships and civil unions), so the fight is now both against judges and legitimately-elected legislatures;

CWA's Robert Knight - he's a busy boy! - has "an update on the proposed amendment;" being an audio feature, it has more red-meat than usual in it; I transcribed it, like y'do;

Russian gays march in Moscow in violation of ban, are arrested;

CWA's Robert Knight complains about how oppressed Christians are in the United States with all this "Christian-bashing," which typically means in fundyland any opposition to their attempt to legislate religion, talks with William Donohue, President of the Catholic League about it; I'd do the transcription, but it's b0rken; checking on what's going on... oh wow, their media server exposes its directories! Coooooool. I wonder what else might be in there;

Canada Family Action Coalition: gays are paedophiles;

Focus on the Family Canada: We'll win the culture wars by demographics - we have more kids;

FotF Canada: Alberta MP's attempt to introduce an "unborn child protection bill"; Catholic Civil Rights League hopes it will be supported and then will use it to re-open the abortion debate in Canada.

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