Today's Cultural Warfare Update

It's all out, now; I mentioned on Wednesday that the barrage would be starting, and it is. Every US organisation I monitor and several that I normally don't have the amps set to 11 to push the anti-marriage-rights Marriage Protection Amendment, and a lot of ultimatums are being delivered. Focus on the Family is placing ads in USA Today, there's occasional hints of a bolt to a third party (not included here; they're pretty oblique). Interestingly, the Traditional Values Coalition has decided the current version is unacceptable because it isn't anti-gay enough - they want outright bans also on civil unions and domestic partnerships in any form, whereas the other groups would only prefer that.

Watch for anti-gay sermonising this weekend at local churches; almost all of the theocrats are explicitly pushing for anti-gay/anti-marriage sermons, to be followed by church-led actions to support the MPA. The Family Research Council, for example, is providing sermon notes.

Canadian readers may want to note multiple Focus on the Family Canada ACTION ITEMS for British Columbia, as well.

And now, today's news.

Focus on the Family says their letter-generators aren't form letters; they do this whenever anybody criticises their astroturf getting printed;

RealClearPolitics urges federalism, opposes Federal Marriage Amendment in any form;

Volokh Conspiracy does the same; Dale Carpenter's Cato Institute paper is coming out against the topic as well;

Focus on the Family reports that President Bush is going to endorse the federal anti-marriage-rights amendment; includes ACTION ITEM to support the amendment via your senators and also to listen to President Bush's address;

FotF's 10 Things I Hate About Gays;

FotF's anti-marriage-rights ads in USA Today to target John McCain and Hillary Clinton; includes ACTION ITEM to phone Sens. McCain and Clinton;

FotF's fax-based action item to support the anti-marriage-rights amendment;

The Associated Press version of the story about Bush's impending re-endorsement of the anti-marriage-rights amendment;

Fox News: Marriage Amendment Could Soothe Angry Right;

Focus on the Family promotes The Marketing of Evil, which talks mostly about out t3h 3vil gay mafia is affecting your mind;

Focus on the Family reports on the success of the social conservative's complaint-generating machine - they've generated almost 300,000 complaints this year to the FCC about "indecency" on television; includes an ACTION ITEM to submit more complaints;

Focus on the Family's Citizen Magazine: Lesbian and gay people don't want to get married, they want to destroy sexuality and the family;

Focus on the Family's Citizen Magazine cover story is one long ACTION ITEM to support the anti-marriage-rights "Marriage Protection Amendment"; includes action items to write Senators and Representatives - it'll be coming up in the House after the Senate - and so on;

FotF: Louisiana passes comprehensive abortion ban, but the law stays itself pending an overturn of Roe v. Wade;

FotF: House Appropriations Committee votes to continue the "Mexico City Policy," a.k.a. the Global Gag Rule;

FotF: Louisiana governor Blanco will sign comprehensive abortion ban, stayed pending overturn of Roe v. Wade;

FotF: Iowa lawmakers want to be able to intervene in a state-court lawsuit against that state's marriage ban;

FotF: Anti-abortion group to receive portion of funds from "Choose Life" license plates in Indiana;

FotF: "morality and politics must intersect;" you must be for abortion bans to get fundamentalist vote; strong implications of "if you're not anti-abortion and for bans, you aren't a Republican";

CWA's Robert Knight is upset with US voting to allow GBLT groups consultive status at UN; claims that they are "too savvy" to "directly promot[e] pedophilia" but CWA knows better - CWA hasn't been saying lately so much that "queers are all child rapists," but they have a long history of saying that and it comes to the surface in this article;

CWA's Jan LaRue: Taking marriage out of state hands and making it a Constitutional matter is Federalism; in other news, black is white, and watch out for that bus at the zebra crossing;

Human Events Online runs CWA's article above on their own site;

Florida Baptist Witness: "Homosexual activists are intent upon promoting their agenda in the mass media while squelching opposing viewpoints"; this is about the public-service spots that aired on TV earlier this spring;

The Daily Standard attacks the GBLT rights movement, calling it a "hijacking" of "the civil rights legacy," calls the struggle for equality under the law a "hustle," compares it to affirmative action set-asides;

CWA links to a Christian Examiner article promoting Mission America's anti-gay "School Risk Audit" programme;

CWA promotes Louisiana bill to make divorce more difficult, increase the waiting period;

CWA's Bob Knight on the new Batwoman being a dyke, talks about how much better written and how much better characterisation the "classic" comic superhero titles were and had, to which I have only one thing to say: SUPERDICKERY!;

CWA's Bob Knight compares the ACLU to the new Dutch political party that wants to legalise pedophilia and child porn; they do, of course, make the obligatory "it's the homosexuals' fault" slur, but there's actually surprisingly little of that; I suspect from this that it's Holland's own version of the Renee Gaspard society, and not their own version of NAMBLA;

CWA's Janice Crouse on Poland anti-abortion/anti-gay(?) rally;

Family Research Council front-page push for the anti-marriage Federal amendment (MPA); includes ACTION ITEM and "fact sheet";

FRC "Marriage Protection Sunday" ACTION ITEM to distribute "sermons and other resources" to pastors for sermons to rally support for the anti-marriage amendment;

FRC's Tony Perkins to be on Good Morning America pushing the anti-marriage-rights Federal amendment;

FRC's Washington Update pushes The Advocate story on polygamy and gay men; includes ACTION ITEM for the anti-marriage "Marriage Protection Amendment";

America Family Association ACTION ITEM to support the MPA by contacting US Senators;

World Magazine: legalised civil marriage for lesbian and gay people will "roll back religious freedom"; also condemns religious leaders who have spoken out against the Federal amendment;

American Family Association claims Ford's problems are from their anti-gay boycott of Ford Motor;

AFA article reports on Bishop Gerald Glen's support for the anti-marriage amendment; "Bible Doesn't Condone Same-Sex Unions; Neither Should Lawmakers";

The AFA/Agape Press news summary has multiple zomg t3h gayz stories this Friday;

AFA starts up the Christmas Wars again this year - in June; includes ACTION ITEM to demand retailers use "Merry Christmas" (and, presumably, only "Merry Christmas") under threat of boycott;

Traditional Values Coalition opposes the anti-marriage Marriage Protection Amendment because it isn't anti-gay enough; they demand one that also bans all civil unions and domestic partnerships;

Tim Eyman makes appointment on Monday to bring in anti-gay referendum petitions;

Focus on the Family Canada ACTION ITEM against including GBLT people in social studies in BC;

FotF Canada alleges: Polygamy quietly recognised by Federal government;

FotF Canada ACTION ITEM to oppose new Canadian Aboriginal Voices Radio station on 106.3FM in Vancouver because it may interfere with broadcasts from the US radio station Spirit 106, which carries Focus on the Family programming;

From Andrew Sullivan: Focus on the Family's James Dobson's regular broadcast calls marriage rights supporters "the forces of Hell."


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