solarbird | Feb. 19th, 2007

Here, have a mini-update. More to come, I'm studying for my bio midterm on Wednesday and also trying to finish up my tax prep. God damn I hate doing taxes.

Mitt Romney claims that Sam Brownback used to be pro-choice too; however, Senator Brownback's people say, "oh, HELL no he wasn't";

New Republic notices that the theocon-backed "gay marriage" bans are designed to hurt queers in any way possible, and that the "protecting marriage" thing is mostly spin;

Houston Chronicle condemns "freakish memo" against evolutionary theory in classrooms;

American Family Association puts out a very old-school ACTION ITEM against "sickness masquerading as art" at Sundance;

AFA ACTION ITEM against Ford Motor for advertising on a show called "Dirt," which had a January 16 episode including implied gay sex;

Family Research Council ACTION ITEM against what they call "mandatory HPV vaccination of schoolgirls," which is to say including the HPV anti-cervical-cancer vaccine in the standard school set. Note that the use of the word "mandatory" is a lie; Texas law lets you opt out of even the school vaccination programme. The reason they oppose the HPV vaccine, even on an opt-out basis, because it will "be administered in a manner that promotes the myth of 'safe sex.'";

Family Research Council ACTION ITEM against a health exemption in a parental-notification law in New Hampshire;

Traditional Values Coalition condemns Hawai'i effort to pass civil unions, which it describes as "the same thing as homosexual marriage";

TVC ACTION ITEM condemning Massachusetts for including same-sex couples in descriptions of state marriage, marriage of same-sex couples being legal in the state and all;

TVC, which has advocated the policy that transgendered people should be involuntarily institutionalised, condemns the University of Southern Maine for adjusting its housing rules to deal with transgendered people and also gay and lesbian students;

TVC condemns teenaged transwoman in Germany, calling GRS "genital mutilation";

TVC condemns attempts to "lure Christians to Democrat Party," asserts that the "Sojourners" Christian group is "more in line with the old Soviet Union than with America".

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