Wow! This week’s BWA goes to Cleveland Right to Life, who have shown appalling dedication to HATE. In a move that shows how intertwined misogyny and homophobia are, these Clevelanders have extended their mission from working against women’s health to include opposing marriage equality. This is what I would call a BIG BALL OF HATE. Those of you in the greater Cleveland area may need to take cover. I suspect this type of intense hate is enough to catch the Cuyahoga River on fire again.
Shall we also talk about how this move translates into not only homophobia, misogyny, and classism, but it also ties directly into racism? These Cleveland Right to Lifers are targeting the most vulnerable and marginalized populations and the impact is far more severe if you are a woman of color or a gay person of color.
The announcement of this expansion of bigotry came as the group responded to Sen. Rob Portman’s (R – OH) announcement that he supported marriage equality because his son is gay. explaining their need to hate more people, Cleveland Right to Life officials observed that marriage equality, euthanasia, and abortion are all
contrary to the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God … every human life is created by the sexual union of male and female.
God forbid a parent should carefully consider policy that impacts his child and then make an informed, compassionate decision. NO! Jesus said no abortions and hate the gays and hate women! Well, they’re sure he meant to, anyway…
Hero of the Week Award: March 16, GLAAD
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In a world where the so-called liberal media are desperate to demonstrate their editorial balance, homophobic monsters often serve as commentators on news programs. Even though opposing civil rights is bigotry, not balance, cowardly editorial policies often allow the likes of Matt Barber, Maggie Gallagher, and Tony Perkins to spew their hate as though it was a reasonable counterpoint. This week GLAAD (the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) launched a new project to help counter the use of representatives of designated hate groups as reasonable contributors to the national dialogue.
The Commentator Accountability Project provides profiles of over two dozen of the most nefarious and frequently heard anti-gay bigots. GLAADCAP does the research that effective reporting organizations ought to do for themselves, demonstrating the true nature of these people who are often careful to moderate their commentary on national news programs. GLAAD describes the Project in this way:
Thank you, GLAAD for providing this great tool for seeing the true words and feelings of the truly IMbalanced bigots in the anti-gay army.
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