The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

While some conservatives have openly admitted that, "It's inevitable; we're going to lose the gay marriage rights battle," others continue to be in denial. One such group is the Family Research Council (FRC), which wrote the following in their daily email blast: "[There is] growing opposition [among middle-aged adults]. The gap is widening between Millennials and their Generation X counterparts. ...the children of Madonna and Ferris Bueller are noticeably more reluctant to redefine marriage than they used to be." This claim was made due to the results found in two Pew Research Center polls released in 2005 and 2015. In 2005, the gap between Millennials and Generation Xers on marriage equality was 5%, whereas that gap in 2015 is 14%. Technically speaking, the Family Research Council is accurate in their reported numbers (gaps), but they're quite inaccurate when it comes to their assertion that Generation Xers' support for same-sex marriage has d...

I've felt for some time that Mike Huckabee has been veering further and further to the side I like to refer to as "crazy town," but based on his most recent such comments, it appears as if the man has now officially lost it and will now be permanently residing in crazy town. During a recent conference call with conservative pastors, organized by the uber-conservative Family Research Council, Huckabee made the following comments: - "Christian convictions are under attack as never before. Not just in our lifetime, but ever before in the history of this great nation. We are moving rapidly towards the criminalization of Christianity." - "If the courts rule that people have a civil right not only to be a homosexual but a civil right to have a homosexual marriage, then a homosexual couple coming to a pastor who believes in biblical marriage who says 'I can't perform that wedding' will now be breaking the law. It's not just saying, 'I...

Former U.S. Lieutenant General William G. "Jerry" Boykin recently gave an interesting speech on behalf of the Family Research Council at the WallBuilders' Pro-Family Legislators Conference, where he said the following: "The Lord is a warrior and in Revelation 19 it says when he comes back, he's coming back as what? A warrior. A might warrior leading a slight army, riding a white horse with a blood-stained white robe ... I believe that blood on that robe is the blood of his enemies 'cause he's coming back as a warrior carrying a sword. And I believe now - I've checked this out - I believe that sword he'll be carrying when he comes back is an AR-15. Now I want you to think about this: where did the Second Amendment come from? ... From the Founding Fathers, it's in the Constitution. Well, yeah, I know that. But where did the whole concept come from? It came from Jesus when he said to his disciples 'now, if you don't have a sword, se...

As I've written about previously, Republican Ohio Senator Rob Portman made news not long ago after writing an op-ed in the Columbus Dispatch sharing his support for gay marriage rights, largely due to his son Will coming out of the closet. While some liberals have not been very forgiving of Senator Portman due to his previous anti-gay marriage rights commentary, I've tried to welcome the man to the ever expanding circle fighting for gay rights. Also, while some liberals have not been very welcoming of Senator Portman's evolved views on the issue of gay rights, it has appeared as if most die-hard conservatives have been even less welcoming of them. Following the release of Senator Portman's op-ed, right-wing blog Government Is Not God gave warning to the senator that homosexuality "may eventually kill his son from AIDS, other sexually transmitted diseases, or oral cancer." I know - isn't that sweet? I have a feeling I know what the writers over at Gov...

The far right-wing Family Research Council has shown their true colors yet again, those of: Lunacy, denial, ignorance, narrow-mindedness, and cavemen. Not only have they come after gays' sex and marriage rights, but they're now coming after single people's sex and birth control rights, regardless of their orientation. Tony Perkins - the head of the Family Research Council - had senior FRC member Pat Fagan on his radio show, where Fagan said the following about the Supreme Court's 1972 decision when it overturned a state law that banned unmarried people from purchasing birth control: "The court decided that single people have the right to contraceptives. What's that got to do with marriage? Everything, because what the Supreme Court essentially said is single people have the right to engage in sexual intercourse. Well, societies have always forbidden that, there were laws against it. [...] It's not the contraception, everybody thinks it's about con...