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Westboro Baptist Church celebrates Boston Marathon explosion (IrishCentral)

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 05:03:03 PDT

There's no tragedy too painful for those self-styled Christians over at the Westboro Baptist Church Yesterday they publicly celebrated the Boston Marathon Explosion and announced their plans to protest the funerals of the innocent people killed, one of which will reportedly include an eight year old boyAs the majority of citizens expressed their distress and compassion for the grief stricken city Westboro sent them a message of hate The Obama administration is currently focused on apprehending the culprits responsible for the appalling attack but the Westboro group claim they really know who is behind the killings: God, in His fury over same sex marriage READ MORE

Father Gerald Murray says gays are oppressing and victimizing Catholics - VIDEO (IrishCentral)

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 05:33:32 PDT

Father Gerald MurrayI'm on a diet That means you're attacking my freedom and undermining my beliefs each time -you- eat a doughnut I'm serious, you're doing me harm OK not actual harm, try metaphysical harm READ MORE

Bill O'Reilly reinvents his own past to blast Bill Clinton over DOMA (IrishCentral)

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 05:32:37 PDT

Bill O'Reilly looks back and sees only other people's folliesWrite this down: Bill O'Reilly has accused his namesake Bill Clinton of 'sleazy' political pandering to the gays Clinton, O'Reilly said, was a 'phony' because he signed the Republican written and introduced (and Republican Party platform endorsed) Defense Of Marriage Act (DOMA) in 1996 rather than face the wrath of voters over the issueIn a further bit of impressive historical revisionism O'Reilly then accused Clinton of signing DOMA, a toxic bit of homophobia barely disguised as a bill, because it was 'popular' rather than principled 'You can change your mind on the issue, but you have to explain that in context other than politics,' said O’Reilly READ MORE

Right-wing pundit Bill O’Reilly compares anti-gay marriage protesters to bible bashers - VIDEO (IrishCentral)

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 04:58:03 PDT

By: KERRY O’SHEA

Bill O’Reilly, host of ‘The O’Reilly Factor’ on FOX News, said on Tuesday that those in favor of same-sex marriage have presented the more compelling argument in the brewing battle that is currently being debated in the Supreme Court.

Irish ministers SpunOut over sex ed article on threesomes (IrishCentral)

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 09:47:30 PDT

Fine Gael's Michelle Mulherin and Irish PM Enda KennyCuriously, the most vocal segment of Irish society in matters of sex and sexuality are also usually the ones who would prefer if matters of sex and sexuality were never discussed, anywhere, everHow's that for a bit of Irish irony?It's because, since the foundation of the state, Ireland has always done a bang up job of providing comprehensive sex education to it's youth Choosing traditional teaching sites like tree huts, bike sheds, piers, abandoned council estates, quiet alleyways, changing rooms, porn on the internet, scout camps and all too often local sacristies, generations of Irish boys and girls have learned the facts of life from their informed elders in countless unexpected ways, occasionally involving non-consensual demonstrations Because when you don't know the facts, its much harder to make informed choices about anything, isn't it? But don't tell that to the nations most conservative parents and religious organizations, because they they can't see any sign of failure at all READ MORE

Cardinal Keith O'Brien was turned in by his priest boyfriend (IrishCentral)

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 05:32:23 PDT

Cardinal Keith O'BrienWhen will this charade ever end? That's the question most people are asking about O'BrienI'm not talking about the duplicitous, vindictive and amoral villain on PBS's Dontown Abbey, although on reflection I suppose I might as well beI'm talking about former Scottish Cardinal Keith O'Brien, until last month the most senior Catholic in the United KingdomYesterday morning I involuntarily dropped my spoon into my porridge reading about the real reason for O'Brien's downfall: his ex-boyfriend, a priest, turned him in READ MORE

Gay anti-bullying group booted from Cincinnati Saint Patrick’s Day parade (IrishCentral)

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 04:27:18 PDT

By: PATRICK COUNIHAN

Organizers of Cincinnati’s St Patrick’s Day parade have banned a leading gay and lesbian group because their event is based around a Catholic feast day.

Pope harming families he claims he's saving - reflections on Vatican's New Year comments on gay people 'threatening world peace' (IrishCentral)

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 05:30:29 PST

Christmas is a time for good fellowship and compassion, so you might not have noticed what the Pope was up to At a time when most of us are encouraged to help our fellow man, Benedict XVI was instead informing the globe that gay people are 'threatening world peace' I'm not making this up I really couldn't READ MORE

Republican's Mitt Romney - an anti-gay bully (IrishCentral)

Fri, 11 May 2012 06:15:12 PDT

Like most people, I remember the kind of boy that we've just learned Mitt Romney was Boys like that had prominent fathers and they inherited from them a certain ease, a certain social confidenceI vividly remember the way boys like that talked about women among themselves: like they were livestock I didn't hang around with these boys, I didn't even like to be in their vicinity READ MORE

Governor Chris Christie says majorities should vote on minority rights (IrishCentral)

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:15:23 PST

This week New Jersey Governor Chris Christie claimed that the civil rights movement in the 1960's should have opted for a public referendum on equality rather than resorting to public protests, which led to them - he said - 'fighting and dying on the streets'Honestly, they could have spared themselves the mess, according to our esteemed historianI imagine the leaders of the civil rights era would have an unmistakable response to Christie's contention, and I imagine much of it would be delivered in quite strong language A plebiscite in the late 1950's or 1960's that would have overturned Jim Crow? Really Governor?It's insupportable, in fact it's craven nonsense to contend that the majority community in the south would have done anything other than denied African Americans civil rights at the ballot box READ MORE

Who wants to shower with Rick Santorum? (IrishCentral)

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 06:00:15 PDT

Republican presidential laughing stock Rick Santorum was on Fox News Sunday yesterday morning It depresses me to bring this up, because it's asinine and I resent having to even think (never mind write) about it, but speaking to anchor Chris Wallace he tried to posthumously justify the now historic Don't Ask, Don't Tell farce by suggesting that gay men showering with straight men in the military would have unspecified scary consequences'The problem is that sexual activity with people who you are in close quarters with who happen to be of the same sex is different than being open about your sexuality,' Santorum saidThat quip raised Fox host Chris Wallace's eyebrows, forcing him to ask Santorum if he was suggesting gay soldiers would 'go after' their straight colleagues READ MORE

Anti-gay NY town clerks must step up or step down (IrishCentral)

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 06:15:10 PDT

NY town clerk objecting to the law of the landA few of New York's town clerks have decided to break the law rather than follow itWhy? Because they follow a greater law than the law of the land (which, obviously, they were not hired to pursue) I'm sure they made no mention of this higher law, of course, at their job interviewsBut now, by refusing to process marriage licenses for gay couples, because it conflict's with their Christian faith, they have effectively decided who constitutes a New York citizen and who does not READ MORE

Republican debate audience loudly boos gay soldier (IrishCentral)

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 06:05:21 PDT

I admit it, I thought I had seen everything when it came to the contempt the far right has for the citizens of this country who takes a different view (and that would be most of us, frankly)Still, I was startled when the audience at a previous Republican presidential debate cheered Rick Perry's unbroken death penalty execution recordThen later I was even more surprised when the crowd cheered the idea of allowing an uninsured young man to die It gave me a real sense of what ancient Rome must have sounded like to anyone unfortunate enough to find themselves standing in the center of the Colosseum READ MORE

Anti - Gay Mitchell Facebook page explodes overnight (IrishCentral)

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 06:20:23 PDT

The Gay Mitchell campaign, Fine Gael's candidate for a run for the Irish presidency, ran into a serious snag this morning: a Facebook page opposing his run started in Ireland yesterday evening and has already attracted 715 members in its first 12 hoursIn these days of social media reflecting trends in the electorate, that's an awful lot of negative attention in a remarkably short timeClaiming that he didn't want Gay Mitchell for president (or former Eurovision songbird Dana Rosemary Scallon, who is now rumored to be considering a run) one irate Facebook poster spoke of 'Dana with her twee 1960’s John Hind postcard Ireland with a priest behind every ditch We are only getting away from that crowd in Rome who socially subjugated us for years and now these moral crusaders want to bring us back to the dark ages READ MORE

Anti-gay leader Maggie Gallagher threatens 'bloody mess' (IrishCentral)

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 06:05:18 PDT

Maggie Gallagher, the increasingly pugnacious leader of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) is amping up the anti-gay rhetoric in a new and alarming fashionAfter New York enacted its first legal same sex weddings at the weekend, the anti-gay activist told the Christian Broadcasting Network that 'it's gonna be a bloody mess in New York'Gallagher's overheated rhetoric was eye-popping after a weekend that saw a self-declared right wing Christian fundamentalist murder almost 100 teenagers in defense of his own 'traditional values'On Sunday the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) organized a public protest against same sex marriage in the city with support from the group New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms (a group 'dedicated to influencing legislation and legislators for the Lord Jesus Christ') READ MORE

Anti-gay extremists in Albany for vote today (IrishCentral)

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 06:35:19 PDT

Take a look at this picture These are the people fighting to 'protect' marriage in Albany this morningForm left to right it's a rogues gallery of anti-gay extremists The man cut off on the left side is Rabbi Yehuda Levin, the Orthodox political player on record for calling gays 'moral terrorists' and for blaming them for the Haitian earthquake and even 9/11 READ MORE

Northern Ireland found to be homophobic as ‘anti-gay’ advert is blasted (IrishCentral)

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 04:45:25 PDT

By: JANE WALSH

A new survey has revealed that one in four gay people in Northern Ireland have complained about homophobia in the work place. This report comes out just after the High Court has quashed an adjudication that an ad proclaiming sodomy is an "abomination" was homophobic.

Shock as Irish American Republicans denounce anti gay comments by Palladino (IrishCentral)

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 04:29:36 PDT

By: CAHIR O'DOHERTY

In a move that has surprised some political observers, the New York-based Irish Republicans group have issued a strongly worded rejection of Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino’s widely reported anti-gay comments at the weekend.

Anti-gay leader doesn't know what gays should do (IrishCentral)

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:20:16 PST

Prominent blogger and political commentator Andrew Sullivan got to ask Maggie Gallagher, the leader of the conservative anti-gay National Organization for Marriage (NOM) the question he's always wanted to ask her his week: "What do you think that am I supposed to do with my life?"Suppose, he asked, that he found himself in agreement with her Suppose he concluded that same-sex marriage was corrosive to society Should he leave his husband? Should he send his adopted daughter back to the state? Should he enter ex-gay therapy, which isn’t likely to work? Should he tell his whole family that he's single now, and that his husband Scott shouldn’t be welcome at family events? Should he live his whole life alone, and loveless? Should he hide? Where is the life he's supposed to live?Gallagher’s very simple answer was: "I don’t know"It's appalling to consider that she and her organization are fighting a tireless battle to ensure he doesn't achieve legal equality without giving a moments thought to the effect it would have on his life READ MORE

Kansas anti-gay church claims that God hates Ireland (IrishCentral)

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:31:08 PST

By: CAHIR O'DOHERTY

Father Tim column / Fred Phelps and his 'church' of hate / Click here