Calling gender-affirming surgery "mutilation" is unlikely to get AFA off the hate list

“In short, other than certain races, one would be hard-pressed to identify a class of people more discriminated against historically … than transgender people.”

U.S. District Court Judge for the Western District of Wisconsin William M. Conley

American Family Association often tries to delegitimize Southern Poverty Law Center. They do not like the fact that they are deemed a hate group. Rather than attacking SPLC they should stop doing the things that caused them to be deemed a hate group  in the first place. Trying to marginalize sexual minorities is hate by any meaningful definition.

Today's polemic titled Judge: Trans surgery 'medically necessary' – and Medicaid covers the bill is intended to outrage supporters of the hate group:

Conspiracy theorist reveals his own derangement in calling trans people insane

The Heaven's Gate folks donned black clothes and new Nikes and then killed themselves, dying to get to heaven

Jonathon van Maren begs the question by writing: Why ordinary people disregard the transgender movement as utterly insane. Presumably Mr. van Maren considers himself among the ordinary. If I write Jonathon van Maren has an ordinary wit, that is not flattering. He assumes the authority to speak for like-minded people. (By the way, he probably means “regard” rather than disregard.)

Repeating religious anti-LGBT rhetoric with a belief that it is civil discourse

Kathleen McKinley, May, 2016 via Fox 26 Houston

Kathleen McKinley does not approve of transgender people. The Federalist informs us that Kathleen McKinley is a blogger for The Houston Chronicle and commentator on Fox 26 in Houston. For the record (and for context) it would seem that she hasn't commented at Fox 26 since May, 2017. I get no hits from a search at the Houston Chronicle.

Stop portraying Chick-fil-A as a victim

American Family Association (an anti-LGBT hate group) is one of many organizations suggesting that Chick-fil-A is being victimized by the LGBT community. Today on their blog they write:

LGBTQ protesters are enraged over Chick-fil-A’s announcement that it will be expanding its franchise into Canada, with some declaring a boycott via Twitter of the Christian-owned fast food giant’s future Canadian chain locations.
[…]
Chick-fil-A’s first opening north of the border is slated for the province of Ontario’s largest city, Toronto, where many in the LGBTQ community are opposed to the pro-family corporation’s support of Christian values and organizations that take a stand for them in controversial issues, such as same-sex “marriage.”

Mad Mat is flailing away unhinged again

Hate group leader Mat Staver says it's about children being fingerprinted for a classroom exercise and progressive propaganda but you know what really gets him frothing.

Hate Group Leader Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel

Liberty Counsel is an anti-LGBT hate group. Liberty Counsel's mad hatter — the one and only Mat Staver — is targeting the Coweta County School District (in the Atlanta metropolitan area) and The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). According to Staver:

NCTE promotes not just “English” instruction, but a radical “social justice” and critical theory agenda. NCTE trains teachers to indoctrinate students with radical ideology, under the guise of classroom English assignments, and in violation of parental rights.

Another genius accepting no responsibility for his bigotry

“Transgender quality of life is largely up to us. How we treat trans people has an enormous impact on their happiness and self-satisfaction.”

In this video Jerry Newcombe is indulging in Christian Nation Mythology

Jerry Newcombe works for D. James Kennedy Ministries, an anti-LGBT hate group. Newcombe has the balls to write: A compassionate response to the transgender issue. I give him some measure of credit for treating the word transgender correctly, as an adjective. Beyond that I did not know that being transgender was an issue. Nor do I know who Newcombe is supposedly responding to.

I will begin our adventure in compassion with the second paragraph of Newcombe's diatribe:

Bryan Fischer offers prayer (and bigotry) as the LGBT "solution"

Noxious biblical windbag Bryan Fischer

We have ample evidence in support of the conclusion that Bryan Fischer is an idiot. Fischer is also a bigot. The fact that American Family Association gives Fischer a microphone on their radio network is ample support for SPLC's hate group designation.

However, blabbermouth Fischer does have a loud microphone each day and he is popular because he tells conservative Christians what they want to hear. Mr. Wizard has a vast inventory of religious inanity.

It is utterly irresponsible to claim that most children grow out of being transgender

Not only are they wrong but they potentially cause misery that can lead to self-harm.

Dr. Kristina Olson is one of the leading authorities on transgender youth

Image credit: University of Washington

James Risdon and Pete Baklinski (presumably catechists) have written a polemic about a Canadian doctor who charges $9,000 for a mastectomy on transgender boys as young as 14. Oh the horror.

The procedure that they are referring to is called “FTM top surgery.” It involves a double mastectomy, chest contouring and grafting nipples to what is a male breast. While puberty blockers prevent the development of breast tissue, at some point many transgender men will opt for the surgical procedure.

AFA breaking the law while pimping Jim Jordan

American Family Association wants far-right Jim Jordan to be the next Speaker of the House

American Family Association, an anti-LGBT hate group, presumes that Republicans will retain control of the House of Representatives in November. Their choice to replace the retiring Paul Ryan is Jim Jordan:

Several names have surfaced as Ryan's replacement: Kevin McCarthy, Majority Leader (R-CA); Steve Scalise, Majority Whip (R-LA); and Jim Jordan, Freedom Caucus (R-OH). McCarthy and Scalise are Ryan's top lieutenants. They are establishment Republicans who will continue business as usual.

The good news is that Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) just announced his intent to run a campaign for the Speakership position.

Help AFA mobilize grassroots support behind the proven conservative Jim Jordan

What I did on my Adderall vacation

I have acute PTSD (to put the brakes on an internal audit I was ambushed and shot). My condition defies treatment. Over the years I have had very competent psychiatrists who have followed the guidance from the Veterans Administration. The problem is that I am not nearly as resilient as the very young troops being treated for PTSD.

I am profoundly hypervigilant and it was getting worse. I was taking Xanax just to go to the grocery store. Even then I was getting so many false danger signals that I could not function. Three people in the same aisle created a catastrophe. Experimentally, my psychiatrist tried Adderall which is absolutely counter-intuitive. She was guided in part by my very smart therapist.

A brief tour of "The Bullshit Chronicle"

Mollie Hemingway's article feed at The Federalist dwarfs the water-carrying virtues of Gunga Din. Here are some recent article headlines. Most are flat-out lies or mischaracterizations. These are in chronological order, newest first:

• Media Gaslighting Can’t Hide Fact Trump Campaign Was Spied On
• Confirmed: DOJ Used Materially False Information To Secure Wiretaps On Trump Associate
• 5 Key Takeaways From The House Hearing With FBI Counterintelligence No. 2 Peter Strzok
• Somebody At DOJ Isn’t Telling The Truth About Rosenstein’s Subpoena Threats Against Congressional Staff
• Trump’s Immigration Policies Are Actually Pretty Popular

A study that Stanton doesn't like is "fake news"

“Were Glenn T. Stanton truly concerned for the wellbeing of children he would stop trying to marginalize their parents.”

Glenn T. Stanton — a Focus on the Family spokes-bot — writes: New Study Finding Lesbians Are ‘Just As Good’ As Married Biological Parents Is Fake News. Right. Because studies published to the venerable New England Journal of Medicine are usually fake. Particularly: National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study — Mental Health of Adult Offspring.

The findings of this study (which has been ongoing for decades) are that the now grown children of lesbian couples are as mentally fit as children raised by heterosexual parents.

An obsessed Canadian pastor creates some junk science

Canadian pastor Paul Dirks

I don't know which is worse: A pretentious crackpot study or a group referring to a pretentious crackpot study.

Using the Internet one can “prove” just about anything regarding human sexuality and legions of people will believe just about anything if it seemingly confirms what they “know.” The tonnage of junk is simply amazing. My rules for separating the junk from science are simple.

Science is represented by research conducted by a qualified investigator who publishes his or her findings to a respected academic journal that subjects articles to rigorous peer review.

Even then I remain skeptical.

Once again AFA proves to be as anti-Muslim as they are anti-LGBT

“The only radicals around here are AFA's Chad Groening and Brigitte Gabriel.”

Anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist Brigitte Gabriel brings her personality disorder to American Family Association

American Family Association has taken a timeout from gay bashing to do some Muslim bashing. After all, AFA is designated a hate group for many reasons. Southern Poverty Law Center is not going to remove the designation anytime soon. That's not attributable to the folks at SPLC. It is because AFA is hateful and it employs hateful people.

Muslim Democrat promising lots of gov't 'freebies':

NOM has another scam to ask for money

Serial incompetence is making it increasingly difficult for Brian S. Brown to ask for donations to National Organization for Marriage

If you think about it there really is no reason for anyone to give National Organization for Marriage any money. Through 2016, NOM burned through nearly $70 million and has nothing to show for it. The absence of judgment was perhaps most apparent when it spent about $700 thousand in legal fees to sue the IRS and saw a return of $50,000.

Because of gross incompetence, Brian S. Brown must invent reasons for people to fork over some money so that NOM can stay in business and pay his salary. Today is no different from many other days:

AFA is still in the financial crapper

Hate Group Leader Tim Wildmon, American Family Association

American Family Association, an anti-LGBT hate group, had revenues of $19 million for the year ended June 30, 2017. This is a very small improvement over the prior year and far short of two years prior.

Revenues for year ended June 30:

• 2017: $19 million
• 2016: $18 million
• 2015: $30 million
• 2014: $28 million

Can you believe that AFA is still targeting Target?

Target Corporation's Miami outlet

American Family Association, an anti-LGBT hate group reminded people on Monday that they are still boycotting Target Corporation. Like almost all retailers, Target accommodates transgender people. All they want to do is pee or try on clothes in a dressing room. AFA is trying to reduce Target's back-to-school business.

Target (NYSE:TGT) shares are closing in on a record high. The dividend yield is 3.33% (to get a 3% yield on a CD requires a five-year purchase). By all accounts Target has been exceptionally innovative and its online division has become a robust part of the company's operation. In other words, American Family Association's silly boycott has failed miserably. They will continue to fail.

Refusing to fill a prescription is symptomatic of a larger problem for LGBT people

A pharmacist denied Hilde Hall the hormones that she was prescribed. From where did he derive such power over others?

Hilde Hall, a transgender woman, was elated when her doctor prescribed hormones for the first time last April. Ms. Hall went to her local CVS in Fountain Hills, AZ (a suburb of Phoenix) where she was refused service and humiliated by the pharmacist.

Loudly, and in front of other customers, the pharmacist started to interrogate Hall asking her why she was being prescribed the hormones. The pharmacist refused to fill the prescription and also refused to provide a reason. When Hall asked the pharmacist to return the prescription he refused. Dejected and embarrassed, Ms. Hall went home. Her doctor's office called a nearby Walgreens and the prescription was filled without incident — as it should be.

AFA found a black person who doesn't like black people unless they hate gay people

Stacy Washington shilling for the NRA

American Family Association is an anti-LGBT hate group. The organization, under the leadership of Tim Wildmon, also hates Islam. Now the Tupelo, Mississippi group is opposed to an alliance of African-American churches testing Starbucks for racial bias. They explain:

Stacy Washington shilling for the NRA

The National Black Church Initiative (NBCI), a faith-based coalition of 34,000 churches comprising 15 denominations and 15.7 million African Americans, plans to send 25,000 testers into Starbucks stores to test whether their training day for racial sensitivity had any effect whatsoever.

Apparently we have caused the sky to fall or, ... something

LGBT people cause Amy Contrada of Mass Resistance "fame" to become hopelessly unhinged (I edited this photo to remove some graffiti)

These days, LifeSiteNews will regurgitate just about anything if it expresses a sufficient amount of LGBT hate. That includes: LGBT extremists have destroyed the Saint Patrick’s Day parade in Boston by Amy Contrada. Contrada is affiliated with the vile hate group, Mass Resistance. Contrada seems to be a relatively intelligent person who has an extreme personality disorder. LGBT people cause Contrada to come unglued to the point of dementia.

Contrada writes:

In 1995, a remarkable 9-0 ruling was handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court. A Catholic veterans' group, organizers of the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade in South Boston, were vindicated in their refusal to allow a homosexual activist group to march in their parade.…

Blame Trump - Not mythical LGBT activists

Elaine Donnelly, Center for Military Readiness

According to American Family Association, an anti-LGBT hate group: LGBT harassing groups against transgenders in military.

A Michigan-based Christian law firm has taken action to stop LGBT activists groups ongoing intimidation and harassment of organizations opposed to transgenders serving in the military.

What they are really complaining about is document production in a federal lawsuit regarding the service of transgender people (“transgender,” is an adjective, not a noun). What they are referring to is Elaine Donnely's group, Center for Military Readiness, now being represented by the ultra-conservative Catholic Thomas More Law Center. But let us back up a bit.

The next time AFTAH or AFA complain about hate group designations, remind them of their linking gays to child molesters

Peter LaBarbera is advancing a mindless conspiracy theory

I have written about this before. Now it's Peter LaBarbera advancing a hoax at American Family Association's blog. This is just one of the reasons that AFA and LaBarbera's org, Americans For Truth About Homosexuality, are designated as hate groups by Southern Poverty Law Center. AFA's polemic is titled: LGBTQ runs from adding MAP to alphabet soup. “MAP” is shorthand for Minor Attracted Person and none of this is true.

This meme involves The Prevention Project. It is a highly respected endeavor to prevent pedophiles from being child molesters. The program has been academically structured and it is based on science. Disparaging this organization to embarrass LGBT people is deplorable.

Has Starbucks become discriminatory?

A Starbucks store within Salt Lake International Airport

Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX) is in the process of opening stores inside Publix supermarkets in Florida. That creates a number of concerns. The arrangement creates a considerable culture clash.

Starbucks is a robust supporter of LGBT equality. It enjoys a perfect score of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index. On January 24, 2012 the company issued a memorandum in support of marriage equality (courtesy of an outraged National Organization for Marriage).

It would be easy to dismiss Ruth Inst and Daniel Mattson as harmless religious zealots

Daniel Mattson is a self-promoting, self-loathing anti-gay religious zealot. His message offered as love is a message of hate.

Ruth Institute, an anti-LGBT hate group, is promoting Daniel Mattson. Mattson, a gay man (he will say “same-sex attracted”) is a Courage Ministry alumnus. He claims to be celibate and extremely happy. If he wants to become a eunuch to conform to the teachings of his religion, so be it. I think that his actions are idiotic but relatively harmless.

However, things are not quite that simple. Mattson has become a very visible symbol of Catholic piety. He has appeared in a film promoting some form of conversion therapy and he has written a book. Mattson was the keynote speaker and received the “Public Witness Award” at the Ruth Institute banquet last month. Mattson also has plenty of advice to deliver to parents and children.

According to Liberty Counsel the mere presence of a trans person poses a threat

On Friday I received an email from hate group leader "Mad" Mat Staver. The subject reads: FL Fitness Center Endangers Women. It is an inaccurate and bigoted transphobic diatribe. A woman identified only as “Mrs. H.” went unhinged over the presence of a transgender woman in a women's facility at a Planet Fitness in Florida. The transgender woman is identified as Jordan Rice.

I have been unable to locate Ms. Rice. It is not Jordan Rice, the poet. As for Planet Fitness, the franchiser, they are headquartered in New Hampshire. I have made certain that senior-level personnel, the local franchisee and others know that Liberty Counsel is a hate group.

Pen name? Nah - Just an anonymous coward and crank

Monday, Declan Carrick Lyons writes: LGBTQIA: It’s the Taxonomy, Stupid. Taxonomy, by the way, is the science of defining and naming groups of biological organisms on the basis of shared characteristics.

According to Lyons:

Declan Carrick Lyons is the pen name of a veteran Catholic writer and thinker, catechist, liturgist, and musician, with three decades of experience in parish ministry. He lives in Middle America. He can be reached at DeclanCLyons@gmail.com.

Lyons has written three pieces at Crisis:

Some lines intersect in the Mueller probe - Read the indictments

Trump's performance today was nothing short of treason.

On Friday, Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicted Russian intelligence officials for interfering in the 2016 elections (below the fold).  Considering Trump and Putin's remarks today, everyone should read the indictments. Just a few passages:

On or about August 15, 2016, the Conspirators, posing as Guccifer 2.0, received a request for stolen documents from a candidate for the U.S. Congress. The Conspirators responded using the Guccifer 2.0 persona and sent the candidate stolen documents related to the candidate's opponent.

Bigotry permission slip now on appeal

“Believe it or not the Supreme Court's ruling in Masterpiece Cakeshop might provide some advantages.”

Joanna Duka and Breanna Koski, discriminatory proprietors of Brush & Nib Studio which isn't really a studio.

The Brush & Nib saga continues and it is a colossal waste of taxpayer funded resources. None of this would be possible were it not for the determined bigotry of Alliance Defending Freedom, an anti-LGBT hate group.

Brush & Nib Studio designs wedding invitations. The City of Phoenix has a nondiscrimination ordinance assuring that LGBT patrons receive service in public accommodations. Brush & Nib have never been asked to provide an invitation for a same-sex wedding. They are seeking a permission slip to discriminate in spite of the fact that no gay couple is likely to patronize the business.

No Mr. Smith - Sexual Orientation is Not a Choice

“He is essentially asserting ‘it might not be a choice but it is a choice.’”

Justin Bradford Smith is a young lawyer (admitted to the bar in 2010); an associate at a six-attorney law firm in Temple, TX. He doesn't seem to appear on any federal dockets.

Mr. Smith has acquired some odd ideas about sexual orientation which he has gleaned from — of all people — Kevin Spacey. Mr. Smith is the author of a polemic titled: Timeless Truths Gleaned from Kevin Spacey’s Choice.

Yet another irrational trans assault from Miriam Ben-Shalom

Wednesday, Miriam Ben-Shalom writes: Trans Bathrooms Are All About Discrimination—Against Women And Children. The subtitle reads:

The current law regarding bathrooms in Massachusetts, which allows transgender people to use opposite-sex private facilities, is a matter of unspeakable oppression against females.

Falling for a hoax linking gays to pedophile groups and NAMBLA

The post from Doug Mainwaring is titled: Pedophiles put themselves under the LGBT umbrella in rebranding effort. The objective is to then claim that the LGBT community includes pedophiles. It does not. None of this story is accurate. Mainwaring has fallen for a hoax.

Doug Mainwaring is an openly gay man who chose to reunite with his wife (a lesbian) and obey Catholic doctrine. Something in Mainwaring's makeup causes him to disparage LGBT people (particularly gay men). His rhetoric is worthy of any hate group. In fact Peter LaBarbera has referred to Mainwaring as his “good friend.” Mainwaring provides a paradigm of a self-loathing gay man. The Catholic Church says that Mainwaring is “objectively disordered” and he believes it.

Donald Trump's no-good, miserable, non-existent management skills

If Donald Trump really did graduate from Wharton he might have slept his way through it.

Plan, delegate and organize have been the watchwords of the American Management Association for a very long time, predating Trump's post-secondary education. But there is more because the White House should be a paragon of quality-management particularly when the care of children is at issue.

Quality is achieved by making people accountable to process where each process is the smallest element of every part of the plan. A good leader accomplishes this by asking questions which incoude some metric to evaluate performance. Everything has to be written down to form a manual.

Even for Perkins his argument in support of conversion "therapy" is stunningly stupid

“Even when it comes to children, Tony Perkins demonstrates that he is a shameless, greedy bigot.”

Hate group leader Tony Perkins likes conversion “therapy.” Perkins' promotion of the discredited practice is not premised on the notion that it really helps anyone. Perkins promotes the snake oil because it justifies discrimination. Conversion therapy seeks to prove that sexual orientation and gender identity are not immutable. Logically, that depends upon proof that conversion therapy actually works. That proof is nonexistent.

Protecting kids has been nonpartisan.

This is rich: FRC vs. AFA cage match

When hate groups collide!

L-R Hate Group Leaders Tim Wildmon and Tony Perkins

Hate Group Leader Tony Perkins of Family Research Council:

For a second time, President Trump has followed through on his promise to select a nominee from the list he presented during the campaign. President Trump promised a constitutionalist -- someone who will call balls and strikes according to the Constitution. We trust the president that Judge Kavanaugh will fit this mold as a justice. Judge Kavanaugh has a long and praiseworthy history of judging as an originalist, and we look forward to having a justice with his philosophical approach on the Court.

Hate Group Leader Tim Wildmon of American Family Association:

NOM launches yet another campaign to appeal to the deluded

National Organization for Marriage. has created what it calls the Marriage Heroes Campaign which is nothing other than an attempt to get more money from more people. Brian S. Brown dishonestly suggests that giving money to NOM will influence the Supreme Court:

The importance of this nomination to the Supreme Court cannot be overstated. For the first time since the Court illegitimately redefined marriage in the Obergefell decision of 2015, NOM and all marriage supporters will have a clear path forward to restore marriage to our nation's laws.

It's a first: Maine's crazy governor vetoed youth conversion therapy ban

For the first time in the United States a governor has vetoed a conversion therapy ban. That governor is Paul LePage of Maine. Politico once dubbed LePage (a Tea Partier) “America's craziest governor.”

Making matters worse, the legislature lacked the votes to override the veto. LePage claimed that the language of the ban was too broad and that it would prohibit counseling an individual at his or her request. He went on to claim that the bill impinged on religious liberty which is usually code for the liberty to discriminate against LGBT people. LePage is correct about one thing. The bill would prevent people who want the “therapy” for getting it.

Donohue incorrectly blames gays for the Church's pedophilia problem

Blowhard Bill Donohue is delighted that Bill Maher went after him in an HBO stand-up comedy special on Saturday. Maher has a considerably larger and broader audience than Donohue. Maher gave Donohue an opportunity to launch into one of he favorite themes:

More important, Maher errs when he says the Catholic Church has a record of tolerating pedophile priests who sexually molest children. The problem has always been about homosexual priests abusing postpubescent males.

Hate group crank posits the required preparation to oppose transgender people

Amy Contrada and Brian Camenker (MassResistance) circa 2013

Amy Contrada writes: How to get started opposing the transgender movement. As I wrote earlier today, it is easier to oppose a non-existent movement than actual people, particularly since those people's only “sin” is having a common medical condition. I need to take a few moments explaining where this is coming from. It is not argument ad hominem but an attempt at providing perspective.

Amy Contrada was an early associate of the rabidly bigoted MassResistance which was one of the first (then) anti-gay hate groups identified as such by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Contrada is not your ordinary anti-LGBT zealot. She is well educated, a violinist and even a violin maker. LGBT people seem to threaten her. She has railed about Catholic Charities withdrawing from adoptions in Massachusetts. Some years ago she involved herself in a controversy over The Vagina Monologues being performed at Holy Cross College. Contrada is probably Catholic but I cannot determine to what extent that has influenced her thinking.

Where do these crazy people get these crazy ideas about gender?

“It might seem less hateful to attack a ‘movement.’ Yet the reality is that it is an attack on people that their antagonist disapproves of.”

Jennifer Bilek via GoFundMe

Jennifer Bilek has written two posts for The Federalist. Both are about transgender people. The current piece is remarkably titled: Transgenderism Is Just Big Business Dressed Up In Pretend Civil Rights Clothes. Nothing is too nutty for The Federalist. The polemic is a misadventure subtitled:

The media keeps presenting us on the one hand with a trans civil rights movement for the oppressed and, on the other, with a cutting-edge (pun intended) lifestyle.

The New York Times elevates hate group leaders

The New York Times is editorially an ally of LGBT equality. However, from time to time reporters and columnists exercise terrible judgment.

On July 3 (July 5 in print), Liam Stack and Elizabeth Dias wrote a piece titled: Why the Supreme Court Opening Could Affect Gay Marriage as Well as Abortion. They try mightily to fulfill their journalistic obligation to be balanced. I am wondering: If the Civil Rights Act of 1964 came under attack, would they interview David Duke? How about a Neo-Nazi? After all, they want to be fair.

Conversion "therapy" and NIFLA and religious crackpots

“How the hell did this become a Christian crisis?”

In NIFLA v. Becerra the Supreme Court ruled last month that pro-life pregnancy centers cannot be compelled by California to advertise the availability of free or low-cost abortions. Ultimately the court ruled that it is compelled speech.

Mad Mat Staver has claimed, with some certitude that the decision in NIFLA means that bans on conversion therapy are an unconstitutional violation of free speech rights under the First Amendment. Zack Ford has expressed his concern.

Hate Group Leader Brad Dacus is terribly confused - Again

According to American Family Association, an anti-LGBT hate group:

At issue is Assembly Bill 2943, a measure that critics say would forbid counseling for people with unwanted same-sex attraction or gender identity issues. Attorney Brad Dacus of Pacific Justice Institute explains that it would also make it illegal to hold a conference with individuals who have overcome and had victory regarding those struggles.

Pacific Justice Institute is also an anti-LGBT hate group. In brief, Dacus is full of crap. The bill now reads:

Advertising, offering for sale, or selling services constituting sexual orientation change efforts to an individual.

Study concludes that children of same-sex parents fair better than their peers with heterosexual parents

Braiden and Michael Neubecker know that their parents will make them cocoa every time it snows.

A new study in the prestigious Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics concludes that the children of same-sex parents are psychologically sounder than children of heterosexual parents. The study is titled: Same-Sex and Different-Sex Parent Families in Italy: Is Parents' Sexual Orientation Associated with Child Health Outcomes and Parental Dimensions? The conclusion reads:

Findings suggested that children with same-sex parents fare well both in terms of psychological adjustment and prosocial behavior. The present study warns policy makers against making assumptions on the basis of sexual orientation about people who are more suited than others to be parents or about people who should or should not be denied access to fertility treatments.

Getting up to date on California AB-2943

Former pro-golfer and current crackpot Kris Olsen is an advocate of Pray-Away-The-Gay “therapy.”

If California Assembly Bill 2943 is enacted, the measure will cause conversion therapy to be treated as consumer fraud. A New Jersey jury returned that very result when JONAH was sued by former clients with the assistance of Southern Poverty Law Center in 2015.

The last time I wrote about AB-2943 was on May 22. Since then there have been some important developments.

A supposed Church's offensive sign is actually a personal message

By now many of you are probably familiar with the idiotic sign pictured above. Claiming that Jesus would not approve of LGBT people is foolish. Claiming that being LGBT is a hate crime is outrageous. It is also quite stupid. However, a few things about this are not quite right. My own theory is below the fold.

Let's start with the Internal Revenue Service. From my database I have reviewed every religious organization in Auburn, Indiana and none of them are even close. The Church was seemingly founded last year and it is possible that the 501(c)3 application is pending.