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Thursday, December 2, 2010

Traditional Values Group Garners 7,000 signatures; Servers Swamped over Apple app

The Culture Wars are Back:

Manhattan Declaration - a movement associated with Brian Brown's Washington DC based National Organization for Marriage - has said that it has gathered over 7,000 signatures protesting Apple's deletion of their app. Traffic has been so heavy to their website that the servers have nearly shut down.

Apple had originally granted the app a rating of 4, indicating that no objectionable content was found.

After LGBTQ advocacy groups protested, the app was deleted. What Apple CEO Steve Jobs' response will be remains to be seen. Apple has thus far ignored the group's request to reinstate their application for iTunes.

Clearly, the GLBTQ advocacy groups and the Traditional Marriage movement are butting heads. The Culture Wars are back...

Despite the uphill battle, the Manhattan Declaration has no plans to go quietly into the night.

“We really think that once Apple sits back and takes a breath and really looks at this from a reasonable perspective that they’re going to reinstate it,” said Farmer. “We still have hopes that they’ll do that.”

So while gay rights groups may be saying, “not a chance in hell,” the Manhattan Declaration thinks it has a prayer.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/12/02/christian-group-has-plea-ignored-by-apple-begins-petition-to-reinstate-app/#ixzz16yiWzj9V

Monday, November 29, 2010

Gay Dallas Couple's Skype'd Marriage Was Anulled In D.C. Court. Law Prof Aghast. - Dallas News - Unfair Park

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Truce Letter Doesn't Represent Us, says Tea Party Patriots co-founder

Image by jackiembarr via FlickrTea Party Patriots Co-Founder: Abortion Truce Letter Doesn't Represent Us | LifeNews.com

GOProud Urges GOP To Ignore Religious Right's Agenda | Right Wing Watch

Thursday, November 4, 2010

GOProud Exults In GOP Wins

Image via WikipediaJoe. My. God.: GOProud Exults In GOP Wins

"According to CNN, 31% of self-identified gay voters supported Republican candidates for the U.S. House. This number is a dramatic increase from the 19% GOP House candidates won among gay voters in 2008. The gay left would have you believe that gay conservatives don’t exist. Now we see that almost a third of self-identified gay voters cast ballots for Republican candidates for Congress in this year’s mid-term. This should be a wake-up call for the out-of-touch so-called leadership of Gay, Inc. in Washington, D.C., which has become little more than a subsidiary of the Democrat Party.". . . Among GOProud's 2010 endorsees was Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), who voted for a ban on gay adoptions in Washington DC, voted for the Federal Marriage Amendment, and who has called the LGBT rights movement "the greatest threat to our freedom that we face today." Coburn has a 0% rating from the Human Rights Campaign. Additionally, he is a member ofThe Family, a DC-based coalition of GOP lawmakers and Christianist activists best known for their promulgation of Uganda's "kill gays" bill. GOProud would like you to know that they are delighted with Coburn's reelection.