The 14 Characteristics of Fascism, Part 3 continued

THE FOURTEEN CHARACTERISTICS OF FASCISM PART III: IDENTIFICATION OF ENEMIES (Essay 1: The Cultural War Against Gays By SweetPea (Daniel) SECTION 3
Who Suffers? We Do.
The Inevitable Results of Threats and Hate Speech
The verbal attacks continue. Gays and lesbians are compared to everything from rats to Devil worshipers, which makes [...]

The 14 Characteristics of Fascism, Part 3 continued

Another in our series on the 14 Characteristics of Fascism and how BushCo and the extreme right use them. This post was authored by SweetPea, a member of the Coalition for a Republican-Free America
 
The 14 Characteristics of Fascism
Part III, Identification of Scapegoats
(Distorted Facts: The Cultural War Against Gays)
by SweetPea
SECTION 2
As [...]

good on her

 
j.k. rowling announces that albus dumbledore is gay
 
“Not everyone likes her work, Rowling said, likely referring to Christian groups that have alleged the books promote witchcraft. Her news about Dumbledore, she said, will give them one more reason.”
 
tags: harry potter, real life, GLBT

I KNOW! LET’S BAN THE CREATIVE WORKS OF GAYS AND LESBIANS

Parody by Praetorone, writing as…well, you’ll find out.
After careful consideration I have come to the conclusion that we need to back the Christian Right in its holy crusade to criminalize homosexuality. The Bible, after all, talks about Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve, and if we want to be perfectly honest and devout, [...]

h/t to proud progressive

 
Ok , I watched the Barney Frank press conference parts 1-6 on the “wisdom of how it goes in washington” about passing a non inclusive of the T or gender Identity ENDA bill, now vs. nothing at all. It left me unconvinced. really unconvinced. Though he is seductive, if one accepts that way things [...]

The 14 Characteristics of Fascism Part 3, Essay 1

Part 3 of our continuing series, the 14 Characteristics of Fascism and how they apply to the Rethugs and BushCo in particular.
Part III: Identifying Scapegoats
Essay 1 (Distorted Facts: The Cultural War Against Gays )
By Daniel (SweetPea)
SECTION 1
During the 1920s and 1930s the world learned that when sociopathic leaders, such as Adolf Hitler,were [...]

Gay Lib 101

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We have always been a community of outsiders. It is all about gender bending or transgressing gender norms. We are not like straight people IN THEIR MINDS and we never will be. We are completely normal. We are not making a choice to be Gay Lesbian Bi or TG. TG is an umbrella term that [...]

Real War /Faux War

Like most Americans, I suspect, I’ve been riveted by the PBS 7-part series on WWII, told from the ground up (by the real people who experienced it) , and with benefit of newly unearthed contemporaneous video footage (some in color) & stills. It’s been nothing short of astounding, in my opinion.
I fervently [...]

Christophrenia: Diseases of the Radical Christian Right

Today we welcome a male to Sirens as a guest author of our Daily Feature. Praeterone writes with passion and intelligence on several blogs, The Coalition for a Republican-free America and the Coalition for a Democratic America. Both are group blogs that include his father and step-mother, as well as his wife and extended family [...]

“Ring the bell” or (keep on bloggin)

It is my privilege to introduce ProudProgressive as our newest writer here at Sirens Chronicles. She is a resident of New Mexico..that wonderful place in the Southwest where I would love to live out my days..picketing Donald Rumsfeld’s house every chance I got
Greetings readers , lurkers, Its me PP or P2.Its a real [...]