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Stewart to Rand Paul: Christians Sell Cakes to Sinners ‘All the Time'
May 27th, 2015 11:33 AM
Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul stopped by for a visit on the May 26 edition of the Daily Show, where host Jon Stewart attacked the Kentucky senator for his position on religious liberty. Stewart argued that Christians already serve sinners anyway, so serving gay weddings shouldn’t be any different:
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'Hardball' Panel Uses Irish Approval of Same-Sex Marriage to Blast GOP
May 26th, 2015 9:25 PM
Irish voters' approval of same-sex marriage via ballot referendum on Friday proved the perfect excuse for Hardball host Chris Matthews to bash Republican presidential contenders for their steadfast support for traditional marriage and criticism of judicial activism in redefining the institution.
For what it's worth, Matthews and his panelists all but smeared Ireland as, well, backwards for…
Anti-Catholic Salon Cheers Church's Decline as 'Good News'
May 21st, 2015 6:39 PM
Patricia Miller ecstatically touted that the apparent "demographic free-fall" of the Catholic Church is "good news for the country" in a Thursday item for Salon. Miller bemoaned the American Catholic bishops' "outsize role in U.S. politics" in the past, given their opposition to abortion, contraception, and same-sex "marriage," and asserted that "with their flock fleeing and Pope Francis…
Slate Writer: In Near Future, GOP Younger, Less Conservative
May 19th, 2015 9:36 PM
Demography may not always be destiny, but according to Slate’s Jamelle Bouie, the “best bet” is that over the next decade-plus, the Republican party as a whole will move towards the center-right as young, relatively moderate voters join and elderly right-wingers shuffle off this mortal coil.
In a Monday article, Bouie predicted that “eventually, the GOP will find a working national majority,…
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Letterman: Jeb Opposing Gay Marriage Like Being Against Women Voting
May 19th, 2015 2:21 PM
With David Letterman officially signing off as host of CBS’s Late Show on Wednesday, the liberal comic took time once again to bash Republicans for their support of traditional marriage during his Monday night monologue.
MSNBC: Jeb's Defense of Religious Freedom Is 'Troubling'
May 18th, 2015 6:07 PM
To MSNBC's Emma Margolin, it's "troubling" that former Florida governor Jeb Bush doesn't think there's a constitutional right for persons to enter into a same-sex marriage. But what's even more "troubling" to her is his defense of religious freedom claims when it comes to Christian business owners being asked to cater, plan, or photograph a same-sex wedding ceremony.
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CNN's Cuomo: Jeb Bush 'Not A New Republican' on Same-Sex 'Marriage'
May 18th, 2015 5:00 PM
CNN's Chris Cuomo asserted that Jeb Bush "doesn't seem to be the new Republican" on Monday's New Day, after the former Florida governor voiced his support of traditional marriage during a recent interview on CBN. Cuomo later underlined that Bush is "going to have to figure out how to please the plurality" on the marriage issue, and added that "this is not a well-calculated move on that front."
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Bozell Blasts ABC for Adding Sitcom on Anti-Religious Bigot Dan Savage
May 14th, 2015 11:58 PM
Media Research Center President Brent Bozell joined Sean Hannity on his eponymous Fox News Channel (FNC) program Thursday evening and ripped ABC for deciding to air a sitcom this fall that’s loosely based on the life of anti-religious bigot Dan Savage. The segment began with Hannity providing a brief synopsis of the upcoming show (titled The O’Neals) and highlighting how “several high-profile…
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CNN to Texas Attorney General: Isn't Marriage Bill 'Discriminatory'?
May 13th, 2015 2:44 PM
On Wednesday's New Day, CNN's Alisyn Camerota acted more like a LGBT activist than a journalist as she interviewed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Camerota boosted a statement from socially left-wing group Lambda that attacked a proposed marriage bill in the Lone Star State as "blatantly discriminatory." The anchor then asked, "Isn't it discriminatory? Aren't you saying that the gays and…
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O’Reilly Blasts Liberal Media for Smearing Social Conservatives
May 12th, 2015 1:41 AM
Fox News Channel (FNC) host Bill O’Reilly slammed the liberal media on Monday’s O’Reilly Factor for distorting conservatives and Republican presidential candidates in what he referred to as “tough times for social conservatives in America” thanks to a press that is “overwhelmingly left” and thus “simpatico, generally speaking, with the uber-liberal thought.”
PhD Student: HuffPost Writer Lied About Our Chat at March for Marriage
May 11th, 2015 8:38 PM
Huffington Post writer Lila Shapiro grossly distorted and in some instances completely fabricated what a pro-traditional marriage advocate told her during an improptu interview during the March for Marriage. That's the allegation of one Andrew Jacob Cuff in a post today at First Things. Cuff, an Orthodox Christian and a grad student in church history at the Catholic University of America,…
Rush On The Media, Trapped: Are They Islamophobic or Homophobic?
May 9th, 2015 7:47 PM
So which is it? Is the liberal media Islamophobic? Or homophobic? If drawing cartoons of The Prophet is - as the New York Times insists - an “exercise in bigotry and hatred posing as a blow for freedom”? And - again from the Times - a “blatantly Islamophobic provocation”? All because drawing cartoons of the Prophet violates the Islamic faith? Then what, exactly, is gay marriage? Like drawing…
Daily Beast Writer: Gay-Rights Movement ‘The Real Moral Majority’
May 8th, 2015 6:10 PM
The faltering religious right would be well served to borrow a strategy from gay activists, but it almost certainly won’t, contended The Daily Beast’s Michael Tomasky in a Friday column.
In Tomasky’s telling, the gay-rights movement in the 1980s alienated many because it could be self-righteous to the point of belligerence, but eventually “the leaders of the movement saw that it was more…
CBS Buries Own Poll: Majority Backs Religious Business Owners' Rights
May 6th, 2015 6:58 PM
Tuesday's CBS Evening News and Wednesday's CBS This Morning touted the latest poll results from the regular CBS News/New York Times poll regarding the 2016 presidential race. However, as of Wednesday evening, the evening and morning newscasts have yet to report on one statistic from the poll: a bare majority of Americans (51 percent) believe that business owners "should be allowed to refuse…
