US hate group's charitable status revoked

According to Ex-Gay Watch, the IRS revoked the tax-exempt status of US hate group Americans for Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH, headed by notorious homophobe Peter LaBarbara) in 2010 for failing to file the forms required for review by the IRS and the public.

"While the current incarnation of AFTAH appears to have been active since 2006, we found only one form 990-EZ on file — for the year 2009 (PDF).  In this, total receipts are listed as $110.000, out of which Peter LaBarbera received a salary of $75,000.  For perspective, this is approximately the same salary plus benefits claimed by Exodus president Alan Chambers.  Exodus lists eleven employees and a million dollar budget."

While the donations section of the AFTAH website no longer claims tax-exempt status, as of this posting their About page still claims that donations are tax deductible (see screenshot).

AFTAH is one of a small number of anti-gay organizations classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group, due to LaBarbera’s homophobic lies and constant attempts to vilify gays and lesbians.

$10K offered for proof Marcus Bachmann has had sex with a man

Website Pure Film Creative has offered a $10,000 reward for proof that homophobe Marcus Bachmann, husband of US presidential hopeful Michelle Bachmann, has had sex with a man:

"PFC will award $10,000.00 (ten thousand US dollars and zero cents) to any man who has solid, verifiable proof that he has had sex with Marcus Bachmann.  We’ll consider another arrangement if you were just propositioned."

And the Teabaggers lose their minds in 5...4...3....

The Undefeated soundly defeated

Even as Sarah Palin documentary The Undefeated has increased its showings by 40 percent, its box office revenues have declined by more than 63 percent, and the film will soon be available on pay per view.  It played in 14 Tea Party-friendly locations this weekend but grossed an embarrassing $24,000.

Written and directed by Stephen K. Bannon and produced by Victory Film Group co-founder Glenn Bracken Evans and Dan Fleuette, "The Undefeated" was independently financed by Victory Film Group and its partners.

Rachel Maddow on Rick "Frothy Mix" Santorum's Google problem

Bachmann's anti-gay clinic in terrifying glitter attack

That shit is hard to get out.

US anti-gay conservative nutjob Michele Bachmann’s Christian counseling clinic, Bachmann & Associates, was the focus of a glitter attack by a more than a dozen "barbarians" Thursday morning.  The clinic is run by Bachmann's possibly gay husband Marcus, who is on record using the term "barbarians" for LGBT people.

The group was protesting the publicly funded clinic's practice of offering so-called "reparative therapy," an approach rejected by all mainstream science, to "cure" people of their homosexuality.  The clinic has taken in more than $137,000 in government funds despite Bachmann's strong opposition to government involvement in health care.

The group's aim was to glitter "Dr." Marcus Bachmann; since he wasn't available, the "glitterati"  glittered the waiting room instead, shouting, “You can’t pray away the gay — baby, I was born this way!”

Update: watch the whole thing on video:

DOMA hearing: US Senator Al Franken smacks down Focus on the Family's Tom Minnery

During today's DOMA debate, Senator Al Franken gave us this delicious smackdown of hate group Focus on the Family's head Tom Minnery.  Enjoy:

Smackdown of the day

Comedian Steve Coogan on the News of the World scandal.

California Governor signs LGBT History Bill

In a move sure to piss off homophobes everywhere, California Governor Jerry Brown today signed into law an LGBT education bill requiring the state to include the contributions of gay, lesbian and transgender people in school history lessons and textbooks. Republicans had argued, predictably, that the bill would force a "gay agenda" on students.

The bill's sponsor, openly gay state Senator Mark Leno, said

"Today we are making history in California by ensuring that our textbooks and instructional materials no longer exclude the contributions of LGBT Americans . . . Denying LGBT people their rightful place in history gives our young people an inaccurate and incomplete view of the world around them."

Meanwhile, Benjamin Lopez of the Anaheim-based hate group Traditional Values Coalition, said "It’s a sad day for the state of California . . . we are now going to inject gay studies into the classrooms. Its absurd and offensive."

California public schools are already required to teach about a wide range of groups including women; African, Asian, European, and Mexican Americans; and Native Americans. The new law could have wide-reaching consequences because California is one of the nation’s largest buyers of textbooks.