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Conservatives Attack Google for Opposing Gay Marriage Ban

Posted by Amanda Terkel at 2:34 AM on October 3, 2008.


Randy Thomasson of the right-wing group Campaign for Children and Families (CCF) has called for a boycott of Google for its opposition to Prop 8.

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Randy Thomasson of the right-wing group Campaign for Children and Families (CCF) has called for a boycott of Google for its opposition to Proposition 8, which would ban same-sex marriage in California. "There needs to be a response from people who will say, 'I'm not going to put a dime of my money or time into businesses that are attacking the sacred institution of marriage,'" Thomasson told OneNewsNow. However, Valleywag points out that CCF's webpage directs users to search Google News for "news related to marriage":

According to Thomasson, Google also elevates "pagan-type holidays."

UpdateThomasson also pushed hard for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) to veto a bill honoring LGBT icon Harvey Milk, saying that it would "positively portray to children homosexual experimentation, homosexual 'marriages,' sex-change operations, and anything else that's 'in the closet.'"

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Amanda Terkel is Deputy Research Director at the Center for American Progress and serves as Deputy Editor for The Progress Report and ThinkProgress.org at the Center for American Progress.


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Posted by: Setnakt on Oct 3, 2008 1:58 AM   
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Do we write our own for this one? Ok I'll give it a shot. Conservative Ned Flanders pushed for a boycot of Google yesterday believeing Google was supporting gay marriage when in fact Google supports gay marriage. This apparently stemed from one Homer Simpson replying to an unnamed third party that "Google is gay".

Elsewhere in South Park Cartman and friends are hosting a rally to some say Free Hat McKellan (the baby killer). Updates to be posted as the story devlops.

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Terms really suck here. They serve to hide a "Terminal" sin.
Posted by: Nightstallion on Oct 3, 2008 5:28 AM   
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A conservative is someone who will liberally jump all over personal private freedoms and choices, then end up denying that you are allowed a choice. Liberals are people who will dictate just how free, free sexual consent is along with how adult you are, how to express your preferences and who may and may not express them.

So, when it comes to sex, no one knows their anal sphincter from a hole in terra firma anyway. This means we will go on squabbling like spoiled children while the population explodes, people starve, and children are ignored to death by all these "caring adults" who know what's best for them. Having rescued a few off the street I know full well about your “Kind” ministrations and the twisted refuse left behind.

As for the "Sanctity of Marriage", here again you people may lie to yourselves but NOT TO ME! The name of this game is SOME ONE WILL SUFFER FOR THE ADVENT OF CHILDREN OR LACK OF THEM! Legislating for Marriage of any kind is like fornicating in the name of chastity or fighting in the name of Peace and Jesus. This is just another excuse for mass psychological stupidity and blame placing by our demented human Shepards.

As for me: "LITTLE LEGISLATOR! KEEP YOUR DAMNED HANDS OUT OF MY PANTS OR PULL BACK A STUMP!" Enough already with the invasive compulsive sexual morality gambit! Stop invading my life and I will have no reason to call the dog catcher on your pets!

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Sick and Tired of "Moral" Hypochondriacs
Posted by: sallyride on Oct 3, 2008 7:19 AM   
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Right now, I'm starting an online challenge: every one who's adopted or fostered a child: Put up your name and political affiliation/persuasion. If you are a gay-couple, post that, too.

Having worked for years with expectant mothers, and families, as often as spoke in churches, pleading congregations for help and support to protect the babies, children, and help women who were pregnant with healthcare, education, job-training (most pregnant under the age of 14 were incest victims) it was a blatant rarity when a "anti-abortion" or "family values" person stepped forward to adopt, foster, or give funds to help a child, or take in one of our expectant mothers for shelter, protection, or for any reason - we provided all the services, and costs ... We were merely saving lives, not pretending to be qualified within our “group.” This is purely cult-stuff.

I'm sick to my stomach with all of this pompous arrogance and mouthing values in the so-called Christian movement. Most of us, professionally, never mention the truth about these bigots but this free-for-all has made our silence not worth the paper our ethics is written on...it's time we all spoke up and told the truth about the "Evangelicals...", what we have seen, and what we know. Not all, but for goddsakes, most of them. Look around, check them out...they either won't help others, much less their parents/family members in need (unless it 'shows'), or they're having 15 kids and glory in the attention they get from procreating all in the name of Jesus. BASTA. Where are the investigative reporters? It's no-holds barred from now on. Start with Schalfy.


Even hearing McCain refer to his precious adopted daughter in a manner totally unbecoming a father toward a child, burns me up.

It's time perhaps that we did examine their so-called "family values." These right-wing men are so homophobic there's only one conclusion - their bi-sexual and they know it; but, in reality, so what? Homo sapiens are homo sapiens - it's biology, "you guys (wink, wink)."

These idiots need to be torn into - LEFT to RIGHT, up and down. No foot-tapping allowed without total examination. Let's get back to our puritan foundations, 'you guys (no wink)."

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Good Luck!
Posted by: LeaderofMen on Oct 3, 2008 8:41 AM   
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Well, we see right thru all Christian conservative groups and how completely out of touch they really are.

1. Try 'boycotting' Google. Really, try it.
2. How dare any Christian conservative ever EVER E.V.E.R tell me that my friends who have children are horrible people. HOW DARE THEM. This issue IS about children. It's about families. But Christian conservatives don't care about children or families. They care about a FANTASY.

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freedom from religion
Posted by: chiefwanadubie on Oct 3, 2008 9:10 AM   
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The church and it's crusades, has raised havoc for centuries, killing in the name of God!!! America, is the constitution, and either were all Americans, or there are no Americans!!! Either the constitution, is valid for all, or it's not valid at all!!! Equal rights, is either equal, or treason!!! If Heathens are illegal, than so are Christians...!!! Legalize, or outlaw all religions!!! It's the only equal thing to do!!!

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Ok hunny bumps, answer to challenge! Bi-sexual male here!
Posted by: Nightstallion on Oct 3, 2008 8:57 PM   
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Without a partner I raised fifteen kids over a span of 32 years ranging in age from three to sixteen when I got them. I got them mostly by grabbing them before some pervert could kill them, right off the streets of Seattle. None would go to a foster home or ask for help from society. All but seven of them were three and four time losers on the foster circuit.

Only one was my adopted son and I only adopted him so he could go to school. Even then he pitched a fit that lasted six months! But, he did graduate and became a Counselor. He has a family of his own, two kids 16 and 14 they all love one another even through the hard times.

In fact most all of them, except three, had families not all stayed married but at least they had a life! Of the three hard cases one is dead, one is behind bars for life, and the other is back out on the street peddling buns to the highest bidder. All three of those kids had god awful morals issues and strange behavior. All three, violent beyond words, all three had father/mother/sibling incest issues, and hated anything to do with God or Religion.

I explained time and again to each child Morals are as Morals do: if they are hackneyed and hypocritical then their reward will be slipshod and double valued. Never trust a politician or a priest on face value alone. Humanity either treats itself well or tries to propagandize the unwary. Any Church or Religion that sells tickets to heaven, but will not break bread with the publicans is not Christian and would not be known to the master. If you can see this look at it closely and think! If any of you will hear this remember it to your children.

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SANCTITY OF MARRIAGE
Posted by: Jest2007 on Oct 8, 2008 5:33 PM   
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The conservatives love inserting themselves into people's private lives and claiming themselves, ad nauseum, the arbiters of "family values." Some of the most horrific childhoods have been produced by a man and a woman joined in the bonds of holy matrimony. Better that a child can be raised in a loving, gay household than a severely dysfunctional "marriage." So, what makes marriage between a man and a woman so wonderful?

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