Daily Archives: 12/01/2010

(Community Matters) Chris Matthews has shown that Tony Perkins (Family Research Council) misled viewers when citing an American College of Pediatricians study calling homosexuality harmful to children. This during an  on-air debate with the Southern Poverty Law Center.  The former is livid that the Family Research Council has been labeled a hate group (noting FRC’s propagation of known falsehoods) by the decades old, well respected civil rights organization.

Turns out the American *College* of Pediatricians is an early 2000 splinter group of 100ish members of the American *Academy* of Pediatrics.  They broke off when the American Academy supported gay parental rights.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFMjYNh63rg&feature=player_embedded

The American Family Association is another organization which will be listed as a hate group, again for “their propagation of known falsehoods – claims about LGBT people that have been thoroughly discredited by scientific authorities

(Community Matters) Andrew Sullivan posts very important information about general Arab opinion of a nuclear armed Iran – very different perspective than what we’re hearing from the region’s dictators in the leaked cables.  Gives pause and perspective to US involvement in a war on Iran or strike on its arsenal, ie., would we further cement an anti-American sentiment among the Middle East population?

on the other hand, Iran . . . .

(Community Matters) At a usually insightful and respected source, Open Secret’s summer intern misses the boat, though I can see this being spoon fed to her by those calling for boycotts – sorta an intern’s initiation to not blindly follow even “prominent sources.”

Some of the error is obviously intentional since everyone knows donations are down in nonpresidential election years, the rest at best simply naive.  She notes the call for a boycott of LGBT dollars to the DNC but fails to note we had a record breaking, nonpresidential, year (general & LGBT $).  Excluding these monies from the denominator is silly – worse if just to make a story. Lots of other LGBT political organizations which should be included (including Republican).  We may not be single-minded (applause & rejoicing here) but we’re every bit as engaged and exercising even more political might than ever before – hey, win some lose some, at least it’s no longer one step forward, three back

12/05 update: based on a lack of clarity and consistency in measurement of dollars raised by the LGBT Leadership Council, I’m revising my statement from our best year to one of our best years.

(Community Matters) remembering so many . . .

(Community Matters) Steve Adler & Karen Gross (Anti-Defamation League’s local chairman & executive director) articulate well why this is not acceptable – Austin American Statesman guest editorial

before making this statement I’ve reflected on whether it’s opportunist. I’ve avoided stating it for a couple of weeks  – since this faith baiting started . . . I’ve long believed much (though certainly not all) of the political outreach from extremely conservative Christians to Jews was opportunistic. If Christian nationalism achieves unchecked political power, Jews will see themselves deemed second class citizens by those same “allies.”  Oh wait, that’s what the member of the Republican state board executive committee member just did