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Another time Bryan Fischer was caught lying

Speaking on July 18th about the downed Malaysian Airlines flight, President Obama mentioned the many HIV/AIDS researchers and advocates headed for the 20th International AIDS Conference in Australia who were on the plane.

At the time, Obama said “the United States of America is going to continue to stand for the basic principle that people have the right to live as they choose.”

Hate group leader Bryan Fischer decided he didn’t like that. Fischer said that Obama’s statement was meant to “politicize” their deaths in order to legitimize gay relationships.

Fischer added, “We know how to stop AIDS: persuade men not to have sex with men.”

Well, we all know that’s not true. But let’s let the folks at PolitiFact break it all down for us, shall we?

About 70 percent of all people infected with HIV live in sub-Saharan Africa, about 24 million people. This region is also home to the most children living with HIV whose infections originated during pregnancy, childbirth of consuming breast milk, according to AIDS.gov.

Globally, the dominant form of transmission is heterosexual sex, said Sophie Barton Knott, UNAIDS spokeswoman. Nearly half of people with HIV are female, and most were infected through heterosexual sex. Most of the 50.9 percent of men with HIV got it through heterosexual sex, too, she said.

The highest rates of AIDS among 15- to 24-year-olds is among women in many parts of the world, said Seth Faison, spokesman for The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. And in Eastern Europe, the highest transmission rates of AIDS are among people who inject drugs.

“Men who have sex with men are a high-risk group, but not the only one,” he said.

The bottom line?

Preventing men from having sex with men will not end AIDS.

Faison said the criminalization of same-sex activity actually can increase transmission rates. Being gay is a crime in at least 76 countries, and in those places, gay men are less likely to receive treatment, testing and prevention.

The CDC also says stigma and homophobia are likely one factor behind the rise in HIV infections among young gay men in the United States.

“In effect, efforts to ‘persuade men not to have sex with men’ is counterproductive,” Faison said. “It will not stop AIDS.”

PolitiFact gives the statement it’s worst rating of “Pants On Fire.”

(h/t JMG)

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Rush Limbaugh: I never called for Obama’s impeachment (except when I did three weeks ago)

Rush Limbaugh is complaining that he has never called for President Obama’s impeachment, and CNN is unfairly lumping him in with other right wing lunatics who have.

From Media Matters:

On the July 15 edition of CNN’s CNN Tonight, senior Washington correspondent Joe Johns highlighted Rush Limbaugh’s attacks against President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder, likening his “combative tone” to Sarah Palin’s call for impeachment.

Limbaugh responded on the July 16 edition of his radio show, insisting that the news segment unfairly lumped him in to an extreme group, saying “I haven’t spoken in favor of impeachment,” and “I never talked about [Obama] being born in Kenya”:

Except, he TOTALLY did. Take a listen to a clip from Rush’s June 24th show:

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Scott Lively denies calling President Obama anti-Christ, gets busted for lying

Scott Lively, anti-gay pastor and Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate, denies he called President Obama the Anti-Christ, then admits it Michelangelo Signorile  plays a recording of him saying just that. 

From Right Wing Watch:

Last year, Lively told Rick Wiles of TruNews that the Antichrist “is heading the largest superpower of the world today,” obviously referring to Obama, who he predicted would eliminate “the debts of the world,” bring about “a peace treaty between the Palestinians and the Israelis” and establish “secular humanism” as a global religion.

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Conservative commentator Michael Medved at CPAC: No state has ever banned gay marriage

Conservative commentator Michael Medved at CPAC

I posted earlier about Oliver North speaking at CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) which is the right-wing’s favorite week to try and “out cheer-lead” each other as speaker after speaker and conference panel after conference panel tries to make the movement sound like the most rational folks on earth. Which, by the way, they aren’t.

Just to show you how loose the rhetoric gets, earlier today during a panel called “Can Libertarians and Social Conservatives Ever Get Along?,” conservative commentator Michael Medved flatly stated “There has never been a state in this country that has ever banned gay marriage.”

No punchline. That was it. No state had ever denied same-sex couples marriage rights.

As everyone in American knows (and anyone who reads The Randy Report) 30 states specifically prohibit same-sex marriage. Only 17 states plus Washington DC allow for marriage equality.

This is what goes on at these things. A WHOLE lot of misinformation.

Watch the clip below via Media Matters:

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National Organization for Marriage chairman alleges “harassment” of donors

NOM Chair John Eastman went for the big “liar, liar, pants on fire” today when he testified of “harassment” of his donors for Prop 8, which NO ONE has EVER documented actually happened.

NO ONE.

Isn’t lying a sin?

What this is is a classic “bait and switch” from the issue at hand to self-serving accusations to divert from  the fact that NOM is not a “social welfare” organization.

Congressman Blumenauer responded to Eastman’s comments on the Huffington Post:

“Let’s get real and stop the charade about what a ‘social welfare’ organization is. Last year, internal National Organization for Marriage (NOM) strategy documents were leaked, stating that the organization seeks ‘to drive a wedge between gays and blacks’ by promoting “African American spokespeople for marriage,’ thus provoking same-sex marriage supporters into ‘denouncing these spokesmen and women as bigots,’ and ‘to interrupt the assimilation’ of Latinos into ‘dominant Anglo culture’ by making the stance against same-sex marriage ‘a key badge of Latino identity.’

“Does this sound like social welfare to you? Social welfare organizations should work in the public interest — not to divide, exploit, and conquer. When I brought this up at the hearing today, Dr. Eastman, Chairman of the Board of NOM, angrily groused, ‘To say that defending traditional marriage doesn’t qualify for defense of the public good is beyond preposterous.’

“To Dr. Eastman, I say that it is the denial of my constituents, and all Americans, the right to marry the person they love is preposterous. To exploit racial and religious differences so you can fundraise for and enforce your specific worldview is preposterous. But your right to be preposterous should not extend to taking political positions under the guise of a social welfare organization, raising money and campaigning.”

– Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) for the Huffington Post

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Newt Gingrich lies about gay adoption

Serial adulterer Newt Gingrich tried to pass off the usual lie about gay adoption’s “effect” on the Catholic Church on Meet The Press yesterday:

“But what I’m struck with is the one-sidedness of the desire for rights,” he added. “There are no rights for Catholics to have adoption services in Massachusetts. They’re outlawed. There are no rights in DC for Catholics to have adoption service. They’re outlawed.” “This passing reference to religion, we sort of respect religion — sure, as long as you don’t practice it,” Gingrich continued, saying we should go beyond the question of “Are you able to be gay in America?” and ask what it means. Whether that means, for example, eliminating “any institution which does not automatically accept that, and therefore, you’re now going to have a secular state, say, to a wide range of religious groups.”

Also on the panel was Joy-Ann Reid, who rightfully corrected Gingrich noting that Catholic Charities voluntarily withdrew their services rather than comply with anti-discrimination laws. Gay rights have not “eliminated” any religious group. If a group doesn’t wish to follow the law, then they are making their own choice.

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More proof that Rush Limbaugh is either a liar or an idiot

In the last election cycle alone, Maryland, Maine and Washington state all passed same-sex marriage by popular vote of those states’ citizens.

Rush Limbaugh knows this. But it makes him feel better to lie to his listeners and say the issue has lost every time when it has not.

Last week, a new Post-ABC News poll revealed 58 percent support for marriage equality.

“So same-sex marriage and wiping out the Defense of Marriage Act is now a civil right. People that oppose it are bigots and nobody wants to be a bigot.  But the thing you can’t say is that if left to a vote of the people, same-sex marriage loses every time it’s on the ballot.  I think so far it’s 30 times.  State ballots, initiatives and other things, and the Defense of Marriage Act at the federal level.  It’s never passed. 

You wouldn’t know that, would you, by listening to the pop culture media?  You would think that this issue has overtaken everything, it’s the most important issue to everybody and anybody, and that it has massive public support.  And yet every time it’s been voted on by the people it has gone down to defeat.  That’s why the courts have to get involved, because the people, according to the left, won’t do the right thing.” – Rush Limbaugh, speaking on yesterday’s radio show.

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Anti-gay NC state senator James Forrester falsifies credentials

Pam’s House Blend breaks the news today that N.C. State Senator James Forrester, who supports banning marriage equality in North Carolina, not only has publicly put forward false information regarding HIV/AIDS – he has falsely claimed credentials as a Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine.

Equality supporter Scott Rose has written an open letter to the Senator which, in part, states the following:

“I was dismayed recently to hear your radio interview with Mike Signorile. There is a strong appearance that although you are a licensed physician, you intentionally falsify health care information and health care statistics in a political context in order fraudulently to demonize LGBT human beings and to motivate anti-gay bigots to strengthen the currently pertaining sexual orientation apartheid in our society. Your behavior in that runs counter to medical ethics. And speaking of medical ethics, your online bios claim that you are a Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine, but today, ACPM officials told me that you are not a member, still less a Fellow, which is their highest level of distinction, and that they would be asking you to remove your phony claim from the internet.”

Michael Barry, Executive Director of the American College of Preventive Medicine, responded to Scott Rose in a letter:

“Thanks for bringing this to our attention. The quick answer to your questions is that Dr. Forrester is not, and never has been, a member of ACPM (much less a Fellow, which is our highest designation of membership). However, this is troubling to us, too, that he’s apparently claiming to be a Fellow of ACPM, and we would like to know where Dr. Forrester is making these proclamations so that we can approach him and demand that he cease falsely using ACPM credentials in his campaign or wherever else he’s using it.”

I believe the correct phrase here is  – BUSTED.