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:Eric Ethington (Author) | April 3, 2012
Congressmen Rob Bishop (R) and Jason Chaffetz (R) voted this past week to allow employers to require you turn over your Facebook passwords. In a nearly party-line vote, House Republicans voted unanimously to allow your boss to require you give up your private Facebook and Twitter account info. It’s a scary new phenomenon, but many [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | February 17, 2011
Facebook has just finished integrating new options into their ‘relationship status’ options that are more LGBT friendly. Go and look! Apart from the usual Single, In A Relationship and Married, Civil Unions and Domestic Partnerships are now available. The Advocate: Facebook made the changes with input from LGBT organizations including the Gay and Lesbian Alliance [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | November 1, 2010
Arkansas – Making good on his promise, bigoted school board vice president Clint McCance has officially resigned from office after the firestorm that followed his facebook rant demanding that all gay people get AIDS and commit suicide. – Thank goodness. If you missed this story, you can see McCance’s original facebook rant here. Good riddance [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | October 21, 2010
Family Research Council President, Tony Perkins, is really pissed about Facebook announcing that it will be working with GLAAD to end anti-gay hate speech on the social network. According to Perkins, not being able to write “all faggots should die” is bad. What a sleazemouth. Tony Perkins is making it clear he’s thrilled about LGBT [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | October 13, 2010
After a memorial page was setup for several of the gay teens who commited suicide on facebook, comments started flowing. Unfortunately, mixed in with messages of love were several hateful and homophobic rants as well. GLAAD has announced they’re working with Facebook to prevent messages of hate. Good for Facebook. The social networking site is [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | September 27, 2010
Gotta give this a quick mention folks. Local Utah activist Lauren Littlefield and her cohort Mike Thompson have been running the Facebook group “Money I Would Have Spent At Target” after Target donated $150k to an anti-gay campaign in MN. Over the weekend, they reached $300,000 that was spent elsewhere rather than support hate! Just [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | September 10, 2010
Montana – In the seemingly endless sage about the Big Sky Tea Party group, now ex-president Tim Ravndal wants his job back. After condoning “hanging the fruits” (Matthew Shepard style), he now says he thought the discussion was about hanging posters. Riiight… This has been one pure evil from the beginning. First Ravndal was caught [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | September 8, 2010
Montana – The Big Sky Tea Party keeps going! Members of the teabagger group throughout Montana are furious that their president, Tim Ravndal was fired after he made bigoted and violent comments against homosexuals on his facebook page. Now they’re demanding he be reinstated. So can’t wait to see where this goes.. If you missed [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | September 7, 2010
Montana – Who the hell is in charge of these sleazemouths? Following our story this morning about the Big Sky Tea Party group’s President Tim Ravndal getting fired over his promotion of violence against homosexuals, the group’s secretary, Kristi Allen-Gailusha, has declared war on the LGBT community on facebook. Wow…. not too quick on the uptake [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | September 7, 2010
Montana- Remember the story we did last week about the teabagger president who condoned Matthew Shepard-style violence against homosexuals? Well apparently that’s too far even for a tea party group. The Big Sky Tea Party just announced they canned him. We are extremely disappointed by Mr. Ravndal’s commentary. The discussion in that Facebook conversation is entirely [...]
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