You might have seen this ad by Empire State Development, which is New York’s economic development agency. The intent of the ad is to lure business to set up shop in the state of New York. At roughly 50 seconds in, headlines float onto the screen, including one that says Gov. Greg Abbott is OK […]
Religious Right Watch
Matt Krause Just Doesn’t Get It
We told you a few days ago how state Rep. Matt Krause, R-Fort Worth, thinks it “doesn’t matter” that the victims massacred in the June 12 mass shooting in Orlando were LGBT. The shooter could have chosen his victims simply because the Pulse nightclub was a “gun free” zone, he absurdly argued. Now Rep. Krause is once again demonstrating […]
Texas GOP Lawmaker: ‘Doesn’t Matter’ That Orlando Shooting Victims Were LGBT
Texas state Rep. Matt Krause, R-Fort Worth, one of the most anti-LGBT lawmakers in the Legislature, took to Facebook today to criticize those who call the Orlando massacre a hate crime targeting LGBT people. He suggests that the sexual orientation of the victims didn’t matter — that maybe the shooter simply thought the bar was a good place to […]
The Lies Behind the Hate
Dave Welch, the Houston-based religious-right leader who helped lead the smear campaign to repeal the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance last year, wants folks to think he really supports equality for all. But his own rancid rhetoric betrays him. […]
‘And This Surprises Her?’
There was a remarkable and blistering editorial published last week in the Longview News-Journal. The paper’s editorial board writes about an email distributed by JoAnn Fleming to members of the influential East Texas tea party group she leads, Grassroots America-We the People (GAWTP). In the email, Fleming complains of “the politics of personal destruction” as some […]
