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GLAAD Accused Of Creating “Ministry of Propaganda” To Silence Anti-Gay Right

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GLAAD is being accused of censoring the anti-gay radical religious right, and creating a “ministry of propaganda to silence opponents of [the] homosexual agenda” by a consortium of the very people whose voices GLAAD is attempting to amplify. Last week, as The New Civil Rights Movement reported, GLAAD launched its brand-new Commentator Accountability Project (CAP), designed to house and catalog all the anti-gay comments coming from the top three dozen anti-gay professional pundits. But since CAP’s launch, the anti-gay religious right has twisted and turned the intention of the project, attacking it and GLAAD with lies and mis-information.

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Today, Catholic Online’s Deacon Keith Fournier wrote a ludicrous and ridiculous attack, titled, “GLAAD Sets Up Ministry of Propaganda to Silence Opponents of Homosexual Agenda.” Fournier writes:

In a sign of their growing intolerance of people who hold positions other than those of the Homosexual Cultural Revolution, the Media Watchdog Organization which calls itself “GLAAD” (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) has issued a blacklist of commentators.

This effort is called the “Commentator Accountability Project“. The blacklist includes some people I know and admire. It also includes some of my favorite commentators, in both the Catholic and evangelical protestant communities. For example, both Robert George and Chuck Colson have been blacklisted.

The effort recruits likeminded parties to “spy”. They are asked to send reports in to GLAAD if these commentators are featured in local media. GLAAD will then pressure the media sources to not feature their writing. In effect, the organization has established a ministry of propaganda. Its purpose seems to be to ensure that only the positions of the Homosexual Equivalency movement are allowed to be read, heard or considered.

Aside from the either communistic or Harry Potter-esque overtones of the title, the content is an embarrassment of misinformation — at best. As the image, right, a screenshot from Fournier’s piece, shows, the right is accusing GLAAD of censorship, another misunderstanding of the First Amendment.

“Homosexual Cultural Revolution”? Really? What does that even mean? The only other use of that strange and incorrect term appears to be from TFP. Who is TFP? ”Tradition, Family, Property” is an anti-gay neo-fascist para-military cult accused of assassination plots against President Reagan and the Pope. TFP has been described by the UN as “an ultramontane Catholic group, strongest in Brazil and Argentina, which among other things maintains that all Popes since John XXIII have come under Marxist influence.”

That said, let’s be clear. GLAAD’s CAP is no “blacklist of commentators.” The mere accusation is embarrassingly false on its face.

Fournier writes two of his “favorite commentators,” “Robert George and Chuck Colson have been blacklisted.”

Who are these people?

Well, as The New Civil Rights Movement wrote yesterday, “Colson, best-known as a Watergate felon turned prison minister, is also one of the triumvirate  – along with NOM, National Organization For Marriage founder Robert George – who drafted the virulently anti-gay ‘Manhattan Declaration.’ And last year he also wrote, ”gay marriage’ will inevitably undermine all marriages‘.”

Colson vehemently denies he is a gay-basher. We respectfully disagree, and offer mounds of proof.

And as for Robert George, well, he founded NOM. And sadly, that’s only the tip of the anti-gay iceberg.

Aside from his strange need to Capitalize Words That Don’t Require Capitalization, Fournier misunderstands and mis-characterizes GLAAD’s Commentator Accountability Project entirely.

How?

The New Civil Rights Movement reached out to GLAAD this morning, and received this response from Herndon Graddick, GLAAD’s Vice President of Communications and Programs:

“These anti-gay activists are scared that people are going to see their actual records. It’s completely Orwellian that they are yelling about being silenced when what we are actually doing is making sure people see and hear what they’ve actually said. We want the media to know just exactly who they are dealing with when they put these people on their air. Scott Lively, who is profiled by our project, calls for the criminalization of the public advocacy of gay rights. That’s not just advocating for people to be put in jail for being gay…he’s calling for straight people who are vocally supportive of gay people to be put in jail too. The anti-gay industry doesn’t want Americans to know the depth of their extremism.”

And that’s exactly the point.

Because when the average American sees these people, like Tony Perkins, who has appeared on, of all places, MSNBC more than any other cable news network, he seems balanced and fair and reasonable. But few people get to see or hear what he and his SPLC-certified anti-gay hate group actually says to its base, when they think average Americans are not listening.

GLAAD’s CAP will help everyone see and hear what the professional anti-gay industry really thinks and says.

If they have no problem calling for, say, the imprisonment or death of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people, when talking amongst themselves, on their radio stations, talk shows, press releases, and conventions, why are they so deathly afraid of the rest of America hearing their words?

 Image, top: World War II propaganda poster.

 

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Revealed: The Real Reason Kristi Noem Was Fired

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The rumor mill was spinning fast on Thursday as news reports from multiple outlets revealed President Donald Trump was considering firing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Within hours, he did, announcing the nomination of U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) as her replacement.

Some critics pointed to Noem’s damaging testimony before Congress this week, when she declared that President Trump had approved her spending $220 million in an ad campaign that, as one GOP senator said, boosted her name recognition. On Thursday, Trump told Reuters, “I never knew anything about it.”

The Wall Street Journal reported that the “final straw for Trump was Noem’s combative hearing Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The president watched the testimony and was apoplectic about her performance, telling advisers that evening he would remove her from the job, according to people familiar with the matter.”

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But according to NBC News, Noem was not fired only because of her testimony.

“An administration official told NBC News that the president decided to fire Noem due to ‘a culmination of her many unfortunate leadership failures including the fallout in Minnesota, the ad campaign, the allegations of infidelity, the mismanagement of her staff, and her constant feuding with the heads of other agencies, including CBP and ICE,'” the news outlet reported.

The allegations of infidelity were in full swing during her congressional testimony, as U.S. Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA) grilled the DHS chief.

“Secretary Noem, at any time during your tenure…have you had sexual relations with Corey Lewandowski?” the Congresswoman asked.

“That is garbage and it is offensive that you have brought that up,” Noem responded..

“It is about your judgment and decision-making,” Kamlager-Dove replied.

Lewandowski, according to Fox News, is also expected to exit DHS.

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‘Bad to Worse’: Mockery Ensues as Trump Trades Noem for ‘Erratic’ Mullin

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President Donald Trump’s announcement that Republican U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin will become the new Secretary of Homeland Security — replacing embattled Kristi Noem — is drawing mockery.

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reported that “Trump loves watching Mullin on TV and often praises him, which was a factor in this decision.”

Calling him “erratic” and “unstable,” California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom slammed Mullin’s nomination.

“Markwayne Mullin could not remember if we were at war THIS WEEK,” he said. “His state has one of the highest crime rates in the country — with a murder rate 40% higher than California’s. He literally tried to fight union workers during a hearing and told them to ‘shut your mouth.’ And said ‘I don’t want reality’ at a Senate hearing about race.”

The president may have another challenge ahead of him.

After dodging increasing calls for Noem’s impeachment over her controversial congressional testimony on Wednesday, he wrote that Mullin will be the new DHS Secretary as of March 31. Politico’s Kyle Cheney notes there are other factors at work.

According to Cheney, “it’s not clear how Trump can simply announce this is effective on March 31. Mullin is not Senate-confirmed and not eligible to become acting secretary under laws governing cabinet-level vacancies.”

If it’s a matter of getting enough Democrats to support Mullin, Trump can already count on the Senator from Pennsylvania.

“As a member of the Homeland Security Committee + Ranking Member of Subcommittee on Border Security: I’m not sure how many fellow Democrats will vote to support our colleague  @SenMullin as the next DHS Secretary, but I am AYE,” Democratic Senator John Fetterman wrote.

Meanwhile, critics continued to express opposition to the decision to hand the reins of the more than $100 billion federal agency to Mullin.

“Firing Noem to hire Markwayne Mullin is the definition of going from bad to worse,” declared Democratic strategist Max Burns.

Some pointed out that Mullin is the only current U.S. Senator to not hold a bachelor’s degree.

Others noted that he is “the same guy who was hiding from MAGA rioters during the January 6th insurrection.”

And some pointed to reports “showing him in violation of the STOCK Act.”

The progressive social media account The Tennessee Holler called Mullin “one of the biggest Trump sycophants in Congress.”

The Atlantic’s Norman Ornstein added, “That Markwayne Mullin is the dumbest member of the Senate was a qualification for Trump to choose him to head DHS.”

 

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Trump’s Iran War Triggers Gas Price Shock — Especially in Red America

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President Donald Trump’s war against Iran is having harsh effects on the price of gas for consumers, but no one is being harder hit than his red-state base.

According to Patrick De Haan, the widely-cited head of Petroleum Analysis at GasBuddy, as of Thursday morning, the national average price of gasoline stands at $3.24 per gallon.

“That’s now just 1.4 cents shy of its highest national average since 2024 — and, based on GasBuddy’s tracking, the highest national average so far during President Trump’s two terms,” De Haan writes.

What that means is collectively, he says, Americans are paying about $90 million more at the pump than just one week ago.

At the state level, 49 out of 50 states have seen at least a ten-cent increase since last week. And twelve states are seeing at least a 30-cent increase in just the past week.

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Who is being hit the hardest?

Nine of the top ten highest price increases are being seen in red states.

De Haan says that Louisiana is being hit the hardest, with a 39.7-cent per gallon increase over last week.

Georgia is seeing a 37.5 cent increase. Iowa, Indiana, and West Virginia are all in the 35-cent range. Oklahoma, North Dakota, and Ohio in the 34-cent range. South Dakota comes in at a 32.6-cent increase. And Illinois, a blue state, comes in at number ten, at 31.1 cents per gallon.

According to Michael Gunther, senior vice president at Consumer Edge, the “pain isn’t evenly distributed.”

He says that “customers of value-oriented, drive-dependent brands — Dollar General, Jack in the Box, Boot Barn — allocate the highest share of their wallet to gas. Lower-income, suburban consumers with very little cushion to absorb a sustained spike.”

De Haan adds that gas prices will continue to climb.

“While the national average gas price is seeing a slower climb today, increases will likely throttle back up soon as wholesale gasoline prices jump again,” he notes.

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