March 20, 2014

Anti-Gay 'Revolution' On The Way, Because People Are Fed Up With 'Homosexual Agenda,' Scott Lively C

Anti-Gay 'Revolution' On The Way, Because People Are Fed Up With 'Homosexual Agenda,' Scott Lively Claims

An anti-gay "revolution" is in the works in response to the so-called "homosexual agenda," Scott Lively declared in a new interview with the American Family Association's Bryan Fischer.

As Right Wing Watch first reported, Lively joined Fischer to discuss his newly-launched gubernatorial campaign. Not surprisingly, however, their talk quickly shifted to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.

"People are fed up; I think they're at the breaking point," Lively noted. Calling homosexuality as the "ultimate lawlessness" in the Bible, the controversial evangelical added, "That's where we are now in our country. It's a powder keg and I think we're going to see some real explosive changes are going to take place."

Lively, who is on trial for crimes against humanity, perhaps best known for his support of Uganda's extreme political persecution of gays and lesbians, and is said to have inspired the country's controversial "Kill the Gays" bill.

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March 20, 2014

Dry eyes for Fred Phelps - By Jonathan Capehart

Fred Phelps, the founder of the Westboro Baptist Church, was so odious, so hateful that a side-eye noting of the 84-year-old’s death last night is in order. The 59-year-old “church” in Topeka, Kan., gained national infamy by protesting the funerals of those in the military and gays and lesbians. Phelps and some of his extended family carry placards containing gasp-worthy messages for the grieving and passers-by that are all the more shocking because, more often than not, they are carried by children.

“God hates fags.” “God is your enemy.” “God hates you.” “USA = fag nation.” “Fags die God laughs.” “Thank God for maimed soldiers.” “Pray for more dead soldiers.” “Thank God for dead soldiers.” “Thank God for IEDs.” “God killed your sons.”

Westboro is an ugly family affair. So ugly that two sons (Mark and Nathan) and a daughter (Dortha Bird) fled their father and his “church.” Nathan Phelps broke the news on his Facebook page on March 16 that his estranged father was “on the edge of death.” While my condolences are always with those who have lost a loved one, now that Fred Phelps is dead, may we all live in peace.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2014/03/20/dry-eyes-for-fred-phelps/?wpisrc=nl_popns

March 20, 2014

Poll: GOP establishment strikes back in Georgia Senate race

Businessman David Perdue (R) and Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) are starting to build leads in a crowded Georgia Senate primary, according to a new poll.

Perdue has 29 percent support, and Kingston has 19 percent support in the automated poll, conducted by SurveyUSA for NBC's Atlanta affiliate.
Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) has 12 percent support, Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.) is at 11 percent and former Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel (R) has 10 percent support, according to the survey.

Perdue and Kingston are viewed as more solid general election candidates than Gingrey and Broun by establishment Republicans, who would be relieved to see both make a primary runoff.

The top two vote-winners will advance to a July runoff election, unless someone can win an outright majority in the May primary, which is an unlikely scenario.



Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/senate-races/201263-poll-perdue-kingston-pull-ahead-in-georgia-race#ixzz2wX9XdLfh

March 20, 2014

Better things to do than picket the Fred Phelps funeral

BY ALEXANDRA PETRI
March 20 at 2:57 pm

On March 19, Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church passed away in the night. Who will picket the funeral of the man who picketed so many? Let’s hope, no one.

First because there may be no funeral to picket, and second because — well, we’re better than that. I know the urge to celebrate his passing is strong. But as Funny Or Die quipped, “Feels weird to celebrate Fred Phelps’ death considering that sort of thing was basically his favorite hobby.” Instead, let’s celebrate all the good he accomplished in his life — completely inadvertently.

It’s a fitting conclusion to the life of someone who, in the course of committing himself so loudly and grotesquely to hate (it was even on his bumper stickers), wound up proving again and again how much love there was in people. He would show up at a funeral with his family and their hideous signs, and others would rally. Even the KKK showed up. When the KKK Imperial Wizard comments that, compared to you, he is not a “hate-monger,” and says he “thinks that it’s an absolute shame that [the WBC] show up and disrupt people’s funerals” — well, need you say more? It’s like a twist on the old Churchill analogy about Hitler invading Hell.

A lot of people who set out to do good and advance the cause of love don’t accomplish this much. Thank you to Mr. Phelps, in a strange, strange way, for proving us right. Hate is well-publicized, but small. Love was bigger. He showed up with his signs, and people responded with a Wall of Love. He kept achieving the opposite of what he set out to do. He faxed tons and tons of complaints about — they passed a law against fax harassment. He showed up at funerals with his Hateful Signs, and people gathered to shield the mourners, or the Patriot Guard riders showed up, or even the KKK did. He tested our commitment to free speech, even extreme and ugly speech, and — yup, it is still strong.

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March 20, 2014

Georgia sex assault suspect insists he’s too attractive to be guilty of rape

By David Edwards
Thursday, March 20, 2014 10:46 EDT

A re-trial began on Wednesday for a Georgia man who said that he couldn’t possibly be guilty of raping a woman because he’s too attractive.

In a courtroom in Cobb County, the victim told a second jury about how Darrious Mathis abducted her from a CVS pharmacy at gunpoint and forced her to drive to a place, where he raped her in 2011.

“He had told me to get in the car and I actually begged him to take my car. I had pushed my wallet that was in my hand and my keys toward him and I was like ‘Please take my car. You can take my cards and everything,” she recalled.


The then-24-year-old woman said that she tried to keep calm “instead of panicking and trying to get hurt.”

The defense, however, has claimed that the victim had been attracted to Mathis’ good looks, and that’s why she left with him from a CVS in the middle of the night to have a sexual affair.

A judge declared a mistrial last September after one member of the first jury refused to join 11 other jurors who believed that Mathis was guilty.

Watch the video below from WSB-TV, broadcast March 19, 2014.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/20/georgia-sex-assault-suspect-insists-hes-too-attractive-to-be-guilty-of-rape/

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March 20, 2014

Billy Graham’s daughter wonders if missing airliner offers a ‘small snapshot’ of the Rapture

Billy Graham’s daughter wonders if missing airliner offers a ‘small snapshot’ of the Rapture

By Travis Gettys
Thursday, March 20, 2014 14:18 EDT

The daughter of famed evangelist Billy Graham says a missing airliner offers a glimpse of a post-Rapture world.

Anne Graham Lotz wondered last week on her blog where the 239 passengers and crew members had gone after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished, reported Right Wing Watch.

The author and evangelist said she can’t help but wonder if its disappearance is similar to events forecast in Thessalonians 4:17, when true believers will be taken from Earth by God to Heaven.

“Is this worldwide sense of shock and helplessness, of questions and confusion, of fear and grief, a glimpse of things to come?” Lotz wrote. “Is this a small snapshot of what the entire world will experience the day after the rapture of the church?”

She said the Bible was clear, and that Christ would return after the Rapture but before the end of days.

“There is coming a moment in time when Jesus will come back to gather to Himself all those — dead and alive — who have put their trust in Him,” Lotz wrote. “And on that day, the world will be asking, Where have all the people gone? Not just 239 of us, but millions of us.”

If she’s right, let’s hope that CNN’s Don Lemon will be left behind to speculate what has happened.

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/20/billy-grahams-daughter-wonders-if-missing-airliner-offers-a-small-snapshot-of-the-rapture/

March 20, 2014

S&P Downgrades Russia's Outlook To Negative

Source: Bloomberg via TPM

IGOR BOBIC – MARCH 20, 2014, 1:43 PM EDT

Standard & Poors, one of the biggest credit ratings agencies, announced Thursday it was downgrading Russia's outlook to negative from stable, Bloomberg reported.

The move comes after the U.S. and Russia traded escalating sanctions on top government officials over the invasion and annexation of the Ukrainian Crimea.

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Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/russia-s-p-negative

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March 20, 2014

Senate Dems raise more than GOP in February

Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Democratic Campaign Committee raised more money than its Republican counterpart in February and has about $5 million more in the bank.

The DSCC says Thursday it raised $6.8 million last month and has about $18 million in the bank. The National Republican Senatorial Committee raised almost $5.5 million, the party reports, and has almost $12.8 million in cash on hand.

The Democrats, however, are still carrying $1.2 million in debt.

Democrats are trying to defend a narrow six-seat majority in the Senate. Thirty-five Senate seats are up this year and Democrats will be defending 21 of them. The current balance of power in the Senate is 45 Republicans, 53 Democrats and two independents who caucus with the Democrats.

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Read more: http://www.salon.com/2014/03/20/senate_dems_raise_more_than_gop_in_february/

March 20, 2014

Lawrence Walsh, Iran-Contra prosecutor, has died

Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawrence E. Walsh, the special prosecutor who spent six years investigating misconduct by President Ronald Reagan administration officials in the Iran-Contra affair, has died. He was 102. His death was confirmed Thursday by two former aides, Guy Struve and Mary Belcher.

In a distinguished legal career, Walsh was a highly successful Wall Street lawyer who served as a federal judge, president of the American Bar Association and as the No. 2 official at the Justice Department in the Eisenhower administration.

But the highest profile work of his life was as a court-appointed independent counsel in the Iran-Contra controversy, when he relentlessly pursued evidence of wrongdoing in an investigation that cost $47 million. Walsh’s detractors said the investigation was a clear case of prosecutorial abuse.

The drama of Iran-Contra paled in comparison with the Watergate scandal that brought down President Richard M. Nixon. But both scandals were Washington spectacles: a political collision of the executive and legislative branches of government, televised congressional hearings, a presidency in peril, an alleged criminal cover-up and a series of criminal prosecutions that were, in the Iran-Contra affair, all overseen by Walsh.

Read more: http://www.salon.com/2014/03/20/lawrence_walsh_iran_contra_prosecutor_has_died/

March 20, 2014

GOP Senate Candidate Linked Obamacare With Global Conspiracy 'To Control Life'

DYLAN SCOTT – MARCH 20, 2014, 12:54 PM EDT

Obamacare, the United Nations' Agenda 21, the National Defense Authorization Act. All of these things appear to be linked, in the mind of North Carolina GOP Senate candidate Greg Brannon, a global conspiracy "to control you, to control me, to control life."

He also seems to believe his kidney disease might be the result of a flu vaccination.

BuzzFeed flagged Brannon's 2012 comments during a local radio interview. Brannon, a physician, is running as the tea party alternative to North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis, who has been the presumed frontrunner for the GOP nomination. A March 11 poll from the Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling found Brannon and Tillis tied at 14 percent to lead the Republican primary field.

For the uninitiated, Agenda 21 is a non-binding UN plan regarding sustainable development that is the subject of numerous fringe conspiracy theories. Glenn Beck, for instance, wrote a dystopian novel about it, and Beck's news site, The Blaze, has warned readers that it could lead to a one-world government.

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