Wayne Besen

Daniel Avila: The Catholic Culture Warrior Who Went Too Far

Wayne Besen | Posted 01.08.2012 | Politics

Read More: Sen. John Kerry, William Donahue, Truth Wins Out, Rep. Patrick Kennedy, US Conference of Catholic Bishops, Catholc League, Wayne Besen, Pope Benedict XVI, Daniel Avila, Politics News

Unfortunately, for the church, one of its lead cultural warriors took it a bit too far when he ventured from co-belligerence to flat out belligerence.

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Herman Cain's Implausible Spin

Wayne Besen | Posted 12.31.2011 | Politics

Read More: Truth Wins Out, Wayne Besen, Sexual Harassment, Herman Cain, Herman Cain Sexual Harassment, Politics News

Let me put it in simplistic branding language that Cain might comprehend: Don't bill yourself as a pepperoni pizza if you are actually a submarine sandwich.

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Mainstream Christians Must Stand Up To The Religious Right

Wayne Besen | Posted 11.22.2011 | Religion

Read More: Christians, Dr. Michael Brown, Religion and Politics, Religious Right, Truth Wins Out, Wayne Besen, Religion News

What truly bothers me, however, was the lack of mainstream Christians standing up and speaking out against such fanatical behavior.

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Leading GOP Candidates Run Away From the Gay

Wayne Besen | Posted 10.24.2011 | Politics

Read More: Christine O'donnell Delaware, Family Research Council, Michele Bachmann, Brent Bozell, Truth Wins Out, Linda Harvey, Tony Perkins, Wayne Besen, Politics News

Attacking LGBT people is not yet a third rail of politics. But it is clear that it is no longer the Holy Grail for electing Republicans that it once was in the not too distant past.

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Mitch Daniels and the Family Values Trap

Wayne Besen | Posted 07.23.2011 | Politics

Read More: Mitch Daniels, Religious Right, Truth Wins Out, Gop, Wayne Besen, Politics News

It is tragic that an intelligent, qualified politician felt he had to choose between his family and his desire to be president. However, Mitch Daniels has no one to blame but his own party, which has become a bastion of intolerant "family values" scolds.

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Dumbstruck That Michele Bachmann Is Star-Struck Over Glee

Wayne Besen | Posted 07.06.2011 | Politics

Read More: Truth Wins Out, Gop, Chris Colfer, Michele Bachmann, Glee, Wayne Besen, Darren Criss, Michele Bachmann Glee, Politics News

Maybe Bachmann is confused and thinks there are different kinds of gays -- the bad ones who sodomize and the goody-goody Glee type that harmonize.

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Why I Support J. Crew's Controversial Pink Toenail Ad

Wayne Besen | Posted 06.13.2011 | Style

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Anti-gay activists are exploiting J. Crew's ad to portray gay people as confused heterosexuals who are different because their parents let them play with the wrong toys as children. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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Apple Should Dump 'Ex-Gay' iPhone App

Wayne Besen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology

Read More: Randy Thomas, Iphone, Pray Away the Gay, Alan Chambers, Apple, Truth Wins Out, Ex-Gay, Wayne Besen, Technology News

Apple doesn't allow racist or anti-Semitic apps in its app store, yet it gives the green light to an app written by an anti-gay extremist group that condones violence against LGBT people.

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Forbidden Sex and Chicken Sandwiches

Wayne Besen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

Read More: Lgbt, Project SOS, Florida, Hiv, Abstinence Only, Sex, Lesbian, Bruce Wilson, Truth Wins Out, Gay, Aids, Wayne Besen, Pam Mullarkey, Home News

It was mid-afternoon and I was driving into Stillwater to speak at Oklahoma State University. Hungry, I saw a gleaming red Chick-fil-A restaurant in t...

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Offensive Catholic iPhone App Controversy Continues

Wayne Besen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion

Read More: Lgbt, Iphone, App, Truth Wins Out, Catholic, Gay, Pope, Wayne Besen, Religion News

Last week, Truth Wins Out caused an international uproar by criticizing a new Catholic iPhone confession app that asks users, "Have I been guilty of a...

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Obama's Gay State of the Union

Wayne Besen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

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Obama's relationship with the LGBT community has been much like a marriage saved by the husband delivering bouquets of red roses moments before the divorce papers arrive.

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Anti-Gay Hate Groups Waiting In The Wings

Wayne Besen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion

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The Southern Poverty Law Center report is a sober reminder that we must remain vigilant in combating extremism. There are well-organized and wealthy hate machines waiting in the wings, poised to cause tremendous harm to LGBT people.

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Dangerous New Anti-Gay Sham Study Debunked

Wayne Besen | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Lgbt, Paul Cameron, Aol, America Online, Ex-Gay, Paul Kix, Kansas State University, Wayne Besen, George Rekers, Walter Schumm, Healthy Living News

This study is betrayed by common sense and reality. If being around gay parents makes a child gay, then how does Walter Schumm explain the inconvenient fact that the vast majority of LGBT adults had heterosexual parents?

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To Win, Democrats Must Define, Defend, and Dumb Down

Wayne Besen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Lgbt, Tea Party, Jon Stewart, Rachel Maddow, Truth Wins Out, Keith Olbermann, Kirstin Gillibrand, Gay, Democratic Party, Bill O'Reilly, Republican Party, Wayne Besen, Politics News

In the absence of a brand, Democrats have had to disproportionately rely on prodigy politicians, such as Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, as well as scaring voters into believing that Republicans are too radical to govern.

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Voting on Equal Rights is a National Disgrace

Wayne Besen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Glbt, Briggs Initiative, Gay Rights, Proposition 8, Prop 8, Civil Rights, Lesbian, National Organization for Marriage, Maine Gay Marriage, Truth Wins Out, Referendum, Anita Bryant, Gay, Wayne Besen, California, Gay Marriage, Politics News

With a record of 0-31 in marriage initiatives, now may be a good opportunity to review our complicity in a process that doles out or strips away basic rights by majority vote.

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The Gay Community's Pope Problem

Wayne Besen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Catholic Church, Washington Archdiocese, Thomas Tobin, Truth Wins Out, Patrick Kennedy, Brazil, Pope Benedict XVI, Wayne Besen, Bishop Richard Williamson, Chuck Colson, Barack Obama, Vatican, HIV/AIDS, John Kerry, LGBT Rights, Manhattan Declaration, Gay Marriage, Politics News

It is time to admit that the gay community has a gigantic Pope problem. Under the leadership of Benedict XVI, the Vatican has become an implacable foe of basic rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.

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Obama's Big Gay Speech

Wayne Besen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

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Let it be known that the GLBT community is no longer interested in being pals with the powerful or having the famous tell us we are fabulous -- unless it leads to action.

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Pope Condom Quote Undermines Credibility

Wayne Besen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Catholic Church, The O'Reilly Factor, Hiv, Africa, Raymond Arroyo, Condoms, Aids, Wayne Besen, Pope, Politics News

"You can't resolve HIV with the distribution of condoms," the Pope told reporters aboard the Alitalia plane headed to Yaounde, Cameroon. "On the contrary, it increases the problem."

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Word Thief To Lead Focus on the Family's DC Lobby Shop

Wayne Besen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

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Tim Goeglein is a perfect hire as lead Washington lobbyist for Focus on the Family. He resigned from the Bush White House, after it was discovered that he had plagiarized 19 of 38 columns.

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Winds of Change

Wayne Besen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Lgbt, Gay, Proposition 8, Gay Marriage, Lesbian, Wayne Besen, Same-Sex Marriage, Politics News

The rules of the Mormon, Catholic and Evangelical churches are now enshrined into civil law. I think people are finally awakened to this existential threat and willing to fight back.

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Palin's All Dressed Up and Plotting

Wayne Besen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Jerry Falwell, John McCain, Rick Warren, Gay, Prop. 8, Wayne Besen, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Lgbt, Politics News

Like vultures circling the walking dead, social conservatives, these rapacious and repugnant culture warriors, are already poised to foist blame on McCain -- if he loses -- for not being conservative enough.

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The Radio Hall of Shame To Honor James Dobson

Wayne Besen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago

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James Dobson's self-righteous ranting about gay people overrides his ratings and the prejudice he perpetuates overshadows his popularity.

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Goodbye Gay Conservatives, Don't Let the Door Hit You On the Way Out

Wayne Besen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Pat Buchanan, Dan Quayle, Log Cabin Republicans, Dale Carpenter, Lesbian, George W. Bush, Pat Robertson, Gay, Truth Wins Out, Barack Obama, Wayne Besen, Politics News

I wasn't aware that Congress had to choose between the economy and protecting GLBT people from job discrimination. I had no idea that passing a hate crime law might hinder our efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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An Obama Administration and Gay Rights

Wayne Besen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Glbt, John McCain, Gay Rights, Enda, Homosexual, Sarah Palin, Truth Wins Out, Barack Obama, Wayne Besen, Election, Politics News

Palin's nasty one-liners aren't resonating at a time when peoples' bank accounts are flat lining. Cutthroat politics don't work as well when people are cutting back on gas and groceries. In a time of grave economic harm, one needs more than folksy charm.

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Log Cabin Republicans Should Disband

Wayne Besen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Gay, Log Cabin Republicans, Sarah Palin, Homosexual, Wayne Besen, George W. Bush, Politics News

Log Cabin's tragic endorsement of John McCain exhibits an obdurate denial of his anti-gay record and a stubborn unwillingness to admit that their one-time hero is now hopeless.

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