http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/lgbt_issues This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: LGBT Issues en-US Copyright 2008, Media Matters for America http://mediamatters.org/items/200811190017 While discussing the campaign for Proposition 8 to ban same-sex marriage in California, Bill O'Reilly asserted that if states allow same-sex couples to marry they would be required, "under equal protection," to allow polygamous marriages. In fact, the California Supreme Court explicitly stated that its May 15 decision that California's ban on same-sex marriage violated the state's constitution did not extend to polygamous marriages. http://mediamatters.org/items/200811190017 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:36:41 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200811180007 In a <em>Newsweek</em> article headlined "Is Obama the Antichrist?" senior editor Lisa Miller treated as newsworthy purported debate among some "conservative Christians" over whether President-elect Barack Obama is "the Antichrist." In doing so, she gave credibility to the views of RaptureReady.com editor and founder Todd Strandberg, who has, among other things, smeared gays and lesbians, Islam, progressives, Jehovah's Witnesses, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. http://mediamatters.org/items/200811180007 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:24:13 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200811170014 Discussing actions by individual protesters of Proposition 8, Newt Gingrich stated: "I think there is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us, is prepared to use violence, to use harassment. I think it is prepared to use the government if it can get control of it. I think that it is a very dangerous threat to anybody who believes in traditional religion." http://mediamatters.org/items/200811170014 Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:26:03 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200811140011 Discussing purported "questions about" President-elect Barack Obama "that the media won't answer," Michael Savage revived discredited rumors about Obama's birth certificate and asked: "Why in the world did he take time off from the campaign to visit the grandmother who then suddenly and suspiciously died virtually the night before the election?" Additionally, after a caller said that "[h]omosexuals and homosexual marriage is a choice," Savage declared: "[I]t's a lifestyle or a death-style choice, depending upon how you look at it." http://mediamatters.org/items/200811140011 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:34:10 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200811130013 On <em>The O'Reilly Factor</em>, Dennis Miller stated of Gov. Sarah Palin: "[M]ostly women on the left hate her, because to me, from outside in, it appears that she has a great sex life." He continued, "I think she has non-neurotic sex with that Todd Palin guy. I think most of the women on the Upper East Side, their husbands haven't been aroused since Mailer signed copy of <em>The Executioner's Song</em> at Rizzoli's back in the early '70s." http://mediamatters.org/items/200811130013 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:54:37 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200811120010 On ABC's <em>The View</em>, co-hosts Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Sherri Shepherd again promoted the falsehood that without the passage of Proposition 8, the California ballot initiative to amend the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage, members of the clergy could be jailed for refusing to perform same-sex marriages. In fact, neither Proposition 8 nor the California Supreme Court ruling that affirmed the constitutional right of same-sex couples to marry had anything to do with members of the clergy. http://mediamatters.org/items/200811120010 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:42:02 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200811100003 On <em><em>The View, </em></em>Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Sherri Shepherd both suggested that without Proposition 8, a California ballot measure to amend the state constitution to reverse the California Supreme Court's ruling in favor of same-sex marriage, members of the clergy who refused to perform same-sex marriage ceremonies could have been prosecuted. In fact, as the court itself made clear, the ruling applied only to state officials, and<strong><strong> "</strong></strong>no religious officiant will be required to solemnize a marriage in contravention of his or her religious beliefs." http://mediamatters.org/items/200811100003 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:33:12 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200811070005 Discussing the passage of a California ballot initiative to amend the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage, radio host Jim Quinn asserted: "[G]ay marriage doesn't produce anything that the state has an interest in. Gay sex produces AIDS, which the state doesn't have -- or <em>should</em> have an interest in. They should charge homosexuals more for their -- for their health insurance than they charge the rest of us." <br /> http://mediamatters.org/items/200811070005 Fri, 7 Nov 2008 13:01:19 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200811060005 Beyond the echelon of widely known conservative radio hosts with national audiences lies a vast network of lesser-known syndicated and regional radio hosts who have become key components of an echo chamber for conservative talking points and falsehoods. Like their better-known counterparts, these syndicated and regional radio hosts have played active roles this election season in promoting falsehoods and smears in an all-out effort to foment hate and distrust among their listeners for President-elect Barack Obama. While the hosts vary in the degree of vitriol they spew and in their ratio of rebuttable falsehoods to unbridled smears, <em>Media Matters for America </em>and <em>Colorado Media Matters</em> have identified common themes that many, if not all, have promoted over the past year. <br /> http://mediamatters.org/items/200811060005 Thu, 6 Nov 2008 12:37:03 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200811030018 Radio host Lars Larson played a spoof "Barney Frank for President" advertisement, in which a person said: "Now remember, this Erection Day -- Election Day, vote for Barney Frank for President. I'm Barney Fag -- uh, Frank and I approve this massage -- message." Larson also baselessly suggested that Frank allowed his relationship in the 1990s with a Fannie Mae official to improperly influence his conduct as a member of the House Financial Services Committee. In fact, Frank repeatedly took actions over the years to strengthen oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. http://mediamatters.org/items/200811030018 Mon, 3 Nov 2008 19:42:38 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200810310015 On his radio show, referring to a California ballot initiative that would amend the state constitution to ban gay marriage, Michael Savage stated: "If you're insane, hate the family, hate man and woman, hate your mother and father, hate the Bible, hate the church, and hate the synagogue, of course you're in favor of 'no' on Proposition 8." The next day, Savage said that "people who don't have families ... don't understand what the family unit is. It's the strongest bond on Earth, which is why homosexual marriage is such a threat to civilization itself." http://mediamatters.org/items/200810310015 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:55:09 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200810100004 On his radio show, Neal Boortz baselessly suggested that Rep. Barney Frank "was protecting Fannie Mae for about seven or eight years in the 1990s because his lover, his boyfriend was working for Fannie Mae, pushing out these subprime mortgage packages." Boortz provided no evidence to support his suggestion that Frank allowed his personal relationship to affect his work in Congress. In fact, Frank repeatedly took actions over the years to strengthen oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. http://mediamatters.org/items/200810100004 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:25:18 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200810030006 On his radio show, Michael Savage said: "[Y]ou may say, 'Why should we care about homosexuals trying to destroy families through the mock marriage that they perform in order to mock God, the church, the family, children, the fetus, the DNA of the human species? Why should we care about it while we have a financial meltdown?' Because the spiritual side of the downturn on Wall Street is directly related to the moral downturn in the United States of America." http://mediamatters.org/items/200810030006 Fri, 3 Oct 2008 09:55:50 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200809170004 In recent reports, McClatchy News Service and the <em>Las Vegas Sun</em> falsely suggested that Gov. Sarah Palin supports benefits for same-sex partners of state employees. In fact, while Palin did veto a bill that would have prevented state officials from granting spousal benefits to same-sex couples, she stated that she did so because the Alaska attorney general had advised her that the bill was unconstitutional, not because she supported spousal benefits for same-sex couples. http://mediamatters.org/items/200809170004 Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:52:41 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200809090008 Asked on <em><em>Fox &amp; Friends </em></em>about the "damage done" by having Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews anchor MSNBC's election coverage, the Media Research Center's Tim Graham responded, "Not only is the damage already done, the damage continues. I mean, not only are they keeping these people on for an hour a night, they're adding this lesbian Air America radio host, Rachel Maddow, on every night." http://mediamatters.org/items/200809090008 Tue, 9 Sep 2008 11:59:46 EST