Huckabee wins the wingnut straw pollSource: Crooks and Liars
excerpt: "" Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee won the Values Voter Summit's 2012 presidential straw poll Saturday, grabbing nearly 29 percent of the vote in a crowded field. ""

This is only the beginning, if we allow this [ same sex marriage ] to happen we will, in effect, have destabilized the basic institution of our society, which is marriage between a man and a woman - Brian Camenker, President of the Parents' Rights Coalition, as quoted by MassNews …
Anti-gay 'Focus on the Family' faces dire financial straitsSource: Raw Story
A "serious budget shortfall" at Focus on the Family has prompted the conservative Christian group to issue a special fundraising plea, and contributed to a decision to cede control of its contentious "Love Won Out" conferences about homosexuality to another religious organization …
A Top Ten list for Letterman's conservative criticsSource: mediamatters.com
It is hard, however, to take conservatives seriously when one considers that each and every day, real players in the rudderless conservative movement -- powerful talk-radio hosts, cable-news hosts, pundits, columnists, and bloggers -- throw aside the reasonable boundaries of a ci …
Top Religious Right Group: We Won't Oppose Gay SCOTUS PickSource:
n a move that will surprise gay activists and liberals, a spokesperson for Focus on the Family, a top religious right group, tells me that his organization has no problem with GOP Senator Jeff Sessions' claim today that he's open to a Supreme Court nominee with "gay tenden …
US religious Right concedes defeat Source: Telegraph
Leading evangelicals have admitted that their association with George W. Bush has not only hurt the cause of social conservatives but contributed to the failure of the key objectives of their 30-year struggle.
The End of the Christian RightSource: Guardian Unlimited
James Dobson's retirement as head of Focus on the Family signals the death of the Christian conservative movement. [...]

Somebody asked me this on another seed:
Writing Athena,
what do you say to all these Christians who are ruining your religion by supporting Republicans and bigots like Dobson?
So this was my answer:

Ding dong, the jerk is gone!
Which old jerk? The jowly jerk!
Ding dong, the jowly jerk is gone.
Get lost, you hypocrite!
You're a Pharisee and you're full of ....
Dobson resigns as chairman of Focus on the FamilySource: The San Francisco Chronicle
Conservative evangelical leader James Dobson has resigned as chairman of Focus on the Family but will continue to play a prominent role at the organization he founded more than three decades ago.
2,000 oppose civil unionsSource: The Honolulu Advertiser
In a turnout that surprised even event organizers, more than 2,000 people representing dozens of local churches, temples, synagogues and mosques descended on the state Capitol yesterday to protest a bill that would establish civil unions between same-sex partners.