Those Brits are full of good ideas! The United Kingdom's Home Office today announced that "hate preachers" could be banned from entering their land.

Foreign-born "preachers of hate" and other violent extremists will have to prove they have publicly renounced their views or be refused entry to Britain under tough new rules unveiled today.

The measures, set out in a written ministerial statement by Jacqui Smith, the home secretary, will make it easier to exclude those who want to come to the UK to stir up religious or racial hatred.

Obviously "hate" can include homophobia, so Andy over at UK Gay News did a little digging and found that anti-gay preachers, like Fred Phelps, also face British banishment.

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We're gagging!

Indiana's Democratic party has been taking a page from the right. While most of this electoral season's anti-gay rhetoric has come from the Republicans, the Hoosier State's Democrats decided to get nasty with a mailer sent out for state Representative Andy Schemenaur.

The flier, which reads ""Faith & Family: A Hoosier Way of Life," touts Schemnaur's commitment to defending to so-called "sanctity of marriage." You know what that means: no nuptials for same-sex lovers. What a disgrace.

[via Bilerico]

Like right-wing nut job Janet Porter before them, James Dobson's Focus On The Family are predicting what the States will look like after four years of of an Obama administration.

It is a lavender-tinged dystopia, of course:

The Bible can no longer be freely preached over radio or television stations when the subject matter includes such ‘offensive’ doctrines as criticizing homosexual behavior.”

In addition, “churches have no freedom to refuse to allow their buildings to be used for wedding ceremonies for homosexual couples.” and “homosexuals are now given special bonuses for enlisting in military service.”
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The U.S. Supreme Court has “nullified all Federal Communications Commission restrictions on obscene speech or visual content in radio and television broadcasts. As a result, television programs at all hours of the day contain explicit portrayals of sexual acts.”

Well, if that's the case, we're definitely voting for Obama!

The electoral gay-baiting has spread to Missouri!

According to that state's Republican party, "extreme liberals" are all backing potential state representative Kristy Manning because, as a Democrat, the politico will institute free-wheeling abortions, gay marriage and all sorts of other sick shit.

The flier's but one in a series of anti-gay mailers that have gone out in recent weeks. Ohio's Republican party sent out two, while North Carolina's GOP recently attacked Senatorial hopeful Kay Hagan, whom they describe as an agent of the gay agenda.

Funny - both the Democrats and Republican parties claim they'll bring real change to America, yet these state's Republican parties insist on inflaming the tired culture wars.

[via Show Me Progress]

We're no longer surprised by the words that come out of right-wing leader Matt Barber's mouth. He is, after all, the man who suggested social conservatives back gay sex because then we'll infect each other with AIDS and die. Yeah, it was gross.

Barber's latest tirade, however, may take the hyperbolic cake:

If Bill Clinton was the first black president, Barack Obama, if elected, will be the first "gay" president. No, I don't mean he'll personally decorate the West Wing, open a bathhouse in the Rose Garden or take up with Barney Frank. I mean he'll be the most radically pro-homosexual, anti-family president in history.

He's very quietly pledged as much to the homosexual "Human Rights Campaign" and other fawning members of his homofascist fan club.

And if you need more proof of Barber's statements, look no further than this picture of Obama at gay pride. That's totally him. He's probably on some anti-straight crusade, or something…

What's worse than one anti-gay organization? Seventeen of them - a frightening prospect made real in Australia, where "family" groups have come together to form the "Gender Matters" coalition. And, after putting their hateful heads together, the group has released a series of demands for the gays - and the world.

Most of their requests are pretty standard, like keeping marriage for heterosexuals and prohibiting gay adoption. Beyond that, however, things get pretty wild, like the use of public funds to "cure" the queers.

From Gender Matters' website:

To dispel the current confusion regarding gender issues, and to restore the proper understanding and appreciation of maleness and femaleness, and to protect our children from harm, the following is proposed as a guide to policy makers
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That public funding be committed to programmes and support networks which assist individuals to overcome gender disorientation pathology.

That it be affirmed that homosexuals, as individuals, should enjoy the same rights as other individuals, but that homosexual relationships not be granted social or legal recognition, since that would promote greater levels of gender disorientation pathology in the community as a whole, and undermine the unique status of marriage.

The group also wants schools to give little boys lessons on how to be masculine. Girls, meanwhile, would get lessons in being - well, girly. Also, all gay people will be terminated.

Psych! Gender Matters didn't really ask for the mass murder of all the gays - but we bet they thought it!

Uganda's anti-gay activists have some real balls.

Just one week after Bishop Eria Paul Luzinda claimed greed breeds gays, the Independent newspaper ran an article insisting same-sex lovers are looking for new recruits.

…The signs are there that homosexuality is growing in the Ugandan society. Between September 22 and 27, workshops were held at the Grand Imperial Hotel and at the Sheraton Kampala Hotel. Both workshops were organized by the gay community in Uganda. At least once a month, a workshop of this nature is held in a different town somewhere in the country.
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Normally, the agenda of these conferences is to encourage the gay community not to feel alone, to network, introduce new members, offer sex education and to raise money to support gays who are being persecuted because of their openness about their sexual orientation and also to recruit new members. Recruitment is reportedly highest in secondary schools and in prisons.

Gasp! They're onto us!

Ohio's Republican party simply can't quit gay-baiting!

The Buckeye State's GOP this month sent out fliers claiming Democrat Ray Pryor would be bad for the state because he supports gay adoption. (They failed to mention, of course, that a number of high-ranking Republicans there agree with Pryor's politics.)

Now, just two weeks before election day, the party has again used anti-gay tactics to drum up votes. In a mailer sent on behalf of State Congressional hopeful Michael Keenan, the GOP highlights their candidate's strong "family values" and unwavering religion.

With all the muck being thrown around, one would think it's 2004. But, sadly, it is within Ohio's Republican party. Actually, it's probably closer to about 1982…