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Frank Schubert, the National Political Director for the anti-equality National Organization for Marriage, is urging NOM supporters to contri
Frank Schubert, the National Political Director for the anti-equality National Organization for Marriage, is urging NOM supporters to contribute to the legal defense fund for right-wing lawyer John Eastman, whose efforts to help former President Donald Trump stay in power after losing the 2020 election have him in serious legal trouble. Eastman’s legal defense fund is also soliciting contributions through Christian crowdfunding site GiveSendGo, which currently lists more than $540,000 in contributions.
Eastman was indicted along with Trump and other co-conspirators in the criminal case brought by Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis. In addition, Eastman is facing disbarment in California; those legal proceedings are currently under way.
In an email sent Friday to NOM supporters, Schubert claimed, “Radical leftists are trying to ruin him, bankrupt his family and send him to prison all because he helped President Trump.”
It’s true that someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity are only two among several reasons such workers, under an expanded Department of Health and Human Services rule, may deny care to people based on religious grounds. And most reports did discuss the threat to LGBTQ people, in addition to the threat to other groups, such as women seeking reproductive health care. But the coded language used by the Trump administration, couched in protecting religious beliefs rather than permitting discrimination against LGBTQ people and other groups, is being allowed to frame the discussion. Using this coded language to attack LGBTQ rights has benefited this administration as it continues to galvanize conservative evangelicals — who know exactly who is being targeted — while not alienating people who might see these efforts as an attack on civil rights. But make no mistake: LGBTQ people are among the primary targets if not the main target of such efforts. It's part of religious conservatives' strategy to chip away at marriage equality and LGBTQ rights much as they have done on the issue of abortion rights for many years. [...] In Virginia and more than half the states, absent a federal law such as the Equality Act recently re-introduced in Congress, there are no protections for LGBT people against such discrimination in employment and education. And yet, in polls Americans express broad support for these protections. Most Americans don’t see this as an issue of “religious liberty” — and many of them are people of faith themselves — but rather as one of flat out discrimination. It’s for that reason that Trump, Pence and others in the GOP speak in inexplicit ways to play to the evangelical base, while keeping the anti-LGBTQ agenda below the radar for anyone who would be turned off by blatant bigotry. But when you're the target, you get it. Many of us in the LGBTQ community understand their code and why their intent must be made clear. Trump's brutal record of hostility to LGBTQ people, and his bowing to those determined to roll back LGBTQ rights, must be fully laid bare to voters before the 2020 election. As long as the administration is allowed to get away with vague statements and code language, it won't be.
Michelangelo Signorile at USA Today on Trump Administration’s atrocious LGBTQ rights record in the name of “religious liberty” (05.09.2019).
Top 5 Stupid Things Pseudo-Christians Said This Week
Top 5 Stupid Things Pseudo-Christians Said This Week
Welcome to our new weekly feature. Every week we will choose five of the stupidest things said by pseudo-Christians to share with you. We wade through the muck so you don’t have to. You’re welcome. This week, there was a conference held at the Skyline Wesleyan Church in San Diego. The host, Jim Garlow, called it the “Future Conference” in honor of Christians ruling in the future. There were…
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Some Press For My PBS Documentary Short
The Daily News and Brokelyn posted about my Coney Island Lighthouse documentary short, which was broadcast on PBS this week.
Daily News: "Students shine light on last civilian lighthouse operator Frank Schubert in new documentary" Brokelyn: "Watch a short film on the Coney Island lighthouse"
More on the short here.
Frank Schubert's anti-trans referendum could become the stealth initiative of 2014, drawing conservative Republican money to try to leverage and regain power in California.
Frank Schubert has been busy in Minnesota, Maine, Maryland and Washington this election season using the same commercials and scare tactics! [read more]
Check out the latest commercial from amendment supporters (and accompanying fact check document). The commercial is filled with misleading scare tactics and threats of how things would change in Minnesota if voters were to defeat this mean-spirited marriage amendment. [read more]