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St Petersburg Anti-LGBT Bill in final stage

  • Official All Out image against anti-LGBT law in St Petersburg
22 Feb 2012 / 0 Comments / in Rebel Scum/by Rebel Scum

Anti-LGBT vote has one more vote before it is passed

Sign the allout.org petition to protest against the bill to criminalise any writing supporting LGBT people in Russia.

“Imagine for a moment the new St. Petersburg – where newly empowered “thought police” can fine you for any mention of the well known fact that famed Russian composer Tchaikovksy, a St. Petersburg native, was gay.”

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The Conservative School of Diversion Tactics

14 Feb 2012 / 0 Comments / in Rebel Scum/by Rebel Scum

Lady Warsi gets a state-funded holiday to the Vatican

Lady Warsi talks nonsense about Christianity and tries to divert attention from the dismantling of the NHS

The tactic of the current Christian Right is to cry victim, but what they really want is the right to persecute others using whatever biblical statute will do the job. And so Lady Warsi launches her attack on the secular mind.

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Petition to support Russian LGBT Rights

08 Feb 2012 / 0 Comments / in Rebel Scum/by Editor

Further Gay Panic in Russia.

Sign the allout.org petition against the proposed bill to criminalise any writing supporting LGBT people in Russia.

Tomorrow the parliament in St Petersburg is likely to pass a bill that will make it a criminal offence to publish writing that in any way supports LGBT people.

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On US gay-conversion tactics … again

28 Jan 2012 / 0 Comments / in Rebel Scum/by Rebel Scum

The US Christian Right are at it again, this week in London

The organisation Core Issues Trust is playing host to US Reparative Therapy speaker and claiming it is only trying to help people who do not want to be gay

They are interested in a promoting an alternate reality in which you wish for something and it is made so – as long as an appropriate Bible quotation is tacked onto the end.

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How British Christians are being Americanised

21 Jan 2012 / 0 Comments / in Rebel Scum/by Rebel Scum

Now the mild-mannered British Christians are now acting like the US Christian Right

The Christian Institute are waging a war against the Politically Correct Brigade, who’ll stop you wearing a Cross and force you to watch lesbian soap operas.

Traditionally, the Americans have been the pit-bull terriers of Christ, tearing up everything in their path and crapping over the aftermath.

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There’s no such thing as fairies!

01 Dec 2011 / 1 Comment / in Rebel Scum/by Rebel Scum

There are no fairies at the bottom of the garden!

The bizarre world of Linda Harvey, where homosexuals do not exist and where homosexuals (even though they do not exist) are out to take away the rights of heterosexuals and Scout leaders.

Harvey assumes the mantle of Jesus’ PR, a role to which she adds her own particular insights, although I’m not sure that she has work-shopped her thoughts with the Boss …

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Tony the Messiah and the Anti-Gay U.S. Preachers

16 Mar 2010 / 1 Comment / in Rebel Scum/by Rebel Scum

A critique of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation.

Why, asks Rebel Scum, is Tony Blair Faith Foundation forging links with the Christian Right in the United States? Is the soldier of Christ once again at war with the idea of democracy, and displacing it in favour of “faith factors”?

The militaristic Blair, a soldier of Christ, calls this latest mission a “faith offensive”. There is something rather apt about that phrase.

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On the bully

03 Oct 2009 / 2 Comments / in Rebel Scum/by Rebel Scum

On the effects of the bully on children and adults.

The bully never goes away. The schoolyard bully, the celebrity bully, the political bully: from the street to the television their influence in insidious. Rebel Scum looks at what can be done about it.

The bully is a staple in the life of every school kid. And being bullied is an experience everyone goes through in one form or another – from run-ins with the boy who has status issues in the schoolyard through to the mainstream gay press telling you just what it means to be a ‘proper gay’.

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Why are US ex-gay Witch Hunters invited to speak in Britain?

15 Aug 2009 / 0 Comments / in Rebel Scum/by Rebel Scum

The unbalanced world of the ex-gay movement and its influence in Britain.

Why, asks Rebel Scum, is the Anglican Church asking witch-hunting bullies from the ludicrously conceived “ex-gay” movement to the UK? These charlatans should be condemned, not invited in for tea and dumplings.

Nicolosi does not need proof. God is on his side, and that there Hippocratic oath is from those darned fag-enabling Greeks, godammit!!! And screw those tree-hugging hippies from The National Association of Social Workers, The American Psychological Association, The American Psychiatric Association, The American Counseling Association, the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and the American Academy of Pediatrics, all of whom oppose Reparative Therapy.

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DC Political lobbies deprive people rights

04 Jul 2009 / 0 Comments / in Rebel Scum/by Rebel Scum

Political lobbyists in Washington, D.C., promote mob rule.

Democracy is a difficult subject, and US lobby groups The National Organization for Marriage and Stand 4 Marriage DC think it means mob rule. They are the latest paranoid church-goers who think that same-sex marriage threatens the decent values of upstanding Americans and … Well, you know the drill.

It seems the citizens are concerned that the legalization of same-sex marriage threatens their freedom as Americans to impose their values on others. Apparently, churches that do not get behind the law are threatened with losing their tax exemption, and some such stuff.

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