Totally funny story from Think Progress:

The debt ceiling deal has left the Tea Party more disliked than ever, as a recent New York Times poll shows. In April, 2010, 21 percent of Americans approved of the Tea Party while 18 percent disapproved of it. Now, 20 percent approve while a stunning 40 percent disapprove of it. Ironically, the conservative movement is now more unpopular than two often-marginalized groups it sometimes rails against — Muslims and atheists — and is the least popular of the 23 groups the poll asked about.

Ha ha ha, let’s go to the original source piece and twist the knife a little bit:

But in data we have recently collected, the Tea Party ranks lower than any of the 23 other groups we asked about — lower than both Republicans and Democrats. It is even less popular than much maligned groups like “atheists” and “Muslims.” Interestingly, one group that approaches it in unpopularity is the Christian Right.

HAHAHAHA, YAY, so anyway.

Dear Christian Right: America hates you. Hates you, hates you, hates you. Does not consider you representative of “American values” or “traditional values” or anything else. Hates you. Doesn’t want to live next to you, because property values are already sucky as it is.

Gays raise property values in neighborhoods, but you don’t. Anyway.

What a funny story to start our Thursday!  Say it again!  Real, actual Americans like Muslims and Atheists more than Teabaggers or Linda Harvey or Maggie Gallagher or Peter LaBarbera or Matt Barber or any of their other ideological trans fat substitutes.  Muslims and atheists!  I love polls!

The pollsters have also taken time to find out what really drives Teabaggers:

They are overwhelmingly white, but even compared to other white Republicans, they had a low regard for immigrants and blacks long before Barack Obama was president, and they still do.

More important, they were disproportionately social conservatives in 2006 — opposing abortion, for example — and still are today.

Just old bigot racists in Hoverounds, as we always suspected. Whatever.

There have been a few articles in the past day or so, dissecting the fact that the Teabagging movement, which seemed so upright and powerful in the last several years, is basically flaccid these days.  Why?  Well, you see, The Price Is Right is on…

*actual rate of herpes popularity not sampled, but just making a point.

The Associated Press officially reported today that intolerant Christians are being bullied by tolerance.

It is now official: The word “bullying” no longer refers to violence or defamation. “Bullying” now means “resistance to supremacy of one religious viewpoint over all others.” That “resistance,” apparently, is a bad thing. This realization has been humbling. We have been chastened.

The AP makes a compelling case for the redefinition. The article offers examples of homosexuals, Jewish and Buddhist and atheist sympathizers, and other hooligans:

• interfering with conservative Christian efforts to redefine civil marriage and impose that definition upon athletes
• subverting a federal ban on marriages of nontraditional Christians and other faiths that do not discriminate on the basis of genitalia
• making “death threats” consisting of letters in which said hooligans whine that the conservative Christian redefinition of civil marriage fuels youth suicide and antigay murder
• holding ex-gay Christians unfairly accountable for godly deceptions in an iPhone app.

So…. “Bullying” has a new meaning. And since Truth Wins Out opposes “bullying,” our mission must change with the times. The criticism victimization of intolerant Christians by minorities must stop.

So I now inaugurate the Victimwatch feature, which gives voice to the Christians who have been criticized silenced for defaming the innocent and denying freedom to minorities for staring down the agents of Satan.

Victimwatch shall act as a watchdog on behalf of Christian Rightists who are “silenced” and “bullied.” In just the past week, our human-rights monitors uncovered the following threats to Christian Rightists: (Read More)

Early this morning, I went to the heavily promoted, “May Day 2010: A Cry To God For A Nation In Distress.” It was organized by Janet Porter (formerly Folger in red jacket) who is best known for running the failed “ex-gay” Truth in Love ad campaign in 1998.

The event was a bust. Less than 300 (not official count, but my own estimate) people turned out in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington today to hear a star-studded line-up of evangelists and right wing political leaders. Organizers claimed from the stage that the event cost $70,000, so they had clearly expected an impressive turnout. The big names included the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins, Generals International’s Cindy Jacobs (yellow shirt), Porno Pete Labarbera, Bob Knight and Alan Keyes. Here are a few pictures. We will have video later:

Oh, how I love him:

Today I listened to Michael Medved and some moron from a “Religious Liberty” think-tank flipping out about the end of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Their thesis was that forcing God-fearing, 1000% straight men like themselves to share locker rooms and barracks with gay men will mean the end of civilization, presumably because all that uncorrupted religious straight-dude flesh will be too much of a temptation for gay soldiers ‚Äî who naturally will have enlisted for deadly dangerous combat in stinking Middle Eastern hell-holes just to get a glimpse of toothless Christian boys from Arkansas naked. These megachurch-bred anti-gay advocates with their visceral terror about the end of the closet, sure that liberated gay men by the hundreds will be lying in wait to rape them the instant the shower-nozzles turn on … I mean, the amount of projection going on is so obvious, it’ almost laughable.

(Quote comes as an aside in a longer rant about Rush Limbaugh’s comments that, if New York Governor David Paterson appoints the replacement for Big Gay Groper Eric Massa, it will be the first time Paterson himself is a “massa.” But don’t call Rush racist, you guys! And by all means, if you have Republican family members/coworkers who think that’s funny, don’t call them on it, because they’ll just start telling you how much they didn’t mind it when a black family lived near them.)