[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
- Tea Party Express Paid Fired Spox Mark Williams $5,000 In September | TPMMuckraker
- Williams resigned …over a blog post aimed at the NAACP that many saw as racist. Williams had been an integral part of the Tea Party Express from the start, serving first as its chairman (he quit that job to turn his attention to shutting down Park51) and later as its national spokesperson and a fixture at stops along the group's trademark bus tours.
Though Williams said he was leaving the tea party movement behind forever when he quit the Tea Party Express, he remained vocal in the movement on this blog and through the formation of a new tea party PAC. But after becoming the face of what some see as bigotry at the top levels of the tea party movement during the July fight between tea partiers and the NAACP, he largely faded from the scene.
He still got checks from the Tea Party Express, however.
- Finns Dump Evangelical Church Over Antigay Comments | News | The Advocate
- Tens of thousands of people are estimated to have left the Finnish Evangelical-Lutheran Church because of antigay comments made during a televised debate last week.
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
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