Yesterday Tea Party Nation president Judson Phillips sent to TPN members a post by activist Kevin Lehmann titled “51 Bullet-Pointed Facts That Dispute Barack Obama's Identity & Eligibility to be President!” Phillips has consistently praised the ‘birther’ movement, and Lehman’s “facts” were mostly a long list of discredited claims about President Obama’s eligibility to serve as president that were put to rest with the release of his long form birth certificate. Lehman’s diatribe against Obama includes accusations that the president is the product of a Hawaiian communist conspiracy and may have been involved in murder. He also republishes the claims of Larry Sinclair, who failed a polygraph test over his claims that he had sex and used cocaine with Obama
Also, "Tea Party leader says anti-gay bullying is ‘healthy peer pressure’":
Anti-gay bullying is not bullying at all; in fact, it is “peer pressure and is healthy.” That’s according to Rich Swier, an activist with the Tea Party Nation.
From Think Progress:
And from Right Wing Watch’s Brian Tashman points to more evidence that Tea Party activists are more concerned about social issues than they let on. Last night, as President Obama addressed an LGBT fundraiser in New York and Albany contemplated voting on same-sex marriage legislation, the Tea Party Nation sent out this post from Alan Caruba, a right-wing activist who “once called marriage equality ‘an act of societal suicide.” In it, Caruba warns activists about the dangers of the “queering” of America:
I can speak only for myself, but I find all this activity to legalize “gay marriage” and to introduce a gay agenda into the curriculums in the nation’s schools a distinct threat to the fabric of a society based on the undisputed normality of heterosexuality. I am pretty sure the “straight” citizens of Boston and elsewhere find it offensive to host a gay parade.