Awards

CWRE Awards

• /Golden Straw-Man Award
• The Reality Inversion Award - nominees:
  • Bryan Fischer, for claiming that conservatives believe in "live and let live" and liberals don't:
    • 2015-03-16 Fischer: 'Conservatives Believe In Live And Let Live' (h/t)
  • Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council, for twisting logic to argue that marriage equality is a form of segregation:
    • 2015-06-16 How the FRC Equates LBGT Equality With Racial Segregation
• The Going Medieval Award - nominees:
  • The WorldNetDaily, for describing an inexorable, long-predicted, and entirely harmless astronomical event as "judgement" of some sort by mythical being:
    • 2015-03-16 Coming solar eclipse seen as 'judgment' (h/t)
  • Rick Wiles of TruNews, for blaming a natural weather occurrence on an underprivileged group:
    • 2015-03-21 Wiles Blames the Gays for California Drought
    • Bonus points for drawing attention away from any actual human agency: if the drought was caused by people, it's probably via global warming
  • California State Assemblywoman Shannon Grove (R), for blaming a natural weather occurrence on legal abortion:
    • 2015-06-13 Wingnut: CA Drought Caused by Abortion
• The Devil Made Me Do It Award for literal demonization - nominees:
  • Matt Barber, for decling that all "secular progressives" are "pawns" being controlled by Satan:
    • 2015-06-25 Barber: Gay Rights Activists Are 'Pawns' Of Satan (via FtB)
  • The Knoxville Baptist Tabernacle Church, for their sign "REMEMBER / SATAN WAS THE FIRST TO DEMAND EQUAL RIGHTS"
    • 2015-03-19 Tennessee church sign: 'Remember, Satan was the first to demand equal rights'

Outside Awards

These are awarded by other parties.

• /Bryan Fischer