Monthly Archives: January 2014

Tweet Of The Day – George Takei

(Tipped by JMG reader Birdie)

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Author Of Revoked Oscar-Nominated Song Tells Christian TV: I Did Nothing Wrong

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INDIANA: Marriage Ban Bill Assigned To State Senate Rules Committee

Republicans outnumber Democrats on the Rules Committee by 8-4. Long is the committee’s chair and the state Senate’s president.

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Seattle’s Gay Mayor On Nightclub Arson: Let The Police Do Their Job

“Less than an hour after I officially became Seattle’s first gay mayor, there was an arson at Seattle’s oldest gay nightclub with a potential for considerable loss of life. I am not just invested as the chief law enforcement officer of this city in bringing this case to justice, I am personally invested. But we also need to let our …

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Unconscious Skydiver Rescued Mid-Air

The video is from the unconscious man’s helmet-cam.

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MSNBC Tweet Draws Fire From The Right

Yesterday MSNBC posted the above tweet, immediately drawing scorn from Twitter’s wingnuts, who then issued the usual “race baiting” nonsense. I guess they forgot the deluge of racism that followed Cheerios’ last commercial, which forced General Mills to suspend YouTube commenting on the clip.  MSNBC has deleted the tweet and issued an apology.

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NEW ZEALAND: Parliament Unanimously Passes Resolution Slamming Russia

Via the New Zealand Herald: Parliament has unanimously passed a motion in support of gay rights in Russia ahead of the Winter Olympics. Green MP Jan Logie moved that “the House wish our athletes competing in the Winter Olympics in Sochi well, and note Russia’s recent passing of anti homosexual legislation, and ask the New Zealand Government to urge other …

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Bristol Palin Attacks Wendy Davis

“Gosh, children are sooo inconvenient, huh? I’m glad my mother didn’t put motherhood on the shelf when she was elected to City Council, then became our mayor, then Governor. Oh sorry – I mentioned my mother… Have you liberals gone into a tail spin of hate already? Did I lose you? I know you would rather think about Wendy Davis, …

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Atlanta Roiled By Ice Storm Blame Game

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UK: It’s Raining Men Re-Enters Pop Chart

Earlier this month a member of Britain’s far-right UKIP party declared that God was flooding the country in anger over the legalization of same-sex marriage. That prompted a Facebook campaign to push It’s Raining Men to #1 on the singles chart more than 30 years after its release. The Guardian reports that might happen: Three decades after its original release, …

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UTAH: Tenth Circuit Court Sets Oral Arguments In Marriage Case For April 10th

Via the Salt Lake Tribune: On Wednesday, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals announced oral arguments in the state’s appeal will take place April 10. The case will be decided by a panel of three judges, who will be randomly assigned about 10 days before the hearing. The 10th Circuit has agreed to let the same panel handle an appeal …

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Academy Yanks Oscar Nom For Christian Movie Over Shady Campaigning

Two weeks ago we puzzled over the Academy Award nomination for a song from a virtually unknown Christian movie that had only played a few shows in Los Angeles in order to qualify. Today the Academy yanked that nomination over shady campaigning by the songwriter. From their press release: On Tuesday night, the Academy’s Board of Governors voted to rescind …

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Law & Order SVU Bear Casting Call

“Must be comfortable portraying burly gay men at a gay bar.” (Tipped by JMG reader Dean)

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Budweiser’s Super Bowl Commercial

2.5M views in six hours.

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HVAC Repairman At The SOTU…

This is how Family Research Council puppet and former HVAC repairman Rep. Randy Weber (R-TX) expressed himself before the State Of The Union address.

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Virginia Marriage Case Postponed

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HomoQuotable – Brandon Ambrosino

“It’s time for the LGBT community to stop fearing the word ‘choice,’ and to reclaim the dignity of sexual autonomy. The aversion to that word in our community stems from belief that if we can’t prove that our gayness is biologically determined, then we won’t have grounds to demand equality. I think this fear needs to be addressed and given …

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Ninth Circuit Court To Liberty Counsel: Didn’t We JUST Tell You To Fuck Off?

Back in August a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the Liberty Counsel’s demand that the court overturn their loss before a federal district court in their incessant campaign to repeal California’s ban on the “ex-gay” torture of LGBT youth. Unswayed by those two losses, the following month the Liberty Counsel filed an en banc demand …

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Paging You-Know-Who: Kinky Boots To Perform During Super Bowl Pre-Show

If you thought wingnut outrage was deafening after the cast of Kinky Boots performed during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, you better get out your earplugs for when they see the same thing during the Super Bowl pre-show.  It’s not yet clear if the cast will physically be AT the stadium or if the performance will be televised from Broadway, …

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LGBT Activist Vs Ugandan Police

RELATED: Mugisha is the executive director of Sexual Minorities Uganda, which is suing American evangelist Scott Lively for crimes against humanity.

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