Monthly Archives: August 2014

COLOMBIA: Constitutional Court Grants Limited Adoption Rights To Gay Couples

Progress in Colombia: The Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday that a lesbian woman,could adopt her long-time partner’s daughter, since the child in question was the biological child of one of the two partners. The court said Ana Leiderman, who underwent artificial insemination to conceive her daughter, and raised her with Veronica Botero, had the right to request an adoption by …

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Tea Party Kook Larry Klayman Sues Obama For Being A Pro-Hamas Muslim

Tea Party hero Larry Klayman has filed a lawsuit against President Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and the Secretary General of the United Nations, claiming they are conspiring to aid Hamas. Which proves that the president is a Muslim, of course. According to the lawsuit filed in federal court in Washington, the defendants are allegedly involved in a criminal conspiracy …

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SCOTLAND: Pro-Independence Group Aims To Place LGBT Rights In New Constitution

Next week a subgroup of the Yes Scotland secession movement will hold a meeting to discuss enshrining LGBT rights in a new national constitution. YES LGBT and MSP Patrick Harvie will host the conference on Monday in Glasgow, and will address issues such as the written constitution, equality law, gender recognition, asylum policy and foreign policy. An introduction to the …

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Matt Barber Has The Fayetteville Sadz

The non-discrimination ordinance passed earlier this month in Fayetteville, Arkansas already exists in similar form in hundreds of cities, but the Liberty Counsel is going to try to place a repeal on the November ballot.

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Media Matters: Right Wing Rodeo

The week’s worst in conservative media.

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Britain Goes On “Severe” Terror Alert

The United Kingdom today raised its terror alert to “severe” in response to ISIS activity in Iraq and Syria. “What we’re facing in Iraq now with ISIL is a deeper and greater threat to our security than we have known before,” U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron said in a news conference from 10 Downing Street, referring to the Islamic State …

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FLORIDA: Another State Appeals Court Defies Attorney General Pam Bondi

Two days ago Florida’s Second District Court of Appeals disregarded the instructions of Attorney General Pam Bondi and kicked the marriage equality case before them upstairs to the state Supreme Court. Yesterday the Third District Court of Appeals also rejected Bondi’s demand. A state appeals court has rejected Attorney General Pam Bondi’s request to hold off deciding the constitutionality of …

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Italy Allows First Gay Adoption

Via The Local: A gay couple in Italy has become the first to be allowed to adopt a child. Rome’s Juvenile Court agreed to the adoption of a child by a lesbian couple, La Repubblica reported on Friday. The five-year-old is the daughter of one of the two partners, who were married abroad. It is the first case of a …

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Donations Pour In For Daniel Pierce

Early yesterday morning I posted the video of 20 year-old Georgia resident Daniel Pierce, who recorded his family as they verbally and physically abused him for being gay. Since then the clip has gone wildly viral with over 2 million views. The story has been picked up by the national press, fueling donations that stand at over $52K at this …

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TRAILER: Transparent

Via CNET: Amazon’s original-TV-series push, overshadowed by Netflix since its beginning, is taking a couple of pages out of its bigger rival’s playbook with Amazon’s next show. Amazon said Wednesday that it will release all 10 episodes of “Transparent” on Prime Instant Video in the US and UK on September 26. Like Netflix’s programs, the dark comedy has critical buzz …

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Religion Maps

Via Pew Research: Earlier this summer, on World Population Day, we explained that half of the world’s population lives in just six countries. In many cases, the world’s major religious groups are even more concentrated, with half or more of their followers living in one or a handful of countries. For several years, demographers at the Pew Research Center have …

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Bingham Cup Opens In Sydney

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Joan Rivers In Medically-Induced Coma

Doctors at Manhattan’s Mt. Sinai Hospital have placed Joan Rivers in a medically-induced coma after the comic suffered cardiac arrest yesterday while undergoing outpatient surgery on her vocal cords. A picture of health only the day before, Rivers accepted a bouquet of flowers from a fan as she finished her stand-up performance at around 9.30pm on Wednesday. The entertainment legend …

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AUSTRALIA: Federal Policitians Cancel Speeches To World Congress Of Families

Virtually all federal politicians in Australia have now cancelled their plans to attend the World Congress of Families convention after it was announced that the event would be hosted by the far-right After The Fire Ministries, a group which recently claimed that God sent devastating wildfires to the state of Victoria in anger over the legalization of abortion. Kevin Andrews’ …

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Utah Plaintiffs To SCOTUS: Hear Our Case

The good guys in Kitchen v Herbert today petitioned SCOTUS to hear their case. Hit the link and dig into their argument. (Via Equality Case Files) RELATED: Plaintiffs in the Oklahoma and Virginia cases have filed similar petitions, but SCOTUSblog today pointed out an angle from the Oklahoma case: In the most specific advice so far on how the Supreme …

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TRAILER: Saving Christmas

Cameron is going all Tyler Perry as the movie’s full title is Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas.

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Twitter War: Canada Vs Russia

Geography can be tough. Here’s a guide for Russian soldiers who keep getting lost & ‘accidentally’ entering #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/RF3H4IXGSp— Canada at NATO (@CanadaNATO) August 27, 2014 Helping our Canadian colleagues to catch up with contemporary geography of #Europe @CanadaNATO pic.twitter.com/MjzRxpFFfN— Russians at NATO (@natomission_ru) August 28, 2014

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Bob Mould On Jimmy Kimmel Live

Stereogum raves: The former Hüsker Dü/Sugar frontman Bob Mould is a punk rock legend, and it turns out that he’s also really, really great at performing on late-night TV talk shows. Remember when he ripped through “I Don’t Know You Anymore” on Conan? Jesus. Ridiculous. Last night, Mould was on Jimmy Kimmel Live, and he once again rocked hard enough …

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Little Caesars Chain Sued For Denying Insurance Benefits To Gay Couples

Via Reuters: A former trainee manager at Little Caesars pizza in California sued the company for discrimination on Wednesday, accusing the Detroit-based chain of denying employees health insurance benefits for their legally wed same-sex spouses. The lawsuit was brought in state Superior Court in Orange County, regional headquarters for the nation’s third-largest pizza chain, by Frank Bernard, 47, who said …

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TRAILER: Barba Rija

JMG reader Gerard tips us to the Portuguese bear series Barba Rija (Rough Beard). Three episodes have gone up in the last couple of weeks: Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3.  The clips are subtitled in English – click play then the CC button.

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