Monthly Archives: August 2015

BREAKING: Supreme Court REJECTS Appeal By Anti-Gay Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis

The Associated Press reports: The Supreme Court on Monday ruled against the Kentucky county clerk who has refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses, and the clerk will arrive at work Tuesday morning to face her moment of truth. Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis will have to choose whether to issue marriage licenses, defying her Christian conviction, or continue to refuse …

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Facebook Hits Billion Users In Single Day

Facebook has announced that one billion users logged into their accounts last Monday. (If you are among those billion Faceborgs, please consider assimilating into the JMG hive.)  Mark Zuckerberg writes: “On Monday, 1 in 7 people on Earth used Facebook to connect with their friends and family. When we talk about our financials, we use average numbers, but this is …

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KENTUCKY: Thrice-Rejected Gay Couple Sues Rowan County And Clerk Kim Davis In Federal Court

After being turned away for a marriage license for the third time last week, a Kentucky gay couple has sued Rowan County and clerk Kim Davis in federal court. Davis is already being sued by the ACLU. Via Lexington’s CBS affiliate: The lawsuit was filed Aug. 25 in U.S. District Court by William Smith Jr. and James Yates, but a summons …

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Liberty Counsel’s Mat Staver: All Kentucky Has To Do Is Take Kim Davis’s Name Off All Marriage Licenses

“Providing religious conviction accommodations is not antithetical for public employees. Throughout our history the courts have accommodated people’s deeply held religious beliefs. The Supreme Court’s marriage opinion does not suggest that religious accommodations cannot be made or that people have a fundamental right to receive a marriage license from a particular clerk. The stay request offers several options such as …

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Another Stalling Tactic: Kim Davis Re-Appeals

There’s less than an hour to go in the business day in Kentucky and county clerk Kim Davis has filed yet another notice of appeal.  I can’t even tell what this one is really about. Below is a screen shot from Equality Case Files.

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PETITION: Make Kim Davis Pay

Over 4000 have signed a Change.org petition to Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear, demanding that county clerk Kim Davis be held personally liable for the legal costs associated with her battle against same-sex marriage. From the petition: Kim Davis is the Rowan county, KY court clerk who continues to defy the law by refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples …

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Janet Porter: I Prayed Dubya Into Office [VIDEO]

Not only did loony tune Janet Porter personally pray George W. Bush into office, a friend of hers “anointed” a bunch of military ballots with Holy Jesus Oil before delivering them to the Florida Supreme Court, guaranteeing their ruling against Al Gore.

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Matt Baume: The History Of Ex-Gay Torture [VIDEO]

“Did you know people have tried to cure homosexuality with forced cuddling, horse stroking, and monkey testicles? Let’s take a disturbing tour of the last hundred years of insane ex-gay cures, some of which are still being practiced by quacks to this day.”

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Ben Shapiro Has The Mt. Denali Sadz

“Why did Obama choose to change the name now? Presumably because Obama has now solved all the world’s problems, and decided against his second choice, Mt. Trayvon. But more seriously, Obama likely opposes the legacy of President McKinley, given that McKinley led America to victory in the Spanish-American War and rejected inflation by sticking with the gold standard. By the …

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KENTUCKY: Barring Action From SCOTUS, Kim Davis Must Issue Marriage Licenses By The End Of Today

Unless the US Supreme Court acts on her stay demand, Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis must begin issuing marriage licenses to all qualified couples by the end of today’s business day. It was just last week when the federal appeals court upheld a ruling ordering the Kentucky clerk to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. Two straight couples and two …

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Pastor Rick Perry: Like Jesus, I’ll Clear The Money Changers From The Temple, “Onward Christian Soldiers!” [VIDEO]

He’s out of money and his campaign manager already quit, but Rick Perry went all crazy preacher at a “Stand With God” rally in South Carolina this weekend, comparing himself to Jesus and literally shaking his fist at the “money-changers” in Washington. “Jesus was angry. I’m angry. I hope you’re angry. What are you willing to die for? Are you …

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BRITAIN: Gay Contestant Seann Miley Moore Blows Away X Factor Judges With Queen Cover [VIDEO]

You’ll like this. The Mirror raves: Seann Miley Moore brought the house down on the X Factor. The 24-year-old Australian’s audition began as potentially one of the hottest of hot messes when he walked out onto the stage, but somehow he managed to turn it all around and impress everyone. Take a hairy fur jacket, a PVC skirt, leather platform …

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TRAILER: Downton Abbey Final Season

Vanity Fair recaps the sadness: Last week, we shared with you that filming Downton Abbey’s sixth and final season brought nearly all of the grown men and women that populate its cast and crew to tears, which is very hard to do to buttoned-up English aristocrats. At the Edinburgh TV Festival, Jim Carter, who plays consummately reliable butler Carson, gave …

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SOUTH DAKOTA: GOP State Rep Suggests “Visual Inspection” Of Genitalia To Assess Gender Identity

Denouncing “East Coast culture,” GOP South Dakota state Rep. Roger Hunt plans to draft a law requiring a “visual inspection” of genitalia to determine gender identity. Via the the Rapid City Journal: The battle over how to officially determine someone’s gender arises from a controversy over whether transgender high school students can declare their own gender when participating in sports. …

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Belgium Leads Marriage Stats Comparison

The Canadian statistics site 10 And 3 has examined same-sex marriage rates in several nations, comparing the number of weddings that took place two years after legalization in each country. Their analysis suggests that same-sex marriages happen at a lower rate in strongly religious nations. They write: We dug into the numbers, and discovered that in some nations, like Belgium, same-sex …

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Kanye West Declares 2020 Presidential Bid

Ladies and gentleman, First Lady Kim Kardashian. Politico reports: Kanye West says he’s running for president. In a rambling, emotional and at times bizarre award acceptance speech at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night, the rapper, producer and fashion designer said that in 2020 he will run for president. It was not immediately clear if he was serious. …

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Miley Cyrus Closes Out MTV Awards With Crotch Cannons & 30 Queens From RuPaul’s Drag Race [VIDEO]

We’ll probably get another few days of “outrage” about Miley Cyrus after she closed out last night’s MTV Video Music Awards with the cast of RuPaul’s Drag Race and a few “crotch cannons” fired from between her legs. Yahoo recaps: In swooped hostess with the mostess Miley Cyrus, a troupe of 30 RuPaul’s Drag Race queens, and a confetti-gun-wielding Wayne …

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IOWA: Sanders Moves Up On Clinton

The Washington Post reports: Hillary Rodham Clinton’s once-commanding lead in Iowa has shrunk to just seven percentage points, while Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has surged in the state whose caucuses will kick off the race for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, according to a poll released Saturday evening. The Des Moines Register-Bloomberg Politics poll, considered the gold standard of Iowa …

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Mt. McKinley Is Now Denali Again [VIDEO]

The name change comes after a bill was jointly filed by both GOP Alaskan senators, but the Tea Things at Twitchy are furious that Marxist Kenyan “King Obama” gave his approval. More about the change from the New York Times: The peak, at more than 20,000 feet, plays a central role in the creation story of the Koyukon Athabascans, a …

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Tired Old Queen At The Movies #135 [VIDEO]

Clip recap: Robert Mitchum plays Wade Hunnicutt, a small town southern patriarch in Vincente Minnelli’s splashy, trashy and wonderful “Home From The Hill” (1960). Along with Mitchum, who won his only acting awards for this film, are Eleanor Parker as his frigid wife who holds back her favors to punish him for his philandering, George Hamilton as his naive son …

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