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“True individual freedom includes allowing consenting adults to marry the partners they choose, regardless of gender. To those for whom same-sex marriage is personally objectionable, their free choice is simple: Don’t enter into one. But don’t impede the freedom of others to do so. As long as Chick-fil-A operates within the boundaries of the law, municipalities and institutions should leave …

On Monday when Boston detectives burst in to arrest yet another Catholic priest for distributing child pornography, they found his computer humming away with more downloads. Rev. Andrew J. Urbaniak, 39, mostly kept his head down during his arraignment in South Boston Municipal Court where he pleaded not guilty to charges of possession and dissemination of child pornography. Judge Michael …

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino has backed down on his vow to block Chick-Fil-A from opening a new franchise across from City Hall. “I can’t do that. That would be interference to his rights to go there,” Menino said, referring to company president Dan Cathy, who drew the mayor’s wrath by going public with his views against same-sex marriage. The mayor …

(Via JMG reader Bill)

Tony Perkins is pissed that Boston’s mayor has vowed to keep Chick-Fil-A out of his town. All those jobs!

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino today vowed to keep Chick-Fil-A out of his town. “Chick-fil-A doesn’t belong in Boston. You can’t have a business in the city of Boston that discriminates against a population. We’re an open city, we’re a city that’s at the forefront of inclusion,” Menino told the Herald yesterday. “That’s the Freedom Trail. That’s where it all started …

The Wall Street Journal reports: The Massachusetts Democratic Party has invited supporters to gather at 8 tonight at the historic Boston Common to say, “Thank you, Teddy and celebrate today’s Supreme Court ruling!” “Teddy,” of course, refers to the late Edward Kennedy, a longtime Democratic Massachusetts senator who called providing health care for all, the nation’s great “unfinished business.” “Today, …

But it was all in good fun.

The Tea Party rally I mentioned early this morning was a lot rowdier than even that story suggested. Visit Scott Wooledge’s exhaustive report at Daily Kos for more. One charming highlight came when the speaker at the podium shouted, “We will not be silenced by FAGGOTS!” It also looks like there will be an investigation in the above Boston police …

Join The Impact MA sends us a photo and a press release. A crowd of approximately 75 tea party activists gathered round the bandstand on the Common to hear speakers representing groups like “Show ID to Vote,” “Newsbusters” and the Mass. Republican Assembly. From the outset about 20 protestors from Join the Impact MA stood along the edge of the …

JMG reader Bill points us to Slate’s walkability “heat map” of New York City, the nation’s most walkable town. Green means walkable, red not so much. (I’m at the asterisk.) Read Slate’s feature story on how the calculations are made.

Details.

Many more photos at the Boston Globe.

The above tweet is a sample of student sentiment regarding the outing and suspension of a Boston-area English teacher after he was ambushed by Fox News for having performed in gay porn videos. Mediabistro reports: Students at a top-rated Massachusetts public high school are blasting WFXT and investigative reporter Mike Beaudet for confronting a teacher about his apparent porn star …

A reporter for Boston’s Fox News affiliate yesterday ambushed and then outed a local public high school teacher for his second career in gay porn. English department head Kevin Hogan, who reportedly performs under the name Hytch Cawke, has been suspended. The school released a statement saying. “We value the health and safety of our students,” and that “the school …

Yesterday the Archdiocese of Boston retracted and apologized for their newspaper article claiming that gay people are created by Satan. Today comes word that the author of that piece has “resigned.” David Avila was the official defender of marriage for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Watch for Avila to land at NOM any minute. REACTIONS… Human Rights Campaign: “Mr. …

The Archdiocese of Boston has retracted its column claiming that gay people are created by Satan. (On Monday that column was excerpted here on JMG.) The article was written by David Avila, the policy advisor for the US Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage. The 182-year-old newspaper withdrew the column from its website on …