“If you’re asking, ‘Do we take discrimination against gays as seriously as bigotry against African Americans and Jews?’ . . . the answer is, ‘Of course we do.’ But we also believe that some people, including Rich [Raddon], saw Prop. 8 not as a civil rights issue but a religious one. That is their right. And it is not, in …

I totally expected this to be a joke, but Our Country Deserves Better PAC plans to air this around the country on Thanksgiving.

The Missiongathering Church in San Diego has put up a billboard apologizing for the Christian support for Proposition 8. (Tipped by JMG reader Dorothy D.)

“Marriage itself, the sacred institution around which all society is built, is being attacked and shaken. Yes, attacked with intent to contaminate it in a way that will eventually cause the collapse of American social order. [snip] “The first time the Islamic jihadists tried to destroy the WTC, they did it the smartest way – they attacked the foundations, down …

Some guy is suing McDonald’s for $3M because he left his phone at one of their franchises and although staffers apparently found the phone and promised to hold it for him, nude photos of his wife stored on the phone ended up online. Here’s some food for thought: If you have nude photos of your wife on your cell phone, …

Six Apart, the company that owns the popular blogging service TypePad, is offering a small number of free accounts to recently laid-off bloggers and journalists. It’s a long way from $700 billion, but the media start-up Six Apart is introducing its own economic bailout plan. The TypePad Journalist Bailout Program offers recently terminated bloggers and journalists a free pro account …

Friday night on Conan O’Brien, Rachel Maddow said she gets a lot of nice fan mail, but lots of not-so-nice messages too: “You also get the hate mail where people write in specifically to tell me that I’m gay. As if I didn’t know. Oh my God I had no idea. I’ll get off television. That is the single best …

More than 300 marriage equality activists protested at a Chicago-area Cinemark Theater on Saturday in response to the company’s CEO having donated $10K to support Prop 8. JMG reader Michael Lehet sends us his firsthand video. A nationwide boycott of Cinemark has been brewing for the last week, with many upset that the chain will be showing Milk. The website …

Mixed in with otherwise positive reforms, Burundi’s parliament unanimously voted to outlaw homosexuality this week. Box Turtle Bulletin has the report: The central African nation of Burundi adopted a new set of laws abolishing the death penalty for the first time in the troubled nation’s history. The sweeping law was seen as an important reform. It incorporated parts of international …

Over 5000 marriage equality activists rallied at the capitol in Sacramento on Saturday, where Margaret Cho performed a filthy protest song about the Mormon Church. Audio NSFW. (Via – Queerty)

Vermont’s Republican governor says he opposes moving the state from civil unions to full marriage equality, although he refuses to say if he’d veto such a bill. Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas said Thursday he would oppose legislation allowing same-sex marriages, saying the state’s civil unions law is adequate and that lawmakers should be focusing on the state’s money problems. State …

Hairspray coauthors Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman appeared on local NYC show Theater Talk on Friday night to discuss Proposition 8 and the resignation of musical theater artistic director Scott Eckern in Sacramento. (This clip does not cover the Eckern portion of the discussion – if anybody has that, please send it to me.) Eckern left his job of 25 …

New York’s top insurance regulator says that insurance companies must treat gay couples legally married in other states the same way they treat straight married couples. “We expect insurance companies to provide the same rights and benefits to all legally married couples, regardless of the sex of the spouses,” Superintendent Eric Dinallo said today in an e-mailed statement. The insurance …

Last week Bill O’Reilly, using some cleverly edited images, attacked San Francisco as an example of what is to come for the rest of the country under the Obama administration, citing homelessness, open drug use, and the toleration of the commercial sex industry. The homelessness situation in San Francisco is indeed horrible- it can feel like a third world country …

Tonight at the LGBT Community Center in NYC there will be a town hall meeting on the state of the marriage equality movement in New York. “What’s Next for Marriage Equality in New York?” Town Hall to discuss what’s next? How will we achieve marriage equality in 2009? Time and PlaceDate: Monday, November 24, 2008Time: 6:00pm – 7:30pmLocation: The LGBT …

Politicos are speculating that among the candidates to replace Hillary Clinton in the Senate are two openly gay NYC politicians: City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Daniel O’Donnell (left), who represents the the Upper West Side in the state Assembly. Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, however, is considered the leading contender. There has never been an openly gay U.S. Senator. Openly …

This interesting marriage equality ad with a twist comes from tennis legend Bjorn Borg’s fashion company, which debuts the ad on Swedish television today. The vocalist is Norwegian pop star Ane Brun, who now resides in Sweden. Borg also owns a dating site called Love For All, which has a rather amusing interface. “Let’s fix some sweet loving right now!” …

The backers of Proposition 8 have begun to splinter. Protect Marriage, worried about being associated with the “extreme fringe” elements of the Christianist movement, has convinced the California Supreme Court to bar the Liberty Counsel from representing the Campaign For California Families in the coming legal battle. The group that persuaded California voters this month to pass Proposition 8, which …

“Dear Newt, “I recently had the displeasure of watching you bash the protesters of the Prop 8 marriage ban to Bill O’Reilly on FOX News. I must say, after years of watching you build your career by stirring up the fears and prejudices of the far right, I feel compelled to use the words of your idol, Ronald Reagan, ‘There …

There’s a really cute bit of activism going on at Princeton in which advocates for “Princeton Prop 8” say that they love freshmen, they really do, but they should not be allowed to use the sidewalks. Sidewalks are for traditional use, not for some redefined non-traditional sidewalk values users. From the comments on YouTube:-“To be fair, freshman have the right …