Yesterday the Washington state Senate approved domestic partners legislation that would give gay couples all the rights of marriage (but not the name.) The bill passed on a mostly party-line 30-18 vote Tuesday night and now heads to the House. The Senate rejected two Republican amendments, including one that would have sent the measure to voters. The bill expands on …

Via the ACLU, here’s more of last week’s debate outside the California Supreme Court.

“The culture of pushing sex down people’s throats is not working. There is nothing wrong with abstinence from sex. This goes for everyone who is not married to someone of the opposite sex. I’ve been single and chaste for many years after having left the gay community. You don’t die from not having sex. It’s not like air or water. …

How can these silly battles still be going on? A 17-year-old Boone County girl has sued Lebanon Schools after her high school principal told her she could not wear a tuxedo to the school’s April 25 prom but would have to wear a dress. The Lebanon High School senior, whose name is not revealed in the lawsuit, is a lesbian …

As if he wasn’t in enough trouble with the all the back and forth with defacto GOP head Rush Limbaugh, nominal GOP head Michael Steele has now totally signed his own death warrant. From an interview with GQ, as reported by Political Wire: On if women have the right to choose an abortion: “Yeah. I mean, again, I think that’s …

Yes, the “Obama Is Not An American” meme is still going strong in Wingnutistan. World Net Daily is breathlessly reporting that one of their drones got called on at a book signing reception for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and demanded to know why SCOTUS won’t hear any of the numerous cases filed on the topic. But the answer wasn’t …

Wait until the music starts. (Via – The Chaser Blog)

Predictably, fundies are filing an FCC complaint over Sunday’s “Peter Goes Gay” episode of Family Guy and are calling on the show’s sponsors to suspend advertising. (Feel free to stretch and yawn.) From the fundie-run Parents Television Council: Our organization is taking its concerns directly to every parent, every Fox affiliate and every advertiser — as well as to those …

Many of Manhattan’s grocery stores have cramped little aisles too narrow for burb-style buggies. Some of them provide tiny “I’m a BIG boy” carts, which one can feel a bit ridiculous pushing around. But the Food Emporium by my place just switched over to normal height double-deckers. Adult dignity, slightly restored. However they also started charging for delivering your in-store …

What’s your relationship status? Single and happy? Single and looking? Domestic partnered? Civil unioned? Married? Coupled? Thrupled? I asked this question a year ago, so it will be interesting to see what changes may have come for some of our JMG regulars.

(Via Rebecca Armendariz @ Washington Blade)

Life And Times, the new album by openly gay godfather of punk grunge Bob Mould is now available for pre-ordering. The CD drops on April 7th and the first single I’m Sorry, Baby, But You Can’t Stand In My Light Any More is now available at iTunes and Amazon. Mould is working on an autobiography for release in 2010 and …

A Seattle church is encouraging congregants to Twitter throughout the service. The Mars Hill Church in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood is not your grandma’s church. On Sunday, the pastor’s sermon was being broadcast on large video screens to accommodate his laryngitis and the congregants in church were broadcasting on their iPhones. They weren’t talking, but “Twittering,” typing in brief thoughts or …

The new commenting system is working pretty well so far, we haven’t had anybody voted off the island by readers and nobody has been banned since it started. However, among the bugs still being worked out is that I can’t access readers’ email addresses in their profiles. That’s a big problem for Lady Randomocity, because she’s spun her glittery wheel* …

While I have not yet shaved in 2009, I will not compete. I’ve never really had a “full” beard before, always done the #1 or #2 crop. Gotta learn how to do the “shaping” thing.

Gov. Palin is only going to use her shotgun to shoot animals from helicopters. Cuz not only is the wedding off, Bristol and Levi are broken up. In a new interview with Star Magazine, Levi’s sister Mercede Johnston says Bristol actually broke up with Levi more than a month ago, is not attending school and rarely lets her baby daddy …

As Florida awaits an appeals court ruling that may legalize gay adoption, state Sen. Nan Rich (D-Weston) is doing an end run around the court. Rich, who is co-chair of the Senate Children & Families Committee, has filed a bill to repeal the 1977 Florida law that prohibits gay men and lesbians from adopting children. A second bill would specify …

Wait, what? The New York legislator who brought the nation its first law against driving while using a cell phone is proposing a $10 tax for patrons of nude and seminude dance clubs and strip bars. Assemblyman Felix Ortiz, a Bronx Democrat, says the revenue would go toward helping victims of human trafficking at a time when government budgets are …

Mattel has released a Bob Mackie-designed Carol Burnett Barbie. A comic legend, a noted fashion and costume designer, an unforgettable television show. These elements join forces in The Carol Burnett Show Went with the Wind! Barbie® doll. One of the shows most memorable sketches “Went with the Wind” is based on the classic film “Gone with the Wind.” In an …

The gay Nazis are still after artist/critic Maureen Mullarkey. In a long rambling Weekly Standard piece complaining about how the gay community’s “brownshirts” have targeted her since her Prop 8 donation became public, she closes with this: It is one thing to read hate-filled mail on a computer screen. It is something else to have it in hand. At the …