Monthly Archives: May 2009

At Yesterday’s DC Marriage Hearing

Marion Barry makes his deluded case. And then after the vote, all the crazies start shouting. (Via – Washington Blade)UPDATE: More screaming!

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ZOMG! GPS Will Bring The Stormtroopers To Your Front Door!

Wingnutistan is up in arms (again!) because the 2010 Census will include GPS data for the front doors every American home. Via World Net Daily: “GPS coordinates of your front door will make it easier for the government to monitor you. The U.S. Census Bureau is simply an excuse – a harmless looking means of obtaining the front door coordinates. …

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Tonight: NY Marriage Equality Meetings

Tonight at the NYC LGBT Center: Both Marriage Equality New York and Civil Rights Front will be having their monthly meetings tonight at the LGBT Center. MENY is at 6:30pm, CRF at 7:30pm. These may be the last meetings before the Prop 8 decision is issued, so I’d strongly urge you to attend one or both. Both meetings will also …

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HomoQuotable – David Ogden Stiers

“From the late 1980s until about seven or eight years ago, you would find certain individuals coming up to you, me, and advocating the position that since we were doing family fare that it would be best were the actors to maintain a certain palatability to parents. These parties likely had heard rumors or harbored suspicions about me and wanted …

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About Yesterday

If you visited yesterday’s Carrie Prejean posts you noticed an avalanche of anti-gay trolls as this here website thingy saw about ten times its normal traffic from people Googling variations on “Miss California topless.” Some of the conversation threads no longer “track” because I had to delete and ban so many “your all sick fagets” types of comments. My apologies …

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The Mormon Church Has Posthumously Baptized President Obama’s Mother

John Aravosis at Americablog went digging through the Mormon Church’s online records and discovered that the LDS posthumously baptized Barack Obama’s mother during the 2008 presidential campaign. Remember the scandal last November when the LDS was caught posthumously baptizing Holocaust victims even after they said they would stop? Read Aravosis’ first and follow-up posts on this latest revelation.

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PETA By The Numbers

According to the website PETA Kills Animals: PETA’s “Animal Record” report for 2008 (PDF), filed with the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, shows that the animal rights group killed 95 percent of the dogs and cats in its care last year. During all of 2008, PETA found adoptive homes for just seven pets. Just seven animals — out …

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Rep. Virginia Foxx Sends Letter Of Apology To Judy Shepard

After standing on the floor of Congress and calling the use of Matthew Shepard’s death to advance the hate crimes bill a “hoax”, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) has sent a letter of apology to Judy Shepard, who was in the gallery during the speech. The Matthew Shepard Foundation acknowledges receipt of the letter, but declined to discuss its contents, saying …

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Rumors

Sources say that the California Supreme Court may issue its Prop 8 ruling tomorrow. We should hear something by the end of today. Notice should pop up on the Court’s site here. UPDATE: False alarm. Tomorrow’s notices have gone up and Prop 8 isn’t there. Will the Court uphold Prop 8 next week on the very anniversary of the day …

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James Dobson: The Religious Rights’s Most Outrageous Liar

Focus On The Family head James Dobson goes video with his outrageous lies that the hate crimes bill currently before Congress in fact protects pedophiles and other sexual criminals from prosecution. Watch in disbelief. “Bisexuality, exhibitionism, fetishism, incest, necrophilia, pedophilia, prostitution, sexual masochism, urophilia, voyeurism, and bestiality. Those are just a few. And I have to ask, have we gone …

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Matthews Vs. Rep. Pence On Evolution

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Adam Lambert – Whole Lotta Love

Adam Lambert’s patented wailing was well-suited to tonight’s rock theme, especially for a Led Zeppelin cover. Both Danny and Kris were disasters, but I still wouldn’t be surprised to see Alison go tomorrow night.

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NH Freedom To Marry Ad, NH House Votes On Marriage Equality Tomorrow

Via Blue Hampshire: House Bill 436 will be on the House floor this Wednesday, May 6th. We will ask the House to “concur” with the excellent amendments put onto the bill by the Senate. If we are able to earn concurrence, the bill then will be on its way to Governor John Lynch, who we hope will continue to listen …

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Marion Barry Warns Of “Civil War” Over Same-Sex Marriage

After accidentally voting FOR marriage equality today, then calling for a second vote because he wasn’t paying attention, former DC mayor and current City Councilman Marion Barry said that a “civil war” may erupt in the nation’s capitol over same-sex marriage. Pandemonium ensued in the council’s building after the vote and police and security had to removing screaming evangelicals. “All …

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Pageant To NOM: Cease & Desist

The Miss California USA pageant doesn’t want NOM using images from the contest on their website. Via TMZ: The Miss Universe Organization just told us they’ve fired off a cease and desist letter to the National Organization for Marriage — after NOM used footage from the Miss USA 2009 pageant in an anti-gay marriage commercial. The commercial — which is …

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Comments Links Alert

Porn site owners and other spammers are bombarding JMG with outgoing comments links today. I’m deleting them as I can, but please take care when clicking on links left in comments. Some of the linked sites appear to be loaded with spyware/malware/adware. If you don’t already, you should add alert services for these attack sites to your browser.

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Swag Tuesday

Courtesy of Universal Music, today’s Swag Tuesday giftie is the Elton John concert DVD The Red Piano, which goes on sale nationwide today. Thousands of Elton John fans have traveled to Caesars Palace Las Vegas to see over 200 sold-out The Red Piano shows, helping break attendance records and setting new standards for musical entertainment. Now available everywhere for the …

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The Big Fat Gay Anti-Hate Collaboration

Two dozen YouTubers collaborated to create this take on Lily Allen’s Fuck You. Love it, love it, love it. Big props to Bil Browning at the Bilerico Project for the tip. I’m putting this on repeat for the rest of the day.

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Victory In Maine!

Victory again! Maine’s House of Representatives just approved their marriage equality bill by a vote of 89-58. The bill now goes back to the state Senate for final approval before landing on Gov. John Baldacci’s desk. Baldacci has been evasive as to his decision. Maine’s in-house haters will have 90 days after the governor’s potential approval to gather 55,000 petition …

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