The Secret Service is handling so many death threats against the president, they are in danger of being overwhelmed. Some even say the basic mission of the Secret Service should be changed. The unprecedented number of death threats against President Obama, a rise in racist hate groups, and a new wave of antigovernment fervor threaten to overwhelm the US Secret …

As usual, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) says it well. He’s also been a great ally of the LGBT community and has shown up at every anti-bashing rally I’ve attended.

“The Earth can’t take 6.5 billion people. We just can’t feed that many. So what are you going to do? Kill as many as you can. We have to develop a science that kills them and makes it look as though they died from some disease.” – Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, saying that the swine flu vaccine was …

It’s not too late to call Donna Miller (910-308-7619) at the Concerned Women for America and book your seat at Saturday’s annual dinner for Peter LaBarbera’s Americans For Truth About Homosexuality. None other than Matt Barber will be on hand to promote his new memoir, The Right Hook: From The Ring To The Culture War. (Sadly, there are no reviews …

808 State, Pacific State, 1989. Some point to this now-classic track as ushering in the era of “chillout house” and predicting the advent of Chicane, my favorite 90’s act. Pacific State reached #10 on the UK singles chart, a position 808 State would hit three more times with The Only Rhyme That Bites, In Yer Face, and the acid house …

Seizing upon the rift over gays in the Anglican Church, Ill Papa Palpatine has invited gay-haters to join his Super Hate Club. In an extraordinary bid to lure traditionalist Anglicans en masse, the Vatican on Tuesday announced that it would make it easier for Anglicans who are uncomfortable with their church’s acceptance of women priests and openly gay bishops to …

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has referred the R-71 names battle to the full Court for review. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy on Tuesday referred to the full Supreme Court a request t0 block the release of names of people who signed petitions seeking to overturn Washington’s new “everything but marriage” same-sex domestic partner law. David Ammons, spokesman for Secretary …

From a story about an ABC News/Washington Post poll about attitudes on health care reform comes this little nugget: “Only 20 percent of adults identify themselves as Republicans, little changed in recent months, but still the lowest single number in Post-ABC polls since 1983.”

Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) has introduced a bill that would restrict federal child welfare funding from any state that discriminates against LGBT people attempting to adopt. Stark said in an interview that he introduced the legislation, H.R. 3827, in part because thousands of children each year “age out” of the child welfare system without finding homes. “We got 25,000 kids …

Irish sports hero Donal Og Cusack, who came out yesterday in advance of the publication of his autobiography, today reveals that homophobic abuse from fans in the stands has driven his mother away from attending his matches. Donal Og recalled the moment he was waiting to take a free at a championship game in Semple Stadium, when a man started …

“I made the mistake of not having sex until I was 23! I loved being with another man and felt relieved that I finally knew who I was. I made the mistake of falling in love too soon because I was naive and romantic. My advice to you is to never chase love. It will find you when you least …

Two weeks before the vote, the latest marriage poll from Maine shows a tie at 48-48, with 4% undecided. The survey from Public Policy Polling (PDF) notes a large gender gap in the responses, with 53% of men willing to overturn same-sex marriage, but with only 43% of women agreeing. According to the pollster, with responses split along predictable party …

You may recall the nasty anti-gay campaign to repeal Gainesville, Florida’s LGBT rights law, during which images of men creeping into ladies’ rooms was used as a scare tactic against transgender rights. The repeal failed, but now comes word of the arrest of one of the repeal’s petition gatherers. For creeping into ladies’ rooms and filming them! The CVS Pharmacy …

Here’s the trailer to the coming documentary 8: The Mormon Proposition. The film has been submitted to Sundance and other film festivals.

Miss California USA pageant organizer K2 Productions has filed a counter-suit to Carrie Prejean’s claim of religious discrimination, demanding (among other things) that she pay them back for her fake titties. “Even before she became notorious for that answer and the ensuing media storm, Ms. Prejean was already causing difficulty,” the K2 counter-suit states. “With her new-found notoriety, an inflated …

The script from the below ad from Protect Marriage Washington: Our position is not about hate, its about love. Its about having a true consideration for the next generations future; its about keeping the teaching of morals and preserving the most fundamental part of human relations, the original intent of marriage, ONE MAN and ONE WOMAN, no other way. Were …

Another round of tea parties is coming! Get ready for even more hilariously misspelled signs and quotable redneckisms.

You may recall the gay couple from West Hollywood who last Halloween raised the ire of the right wing with an effigy of Sarah Palin, which they later took down after complaints from neighbors. Well, they’re back – this time with a nude Maggie Gallagher with her arm raised in a Hitler salute. Via Curbed LA: More about what’s on …