Monthly Archives: April 2010

SENEGAL: Gay Man’s Body Ripped From Grave, Abused And Videotaped

In a story about the widening oppression of LGBT people across Africa, ABC News reports that in 2009, a gay man’s body was exhumed from its grave and desecrated by a mob who videotaped the scene and sold the clip at public markets. Madieye Diallo’s body had only been in the ground for a few hours when the mob descended …

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Rock For Equality: Hundreds Rally In CA For Social Security Benefits

Hundreds of activists and politicians rallied in West Hollywood this weekend calling for equality in Social Security benefits. Speakers included Sen. Barbara Boxer and NGLTF head Rea Carey. State and local officials joined hundreds of people outside the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center in Hollywood on Sunday morning to kick off a national grass-roots campaign demanding equal Social Security …

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Mississippi Governor: Controversy About Confederate History Month Ain’t Diddly

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Massive Fire Rips Throught NYC’s Chinatown, Hundreds Left Homeless

Last night a 7-alarm fire destroyed several buildings in NYC’s Chinatown, leaving hundreds of residents homeless. At least 14 people were injured in a blaze in Chinatown that reached seven-alarm status shortly after midnight Monday morning. More than 250 firefighters responded to the fire at 285 Grand Street. The fire broke out at a six-story building in Chinatown. More than …

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Hillary Clinton Rumored For SCOTUS

Once again, Hillary Clinton is being rumored to be on the short list of potential appointees to the Supreme Court. Sen. Orrin Hatch says he’s heard Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s name mentioned in connection with the Supreme Court vacancy brought about by the retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens. Hatch didn’t elaborate in an interview Monday. Appearing with …

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John McCain: Asking Gay Soldiers About DADT Repeal Would Be Crazy

This weekend John McCain was interviewed by the Arizona Daily Star about his position on the repeal of DADT. Here’s a telling bit of the interview. STAR: I wanted to ask about “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and your perspective on that. And I know what you said several years ago and what you have said since. But I’m wondering if …

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Baptist Group Endorses Death Penalty For Gays In Statement Against Repeal Of DADT

The Unregistered Baptist Fellowship has issued a press release opposing the repeal of DADT because the Bible calls for the death penalty for homosexuality. A snippet via Christian Newswire: Therefore, because God’s word condemns same sex physical relationships (Leviticus 18:22, 20:13; Romans 1:24-32), calling them abomination, and considering them a capitol crime against society and nature worthy of the death …

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SCOTLAND: Top Anti-Gay Activist Confesses To Child Porn Charges

The Scottish school board administrator who was a leader in the campaign against repealing the UK’s anti-gay Section 28 law has confessed to possessing and distributing child pornography. Enacted in 1986 during the Thatcher administration, Section 28 made it illegal to “promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship.” Alan Smith …

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The Real Gay Agenda

JMG reader Sean Chapin puts the classic satire to video.

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Atheist Barbie

(Via – Boing Boing)

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Caption This

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This Week In Holy Crimes

Over the last seven days… Vermont: Pastor David Heckman pleads guilty to stealing $110K from Habitat For Humanity.Florida: Youth Pastor Cecil Wayne Seay charged with sending obscene text messages to 14 year old girl.Alabama: Pastor Anthony Hopkins on trial for murdering his wife and storing her body in a freezer for four years.Florida: Catholic Diocese of Orlando pays undisclosed settlement …

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Afternoon View – North Over Birch Park

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Nahum 1:2 – The Lord Is A Jealous God Filled With Vengeance And Wrath

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Birther Loon Orly Taitz Files Motion To Join Health Care Reform Suits

All those judgments for filing frivolous lawsuits aren’t stopping birther loon Orly Taitz. Now she’s filed a motion to intervene in the anti-health care reform suits filed against the feds by numerous state attorneys general. According to Taitz, the health care reform bill is invalid because it was signed by a Kenyan citizen. “H.R. 3590 was signed into law by …

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HomoQuotable – Greg Quinlan

“We now know that Pepsi has given over a million dollars to the Human Rights Campaign and to another hate group called PFLAG, Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays — an organization that tells parents that their children are born homosexual. Therefore they must accept them and that the only way to love them is to accept, embrace that …

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The Sarah Palin Network

Tina Fey returned to host SNL last night. Classic skewering of Palin.

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Dixie Carter Dies At 70

Dixie Carter, beloved by gay audiences for her portrayal of Designing Women’s Julia Sugarbaker, died today at the age of 70. “Designing Women” actress Dixie Carter, who used her charm and stately beauty in a host of roles on Broadway and television, has died. She was 70. Publicist Steve Rohr, who represents Carter and her husband, actor Hal Holbrook, says …

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Betty Bowers Names Sarah Palin As Worst Mother Of The Year

“How’s that slutty-trashy thing workin’ out for ya?”

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Richard Dawkins: I Will Have The Pope Arrested For Crimes Against Humanity

Famed British atheist Richard Dawkins says he plans to have the Pope arrested and charged with crimes against humanity when Ill Papa visits England in September. Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, the atheist author, have asked human rights lawyers to produce a case for charging Pope Benedict XVI over his alleged cover-up of sexual abuse in the Catholic church. The pair …

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