RNC Chairman Michael Steele is fighting for his job at today’s debate, where every single candidate responded to NOM’s question on marriage equality by invoking Jeebus, traditional values, and the sanctity of one man-one woman.

Gothamist notes that a whole lot of weather records were broken in NYC last year. We had two of the five worst blizzards in city history, saw the warmest spring and hottest summer ever, and even got slammed by a couple of tornadoes. What climate change?

Watch and listen in disbelief as hundreds literally scream, wail, and sob for the salvation of America from the evil forces of humanism. This is flat-out child abuse. Jim Jones lives, people. From the entertaining Religion Gone Crazy.

Five year-old Dyson likes to wear dresses and is the subject of a book by his mother titled, My Princess Boy. This morning Dyson and his mother appeared on the Today Show.

“Captain Owen Honors was acting more like the president of a frat house rather than the executive officer of the U.S.S. Enterprise. We call upon the Navy to investigate this matter thoroughly. It is very important that the most senior leadership make it absolutely clear that this kind of bad behavior and poor judgment is not only unacceptable, but that …

A coalition of outside groups including NOM, the Family Research Council, and Focus On The Family are preparing to launch their campaign to repeal same-sex marriage in the New Hampshire legislature. With the GOP taking new majorities in both chambers, a repeal is expected to pass easily. But getting to the super-majority needed to override the governor’s expected veto may …

JMG reader and stand-up comedian Michael Hartney stars in the latest commercial for AT&T. Hartney’s laugh in the clip has already been remixed.

In November, El Paso’s Pastor Tom Brown organized a successful ballot measure repealing the city’s domestic partners benefits ordinance. But due to its murky wording, the new law may also cut insurance for retired cops and firefighters, among other city workers. All because 19 dirty homos were able to insure their partners. The measure was aimed at gay workers and …

Yesterday Pope Benedict spoke via satellite from the Vatican to bless the hundreds of thousands gathered at a massive annual anti-gay marriage rally in Madrid. The rally was sponsored by the Archdiocese of Madrid with the support of the Popular Party, Spain’s right-wing movement which has vowed to overturn same-sex marriage. Organized by the Archdiocese of Madrid and Cardinal Antonio …

Within hours of his swearing in, fake Twitter accounts for NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo began to pop up. The Village Voice reports that Cuomo’s staffers had failed to register the Twitter user name listed on the official state website for the governor’s office, an oversight that resulted in a wee bit of hilarity over the weekend.

A Ugandan court has ruled that local media may not name “suspected homosexuals” and has awarded damages to those named by Rolling Stone, a newspaper unrelated to the U.S.-based music title. The request for the ban was filed by three people from gay rights group, Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), whose pictures and towns of residence were published in a previous …

Former model, sex worker, and openly HIV positive pop singer Paul Lekakis is back with this collaboration with producers Massi & De Leon. You may recall Lekakis’ last big hit, 1987’s Boom, Boom, Boom (Let’s Go Back To My Room). (Via – Pop In Stereo)

A new weekly series from San Francisco activist Matt Baume. Today the candidates for chair of the RNC will hold a debate and Baume encourages you to submit a question about marriage equality.

“That is one of the tactics that they are using now, to say that by not legitimizing and normalizing homosexuality, we are creating an atmosphere in the schools that is hostile to quote-end-quote gay kids. What they are doing is just the opposite themselves. They are creating an environment where these children that are sexually confused suddenly become affirmed as …

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Last Sunday’s mid-blizzard dip was only a trial run for yesterday’s massive attendance at the annual Coney Island Polar Bear Plunge, where thousands endured the needle-sting of the 35-degree North Atlantic for the bragging right of having done so. Oh, the shrinkage! Like a frightened turtle! (Via – Gothamist)

Pastor Tom Daniels of Rio Linda, California is being held on $6M bail after being charged with multiple felony counts of sexual assault on a child. Lavender Newswire reports that Daniels twice made donations to Protect Marriage, the backers of Proposition 8.