We won’t have to worry about marriage repeal in New Hampshire for the rest of the year. A House committee voted today to take repeal of the state’s same-sex marriage off the table this year. The 15-0 vote of the House Judiciary Committee effectively means two bills repealing the 2009 law won’t return to the full House of Representatives until …

“Just another ‘solution’ in search of a need.” (Via – Andrew Sullivan)

I’ll be in Fort Lauderdale for the next five days to hang with Father Tony and do some oceanside blogging from his high-rise balcony in between trips to South Beach for Winter Party events. Tough life.

Yup, same song.

It’s a pity no one was there to hear him.

“This [Westboro] ruling is important for many reasons. First and foremost, it preserves the primacy of free speech in America, which benefits us all. But from a parochial pro-LGBT narrative, it’s equally important to note that it proves the lie to the multiple instances when anti-gay activists falsely claimed that advances in LGBT equality and protections — whether they come …

According to a coming book by historian Robert Beachy, the genesis of the modern gay rights movement came in 19th century Germany. Modern conceptions of homosexuality began, ironically, with an anti-sodomy law. When the German empire was unified in 1871, the Imperial Criminal Code included a law prohibiting sexual penetration of one man by another. Questions about what types of …

Researchers at the CDC say obesity is far less prevalent in Canada than in the United States. And they don’t really know why. About 24 percent of Canadians are obese compared to more than 34 percent of Americans, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study released Wednesday. Researchers looked at height and weight data taken in …

Hair inspired by the late John Sex? They’re identical twins.

Yesterday a group of students at Harding University in Arkansas launched an online zine meant to “give voice to the experiences of gay and lesbians” on campus, but the school immediately blocked the site from campus by listing it on its porn filter. Read the students’ stirring manifesto, The State Of The Gay. RELATED: Harding alum and JMG reader Brett …

This list is mostly notable to us for the presence of whackadoodle billionaire Peter Thiel, the GOProud money man who hosted Ann Coulter in his NYC home for their Homocon 2010 fundraiser. Thiel wants to create floating oceanic city-states which are exempt to annoying trifles like taxes and international banking rules. A libertarian’s paradise! At sea! Forever! (Source)

Yesterday prospective 2012 GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump told Rush Limbaugh that he offered $100M to the Obama administration to build a “magnificent White House ballroom” instead of those “rotten tents” put up on the South Lawn for special occasions. Trump claims White House officials blew him off because he’s a Republican.

“And I have said many times, publicly, that I do think he has a different worldview and I think it is, in part, molded out of a very different experience. Most of us grew up going to Boy Scout meetings and, you know, our communities were filled with Rotary Clubs, not madrassas. – Mike Huckabee, following up on his Monday …

The lawyer for a Connecticut man who was arrested for fisting a female horse (SRSLY) is asking the court to show his client lenience because he’s a devout Christian without a previous criminal record. “Mr. Wegiel has never been arrested for any crime before this, and I think he is eligible,” Crozier said. Crozier said Wegiel denies abusing the horse. …

RELATED: Before he was a member of Congress, Franks was the founder of the Arizona Family Research Institute, an offshoot of Focus On The Family. He later chaired Arizonans For Common Sense (anti-abortion) and Arizonans For An Empowered Future (school vouchers). Shortly after the Giffords shooting, he can out against a ban in high-capacity gun clips.

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After two days of delays and some minor panic due to two wayward Democrats, marriage equality backers in Maryland now think the bill will advance out of the House judiciary committee tomorrow. But it will be a squeaker. Delegates Tiffany Alston, Prince George’s County Democrat, and Jill Carter, Baltimore city Democrat, said Wednesday that they are ready to cast votes …

Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-HI) announced tonight that he will not run for reelection in 2012, making him the fifth Senate Democrat to declare their retirement at the end of the current term. Akaka was first appointed to the Senate in 1990 after Sen. Spark Matsunaga died of prostate cancer. After months of thinking about my political future, I am announcing …