UPDATE: From Barron’s personal blog. Instead of focusing on the words of an NBA player or Sarah Palin’s teenage daughter, why doesn’t the Human Rights Campaign and the rest of the gay left stand up to the brutality of radicalized Islam? The truth is that they won’t because it doesn’t fit their ultra-liberal world view. The gay left wants to …

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cucinelli has announced that he will block a proposed regulation banning religious discrimination against adoptive gay parents. Cuccinelli’s office said in a memo dated Tuesday that the proposal to be considered by the State Board of Social Services as early as next week “does not comport with applicable state law and public policy.” “Therefore the State …

Today NOM issues an alert that New York legislators will be voting on same-sex marriage upon their return from a two week break. That gives us two weeks to contact legislators in defense of marriage! Please join us today by sending an email to your state senator and assemblyman. Two years ago, your phone calls and emails helped block same–sex …

In a top-of-site “breaking” story, this morning World Net Daily picks up Porno Pete LaBarbera’s ridiculous and outrageous campaign against GLSEN. As I reported here on Sunday night, one of the 40,000 members of GLSEN’s Day Of Silence page, probably an anti-gay activist, uploaded several photos advertising a gay hook-up site. Several screen shots later and…BINGO! There’s your “proof” that …

“School administrators have frequently denied sponsoring, participating in, or allowing the ‘Day of Silence,’ but are nonetheless allowing students to be silent without consequences. Even some teachers will ‘go silent,’ writing pro-homosexuality messages on boards, and setting up classroom displays to teach impressionable children that aggressive homosexual activists are ‘victims,’ that more laws promoting their agenda are needed, when there …

In a move the Human Rights Campaign calls “unprecedented,” the NBA has fined superstar Kobe Bryant $100,000 for calling a referee a “fucking faggot” during last night’s game. Via press release: While Bryant acknowledged the outburst earlier today and said in a statement it did “not reflect my feelings toward the gay and lesbian communities,” he failed to apologize or …

By a vote of 22-2, Hawaii’s state Senate has approved a bill banning employment discrimination against transgender residents. The bill has already passed in the state House. Discrimination against transgender individuals is already illegal in Hawaii for housing, public accommodations and employment, but the ban on employment discrimination has only been established by rulings of the Civil Rights Commission and …

Benefiting the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. “You don’t have to be fast, just fabulous.”

From Wayne Besen at Truth Wins Out. Every now and again we highlight “ex-gay” activists who disappear from the scene. One such individual is Mike Ensley, who was laid off from Exodus in 2008. For those who do not remember, Ensley was the group’s “Youth Analyst”, with the insidious role of brainwashing young people. He has now reinvented himself as …

Because energy efficient lightbulbs are proof that we’re being crushed beneath the heels of the oppressive collective. Or something.

Once again, we see the brutal fallout of a God-ordained one man/one woman marriage. The woman apparently had just had a fight with her husband, Jean Pierre, and loaded into her four children into the vehicle, driving a short distance into the river, police said Wednesday. Lashandra Armstrong, 25, and three children, ages 5, 2 and 11 months, died, submerged …

New York Times Magazine has published a mammoth feature asking whether sugar and high-fructose corn syrup is really as bad for us as it seems. Short answer: yes. (He said as he reached for another Reese’s Cup.)

Politico live-blogged the entire speech.

People For The American Way today issued an extensive expose of the tactics used by the Christianist right to keep anti-gay bullying legal and frequent. An excerpt: Rather than recognize and address the problem of bullying against students who are gay or perceived to be gay, Religious Right groups want schools to embrace a policy of inaction. Many resort to …

Another classic rant from our favorite Independent.