Monthly Archives: May 2011

MINNESOTA: Anti-Gay Marriage Amendment Makes 2012 Ballot

In a late night weekend session intended to draw lessened scrutiny from the press and public, the Minnesota House voted 70-62 to place a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage on the November 2012 ballot. The vote came after impassioned debate by legislators on both sides of the issue. The measure has already been approved by the state Senate and Minnesota’s …

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Quote Of The Day – Jim Daly

“We’re losing on [gay marriage], especially among the 20- and 30-somethings: 65 to 70 percent of them favor same-sex marriage. I don’t know if that’s going to change with a little more age, demographers would say probably not. We’ve probably lost that. I don’t want to be extremist here, but I think we need to start calculating where we are …

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City Hall News: New York Marriage Movement Named “Loser Of The Week”

New York’s same-sex marriage movement leads City Hall News‘ list of this week’s “losers.” New Yorkers United for Marriage — The coalition working so hard to pass a gay marriage bill has spent major money trying to flip Republican Senate votes. But with weeks left to go in the session, all their celebrity endorsements will pale against the reality that …

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Herman Cain Makes It Official

The former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza has never held elected office and wants to start at the top.

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MSNBC On Gallup’s Marriage Poll

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MN Marriage Ban In Jeopardy After Anti-Gay Prayer By Bradlee Dean

Yesterday virulently anti-gay preacher Bradlee Dean delivered the invocation before the Minnesota legislature. Dean’s prayer was so offensive, it may have the unintended result of thwarting the attempt to place a ban on same-sex marriage on the statewide ballot. Dean, who heads a ministry he calls “You Can Run But You Can’t Hide,” has caused uproars before, saying homosexuals should …

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Alan Grayson Rants On Medicare Plan

“I honestly believe if Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck announced that they were in favor of the Black Plague, you’d see every Republican primary candidate for president go along with it.”

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Tired Old Queen At The Movies #75

Clip description: “Horror emerges from the muck and the mire of the Amazon in Universal Studio’s classic trilogy The Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954), Revenge Of the Creature (1955) and The Creature Walks Among Us. (1956).”

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NEW ZEALAND: We’re Still Here

The Guardian reports: Christian doomsday prophet Harold Camping looks likely to be less than rapturous after his prediction that the world would end on Saturday failed to materialise. The 89-year-old Californian preacher had prophesied that the Rapture would begin at 6pm in each of the world’s time zones, with those “saved” by Jesus ascending to heaven and the non-believers being …

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U.S. House Lawyers File To Intervene In Massachusetts DOMA Appeal

GLAD reports via press release: Today, the U.S. House of Representatives filed a motion to intervene in Gill v. Office of Personnel Management the multi-plaintiff challenge to Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), filed by Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) with co-counsel Foley Hoag LLP, Sullivan & Worcester and Jenner & Block in March 2009. …

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Freep This AFA Poll

All the fun is to be had in the write-in field, of course.

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That’s Gay: Real Housewives

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What The British Really Mean

On the left, what they say. In the center, what they really mean. On the right, what Europeans hear. (Via – Andrew Sullivan)

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Assemblyman Sam Hoyt For NY Marriage

Hoyt is the New York Assembly’s majority whip, the guy in charge of rounding up votes.

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Bryan Fischer: Gay Activists Are The Number One Perpetrators Of Hate Crimes

This went out today over the American Family Association’s 200-station radio network, which reaches an estimated two million listeners.

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GLAD Denounces RI Civil Unions Bill

Via press release from Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, who are very unhappy with the religious exemption in Rhode Island’s civil unions bill: Everyone agrees that religious denominations should not be required to join any two people in any legal relationship – whether marriage or a civil union – that is contrary to their religious teachings. However, the religious …

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Palin: I Have A Fire In My Belly

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Win A Trip To Montreal Pride

Tourisme Montreal and Montreal Pride are teaming up for a “Queer Of The Year” contest in which five semi-finalists will win trips to this year’s gay pride week. Whether you’re a do-gooder, a diva, the average guy next door, a girl just out of the closet or anywhere in between, from now through May 30, Montreal wants you to visit …

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Media Matters On “Drop Fox” Campaign

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Tweet Of The Day – Rapture 411

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