Monthly Archives: May 2011

Another Hipster Map

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NY Sen. Ruben Diaz Asks Churches To Close So Members Can Attend Hate Rally

Good As You reports that New York state Sen. Ruben Diaz is asking all area churches to close this Sunday so that everybody can attend his NOM-sponsored hate rally.

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FLORIDA: Teabagger Charles Koch Bought The Right To Hire Faculty At FSU

Oil billionaire Charles Koch, the major backer of the Tea Party, has purchased the right to decide who gets hired on the faculty at Florida State University. Under the agreement with the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, however, faculty only retain the illusion of control. The contract specifies that an advisory committee appointed by Koch decides which candidates should be …

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LIVE VIDEO: Minnesota Marriage Debate

The Minnesota Senate is debating the bill to place a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage to a public vote. At this writing, Sen. John Harrington is suggesting that if Levitical laws are to be imposed, “Why not impose the Levitical law about buying slaves from neighboring countries?” UPDATE: The Senate approved the ban by a vote of 38-27. The video …

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Tweet Of The Day – Tony Perkins

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Andrew Shirvell: I’m The Victim Of The Homosexual Agenda To Silence Critics

Pee-Wee Herman lookalike and former Michigan assistant attorney general Andrew Shirvell is defending himself in the harassment lawsuit filed by openly gay University of Michigan student body president Chris Armstrong. Shirvell, who was fired after stalking Armstrong, says he is the victim of the “radical homosexual agenda” to silence critics of the movement. And he is counter-suing. Shirvell also filed …

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Put Down The Phone

There are people trying to conversatiate with you!

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Bill Donahue Rips Presbyterian Church

“The Presbyterian Church now joins the United Church of Christ, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America and the Episcopal Church in allowing practicing homosexuals and lesbians to become members of the clergy. It also has something else in common with these mainline Protestant denominations: it is collapsing. In the case of the Presbyterian Church, it has lost more than half …

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Wingnuts Launch Legal Defense Fund For Man Arrested In Lisa Miller Case

Right Wing Watch reports that a legal defense fund has already raised $30,000 for Timo Miller, the man arrested by the FBI last month for helping “ex-gay” Lisa Miller illegally take her daughter out of the country rather than comply with court-ordered custody sharing with her former partner. From the defense fund website: Since God has not intended for two …

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Iran Claims Bin Laden Died Years Ago

This should please the Obama haters. In a unique twist on the Osama bin Laden saga, Iran’s intelligence minister says Tehran has “genuine intelligence showing that the terrorist leader died of disease long before the alleged raid” by the United States, the Iranian semiofficial FARS news agency reports. “We have accurate information that bin Laden died of illness some time …

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Transformer Apartment

Inspired by the space-saving furniture on yachts, a Barcelona man turned his 250 square feet apartment into a “Lego-style” living space.

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Quote Of The Day – Alan Wisdom

“This is a lonely day for Presbyterians who believe what the Bible and the Church have consistently taught: that God’s will is that we be faithful in marriage or chaste in singleness. Now we belong to a denomination that is no longer sure it believes that teaching. Now we belong to a denomination that gives no clear counsel on sexuality. …

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Blondie – Mother

Bootleg copies of the clip are leaking onto YouTube, hence the lower quality of the video. Watch it now if you’re interested, this will likely get yanked. From their coming album Panic Of Girls.

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NEW YORK: NOM Relaunches Debunked Lie-Filled Ad From 2009

In New York state NOM has begun re-airing the same lie-filled ad that it ran in 2009, when it was debunked by the fact-finding site Politifact. Via Holy Bullies, here’s Politifact’s assessment: The National Organization for Marriage mailing says that Massachusetts public schools teach kindergartners about gay marriage. The wording, including the present tense verb, gives the impression this is …

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NEW YORK: Daniel O’Donnell Introduces Marriage Equality Bill In State Assembly

Openly gay New York Assemblyman Daniel O’Donnell yesterday once again introduced a marriage equality bill to his chamber. Similar bills authored by O’Donnell have passed in the Assembly several times in recent years. He writes via press release: “It is with great pride that I am introducing the Marriage Equality Act. Since the Assembly last passed the bill in 2009, …

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Presbyterian Church Approves The Ordination Of Openly Gay Ministers

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Barney Frank: America Will Oppose Future Aid To Uganda If “Kill Gays” Bill Passes

“I was pleased when the Financial Services Committee overwhelmingly, in a bipartisan way, voted in favor of my amendment urging the Secretary of the Treasury to oppose any financial assistance from multilateral development institutions to countries that persecute people on the basis of their sexual orientation, gender identity or religious beliefs. In the discussion of the amendment I offered, I …

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TENNESSEE: State Senate Advances Bill To Ban All Local LGBT Rights Laws

A Tennessee state Senate committee has advanced the bill to ban all local LGBT rights laws in the state. The measure sponsored by Republican Sen. Mae Beavers [left] of Mt. Juliet was approved 6-3 in the Senate State and Local Government Committee. The companion bill passed the House 73-24 last month. The proposal would void a Nashville ordinance barring companies …

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Sam Seder On The Tea Party’s Offer

Sam Seder rants about Monday’s offer by the Tea Party to end their opposition to a rise in the debt ceiling if Congress will block the repeal of DADT.

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Pentagon Revokes On Base Marriages

The Washington Post is tweeting that the Pentagon has revoked the U.S. Navy memo granting permission for chaplains to perform on-base same-sex marriages. This comes after two days of intense anti-gay lobbying on the issue by House GOP members working under the orders of the Family Research Council.

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