NOM has launched a billboard campaign intent on unseating the New York state senators who voted for marriage equality. “Just like David Weprin discovered earlier this month when he faced voters after redefining marriage, Mark Grisanti, Stephen Saland, James Alesi, Roy McDonald and Shirley Huntley will soon discover that the people of New York will not sit idly by while …

Saying they fear a repeat of last year’s violence, the government of Serbia has canceled this weekend’s pride celebrations. Last year Serbian riot police battled hundreds of neo-Nazi anti-gay rioters at Belgrade Pride, fighting back against hurled Molotov cocktails with stun grenades. Over 100 injuries were reported and almost 200 rioters were arrested. “The ban was issued in line with …

Canada’s National Post has apologized for publishing a nasty anti-trans ad paid for by the anti-gay Institute for Canadian Values. Many thanks to ALL of the 488 JMG readers who clicked out on the complaint form! (You were all Canadians, right? Heh.) Earlier this week the National Post ran an advertisement that has caused some controversy. The ad, bought by …

More economic terrorism from the Christian right!

Young man, there’s no need to feel down! For today is the third annual Blasphemy Day International. According to the founders, today we should “openly express criticism or even disdain for religion.” Meh, that comes along every thirty minutes here on JMG.

“I think this [gay marriage] is a temporary aberration that will dissipate. I think that it is just fundamentally goes against everything we know.” – Newt Gingrich, who would like remind you that marriage is between one man and one woman whom you abandon riddled with cancer on her hospital bed while you fuck the shit out of your next …

Because the Vatican says it doesn’t. Or something. No one really believes that two men can marry, and this includes those homosexuals deemed “married” in states that entertain this fiction. But a separate matter is the right of homosexuals, and their heterosexual supporters, to declare that Catholicism is somehow agnostic on this issue. It is not. There is only one …

And the soldier’s a douchebag too.(Via – Think Progress)

For when Google-stalking isn’t enough, how about a site where jilted lovers can dish about their formers? What could possibly go wrong? The PR material calls it “TripAdvisor for dating.” Yeah.

Canada’s Supreme Court has ruled that a Vancouver health clinic for intravenous drug users is an allowable exception to the nation’s drug laws. Even though the clinic’s clean needles and HIV testing services are credited with reducing the incidence of AIDS, conservative groups opposed its operation because local police overlooked drug possession and usage laws within. “Insite saves lives. Its …

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CNN Money: Get ready for a new wave of bank fees. Bank of America will begin charging a $5 monthly fee at the beginning of next year for customers who make debit card purchases. Whether you use your card for one purchase a month or 20, you will pay $5 per month starting in 2012. It doesn’t matter if you …

The Pentagon says that military chaplains may now conduct same-sex weddings on base or anywhere else. The ruling announced Friday by the Pentagon’s personnel chief follows the Sept. 20 repeal of a law that had prohibited gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military. Some members of Congress have objected to military chaplains performing same-sex unions, saying it would …

Chris Meloni helped out the Daily Show last night by starring in their clip mocking NYPD Officer Anthony Bologna, the man videotaped pepper-spraying helpless Wall Street protesters. And there’s a website for The Vigilogna.

Almost a year after her sophomore album topped every chart in the world, we finally have a production video for Adele’s tear-jerker Someone Like You. Trivia: This is the first purely vocal + piano single to reach #1 in the 53 year history of Billboard’s pop singles chart. Many similarly sparse ballads also reached #1, but according to Billboard, all …

PETA wants to post the above billboard image in a small Florida town where this weekend a man was nearly killed by a shark. Yeah, that’ll go over well.

A sunspot so massive it can be seen without a telescope is expected to remain active for another week. (For scale, an image of the Earth was inserted above.) Scientists recently concluded that sunspot activity has an effect on the Earth’s weather, but to what degree remains unknown.