NOTE: This clip has been reposted from a different YouTube account after the earlier version got zapped as hate speech.

To the dismay of LGBT activists, one of the women convicted of assaulting a transgender woman in a Baltimore McDonald’s has only received a five year sentence for the hate crime. “The whole incident is unfortunate and demonstrates the lack of knowledge and understanding, and discrimination against transgender people,” said Patrick Wojahn, board president of the Equality Maryland Foundation. “If …

“These people who are making a big deal about gay marriage? I don’t give a fuck about who wants to get married to anybody else! Why not?! We’re making a big deal out of things we shouldn’t be making a deal out of. Just give everybody the chance to have the life they want.” – Clint Eastwood, speaking to GQ …

Convinced that President Obama has somehow “abandoned Israel,” yesterday Brooklyn’s massive Orthodox Jewish community provided the margin for GOP candidate Bob Turner to flip a U.S. House district that has been Democrats’ hands for decades. NOM, of course, is ignoring the “punish Obama” factor and is claiming that the election was entirely a statement on same-sex marriage. Whatevs. NY-09 will …

Episode 1 debuts this week.

According to a breathless news release from Christian Newswire, recent photos taken by the Hubble telescope prove the biblical story of the creation of the universe. OK!

Lovely trance from Ryan Raddon.

What do you call it when two SPLC-certified hate groups get together for an orgy of self-congratulation? Next month Porno Pete’s one-man-show, AFTAH, will “honor” one of the main forces behind Uganda’s “kill gays” bill, Pink Swastika author Scott Lively. As you will know if you have ever attended an Americans For Truth banquet or speaking event, they are very …

The nation’s largest pediatricians group has issued a statement denouncing Michele Bachmann’s claim that Gardisil causes mental retardation. Bachmann is not directly named in the press release. “The American Academy of Pediatrics would like to correct false statements made in the Republican presidential campaign that HPV vaccine is dangerous and can cause mental retardation. There is absolutely no scientific validity …

The North Carolina chapter of the NAACP has issued an open letter to all state residents. An excerpt: Our legislature and all North Carolinians should focus on providing sound basic education for every child; equal access to good health care; living wages; workers rights; recovery from natural disasters; and protections for maximum voter turnout. Who can tell thousands of families …

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You’ll have to embiggen it to make sense of this “internet penetration” map.

Pat Robertson says that the End Times can’t come until Jews give up their religion and worship their true messiah. Stop being so Jewish, you guys are totally holding things up!

By a 30-16 vote, the Tea Party-dominated North Carolina Senate has voted to place a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage on the May 2012 ballot. Yesterday the state House approved the same bill. For the last ten years, Democrats beat back efforts to send such a bill to the voters, but they lost their majority in the 2010 elections. And …