The New York Times reports: Joe Frazier, the former heavyweight champion whose furious and intensely personal fights with a taunting Muhammad Ali endure as an epic rivalry in boxing history, died Monday night. He was 67. His business representative, Leslie Wolff, told The Associated Press in early November that Frazier had liver cancer and that he had entered hospice care.

“Special rights for homosexual behavior are not needed. This makes me very sad for every child in our schools who will be subjected to this deception. There is a very well-traveled path out of homosexuality that every child deserves to hear about. But no, this will become like California in every state, a bigoted mandate to force everyone to accept …

Last week I reported on the Texas gay man who was burned, stabbed, and beaten at a party. Today he told his story to MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts.(Via – Think Progress)

Towleroad has the disgusting details.

It was hard to pick a single panel from Buzzfeed’s Tea Party Ted meme, so I just went with the first one. Hit the link for the rest.

At this writing a man is dangling below New York’s Tappan Zee Bridge in some kind of chair harness with a giant sign attached to it. News helicopters report that the sign bears some kind of accusation against the politicians of Rockland County, which is connected to Westchester County by the bridge. For the first hour of the protest, reporters …

More of that Christian Love™ from Michele Bachmann.

Public Policy Polling reports (PDF): Maine’s gay marriage law failed 47-53 at the polls just two years ago, but now, as nearlyeverywhere, public opinion is shifting rapidly towards same-sex marriage rights. 51% of Maine voters want it to be legal and only 42% illegal, a 15-point reversal from 2009.That is up even seven points from when PPP last polled the …

“We all need to consider that in God’s timing that he may have allowed us, as members of Congress, to be in the position that we’re in just for this specific issue right now. Everything that all of us have worked together and labored for over the years, all of it could be undermined with this one bill. President Obama …

We haven’t heard much from Hillbuzz and its editor Kevin DuJan since his failed attempt to freep Dancing With The Stars on behalf of Bristol Palin. But as you can see by today’s entry, he’s still tilting at homocon windmills. At least he’s no longer posting daily predictions of President Sarah Palin. RELATED: Last year DuJan whined that nobody will …

(Via – Good As You)

“The Obama administration is lending support to Congress in an effort to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. The president, instead, is backing something called the ‘Respect Marriage Act.’ The latter measure, quite simply, would abolish marriage. While calling for ‘respect’ in the Orwellian sense, it would offer true marriage the same ‘respect’ President Obama showed to the body of …

The White House has formally responded to two petitions demanding that the federal government finally come clean about all those aliens they’re hiding at Area 51 or wherever. “The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race,” Phil Larson from the …

The lifetime blood donation ban for gay men in the United Kingdom ends today. But only if you’ve not had sex in a least one year. Dr Lorna Williamson, NHS Blood and Transplant’s medical and research director, said: “Our priority as a blood service is to provide a safe and sufficient supply of blood for patients. This change gives us …

An estimated 25,000 protesters encircled the White House yesterday in protest of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline which would run from Alberta, Canada to Texas.

“Redefining marriage also threatens the fundamental human right of religious freedom. Those who refuse on moral and religious grounds to accept or accommodate the redefinition of legal marriage are already being wrongly accused of bigotry and hatred, bias and prejudice. They are being stigmatized and marginalized precisely because they are exercising their religious freedom to teach and practice their values. …