Clip description: “Obama endorses marriage equality. We’ll look at what that means for LGBT Americans and for the future. Colorado’s civil unions bill looked dead in the water last week, but this week the Governor’s found a way to give it one last shot at passing in 2012.”

Gallup reports today: The slight majority of American adults, 54%, consider gay or lesbian relations morally acceptable. Public acceptance of gay/lesbian relations as morally acceptable grew slowly but steadily from 38% in 2002 to 56% in 2011 and is now holding at the majority level. This Gallup trend mirrors the growth in public support for legalizing gay marriage, which has …

And if you oppose it, you could even be murdered.

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The pornstache was once a staple of manly cigarette ads. Head over to Copyranter for a flashback selection of examples.

“God hates the whole effeminate aspect of man going after man or woman going after woman. You can’t get around that – it’s in the Bible. And what we need to understand as Christians, is that this is America. We stand on our biblical views regardless. We got President Obama, and we got the candidate Romney, and the question is …

Subtitled in Spanish this time….

Virginia Delegate Bob Marshall (left), who is second only to Eugene Delgaudio among his state’s raving loons, is trying to block the appointment of an openly gay district court judge. Just because. Delegate Bob Marshall said he will seek to remove the name of Richmond prosecutor Tracy Thorne-Begland from a list of proposed District Court judicial appointments. “I don’t even …

Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s chief of staff has resigned amid accusations that he “steered” major state contracts to his personal friends. Scott MacNamara, 59, did not elaborate on that media attention, saying only that he was stepping down six months earlier than planned. The outgoing chief of staff had drawn public scrutiny for alleged deal making and influence peddling under …

According to a just-published CBS poll, almost two-thirds of all Americans support some form of relationship recognition for same-sex couples. The real number to watch is that 18-44 age range. Time is on our side, always.

Today at 2:30pm I’ll be on Michelangelo Signorile’s SiriusXM show to talk about some of the latest LGBT-related news items. The gays are on channel 108 and you can listen live online if you sign up for a freebie account. What would be your top five gay news stories this week? I can think of one, for starters….

“If someone wants to attack me, I’m not going to let them bully me. If asked to, I’ll speak up for myself. The others didn’t do that last time. I will. [snip] The court has sort of changed the way it did business since the last retention vote. We’re more open, we’re more transparent, and we’ve made a huge effort …

“The father of the modern conservative movement, former US Senator Barry Goldwater, once said of Jerry Falwell that he needed a kick in the ass. With his speech at Falwell’s Liberty University, it is clear that Governor Romney’s message to Goldwater conservatives is: drop dead. [snip] If Romney expects to be the candidate who can beat Obama in November then …

Political satirist Roy Zimmerman goes all Sweeney Todd on Mitt Romney’s bullying scandal. Hit his label at the bottom of this post for other great stuff from Zimmerman.(Tipped by JMG reader Rebecca)

World Net Daily today provides the breathless news that Starbucks has endorsed same-sex marriage. Note how the linked item carefully avoids mentioning any dates on a story that is months old. Wanna bet NOM paid for this?

Mitt Romney’s son got booed off the stage at this weekend’s Arizona GOP Convention. “We cannot afford four more years of President Obama,” said Josh Romney, the third of Mitt Romney’s five sons. “We need someone to step in there and turn things around.” But Josh had to stop repeatedly as people booed and yelled for Paul, who has continued …