The Daily Caller, which was founded by proud gay-basher Tucker Carlson, announced today that it will give away a “high-capacity” handgun per week until our Kenyan Communist Gay President is toppled in November. Can this possibly be legal? Surely some states must outlaw such nuttery.

According to a Public Policy Polling result issued today, should Maryland’s pending marriage equality bill be forced onto the November ballot, voters would approve the issue by a 20 point margin. 57% of Maryland voters say they’re likely to vote for the new marriage law this fall, compared to only 37% who are opposed. That 20 point margin of passage …

The 34th annual International Mister Leather convention is taking place this weekend in Chicago, where attendees at the host hotel could potentially face a picket line over a long-running union labor dispute. The Hyatt Regency Chicago, site of the recent competitions, has been at the center of a bitter a contract fight with workers represented by the union UNITE HERE …

It looks like they’ve finally shitcanned Victoria Jackson from their weekly ditz-fest. It feels slightly less crazy without the ukelele. Slightly.

New York GOP Assemblyman James Conte wants to make it illegal to leave anonymous comments on the internet. SRSLY. Wired weighs in: Republican Assemblyman Jim Conte said the legislation would cut down on “mean-spirited and baseless political attacks” and “turns the spotlight on cyberbullies by forcing them to reveal their identity.” Had the internet been around in the late 1700s, …

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Ultra Orthodox Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is the founder and head of Israel’s Shas Party, which presently holds a number of seats in the national government. Last week Yosef declared that “religious doctors” should refuse to treat non-Jews if their emergency occurs on the sabbath. During a class on Sabbath halacha relating to religious physicians, the spiritual leader of Shas said …

Creationists freeped the online poll of a popular travel site to place Kentucky’s Creation Museum as the #1 place that “any kid should see before the age of 15.” And now they’re all butt-hurt because the site refused to list the freeped result. The creation science group that runs the museum, Answers in Genesis, expressed disappointment. The group said, “Curiously, …

Right on cue, the American Family Association says it is asking its supporters to “shop elsewhere” until Target cancels its selling of gay Pride t-shirts. “We know for a fact that Target is a very gay-friendly company. You may remember a couple of years ago, when Target came under heat from homosexual activists for donating to a pro-family candidate for …

The New York Times yesterday posted an editorial about Dr. Robert Spitzer’s recanting of his infamous “ex-gay” research and its conclusions. Dr. Spitzer, who just turned 80, has acknowledged that his survey was deeply flawed. In a letter to the editor of the Archives of Sexual Behavior, which had published his study, he said he had no way of knowing …

You may recall that last fall New Jersey public school teacher Vicki Knox was so upset by a pro-gay bulletin board at her school, she took to Facebook to launch a tirade calling gays “perverted spirits” whose sin “breeds like cancer.” Knox was then suspended for conduct unbecoming a public servant, leading local anti-gay groups to protest the school board …

Matt Borges, a hired lobbyist for Equality Ohio and other unrelated groups, has been named the executive director of the Ohio Republican Party. Borges had been working on a still-pending bill to ban anti-gay housing and employment discrimination. Borges, recently named to his role by Ohio GOP Chairman Robert T. Bennett, said he will take a leave of absence from …

Yesterday JMG reader Aaron Heier accompanied his Navy veteran friend Lee to the San Diego homecoming of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, where Lee was reunited with his longtime boyfriend Trent, who’d been at sea for six months.

Judging by this blistering report just issued by the Southern Poverty Law Center, it looks like NOM may finally be getting its long-overdue hate group classification. The article begins: About the worst thing said about gay men, an allegation that is regularly dragged out by certain religious-right organizations, is that they molest children at rates vastly higher than their heterosexual …

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Last week Arizona Attorney General Ken Bennett said that he would keep President Obama off his state’s November ballot unless Hawaii responded to his demand for their birth records. Here’s the latest: Bennett, a Republican, said in a written statement that Hawaii officials “have complied with the request, and I consider the matter closed.” Bennett’s office says Obama’s name will …