“Chick-fil-a has remained faithful to the family values on which it was founded. We are bewildered by those who would take offense at your values and would block the expansion of your business into their communities. We welcome Chick-fil-A’s investment in our districts. The example of quality, hard work, and charity demonstrated by Chick-fil-A is one that others who, when …

(Via Boy Culture)

From the makers of the gay films Circuit and Hellbent, featuring Bruce Vilanch, Lee Meriwether (!), Rip Taylor, and John Tartaglia (Avenue Q).

The first gay pride event in Vietnam’s history will take place this weekend in Hanoi. Viet Pride will run from Aug 3-5 and will feature film screenings, research presentations, music live performances, and a cycle parade through the city center on Sunday morning beginning at My Dinh Stadium and ending at Ly Tu Trong Park. Organised by Nguyen Thanh Tam …

Note the sotto voce ending.

“Free speech means you can generally say whatever you want without being carted off to prison or otherwise punished by law. But it doesn’t guarantee that there won’t be any repercussions! You can run through the street yelling ‘Blacks shouldn’t be allowed to get married,’ but that doesn’t protect you from people boycotting your store and using their free speech …

Press release from Maryland’s marriage activists: Marylanders for Marriage Equality today released a new poll showing voters approve of marriage for loving, committed gay and lesbian couples by a 14-point margin (54% to 40%). The poll was conducted by Hart Research last week. “We continue to have the momentum,” said Josh Levin, campaign manager for Marylanders for Marriage Equality. “Voters …

Yesterday GOProud board of directors member and Gay Patriot blogger Bruce Campbell videotaped his patronage of Chick-Fil-A, complete with inserted special effects. The clip was filmed by Red State blogger Ben Howe and the husband of vile Breitbart editor Dana Loesch provided the special effects.

“True individual freedom includes allowing consenting adults to marry the partners they choose, regardless of gender. To those for whom same-sex marriage is personally objectionable, their free choice is simple: Don’t enter into one. But don’t impede the freedom of others to do so. As long as Chick-fil-A operates within the boundaries of the law, municipalities and institutions should leave …

Danell Leyva’s lucky towel has over 10,000 Twitter followers. And did anybody notice that NBC gave us exactly zero coverage of the rings portion of the finals? [Fist exhausted from shaking at NBC.]

News outlets are dying to know just how much business Chick-Fil-A did yesterday and they are over it. UPDATE: Chick-Fil-A may not want to talk to the media but Good As You points out that their CEO sure didn’t mind bragging to megachurch Pastor Rick Warren. I see that Warren has since deleted the below tweet.

Right Wing Watch has posted an amusing (and infuriating) promotional clip showing some of the most freakazoid claims made by the hate groups they cover every day.

A laughably bad headline from Virginia’s 9NewsNow make it seem like Loudoun County Supervisor Eugene Delgaudio is now running the drive-thru at the local Chick-Fil-A. Notice the Romney supporters who just happened to be there to be in the shot with Delgaudio.(Tipped by JMG readers Blair and James)

Yesterday House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and a coalition of 81 House Democrats issued a call for the Obama administration to make it official policy that the foreign partners of LGBT Americans will not be deported. Chris Geidner reports: Pelosi — along with Reps. Jerrold Nadler and Mike Honda, the lead sponsors of two bills aimed at addressing LGBT inequalities …

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Yesterday 90,000 Orthodox Jews crowded New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium where females were shrouded behind a barricade in the uppermost tier so that men could not lay their lustful eyes upon them. As the rabbis began the prayers, hundreds of women around the stadium reached out and pulled sections of a massive curtain across their rows of seats. The $250,000 translucent …

If Minnesota doesn’t ban marriage, it will end up exactly like Canada. Horrors!

“They [the Founding Fathers] didn’t know what the word ‘adolescent’ meant. And, by the way, I checked with Rabbi Lapin, he says that is not a word that appears in Hebrew because it’s not in the mind of God. God wasn’t into adolescence. He was in to having you become productive, having you be fruitful, having your produce. And so …