Monthly Archives: November 2012

Gay Marriage Won Because Of Romney

So says Liberty Counsel’s Mat Staver.

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Krugman: Paul Ryan Is A Con Man

“The fact is that Ryan is and always was a fraud. His plan never added up; it was never, contrary to what people who should know better asserted, ‘scored’ by the CBO. What he actually offered was a plan to hurt the poor and reward the rich, actually increasing the deficit along the way, plus magic asterisks that supposedly reduced …

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Vatican Defrocks Activist American Priest Over Ordination Of Female Clergy

The Vatican has formally excommunicated an activist priest for his ordination of female priests. Via a press release published today by Christian Newswire: The Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, on October 4, 2012, canonically dismissed Roy Bourgeois from the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, also known as the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers. The decision dispenses the …

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Hostess And Union To Negotiate

Twinkies aren’t quite 100% dead yet after all. Hostess Brands Inc, its lenders and the unions representing its striking workers, agreed to start mediation hearings on Tuesday at the urging of a U.S. bankruptcy court judge. A hearing on Monday during which the bankrupt maker of Twinkies snack cakes and Wonder Bread was set to ask for permission to liquidate …

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Syracuse Approves Trans Protections

Some great news today from central New York. The New York Civil Liberties Union today applauded the Syracuse Common Council’s passage of legislation amending local civil rights law to protect transgender and gender non-conforming residents from discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations, such as restaurants, hotels and stores. In an 7 to 1 vote, the Common Council approved a …

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Love Wins In Washington State

JMG reader Matthew sends us this great clip of Gov. Christine Gregoire’s speech overlaid with a street celebration as marriage passed in Washington state. Two weeks later and I still can’t get enough of these images.

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Take A Stellar Tour

JMG reader BStewart23 points out this fascinating look at the galaxy.  Click on the “take a tour” button.  Start scrolling around and there goes your work productivity for today. This was created by Google, so naturally it works best in Chrome. (But it also seem to work fine in Firefox.)

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Exorcism Of The Day

Poor Cheryl was possessed by an ancestral demon that entered her family in Haiti eight generations ago. Acting!

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Marriage Trade To Boom In New States

The Associated Press reports on the three states about a boom in business due to same-sex weddings. Add the coast of Maine, the banks of the Chesapeake Bay and the shores of Lake Washington to gay wedding destinations. Next month and in January, laws go into effect in Maine, Maryland and Washington that allow same-sex marriage. They’re the first states …

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Matt Baume: Marriage News Watch

Clip description: The Supreme Court is just days away from deciding whether to take the Prop 8 case. Depending on how they rule, we could see marriages starting in California, Maine, Washington and Maryland all within the span of a few weeks. Plus with new survey data out this week, it’s now been two and a half years since our …

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Quote Of The Day – Bill Donohue

“Homosexuals have been walking around naked in San Francisco with increasing regularity, and tomorrow lawmakers will rule on whether to adopt an ordinance that would make public nudity illegal. There is a caveat: because gay pride is inseparable from genital liberation, the law being considered would still allow these men to go naked at the annual gay pride parade, and …

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Opening Next Week In Manhattan

Embiggen for details.

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Pat Robertson: Atheists Want To Steal Xmas Because They Hate Happiness

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Protect Marriage Needs Tons Of Money To Fight Supreme Court Prop 8 Case

Saying that they are confident that the Supreme Court will hear their appeal of the overturn of Proposition 8, today Protect Marriage head Andy Pugno sent out a plea for donations. Via email: For our team to perform at the highest level of excellence, we must be able to supply them with the resources needed to go up against the …

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Billie Ray Martin – Marilyn

House music legend Billie Ray Martin, whom you may know from her 1995 smash Your Loving Arms and Electribe 101’s big 1988 hit, Talking With Myself, is back in a new collaboration Italian bear/queen Hard Ton. The track is free to download for the next week.

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TODAY: SiriusXM At 2:30PM

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 are your top five gay news items of the last week?

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SF To Rule On Public Nudity Tomorrow

Tomorrow San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors will rule on a proposed ban on public nudity, which has long been legal on city streets provided that a person isn’t in a state of “obvious arousal.” Supervisor Scott Wiener’s proposal would make it illegal for a person over the age of 5 to “expose his or her genitals, perineum or anal region …

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Pink At The 2012 AMAs

Pink is well-known for her concert acrobatics, but last night’s dance routine at the American Music Awards has everybody buzzing. Some serious man candy there too. (Via Queerty)

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MISSOURI: “Ex-Gay” Leader Of Christian Group Suspected In Murder Of Wife

Tyler Deaton, the leader of a Kansas City youth prayer group whose members say has “overcome” his “struggle with being gay,” is suspected of ordering the murder of his wife, whose death was allegedly made to look like a suicide. Three days later, investigators say, 23-year-old Micah Moore would go to police and uncork the terrible secrets that allegedly occurred …

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Gay Marriage Is Like Extension Cords

Gay marriage doesn’t work because…extension cords! So says the Third Eagle of the Apocalypse and Co-Prophet of the End Times.

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