Monthly Archives: December 2012

BROOKLYN: Hassidic Leader Found Guilty On 59 Counts Of Child Molestation

Brooklyn Hassidic leader Nechemya Weberman, who reportedly sits on his highly secretive sect’s committee to impose “modesty” up on its young women, has been convicted on 59 felony counts of sexually abusing a teenage girl. “The veil of secrecy has been lifted,” said Charles J. Hynes, the Brooklyn district attorney. “The wall that has existed in parts of these communities …

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Log Cabin Head Vs Chris Matthews

Last night MSNBC host Chris Matthews called out Log Cabin head R. Clarke Cooper for supporting a party that opposes LGBT rights. Cooper wasn’t having it and points out that his group fought to have anti-gay language removed from the 2012 platform during the Republican Convention. That attempt actually made the platform worse, according to one Log Cabin member.

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Quote Of The Day – Cyndi Lauper

“In most cities across the country, resources to help LGBT youth are already scarce, and every night, thousands of young people are left to sleep on the street and find their own way through the dark. Cuts in federal funding for the programs that already stretch every dollar to help these kids would make this bad situation even worse. To …

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LGBT Groups Ask Obama To Hold Gay Deportations Until SCOTUS Ruling

A coalition of more than 50 LGBT and progressive groups has sent a letter to President Obama asking that he order a hold on the deportations of all gay-married foreign nationals until the Supreme Court issues its ruling on DOMA. The groups urged the president to “hold in abeyance” cases currently under consideration by federal immigration authorities of United States …

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Cambodian PM Reverses On Anti-Gay Bias

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, who five years ago publicly disowned his daughter when she married a woman, has issued a denouncement of anti-gay discrimination. Gay rights is not a major issue in Cambodia, and Hun Sen seemed to have been inspired by discussions of the subject on International Human Rights Day on Monday, including on local television. Cambodian society, …

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Eugene Delgaudio: I’ll Save DOMA

“The ‘Gay Marriage’-at-all-cost lobby is pushing more misinformation every day falsely stating that Americans are turning toward so-called “gay marriage.” If this were true, then the overwhelming majority of states would not have laws and amendments supporting marriage as between only one man and woman. A few small margins in stolen elections do not make majority rule across the board. …

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Battling Leukemia With HIV

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania say they are encouraged by the early results in an experimental leukemia treatment that uses a “disabled form of HIV.” To perform the treatment, doctors remove millions of the patient’s T-cells — a type of white blood cell — and insert new genes that enable the T-cells to kill cancer cells. The technique employs …

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The Presets – Promises

You should check out their latest album, Pacifica.

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Beyonce Inks $50M Pepsi Deal

Beyonce has signed a $50M deal to make her the global face of Pepsi. There are few details – but the Pepsi website says the pairing will form what the soda-maker calls “one of the most innovative global partnerships ever seen – or heard.” The deal with Beyonce is the latest in Pepsi’s “Live For Now” campaign that already features …

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MICHIGAN: Teabaggers Battle Unions Over Pending Right To Work Law

The Michigan legislature is expected to vote today to make that state the 24th to endorse a so-called “right to work” law which will make it illegal to require union membership as a condition of employment.  Yesterday President Obama denounced the bill. The House session has started and the Capitol has been closed because it has reached capacity. Insp. Gene …

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GOP Silent On SCOTUS Decisions

Politico today notes that thus far the leadership of the Republican Party has not uttered a peep about Friday’s Supreme Court decisions.  Hate groups, naturally, are disappointed. House Republican leaders had a uniform response to the Supreme Court’s decision to take up gay marriage: silence. The high court’s decision last week to hear two cases relating to same-sex marriage puts …

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One Million Moms Don’t Like Urban Outfitters’ Fucking Xmas Catalog

One Million Moms is once again attacking Urban Outfitters because its holiday catalog includes items that have naughty words on them. Among those products is a “Merry Christmas, Bitches” coffee mug and a “Let’s Fucking Reminisce” scrapbook. “This really isn’t anything new for them,” said Monica Cole, director of the American Family Association’s One Million Moms division. “Their catalog has …

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VIDEO: Same-Sex Weddings Performed During Seattle Chorus Concert

Clip description via JMG reader Sean Chapin: “December 9, 2012 was the first day same-sex couples could legally wed in the state of Washington. During the holiday concert on December 9 for Seattle Men’s Chorus (SMC), two couples were married on stage. Neil Hoyt (member of SMC) and his partner of 24 years, Donald Jenny, were married first. Then Jane …

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Russian Orthodox Church Backs French Catholics In Marriage Battle

The Russian Orthodox Church has issued a letter vowing its solidarity with French Catholics in their battle against the same-sex marriage bill promised by President Francois Hollande. In a letter, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the Moscow Patriarchate’s external relations director, praised Cardinal André Vingt-Trois, president of France’s bishops’ conference, for his “consistent and uncompromising” opposition to same-sex marriage which represented …

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Phyllis Schlafly: End Early Voting

“When President Obama cast his ballot more than a week before Election Day, he did something no other President had ever done: he voted early. He did it to encourage many of his supporters to vote early also, which they did. Nearly half of Americans voted before Election Day this year. That was a record. This changed the way presidential …

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Justice Antonin Scalia Compares Gay Sex To Bestiality And Murder (AGAIN)

Yesterday Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia repeated one of his most famously foul comparisons. Speaking at Princeton University, Scalia was asked by a gay student why he equates laws banning sodomy with those barring bestiality and murder. “I don’t think it’s necessary, but I think it’s effective,” Scalia said, adding that legislative bodies can ban what they believe to be …

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BRITAIN: Same-Sex Marriage Bill Set To Be Introduced Next Year

Pink News has the latest word: Same-sex couples in England and Wales are set to be allowed to marry, under plans announced today by Culture Secretary Maria Miller in the House of Commons. Following a government consultation, legislation allowing same-sex marriages will be brought forward next year. Although the Catholic Church and Church of England is opposed to equal marriage, …

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NEW JERSEY: Openly Gay Pol Introduces Same-Sex Marriage Ballot Measure

Yesterday openly gay New Jersey Assemblyman Reed Gusciora introduced a bill to place marriage equality before the voters. Gusciora said he has been opposed to putting a civil rights question like marriage equality up to a popular vote. But the Assemblyman — New Jersey’s first openly gay legislator — said his constituents asked him to change his mind in light …

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Donna Summer To Be Inducted Into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame

Word accidentally leaked out today that Donna Summer will be announced tomorrow as one of the 2013 inductees into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Summer died of lung cancer earlier this year at the age of 63. Via Contact Music: Due to an administrative error, the I Feel Love singer’s induction notice has been released hours before Hall …

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Maggie Gallagher: We’ll Lose On DOMA

“To strike down Prop 8 on ‘narrow grounds’ proposed by the 9th Circuit is so intellectually dishonest that if that is what the Court wished to do I think they would have refused to hear the case. I think Kennedy will overturn DOMA (perhaps joined by Roberts) and then uphold the right of states to refuse to accept gay marriage …

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