Monthly Archives: January 2013

BENGHAZI HEARING: Secretary Clinton Fires Back At GOP Sen. Ron Johnson

Madame Secretary got fired up at the end!

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COLORADO: Senate Judiciary Committee Hears Civil Unions Bill Today

A reminder from the Colorado Springs Gazette: If a proposed bill to create civil unions is approved by the Legislature, Colorado will be one of four states that extend some marital rights to gay and lesbian couples while also explicitly barring those same couples from marriage. Charles Irwin, executive director of Colorado Springs Pride, said he is pleased with the …

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KENTUCKY: Gay Minister And Partner Arrested After Marriage License Sit-In

Yesterday an openly gay Kentucky pastor and his partner were arrested for refusing to leave a Louisville city clerk’s office after being denied a marriage license. The two started by peacefully demonstrating outside of Metro Hall with a small group of people in the afternoon. Blanchard, who is a minister at Highland Baptist Church, then walked into the County Clerk’s …

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Two Minutes Of British Hate #2

This is the second clip from Britain’s version of Minnesota’s Kalley Yanta.

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Cremation Rates Rise

According to NBC News, cremation is the “hottest trend” in the funeral industry. Every year in America, 2.5 million people die. In 2011, the last year for which numbers are available, 42 percent were cremated, according to the funeral directors association. That’s double the rate of just 15 years ago. In some states, largely in the West, the cremation rate …

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AFA Headline Of The Day

The American Family Association is today cheering Russia’s plan to criminalize “homosexual propaganda” and public displays of affection between people of the same gender. As an evangelist who works in Russia,Tim Todd tells OneNewsNow that is quite a contrast to America, which has the most pro-homosexual president in the country’s history. Todd, who heads Revival Fires International and has worked …

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Hat, Gloves, Scarf, Thermals

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LIVE: Clinton Testifies On Benghazi

UPDATE: The Senate hearing has concluded and Clinton will testify before the House later today.

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A Strange Way To Mark Roe

To mark the 40th anniversary of Roe V Wade, the Center for Reproductive Rights enlisted Necessary Roughness star Mechad Brooks for an odd video clip that has outraged the religious right. When I watched this last night, all I could think was “Where is this going?”

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Obama: The Second Coming

From the Liberty News Network, the clip below is making the rounds this week on many wingnut sites.

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House GOP Files DOMA Brief

Yesterday lawyers for the House GOP filed a brief in support of their defense of DOMA. An excerpt via Buzzfeed reporter Chris Geidner: There is a unique relationship between marriage and procreation that stems from marriage’s origins as a means to address the tendency of opposite-sex relationships to produce unintended and unplanned offspring. There is nothing irrational about declining to …

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Petition Of The Day

From Equality California: When the President acknowledges your love during his inaugural address, when he makes your equality a benchmark of America’s promise, when he draws commonality from our struggle for dignity and justice to Seneca Falls and Selma, it is impossible not to surge with gratitude and wonder at the progress we have made within the span of a …

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Mat Staver: Obama Is Immoral

“What we have is the President who is not the President of the United States, he is president of the divided states and he relishes in dividing the states among each other. He has this famous speech that he gave during a Democratic convention several years ago when he was a state senator and he talks about ‘there’s not red …

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The Inaugural Leopard

Wait, Obama isn’t the Anti-Christ?

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BROOKLYN: Hasidic Leader Sentenced To 103 Years For Child Molestation

A Brooklyn judge today meted out a harsh sentence against the Hasidic leader who was convicted last month on 59 felony counts of child molestation. Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice John Ingram handed Nechemya Weberman a 103-year-sentence without the prospect of parole. “The abuse of a child cannot be swept under the rug or dealt with by insular groups believing only …

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Prop 8 Backers File First SCOTUS Brief

Today the legal team representing Protect Marriage, the backers of Proposition 8, filed their first brief at the Supreme Court. Chris Geidner has the story at Buzzfeed: Arguing that the case brought by same-sex couples seeking to marry was unlike past gay rights cases where the court struck down anti-gay restrictions and also unlike Loving v. Virginia, in which the …

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ISRAEL: Exit Polls Point To Narrow Re-Election For PM Netanyahu

According to exit polls taken during today’s national election, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has won a third term by a very narrow margin. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu emerged the bruised winner of Israel’s election on Tuesday, with his hawkish bloc unexpectedly losing ground to resurgent center-left challengers, exit polls showed. They suggested the Israeli leader’s Likud party, yoked with …

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GOP Rep. James Lankford Blames Gun Violence On Greedy “Welfare Moms”

(Via Think Progress)

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RHODE ISLAND: House Committee Unanimously Passes Marriage Bill

UPDATE: Rhode Islanders United reacts via press release. This is the first time a General Assembly committee has voted to send a marriage equality bill to the floor. In 2001, then State Representative David Cicilline moved passage in the House Judiciary Committee on a marriage equality bill sponsored by Representative Michael Pisaturo. He was the only affirmative vote, and the …

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BRITAIN: “Muslim Street Patrol” Harasses London Man For Looking Like A “Fag”

Pink News reports: Video has surfaced of a group shouting homophobic abuse at a man in East London – with the group calling itself a “Muslim Patrol”. The clip, first reported by The Commentator, is prefaced by a logo announcing “Islam will dominate the world”, features the sound of gun fire as its introduction, and uses an anti-gay image. One …

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