Monthly Archives: January 2013

Matt Baume: Marriage News Watch

Clip description: “Major milestones this week, with a vote in Rhode Island and hearings in Colorado. A setback in Virginia, but polling shows the state may soon turn around. Plus, support from an unexpected source in an unexpected state.”

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BREAKING: Mass Shooting At Texas Lone Star College, Campus On Lockdown

It’s not yet known if there are fatalities. Story developing… UPDATE: Early news reports misidentified the location of the campus, which is actually in North Harris, not Conroe, Texas.

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RUSSIA: Activists Hold Kiss-In Protest

And are roughed up by passers-by. (Tipped by JMG reader Darius)

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Quote Of The Day – Michael Brown

“First, gay activists came out of the closet; Second, they demanded their ‘rights’; Third, they demanded that everyone recognize those ‘rights’; Fourth, they want to strip away the rights of those who oppose them; Fifth, they want to put those who oppose their ‘rights’ into the closet. I have often been ridiculed for laying out this progression, but it is …

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Illinois Bishop On His Handcuffed & Gagged Priest: It Was Non-Sexual Self-Bondage Because He Was Alone

Remember the priest who called 911 for help getting out of his handcuffs and mouth gag?  Today that priest’s boss, Diocese of Springfield Bishop Thomas Paprocki (left), is telling the press that that there was “no sexual component” to the incident because the priest had been alone at the time. Uh-huh. According to Paprocki, “self-bondage” was merely the priest’s way …

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Is Uncle Poodle Lying About Sending His HIV+ Former Boyfriend To Prison?

Last week the gay blogosphere erupted into divisive discussions upon the news that Here Comes Honey Boo Boo cast member Lee Thompson (who is known on the show as Uncle Poodle) is claiming that he had his former boyfriend charged with HIV transmission and sent to prison for five years after learning that he himself is HIV-positive in May of …

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FRC’s Peter Sprigg Appears On CNN To Denounce Inauguration Speech

Why does CNN continue to host the man who publicly called for the imprisonment of LGBT Americans?  Via Mediaite: Sprigg didn’t agree with the president linking the gay rights movement with civil rights for African Americans and women’s rights. “The irony is,” he contended, “homosexuals already have all the same civil rights as anyone else. But that fact that all …

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Email Of The Day: Eugene Delgaudio

“Dear Joe, When Congress recently passed the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), President Obama had a choice between right and wrong. And he chose to throw the Constitution out the window and continue in his support of the Homosexual Agenda by stating he would not enforce Section 533 of the NDAA. He could have chosen — as we at …

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The Dangers Of Catnip

My own cat appears to be immune to catnip. (Via JMG reader JS)

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BROOKLYN: Hasidic Leader Heads To Israel To “Disrupt National Elections”

On Sunday night thousands of members of Brooklyn’s Hasidic community lined the streets to see off their leader as he headed to Israel. Failed Messiah reports: Last night, the Williamsburg Satmar Rebbe Zalman Leib Teitelbaum left on a trip to Israel, his first since becoming rebbe several years ago. Teitelbaum’s stated aim for the trip – besides attending a granddaughter’s …

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Matt Barber: I’m Laughing At You

“I laugh at them; liberals, that is. I make fun of their dull-witted, self-defeating, abjectly wicked worldview. I follow God’s example. Of those who align themselves against His laws and His nature, Psalm 2:4 says, ‘He who sits in the heavens laughs. The Lord scoffs at them.’ How can you not scoff at the silly twaddle they’re hocking? Ultimately, I’ve …

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Petition Of The Day

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BBC Reports On British Marriage Battle

The below clip was posted today by the C4M, which is Britain’s version of NOM.

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SF Gay Bar Gains Landmark Status

San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors last week voted unanimously to grant landmark status to the Twin Peaks bar in the Castro. Here’s a reminder of why Twin Peaks is so historic: In 1972, when Mary Ellen Cunha and Peggy Forster threw open the doors and uncovered the windows at Twin Peaks Tavern on the corner of Castro and Market streets, …

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HomoQuotable – Frank Bruni

“Seneca Falls, Selma, Stonewall. The alliteration of that litany made it seem obvious and inevitable, a bit of poetry just there for the taking. Just waiting to happen. But it has waited a long time. And President Obama’s use of it in his speech on Monday — his grouping of those three places and moments in one grand and musical …

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Winter, Finally

We’re finally getting some real winter weather in NYC, with single-digit wind chills predicted for much of the week and the possibility of actual snow.  By this date in 2011, we’d had about 55 inches of snow. So far in the 2012-13 season: 5.1 inches.

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RHODE ISLAND: House Committee Considers Same-Sex Marriage Bill Today

Marriage action today in Rhode Island: Legislation to allow gay and lesbian couples to marry in Rhode Island is headed to its first test in the General Assembly. The House Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote on the bill Tuesday. The legislation is expected to pass. The full House of Representatives could take up the bill later in the week …

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Lesbian & Gay Band Association Performs In Second Inauguration Parade

JMG reader Damien writes: I had the honor to play in the LGBA (Lesbian Gay Band Association) Band in the Inaugural Parade tonight. It was an amazing experience and I felt proud to help represent my brothers and sisters. We had 215 members from 26 different states, and as many local gay community bands. In 2009 we were the first …

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SPOILER: Downton Abbey

Stay out of the comments if you’ve not yet seen Sunday’s episode. Otherwise dive in and dish.

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Jennifer Hudson Serenades The Obamas

Slight quibble: It bugged me all day that announcers kept referring to the “inaug-a-rayshun.” I heard it from Anderson Cooper and here, from Ed Shultz.

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