Monthly Archives: February 2013

AUSTRALIA: Federal Court Rejects Challenge To Same-Sex Marriage Ban

An Australian federal court has rejected a challenge to the ban on same-sex marriage, saying that since both men and women are not allowed to marry each other, the ban does not constitute gender discrimination. “A man cannot enter into the state of marriage as defined with another man just as a woman cannot enter into the state of marriage …

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Philly Archbishop To Bus Parishioners To NOM Hate March On SCOTUS

Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput has issued the above letter in support of NOM’s hate march on SCOTUS and tells Catholic Vote that he’ll be organizing buses from all five of his districts. RELATED: In 2011 the Archdiocese of Philadelphia announced that it was investigating 37 active priests on suspicion of child molestation.  In June of 2012, high-ranking Philadelphia Archdiocese official …

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ECUADOR: President Apologizes On National TV For Homophobic Remarks

Hours after Ecuador President Rafael Correa won a third term on Sunday, he used a portion of his nationally televised victory speech to apologize for anti-gay remarks he’d made several months earlier. Andres Duque has a translation on Blabbeando: A few months ago I used a number of inappropriate words that were offensive to LGBT groups and for which I …

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Brian Brown: HRC Stole My Logo!

“Because I designed NOM’s logo personally, I find this to be an insulting mockery, as well as very ironic: you see, I created this image to reflect the difference between men and women symbolically. The red ring represents men and the blue represents, women. The intertwining of the rings is meant to show that marriage is the unique union of …

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Perkins: Join Our Hate March With NOM

“Pro-family groups like FRC, churches, state activists, and cultural leaders are all converging on Washington to show the world that we care about protecting marriage and want to stand up and fight for it. The event kicks off Tuesday morning, March 26, as nine Supreme Court justices hear oral arguments on two cases that could change the course of history–and …

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Gallup’s LGBT Survey: Colorized

Somebody over at Buzzfeed colorized Gallup’s survey.

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AFER Explains SCOTUS Brief

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Pat Robertson Denies Climate Change

Those “nutty” scientists!

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Tweet Of The Day: Fake AP Stylebook

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NEW JERSEY: Legislators Plan Attempt To Override Christie’s Marriage Veto

One year ago last week New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie vetoed a marriage equality bill one day after it had passed in the Assembly and landed on his desk. Yesterday Democratic leaders in both state chambers announced a plan to attempt to override that veto before the end of the current legislative session. Assemblyman Reed Gusciora, an openly gay lawmaker …

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Gambling On The Next Pope

Above are the current odds on Intrade. Tim Dolan is way down the list at 2.1%.

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Alison Moyet – Changeling

From her coming album, The Minutes, which is due in May. (Tipped by JMG reader Billy)

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Tweet Of The Day – Donald Trump

Minutes after the above tweet went out, Trump tweeted that he had been “seriously hacked” and is “looking for the perpetrators.” Mediaite is suspicious. If a group like the one that recently turned Burger King’s Twitter feed into a McDonald’s ad and turned Jeep’s into one for Cadillac actually did hack Trump’s account, it seems like they would have done …

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NM House Committee Kills Marriage Bill

By a vote of 7-4, today a Democratic-majority New Mexico House subcommittee killed a bill that would have placed marriage equality to a public vote.  Two Democrats (Mary Helen Garcia and Debbie Rodella) voted against the bill, otherwise it would have passed 6-5. Glen Strock, pastor of Pecos Valley Cowboy Church, was among several people who argued against the amendment …

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First Lady Teams Up With Romney Foe

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FRC To Cosponsor NOM’s Hate March

Good As You tips us that the FRC has signed on to cosponsor NOM’s hate march on the Supreme Court next month.

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Porno Pete Has The Sadz

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700 Club: Satan Loves Gay Marriage

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AP Issues Style Guide On Husband/Wife

For the last week the LGBT blogosphere has been battling the Associated Press over a direction to  their reporters that they should not automatically refer to people in legal same-sex marriages as “husband” or “wife.”  I left the story alone because I figured the AP would immediately correct such as obviously wrong position. Today they finally did. Here’s the new …

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Ben Ivory – The Righteous Ones

In the comments of the Eurovision post from earlier today, reader Nobbi tips us that the second place finisher in Germany’s contest was this rousing anthem to queer liberation.  Wow! You can close your eyes if you want to Lock your doors and hide if we haunt you Get your guns tonight if we scare you But we ain’t goin’ …

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