Monthly Archives: May 2013

Archbishop Timothy Dolan Issues Call For Anti-Gay Action In Advance Of SCOTUS Rulings On Prop 8 And DOMA

In his role as the head of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Archbishop Timothy Dolan has issued a directive for all parishes to insert the above message into Sunday bulletins.  David Badash writes at New Civil Rights Movement: As of Friday night, New York City has been home to nine anti-LGBT violent hate crimes this month, and 27 …

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Minister Sentenced To 14 Years For Fake Cancer Cure She Hawked On Christian TV

Dr. Christine Daniel, who is also a Pentecostal minister, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison and ordered to pay $1.2M to the families of people who died after using the fake cancer cure she had hawked on the prosperity gospel channel, the Trinity Broadcasting Network. The scope of Daniel’s fraud was breathtaking. Daniel robbed victims of more than …

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IL House Rep Joins Marriage Backers

We can add at least one more Illinois House rep to the list of “yes” votes on marriage equality. It didn’t come quickly, the decision to support the Religious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act, but on Memorial Day when State Rep. LaShawn Ford said he would vote this week in favor of gay marriage in Illinois, the choice seemed clear …

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Frank Rich On LGBT History

“As we just learned, a man can still be murdered for being gay a few blocks away from the Stonewall Inn. But the rapidity of change has been stunning. The world only spins forward, as Tony Kushner wrote. And yet as we celebrate the forward velocity of gay rights, I think we must glance backward as well. History is being …

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The Biology Of Twerking

ASAP Science examines how dancing ability improves your chances of getting some.

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FRC Cheers Manif Pour Tous

Forget about all those associations with the violent French Spring, the neo-Nazi National Front, and the Catholic theocrats of the Civitas Institute.  Never mind the riots, the gay bashings, the thousands of arrests or the injured policemen.  Because the Family Research Council wants you to know that Manif Pour Tous is doing God’s work. We can take inspiration from those …

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Their Prices Are Next To Nothing

In a bit of gallows humor, a bike shop on the Upper East Side glumly notes that the storefronts on either side have been vacated due to the construction of the Second Avenue subway. Dozens of businesses have closed around here since the giant muck houses went up three years ago and blocked the shops from the view of passersby.

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Matt Baume: Marriage News Watch

Clip recap: All eyes are on Illinois, with less than a week left to pass its marriage equality bill. Meanwhile, public support grows in Tennessee and an equality bill passes the legislature in Nevada, but major obstacles remain in both states. And we’re just one month away from the deadline for a Prop 8 decision. Depending on the ruling, marriage …

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European Court Rules Against Refusing Service To Gays On Religious Grounds

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that it is legal to discipline employees for refusing to provide services to same-sex couples on the basis of religious objections. The ruling came in the cases of three British Christians who had refused to perform relationship counseling or conduct civil partnership ceremonies. Tuesday’s decision was welcomed by the National Secular Society. …

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Sylvester’s Greatest Hits Re-Release To Benefit San Francisco AIDS Charities

As some of you doubtlessly know, Sylvester willed the future royalties from his catalog to San Francisco’s AIDS Emergency Fund and Project Open Hand.  And just in time for gay pride, next month Fantasy Records will re-issue his greatest package on multiple formats. From the press release: Twenty-five years after his untimely death, the iconic legacy of Sylvester, the “Queen …

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Teapot Hitler

Via Mediaite: JCPenney’s new billboard advertising a designer tea kettle has many California motorists seeing Nazis. How? Because, to many, the Michael Graves-designed kettle looks like Adolf Hitler with right hand extended outward in the infamous Nazi salute. The eerie tea kettle doppelgänger first made waves on Reddit this weekend, when a user posted an image of the billboard from …

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Politico: Hillary To Launch Twitter Account

In a lengthy piece about prospective staffers for Hillary Clinton’s presumed presidential run, Politico claims that she will soon begin using a personal Twitter account which is presently locked and contains no posts. She is likely to soon start posting to the soon-to-be-activated @hillaryclinton on Twitter, signaling her first personal foray into the medium outside her official State Department account, …

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Gay Boy Scouts Will Bring Polygamy

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Bars Per Capita By State

North Dakota is the “booziest” state according to an analysis of 2010 census data. New Hampshire ranks last and New York ranks 19th. An interactive map at the bottom of this article also includes a ranking of liquor stores per capita.

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New York City Has A Baby Bump

Nine months after Hurricane Sandy put the lights out for a week or more in much of the city, Gotham’s delivery rooms will see a surge in babies. “There’s definitely an uptick,” said Dr. Jacques Moritz, director of the division of gynecology at St Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center. “This is just old basic physiology. There’s no Internet and no cable. What …

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Kylie Minogue – Skirt

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Colorado House Speaker Mark Ferrandino And Partner Joined In Civil Union

Colorado House Speaker Mark Ferrandino and his partner were joined in a civil union ceremony at the state capitol on Saturday. Via Advocate: Ferrandino and Wertsch had a wedding ceremony with friends and family in 2006, so the Speaker wasn’t expecting Saturday’s ceremony to be especially momentous. “I didn’t think it would be,” says Ferrandino. “But yesterday, as we signed …

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Church Sign Of The Day

I thought we DID have a place to go. Confusing! Source.

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Satan Founded The Boy Scouts

“Many pundits are weighing in on the decision by the Boy Scouts of America to allow open homosexuality into the organization. I, for one, am not surprised. It is not generally known, but the youth hiking and camping movement we know today in America as the Boy Scouts, has its roots in pederasty. Pederasty, also known as Man/Boy Sex, is …

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Alon Levy – If A Child Is Born

Clip description via Google Translate: “Join our stand against Israeli discrimination and for equal right of same-sex couples to marry, adopt children, or use the services of surrogacy in Israel.” (Tipped by JMG reader Eric)

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