Monthly Archives: June 2013

Napolitano: Come Get Your Green Cards

“I applaud the Supreme Court decision in United States v. Windsor holding that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is unconstitutional. This discriminatory law denied thousands of legally married same-sex couples many important federal benefits, including immigration benefits. I am pleased the Court agreed with the Administration’s position that DOMA’s restrictions violate the Constitution. Working with our federal partners, including …

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Next Week’s New Yorker

UPDATE: Ho-hum. Right on cue.

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AUSTRAILIA: Prime Minister Endorses Marriage, Suggests National Referendum

During all the hoopla this week, I didn’t get to mention that Australia had a change in power. Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is back in charge after toppling Julia Gillard as leader of the Labor Party. One day after being re-sworn in and a month after writing a blog post announcing his reversal on marriage, yesterday Rudd used his …

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What Is Manif Pour Tous Planning For This Weekend’s Tour De France Race?

Earlier this month Manif Pour Tous announced a plan to disrupt the Tour De France, which begins tomorrow. Yesterday they posted the below “teaser” clip, which features them cheering on a solo biker wearing their logo. You figure it out. RELATED: Earlier this month anti-gay marriage protesters disrupted the French Open finals by running onto the court with ignited smoke …

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Edith Windsor For Christine Quinn

That was quick.

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Weiner Denounces Gay Blood Ban

One day after he lost Edith Windsor’s endorsement to Christine Quinn. Anthony Weiner worked to win back some gay votes by denouncing the FDA’s ban on blood donations. “Why does it still exist? Simple. Fear,” Weiner said outside a blood donation center on the upper East Side. The issue was one Weiner said he also tackled while in Congress when …

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Allen West Launches 2016 Straw Poll

In a typically transparent bid to harvest emails for future money begs, crackpot Allen West has launched a 2016 GOP presidential straw poll. Among the choices: Donald Trump, Sarah Palin, Jeb Bush, Rand Paul, Scott Walker, and Rick Santorum. Ever the modest fellow, West does not include his own name on the list. I have a morbid interest in seeing …

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NEW YORK CITY: PFLAG Founder Jeanne Manford Honored With Memorial Plaque

PFLAG founder Jeanne Manford passed away in January at the age of 92. On Sunday this happened in the West Village: The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), and The Church of the Village unveiled a bronze historic marker now permanently affixed to the facade of this landmark church memorializing the …

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Tea Party Head: We Can Use The DOMA Strategy To Overturn Obamacare

“The left has used a tactic called ‘Sue and settle’ where special interest groups sue the Federal Government and sometimes state government and the government quickly settles the case. Then the consent order from the settlement governs, regardless of what the Congress or the legislature wants to happen afterwards.Two can play this game. “In 2016, there will be another Presidential …

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Updated Marriage Map

Source.

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PENNSYLVANIA: Openly Gay State Rep. Brian Sims To Introduce Gay Marriage Bill

Openly gay Pennsylvania state Rep. Brian Sims today announced his plan to introduce a same-sex marriage bill. “About two hours ago, I shopped around a co-sponsorship memo for a marriage bill, and I’m going to introduce an LGBT marriage equality bill,” he says, adding the Supreme Court cases “helped light the fire under my colleagues to do it now.” The …

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Tony Perkins: It Might Takes Years Of Litigation Before Prop 8 Is Settled

This morning Yes On 8 seemed resigned to Prop 8’s demise. The Family Research Council, however, is clinging to the belief that its repeal will be tied up in the courts for years.

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Senate Passes Immigration Reform Bill

Before a gallery packed with reform supporters, this afternoon the Senate approved its immigration bill by a 68-32 vote. Fourteen Republicans voted for the bill. Before announcing the result, Biden warned against outbursts from the public gallery, but chants of “Yes we can” and “Si se puede” broke out after he read the tally. Biden called for the sergeant at …

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ITALY: Police Investigate Claims Of Catholic Priests Hiring Rentboys In Rome

Italian police are investigating claims that a former policeman visited the area around a bar named Twink (seriously) to recruit rentboys for Catholic priests assigned to churches across Rome. Don Patrizio Poggi, 46, told Italian authorities that a former Carabinieri pimped boys for nine clergymen. Poggi, who served a five-year sentence for abusing teenage boys while he was a parish …

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Liberty Counsel: SCOTUS Rulings Are The Things Revolutions Are Made Of

Liberty Counsel’s head hater Mat Staver is riling up the knuckle-draggers over at World Net Daily.

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Tweet Of The Day – Allen West

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Renew America: Prevent Gay Marriage By Seceding From The United States

“For us to follow the laws handed down by God, we have only one option and that is to secede from the union. Let’s correct that, we as Americans under the sovereignty of God, need to first lift up prayers to our Lord in heaven for direction. The big question is, what state or states would secede from the union? …

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At Last Night’s Celebration In NYC

Lovely video by All Out.

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Gary Bauer: Anti-Gay Activists Might Be Thrown In Jail Due To DOMA Ruling

“The ultimate goal of homosexual-rights activists is not to legalize same-sex marriage. Rather, it is to silence those who disagree with them and, if necessary, to throw them in jail. In a world in which the biblical viewpoint of marriage is demonized, it does not take a constitutional scholar to predict that soon those who hold that view will find …

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Facebook Adds Pride Status

Click on the emoticon at the bottom of your status box and enter “pride.”  A little thing, but a nice gesture.  Via GLAAD.

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