Monthly Archives: August 2013

ILLINOIS: Court Hears Motion To Dismiss Marriage Equality Lawsuit

Today in Illinois the Cook County Circuit Court heard oral arguments in the anti-gay Thomas More Society’s bid to dismiss the marriage equality lawsuit brought in May 2012 by Lambda Legal and the ACLU. Lambda Legal writes via press release: Today we urged the court to ensure that same-sex couples and their families get their day in court. We put …

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Matt Baume: Marriage News Watch

This week’s recap: Another huge week for equality, with marriages starting in Minnesota and Rhode Island. There’s a major new lawsuit in Virginia, and legal tussling in Pennsylvania, where the Governor and Attorney General are at at odds over the constitutionality of the state’s marriage ban. We’ll explain the dispute — plus updates from Michigan, Oklahoma, and Illinois.

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Editorial Of The Day

From the Washington Post editorial board: In the politically charged election year of 1996 — the same year the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) passed both houses of Congress with veto-proof margins — the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) reached the Senate floor and was defeated by a single vote. Reading the tea leaves then, it might have seemed that employment …

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RUSSIA: Paratroopers Attack Gay Rights Activist In St. Petersburg

Pink News reports: A lone gay rights activist, Krill Kalugin, was assaulted by a violent group of Russian paratroopers in the city that was the birth place of the country’s anti-gay legislation. Mr Kalugin was holding a rainbow banner in St Petersburg that read “This is propagating tolerance” when he was attacked. Although riot police intervened to arrest the paratroopers, …

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NEW YORK: ABC News Editor Blames Transgender Reversal On Amnesia

Right wing sites such as World Net Daily and the Washington Times are trumpeting the strange story of ABC News editor Don Ellis, who tells the New York Post today that he is no longer a transgender woman named Dawn.  Because it was amnesia that made him no longer believe he should be a woman. He thought he was a …

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Matt Barber’s Prayer For America

“Father God, Son and Holy Spirit, Maker of heaven and earth, You are the First Cause of these United States of America. You are the Author of all that is true, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent and praiseworthy. We confess that we have perverted Your design for human sexuality. We have taken sins that You deem ‘abominable’ and called …

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Bush II Has Heart Surgery

George W. Bush is reported in “high spirits” after undergoing heart surgery early this morning. During a physical examination Monday, doctors found a blockage in the artery of the former president’s heart, said Bush spokesman Freddy Ford. “At the recommendation of his doctors, President Bush agreed to have a stent placed to open the blockage,” Ford said. The procedure at …

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New Lady Gaga Single Leaks Online

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Petition Of The Day

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Carlos! Carlos Danger!

Yesterday Anthony Weiner marched in New York City’s annual Ecuador Day Parade where he exhorted the crowd to chant his sexting name. Serial sexter and mayor wannabe Anthony Weiner appeared to be embracing his embarrassing online pseudonym and encouraged crowds that chanted, “Carlos!” and “Carlos Danger!” while marching in the Ecuadorian pride parade yesterday. Sporting bright blue pants, a bullhorn …

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TRAILER: Jesus 2015

Yet another End Times flick, only in this one Jesus is apparently a burglar. A White Male Age 33 identified only as “Chris Doe” was arrested for 415,459 (Burglary in Progress) and taken into custody by L.A.P.D. on May,13th 2013 in Venice California. Chris Doe was booked and processed at The Pacific Station in Los Angeles, routine prints, DNA samples …

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ILLINOIS: Christian College Professor Pleads Guilty To Possessing Child Porn

Wheaton College professor Donald Ratcliff yesterday pleaded guilty to aggravated possession of child pornography. Ratcliff, who had been a professor of Christian education at the college since 2006, was arrested at his Carol Stream residence in March 2012 after police executed a search warrant. They found 500 illegal images on a computer they took from his home office, Assistant State’s …

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AUSTRALIA: Christian Group Claims Economic Oppression Because GAYS

Australia’s Christian Democratic Party has issued the above graphic. Gay Star News has the story: Far-right Australian political group the Christian Democratic Party has claimed that ‘mum and dad tax payers’ are oppressed in Australia because they earn less on average than same-sex couples according to census data – even though this means same-sex couples pay higher taxes than they …

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Cookie Monster – Me Want It

Sesame Street takes on this year’s most inescapable track. (Tipped by JMG reader Bill)

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PENNSYLVANIA: Mayor Of Small Town Performs First Allegheny County Marriage

Last night the mayor of a small Pennsylvania suburb of Pittsburgh married two men in the first such ceremony in Allegheny County. John Kandray and Bill Gray of Regent Square have been together for 11 years. They share a house, two dogs and what they say is a deep love for each other. “Showing our commitment to each other,” Gray …

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HomoQuotable – Frank Bruni

“Imagine this: it’s the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. A huge television event, watched the world over. The American Olympians join the proud march of nations. They’re our emissaries, our exemplars. And as the television cameras zoom in on Team U.S.A., one of its members quietly pulls out a rainbow flag, no bigger than a …

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Quote Of The Day – Spike Lee

“First of all, I’m not homophobic. Because I have a character say the word ‘faggot’ or ‘homo’ that does not mean that I’m homophobic. Martin Scorsese is not racist. The characters are people he grew up with, characters in the mean streets — that’s those people talking, not him. In that world, those are the things people say. When I …

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WISCONSIN: Gov. Scott Walker Says Gay Marriage Won’t Be Coming “Anytime Soon”

RELATED: In the past Walker has compared same-sex marriage to incest and pedophilia.  In 2011 he tried to end hospital visitation rights for gay couples.  But back March he acknowledged that the tide has turned among young conservatives. Walker’s comments prompted Bryan Fischer to denounce him as “crossed off” the list of prospective 2016 presidential candidates.

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NYC Straight Bars Dump Russian Vodka

As I mentioned yesterday, a 200-member NYC restaurant and nightclub group has joined the boycott of Russian vodka.  Here’s more on their protest in Manhattan. Holding up a bottle of the popular Russian brand Stolichnaya, the United Restaurant and Tavern Owners Association President Paul Hurley shook his head and called for a city-wide boycott of Russian spirits and liquor. “All …

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IOC: We’re Using Quiet Diplomacy

International Olympic Committee vice president Ng Ser Miang yesterday told the press that the IOC is using “quiet diplomacy” with Russia to ensure that attendees of the Sochi Olympics are not affected by the “homosexual propaganda” ban. Ng, an IOC vice president from Singapore, said Vladimir Putin’s government has much at stake in the 2014 Olympics and won’t want to …

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