Booth #18 at the Values Voter Summit.

Mediaite‘s Andrew Kirell writes: The banner was referring to the event’s host: The Family Research Council. Headed up by frequent cable pundit Tony Perkins, FRC is literally anti-gay and anti-abortion. So the banner is certainly not inaccurate. FRC is quite outspoken about its opposition to homosexual acts, and makes plenty of cable news appearances to decry the oncoming wave of …

My post on this story is here.

And it’s not the first time this has happened to him. Via the Surrey Now: Kerry Tyler Street, 25, of Fleetwood, skateboarded a little too close to a gay-hating thug in Guildford on Wednesday afternoon and ended up lying in a pool of his own blood. The attack happened in the 14600-block of 104th Avenue, shortly after 3 p.m. As …

Fly, monkeys! Fly! (Tipped by JMG reader Birdie)

The National Journal reports: Ted Cruz was interrupted by hecklers at least half-a-dozen times during his Values Voter Summit speech. But if that was intended to get the Texas firebrand down, it surely did not succeed. “I’m actually glad the president’s whole political staff is here instead of doing mischief in the country,” he said a couple outbursts in. “How …

Enjoy. (Tipped by JMG reader Win)

“Wanting a white Republican president doesn’t make you racist, it just makes you American. In the pre-black president era, criticizing the president was simply the American thing to do. An exercise of one’s First Amendment right. Criticism had nothing to do with color, because there had never been a black president, or at least one whom people recognized as black. …

Earlier this week some news outlets called the plan a hoax, but it appears that the so-called Ride For The Constitution is underway this morning on the DC beltway. The Truckers Ride for the Constitution planned to start at 9 a.m. Friday, with truckers driving the 64-mile Capital beltway in eight hour shifts until Sunday afternoon. By about 8:45 a.m., …

Is there anybody left for you to come out to?

Federal prosecutors have charged two New York City area Ultra-Orthodox rabbis with using cattle prods to force Jewish husbands to agree to divorce their wives.  Rabbi Mendel Epstein, 68, of Brooklyn and Rabbi Martin Wolmark, 55, of Monsey, Rockland County, were among 10 people arrested in the barbarous scheme with tentacles that ran all the way to the rabbinical court. …

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The New York Times reports on last night’s protest: The furor in the West over Russia’s new law placing restrictions on the discussion of homosexuality continues to dog the conductor Valery Gergiev, who is one of Russia’s most important cultural exports these days. Mr. Gergiev, a prominent supporter of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, who signed the law, drew …

Lovely photo of Lonegan.

The New York Times reports: Video recorded this week during the arrest of gay rights activists in Moscow shows what Russia’s legal ban on “propaganda for nontraditional sexual relationships” looks like in practice. The raw footage, accompanying a report from the independent Russian news site Grani, shows police officers arresting activists as they marched through the Russian capital’s Arbat district …

A Catholic bishop in Germany is facing demands to resign after it was revealed that his under-construction private residence will cost $37M. Via Reuters: Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, bishop of Limburg, was investigated by a Vatican envoy last month after protests in his diocese against lavish spending at odds with Pope Francis’s shift of the Church’s focus towards simplicity and poverty. …

Tragedy upon tragedy. KATU-TV reports: Joe Bell had a message for gay teens suffering from bullying who might be contemplating suicide: “It’ll get better.” He was spreading that message during a walk across the country – from Oregon to New York City. Joe was walking in honor of his son Jadin. The 15-year-old boy was gay and suffered from bullying. …

Breaking from the Associated Press: A New Jersey judge has denied a request from Gov. Chris Christie’s administration to delay the start of gay marriage in the state until after a legal appeal is final. The ruling Thursday from Judge Mary Jacobson moves the state a step closer to start recognizing same-sex nuptials on Oct. 21. That’s the day Jacobson …

“You go to the end of the Constitution, what do you find? It’s dated from when? It’s dated from the first Christmas! From the birth of Jesus Christ, ‘the year of our Lord.’ So we dated our Constitution, we dated the Declaration of Independence. We dated them from the very first Christmas! In other words, Christmas is IN the Constitution. …