Monthly Archives: December 2013

HomoQuotable – Andrew Sullivan

“It has been fascinating lately to watch Fox News go after the Pope for reiterating long-standing Catholic and Christian doctrine about the false god of materialism. By echoing Jesus’ insistence that you cannot know the kingdom of Heaven if you are bound up in wealth and possessions, the Pope drew charges of Marxism (which is anathema to Christians for the …

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Andy Cohen For GLSEN

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Beyonce – Drunk In Love

CNN reports: Beyoncé has delivered the ultimate holiday surprise. Just after midnight on the east coast, the singer suddenly dropped a brand new 14-track self-titled album on iTunes. That’s right — without any pre-promotion. As if this bombshell — which, in her Instagram announcement, she described as a “visual album” — needed anything else, each song also comes with a …

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Obamacare: Sign Up Cuz It’s Hot

A new video that encourages Obamacare enrollment has the wingnuts howling. Via Talking Points Memo: The video, done by a President Obama impersonator, parodies Snoop Dogg’s hit “Drop It Like It’s Hot.” “And if you need that new healthcare, sign up cause it’s hot,” the performer sings in the video. An innocuous parody? Hardly. Rove, the former right-hand man to …

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Fox News Anchor Megyn Kelly To Explain “White Santa/White Jesus” Remarks

Mediaite reports: Friday evening on The Kelly File, Fox’s Megyn Kelly will address the controversy surrounding her Wednesday evening segment in which she declared that it is a “verifiable fact” that Santa Claus is white. The segment set off all kinds of reactions, from outrage to mockery to eye-rolls to scholarly analysis. Several media outlets noted how Kelly was absent …

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The Advocate Names Russian President Vladimir Putin “Phobie Of The Year”

The Advocate today announced its Phobie Awards, with Russian President Vladimir Putin topping their list of the thirteen most homophobic people in the world. The rest of the list features evildoers well known to JMG readers: Orson Scott Card, Scott Lively, Pat Robertson, E.W. Jackson, Marco Rubio, Frigide Barjot, Ken Cuccinelli, Robert Mugabe, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Rep. Louie Gohmert, and …

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Headline Of The Day

A report filed by TMZ has again fired up speculation that reality star and Olympic gold medalist Bruce Jenner is beginning gender reassignment. Jenner says, “I just never liked my trachea.”

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God Created The Weekend

And therefore non-Christians should work seven days a week.

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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel Declares Victory On National Guard Issue

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel today declared that National Guard units in all states are now in compliance with his directive that same-sex spouses be allowed to register for military benefits. Here is his full statement. On October 31, I called on the Chief of the National Guard Bureau to work with several states to fully implement DoD policy by …

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American Family Association: Government Is Causing More Cases Of AIDS

“It’s ridiculous that our tax dollars are in essence being used to promote the lifestyle of creating the HIV/AIDS crises in this country. And $100 million is a drop in the bucket when the federal government’s talking, but again, it’s our tax dollars that are being used. The government is not doing its part in stopping this epidemic simply because …

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Trump Continues Birther Crusade

President Obama truly has some amazing assassins on the payroll, what with their ability to make sure that only the right person dies in a plane crash.

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Politifact’s Lie Of the Year: If You Like Your Health Insurance, You Can Keep It

Politifact has named its Lie Of The Year for 2013. It was a catchy political pitch and a chance to calm nerves about his dramatic and complicated plan to bring historic change to America’s health insurance system. “If you like your health care plan, you can keep it,” President Barack Obama said — many times — of his landmark new …

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Gay Man & Evangelical Walk Into A Bar

From the Christian Broadcasting Network: “The Journey Church recently rented a nightclub in St. Louis for an evening of calm discussion over the red-hot topic: Marriage. They billed the event: ‘A Gay Man and An Evangelical Walk Into a Bar.'”

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NEW YORK: ACT UP Crashes Ceremony Honoring Home Of Closet Case Ed Koch

Members of ACT UP yesterday crashed the ceremony to announce that the home of late New York City mayor and closet case Ed Koch is being named a historical landmark. That apartment building, NOT incidentally, is also the home of Larry Kramer.

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Brian Brown: Bakers Are Artists And Deserve The Freedom To Discriminate

“I challenge any same-sex marriage activist to take to their blog or to pen an op-ed doubling down on the opinion that what cake decorators and bakers do isn’t a form of artistry and doesn’t deserve protections as a form of expression! And I’d be willing to bet if this case had involved a portrait painter, or a photographer, or …

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Morning View

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SUNDAY: Global Protests Planned In Support Of Indian LGBT Community

On Sunday there will be protests of the Indian Supreme Court ruling in major cities around the world. The list of cities so far: Sydney, Toronto, Cambridge, London, Delhi, Ann Arbor, Chennai.  More locations will be added at this link, at which you can find details for each city.

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Russian Actor: I Would Like To Shove All Living Gays Into A Furnace

“I myself would shove all living gays into furnace. This is Sodom and Gomorrah.  I as a beliver in God can not treat this indifferently, this is a live threat to my kids! I do not wants my kids to think that faggots are normal. This is lavender fascism. If a person can not choose someone of an opposite sex …

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Editorial Of THe Day

From the New York Times editorial board: The court’s statement inviting the Legislature to amend the law is disingenuous. Given the fractious nature of India’s Parliament, the conservative views of many of its members, and the political stakes in the run-up to general elections next spring, the Legislature is unlikely to take up this issue on its own. Prime Minister …

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Indian AG Denounces Ruling

“The world has moved on. It is fast changing. Perceptions have changed. Attitudes have changed. Law does not and cannot remain static. Whenever necessary, the Supreme Court has reflected changed perceptions of the law and has struck outmoded laws down. They did so when striking down rent control laws as socially irrelevant. They also did it by breathing fresh life …

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