“By the way, for all you kids watching at home, Santa is white but this person is just arguing that maybe we should also have a black Santa. Santa is what he is and just so you know, we are debating this because someone wrote about it, kids. Just because it makes you feel uncomfortable doesn’t mean it has to …

France’s Manif Pour Tous yesterday released dozens of chickens outside of Parliament in Paris in yet another bizarre anti-gay marriage protest. What was it all in aid of? Well, the unleashing of the chickens was, of all things, a protest by anti-gay marriage movement La Manif Pour Tous (the Demo for All). The organization, bereft of its original leaders, who …

From Father Tony’s balcony.

In the wake of yesterday’s shocking recriminalization of homosexuality by the Indian Supreme Court, politicians there today vowed to repeal the law legislatively. “We will have to change the law. If the Supreme Court has upheld that law, then we will certainly have to take firm steps,” Thursday. “Change has to be made fast, and any delay cannot take place.” …

GLAAD’s Jeremy Hooper reports that Bob Newhart will headline the convention of Legatus, a Catholic group which backs the “ex-gay” crackpots at NARTH and which declares that it is “non-negotiable” for any Catholic to vote for a candidate who backs same-sex marriage. Yes, that’s right: Beloved comedian Bob Newhart, who most recently won an Emmy for playing opposite openly gay …

You might recall teenage Limbaugh wannabe Caiden Cowger, whose virulently anti-gay rants have appeared on JMG in years past. Well, it appears that YouTube has had enough of him. From their email to Cowger: We’d like to inform you that due to repeated or severe violations of our Community Guidelines, your YouTube account CaidenCowgerShow has been suspended. After review we …

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Via Right Wing Watch: Family Watch International – a group affiliated with the World Congress of Families that supports the criminalization of homosexuality abroad and retains Uganda anti-gay crusader Martin Ssempa as a “volunteer” staff member – teamed up last month with leaders of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) to produce the half-hour documentary, “Understanding …

I’m in Florida for the next couple of weeks for my annual holiday visit with friends and family.  I hear there’s a big snow storm about to hit New York City. What a pity.

From Invaluable Auctions: Bert Lahr “Cowardly Lion” prop “Witch Remover” from The Wizard of Oz. (MGM, 1939) This instantly recognizable prop is wielded by the Cowardly Lion as he, Dorothy, the Tin Man and the Scarecrow enter the Haunted Forest and read the sign aloud stating, “Haunted Forest…Witches Castle one mile…I’d turn back if I were you.” So visually important …

A Texas judge has scheduled a February hearing on a demand to temporarily block the state’s ban on same-sex marriage. Two same-sex couples from Plano and Austin filed the request for an injunction in November. The case is a part of seven similar ones filed in other states with the goal of eventually getting the constitutionality of a ban on …

Tell us about your holiday plans. Will you be with your biological family or (as Armistead Maupin calls it) your logical family? Do both worlds blend at this time of year?

Queer Nation will today crash the holiday party for NBC staffers at a hotel in downtown New York City. They write: This is the not at all inspiring tale of the International Olympic Committee and eleven of the top Olympic sponsors’ Road to Sochi. This coalition of some of the biggest mega-corporations on Earth dutifully and unfortunately followed the lead …

“We remain the lesbian capital of New York City and the Northeast. In other words, we have a much larger lesbian population in Brooklyn. New York City is fortunate to have a large LBGT community, but in Brooklyn in particular, the lesbian community, there’s no question it’s the capital of the Northeast. They’ve made unbelievable contributions to the quality of …

Mediaite breaks it down: Just like his fellow conservative host Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck was not pleased with TIME Magazine’s decision to name Pope Francis its Person of the Year for 2013. But unlike Glenn Greenwald and countless other journalists, Beck didn’t think the honor should have gone to Edward Snowden. He had someone else in mind: Sen. Ted Cruz …

“It is repellent that extremist religious opposition worldwide is such a corrosive impediment to basic human rights. The groundbreaking Delhi high court decision would have stood had religious opponents not attempted, now successfully, to roll it back. Even the Indian government refused to defend the law in court. We are unfortunately in a global culture war with many more challenges …

The Third Eagle Of The Apocalypse and Co-Prophet of the End Times says that TIME Magazine and Miley Cyrus are telling us that the world is thisclose to totally exploding. For realz. Or something.