(Via Towleroad)

“Hello. My name is Chris Kluwe, and for eight years I was the punter for the Minnesota Vikings. In May 2013, the Vikings released me from the team. At the time, quite a few people asked me if I thought it was because of my recent activism for same-sex marriage rights, and I was very careful in how I answered …

Don’t forget that God also told Pat Robertson that Mitt Romney would be a two-term president.

From the AmericaBlog post titled “The 7 Gayest Instagram Posts By Aaron Schock.”

“We know A&E is not the government. It may shock your tiny little pea brains, but free speech existed even before we had a Constitution. Free speech is generally considered a desirable goal even apart from its inclusion in the nation’s founding document. Suppose TV networks were capitulating to angry Muslims by suspending people for saying they opposed Sharia law? …

Toronto’s crack-smoking mayor today filed for re-election and already the local papers have busted him for lying. Ford then went on to declare himself the “best mayor” Toronto has ever had before rattling off a list of his alleged accomplishments, some of which in the words of the Star “were exaggerations or simply untrue.” The most obvious errors of fact …

More have been posted to Charisma News. (Tipped by JMG reader Jollof)

If you aren’t vegan, you’ll have to think about Fidel Castro during sex. Or something.

An update on yesterday’s story.

From the Times editorial board: Considering the enormous value of the information he has revealed, and the abuses he has exposed, Mr. Snowden deserves better than a life of permanent exile, fear and flight. He may have committed a crime to do so, but he has done his country a great service. It is time for the United States to …

The Salt Lake Tribune reports: Utah made a subtle shift in its arguments in defense of opposite-sex marriage in a stay application to the U.S. Supreme Court filed Tuesday. Gone is any mention of procreation. Instead, the state talks about child-rearing without discussing how children may be produced. Utah argues one reason it is likely to ultimately prevail in reversing …

The University of Central Florida, my alma mater, scored a huge upset in last night’s Fiesta Bowl. I don’t report on many sports items, but this one is rather satisfying as UCF’s opponent was the highly-ranked and highly-anti-gay Baylor University, which bans “homosexual acts” by students and which recently offered a course titled “Homosexuality As A Gateway Drug.” Go Knights!

Flight Aware reports that almost 1200 flights have already been canceled in advance of the blizzard which is due to hit much of the northeast today. Thousands of other flights face “significant delays.”  Via CNN: As of Wednesday night, New York City was under a winter storm warning, just like many other densely populated areas in seven other states. The …

Back2Stonewall reports that Linda Harvey’s book, Maybe He’s Not Gay, has been pulled from Amazon after complaining emails. Harvey has not promoted the book’s availability on Amazon and it remains on sale at Next Century, a small self-publishing outlet. Back in October, Amazon pulled thousands of “abuse-themed” e-books, some of which depicted rape, bestiality, and incest. That move was criticized …

Via Memeographs.

Where were you at midnight on NYE?

“Now that the individual mandate is officially here, let me begin with an admission: Obamacare is awful. That is the dirty little secret many liberals have avoided saying out loud for fear of aiding the president’s enemies, at a time when the ideal of universal health care needed all the support it could get. I believe Obamacare’s rocky start — …

Seattle’s Fox affiliate reports: Police are searching for an attempted arsonist who allegedly poured gasoline on a carpeted stairway leading to the second level of Neighbours Nightclub and trying to set it on fire. Seattle police said an attempted arsonist poured the gas in the stairway just after midnight New Year’s Day. The arsonist lit the gas and left, police …