Monthly Archives: March 2014

One Million Moms Vs Red Robin

Just in via email: Joe, Red Robin’s new burger “The D.G.B.” – short for “That’s One D*mn Great Burger” – has an ad campaign that is following a trend of using profanity in its advertising. Red Robin is replicating a form of media that is intended to be naughty and catchy, but it should be avoided if a company is …

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Ireland Sees Anti-Pantigate Bill

Last month there was an uproar in Ireland after state television paid off anti-gay columnists who claimed that they were libeled when drag activist Panti Bliss called them homophobes. The flap became known in the press as Pantigate and turned Panti Bliss into an international icon. Today a bill was introduced in Ireland’s legislature that would grant broadcasters some protections …

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Facebook Cracks Down On Gun Posts

Facebook will block minors from viewing pages that offer guns for sale and will take down any page that offers to sell weapons without a background check or across state lines. The change is a win for groups like Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and Mayors Against Illegal Guns, which have been lobbying for more restrictive gun …

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New Poll: Record Support For Marriage

Via ABC News: Half of all Americans believe that gay men and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll in which a large majority also said businesses should not be able to deny serving gays for religious reasons. Fifty percent say the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection gives gays the right …

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Pope Francis Indicates Catholic Church Could Support Some Types Of Civil Unions

In an interview published in Italy today, Pope Francis said that the Catholic Church could consider supporting some forms of civil unions, but not same-sex marriage. The Pope reiterated the church’s longstanding teaching that “marriage is between a man and a woman.” However, he said, “We have to look at different cases and evaluate them in their variety.” For instance, …

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Coco Peru Plays Grand Theft Auto

I pretty much chuckled for the full 12 minutes. (Via JMG reader Zhy Kitty)

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Soldiers Remake Ellen’s Oscars Selfie

Source.

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Gun Rights Group Head: Members Of Congress Should Fear Getting Shot

“I was told of a conversation that one of our members had had with a member of Congress. And he was lobbying on a gun issue, but he was, I knew the guy well enough to know that almost certainly he was mild-mannered, he was just explaining our position. And apropos of nothing, the congressman – congresswoman, actually – said, …

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Taiwanese Animators On Ukraine

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HomoQuotable – Blake Skjellerup

“In the space of 30 seconds, I saw one of the greatest things about sport, and something I had always believed existed, but never witnessed. The gentleman beside me was not the only person calling out ‘Jason Collins.’ As I think about it now, the goosebumps I felt last night re-appear. An arena full of people, calling and chanting the …

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Quarterly Injections May Be Future For Treatment And Prevention Of HIV/AIDS

Via the New York Times: Researchers are reporting that injections of long-lasting AIDS drugs protected monkeys for weeks against infection, a finding that could lead to a major breakthrough in preventing the disease in humans. Two studies by different laboratory groups each found 100 percent protection in monkeys that got monthly injections of antiretroviral drugs, and there was evidence that …

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LEBANON: Activists Hail “Landmark Ruling” On Criminalization Of Gay Sex

Via the Lebanon Daily Star: A judge presiding over a case prosecuting homosexuality has ruled that a notorious piece of legislation criminalizing gay sex is not valid, a decision that has been hailed as a major achievement by activists in Lebanon. The latest edition of The Legal Agenda, a quarterly magazine published by the non-governmental organization of the same name, …

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UTAH: GOP Pols File Pro-Gay Marriage Brief With Tenth Circuit Court

Via Chris Geidner at Buzzfeed: Several prominent Western-state conservatives and Republicans — led by former Sen. Alan Simpson — urged the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday to strike down bans on same-sex couples’ marriages in Utah and Oklahoma. Modeled after the briefing at the Supreme Court last year, the brief filed Tuesday aims to convince the court that the …

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Kings Road – XO

A Beyonce cover from the gay a capella trio.

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Brian Brown Cheers Kentucky Governor

“We applaud Governor Steve Beshear’s commitment to the rule of law and the people’s definition of marriage. He is doing what every elected official, on every level of government across the country should do, defend the laws of the land. It is absurd that Kentucky’s Attorney General Jack Conway is not doing what he swore to do upon taking office …

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Postmodern Jukebox – Careless Whisper

With gay nine-time Grammy nominee Dave Koz on sax.

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ILLINOIS: AG Tells All Counties They Can Issue Same-Sex Marriage Licenses

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan last night issued a letter encouraging all counties to begin issuing same-sex marriage licenses. The letter was sent to the Macon County clerk’s office, in response to a request for legal guidance following a Feb. 21 ruling from U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman. The ruling allows Cook County same-sex couples to get married now, …

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Crazy Eyes: American Jews Have Sold Out Israel By Supporting Obama

“I just believe that as believers in Jesus Christ who see the authority of scripture, I believe that the Lord and his strong right arm will have Israel’s back and will be her protector/ The question is, will we as the United States cooperate in standing with Israel and blessing Israel, or will we join those nations that come against …

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Goodbye Crazy Rep. Steve Stockman

Crackpot teabagger US Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) today suffered a humiliating defeat in his GOP primary bid to unseat US Sen. John Cornyn, taking only 17% of the vote. You might recall that last fall Stockman gave every member of Congress a World Net Daily-published book which calls for the impeachment of President Obama. In 2012 Stockman mailed his supporters …

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TEXAS: Greg Abbott And Wendy Davis Easily Win Gubernatorial Primaries

Anti-gay GOP Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott and Democratic state Sen. Wendy Davis today both coasted to easy wins in their respective primary bids to succeed Gov. Rick Perry. Abbott clinched the Republican nomination for governor and Davis locked up her party’s selection, thereby making official a showdown poised to become a record-shattering arm’s race of fundraising in a Texas …

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