Via the Charlotte Observer: The Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) and the Alliance of Baptists have made it official that they are joining as plaintiffs in a Federal District Court lawsuit opposing North Carolina’s same-sex marriage ban. The United Church of Christ filed the lawsuit in April, challenging North Carolina’s state ban on same sex marriage. The suit is …

Long Beach, California elected an openly gay mayor yesterday. Long Beach City Councilman Robert Garcia made history Tuesday night when he narrowly defeated businessman Damon Dunn in the race for mayor to become the first Latino, the first openly gay and the youngest person to be mayor of Long Beach. “I think you run, not necessarily to be the first, …

Via Alabama’s Ledger-Inquirer: A billboard at the Village Mall in Auburn, Ala., features five smiling kids beneath a quote from Adolf Hitler: “He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.” According to Lamar Advertising’s Montgomery office, the billboard was rented out by Life Savers Ministries, based in Opelika, Ala. Hitler’s quote traces back to his speeches of the ’30s, …

Two-time Oscar nominee Jonah Hill appeared on the Howard Stern show yesterday to apologize for a calling a paparazzo a “faggot” after the man insulted him. Last night Hill again delivered a heartfelt apology on the Tonight Show.

“For an hour, I felt nothing. I figured I’d order dinner from room service and return to my more mundane drugs of choice, chardonnay and mediocre-movies-on-demand. But then I felt a scary shudder go through my body and brain. I barely made it from the desk to the bed, where I lay curled up in a hallucinatory state for the …

Considering her history, she’ll probably sue over the result.

“Congress does not grant tax-exempt status to organizations that are racially discriminatory such as the Klan.  Every church and every Catholic or Protestant hospital will lose its tax (exempt) status. There is no restricting once it happens. This has effects that I can’t even contemplate at this time. If people simply think that the so-called same-sex marriage is just a …

All that stumping by Sarah Palin was for naught. Via Politico: Tom MacArthur defeated Steve Lonegan in New Jersey’s 3rd District Republican primary Tuesday and will face Democrat Aimee Belgard in the fall, according to The Associated Press. MacArthur, a former insurance executive, won 60 percent of the vote, and Lonegan, a conservative activist, won 40 percent, with 41 percent …

As expected, homocon Carl DeMaio finished second in yesterday’s open US House primary in San Diego and will face incumbent Democratic Rep. Scott Peters in November. NOM endorsee Kirk Jorgensen finished a distant third. “Tonight’s win sends a national message to the Republican Party: San Diegans are fed up and frustrated,” DeMaio told supporters Tuesday. “We want the party to …

Over the weekend “open carry” gun nuts paraded their penis enhancers around a Fort Worth-area Home Depot in a move that finally brought criticism from the NRA, who called their action “weird” and “scary.” In response, the open carry crackpots posted photos of their destroyed NRA membership cards. Late yesterday the NRA apologized for their fleeting moment of relative sanity.

An “epic rap battle.” I think Poe wins.

“If you can’t beat ’em, smear ’em. That seems to be Media Matters’s far-Left M.O. for intimidating people who make compelling cases for conservatism. Its latest target? FRC’s Ken Blackwell. In an interview last week, Ken talked about the latest shooting spree at the University of California and pointed back to the ‘crumbling of the moral foundation of the country’ …

Yesterday Madonna today took a swipe at France’s neo-Nazi National Front Party, which last week won numerous seats in the European Parliament. Today the National Front hit back. France’s National Front on Tuesday branded Madonna a “Granny Gaga” after the global pop icon became embroiled in a new row with the resurgent far right party. Madonna had enraged the FN …

Via the Jackson Free Press: Mississippi’s largest city and state capital finally passed a resolution affirming equality for all citizens, including the LGBT community. After more than two hours at today’s Jackson City Council meeting, before a packed audience, members voted 3-1 for a “resolution supporting equality for all citizens of Jackson, Mississippi.” Ward 3 Councilwoman LaRita Cooper-Stokes was the …

Last year Kimbra and Gotye won the Grammy for Record Of The Year with Somebody That I Used To Know. There’s somewhat of a Missy Elliot vibe to this, the lead single from her coming album, The Golden Echo, due in August. Billboard reviews: “Everyday be listening to 90s music!” Kimbra and her echoing chorus exclaims on the track, which …

Oklahoma cops are baffled after a hideous one-ton marble statue was stolen from the front yard of Anita Bryant. Cops are wondering how they did it, not why the fuck somebody would want it. “You have got to be kidding me, I just can’t believe that that happened in that quick of time,” Charlie Dry exclaimed. “I mean, I’m still …

President #Obama proclaims June as #LGBT #Pride Month— “let each of us speak for tolerance, justice, and dignity.” http://t.co/2c3jaet7ah — U.S. in Holy See (@USinHolySee) June 3, 2014 Former NOM communications director Thomas Peters is ever so pissed. From his post at Catholic Vote: It’s nice to see where our tax dollars are going. One wonders if a rainbow flag …

Via press release: Fred Schneider, frontman of the iconic party band The B-52s (Love Shack, Roam, Rock Lobster) along with his brethren Noah Brodie and Dan Marshall have just released their newest hit single Konnichiwa. Konnichiwa is the first in a series of singles by The Superions from their forthcoming album Superionicus. Konnichiwa is a lesson in linguistics that will …

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