Via Raw Story: Lawyers claim the Diocese of Trenton, New Jersey, should not be held liable for sexual abuse allegedly committed by a priest because he wasn’t officially “on duty” when he molested a teenage boy. Chris Naples claimed Rev. Terence McAlinden, who once headed the diocese’s youth group, sexually abused him during church-sponsored trips to Delaware in the 1980s. …

This morning I reported that the NRA has issued a scathing criticism of gun advocates who insist on parading into businesses with their penis enhancers. From the Facebook page of Open Carry Texas: The NRA has refused to learn for themselves how Open Carry Texas (OCT) conducts itself other than what the liberal media and Bloomberg funded gun control extremists …

Idaho Gov. Butch Otter (seriously) has filed a motion to have his state’s marriage equality case heard by the full Ninth Circuit Court rather than the usual three-judge panel. “Because the marriage issue is so passionately contested and so divisive among the citizenry, the perception of the legitimacy of this court’s resolution of it must be of paramount concern,” attorneys …

Bob Mould has done a Funny Or Die clip for a track from his 11th solo album, Beauty & Ruin, which comes out tomorrow. Stereogum reviews: Bob Mould is a punk rock legend still bashing out remarkably vigorous and effective anthems. (My co-worker Michael says he’s making the best music of his career right now, which is lunacy, but the …

Via press release: GLAAD today announced that Republican political commentator, author, and TV personality Meghan McCain; Executive Vice President, Commercial Services at Hilton Worldwide Jeff Diskin; Harvard Law School professor and venture capitalist with August Capital, David Hornik; and Managing Director at Opportunities for Women, Linda Riley will join the organization’s National Board of Directors. As the daughter of U.S. …

“Slavery, by definition, is involuntary servitude. It is being forced to provide labor or produce a product against one’s own will. When a man is forced, under threat of being sent to jail, to do work that he would not do unless he was compelled to do it, he is no longer a free man but a slave. We fought …

Via Equality On Trial: The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has filed an order in DeLeon v. Perry, setting the briefing schedule in that challenge to Texas’ same-sex marriage ban. The district court had granted a preliminary injunction back in February, against enforcing the ban and the state’s refusal to recognize same-sex marriages legally performed outside of the state, but …

In case you missed my addendum to yesterday’s annual posting of my gay pride rant, JMG t-shirts are finally available thanks to the folks at Pride Magazine, the official national news title of InterPride. Each shirt comes with the 2014 issue of Pride Magazine, which this year celebrates the first decade of marriage equality in the United States. But perhaps …

World Net Daily has posted the above poll in reaction to a ratings slide for Fox News. Note the dig at Shepard Smith. More on the latest ratings from Politico: Make no mistake, Fox News is still the ratings king. But the recent May numbers show that while all the cable channels had a decline in ratings (which is normal …

Via the Telegraph: Solar flares, or coronal mass ejections (CMEs) belch huge clouds of superheated particles from the sun’s corona – the wispy, outermost and hottest layer – and can reach speeds exceeding one million miles per hour. The CME, captured on May 9, 2014, was the first seen by NASA’s new Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS. To capture …

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The NRA has come out against “open carry” gun nuts, who this weekend invaded a Fort Worth-area Home Depot after similar stunts in local fast food outlets. Now we love AR-15s and AKs as much as anybody, and we know that these sorts of semiautomatic carbines are among the most popular, fastest selling firearms in America today. Texas, independent-minded and …

Clip recap: What “Paris is Burning” was to drag balls – “What’s the T?” is to transgender life – a documentary that explores the challenges, successes and lives of five transgender women; a multi-character study and an introduction to the uninitiated.The movie officially premieres on Hulu June 22, but shhh, you can see it now. Click to watch on Hulu. …

JMG reader Dave Evans has compiled over 70 minutes of gay-related news reports that aired in the 1970s. Among the topics: Anita Bryant, gay rights marches, the slaying of Harvey Milk, and the riots that erupted after the Dan White verdict. Worth your time. RELATED: Last week Evans compiled news clips from the first ten years of HIV/AIDS.

Anti-gay activist Dave Wilson has launched a drive to repeal the gender identity portion of Houston’s just-approved LGBT rights ordinance. It reads: Except as required by State or Federal law, the City of Houston shall only define “Gender Identity” as an individual’s innate identification, as either male or female, which is assigned at birth. Perceived gender Identification is not allowed …