Monthly Archives: July 2014

IRELAND: Prime Minister Confirms Gay Marriage Referendum For Spring 2015

Via Ireland’s Journal: Enda Kenny announced that a referendum on same-sex marriage will be held in the spring of next year. Speaking in the Dáil today during Order of Business, the Taoiseach confirmed the vote will take place within the first four months of 2015. Responding to a question from Gerry Adams, the Fine Gael leader said, “The referendum will …

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INDIANA: Seventh Circuit Grants Marriage Recognition For Terminally Ill Lesbian

Lambda Legal reports that the Indiana Attorney General tried to stop today’s ruling. Today, the day after Lambda Legal filed papers with the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals asking the court on an emergency basis to lift its stay to allow respect for the marriage of one couple, Niki Quasney and Amy Sandler, because Niki is battling Stage IV ovarian …

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LIVE STREAM: Belgium Vs USA

ESPN is live-streaming the match, but you must login with your cable account info.

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Judge Judy Hears Grindr Case

UPDATE: YouTube has already yanked the clips. Gawker has portions of the show in their own video player.

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Charles Busch – Those Were The Days

A new show opens next week: “Sidesplitting!” –The New York Times. The acclaimed actor/Tony-nominated playwright and drag legend returns to 54 Below with a show chock full of outrageous personal stories, original characters, original characters and classic songs; all performed with his own unique form of glamour. Charles Busch continues to delight and re-define his craft as a master humorist, …

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FLORIDA: AG Pam Bondi Turns To Scientologists For Campaign Funding

Via Raw Story: Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is running for re-election this year, and she’s looking for help in an unusual place — the Church of Scientology. Bondi is a Republican and former prosecutor who was endorsed by Sarah Palin when she ran for election and won in 2010. Most recently, she’s been in the news for announcing that …

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Pastor Kevin Swanson: The Presbyterian Church Is Controlled By The Anti-Christ

PREVIOUSLY ON JMG: Kevin Swanson says Nabisco loves axe murderers.  Kevin Swanson says Disney is using Frozen to make kids gay. Kevin Swanson says the Rose Bowl Parade should feature a float in which gays are stoned to death. Kevin Swanson says all gays must be imprisoned because Christian freedom. Kevin Swanson says gays caused the Colorado floods. Kevin Swanson …

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BREAKING: Federal Judge Strikes Down Kentucky’s Same-Sex Marriage Ban,
Ruling Has Been Stayed Pending Appeal

Via Freedom To Marry: Today, July 1, 2014, U.S. District Judge John G. Heyburn II ruled in favor of the freedom to marry, striking down a constitutional amendment in the state that restricts marriage to different-sex couples. Previously, Judge Heyburn struck down the portion of the marriage ban in Kentucky that denies respect to same-sex couples who legally married in …

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One Million Moms Vs Mystery Girls

Just in via email: Joe, ABC Family Channel’s new program “Mystery Girls” does not involve innocent detectives fighting crime as parents might hope, but instead is just another show primarily about sexual encounters. The show airs during primetime when children are likely watching. The season premiere aired Wednesday evening at 8:30 p.m. ET/7:30 p.m. CT, and with a 14 DL …

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SAN FRANCISCO: “Gay Shame” Activists Arrested At Prison-Themed Circuit Party

About 150 members of the activist group Gay Shame protested outside of the Prison Of Love circuit party in San Francisco on Saturday night, where some partygoers were reportedly pelted with fruits and vegetables. According to Gay Shame, a prison-themed party eroticizes the issue of prison rape and trivializes the treatment of transwomen in male prisons. The protest briefly closed …

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Slate: Create Your Own Marriage Ruling

Mark Joseph Stern writes at Slate: These judges know this is their shot at a very specific kind of immortality, and they seem to be in subtle competition with each other to write the one marriage equality opinion that history remembers. Now Outward is offering a chance to create the ultimate gay marriage opinion. We’ve taken the most notable portions …

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New From The GOP Squirrel

Can this squirrel thing get any more bizarre?

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Betty Bowers On Hobby Lobby

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The Ginsburg Hobby Lobby Dissent Song

Via Mediaite: Here’s something you don’t see every day: a Supreme Court justice’s dissent on a major ruling was turned into a weird, lyrically awkward ballad. Well, songwriter Jonathan Mann, who’s been writing a song a day for hundreds of days now, took Ginsburg’s words and set them to music. Ginsburg issued a dissent railing against the “decision of startling …

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Tweet Of The Day – Waffle House

USA vs Belgium starts at 4pm EDT.

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SAN FRANCISCO: Assaults Mar Pink Saturday, Public Asked For Help

Two separate but possibly related assaults marred San Francisco’s Pink Saturday celebration in the Castro. From the Facebook page of Stop The Violence: During Pink Saturday a Sister in white face and habbit who was working the event on behalf of the community, and her husband, were physically and verbally assaulted by a group of up to seven people at …

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Obama Announces Executive Order On Gender Identity At LGBT Pride Event

Via Politico: President Barack Obama said Monday that the White House is preparing an executive order banning job discrimination among federal employees on the basis of gender identity. Obama mentioned the planned measure while addressing a White House reception marking LGBT Pride Month. The White House announced earlier this month that the president also intends to sign an executive order …

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YouTube Complaints 2014

3.7M views in three days.

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Happy Canada Day

Happy Canada Day to all of our JMG family in the north! We make a lot of fun of you, but we not-so-secretly also want to be you. And Ryan Reynolds totally makes up for Justin Bieber. Have a great 147th birthday, you don’t look a day over 29.

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SEATTLE: Drag Queen Confronts Christian Disrupters At Gay Pride Parade

On Sunday a group of Christian protesters disrupted the start of Seattle’s gay pride parade and got in the face of local drag star Mama Tits, who was not having it. Afterwards, she spoke to Seattle Gay Scene: “I saw them coming up the road pre-Parade and looked at Sylvia and DonnaTella and said, ‘Ladies, let’s make a wall!’ Before …

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