Jim Fouts, the GOP mayor of Warren, Michigan is being sued by the ACLU after refusing to let an atheist group set up a booth in city hall next to the Christian outreach group that has been there for five years. “The city has certain values that I don’t believe are in general agreement with having an atheist station, nor …

Marriage Equality USA has posted the third and final installment of their interview with Edith Windsor. Via Gay Star News: ‘When Stonewall happened, I was really this ignorant middle class lady who said “I don’t see why I have to be identified with those queens,”‘ Windsor said in an interview posted Thursday (24 July) by Marriage Equality USA. But the …

So this happened in Florida: Days after two naked college-age men and a third underwear-clad accomplice broke into her restaurant to steal burgers, Doc’s Beach House waitress Nancy Sansevieri is still laughing. Why would three naked “knuckleheads” break into a Bonita Beach eatery and only steal food as two security cameras captured their every move? “Dumb, dumber and dumbest,” Sansevieri …

I am considering outing gay @c_of_e bishops who discipline gay clergy who marry http://t.co/wtKDYO4oRv @LGCM @changingatt @LondonLGBTPride — Peter Tatchell (@PeterTatchell) July 24, 2014 Via Pink News: Gay hospital chaplain Jeremy Pemberton had his Permission to Officiate revoked by the Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham after he married his same-sex partner, while London vicar Andrew Cain said he “fully expects” …

Earlier this year two “undercover” members of the “ex-gay” group Voice Of The Voiceless visited LGBT student centers at seven Virginia colleges to see what would happen if they requested help in rejecting their homosexuality. According to the group, all seven colleges advised them that “ex-gay” therapy doesn’t work and often results in self-harm. Enter the Liberty Counsel: On behalf …

And how do you save them? By yanking them out of those homo-infested public schools and sending them his church’s school, which is “safe, nurturing, and loving.” Extra credit can be earned by stoning homosexuals.

Via ESPN: Staying true to his word, a minor league baseball general manager underwent a prostate exam while singing “Take Me Out To The Ball Game” during the seventh-inning stretch on Thursday night in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Andy Milovich, GM of the Myrtle Beach Pelicans, a Single-A affiliate of the Texas Rangers, pledged to undergo the procedure on the …

Modern Family star Eric Stonestreet this week revealed that he turned down Rick Santorum when asked to take a photo together at the White House Press Correspondents Dinner. Stonestreet: “Rick Santorum wanted a picture with me. It was at a time when he was publicly saying, ‘Gay marriage, gay marriage [is wrong],’ and I’m like, ‘You know, I can’t do …

From PETA’s website: With jobs in Detroit disappearing, many residents are struggling. As they’re forced to choose which bills to pay, the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department has chosen for them―shutting off water and leaving many people high and dry. The department put the shutoffs on a temporary hiatus, but people’s water bills are mounting. So with the help of …

Jack’s bushy beard is back.

From today’s Family Research Council “Prayer Target”: Beginning of the ENDA – President Obama signed an executive order Monday to protect “gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender employees from discrimination by companies that do federal government work.” Tony Perkins commented, “mandating that all federal contractors and subcontractors — regardless of their religious and moral convictions — give special treatment to homosexuals, …

When at first you don’t succeed, try the same tired argument that has lost dozens of times before: Attorneys for the state are telling a federal judge there’s a good reason Arizona won’t let gays marry: They can’t reproduce, at least not without the help of a third person. Papers filed in federal court defending the ban say voters, in …

Via CBS News: Police say an Indiana woman took the phrase literally on July 11th, when she took her hands off the steering wheel as she was driving. The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette reports 25-year-old Prionda Hill told authorities she let go of the wheel because “God told her he would take it from here.” Unfortunately for Anthony Olivery, her car …

Via Rolling Stone: The first trailer for Fifty Shades of Grey has arrived in all its scintillating, hyper-sexualized glory. Though if you’re hoping for a montage of steamy footage from the boudoir and/or BDSM dungeon, you’ll have to settle for a fleeting few snippets at the end. Still it’s got plenty of exposition, if that’s what you’re into. The trailer, …

An Iowa newspaper editor is suing on the grounds of religious discrimination after being fired for using the word “gaystapo” on his personal blog. Via the Des Moines Register: Bob Eschliman, former editor of the Newton Daily News, filed a complaint this week with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission office in Milwaukee arguing that he was terminated May 5 …

The National Gay & Lesbian Journalists Association has named Buzzfeed reporter Chris Geidner its 2014 Journalist Of The Year. Via Politico: Geidner, the site’s legal editor, has turned LGBT issues into a full-time beat at BuzzFeed, and wrote several features on the history of the marriage equality movement, including profiles of Edith Windsor and Mary Bonauto. “We’re so proud of …