Monthly Archives: September 2014

COLORADO: AG Asks Tenth Circuit To Continue Stay Until SCOTUS Rules

Colorado Attorney General John Suthers yesterday asked the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals to continue the stay on same-sex marriage in his state until the Supreme Court rules on the cases before it from Utah and Oklahoma. Although a divided panel of the Tenth Circuit has ruled that Utah’s and Oklahoma’s bans and non-recognition of same-sex marriage are unconstitutional, those …

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New York City Councilman Fernando Cabrera Praises Uganda’s Anti-Gay Laws

Andres Duque writes at YouTube: In a 30 minute video posted on January of 2014 New York City pastor and Councilmember Fernando Cabrera addressed viewers from Uganda and praised their draconian anti-gay laws for lowering HIV transmission. He also said the United States should have an “department of ethics” such as the one that launched the extreme attacks against the …

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NEW YORK CITY: St. Patrick’s Day Org To Allow One Gay Group To March In 2015

New York City’s St. Patrick’s Day organization today announced that one LGBT group will be allowed to march behind its own banner during the 2015 parade. The parade committee, in a statement made available to The Associated Press, said on Wednesday that OUT(at)NBCUniversal, a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender support group at the company that broadcasts the parade, would be …

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Viral Video Of The Day

Real? Road rage? Prank? WTF? (Tipped by JMG reader Ray)

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Tony Perkins Mocks Abercrombie Loss

“Back in November of 2013, Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie called a special session to legalize same-sex ‘marriage, instead of giving voters a voice. Rather than put the issue on the ballot, as thousands of people asked for, he fast-tracked the bill through the legislature. Unfortunately for Abercrombie, he may have stopped Hawaiians from voting on marriage, but he couldn’t stop …

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PETA Launches I, Chicken

From PETA’s website: I, Chicken couples the most cutting-edge virtual reality (VR) hardware available—including wireless VR goggles, motion-capture cameras, and a powerful computer—with guidance from leading VR psychologists in order to immerse participants in a world where they can flap their wings, communicate with other chickens, take dust baths, and engage in other natural chicken behavior. But as participants soon …

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Dallas Cowboys To Sign Michael Sam

NBC Sports reports that the Dallas Cowboys are going to sign Michael Sam to their practice squad. The Cowboys plan to bring in Sam for a physical and sign him to the practice squad if he passes, according to Adam Schefter of ESPN. Ian Rapoport of NFL Network reports that the Cowboys spent time today calling players to gauge their …

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NYC Luxury Condo To Rival Height Of WTC

Several skyscrapers now going up on the south end of Central Park in midtown will eclipse the height of the Empire State Building. Today New York YIMBY reveals a similar “super-luxury” condo tower planned for our billionaire overlords in the financial district. YIMBY has the reveal for 125 Greenwich Street, which will become Downtown’s tallest residential skyscraper; a tipster close …

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Bill Donohue: Accused Catholic Priests Aren’t Pedophiles, They Are Homosexuals

“An editorial in today’s New York Times cites the Vatican’s disciplinary action against its former ambassador to the Dominican Republic, the now-defrocked Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski. It invokes Pope Francis’ promise that in the pedophilia scandal ‘there are no privileges.’ The Times erred again by repeating the myth of a pedophilia scandal: 100 percent of the victimizers were male; 81 percent …

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Report: Credit Card Hack At Home Depot

Multiple banks are reporting that hackers have accessed the credit cards of millions of Home Depot customers. The credit card information was offered for sale Tuesday on an underground site that traffics in stolen financial information, journalist Brian Krebs reported on his blog. The breach could have begun in late April or early May of this year, Krebs reported. If …

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Top Pol: Gays Have No Chance In Crimea

Crimea’s top politician today said that gay people “have no chance” now that Russia has taken over the region. Via the Guardian: Speaking about gay people during a Crimean government session on Tuesday, the region’s de facto leader Sergei Aksyonov said “we in Crimea do not need such people.” In comments reported by the Russian news agencies Interfax and Itar-Tass, …

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Eric Cantor Joins Investment Bank

Former GOP House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who suffered a stunning primary defeat this summer at the hands of an unknown Tea Party candidate, has joined Wall Street. And the teabaggers are screaming, “Told you so.” Kevin Broughton, communications director of the Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund, said, “many analysts accused Eric Cantor of paying more attention to Wall Street …

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ISIS Beheads Another American Journalist

Via Reuters: The Islamic State militant group released a video purporting to show the beheading of U.S. hostage Steven Sotloff, the SITE monitoring service reported on Tuesday. A masked figure in the video also issued a threat against a British hostage, a man the group named as David Haines, and warned governments to back off “this evil alliance of America …

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HomoQuotable – Robert Oscar Lopez

“Dear Governor Brown, I work for you. I am an Associate Professor of English and Classics at California State University-Northridge. I know that a bill, AB 1951, sponsored by Jimmy Gomez of Los Angeles, may reach your desk for signature soon. It will allow for birth certificates to be issued, which indicate gay men as ‘mother’ and lesbians as ‘father.’ …

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Duck Dynasty Star Phil Robertson: I’m As Much Of A Homophobe As Jesus Was

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Tweet Of The Day

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Another Flight Diverted Over Reclining

I’d say this is getting really fucking stupid, but it’s always been really fucking stupid. Details.

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Editorial Of The Day

From the editorial board of the Los Angeles Times: It’s unusual when the winners of a case ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear an appeal of their victory. But that is exactly the plea being made by lawyers for same-sex couples who successfully challenged bans on such unions in Virginia, Oklahoma and Utah. And for good reasons. Although some …

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Russia Drops Plan For Anti-Eurovision

Despite all its screaming about Eurovision 2014 winner Conchita Wurst, Russia has cancelled its plan to revive a Soviet-era version of the event next month. Via Pink News: The 2014 contest – which was due to take place in Sochi in October – has since been cancelled, according to Russian news service Rusnovosti. Intervision, which ran between 1977 and 1980, …

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New York Times: SCOTUS Sometimes Relies On “Facts” From Amicus Briefs

The New York Times reports that Supreme Court justices are “increasingly citing” unverified and questionable data gleaned from the avalanche of amicus briefs that typically accompany hotly contested issues. Some of the factual assertions in recent amicus briefs would not pass muster in a high school research paper. But that has not stopped the Supreme Court from relying on them. …

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