Monthly Archives: September 2014

Chelsea Clinton Has A Daughter

Marc and I are full of love, awe and gratitude as we celebrate the birth of our daughter, Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky. — Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton) September 27, 2014 Via the Los Angeles Times: After much public anticipation, Bill and Hillary Clinton have finally become grandparents as their daughter, Chelsea, gave birth to a daughter Friday. The former president and the …

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REPORT: Eric Holder To Ask Supreme Court To Legalize Gay Marriage Nationwide

NBC News correspondent Pete Williams reported tonight that Attorney General Eric Holder will ask the Supreme Court to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide. Activists have gotten louder in recent weeks with calls for the Department of Justice to make this move. The Human Rights Campaign reacts via press release: “Once again, Attorney General Eric Holder and the Obama Administration have stood …

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Tony Perkins: Jeb Bush And Chris Christie Were Not Invited To FRC Hate Summit

Perkins won’t say so, of course, but Bush wasn’t invited because he’s “soft” on immigration and Christie wasn’t invited because he dropped his same-sex marriage appeal to the New Jersey Supreme Court.

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TRAILER: Bad Ass Gays

Clip recap: Taking a hard punch in the ring, careening 180 mph around a race track or leading a combat mission, it’s a brave new world for gay men openly pursuing their professional passions, defying stereotypes, discrimination and setting the stage for a new generation. “Bad Ass Gays” is a documentary that tells the personal stories of gay men in …

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Britain To Join ISIS Airstrikes

Via the New York Times: The British Parliament voted overwhelmingly on Friday to approve airstrikes in Iraq against the militants of the Islamic State. The vote brought a country weary of international engagements belatedly into the American-led campaign against Sunni extremists. Prime Minister David Cameron called Parliament back from recess to consider the motion, which authorizes the government to conduct …

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Palin Mocks Obama At FRC Hate Summit

In a speech laden with so many teabagger catch phrases randomly assembled from fridge magnets and bumper stickers that it was impossible to count, Sarah Palin dug out a coffee cup from under the podium to give her impression of President Obama saluting with a coffee cup. The audience, of course, roared. Nobody on Twitter seems know what the speech …

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Brian Brown At FRC Hate Summit

Brian Tashman writes at Right Wing Watch: Back from defending anti-gay laws in Russia, Brian Brown of the National Organization for Marriage introduced Rick Santorum at today’s Values Voter Summit. Brown spent most of his time pushing back on claims that the GOP’s opposition to abortion rights and LGBT equality is dragging down the party, suggesting that Republicans would win …

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Sen. Ted Cruz At FRC Hate Summit

Cruz was introduced by Brent Bozell, who is best known around here as the guy who appeared on national television to describe the president as a “skinny ghetto crackhead.” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) took the stage Friday morning at the 2014 Value Voters Summit and delivered a fiery sermon full of Christian imagery and calls for the president to demand …

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NEW YORK: United Nations Human Rights Council Endorses LGBT Rights

Via press release: The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) today applauded the United Nations’ top human rights body for approving a resolution condemning discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, calling it an important step forward toward progress for equality and human rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals. “The Human Rights Council has …

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Tweet Of The Day – Michelangelo Signorile

Michelle Bachmann just told me re: gay marriage, “it’s not an issue anymore,” runs off,adds, ‘In fact it’s boring.’ #ValuesVoterSummit — Mike Signorile (@MSignorile) September 26, 2014

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OREGON: NOM Files For En Banc Rehearing Of Attempt To Stop Same-Sex Marriages

Included in the filing are dozens of attachments which NOM claims bolsters its accusation that the Oregon attorney general’s office colluded with the plaintiffs in the case. On September 10, 2014, I was able to quickly review some of the documents in the production and learn that there had been a high degree of cooperation between attorneys for Plaintiffs and …

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Wife-Swappers For Jesus

“They say you should not covet your neighbor’s wife. But what if your neighbor wants you to?”

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NOM: Oregon’s Attorney General Colluded With Plaintiffs In Marriage Equality Case

NOM chairman John Eastman today accused Oregon’s attorney general of colluding with marriage equality plaintiffs in a post that was almost immediately deleted from NOM’s blog, but not before Good As You blogger Jeremy Hooper captured the above screenshot. A larger version of the above image is here. As you surely know, courts have repeatedly denied NOM’s attempts to intervene …

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Pet Shop Boys Stand With LGBT Egypt

Following recent events in Egypt, Pet Shop Boys support #18Oct_EgyLGBT. Learn more here: http://t.co/vhn4jO98kq #StandforEgyptLgbt — Pet Shop Boys (@petshopboys) September 26, 2014 Activists are planning demonstrations at Egyptian embassies around the world on October 18th. Because of all the prosecutions, discrimination, jailing, detentions, physical and verbal violence conduct, anal examinations, torture, deceptive, exposing and unethical media tools, humiliations, murders, …

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Viral Video Of The Day

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Seen At The Values Voter Summit

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LIVE VIDEO: FRC’s Hate Summit

C-SPAN2 is also covering the event live.

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NEW YORK: Wedding Venue Says They Don’t Hate Gays, Just Gay Marriage

The Alliance Defending Freedom is pushing their appeal of the upstate New York wedding venue that was recently fined for refusing a same-sex ceremony. From the Heritage Foundation site Daily Signal: “We’re not hateful people,” Gifford said in an interview with The Daily Signal, holding back tears. “We just believe that a marriage is between a man and a woman, …

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Sen. Ted Cruz: Hold Off On Eric Holder’s Replacement Until New Senate Is Seated

“It is good news that Eric Holder has announced his resignation. Sadly, he has proven to be the most partisan attorney general in our history, repeatedly defying and refusing to enforce the law. It did not have to be this way, but Holder’s leadership has grievously undermined the Department of Justice’s long bipartisan tradition of independence and fidelity to law. …

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Hospital Fires Alleged Gay-Basher

ABC News reports: The daughter of a Pennsylvania police chief, facing assault charges, was fired today from her hospital job after allegedly posting photos and information about patients that potentially violate privacy policies. Lansdale Hospital-Abington Health told ABC News,“Effective today, September 25, 2014, Kathryn Knott has been terminated from her employment at Abington Health.” Knott, 24, had initially been suspended …

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