Yearly Archives: 2014

HRC Announces Leave Of Absence For Accused Board Member Terry Bean

The Human Rights Campaign yesterday issued a brief statement noting that co-founder and board of directors member Terry Bean has taken a leave of absence. Last week Bean was arrested and charged with the sexual abuse of a 15 year-old boy that he and his then-partner met on Grindr in 2013. From HRC vice president Fred Sainz: “Terry Bean has …

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ATLANTA: Fire Chief Suspended After Distributing His Anti-Gay Book

Atlanta Fire Department Chief Kevin Cochran was suspended yesterday after complaints that he had distributed his self-published anti-gay book to some of his subordinates. In the book based on Christian values, Cochran identifies himself as Atlanta’s fire chief and says his first priority as chief is to run the department “to cultivate its culture to the glory of God.” He …

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Ferguson Decision: 9PM ET
UPDATE: No Indictment

VIDEO: Live-streaming from the streets of Ferguson. UPDATE: Apparently Twitter shot Michael Brown. UPDATE II: The NCLR reacts. We vacillate between heartbreak and outrage at the decision from the grand jury. Injustice is too tame a word for what today’s decision represents. The fact that an unarmed black youth can be fatally shot by a police officer with no accountability …

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OREGON: Ninth Circuit Court Denies NOM’s Appeal For En Banc Rehearing

BOOM.

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WND: Gays Have Short Miserable Lives And Have Up To 20,000 Sexual Partners

“Official survey after official survey had shown that homosexuals had an average of 500-1,000 partners in their sexually active lifetime, and that some had as many as 20,000. One wonders how they found time for anything else. The wages of promiscuity is deadly disease. It is now at last admitted, even in official circles, that HIV is chiefly a disease …

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4000 Orthodox Rabbis By Drone

Via Gothamist: Thousands of Orthodox Jewish rabbis gathered in Brooklyn this weekend for the 31st International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries. According to a press release, over 4,200 rabbis from over 80 countries all convened in Crown Heights for an annual event aimed at reviving Jewish awareness and practice around the world. It all culminated with the Rabbis coming together outside …

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MISSOURI: Ferguson Grand Jury Expected To Announce Decision In Brown Case

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TEXAS: Plaintiffs Demand Immediate Marriage Rights During Appeals Process

The plaintiffs in the Texas marriage equality suit today filed a demand for an immediate commencement of marriages while the appeals process in the Fifth Circuit Court continues. From today’s filing: The Court should immediately lift the stay because the Supreme Court’s actions following entry of the stay no longer support its continuance. The Supreme Court denied certiorari in appeals …

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HomoQuotable – Michael Sam

“If I had it my way, I never would have done it [come out] the way I did, never would have told it the way I did. I would have done the same thing I did at Mizzou. Which was to tell my team and my coaches and leave it at that. But since I did tell my team, word …

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Geraldo Rivera Vs Facebook Trolls

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Tony Perkins Has The Vatican Gladz

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The Legal Golden Ratio On Marriage

Via the New York Times: The Constitution is not a math problem, but numbers can play a role in the Supreme Court’s calculations. When the court struck down bans on interracial marriage in 1967, such unions were still illegal in 16 states. When the court struck down laws making gay sex a crime in 2003, 13 states still had anti-sodomy …

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Kidnapping Advocate Backs Duggars

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LIVE VIDEO: President Obama Announces Resignation Of Defense Secretary Hagel

The announcement is due at 11AM.

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New HRC Ad For Mississippi

Mississippi’s marriage ruling is due any day.

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Headline Of The Day

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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel Resigns

The “pushed or jumped?” chatter is lighting up Twitter.

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The Boys Of Boston – Shake It Off

(Tipped by JMG reader Tristam) RELATED: Swift set another chart record this week. Taylor Swift this week becomes the first female solo artist to replace herself at #1 on the Hot 100. Her new hit, “Blank Space,” leaps from #13 to #1, displacing “Shake It Off,” which held the top spot for four non-consecutive weeks. Swift is the first act …

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UGANDA: Lawmakers To Pass Anti-Gay Bill As “Christmas Gift” To Nation

Via Reuters: Drafters of a revised anti-gay law want parliament to pass it in time to be a “Christmas gift” for Ugandans, a lawmaker said on Friday, after a controversial earlier version was quashed because of legal technicalities. Legislation passed by parliament almost a year ago, which would have punished gay sex with long prison terms, provoked a storm of …

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The Anti-Christ Runs The Post Office

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