Monthly Archives: May 2015

LIVE VIDEO: Texas House Debates Bill To Allow Clergy To Refuse Gay Marriages UPDATE: Bill Passes Without Amendments

Watch it live. As I reported earlier today, there could be much more to this bill than a simple affirmation of the rights that clergy already have. And we’re also expecting Rep. Cecil Bell to try to tack on his “disobey SCOTUS” amendment. UPDATE: The bill passed nearly unanimously and without the promised attempt by Cecil Bell.

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Signorile Interviews Texas Rep. Cecil Bell

Michelangelo Signorile interviewed notorious Texas state Rep. Cecil Bell this week, grilling him about his quixotic pursuit of legislation that Bell believes would allow his state to defy the US Supreme Court on same-sex marriage. Listen to the clips below in which Bell expounds on states rights and refuses to answer Signorile when asked if sodomy should still be illegal. …

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Boy Scouts President Calls For End To Ban On Openly Gay Adult Leaders

Via Yahoo News: The Boy Scouts of America will no longer seek to revoke the charters of chapters that accept gay adult leaders, the organization’s president, Robert Gates, told its national leadership on Thursday. “The status quo in our movement’s membership standards cannot be sustained,” Gates said during the BSA’s annual national meeting. The organization took no formal action on …

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TEXAS: “Defy SCOTUS” Bill Might See New Life Today In State House Vote

Via the Dallas Voice: Texas state Rep. Cecil Bell, R-Magnolia, intends to attach an amendment similar to his previous bill barring the issuance of marriage licenses to same-sex couples to a bill protecting clergy from being forced to perform same-sex marriages during a House floor vote on Thursday, May 21. Bell filed HB 4105, also known as “The Preservation and …

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Concernstipated Women Have RBG Sadz

“No one can say with a straight face that Justice Ginsburg’s actions, as related to this case, have been anything but unwise and unethical. Chief Justice Roberts, who has defended the justices on the matter, wrote in one instance, ‘I have complete confidence in the capability of my colleagues to determine when recusal is warranted.’ He must be appalled by …

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TRAILER: Batkid Begins

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Editorial Of The Day

From the Chicago Sun-Times: Being gay is not an illness. It requires no cure. And anybody who practices “conversion therapy,” purporting to be able to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity, is a quack, engaged in medical malpractice. Conversion therapy does not work. On this, the scientific and medical consensus is strong. It can only do harm. We …

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IRELAND: Will It Be A Yes For Equality?

Posted yesterday’s by Britain’s Channel 4: “Ireland is just days away from the world’s first referendum on whether same-sex couples should be allowed to marry. We meet the Yes votes in the capital cities and the No voters in the country towns.”

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Hotelier Ian Reisner Continues Apology Tour, Donates $20K To Fire Island PAC

Per the president of the Fire Island Pines Property Owners Association, the below apology from Manhattan hotelier Ian Reisner was read at the group’s meeting over the weekend. Dear Members of our Community, First I want to clear up that Mati Weiderpass has zero involvement or ownership in the Pines. Now let me state unequivocally that I made mistakes. While …

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FRC Prays Against Dan Savage

Today’s prayer from the Family Research Council: ABC-Disney’s New Low – Our friends at the Media Research Center (MRC) are promoting a petition urging Disney-owned ABC to cancel its new series highlighting one of the nation’s nastiest, openly anti-Christian homosexual activists, Dan Savage. The supposed-to-be-funny TV show, is a new low in youth “entertainment” from Disney. Its agenda is clearly …

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OREGON: Teen Confronts Anti-Gay Haters

When high school junior Makaila Ragan noticed two men waving anti-gay signs outside her mother’s Oregon workplace, she decided to do something about it. “I was so irritated because I see them all around town and all they ever do is make people feel like crap about themselves,” said Ragan, a junior at Tillamook High School. The men were standing …

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Postmodern Jukebox – Barbie Girl

I missed this when it came out a few days ago and yes, this is that Barbie Girl. The Ken doll on the left is Next Magazine cover boy Joey Khoury, whom you might have seen in the long-running Off Broadway hit Altar Boyz. Stick around for the “human theremin” bit.

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IRELAND: Prime Minister Issues Last Minute Plea For Same-Sex Marriage

Via the Guardian: Ireland’s prime minister, Enda Kenny, has made a final plea for a yes vote in the referendum to legalise gay marriage. The taoiseach told the Irish electorate on Wednesday night: “There is nothing to fear for voting for love and equality.” Kenny made his plea on live television ahead of a broadcasting embargo imposed on all sides …

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NOM Exploits Jindal With Money Beg

Brian Brown would like NOM’s followers to “thank” Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal by signing up for NOM’s email money beg list. He writes: When Louisiana State House Bill 707, which would have blocked the government from penalizing companies because of the owner’s stance on same-sex marriage, was defeated in the state house’s Civil Law and Procedure over fears that it …

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MICHIGAN: Mother Says Outed “Grindr Pastor” Told Her Gay Son To Kill Himself UPDATE: The Son Speaks Out Himself

Via the CBS affiliate in Flint, Michigan: A mother came forward with new accusations against the local pastor who resigned after being outed as gay. She said what that pastor told her son nearly drove him to suicide. Jennifer Kish is angered over the recent revelation that Matthew Makela might be gay, not because of his alleged sexual preference, but …

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Tony Perkins Raves About Bobby Jindal

“If liberals thought they could lie their way to victory in Louisiana, they’ve got another thing coming. After steamrolling leaders in Indiana, the Left has met its match in Governor Bobby Jindal (R). Frustrated by the legislators’ cowardice, Governor Jindal heeded the wishes of 67 percent of the state and issued an executive order to do what the state house …

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Stars Say Goodbye To Letterman

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Harlem Hate Church Has New Message

(Via JMG reader Roldan)

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Bryan Fischer: All Christians Must Disobey SCOTUS, “They Can’t Arrest Us All”

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AFA Cheers Newly “Family Friendly” A&F

Via press release from the AFA: Abercrombie & Fitch (A&F) has been well known for using highly sexualized marketing techniques to lure young people into its stores…but that’s all changed now that the company has ousted former CEO Michael Jefferies. After 13 years of AFA’s campaigning against A&F’s trashy catalogs, shirtless models and pornographic ads, the company has shed the …

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