I never mentioned it here (because..hello…the source was Perez Hilton), but moments after it made the news, a flack for Prince was denying his anti-gay quotes in the New Yorker, saying that the Artist Formerly Known As Interesting had been “grossly misquoted and misinterpreted.” Misinterpreted? “God came to earth and saw people sticking it wherever and doing it with whatever, …

After the Westboro Baptist Church nutters slithered into Silverton, Oregon yesterday, a supportive crowd of counter-protesters showed up to rally for their newly-elected transgender mayor. The counterprotesters outside City Hall in this Marion County town today significantly outnumbered the protesters who inspired them: three young women and a man from a Kansas church, here to register their disdain with the …

The Liberty Counsel has gathered 12,000 signatures on an “emergency petition” demanding that Arnold Schwarzenegger condemn the “hate-filled” marriage activists in California. Following California’s statewide vote affirming one-man, one-woman marriage, radical homosexual activists have resorted to hostile protests against churches and pro-marriage advocates. These attacks pose a threat to safety and civility across the nation. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has …

The wedding invitations have gone out for Florida Gov. Charlie “Closet Case” Crist and his beard-to-be. Invitations to Gov. Charlie Crist’s upcoming nuptials are in the mail, and the guest list to the Dec. 12 event has become a source of chatter around the state. The cream and pale pink invitations to Crist and fiancee Carole Rome’s ceremony at First …

According to Mother Jones, Bill Clinton’s nemesis Kenneth Starr will bat for the haters in the coming Prop 8 case before the California Supreme Court. Overheard last week in DC at a right-wing legal convention: “We’ve all but confirmed that Ken Starr is going to take the case.”–Jordan Lorence, senior counsel, Alliance Defense Fund. The involvement of the former Clinton …

The British government is about to roll out its voluntary biometric national IDs and folks that are transitioning between genders are eligible to get two cards. The Identity Cards Act became law in March 2006 and the Home Office are rolling out biometric residence permits for foreign nationals in 2008, with the first ID cards to be issued to British …

“[W]e laughed Brokeback Mountain right out of an Academy Award. Please lets not allow the same thing to happen to Milk this year. “Milk is a movie about our history, our heroes, our struggle and the power of one individual to create change. The movie is a universal story to inspire and give hope to everyone. The movie depicts how …

UPDATE: I’ve deleted the previous post in this space with this excellent news. Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Cindy Lederman Tuesday declared Florida’s 50-year-old ban on gay adoptions unconstitutional — a ruling state lawyers immediately said they would challenge. The ruling sets the stage for Frank Gill, a gay man from North Miami, to adopt two foster children he has raised since …

The drooling stuffed shirts at National Review continue to channel the rotting corpse of William F. Buckley: Where do they go from here? Gay activists are already using the legal system to try to revoke the tax-exempt status of the Mormon church. If you believe that churches and synagogues, priests and rabbis won’t eventually be sued for their statements on …

Californians Against Hate is seeing some action on their complaint. California officials are planning to investigate whether the Mormon church gave an accurate accounting of its role in the campaign that succeeded in getting a same-sex marriage ban approved in the state. The action by the California Fair Political Practices Commission came in response to a complaint filed two weeks …

According to a poll taken by Survey USA, California voters are evenly split on this question: “Will the recent rallies held by ‘No on Prop 8’ protesters ultimately help their cause? Hurt their cause? Or will it not make a difference one way or the other?” Another question asking “Have the protesters changed your opinion on Prop 8?” has 8% …

At the Ali Forney Center we work hard to provide a holiday season of joy for the homeless LGBT youth who come to us for help. Many of our kids find this season challenging; it’s getting colder outside, and they really feel the pain of being rejected by their families during a time that so emphasizes family togetherness. We try …

Uh, who? Edward “Ted” Kaufman, a former aide to Sen. Joe Biden, was named Monday by Delaware Gov. Ruth Ann Minner to fill the Senate seat Biden is leaving for the vice presidency. Kaufman is president of a political and management consulting firm based in Wilmington. Speculation on Biden’s successor had centered in recent weeks on his son, Attorney General …

“If you’re asking, ‘Do we take discrimination against gays as seriously as bigotry against African Americans and Jews?’ . . . the answer is, ‘Of course we do.’ But we also believe that some people, including Rich [Raddon], saw Prop. 8 not as a civil rights issue but a religious one. That is their right. And it is not, in …

I totally expected this to be a joke, but Our Country Deserves Better PAC plans to air this around the country on Thanksgiving.

The Missiongathering Church in San Diego has put up a billboard apologizing for the Christian support for Proposition 8. (Tipped by JMG reader Dorothy D.)

“Marriage itself, the sacred institution around which all society is built, is being attacked and shaken. Yes, attacked with intent to contaminate it in a way that will eventually cause the collapse of American social order. [snip] “The first time the Islamic jihadists tried to destroy the WTC, they did it the smartest way – they attacked the foundations, down …

Some guy is suing McDonald’s for $3M because he left his phone at one of their franchises and although staffers apparently found the phone and promised to hold it for him, nude photos of his wife stored on the phone ended up online. Here’s some food for thought: If you have nude photos of your wife on your cell phone, …

Six Apart, the company that owns the popular blogging service TypePad, is offering a small number of free accounts to recently laid-off bloggers and journalists. It’s a long way from $700 billion, but the media start-up Six Apart is introducing its own economic bailout plan. The TypePad Journalist Bailout Program offers recently terminated bloggers and journalists a free pro account …

Friday night on Conan O’Brien, Rachel Maddow said she gets a lot of nice fan mail, but lots of not-so-nice messages too: “You also get the hate mail where people write in specifically to tell me that I’m gay. As if I didn’t know. Oh my God I had no idea. I’ll get off television. That is the single best …