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Read More »ISRAEL: Thousands Attend Funeral For Teen Murdered At Jerusalem Pride
Via the Jerusalem Post: Thousands attended the Monday night funeral of 16-year-old Shira Banki, who died on Sunday after being stabbed at last week’s Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem. Banki, a high school student from Jerusalem, was buried at Kibbutz Nahshon cemetery, near Beit Shemesh. In an emotional eulogy, Banki’s parents, Milka and Uri, spoke of their daughter’s compassion, intelligence, …
Read More »HOUSTON: Anti-Gay Pastors Sue Mayor
Via Houston’s CBS affiliate: A group of pastors fighting Houston’s equal rights ordinance has filed a lawsuit against Mayor Annise Parker, claiming she tried to deny voters’ rights and intimidate clergymen opposing her. The legal action comes at the beginning of what’s likely to be a passionate campaign leading up to a referendum on the ordinance in November. “She violated …
Read More »TRAILER: The Intern
Via USA Today: If you thought that Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson’s Google-sponsored The Internship would be the last time Hollywood explored “old people as interns are hilarious,” well, you’d be wrong. But we have to say that The Intern, which follows a retired and bored Robert DeNiro as he interns for uber-boss Anne Hathaway, looks nothing like The Internship, …
Read More »ALABAMA: Committee Advances Bill To End All Marriage Licenses Statewide
Via the Associated Press: A state Senate committee has approved a bill to take Alabama probate judges out of the wedding license business following the U.S Supreme Court ruling legalizing gay marriage. The Senate Finance and Taxation General Fund Committee on Monday approved the bill to do away with state-issued marriage licenses. Instead, spouses would file a signed marriage contract …
Read More »Zoey Tur Vs Breitbart: Part II
Breitbart is furious.
Read More »Did Beijing Olympics Rip Off Disney?
Sure sounds like it. Via the New York Times: China lacks enough snow for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, environmentalists said. China is too repressive to hold the Games, detaining hundreds of lawyers just in the past month, rights campaigners said. On Friday, despite those complaints, the International Olympic Committee awarded the Games to Beijing. Now some people are drawing …
Read More »Top GOP Million+ Donors So Far
That’s just the top four. There are dozens more.
Read More »The Death Of Hitchbot
FRC Staffer Craig James Sues Fox Sports For Anti-Christian Religious Discrimination
Former New England Patriots running back, failed US Senate candidate, and current Family Research Council staffer Craig James has filed an employment discrimination lawsuit against Fox Sports, alleging that the network fired him as a commentator over his Christian stance on same-sex marriage. Yahoo News reports: In 2013, Fox Sports Southwest fired James two days after it hired him upon …
Read More »Shamir: Unplugged On NPR
For the latest installment of NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series, dance sensation Shamir performed three tracks from his critically-raved debut album. NPR’s Bob Boilen writes: When I first saw Shamir at NPR Music’s SXSW showcase, the 20-year-old singer popped on stage with a Yo Gabba Gabba T-shirt and proceeded to light up the night with his disco-infused funk and joyful …
Read More »AFER Calls It Quits
Last month Freedom To Marry triumphantly declared that it was “going out of business.” Today we get the same news from the American Foundation for Equal Rights. Via press release: Together, we made history. Nearly six years ago, the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER) was created with the specific mission of arguing for marriage equality before the U.S. Supreme …
Read More »Hillary Launches First Campaign Ads
The Clinton campaign has launched its first campaign ads. The first two television ads of Hillary Clinton’s campaign showcase her mother’s strength and resilience and are a clear attempt to soften the candidate’s image in the wake of a raft of troubling poll numbers. The two 60-second commercials, which begin running Tuesday in Iowa and New Hampshire, recount the story …
Read More »OREGON: Alleged Victim In Terry Bean Case Vanishes, Trial May Not Proceed
Oregon Live reports: The prosecutor handling the sex crimes case against Terry Bean, a prominent gay activist, told a judge Friday that his investigators have been unable to find the alleged victim in the case. Without the teenager’s testimony, the case will have to be dismissed or the trial rescheduled, the prosecutor acknowledged. The boy, now 17, doesn’t want to …
Read More »Texas AG Ken Paxton Smirks For Mugshot After Arrest On Multiple Felony Charges
Anti-gay Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was today arrested and booked on the three felony securities fraud charges announced on Friday. He was released on bond shortly afterwards. Around noon, the grand jury indictment against Paxton was unsealed, revealing that two first-degree fraud charges were based on Paxton’s efforts in July 2011 — when he was a member of the …
Read More »Manly Man Ted Cruz Fires Machine Gun
From the same right-wing publicists that brought you Lindsey Graham destroying a phone and Ben Carson playing Operation.
Read More »Walker Punk’d By Climate Activists
(Tipped by JMG reader BKMN)
Read More »Trump Lead Now Exceeds 2-1 Over Bush
Gary Bauer: America Needs Sanctuary Cities For Conservative Christians
“What if there were sanctuary cities for religious conservatives? Imagine if some city in red-state America – perhaps Little Rock, Arkansas; Dallas, Texas; or Bowling Green, Kentucky – decided to be a refuge for unborn children and refused to grant business licenses to abortion clinics. What if a city decided that it was going to be a sanctuary city for …
Read More »Racing Extinction: Empire State Building Lights Up For Endangered Species
Via NBC New York: The landmark Empire State Building, known for its stunning light displays, shined brightly with digital light projections of the world’s endangered species Saturday evening. The show was billed as a first-of-its-kind live video projection and aimed to raise awareness about animals at risk of being lost forever. The display, a project conceived by “The Cove” filmmaker …
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