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I have bravely resisted the previous 300 million lip-dubs of Call Me Maybe, but since the Olympics starts today, I’ll make an exception.(Via Zack Ford)

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino has backed down on his vow to block Chick-Fil-A from opening a new franchise across from City Hall. “I can’t do that. That would be interference to his rights to go there,” Menino said, referring to company president Dan Cathy, who drew the mayor’s wrath by going public with his views against same-sex marriage. The mayor …

The Liberty Counsel is furious that the official website for the London Olympics depicts East Jerusalem as “the intended seat of the government of Palestine.” “This is absolute, clear anti-Israel, anti-Jewish bias by the BBC,” he contends. “This is unbelievable that political correctness has gotten into the Olympics. I thought the Olympics were supposed to transcend politics and bring countries …

Al Jazeera reports: Palestine will be sending five participants at the London Olympics 2012. Maher Abu Rmeileh, the first Palestinian to make it to the Olympics by qualifying in competition, aims to bring glory to his country in Judo. But because Abu Rmeileh lives in East Jerusalem he has had difficulty in co-ordinating events with Palestinians on the other side …

Today is legendary television producer Norman Lear’s 90th birthday so I thought I’d note the occasion with the below 1971 clip from All In The Family, which is considered by some to have been the first sitcom to realistically grapple with gay issues. I was eleven years old when this episode aired and I distinctly recall wondering if I was …

Probably to no one’s surprise, newly-hired NOM staffer Kirk Cameron has rejected the request of a meeting by a group of bullied New Jersey kids. Cameron’s spokesman sent the group an email: I promise you his goal is not one of trying to hurt people in any way, in fact it is just the opposite. He has a concern for …

Washington Post: The former secretary of state is the clear choice of Republican voters to be Romney’s vice president, according to a new Fox News poll that shows her garnering the support of 30 percent of them. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is second with 19 percent. The more interesting number, though, is what Rice could do for Romney on the …

“The uniform of our country was allowed to honor a display featuring men dressed as women, people in virtually no clothing at all and in your face advocacy of every aspect of homosexuality. How low will this present administration stoop before Americans say ‘we’ve had enough’? Here’s how the decision went down: there were concerns that some military members would …

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his wife have donated $2.5M to help Washington state’s marriage equality movement. With the gift, the couple have doubled the money available to the proponents of Referendum 74, which would legalize same-sex marriage in the state by affirming a law that passed the Legislature this year. Courts or lawmakers have declared gay marriage legal in …