Joe.My.God. LGBT News

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled against three Michigan pastors who claimed that the federal Hate Crimes Act restricted their freedom to be bigoted douchebags. Ryan J. Reilly reports at Talking Points Memo: Opponents of the law argued the legislation outlawed “thought crimes” and was meant to “eradicate religious beliefs opposing the homosexual agenda.” The suit was first …

Carey’s publicist says this might be “too urban for JMG” but assures me that there are “slamming club mixes” coming. Let’s hope so because I couldn’t make it halfway through this version. The publicist is right about Mariah’s club mixes though, they usually turn me around on tracks I’d been “meh” on. Example.

The usual warnings: possible outlier, convention bumps to come, etc etc. Source. (Tipped by JMG reader Dwight)

Gizmodo has published a list of ten science fiction staples that they say will never come to be because of the pesky physical laws of the universe. 1. Lightsabers2. Human teleportation3. Time travel4. Faster than light speed travel5. Generation ships6. Gravitational shielding7. Personal force fields8. Cryonic reanimation9. Consciousness uploading10.Infinite data processing Gizmodo follows each of the above items with mumbo-jumbo-y …

Here’s how Washington state’s marriage equality ballot entry will look. Washington is a vote-by-mail state and the ballots go out on October 15th. Ballot TitleThe legislature passed Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 6239 concerning marriage for same-sex couples, modified domestic-partnership law, and religious freedom, and voters have filed a sufficient referendum petition on this bill. This bill would allow same-sex couples …

Peter LaBarbera in December: “If Romney wins the Republican nomination, it will be a huge blow to the pro-family movement and our efforts to stop the normalization of sexual perversion. Every pro-family leader or group that said they opposed the Homosexual Lobby (and raised $$ on that) — yet supported Romney — now owes us an apology.” All that Romney-fueled …

Indiana’s First Baptist Church, which is one of the twenty largest megachurches in the nation, has fired head Pastor Jack Schaap for an adulterous affair with the teenaged girl. The church has issued a press release: At this time, we deeply regret the need to announce that First Baptist Church has dismissed our pastor, Dr. Jack Schaap, due to a …

(Tipped by JMG reader Michael)

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