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“I think that it’s very clear that this is an administration which believes that secular government – they believe that the President is superior to the Pope in the ability to define what the church is allowed to do. Obama’s position, which is truly dishonest – this new compromise is, I mentioned Orwell’s ‘1984.’ This is Orwellian . We have …

New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan was elevated to Cardinal at the Vatican this morning, joining the other 125 Cardinals under the age of 80 who will vote on the next Pope when Emperor Palpatine finally keels over. Dolan’s American entourage in Rome includes a reported throng of over 1000 fans, friends, and family, plus news crews from most of New …

I posted an advance of this track a couple of weeks ago and now they’ve released the video. You can still grab a free download of this, the first single from their upcoming album.

The Maryland House of Delegates has passed its marriage equality bill by a vote of 71-67. The bill now goes to the state Senate. Gov. Martin O’Malley has pledged to sign the bill should it reach his desk. EARLIER: The chamber has reconvened and the feed is live now.EARLIER: Here we go again. Listen live here. Things are supposed to …

Lambda Legal “We are disappointed that Governor Christie did not do what is right for New Jersey families, but we are not discouraged,” said Hayley Gorenberg, Lambda Legal Deputy Legal Director. “There are many roads to justice, and Governor Christie’s veto is an unfortunate detour to marriage equality for New Jersey’s same-sex couples and their families. We’ll continue to make …

Talking Points Memo has a major scoop from the DOJ. The Obama Justice Department has concluded that legislation banning same-sex couples from receiving military and veterans benefits violates the equal protection component of the Fifth Amendment and will no longer defend the statute in court, Attorney General Eric Holder wrote in a letter to Congressional leaders on Friday. “The legislative …

A coalition of anti-gay Christian groups headed by Pastor Tom Brown (above) has lost their bid to recall El Paso Mayor John Cook over the domestic partners insurance provision he ordered reinstated. The reason that the haters lost? They cheated. The Eighth Court of Appeals on Friday unanimously ruled that the recall group had violated the law in its petition …

Via NPR here’s a handily terrifying interactive map where you can test-bomb nukes on your neighborhood. The explosion creates a series of concentric circles, color-coded to show the zone where everything is incinerated, the space where most things get emulsified or crushed, the space where radiation is lethal, the space where people are poisoned by radiation, the space where they …