Joe.My.God. LGBT News

JMG reader Robert suggests a different kind of freep in which we request anti-gay petitions from Preserve Marriage Washington. I don’t know if they’ll actually send petitions to out of state addresses, but at the least we’ll cause them a minor headache while they sort through the JMG avalanche to look for real requests. If you live in Washington, you’ll …

A Catholic Church near Charlotte, North Carolina has fired Steav Bates-Congdon, their longtime music director, for marrying his partner of 23 years in an upstate New York ceremony. On Jan. 19, just back from a honeymoon trip to Mexico, followed by an emergency stay at Carolinas Medical Center for a ruptured appendix, he checked out of the hospital and dropped …

They write on their site: This has been a big couple of weeks in the fight for the freedom to marry for same-sex couples. Yesterday, Washington became the seventh state to stand up for the fundamental right of same-sex couples to marry. And last week, a three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Proposition 8 unconstitutional. …

Cher: Female Force goes on sale tomorrow. Writer Marc Shapiro said Cher’s life and career “reads like a comic book.” “The clothes, the times, the attitudes of the decades she’s lived through. The different styles of music she’s been involved in. So much of what Cher has experienced is so flamboyant, over the top and just plain out there,” said …

A nice visual hat-tip to gay marriage is included in today’s Valentine’s Google Doodle. The Washington Post has profiled the artist.

“You may have heard that Governor Christine Gregoire has just signed legislation purporting to make Washington state the seventh state to redefine marriage to accommodate the demands of gay marriage activists. What you may not have heard is that this is by no means a settled issue. NOM is joining with the Family Policy Institute of Washington, Stand for Marriage …

“This will now go like a flood from east to west because the misnamed [American] Civil Liberties Union will grab ahold of this, as will other forces that oppose worship and oppose the church. This will go like a tsunami across the nation. So when they say that they’re just excluding churches for whatever reason, it’s discriminatory, it’s a monstrosity …

Igor Volsky has the transcript of Santorum’s speech: I know this is a very important day in Washington. And in many respects a sad day for many people. We saw the law signed into here in Washington sate. But it is very important you understand what just happened in another place….in the Ninth Circuit….The Ninth Circuit decided that anybody that …