Joe.My.God. LGBT News

With all due respect to the governor (and today’s victory WAS really her doing), that “civil, respectful debate” included many grotesqueries like quotes from Leviticus (abomination!) and all the other insulting Christianist arguments that characterize gay people as less than fully human. But fuck all that noise, really, because WE WON.

Christians are being oppressed because the intolerant left won’t let them impose Sharia Law and inflict a Christian theocracy upon the rest of the nation. Essentially.

Cardinal Edward Egan has withdrawn his apology for the child molestation scandals that were exposed when he was the Archbishop of New York. That 2002 letter of apology was read to all of the congregations under his control. A decade after that letter, the former archbishop of New York, and former bishop of Bridgeport, now describes the handling of the …

CNN has suspended political commentator Roland Martin after GLAAD and other gay activists denounced his Super Bowl tweets which appeared to endorse violence against unmasculine men. Martin has since blogged an apology, but apparently that wasn’t enough. CNN’s move has already ignited a firestorm of “Christian oppression!” screams on Twitter. Martin has not yet responded to today’s news on his …

Three Illinois legislators today introduced a marriage equality bill. State Reps Greg Harris, Deb Mell, and Kelly Cassidy filed a marriage equality bill in Illinois General Assembly Wednesday. HB 5710, the Religious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act, provides that all laws of Illinois applicable to marriage apply equally to marriages of same-sex and different-sex couples. The bill comes on the …

Salon has posted a lengthy profile of Maggie Gallagher in which Slaggie’s past and present is examined exhaustively for clues to the motivations for her campaign against gay civil rights. Short version (which we’ve all said for years): She got screwed over by a man and wants to make the entire world as miserable as she is. One quote tells …

Last night AFER attorney David Boies tangled with John Eastman, NOM’s recently appointed chairman. Guess who got their ass handed to them?(Via – Good As You)

Famed actor and director Rob Reiner is one of the major financial backers of the fight to overturn Proposition 8. Yesterday he appeared on the Stephanie Miller Show to talk about the Ninth Circuit Court’s ruling. His words: “Meathead strikes again!” (Via Radio Guy Chris)

“Will America’s young women be just a bit more likely to experiment with lesbianism now that JCPenney is mainstreaming it? Too any objective observer, the answer must be yes. Is this a good thing? To any objective observer, the answer must be no. Research has indicated that lesbians suffer from increased levels of depression, suicidal ideation, substance abuse, breast cancer …

The imagery and tag line of the campaign is raising eyebrows. Here’s the press release: Survivors UK, the charity that supports victims of male rape and sexual abuse, has launched a new campaign by start-up Johnny Fearless. ‘Real Men’ aims to play to the fact that rugby players, irrespective of sexuality, are seen as the archetypal ‘alpha males’. The poster …