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VIRGINIA: Adoption Agencies To Be Permitted To Refuse Gay Couples

Both chambers of the Virginia legislature today approved a bill that will make it legal for adoption agencies, however they are funded, to refuse gay couples. The state House voted 71-28 to pass the legislation Friday. Earlier in the day, a Senate committee endorsed its version of the Republican-backed measure on an 8-7 party-line vote. Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell is …

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Man Overboard On All Gay Cruise

I started getting emailed tips and tweets early this morning that a passenger had gone overboard on the all gay Atlantis cruise of the Caribbean. Now the story has hit the news. Eyewitness News has learned a passenger has fallen overboard from an Atlantis cruise liner off the coast of Mexico on Friday. An ABC7 photographer aboard the Royal Caribbean …

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On Husbands

About seven years ago I wrote this: When gay marriage finally becomes widespread, how quickly (if at all) will we act to correct each other when we identify someone’s significant other? “There goes David and his husband.” “Oh, they aren’t married, just living together.” Will we do that? Will we give those who choose not to marry a verbal downgrade …

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JC Penney: We Stand With Ellen

The American Family Association’s campaign against JC Penney and Ellen DeGeneres has earned the AFA scornful media attention from around the world. For their part, JC Penney says they are proudly “standing behind our partnership with Ellen DeGeneres.” Here’s how E! covered the story last night. RELATED: GLAAD is wisely capitalizing on the situation to point out that LGBT people …

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FRC Demand Refunds From Komen

The Family Research Council, who earlier this week turned their tweets pink in support of Komen, has already launched a demand for the refund of donations made after Komen cut off Planned Parenthood. This, at least, will be quite enjoyable.

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