Joe.My.God. LGBT News

The 2012 theme for anti-gay hate groups is “Shameless Easily Disproved Lies.” Here are some more from Iowa’s Bob Vander Platts. UPDATE: The video has been “removed by the user.” Wanna bet somebody heard from the legal department at Starbucks?

By vote of 54-7 today the New York Senate voted to allow churches, many of them viciously anti-gay, to conduct services in public buildings when they are “not in use for school services.” Only seven Democrats opposed the bill, including openly gay Sen. Thomas Duane. But even this lopsided victory was not enough for Sen. “Reverend” Ruben Diaz: I am …

Rallies will be held in San Francisco and Los Angeles tomorrow after the Ninth Circuit Court issues its ruling on Proposition 8. Nothing in my inbox about NYC so far, but check back here later. Hit the links for Facebook event pages.

Jim Burroway reports at Box Turtle Bulletin: The Parliament’s Business Committee met today and agreed to move the revived Anti-Homosexuality Bill forward to the full house, possibly as early as tomorrow when the Ninth Parliament begins its third sitting following its Christmas break. There are reports that several lawmakers in Parliament are aggressively pushing for the bill’s passage as part …

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One Million Moms spokesbigot Monica Cole says that JC Penney is calling for their own boycott by hanging up on people who call to complain about “perverse and deviant” Ellen DeGeneres.

“I was born and raised in Alabama where blacks and whites didn’t get along very well, and I tried being one of the main reasons they didn’t. I was extremely discriminatory towards whites. The only reason I played football was so I could hurt white people legally.” – Pastor Ken Hutcherson, testifying today before the Washington state House committee panel …

Another hurdle has been, um, hurdled. A House committee on Monday approved a measure to legalize same-sex marriage in Washington state, setting the stage for final passage this week. The House Judiciary committee advanced the measure on a 7-5 vote after a public hearing. The bill could be up for a vote on the House floor as early as Wednesday. …

Anti-gay groups are trying to force the vote that that local GOP clearly doesn’t want to have to make. (Tipped by JMG reader Scott)

As civil unrest intensifies, the United States has closed its Syrian embassy and ordered diplomats to leave the country. U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said President Bashar al-Assad has chosen a “dangerous path” in dealing with the 11-month-old uprising, adding that the United States remains “gravely concerned over the escalation of violence.” On Saturday, Russia and China vetoed a …