Joe.My.God. LGBT News

To the bemused concern of my friends who live next door, Lady Gaga’s parents have opened a restaurant on the Upper West Side. I snapped the above phone photo on Saturday after dodging a cluster of excited Little Monsters who apparently expect their hero to drop by regularly. Initial reviews have been brutal so we’ll have to see how long …

Minnesota For Marriage has posted over $830,000 in donations, almost all of which comes from the Catholic Church and NOM, which likely gets most of their money from the Catholic Church. Feed the poor? Clothe the homeless? FUCK THAT. Hit the link and scroll through. (Via JMG reader Jim)

“Marriage serves a vital and universal societal purpose. To channel biological drive and sexual passion that might otherwise become socially destructive.”

“They parade their sin like Sodom. And they do it under the rainbow banner almost as if they’re saying ‘God, you can do nothing to us’ because they don’t believe that Sodom was destroyed because of homosexuality so they aren’t learning the lesson from that. In fifty years we have seen this tiny group of people – they really only …

Here’s the bill’s openly gay sponsor and then the vote.

NOM is claiming that the Navy ordered chaplains to perform same-sex marriages. Did you see this day coming? Who would have thought we needed a federal statute to protect military chaplains—and other servicemen and women—who believe that marriage is between one man and one woman? But just months after the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, there is a full-on …

Citing yesterday’s JMG post about the AFA’s attack on Ellen DeGeneres, GLAAD has launched a campaign to thank JC Penney for selecting a popular openly gay spokesperson. Hit the link for a Change.org petition and for JC Penney contact details.

“Most New Yorkers probably don’t realize that, right now, about 160 New York City schools are doubling as churches. I’m not talking about a religious after school club or bible study group. These churches use the same public space, at the same time, in the same school each and every week for free, or just the cost of custodial fees. …

Contrary to today’s word from Punxsutawney Phil, Staten Island Chuck says we’ll see an early spring. The Staten Island Zoo claims that Chuck is right 80% of the time. New Yorkers may fondly recall Chuck’s 2009 bitey displeasure at Mayor Bloomberg’s manhandling.

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