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“As a gay parent I’m really not comfortable with this. Even if that eight-year-old kid wanted to do it, even if confronting Michele Bachmann was the kid’s idea, even if the kid was excited about being in a YouTube video, this just isn’t cool. The enemies of LGBT equality use small children as props in their misleading commercials and at …

Macy’s recently made the right call concerning a employee complaint about a transgender patron. And that has them on the hit list of hate groups like the Liberty Counsel who allege that the employee was fired because of her “sincerely held religious objection” to transwomen using the ladies changing room. Johnson pointed out to management the consequences of the policy …

After more than two years, Ladyfingers has finally been dethroned as the #1 search item that brings folks to JMG. At least for the last 30 days, anyway. Also: Jeff Conaway?

Speaking live at 12pm EST from Geneva’s International Human Rights Day, Sec. Clinton will address the LGBT rights memo in the post below. UPDATE: Clinton’s speech has concluded and if you watched it, you’ll agree that it was simply fantastic. Two notable items: Clinton opened by acknowledging that the United States itself is far from perfect when it comes to …

President Obama today issued an unprecedented directive that federal agencies should work to promote and protect LGBT rights in foreign countries. The Human Rights Campaign reacts: The presidential memorandum is the first ever U.S. government strategy to deal with human rights abuses against LGBT people abroad. It directs all government agencies that engage in foreign affairs to promote LGBT human …

Over 100 Orthodox rabbis have signed a public denunciation of any rabbi that dares solemnize a gay union. Some of the most prominent rabbinic figures in the Orthodox Jewish world, including Rabbi Hershel Schachter and Rabbi Hershel Reichman of Yeshiva University and Rabbi Elie Abadie of the Safra Synagogue – issued a statement declaring that, “By definition, a union that …

Insurance giant United Healthcare has ranked the “healthiest states” according to factors like diet, exercise, smoking, obesity, etc. For the fifth year in a row, Vermont is the nation’s healthiest state. States that showed the most substantial improvement include New York and New Jersey, both moving up six places, largely because of improvements made in smoking cessation. Idaho and Alaska …

Yesterday Iowa Family Leader endorsed Newt Gingrich. Today Iowa For Christian Leaders says Gingrich is a betraying Judas. Infighting is funny!

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Judy Garland’s ruby slippers go up for auction later this month in California. The slippers are one of only four pairs remaining from the classic film. One pair is on display at the Smithsonian, another is already part of a private collection, and the third was actually stolen from the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minn. The shoes are …