Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Aaaand here come the pious town clerks. Barbara MacEwen, the town clerk in upstate Volney who is responsible for signing marriage licenses in the town, said she’s morally opposed to same-sex weddings and does not intend to affix her signature to any marriage documents for gay or lesbian couples. “If there’s any possible way to not do it, legally, then …

One day after World Net Daily called for NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s arrest for supporting same-sex marriage, a top Vatican adviser has declared that Cuomo should be denied Holy Communion. A senior adviser to the Vatican, who is a theology professor in Detroit, blasted the Catholic governor of New York for his strong backing of same-sex marriage, saying that he …

“I am confident that Proposition 8 will be gone by the end of the year and we’ll have marriage equality again in California too.”

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Buoyed by the result in New York, some activists in Maine say they are considering bringing same-sex marriage back to the ballot in 2012. In 2009 Maine’s voters rescinded same-sex marriage mere months after it had been approved by the state legislature. Since the defeat, gay rights advocates said they have been working behind the scenes to try to change …

“The problem with the Christian movement, with the Christians and pastors, is that they pray too much and act too little. Pastors and religious leaders are supposed to remember that we are supposed to be Christians before being Democrats or being Republicans. Our responsibility is with Jesus and not with Democratic Party or Republican Party. I made history. I’m the …

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Once again, Queerty says something the wingnuts love to hear. Even LGBT organizers agree that they’d rather pass marriage equality by legislature than at the ballot because at the ballot WE ALWAYS LOSE. People who oppose the ballot also like saying that if America voted on interracial marriage in the 60s, that still might be illegal too. But is that …