A San Francisco anti-circumcision group has collected enough petition signatures to place a city-wide ban on the practice on the November ballot. Legal experts, however, said even if such a measure were to pass, it would likely be quickly overturned as an unconstitutional attack on the grounds of religious freedom. Chief opponent Lloyd Schofield, 59, acknowledged circumcision is a ritual …
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Bryan Fischer: “Ex-Gay” Fugitive Lisa Miller Is The Rosa Parks Of Kidnappers
“Tennessee pastor Timothy Miller is now in jail. His crime? Allegedly helping a mother protect her daughter from the pernicious influence of sexual deviancy (‘deviancy: actions or behaviours that violate cultural norms’). [snip] Rosa Parks gained civil rights immortality because she refused an order to obey an unjust law. If there was ever a contemporary case in which civil disobedience …
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OHIO: Insurance Group Offers Reward For Name Of Anti-Gay Horse Killer
Over the weekend, eight horses were burned alive in their rural Ohio barn in an arson attack on a property owned by a gay man. The words “fags are freaks” were found spray-painted on the barn. Today a $5000 reward has been offered for the name of the perpetrator. Brent Whitehouse hopes a reward of up to $5,000 offered by …
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Dinosaurs debuted 20 years ago today. The sitcom lasted for four seasons and 65 episodes (58 episodes aired during the first run; the remaining aired in syndication) before ultimately ending with the extinction of dinosaurs. (Inevitable, we suppose.) While ‘Dinosaurs’ was a sitcom, the show broke the mold by not having a studio audience or a laugh track. Brought to …
Read More »Tony Perkins: Gay Activists Are Cowards
“The people who avoid a debate are the ones afraid of losing. That’s why the groups like GetEQUAL and others are forming what is basically a mobile protest unit. Yesterday, its activists rallied outside the offices of King & Spalding–only to learn that its attorneys had bailed on the case. So what did they do? Hopped in the car, drove …
Read More »Today In Ambiguously Gay Advertising
Dozens of you have sent in the below Budweister ad in which some are seeing a gay subtext to a soldier’s coming home story. I’m not seeing it.
Read More »Trump Takes Credit
“Today I’m very proud of myself, because I’ve accomplished something that no one else has been able to accomplish. I want to look at it, but I hope it’s true. But he should have done it a long time ago.” – Donald Trump, who went on to demand the president’s college transcripts. Trump also claimed that a CNN poll shows …
Read More »Obama Releases Birth Certificate, Birthers Leap Out Of Tall Buildings Nationwide
Talking Points Memo: It’s surreal and weird and faintly ridiculous that it’s come to this. But this morning the White House caught the press corps seriously off guard by handing out copies of the anti-Holy Grail of birtherism, the fabled ‘long form’ birth certificate. The president will speak to this issue in a press conference this morning. So far there …
Read More »Andrew Sullivan On “Hunky Jesus”
“I am a First Amendment absolutist, as readers know. And I’m also a solid defender of the right to blasphemy. But there are smart ways of doing this, ways that illuminate broader issues – think of ‘The Book Of Mormon’ or any South Park episode. And then there are smug, cheap and unfunny shots at the faith of other people. …
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