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She’s totally a closeted lesbian. So says my very trusted tipster who adds this about Montana state GOP Rep. Kristin Hansen: “She lives with a woman who she introduces to others as her ‘friend’ but has confirmed to a handful of people is her partner. The partner’s ex has also been telling people what’s up.” Hansen was first elected to …

David Barton, the Seven Mountains whackjob who believes that America should be a Christianist theocracy, says that the Bible outlaws net neutrality. In fact, fairness isn’t a concept that Christians should embrace at all. This is the Fairness Doctrine applied to the Internet, and I’ll go back to what I believed for a long time is: fair is a word …

Responding to pressure from the Courage Campaign, Sen. Herb Kohl (D-WI) has agreed to become the tenth and final vote needed to advance the bill to repeal DOMA out of the Senate Judiciary Committee. While the repeal effort has a reasonable chance of success in the Senate, it is, of course, doomed in the GOP-dominated House.

At yesterday’s tax day protest in New Hampshire, Wonk Room’s Igor Volsky couldn’t find a single Tea Party activist who cares about gay marriage.

“I was somewhat amused when Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who had just spent the last four years adding trillions to the deficit, said the U.S. Congress couldn’t afford to retain lawyers to defend DOMA now that President Obama’s DOJ surrendered to their liberal base on the issue. On the heels of the news that Congress will add another DOMA challenge …

According to a press release from the Human Rights Campaign, the GOP’s contract with the law firm hired to defend DOMA stipulates a maximum payment of $500,000. Oh, but it could be more. In order to defend discrimination by any means necessary, House Republican leaders have contracted with the law firm King & Spalding at the rate of $520 an …

Some Italians Catholics are incensed over the below 10-second cell phone ad in which a man resembling Jesus asks “Dad” for help in escaping a dominatrix. “It’s a sordid concept and incredibly insulting to those who believe in Jesus Christ,” said an editorial in Avvenire, a daily newspaper owned by the Catholic Bishops Conference. The newspaper’s editor, Marco Tarquinio, said …

The online dating site OK Cupid polled 250,000 self-identified heterosexuals to get the above result. Buzzfeed has dozens of other survey responses, any one of which would also be worthy of discussion here.