Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Yesterday a group of students at Harding University in Arkansas launched an online zine meant to “give voice to the experiences of gay and lesbians” on campus, but the school immediately blocked the site from campus by listing it on its porn filter. Read the students’ stirring manifesto, The State Of The Gay. RELATED: Harding alum and JMG reader Brett …

This list is mostly notable to us for the presence of whackadoodle billionaire Peter Thiel, the GOProud money man who hosted Ann Coulter in his NYC home for their Homocon 2010 fundraiser. Thiel wants to create floating oceanic city-states which are exempt to annoying trifles like taxes and international banking rules. A libertarian’s paradise! At sea! Forever! (Source)

Yesterday prospective 2012 GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump told Rush Limbaugh that he offered $100M to the Obama administration to build a “magnificent White House ballroom” instead of those “rotten tents” put up on the South Lawn for special occasions. Trump claims White House officials blew him off because he’s a Republican.

“And I have said many times, publicly, that I do think he has a different worldview and I think it is, in part, molded out of a very different experience. Most of us grew up going to Boy Scout meetings and, you know, our communities were filled with Rotary Clubs, not madrassas. – Mike Huckabee, following up on his Monday …

The lawyer for a Connecticut man who was arrested for fisting a female horse (SRSLY) is asking the court to show his client lenience because he’s a devout Christian without a previous criminal record. “Mr. Wegiel has never been arrested for any crime before this, and I think he is eligible,” Crozier said. Crozier said Wegiel denies abusing the horse. …

RELATED: Before he was a member of Congress, Franks was the founder of the Arizona Family Research Institute, an offshoot of Focus On The Family. He later chaired Arizonans For Common Sense (anti-abortion) and Arizonans For An Empowered Future (school vouchers). Shortly after the Giffords shooting, he can out against a ban in high-capacity gun clips.

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After two days of delays and some minor panic due to two wayward Democrats, marriage equality backers in Maryland now think the bill will advance out of the House judiciary committee tomorrow. But it will be a squeaker. Delegates Tiffany Alston, Prince George’s County Democrat, and Jill Carter, Baltimore city Democrat, said Wednesday that they are ready to cast votes …