A Tennessee state Senate committee has advanced the bill to ban all local LGBT rights laws in the state. The measure sponsored by Republican Sen. Mae Beavers [left] of Mt. Juliet was approved 6-3 in the Senate State and Local Government Committee. The companion bill passed the House 73-24 last month. The proposal would void a Nashville ordinance barring companies …
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Sam Seder On The Tea Party’s Offer
Sam Seder rants about Monday’s offer by the Tea Party to end their opposition to a rise in the debt ceiling if Congress will block the repeal of DADT.
Read More »Pentagon Revokes On Base Marriages
The Washington Post is tweeting that the Pentagon has revoked the U.S. Navy memo granting permission for chaplains to perform on-base same-sex marriages. This comes after two days of intense anti-gay lobbying on the issue by House GOP members working under the orders of the Family Research Council.
Read More »Glee Spoiler: Prom Queen
Stay out of the comments if you haven’t seen tonight’s episode. Otherwise dive in and dish.
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Somehow New York is second to Minnesota in Google searches for “hipster.” Darker states have more interest in the term.
Read More »FOF: Redefine Marriage – Or ELSE
Focus On The Family wants to make a martyr out of Peter Vidmar, the Olympian who this week resigned from a 2012 Olympics position after complaints about his support for Proposition 8.
Read More »TENNESSEE: Activists Give Kids “Don’t Be H8N On The Homos” T-Shirts
Activists from FCKH8.com yesterday handed out hundreds of t-shirts to Tennessee students in protest of the state’s pending “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Angered at the progress that the proposed “Teachers Can’t Talk About Gays” law has made in the Tennessee state senate, gay activists with the website FCKH8.com passed out hundreds of pro-gay T-shirts, wristbands, pins and stickers in front …
Read More »Ben Cohen Wants To Meet You
Having never heard his decidedly non-posh accent before, I think I like Ben Cohen even more, if that’s possible. This clip is posted to Cyndi Lauper’s We Give A Damn channel.
Read More »NOM Robocalls Against RI Civil Unions
(Via – Good As You)
Read More »NOM Kicks Off New York Campaign
Just posted to NOM’s blog: “It’s become quite clear in recent days in New York that Governor Cuomo and same-sex marriage advocates are targeting a select number of Democrat state Senators, as well as some Republicans in their desperate attempt to coerce legislators to support their agenda,” said Brian Brown, President of NOM. “We want to be sure those courageous …
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