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Televangelist/con artist/homophobe Cindy Jacobs tells an audience of college students that she has personally “stationed angels all around this church” in order to “pierce the darkness of humanism and atheism.” As a bonus in crazy, nasty homophobe Lou Engle comes on stage to babble in tongues and encourage the students to do the same. Mekka-lekka hi there!

(Via – Ezra Klein)

Much noise is being made about the Mormon Church’s so-called softer position on homosexuality. HRC’s Fred Sainz went on MSNBC to talk about it, but Pride In Utah, who has read the new Mormon Handbook, says don’t believe the hype.

“Did you ever wonder where the producers of American Idol come up with the seemingly endless supply of people who can’t sing but are deluded enough to get up in front of a national television audience and screech out a song anyway?” – Sarah Palin, from her coming book America By Heart.

As part of their hilarious campaign of asking the anti-gay teabaggers they endorsed to not be so darn anti-gay, yesterday GOProud’s Jimmy LaSalvia battled Wendy Wright from Concerned Women for America, who shot holes in LaSalvia’s argument.

Donald Trump says he’s not really all that interested in running for president, but the threat of a President Palin might force him into the race. On Thursday’s edition of Good Morning America, Trump said “it could be fun” to mount a run for the White House because he’d “like to see some positive things happen for the country.” He …

“There’s not a single thing about you that’s not normal, good and decent.” And this: “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Don’t give your consent.”

Family Research Council president Tony Perkins says that because the military is primarily made up of blacks, Latinos, and people from rural areas, President Obama will be forced to reinstate the draft if DADT gets repealed. Because everybody knows blacks, Latinos, and folks from rural areas are totally anti-gay and they’ll all quit rather than serve alongside homos. The military …

This month’s celebrity-filled edition of Cyndi Lauper’s We Give A Damn project includes Susan Sarandon, Alan Cumming, Pete Wentz, Rebecca Romijn, and Eden Riegel speaking out on LGBT youth homelessness.

Punk legend Patti Smith has won the National Book Award for Just Kids, her “sweetly evocative” memoir of her life with the late legendary gay photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Accepting the award to applause and cheers, Ms. Smith — clearly the favorite of the night — choked up as she recalled her days as a clerk in the Scribner’s bookstore in …