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In 2002 then Florida Gov. Jeb Bush appointed Jerry Regier, another Family Research Council co-founder and a buddy of George Rekers, to head the Department of Children and Families, the very agency now at the center of controversy over Rekers’ payment of $120,000 to testify in against allowing gay adoption. Shortly after Regier assumed the top post at DCF, the …

Via Towleroad, soldiers in Iraq show support for gays in the military with a silly and sexy routine set to Ke$ha. From the clip description: “Created by Codey Wilson and his elite step team of volunteers. Don’t give us a hard time for this, please? We’re just a few good men trying to enjoy ourselves and get this deployment over …

The world’s second-most famous rentboy patron (for the moment) has incorporated a new church in his hometown of Denver. Ted Haggard, the deposed founder of the New Life megachurch, told the Gazette newspaper on Tuesday that the incorporation of a new church on April 29 was done for accounting purposes — tracking reimbursement of travel costs as they speak at …

Juan José Martínez Matos has pleaded guilty to the murder of gay Puerto Rican teenager Jorge Mercado (left), whose decapitated and burned body was found by a roadside last November. Mercado’s murder caused an international outcry and forced activists to pressure the federal government to ensure that the case was prosecuted as a hate crime by Puerto Rican authorities. Michael …

“There are many jobs for which personal appearance is a legitimate and relevant characteristic. Yet even Anne Lawrence, a male-to-female transgender who has written several academic papers on the issue, has admitted that many transgendered people do not make a convincing appearance in their chosen gender identity. It is simply inevitable that when they see a brawny 6′ 2” man …

Ben Smith reports at Politico that a coalition of military bloggers have called for the repeal of DADT. The community of “mil-bloggers” — often hawkish, critical of White House and military leadership, devoted to both the First and Second Amendments — isn’t easy to define politically, but has proven an increasingly powerful voice from the ranks. The statement, which says …

Andrew Sullivan tips us to this: Lars Vilks, a Swedish cartoonist whose sketch of the Prophet Muhammad enraged many Muslims, was head-butted today while giving a lecture about freedom of speech. Vilks, who depicted the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog in 2007, said he was assaulted by a man sitting on the front row as he spoke …

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“And if a guy was to dress like that, he’s covered under the Hate Crimes Act.” Uh, what?

Equality Florida’s Nadine Smith tips us to the below Palm Beach Post grilling of Attorney General Bill McCollum over his backing of Dr. George Rekers as the state’s “expert witness” in their bid to maintain a ban on gay adoption. Smith says she is having their legal team investigate the possibility of compelling the state to sue Rekers to force …