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Today Emperor Palpatine urged the Portuguese people to oppose the marriage equality bill recently approved by the nation’s legislature, calling it an “insidious” threat to society. The pope, wrapping up his trip to this country where more than 90 percent of the population is officially Catholic, made his appeal in the shrine city of Fatima on a day that started …

Sarah Palin doesn’t like it that an Illinois girls basketball team won’t be playing in an Arizona tournament due to the state’s racist immigration law. Cover your ears, Palin’s voice hits some frequencies only heard by bats.

In a blistering editorial attacking Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum over the Rekers scandal, the Orlando Sentinel has called on McCollum to drop his appeal of the decision to allow gay adoptions as “atonement” for hiring Rekers. The judge in the Florida case, Cindy Lederman, wound up declaring the state’s gay adoption ban unconstitutional. In her ruling, Ms. Lederman wrote …

“Ms. Nooyi, you lead PepsiCo’s Diversity and Inclusion Governance Council. I don’t want to hear any more words from you about diversity and inclusion — I want you to actually practice it. As for Peggy Moore, who represents PepsiCo on the PFLAG Board Workplace Diversity Committee, she should be fired because she doesn’t know the first thing about diversity if …

Here’s what it looks like, 5000 feet down on the ocean floor. No end in sight. (No audio on this clip.)

Activist and SiriusXM host Michelangelo Signorile says that it’s time that the gay community stops cloaking anti-gay politicians that are known to us to be gay themselves. Writing for the Advocate, Signorile uses the recent example of California state Sen. Roy Ashburn, who was outed by West Sacramento’s openly gay mayor on Facebook, although few took notice. West Sacramento’s Mayor …

NARTH has announced their 2010 convention, which will be held at Philadelphia’s Renaissance Hotel on November 5th-7th. This year’s “ex-gay” confab will be called “Preserving Personal Freedom: The Scientific & Ethical Treatment of Unwanted Homosexuality.” Who’s down for a drop-in? The luggage prop opportunities are irresistible!

Jason Clark is running for governor of Colorado. And since he doesn’t have a running mate, he’s put an ad on Craigslist. Clark, who currently serves as the president of the Aurora, CO investment firm Clark Brothers, forked over $25 for a to-the-point listing on the website, calling on average Coloradans to apply for the job, via the standard anonymous …