Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Britain’s Supreme Court has ruled that gay people who fear retribution in their home countries have a right to asylum in the UK. The decision involved two men from Iran and Cameroon who say they face physical harm should they be returned to their home countries. Via Pink News: Lord Hope, who read out the judgment, said: “To compel a …

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has signed a bill allowing people to bring firearms into church. Just in case somebody wants to go crazy during Jeebus-time. [The] bill would authorize persons who qualified to carry concealed weapons having passed the training and background checks to bring them to churches, mosques, synagogues or other houses of worship as part of a security …

Wal-Mart has spent over $2M in attorney and court fees fighting a measly $7000 fine for that infamous Thanksgiving Day trampling case in which somebody was killed in a sales-frenzy stampede. The company is concerned that once OSHA starts successfully fining them, then they’ll really have to play by the rules. In fighting the federal fine, Wal-Mart is arguing that …

Calling it “marriage by another name,” Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle has just announced that she will VETO her state’s civil unions bill. Adding insult to her bigotry, invited to the announcement was the now-retired Hawaii Supreme Court Justice who first got the state’s marriage equality ball rolling in 1993. Justice Steven H. Levinson’s 1993 opinion stated that laws prohibiting same-sex …

Sharron Angle is threatening to sue Harry Reid because his campaign staff has republished some of her own statements on a site called Sharron Angle’s Underground Bunker. Because the way to bury something you’re embarrassed for having said is to sue somebody for repeating it. A spokesman for Harry Reid notes: “These are Sharron Angle’s positions in Sharron’s own words …

OK, so back in January a Yosemite camper got a little carried away in his possibly drug-fueled narration of a double rainbow, turning his clip into a highly-mocked viral video. Now the Auto-Tuned News folks have gotten hold of it.