Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: On his radio program today, American Family Radio’s Bryan Fischer reiterated his position that women should not be entrusted with positions of political authority. Responding to a caller, Fischer stated that “you could make a pretty good biblical case … that only men are supposed to hold political office.” “That’s always the pattern …

It looks like all the protests in advance of today’s speech to the Liberty Counsel had an effect on Marco Rubio. The New York Times reports: Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, who has faced widespread condemnation for agreeing to speak at a conference alongside Christian conservatives who have denounced homosexuality and gay rights, used his speech to the group on …

BOOM. Toronto’s CP24 reports: The owner of a bar in the city’s gay village and former Deputy Premier George Smitherman have launched a class action lawsuit against a group of anti-gay activists who distributed hateful literature during Toronto’s annual pride parade earlier this summer. Cambridge LLP has filed the class action lawsuit on behalf of Christopher Hudspeth and George Smitherman. …

“The Republican electorate should tell its discredited and rejected ruling class: If we cannot get rid of you at the ballot box, then tell us how, peacefully and democratically, we can be rid of you? You want Trump out? How do we get you out? The Czechs had their Prague Spring. The Tunisians and Egyptians their Arab Spring. When do …

NOBODY PANIC! STOP ALL THAT PANICKING! Via Politico: Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus pushed back on reports of trouble with Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. “Don’t believe the garbage you read,” Priebus said Friday during a Trump rally in Erie, Pennsylvania. “Let me tell you something: Donald Trump, the Republican Party, all of you, we’re gonna put him in the …

BOOM. Another win for Roberta Kaplan. Chris Geidner reports at Buzzfeed: A federal appeals court on Friday denied Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant’s request that the state be allowed to enforce a recently passed anti-LGBT religious exemption law while the state appeals a trial court’s order halting enforcement of that law. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, in denying the request …

More trouble for Roy Moore’s bestie. Raw Story reports: Republican Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley is taking heat after bombshell phone call recordings released this week show that he lied to a state congressman about the casino gambling industry manufacturing rumors about him having an affair. AL.com reports that Alabama State Rep. Allen Farley recorded a phone conversation that he had …

NBC News reports: Democrat Hillary Clinton leads Republican Donald Trump in some of the most diverse battleground states – including by double digits in two of them – according to four brand-new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls. In the key battleground of Florida, which President Obama won in 2008 and 2012, Clinton is ahead of Trump by five points among …

The Log Cabin Republicans this week announced that Newt Gingrich will headline their fundraiser next month in Washington DC. Gingrich, as most of you surely know, has long been a loud opponent of LGBT rights in virtually every category. He pledged to reinstate DADT if elected president. He signed NOM’s hate pledge to support a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex …

Oh yes, this will become a meme. Via Politico: Republican insiders are more convinced than Democrats that Donald Trump is so far behind Hillary Clinton that he can’t win in November. Roughly half of Republican members of The POLITICO Caucus — activists, strategists and operatives in 11 swing states — believe that Trump’s path to 270 electoral votes is basically …