Joe.My.God. LGBT News

“I don’t think he understands the religious freedom issue as it relates to the LGBT movement and Christians. He was asked point-blank about that by Kelly Shackelford. We all know the stories about the Christian businesses that have been either put out of business or fined by the LGBT people who want to force them to participate in ‘gay marriages’ …

From the Associated Press: A Kentucky clerk who spent five days in jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples has asked a federal appeals court to dismiss a lawsuit against her because of a new state law that will take effect next month. Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis stopped issuing marriage licenses after a U.S. Supreme Court …

Former Rep. Michelle “Crazy Eyes” Bachmann, who co-owns an ex-gay torture clinic with her husband Ladybird Bachmann, is the first name on the list of evangelical advisors released today by the Trump campaign. From the Washington Blade: The 26 members of the board are a who’s who of individuals who’ve sought to undermine LGBT rights. Members were announced on the …

From Sacramento’s ABC affiliate: The property management company and owner of the building in which Verity Baptist Church and its Pastor Roger Jimenez preside have decided not to renew the church’s lease, and have asked church officials to consider moving. While Harsch Investment Properties, owner of the Northgate Business Park where the church is located, cannot legally evict the church …

NOTE: The video of this funeral may feel intrusive to some, but it was broadcast live in Orlando with the agreement of the victim’s family. ABC News reports: Brenda Lee Marquez-McCool was dancing with her son Isaiah Henderson at Pulse nightclub when shots rang out over the blaring music. Instead of running away, she threw herself on her son, shielding …

Ruh-roh: Donald Trump slipped farther behind Hillary Clinton in Florida, lost his narrow advantage in Ohio and remained locked in a dead heat in Pennsylvania, according to the results of the latest Quinnipiac University poll gauging voter attitudes in the those three swing states out Tuesday. Clinton leads Trump by eight points in Florida, 47 percent to 39 percent, up …

From the San Francisco Chronicle: San Francisco public safety officials are taking no chances with this weekend’s Pride celebration after an attack this month at a gay nightclub in Orlando in which 49 people were massacred. For the first time, there will be metal detectors — a combination of walk-through machines and handheld wands — at all entry points to …

Via Advertising Week: If you pick up this Sunday’s print edition of The New York Times and thumb through it, you’ll find that it features a couple full-page print ads from American Express that show the brand’s support for gay marriage. It’s no coincidence that the brand is rolling the ads out on Sunday, June 26, since that’s the one …

Donald Trump’s meeting today with hundreds of anti-LGBT activists is closed to the press but attendees are tweeting out short videos. Here’s what Trump just told them about praying for America’s current leaders: I don’t think about Hillary in terms of religion. She’s been in the public eye for years and years and yet there’s nothing out there, there’s, like, …

Right Wing Watch reports: American Family Association official Sandy Rios discussed the need for AR-15s to remain legal on her radio show on Monday, saying that Donald Trump supporters could have used AR-15s to protect themselves from violent protesters at a receny rally in San Jose, California. “The semi-automatic AR-15, which is routinely confused as being a machine gun or …