Joe.My.God. LGBT News

After a “heated” public debate, yesterday the Oklahoma City Council voted 5-4 to ban anti-LGBT discrimination in housing. Oklahoma City’s NBC affiliate reports: “I just feel this incredible relief and happiness and joy that our kids are going to turn on the TV tonight and think: Oklahoma is standing with you,” said Cindy Cason, whose son is gay. She lives …

A bill introduced yesterday by Democratic Missouri state Sen. Jamilah Nasheed [photo] would have police officers record the “perceived” sexual orientation of drivers stopped for infractions. The Fair & Impartial Policing Act is endorsed by the ACLU of Missouri and is part of a broad anti-profiling campaign. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports: “This is not an attack on law enforcement,” …

Voice Of America reports: A Chinese court has accepted the country’s first same-sex marriage case, filed by a gay man in Hunan province against the government for refusing his application to marry his male partner. The decision is being hailed as a step forward for gay rights and as a major test case for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) …

The BBC reports: North Korea says it has successfully carried out its first underground test of a hydrogen bomb – a more powerful weapon than an atomic bomb. If true it would be its fourth nuclear test since 2006 and mark a huge advance in its nuclear capabilities. The announcement was swiftly criticised by world leaders with South Korea calling …

Tony Perkins appeared on CNN last night to defend Ted Cruz and wail about religious liberty. Perkins has not yet formally endorsed Ted Cruz and was careful not to openly attack Trump. Watch below.

Donald Trump today finally picked up the anti-Cruz birther meme that has been burbling across Teabagistan for more than a year. The Washington Post reports: Donald Trump said in an interview that rival Ted Cruz’s Canadian birthplace was a “very precarious” issue that could make the senator from Texas vulnerable if he became the Republican presidential nominee. “Republicans are going …

JMG reader Wyatt points us to the latest money beg by Ted Cruz, who would like a donation of $35 or more to “make the Reagan Revolution happen again.” The Cruz camp fails to mention that Reagan was shot by a mentally ill man whose gun purchase might be thwarted today under the very rules just announced by President Obama.

The American Family Association today launched a petition against Allstate over the company’s wildly popular ad which features two dads and their infant daughter. From the petition: Your promotion depicting two homosexual men raising an infant girl is extremely disappointing. Two men cannot replace the emotional nurture that only a mother can provide to a child. Studies show that children …

This afternoon Glenn Beck declared that President Obama’s gun control measures will lead to suicides by mentally ill people who won’t seek treatment lest their names be put on a gun confiscation list. Seriously. Oh, and this will also lead to a black market for psychiatry. For realz. Watch below.

Raving nutbag Breitbart editor John Nolte has fired off a half-dozen tweets in which he claims that President Obama smeared something on his “fascist finger” before touching his face to create “fascist tears” for the children murdered in mass shootings. We must presume that like the NRA, Nolte is a heartless ghoul who celebrates every time a toddler takes a …