Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Via Reuters: An Italian court has for the first time recognised the legal status of a child born to a gay couple in a ruling, made public on Wednesday, that challenges the country’s official stance on marriage only being between a man and a woman. Italy, where the Roman Catholic church still has a great influence on politics, does not …

Ernst’s first campaign ad bragged that she is a woman of the people because she has castrated hogs. As all people have.

One of Pat Robertson’s “charities” had offered to employ McDonnell in lieu of a prison sentence.

Via CNN: President Barack Obama strongly condemned the terror attack in Paris on Tuesday that claimed 12 lives and praised France for standing “shoulder to shoulder” in the fight against terrorism. Obama said in a statement that the U.S. would provide “any assistance” to “America’s oldest ally” in bringing the terrorists to justice. Obama was briefed on the attack against …

Via the BBC: Gunmen have shot dead 12 people at the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in an apparent militant Islamist attack. Four of the magazine’s well-known cartoonists, including its editor-in-chief, were among those killed, as well as two police officers. A major police operation is under way to find three gunmen who fled by car. President …

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi was sworn in to her second term yesterday after which reporters mobbed her on the steps of the state Capitol Building to grill her about the lifting of the ban on same-sex marriage. Bondi twice said she sends her “best wishes” to newly married couples, but dodged questions about dropping her appeal to the Eleventh …

Matt Comer reports at Q Notes: City Council members in Greensboro, N.C., unanimously passed several new ordinance changes at their meeting on Tuesday, making it the first city in the state to prohibit anti-LGBT discrimination in housing, among other protections. The city’s move toward more inclusive local policies follows similar proposals and discussion in Charlotte, the state’s largest city, though …

“I do not wish to lend our voice to notions which might suggest that same-sex couples are a threat incapable of sharing relationships marked by love and holiness and, thus, incapable of contributing to the edification of both the church and the wider society. In the midst of changing societal definitions and understandings of marriage, there may no doubt be …

“Nothing is inevitable. ‘Inevitability’ is the progressive substitute for the idea of Divine Providence. Either God is in charge, or the future hasn’t yet happened and is freely determined. Or God leaves us free.” – Former NOM president Maggie Gallagher, speaking yesterday to the Daily Beast.  Asked if anti-gay groups have any hopes of winning in 2015, Gallagher said “I …

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