Joe.My.God. LGBT News

“Arkansas voters got an early Christmas present when Fayetteville put the city council on notice that it wouldn’t tolerate a Houston-type ordinance. In an incredible victory, voters turned out in droves — even in an ultra-liberal college town — to roll back a measure that would have given locals the ‘right’ to use either gender’s bathroom, shower, locker room, or …

From the HRC’s blog: Last night, LGBT equality took a step backward in Arkansas following a Fayetteville vote to repeal a citywide non-discrimination ordinance that included protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity. In a vicious, months-long campaign, anti-LGBT activists painted Ordinance 119 — a non-discrimination law — as something that would allow “sexual predators … to enter gender-private …

“International Food & Restaurant Consultants, Baum + Whiteman, have sent out their 2015 trend report, which tells us all what we’ll be eating next year. What, you think this has nothing to do with you? You go to your refrigerator and you select… I don’t know… that lumpy blue cheese, for instance… But what you don’t know is that that …

From the New York Times: The litany of brutality, lawlessness and lack of accountability serves as a reminder of what a horrible decision President Obama made at the outset of his administration to close the books on this chapter in our history, even as he repudiated the use of torture. The C.I.A. officials who destroyed videotapes of waterboarding were left …

Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) today announced that in the next session he will introduce a sweeping federal LGBT rights bill that will cover employment, housing, credit, and public accommodations. Justin Snow reports at MetroWeekly: Merkley said that while the Senate’s passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act in November of last year by a 64-32 vote after the bill failed by …

Pat Robertson responds to today’s viewer question: “There’s nothing I know in the bible about hair cut to stubble. Unless you’re a prisoner and you’ve been captured and the man wants to take you as his wife, but you have to cut your hair, shave your hair, and cut off your fingernails and then if he still finds you attractive …

The Washington Post has a breakdown of some of the items in the budget.

Via Wonkette: Michele Bachmann gave her farewell address to the House of Representatives Tuesday, and while we were worried that she might just stand up and announce that all her email should be forwarded to [email protected], she actually did deliver a thoroughly Bachmannian speech. It hits all the required notes: Freedom, In God We Trust, Why the House is the …

Via the Washington Post: “America loves an underdog. We’re definitely the underdog in this race,” he said in an interview Tuesday. Santorum added that being underestimated — again — “has given me a lot of latitude.” His iconic sweater vests will likely make a return appearance. But Santorum 2.0 will be a very different presidential campaign than the one that …