Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Via the Los Angeles Times: The road to gay rights at the U.S. Supreme Court began not in San Francisco or New York, but in a small downtown Los Angeles office, where volunteer writers and editors in 1953 launched a new “magazine for homosexuals.” ONE, as it was called, offered thoughtful articles, defiant editorials and none of the racy photos …

Via UPI: Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has been made the chair for the Senate subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness, which oversees NASA. Cruz said in 2013 it is “critical” the United States show continued leadership in space exploration and development. However, his opinion on climate change, which NASA is heavily involved in studying, has been a skeptical one. “The …

“Dignity 1.0, the older conception shared by Christians, natural law theorists and others, refers to the idea that humans have ‘inherent worth of immeasurable value that is deserving of certain morally appropriate responses.’ Understood in this way, dignity is an inalienable value. It’s a reality. Human dignity does not become real when you start to believe in it. It remains …

This was topic #1 across Teabagistan yesterday.

“Tina suffered a lifetime of alcoholism, drug abuse, eating disorders and four failed marriage. All this was rooted in a bloodline curse of Murder and Baal.”

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Via the Washington Post: As far as Tiffany & Co. ads go, it’s standard fare: a chic, exceptionally attractive couple sharing a romantic moment that is captured in a beautiful black and white photograph. This time around, the only difference is that said couple is composed of two men, making them the first gay couple ever featured in the luxury …

Via Raw Story: A pastor at the Bible Baptist Church in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey is coming under fire after his church posted a video of him claiming to have converted a “smart aleck” youth by “punching him in the chest as hard as I could.” Pastor Eric Dammann begins by saying that he met a young man in Calgary …

UPDATE: The live-stream has concluded.

As anti-gay activists wearing surgical masks protested outside Mexicali City Hall, the first same-sex wedding in the state of Baja California was thwarted yesterday after a local Christian group filed a legal complaint that the grooms are mentally ill. Via U-T San Diego: Saturday’s ceremony had been on the civil registry’s calendar for weeks. Hours after a spokesman for the …