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Russia can tear down their monument to Steve Jobs because Apple CEO Tim Cook has come out, but that won’t save their stock market. Via the Telegraph: Apple is now worth more than Russia’s stock market, new data have revealed. The US technology giant’s market capitalisation has overtaken the combined value of all Russian public companies for the first time …

“First of all, I’m delivered. And when I was a homosexual, I never looked at an old man. I would never touch an old man. Like I said, I dated a couple of football players, I dated church people. So I would never ever date a old person. That’s not my type. That’s nasty. If folks want to know if …

Via Raw Story: An exorcism performed outside a Starbucks coffee shop in Austin, Texas, was caught on video, mySA reported on Wednesday. In the video, a group of men can be seen with their hands placed another man, who is spewing saliva into a red plastic cup. “All your legions of poison. All your legions out! Out! All your legions …

Alaska’s gubernatorial race has finally been called. Bill Walker [above right], an attorney and former mayor of Valdez, is the first candidate unaffiliated with a party to be elected governor since statehood. Walker’s mentor, Wally Hickel, served a term as governor with the Alaskan Independence Party, a recognized third-party in the state, before going back to the GOP. Walker, who …

The state of Michigan yesterday filed an attempt to void the 300+ same-sex marriages that took place there  during the brief period that it was legal. According to the office of Gov. Rick Snyder, last week’s ruling by the Sixth Circuit invalidated those marriages. “Consequently, from a legal standpoint, because the marriages rested solely on the district court’s erroneous decision, …

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi tonight filed an appeal with the Eleventh Circuit Court of the August ruling in the ACLU / SAVE Dade suit that overturned that state’s ban on same-sex marriage.   On November 5th, US District Court Judge Robert Hinkle denied the request to immediately lift the stay on his ruling while the appeals process goes on. …

News of COGIC’s now legendary “I’m not gay no more” incident has spread to Britain, where a prankster named Nathan disrupted a London church to scream the lines made famous this week. The handful of people on hand watched bemusedly as a security guard very politely asked Nathan to calm down. The police were called and when they spoke to …

The above federal court today denied South Dakota’s demand for the dismissal of the marriage equality lawsuit filed in late May. The dismissal demand was denied, in part, on the basis of case precedent that the court today ruled as “not controlling.” But much more interesting is the Court’s statement on last week’s ruling by the Sixth Circuit Court of …

Earlier today Lambda Legal and ACLU filed a demand that SCOTUS hear their appeal of the Sixth Circuit Court ruling in Ohio. This afternoon the National Center for Lesbian Rights and a coalition of local legal firms did the same regarding the Tennessee case. From their petition: Beyond the many legal protections denied to petitioners, Tennessee’s refusal to recognize their …