Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Via the Wall Street Journal: Republican Dan Sullivan was declared the winner of Alaska’s Senate race early Wednesday morning, a week after voting ended, as the Associated Press said he held an insurmountable lead over one-term Democratic Sen. Mark Begich. Mr. Sullivan’s win brings the Republican majority in the next Senate to 53 seats, with one race, in Louisiana, still …

The election is finally settled, but the bizarre news out of San Diego and the DeMaio campaign continues. Todd Bosnich, who claimed GOP congressional candidate Carl DeMaio sexually harassed him, was arrested Tuesday on charges of assaulting his mother last week, San Diego police said. Around 7 p.m. on Friday, Bosnich got into an argument with his mother in the …

“I think all the polls show if she does run, she’ll win the Democrat nomination. But I don’t think it’s for certain. It’s a very taxing undertaking to go through. It’s a rigorous physical ordeal, I think, to be able to campaign for the presidency.” – Sen Rand Paul, speaking to Politico. Even Fox News has slammed Paul for the …

Via the Washington Post: Clinton called his wife “a doting, giddy” grandmother, and called watching 6-week old Charlotte, the couple’s first grandchild, the daughter of Chelsea Clinton and husband Marc Mezvinsky “a hoot.” Degeneres later tried to pry the will-she-or-won’t-she news out of Clinton by offering one of two baby onesies for him to pick for his granddaughter. One read …

UPDATE: Equality Case Files has the motion.

“If you run a public accommodation and use it to refuse service to a minority, you’re on the wrong side of the law (at least since the Civil Rights Movement). So why am I concerned by the latest case of a lesbian couple suing a family business that refused to rent out their property for a same-sex wedding? Simply because …

(Tipped by JMG reader Jari)

“Some of us in the social conservative movement are used to being called names and having our motives aspersed by gay activists in the so-called blogosphere. Such persons should be shown the same love by Evangelicals as those believers have been shown by their Savior. Yet showing them such love does not mean their public agenda should not be opposed, …

At a hearing to be held tomorrow, DOMA attorney Roberta Kaplan will lead the legal team seeking to overturn Mississippi’s ban on same-sex marriage. Last night Gov. Phil Bryant filed a motion in opposition to Kaplan’s request that marriages commence immediately while the lawsuit proceeds. Via the Associated Press: Bryant and Attorney General Jim Hood responded that the 5th U.S. …