Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Via CBS Philadelphia: In the wake of the September 11th gay bashing incident in Center City, the House Democratic Policy Committee held a public hearing on LGBT hate crimes Thursday. “We have an uphill battle in this legislative climate to pass LGBT hate crimes laws,” said State representative Brian Sims. Sims called the hearing, which was held at the Kimmel …

Via Portugal News: According to the head of the Portuguese homosexual Catholics’ association Rumos Novos, gay members of the Catholic church are to ask the Vatican for an “urgent change” in attitude that will promote their acceptance and integration in local communities and parishes. Speaking to Lusa News Agency ahead of the first World Congress of Homosexual Catholics’ Associations, which …

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Researchers have long believed that HIV first jumped from apes to humans nearly a century ago in central Africa. Today comes a more conclusive report. Bustling transport networks, migrant labor and changes to the sex trade in early 20th-century Congo created a “perfect storm” that gave rise to an HIV pandemic that has now infected 75 million people worldwide, researchers …

Televangelist Rory Alec, who with his wife Wendy founded the GOD TV network, has confessed to adultery. Via the virulently anti-gay Charisma News: Another leader in the body of Christ has admitted to a “moral failure” concerning his marriage. Rory Alec has resigned as chairman and CEO of the network he co-founded with his wife, Wendy. “After 20 years of …

A former toll collector for the Garden State Parkway is suing the state of New Jersey, claiming that she was so devastated at being told not to tell drivers “God bless you” that she was forced to quit her job of three entire weeks. You will be shocked to learn that this bullshit story is being flogged by Todd Starnes. …

(Tipped by JMG reader Lynda)

From the press materials: To Russia With Love, an EPIX Original Documentary about two generations of Olympic LGBT athletes, will make its world premiere on Wednesday, October 29 at 8PM ET. To Russia With Love examines human rights through the lens of LGBT athletes, with iconoclastic athlete and commentator Johnny Weir serving as the viewers’ guide into this world. The …

Last month an Alabama woman filed a Supreme Court amicus brief in support of Utah’s ban on same-sex marriage. Pat Fancher does not want same-sex marriage to be legalized because if that happens, her former son-in-law would be entitled to the money awarded in the wrongful death suit filed against the trucking company whose driver killed his husband. And God …