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Robertson adds that the wedding venue owners in Idaho should “get on a plane” and get out of the state. It bears repeating that one can become an ordained minister online for about $20 and the owners of Idaho’s Hitching Post only became ordained because the local position of justice of the peace had been abolished.

“In some ways, the decision that was just handed down to not do anything about what states are doing on same-sex marriage may end up being as consequential—from my perspective, a positive sense – as anything that’s been done. Because I think it really signals that although the Court was not quite ready—it didn’t have sufficient votes to follow Loving …

Last Monday, crackpot anti-gay activist Pastor Flip Benham, father of the would-be HGTV twins, joined two other Christian protesters to scream insults at happy strangers marrying outside a North Carolina courthouse. Via Matt Comer at Q Notes: Three anti-LGBT protesters were present outside the register’s office, including well-known street preacher and convicted stalker Flip Benham. He interrupted several couples’ weddings …

This weekend popular Indian chat show host Aamir Khan broadcast an examination of the issues LGBT Indians face in a country whose highest court recently recriminalized homosexuality. The first segment (in Hindi) is below, but you’ll probably want to watch the non-embeddable version here, which is subtitled in English. Khan, who appears to be an ally, opened the show by …

Livability has compiled a list of the best places to live if you are liberal or conservative. Via press release: Our editors, working with advisory board member Kevin Stolarick, Ph.D, (the founding research director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management) and using data from several geographies, gauged the ideological skew of the …

Philadelphia International Records, the label that with New York City competitor Salsoul Records is credited with helping launch the global disco phenomenon, has shut down. The “Love Train” that has carried “The Sound of Philadelphia (TSOP)” to “people all over the world” for almost half a century made its last physical stop at 309 S. Broad Street this week as …

Late Friday night Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead declared that he will not appeal the marriage equality ruling issued that morning by a federal court. According to Mead, he will send formal notice “no later than Thursday, October 23, 2014, at 5:00 p.m.” – which is when that court’s stay expires. Local activists have demanded that the notice be filed immediately. …

Notorious anti-gay lawmaker Vitaly Milonov has demanded that Russia’s postal service refuse to deliver letters that bear the Tom Of Finland stamps recently issued by Finland’s government. Speaking to the TASS news agency, he said: “They are basically elements of homosexual propaganda, which is banned in our country.” “I ask the leadership of Russian Post to pay close attention to …