Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Clip recap: I’m back on the East Coast this week, reporting on AFER’s huge victory in Virginia. The fourth circuit has upheld a ruling that the state’s marriage ban is unconstitutional. There’s been immediate fallout from that ruling in several nearby states. We also have new southern polling, and victory in Alaska, but only for dead people.

Featuring a very buff Nick Jonas.

This week Erasure frontman Andy Bell released his fourth solo album, which carries the provocative title Torsten, The Bareback Saint. Reviewers are raving about the album’s unusual premise. This album, to be performed live at the Edinburgh Festival from 5-16 August, is possibly Bell’s finest vocal outing. Strong and well-tuned, his voice is nothing short of superb and the songs, …

Via the Huffington Post: Mary’s Gourmet Diner in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, is offering a 15 percent “praying in public” discount. Owner Mary Haglund confirmed the discount to The Blaze on Friday saying that she has actually been offering the rebate for four years now. The discount, which she said is not aligned with any singular religious affiliation, hasn’t been advertised …

Tea Party supporters are already furious at Chipotle for asking “open carry” nuts not to bring their weapons into their outlets. This weekend ten of thousands of teabaggers shared a Tea Party News Network post which declares that Chipotle is run by communists. After Chipotle declared that they were prohibiting patrons from exercising their Second Amendment rights in their restaurants, …

Oxford University’s Out Of The Blue a capella group has earned 3.3M views on their Shakira cover, sales of which benefit a British children’s hospice. The top comment on YouTube (with 600+ likes) rips some of the reactions to their performance: I love the ‘omg so gay’ comments. These guys are going to be drowning in pussy! You know why? …

Back in January a federal court overturned Oklahoma’s ban on same-sex marriage.  Acting on behalf of Tulsa County Clerk Sally Howe Smith, the Alliance Defending Freedom appealed that ruling to the Tenth Circuit Court, who upheld the lower court’s ruling last month. Late Friday evening the Alliance Defending Freedom announced that it was appealing the Tenth Circuit ruling to SCOTUS. …

American Atheists have launched Atheist TV, which for now is available only through Roku and online. Via the New York Times: At a party on Tuesday night celebrating the premiere, David Silverman, president of American Atheists, described a channel that won’t be any of the sordid things that certain religious types might envision, but that will be a challenge to …