We’ll be holding the meet-up for JMG readers at Oscar’s, which I’m told is right around the corner from the giant Palm Springs Pride block party that night. Thanks very much to Oscar’s for hosting us and to Bud Light for sponsoring our meet-up. Hopefully I won’t get too hammered as I’m scheduled to be princess-waving the next morning. (I’ll …
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Press Release Of The Day
From the Southern Poverty Law Center: Rep. Forbes cancelled his planned appearance today at a fundraising luncheon for an anti-gay hate group, the American Family Association, at the Values Voter Summit in Washington. Forbes’ decision comes in the wake of a petition and TV ad campaign by Faithful America, a progressive Christian organization. My organization, the Southern Poverty Law Center, …
Read More »WYOMING: Liz Cheney Tries To Squash Ad Claiming She Supports Gay Marriage
US Senate candidate Liz Cheney is super-upset about a campaign ad that claims she secretly supports same-sex marriage. And she wants that shit off the air. Cheney’s office sent letters to cable operators and TV stations in the Mountain West region and demanded the ad be removed from broadcast zones in the Denver, Cheyenne and Casper markets. The Cheney camp …
Read More »Woman Screaming “God, You’re My Savior!” Disrupts American Airlines Flight
Tampa’s WTSP-TV reports: The video shows a woman repeatedly yelling “God, you’re my savior!” as the plane lands. The man narrating the video claims she told fellow passengers her mother recently passed away and asked for prayers, before she escalated into the screaming chant. The narrator says flight attendants asked that he make sure the woman didn’t try approaching the …
Read More »Betty Crocker Celebrates ALL Families
The reaction from you-know-who will be as delicious as a Betty Crocker cake. Thanks, Betty!
Read More »When Hate Groups Collide
Brian Brown stopped by the Family Research Council’s booth at the Values Voter Summit today to chat with FRC vice president Peter Sprigg, who appeared on national television in 2010 to declare that Lawrence V Texas had been “wrongly decided” and therefore homosexuality should have remained a crime. Sprigg is probably congratulating Brown for his successful collaboration with the Russian …
Read More »Kuwait To Expand “Gender Testing”
Pink News reports: The Health Ministry of Kuwait has proposed that genetic tests for immigrant workers in countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council, be tightened to prevent transgender migrants from entering the job market there. This news follows an announcement earlier this week that Doctors in Kuwait and other GCC countries may subject men entering the county to screening tests …
Read More »Rachel Maddow Calls Out Religious Right For Supporting Russia’s Anti-Gay Pogrom
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S.E. Cupp To CNN: Stop Calling The FRC’s Values Voter Summit “Anti-Gay”
Mediaite‘s Andrew Kirell writes: The banner was referring to the event’s host: The Family Research Council. Headed up by frequent cable pundit Tony Perkins, FRC is literally anti-gay and anti-abortion. So the banner is certainly not inaccurate. FRC is quite outspoken about its opposition to homosexual acts, and makes plenty of cable news appearances to decry the oncoming wave of …
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