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The House is in recess at this writing, but things should get underway shortly. Watch live here.  Note: Should the bill pass in its third House reading, it will need to return to the Senate for a concurrence vote that would easily pass.

After Monday’s tweet about about rubbing one out, some folks on Facebook think Osteen “is just trolling us now.” Source. (Via JMG reader Ian) UPDATE: I meant to ask if anybody can find the original source on this and prove it’s not a photoshop.

The above-named New Jersey court today told the Liberty Counsel to go fuck themselves.  From the ruling: Garden State’s motion for permissive intervention is GRANTED. Plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment is DENIED. Defendants’ cross motion for summary judgment is GRANTED in its entirety. Accordingly, all of Plaintiffs’ federal and state constitutional claims against Defendants are DISMISSED, and Plaintiffs have no standing …

The anti-gay Alliance Defending Freedom today petitioned the US Supreme Court to hear the appeal of New Mexico’s Elane Photography, the most-cited case in the boogeyman war against same-sex marriage despite the fact that New Mexico does not presently have legalized same-sex marriage. Via SCOTUSblog: On the premise that taking photos is a form of story-telling — recall the old …

Via the San Jose Mercury-News: A 16-year-old who told police homophobia caused him to light a sleeping teen’s skirt on fire aboard an AC Transit bus Monday night has been charged as an adult and could go to prison for life if convicted, prosecutors announced Thursday. Richard Thomas, an Oakland High School student, on Thursday was charged with aggravated mayhem …

“This would not have happened without the blessing of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormon Church). The Mormon Church got a big black eye five years ago for all it did to pass Proposition 8 in California, which wrote discrimination into the state Constitution and took away gay marriage in the nation’s largest state. So in …

The New York Times reports that ENDA passed yesterday not just with the help of the top Mormons in the Senate such as Majority Leader Harry Reid, but with the de facto blessing (or at least, without the objections) of the church itself. Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, who at 79 is one of the Senate’s longest-serving members, became the …

And today we add Idaho to the ever-growing list. Via press release from the National Center for Lesbian Rights: Today, four same-sex couples filed a federal lawsuit in Boise challenging Idaho’s laws that prohibit same-sex couples from marrying and refuse to respect the legal marriages of same-sex couples who married in other states. The couples, all from Boise, include university …