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From the news director of the Denver Post: Colorado will open the doors to legal recreational marijuana sales in the new year. We have been covering the medical marijuana industry for more than a decade. But last year, voters approved legalized recreational marijuana. We have written extensively about the research on marijuana, the regulation, the wrangling in the legislature, cooking …

The theme of the book is that Jesus will turn America back into a Christian nation if everybody prays at 7:14am and 7:14pm every day. Or something. Vander Plaats, you might recall, was last year accused of offering to sell his presidential endorsement to Frothy Mix for a sweet million dollars.

Earlier this week a United Methodist minister in Pennsylvania was found “guilty” of officiating at his son’s wedding to a man. Now he’s been sentenced by the church to a 30-day suspension. Frank Schaefer, 51, the pastor at Zion United Methodist Church of Iona in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, was found guilty by a jury of 13 ordained clergy members on two …

Lots more at New York Magazine.

From the San Diego Gay & Lesbian News: Tuesday night, Atlantis CEO Rich Campbell outlined the new cruises in store for 2014, including the return of the popular Baltic European cruise. This time, however, one port of call that had always been included in the past was pointedly excluded for the 2014 cruise: St. Petersburg, Russia. Campbell said that while …

Anti-gay crackpots are ganging up to flag the YouTube videos posted by Right Wing Watch, which always eventually wins back the clips in question, as they did when Pat Robertson’s stormtroopers tried to squash his “AIDS ring” video. The freak shows know this, but they continue their campaign. Sign the petition posted today by People For The American Way.

“I’ve loved men in my life. There are some men I’ve loved in my life as much, if not more, than the women in my life. I don’t have a sexual preference for men … but I’ve loved men.  I’ve been in love with about three or four men, as much, if not more, than any woman I’ve loved. I …

Another great win today by the ACLU: The Arkansas Supreme Court today reversed a lower court child custody order that prohibited a parent from having overnight visitation with his child in the presence of his long-term domestic partner. The ruling ends a widespread practice in Arkansas custody cases of courts automatically barring parents from living with an unmarried partner regardless …