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The virulently anti-gay Save California is calling on its followers to contact every sponsor of today’s Rose Bowl Parade. They also asked their supporters to bring anti-gay signs to the parade and to boo the gay couple as they pass on their float. On New Year’s Day in the world-famous Rose Parade in Pasadena, California, these two practitioners of homosexuality …

Mediaite recaps the latest batch of crazy from Phil Robertson’s recent past: In the middle of his speech before the Hillsboro Church of Christ in El Dorado, AR, Robertson asked “What will do the Muslims (pronounced “Moose-limbs”) in?” Brandishing his Bible, Robertson answered “Violations of the law, that’s what’ll do ‘em in.” “What will do the Chinese in, if they …

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An interesting map from the Washington Post: Secessionist movements are all the rage these days. A handful of counties in Colorado tried to secede from the rest of the state earlier this year. There’s an attempt to create the State of Jefferson (northern California/southern Oregon) via ballot initiative in 2014. And there’s plenty more. What would the U.S. look like …

The Utah GOP has indicated they’d be willing to spend at least $2M to overturn marriage equality and yesterday the just-appointed state Attorney General posted a help wanted ad for outside counsel. An excerpt: Proposals must include: 1.A statement of qualifications describing the attorney’s appellate experience in the federal courts of appeal, particularly in the U.S. Court of Appeals for …

An urgent bulletin from the American Family Association: The 2014 Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California, will feature the “wedding” of two men and will take place aboard a float sponsored by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. Millions of television viewers will see two homosexual men take wedding vows on a float that will celebrate same-sex marriage. Rather than risk …

Yet another eventful year has come and gone for this here website thingy. In 2013 we saw nearly 28 million pageviews on just over 10,000 posts on which you folks left over a million comments.  As I mentioned in this post last year, news blogging is like a homework assignment that is never done, but is always due. Nevertheless, you …

Read the full filing. UPDATE: Via the Associated Press. In papers filed Tuesday with Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the state asked her to overturn court decisions to let the marriages go forward. Sotomayor handles emergency requests from Utah and other Rocky Mountain states. She can act by herself or get the rest of the court involved. Nearly two-thirds of Utah’s 2.8 …