Joe.My.God. LGBT News

In a lengthy interview published today, Pope Francis declared that the Catholic Church should not “interfere spiritually” with the lives of gay people. CNN reports: When Francis was a bishop in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he received letters from gays and lesbians who said they were “socially wounded” by the church, he said. “But the church does not want to do …

A coalition of crusty crackpots including Eugene Delgaudio and freakshow Virginia Del. Bob Marshall have filed a petition to the US Supreme Court demanding their reversal of a ruling by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals which upheld the legalization of sodomy. As you surely know, in 2003 the Supreme Court overturned all statewide bans on sodomy in their landmark …

Pennsylvania’s Lackawanna County has passed an ordinance banning all religious advertising on public transit in order stop a local atheist group from running the above message. The wording from the County of Lakawanna Transit System (COLTS) reads: COLTS will not accept advertising that promote the existence or non-existence of a supreme deity, deities, being or beings; that address, promote, criticize …

Last week Ian McKellen officiated at the wedding of Patrick Stewart to Sunny Ozell in Lake Tahoe, Nevada.

Two GOP members of the New Jersey Assembly, Rep. Declan O’Shannon and Rep. Holly Schepisi, say they will defy Gov. Chris Christie and vote for marriage equality. O’Scanlon said there are likely to be more crossover votes. “The narrative that the governor strong-arms Republicans in the Legislature is false,’’ O’Scanlon said Wednesday. “I think you’ll see some other folks vote …

The clip comes via the anti-gay Coalition For Marriage, which is super upset about British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg’s comment. Whee!

The astounding condo sales for the nearly completed One57 at the southern edge of Central Park has spurred the construction of three more super-skyscrapers, all of which will be even taller and will challenge national height records for residential buildings. Gizmodo has published a breakdown of the coming towers and the one in the center of the above image caught …

(Tipped by JMG reader Duke)

Newly elected Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has indicated that he may attempt to challenge the just-introduced marriage equality bill for the Australian Capital Territory. The ACT is Australia’s version of Washington, DC. The federal government is considering whether it should block the ACT’s proposed same-sex marriage legislation. The ACT government introduced a bill to permit same-sex marriages into the …