Joe.My.God. LGBT News

“When you start bending over spiritually and intellectually to people who take care of you all day, you can pretend by boycotting a single city with a stand your ground law that somehow you don’t have to boycott Chicago, where 700 people are slaughtered every year because they’re not standing their ground.  They’re let out of their cages to create …

Pat Robertson’s CBN grossed over $487 million in FY12, according to the Evangelical Council for Fiscal Accountability, a group to which CBN reports. As astounding as that figure is, it’s still down significantly from CBN’s 2010 gross of $747 million.

Bruce abruptly resigned from GOProud’s board of directors two years ago, but refused to say why.

Raw Story reports: The mayor of Gilberton, Pennsylvania is standing by her city’s police chief despite a series of profanity-laced and threatening videos. In a video that has received wide attention, police chief Mark Kessler repeatedly tells those upset by his use of profanity to “go f*ck yourself” as he fires various automatic weapons. Mayor Mary Lou Hannon told The …

The Associated Press reports: Several hundred extremists shouting “Kill the gays” attacked gay activists and clashed with police on Wednesday in a bid to disrupt the first ever pride event in staunchly conservative Montenegro, which is seeking to improve its human rights record as it bids to join the European Union. Angry assailants threw rocks, bottles, glasses and various other …

From the New York Times editorial board: The timing here matters, as it would for any politician who violates the public’s trust and then asks to have it back. Things are different now, he insists. “This behavior is behind me,” he said again on Tuesday. He suggested that people should have known that his sexting was an unresolved problem well …

Saying that it’s unrealistic to believe Florida’s constitutional ban on marriage could be overturned at this time, a coalition of LGBT rights groups says it will be better to wait for the next Supreme Court ruling. Steve Rothaus reports at the Miami Herald: Gay marriage will “be imposed” on Florida by the U.S. Supreme Court before state voters, judges or …

Pennsylvania’s Montgomery County says it will defy state law and issue same-sex marriage licenses. D. Bruce Hanes, the county’s register of wills, said he wants to come down “on the right side of history and the law.” Hanes had been prepared to issue a license Tuesday to two women who contacted him last week. The women, however, changed their minds …