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Weiner Denounces Gay Blood Ban
One day after he lost Edith Windsor’s endorsement to Christine Quinn. Anthony Weiner worked to win back some gay votes by denouncing the FDA’s ban on blood donations. “Why does it still exist? Simple. Fear,” Weiner said outside a blood donation center on the upper East Side. The issue was one Weiner said he also tackled while in Congress when …
Read More »Allen West Launches 2016 Straw Poll
In a typically transparent bid to harvest emails for future money begs, crackpot Allen West has launched a 2016 GOP presidential straw poll. Among the choices: Donald Trump, Sarah Palin, Jeb Bush, Rand Paul, Scott Walker, and Rick Santorum. Ever the modest fellow, West does not include his own name on the list. I have a morbid interest in seeing …
Read More »NEW YORK CITY: PFLAG Founder Jeanne Manford Honored With Memorial Plaque
PFLAG founder Jeanne Manford passed away in January at the age of 92. On Sunday this happened in the West Village: The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), and The Church of the Village unveiled a bronze historic marker now permanently affixed to the facade of this landmark church memorializing the …
Read More »Tea Party Head: We Can Use The DOMA Strategy To Overturn Obamacare
“The left has used a tactic called ‘Sue and settle’ where special interest groups sue the Federal Government and sometimes state government and the government quickly settles the case. Then the consent order from the settlement governs, regardless of what the Congress or the legislature wants to happen afterwards.Two can play this game. “In 2016, there will be another Presidential …
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PENNSYLVANIA: Openly Gay State Rep. Brian Sims To Introduce Gay Marriage Bill
Openly gay Pennsylvania state Rep. Brian Sims today announced his plan to introduce a same-sex marriage bill. “About two hours ago, I shopped around a co-sponsorship memo for a marriage bill, and I’m going to introduce an LGBT marriage equality bill,” he says, adding the Supreme Court cases “helped light the fire under my colleagues to do it now.” The …
Read More »Tony Perkins: It Might Takes Years Of Litigation Before Prop 8 Is Settled
This morning Yes On 8 seemed resigned to Prop 8’s demise. The Family Research Council, however, is clinging to the belief that its repeal will be tied up in the courts for years.
Read More »Senate Passes Immigration Reform Bill
Before a gallery packed with reform supporters, this afternoon the Senate approved its immigration bill by a 68-32 vote. Fourteen Republicans voted for the bill. Before announcing the result, Biden warned against outbursts from the public gallery, but chants of “Yes we can” and “Si se puede” broke out after he read the tally. Biden called for the sergeant at …
Read More »ITALY: Police Investigate Claims Of Catholic Priests Hiring Rentboys In Rome
Italian police are investigating claims that a former policeman visited the area around a bar named Twink (seriously) to recruit rentboys for Catholic priests assigned to churches across Rome. Don Patrizio Poggi, 46, told Italian authorities that a former Carabinieri pimped boys for nine clergymen. Poggi, who served a five-year sentence for abusing teenage boys while he was a parish …
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