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NEW YORK CITY: Satanic Temple Seeks To Join Highway Adoption Program

The Satanic Temple of Brooklyn has launched a crowd-funding campaign to join New York City’s Adopt-A-Highway program. From their IndieGoGo page: Help The Satanic Temple spread their message as they enter the adopt-a-highway program in New York City where they will maintain voluntary beautification of a stretch of public highway for at least 2 years by way of litter cleanup …

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Maddow On Gays & The GOP

Mediaite has a recap of Rachel Maddow’s Friday night piece on gays and the GOP: “In Republican world, it is a very different world than the rest of us are living, when it comes to The Gay,” Rachel Maddow said in a blistering segment taking the mainstream GOP to task for their ossified position on homosexuality. Whereas the country is …

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HomoQuotable – Frank Bruni

“I have many questions for and about the ‘gay lobby’ in the Vatican, but I’ll start with this: How can you be so spectacularly ineffective? You wouldn’t last a minute on K Street; the Karl Roves of the capital would have you for lunch. Despite your presence in, and presumed influence on, the upper reaches of the Roman Catholic hierarchy, …

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Palin Speaks At Wingnut Conference

Sarah Palin delivered a 20-minute address to an audience of rapt evangelicals today at Ralph Reed’s Faith And Freedom Conference.  Mediaite has a recap: “It seems so Orwellian around here,” Palin said. “Before 1984, terms like ‘leading from behind’ meant following. The other day the White House testified before Congress, bragging that they used the ‘least untruthful statement.’ Where I …

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NYC-Based Realty Group Bans Smoking In Rented Apartments Nationwide

The Related Companies, a New York City-based real estate group with properties across the nation, has banned smoking in all 40,000 of its rental units. Although the program will roll out gradually, it appears to be the first of this scale by a national property owner. It also seems likely to create controversy. Where past efforts against smoking have focused …

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Rallies Planned For “Decision Day”

Activist groups across the nation are gearing up for celebrations or protests on the day that the Supreme Court hands down its decisions on DOMA and Prop 8.  Go to this interactive map for details on events near you.  The Bay Area Reporter has details on what is planned for San Francisco: In San Francisco a group of volunteers known …

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Rick Perry Signs “Merry Christmas” Bill

With the Kountze High School cheerleaders looking on, yesterday Rick Perry signed a bill that forbids any legal challenge to the observance of religious traditions in public schools. Dubbed the “Merry Christmas bill,” the bipartisan measure sailed through the state House and Senate to reach Perry’s desk. It removes legal risks of saying “Merry Christmas” in schools while also protecting …

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