Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Pat Robertson’s “legal” group, the American Center for Law & Justice, has long extended its scaly tentacles into other nations such as Russia and Kenya, where they work to inflame anti-gay sentiments.  Now the ACLJ has set up an office in Brazil.  Buzzfeed reports: The head of the new Brazil office, Filipe Coelho, is a scion of one of Brazil’s …

Out Magazine reports that a fraternity at Boston’s Emerson College is raising money to help a new member pay for his gender reassignment surgery. Much like the world of professional sports, the world of campus Greek life is not often heralded as the epitome of acceptance. Locker room antics are an insidious fact of the frat house. No doubt about …

Iceland, where porn has long been technically illegal, wants to block all internet pornography even though web experts warn that such a move will likely cause many unrelated sites to be blocked as well. The proposal by Interior Minister Ogmundur Jonasson has caused an uproar. Opponents say the move will censor the Web, encourage authoritarian regimes and undermine Iceland’s reputation …

Responding to the Tebow flap, megachurch Pastor Robert Jeffress yesterday appeared on the Alan Colmes Show to dance around all the anti-Semitic, anti-gay, and anti-Catholic things he’s said in the past. Colmes does a great job of quoting Jeffress right back to him.

“Cardinal [Keith] O’Brien condemned homosexuality as a grave sin and was a long-time opponent of gay equality. He supported homophobic discrimination in law, including the current ban on same-sex marriage. In the light of these allegations, his stance looks hypocritical. He appears to have preached one thing in public while doing something different in private. Several other prominent opponents of …

“Regardless of the amount, whether it’s $500,000 or $50 million, my vote is not going to bought either way. I’m going to do what’s right. If they want to throw away $500,000, then that’s their decision.” – GOP Minnesota Sen. Brenden Petersen, responding to yesterday’s threat by NOM’s Brian Brown, who has vowed to unseat any Republican who supports marriage …

The Illinois House Executive Committee has scheduled their marriage equality vote for today. I’ll post live video of the proceedings if it is available. The full state Senate approved the bill two weeks ago by a vote of 34-21.

Seventy-five prominent Republicans are set to file a joint Supreme Court brief supporting the overturn of Prop 8.  The brief is being filed “with the blessing” of AFER attorney Ted Olson, who is himself a well-known conservative Republican. Legal analysts said the brief had the potential to sway conservative justices as much for the prominent names attached to it as …

I guess NOM thinks this makes them hip, but as Jeremy Hooper points out, the actor in that ad actually campaigned for Obama. Oops.