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If you really know where your towel is, you’ll enjoy today’s Google Doodle in honor of Douglas Adams’ birthday.

Southern Baptists leader Richard Land is warning that Christians should prepare themselves for civil disobedience over LGBT civil equality. Land said those issues are non-negotiable, even at the cost of paying fines and going to jail.  Parshall said today’s Christians may have to decide whether to “bow our knee” to government or to God. The U.S. Supreme Court will consider …

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Over one hundred men in elaborately embroidered quinceañera gowns will begin voting on their new head cheerleader tomorrow.  Boston’s Cardinal Sean O’Malley is now being named as one of the favorites. O’Malley has emerged as a popular favorite in some circles, even as many still doubt the princes of the Roman Catholic Church are ready to elect an American. O’Malley …

A couple of weeks ago I directed you to the story about the gay couple who found an abandoned infant at a New York City subway station. The couple ended up adopting and raising the child and this week they appeared on Anderson Cooper’s daytime chat show. video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player

The province of Quebec has launched five-year $7M ad campaign to combat homophobia. A public display of affection between a couple shouldn’t usually elicit a reaction from people.  But what if those engaging in that passionate smooch are a same-sex couple? The Quebec government has launched a unique advertising campaign designed to get the province thinking about just how open-minded …

“Media reports are wrong. The Queen has NOT expressed support for LGBT equality. The Commonwealth Charter that she’s signing includes no pledge on LGBT rights. LGBT rights were deliberately excluded. In 61 years as Queen, she has never publicly uttered the words lesbian or gay. She is a patron of hundreds of charities but none of them are gay ones. …

Minnesota’s marriage equality bill begins its official run tomorrow. House and Senate committees will hear bills overturning a state law outlawing gay marriage. With heavy liberal Democratic membership on the two committees, the concept has the best chance to pass ever. Those two committee hearings, which are to end with votes on the proposal, are the only two planned at …

American Independent has discovered that the publication of a widely-disputed gay parenting study (known as the Regnerus Study), was purposely timed to influence “major decisions of the Supreme Court.”   The documents, recently obtained through public-records requests by The American Independent and published in collaboration with The Huffington Post, show that the Witherspoon Institute recruited a professor from a major university …

An encouraging development in New Zealand: In a joint press conference outside Parliament today the youth wings of National, Labour, ACT, Mana, Maori, Greens, United Future and NZ First signed a banner in support of the bill which is expected to have its second reading on Wednesday.   Campaign for Marriage Equality spokesman Conrad Reyners said the united front from the …