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Hate group leader Scott Lively marched in Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade yesterday. Lively told the press that he marched in solidarity with the parade organizers who banned LGBT groups from participating. Lively, a Shelburne Falls native who owns the Holy Grounds coffee shop in Springfield, is running as a independent candidate for governor. He said he marched with his …

Shortly before the midnight deadline on Friday, the state of Utah filed an appeal brief with the Tenth Circuit Court which calls same-sex marriage a “judicial wrecking ball.” To allow the “difficult policy choice” about marriage rights to be made by “judicial fiat” would not be akin to the “narrow” decision that ended bans on interracial marriage, but instead would …

A gay man has filed suit against China’s largest search engine company for directing him to an “ex-gay” therapist that tortured him with electroshock therapy. Via Gay Star News: A court in Beijing will decide in the next few days whether to proceed with the lawsuit against Baidu and Chongqing-based Xin Yu Piao Xiang (XYPX). Baidu, the fifth most frequently …

Buzzfeed reports: A federal judge in Tennessee Friday ordered state officials to recognize the marriages of three same-sex couples during the consideration of their lawsuit challenging the validity of the state’s ban on recognizing such marriages. In considering the request for a preliminary injunction, U.S. District Court Judge Aleta Trauger wrote that “all relevant federal authority indicates that the plaintiffs …

Make that four Indiana marriage equality lawsuits. The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana filed a lawsuit Friday morning in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana on behalf of 15 plaintiffs, including two children of same-sex couples, challenging the same-sex marriage ban and the state’s refusal to recognize gay unions legally performed in other states. “The government …

Via press release from Indiana Equality: This morning, four lawfully married same-sex couples filed a challenge to Indiana’s marriage law on the basis that the state’s unwillingness to recognize legal same-sex marriages performed elsewhere violates the U.S. Constitution. Of the eight women who joined the lawsuit, three are police officers and one is a retired firefighter. All four couples were …

In January, four Arizona gay couples filed a class action suit against the state’s ban on same-sex marriage. Yesterday a second lawsuit was filed in federal court by Lambda Legal. The complaint was filed on behalf of seven Arizona couples, a Phoenix widower and a Tucson widow to overturn a 2008 amendment to the Arizona Constitution that defines marriage as …

Last week the first marriage equality lawsuit in Indiana was filed on behalf of four same-sex couples. Today we learn that Lambda Legal has filed a suit of its own. Via press release: On Monday, in the United States District Court Southern District of Indiana, Lambda Legal filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of three same-sex couples who seek the …

Via press release: The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Florida have filed a lawsuit in federal court on behalf of eight same-sex couples and SAVE, an LGBT rights organization based in South Florida, challenging the state’s refusal to recognize the couples’ marriages, which were performed in other states and recognized by the federal government. One of the …

Equality Case Files has posted the full transcripts from Michigan’s marriage equality trial, which concluded last week. Among those testifying were discredited social science researcher Mark Regnerus and other noted anti-gay activists. Click and read their feeble responses while being grilled by the attorney for the plaintiffs. The judge is expected to issue his ruling soon.

Buzzfeed has the story: Human rights advocates and opposition politicians filed a lawsuit against Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act on Tuesday. The Anti-Homosexuality Act, which President Yoweri Museveni signed into law on February 24, imposes up to a life sentence for homosexuality and criminalizes advocating LGBT rights. The petitioners include activists Frank Mugisha of Sexual Minorities Uganda, trans activist Julian Pepe Onziema, …

“The crux of the human rights debate is what it means to be human. Russia appears to be returning to it’s pre-Soviet understanding that humans are made in the image of God, and that our ‘rights,’ are really duties of respect and care for each other which are imposed on us by Him. This is why the first principle of …

Last month Nevada Attorney General Catherine Masto withdrew her defense, declaring that Ninth Circuit Court’s application of heightened scrutiny in an unrelated case means that Nevada’s ban is now indefensible. UPDATE: Press release from Lambda Legal. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit today set April 9, 2014 for oral arguments in Sevcik v. Sandoval, Lambda Legal’s lawsuit …

Via press release from AFER: On Monday, March 10, 2014, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit granted AFER’s proposed motion for an expedited briefing schedule in Virginia’s marriage equality case, Bostic v. Schaefer (formerly Bostic v. Rainey). On February 13, 2014, the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled in Bostic v. Rainey that …

Mother Jones today published a lengthy profile of anti-gay evangelist and hate group leader Scott Lively. While many of the article’s details might be familiar to longtime JMG readers, I encourage you to read the story. Here’s how it opens: In late February, when Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed the nation’s harsh new anti-gay bill into law, he claimed the …

Add Indiana to the list. Four couples from southern Indiana are asking a federal judge to force the state to recognize same-sex marriages from other states and issue marriage licenses to gay couples. The couples are suing the state of Indiana in a lawsuit filed Friday in federal court in New Albany that seeks to overturn an Indiana law that …

The Seattle-area Catholic high school vice president who was fired for marrying his partner will file a lawsuit today. Mark Zmuda alleges, in his filing, that the decision to terminate his employment at the Sammamish prep school was made by Catholic Archbishop J. Peter Sartain. The school acknowledges that Eastside Catholic president Sr. Mary Tracy discussed the case with Sartain. …

Testimony in Michigan’s marriage equality finished yesterday, but not before one “expert witness” told the court that gays are going to hell. “Is it accurate that you believe the consequence of engaging in homosexual acts is a separation from God and eternal damnation?” Mogill asked the state’s expert, then added, “in other words, they’re going to hell?” “Without repentance, yes,” …

Last August, New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sued Donald Trump, allegedly that his Trump University real estate school was a fraudulent get-rich-quick scheme that charged seminar attendees thousands of dollars for useless training.  Yesterday Trump sued Schneiderman for $100M, saying that the state has damaged his reputation. Yeah. Reputation. In legal papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Trump …