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GOP Rep. Steve King (Iowa) says he will be the lead plaintiff in a federal lawsuit to stop President Obama’s immigration reform plan. Wingnut site Daily Caller reports: “I think we’re talking weeks rather than months,” King told The Daily Caller in an interview Friday about the planned legal action against Obama. King’s lawsuit is in response to the Obama …

France’s far right National Front Party says it is suing Madonna for superimposing a swastika over their leader Marine Le Pen during a video that played during a concert in Paris this weekend. The video shown on a huge screen has already been used on other legs of the U.S. singer’s tour and shows the singer’s face merging with other …

Earlier this week we learned that hate group leader Bradlee Dean has been ordered to pay the legal fees of Rachel Maddow and the other defendants he’s suing for reporting that he called for the execution of homosexuals. Apparently the case is not yet fully resolved because yesterday Dean’s lawyer demanded that the judge recuse herself. “Recusal is required when …

Minnesota-based radio host and hate group leader Bradlee Dean sued Rachel Maddow for reporting that he’d called for the execution of homosexuals. It appears that the suit has been at least partially resolved as Dean has been ordered to pay Maddow’s defense fees. From the court order: Memorandum and Order Granting in Part Defendants’ Motion for Attorneys’ Fees and Denying …

A federal court in Georgia has ruled that Augusta State University acted properly when it expelled counseling student Jennifer Keeton for refusing to treat LGBT patients. Keeton and Michigan student Julea Ward, who has a similar case still pending, have become martyrs for the anti-gay hate industry. From the ruling: Keeton’s conflation of personal and professional values, or at least …

The gay man who tangled with Bristol Palin during the filming of a scene for her coming reality show is suing her for “homosexual taunts.” Keep in mind that the below article is from the Christian Post. Stephen Hanks filed a defamation lawsuit in U.S. federal court in Los Angeles against the 21-year-old after learning that the incident was filmed …

The ACLU has filed a federal lawsuit against the state of North Carolina over its adoption ban for unmarried couples. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of six gay or lesbian couples from different parts of North Carolina who have one or more children each. It claims the state law violates the constitutional rights of children. State law prevents unmarried …

Lambda Legal reports a positive resolution in the case of a Queens restaurant patron who was attacked by the manager in an anti-gay assault. Via press release: “I was attacked and threatened by people yelling terrible anti-LGBT slurs, throwing things at me and threatening to sexually assault me,” said Lambda Legal client Liza Friedlander.”On that day, I felt helpless, humiliated …

Claiming that he was not hired because he openly declared that homosexuals should be locked up, a Muslim applicant to the NYPD is suing the city for violating his religious freedom to be an asshole. The would-be cop from Brooklyn — identified only as “Farhan Doe” — is a Muslim-American who believes homosexuality is a sin as a matter of …

World Net Daily founder Joseph Farah has lost his $260M lawsuit against Esquire Magazine after a federal judge tossed it as meritless. Farah sued after Esquire published an online satire piece which claimed that he’d pulled Jerome Corsi’s birther book from publication following the release of Barack Obama’s birth certificate. Farah was represented by wackadoodle Larry Klayman, who is also …

New Jersey gay man Joao Simoes is suing his hospital after an on-staff doctor refused him his HIV medications. Dr. Susan Borga* allegedly later told his private physician what the patient had done to become infected was “against God’s will.” When the hospital finally permitted Simoes to call his personal physician on the third day of his stay, he learned …

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has announced that her office will present arguments in support of the challenge to the ban on same-sex marriage. Nice! The lawsuits, filed Wednesday, are against the clerk of Cook County and claim that his refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples violates those couples’ rights to due process and equal protection under the …

A New York state appeals court ruled today that falsely calling somebody “gay” can longer be considered slander. The court says that although falsely calling someone gay or lesbian has for decades been grounds for slander, that’s no longer the case because being gay is no longer seen by society as negative. The decision Thursday involves the case of a …

“My Dearest Maureen, I have a confession to make. While some may think you sound like a delusional weepy woman, don’t listen to them. You see, I was in on those meetings with the bishops when we hatched plans to stick it to women and sabotage the Democrats. We met over drinks. Plenty of them. Except for one bishop who …

“The church insists it’s an argument about religious freedom, not birth control. But, really, it’s about birth control, and women’s lower caste in the church. It’s about conservative bishops targeting Democratic candidates who support contraception and abortion rights as a matter of public policy. And it’s about a church that is obsessed with sex in ways it shouldn’t be, and …

The University of Notre Dame, the Archdiocese of New York, and over 40 other dioceses and Catholic groups have filed a freedom of religion lawsuit against the Obama administration. Catholic News Service reports: “This lawsuit is about an unprecedented attack by the federal government on one of America’s most cherished freedoms: the freedom to practice one’s religion without government interference,” …

Christian websites are crowing today after a federal judge quashed a request by FedEx to dismiss a suit filed against them by an employee who claims they trampled his right to proselytize at work. FedEx then settled the case confidentially. Note how the Alliance Defense Fund characterizes the employee’s behavior: FedEx refused to allow Weathers to answer questions from others …