Tag Archives: Louisiana

[Photos by Keith Darcé]

New Orleans’ infamous Pastor Grant Storms, who every year can be found shouting hellfire and brimstone at Southern Decadence attendees, has been arrested for masturbating in his van while watching children in a playground. Storms told deputies that he was merely having lunch at Lafreniere Park, 3000 Downs Blvd., in his van when he decided to relieve himself using a …

Dan Savage weighs in on Diaper Boy. David Vitter, of course, is a whoremonger and a conservative Christian who supports “family values.” But Vitter is right with God and right with his constituents—and will most likely get his rightwing ass reelected—because, you see, he at least has the decency to hate the homos. Vitter supports a constitutional amendment banning same-sex …

The voters of Louisiana are clearly unconcerned with the admitted hooker patronage of “sanctity of marriage” defender, conservative Christian, and serial adulterer Sen. David “Diaper Boy” Vitter. As one of the Senate’s chief sponsors of the (failed) Federal Marriage Amendment, Vitter called the banning of same-sex marriage “the most important issue” before Congress. He also said that gay marriage would …

Tea Party candidate Mike Spears has challenged Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) to a cage match over Vitter’s admission that he has patronized prostitutes. “In early America, when a politician insulted the honor of another, a duel was in order. Consider this challenge a modern-day duel,” Spears said. “Sen. Vitter’s behavior, his admission of breaking the law in 2007, has insulted …

After a few days of seeming success, the capping attempt appears to be failing. The federal government Monday allowed BP to keep the cap shut tight on its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well for another day despite news the well is leaking at the top and something is seeping from the sea floor nearby. The Obama administration’s point man …

Hit the Boston Globe’s series of photos of doomed sea birds along Louisiana’s oil-soaked coast, if you can bear it.

The Coast Guard is saying today that it appears yesterday’s “top kill” attempt to cap the spewing oil spill in the Gulf may have worked. Engineers have succeeded in stopping the flow of oil and gas into the Gulf of Mexico from a gushing BP well, the federal government’s top oil spill commander, Adm. Thad Allen, said Thursday morning. The …

More grim photos are here.

And yet millions of gallons are continuing to spew after more than a month. Meanwhile some are calling for the government to kick British Petroleum off the response team.

“These are BP’s rules, not ours.” Unreal. (Via – Towleroad)

Toting a sign that reads “Adult w/Child Sex Is Okay,” a pastor who calls himself “Brother Slim” is touring cities in the south to highlight his claim that same-sex marriage will lead to legalized pedophilia, bestiality, etc etc. This week he’s in Shreveport, Louisiana. Chauncey Killens has traveled through a dozen other cities holding this sign – he says he …

Al-Jazeera provides this explanation.

Louisiana-based shrimp fishermen have filed an economics damages suit against British Petroleum, Halliburton, and the owners of the oil rig that has caused one of the greatest environmental disasters in recent memory. The lawsuit was filed late on Wednesday in U.S. District Court in New Orleans as London-based BP and the U.S. Coast Guard fought to contain a massive oil …

A couple of hundred old white guys are being armed and trained by a local Louisiana sheriff in Bible-inspired operation called “Operation Exodus.” They claim they’re preparing for domestic terrorism, but their real intent is the overthrow of the federal government.

The Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that both adoptive fathers in a Louisiana gay adoption case may have their names put on the child’s birth certificate. A three-judge panel unanimously upheld a district judge’s ruling, ordering the state registrar to quickly issue a new certificate for the boy identified as “Infant J,” and “J.C. A.-S.” “Even our …

Rep. Joseph Cao (R-LA) defends his lone GOP vote on the health care bill as critical to the residents of his district, many of whom remain impoverished years after Hurricane Katrina. Cao says he has no plans to switch parties and that his vote was not a “backroom deal” with Obama to maintain FEMA funds to his district, as right-wingers …

A DC-based watchdog group is demanding that Louisiana’s lawyers association investigate anti-gay Sen. David Vitter for his admission that he committed a “very serious sin” by patronizing the infamous “DC Madam.” Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington said its request is related to Vitter’s recent request for a Justice Department investigation into ACORN, the community activist group with headquarters …

Ellen DeGeneres spoke at Tulane University’s commencement this weekend and spoke eloquently about coming out (amidst her usual hilarity). (Via – Towleroad)

A gay couple in New Orleans is asking a federal judge to overturn that state’s ban on same-sex marriage after being denied a marriage license. Kristoffer Bonilla, 33, and John Thomas Wray, 18, are asking a federal judge to strike down the constitutional amendment, which lawmakers and voters overwhelmingly approved in 2004. The men filed the lawsuit against several state …