Tag Archives: Mississippi

MISSISSIPPI: SPLC Sues Small Town For Denying Business License To Gay Bar

The Southern Poverty Law Center has filed suit against a small Mississippi town for denying a business license to a lesbian who wants to open a gay bar. Via press release: One alderman has stated that the town, which struggles with a shrinking tax base, welcomes the prospect of fighting a federal lawsuit rather than allow a revenue-generating gay bar …

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Perkins is doubtlessly thrilled. Hit the headlines for the stories.

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Police To File Charges Against Satanists For Ritual At Westboro Family Gravesite

Last week members of the Satanic Temple held the above ritual at the family gravesite for the Phelps family.  Mississippi cops say arrests are coming. “Meridian Police have reached out and spoken to Mr. Arlinghaus of Magnolia Cemetery,” says Captain Dean Harper of the Meridian Police Department. “We are in the process now of constructing affidavits and warrants against these …

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We Do Campaign: Stand With Mississippi

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Former MS Gov Regrets Adoption Ban

“After thinking about this for some time, I realized that if you’re fortunate, age and knowledge breed compassion. The more I read the (U.S.) Constitution, the clearer it became that you just can’t deny rights to a specific class of people just because some are uncomfortable with what they do not understand. Too many elected officials take positions without thinking …

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More On The MS “Gay Panic” Murder

Friends of the accused killer of openly gay Mississippi mayoral candidate Marco McMillian are claiming that McMillian attempted to rape the suspect, who may be planning a “gay panic” defense. The sisters say Reed told them everything. Just after midnight on February 26, their youngest sister received a panicked call from Reed. One sister says, “He called at 12:11am and …

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MS Gov To Sign School Prayer Bill

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MISSISSIPPI: Feds To Investigate Murder Of Mayoral Candidate Marco McMillian

The FBI announced yesterday that it will investigate the murder of openly gay small town mayoral candidate Marco McMillian, whose burned and beaten body was found in Mississippi last week. Local police have declined to characterize the murder as a hate crime and lawyers for the man charged in the case are reportedly considering a “gay panic” defense. The agency …

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MISSISSIPPI: Gay Panic Defense Floated In Murder Of Gay Mayoral Candidate

Last week the body of Marco McMillian, a mayoral candidate in a small Mississippi town, was found beaten and burned.  Police almost immediately announced that they had a 22 year-old suspect in custody.  Today we get a disturbing update via press release: The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP) has learned that a “gay panic” defense might be used by …

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MISSISSIPPI: Baby Reportedly “Cured” Of HIV By Rigorous Drug Treatment

A Mississippi infant born with HIV may have been effectively cured by her doctor’s decision to treat her with large doses of antiretroviral medications. Typically a newborn with an infected mother would be given one or two drugs as a prophylactic measure. But Dr. [Hannah] Gay said that based on her experience, she almost immediately used a three-drug regimen aimed …

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Gay MS Mayoral Candidate Murdered

Marco McMillian, who some say was the first openly gay political candidate in the history of Mississippi, was found murdered yesterday.  McMillian was running for mayor of the small town of Clarksdale. Coahoma County Coroner Scotty Meredith said the body of 34-year-old Marco McMillian was found on the Mississippi River levee Wednesday at about 10 a.m. The sheriff’s office said …

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School Prayer May Return To Mississippi

Since the courts always take a dim view of public schools officially sanctioning prayers and other religious activities, Christianists around the nation have been working to crowbar their way in via student-led prayers. And it looks like they’ve succeeded in Mississippi, the state that only officially outlawed slavery last week. Supporters say bills to guarantee religious freedom in Mississippi public …

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Mississippi Ratifies 13th Amendment

It doesn’t seem possible, but Mississippi never ratified the 13th Amendment. Until now. Life really does move slower in the South. One hundred forty-eight years after Congress sent the 13th Amendment outlawing slavery to the states for ratification, Mississippi officially has joined the ranks. The state’s Legislature did vote to ratify it in 1995 — but the vote was never …

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MISSISSIPPI: Five LGBT Couples Request Marriage Licenses In Vain

Yesterday five LGBT couples requested marriage licenses in Hattiesburg, Mississippi as part of the Southern Equality’s “WE DO” campaign. Read more here.

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Janis Lane: Teabagger Of The Year

“Our country might have been better off if it was still just men voting. There is nothing worse than a bunch of mean, hateful women. They are diabolical in how than can skewer a person. I do not see that in men. The whole time I worked, I’d much rather have a male boss than a female boss. Double-minded, you …

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MISSISSIPPI: Orly Taitz Tries Again

Wackadoodle birther queen Orly Taitz is up to her old tricks, this time in Mississippi. California lawyer Orley Taitz has brought her national campaign to disqualify President Barack Obama in the November election to Mississippi. Monday, Taitz was in U.S. District Court in Jackson for a hearing before Judge Henry Wingate. Taitz claims Obama should be disqualified because his birth …

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Drought Shrinks Mississippi River Traffic

The level of the Mississippi River has gotten so low that cargo ships and barges have had to severely restrict the weight of what they can safely carry. If the country’s largest river system continues to rapidly shrink, all river traffic could get shut down and cost the US $300 million a day. The Mississippi, which has become thin and …

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Black Wedding Rejected At White Church

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MISSISSIPPI: Two Life Sentences For Teenage Killer Of Gay Black Man

A 19 year-old Mississippi man has pleaded guilty and received two life sentences for targeting a random black man for abuse and killing him with his pickup truck. It was later learned that the victim was gay and in a 17 year relationship. Deryl Dedmon, 19, of Brandon, Miss., apologized to the family of 49-year-old James Craig Anderson. While partying …

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Networks Calls Mississippi For Santorum

Another “almost” for Newt Gingrich as Frothy Mix goes two for two in the deep South.

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