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After congratulating ourselves for such a great job of packing the rental car, we arrived in the mountains to realize that we’d forgotten our largest item – the campsite canopy – forcing Chris to get a little inventive with a giant tarp. It poured most of last night, but the rain let up for the few hours of the bonfire …

On Wednesday, Pennsylvania state Sen. Daylin Leach (D) introduced a marriage equality bill as a Republican state Senator introduced a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. Hoping to capture the pro-gay-marriage momentum in other state legislatures, Sen. Daylin Leach (D., Montgomery) yesterday introduced the state’s first bill to legalize same-sex marriage. Meanwhile, a colleague across the aisle, Sen. John Eichelberger (R., …

The Warren, Pennsylvania Times-Observer has apologized, saying that the person who approved the ad “didn’t recognize the significance of the names” and that they have “notified the authorities.” Seriously? Garfield and McKinley…sure. But Lincoln and Kennedy?

Pennsylvania state Sen. John Eichelberger wants his state to become the 31st with a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. Since 1996 Pennsylvania has had the Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as only between one man and one woman, but the Blair County Republican wants to amend the state constitution to include a ban on same-sex marriage. He will …

A student at a Christian college in Pennsylvania is fighting his school for suspending him because he’s done gay porn. Twenty-two-year-old John Gechter, of Philadelphia, was suspended for one year pending appeal from Grove City College after a student saw him last month in a video posted online. Gechter is appealing the suspension and says he may sue claiming that …

McCain campaign volunteer Ashley Todd, 20, of College Station, Texas claims she was using an ATM on the “wrong side of Pittsburgh” when a Huge! Scary! Negro! mugged her. After robbing her of $60, the mugger dragged Todd to her car and became so enraged upon seeing her McCain bumper sticker that he punched her in the eye and carved …

This “who’s more patriotic?” crap has gotten John McCain REALLY confused. “You know, I think you may have noticed that Senator Obama’s supporters have been saying some pretty nasty things about Western Pennsylvania lately. And you know, I couldn’t agree with them more.”

Acting on a petition filed by the Christianist group Repent America, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has upheld a lower court’s ruling that struck down that state’s 2002 hate crimes law, saying it was inappropriately attached to an unrelated bill. Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision striking down amendments that added sexual orientation, gender identity, ancestry, gender, and mental …

Oh, the tabloids will have a field day with this. Police said a 61-year-old Reading woman beat her 16-year-old granddaughter severely after finding her in bed with another girl. Joyce Beddell is charged with aggravated and simple assault, recklessly endangering another person and endangering the welfare of a child. Police said Beddell’s granddaughter suffered serious bruises to her legs and …

The Pennsylvania Senate will vote today on the issue of placing a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage on the 2009 ballot. The proposed amendment passed a committee review yesterday. If approved in the Senate, the bill will go to the House for approval and then must be approved again in the next session of the legislature before it can …

As expected, Hillary Clinton won Pennsylvania’s primary. At the time of this post her margin is 8%, not exactly enough to shout down those calling for her withdrawal from the race, but not bad considering how Obama outspent her, with his campaign shelling out over $11M to Clinton’s $4.8M. In Philadelphia, Obama trounced Clinton by nearly a 2-1 margin, but …

Our long wait (five minutes? six?) for the next Republican gay sex scandal is over. On March 31st, Republican commissioner of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Bruce Barclay was accused of man rape. But home videos have surfaced proving that the sex was consensual, even though Barclay’s partner was unaware he was being taped. And neither were the hundreds of other men …

The Pennsylvania Senate is trying one more time to pass a constitutional amendment banning marriage equality. Constitutional amendment legislation failed in the last legislative session but is being considered anew in the current session. During a Senate committee hearing, Maggie Gallagher, President of the National Organization for Marriage, said an amendment to the state constitution would protect against a judge’s …

A lawsuit by Christian activist group Repent America has successfully overturned the portion of Pennsylvania’s hate crimes law that covers sexual orientation and physical disability. Yesterday a state court voted 5-1 to overturn a 2002 expansion of the law, ruling that the amendment was created unconstitutionally because it was inserted into another bill covering agricultural vandalism. An as yet unapproved …