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LGBT Rights Coalition We, America’s leading LGBT advocacy organizations, join civil rights organizations – and indeed, all Americans whom this law has served to protect – in expressing acute dismay at today’s ruling. Not only had Congress repeatedly reaffirmed the need for this bedrock civil rights protection, but authoritative voices from across America had filed amicus briefs urging the court …

UPDATE: Interestingly, the video was made private moments ago after receiving hundreds of comments at YouTube. I’ll repost if it goes live again.  The clip had already been posted on Huffington Post and dozens of other sites.  The New York Times has posted a lengthy recap. UPDATE II: Raw Story has mirrored the clip. UPDATE III: Deen has posted a …

General Mills had to disable YouTube comments a couple of weeks ago after racists descended on their Cheerios ad which features an interracial family. Here’s an amusing response (not from General Mills). Wait for the ending. (Tipped by JMG reader Daniel)

The Postal Service has suspended mail service to the University of Chicago’s Phi Delta Theta fraternity after a racist and homophobic “prank” was pulled on a mailman. Postal carrier Iran Becton said about a week after Memorial Day he had an order to deliver dozens of postal supply boxes to the Phi Delta Theta fraternity at 56th Street and University …

Joe Arpaio, self-proclaimed “America’s Toughest Sheriff,” is selling his sling.

“Let’s get real and stop the charade about what a ‘social welfare’ organization is. Last year, internal National Organization for Marriage (NOM) strategy documents were leaked, stating that the organization seeks ‘to drive a wedge between gays and blacks’ by promoting “African American spokespeople for marriage,’ thus provoking same-sex marriage supporters into ‘denouncing these spokesmen and women as bigots,’ and …

General Mills was forced to disable commenting on its YouTube channel for Cheerios after racists bombarded a clip featuring an interracial child. The half-minute ad — which has more than 250,000 views — shows a young girl chatting about Cheerios with her Caucasian mother, and later pans to her black father. While the spot garnered an unusual amount of racist …

(Via Boy Culture)

The Washington Post created the above map in response to a survey examined by Swedish economists. According to the survey responses, the least racially tolerant places are India, Jordan, Hong Kong, and Bangladesh. Among the dozens of questions that World Values asks, the Swedish economists found one that, they believe, could be a pretty good indicator of tolerance for other …

The above image went viral on French Twitter accounts yesterday, angering gay activists and embarrassing Manif Pour Tous. The poster, designed by an anti-same sex marriage activist, depicts France’s Minister of Justice Christiane Taubira, who is black, as a raging gorilla/King Kong, overwhelmed by a flow of demonstrators from the “Manif Pour Tous,” the main anti-same sex organization. The slogan …

The Black Israelites can often be found in Times Square wearing their Earth Wind & Fire costumes and screaming about sodomites and how Black Jesus is going to come back any day and kill every white person.  This week they’re in the news because they’re rilly rilly mad that the talking doll they ordered in the likeness of their leader …

New York state Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) is the state’s second-most vicious anti-gay legislator, falling only slightly behind Sen. Ruben Diaz, who is also a Democrat.  The New York Post reports on his latest bit of assholery. Assemblyman Dov Hikind donned a blackface costume yesterday at his blowout Purim party and defended the outrageous getup as a harmless “basketball” look. …

From Montana’s Cowgirl Blog: “Jennifer Olsen is the leader of Montana’s largest TEA Party faction, the Yellowstone County Montana Shrugged TEA Party. She’s also the chair of the Republican party in Billings, the Yellowstone County Republican Central Committee.” This story actually broke about ten days ago, but I just got the tip from JMG reader Win.

He spent most of yesterday bragging about the attention he got for the above tweet.  Wonkette reports that he’s also been sending his cock shot out to strangers.

A teacher is being investigated in northern Alabama after a student recorded him making slurs against gay people and Michelle Obama. School district officials are investigating allegations that a Lauderdale County High School teacher made slurs in the presence of students regarding first lady Michelle Obama and gays. Superintendent Jennifer Gray confirmed the investigation concerns the school’s head football coach, …

A longtime Free Republic member quit today. While I’ve been a FReeper for well over a decade, I must declare that it is time to part ways. While I have the greatest respect for a great many of you, the days where I can in good conscience remain silent about the issues that set me apart from the rest of …

Media Matters has the scoop: Gun Appreciation Day, a prominent effort backed by conservative media outlets and activists to oppose new gun laws, has accepted the sponsorship of a white nationalist organization to promote and mobilize supporters for its January 19 event. Gun Appreciation Day (GAD) is partnering with American Third Position (A3P), a political group that describes itself as …

Because the lady was black, you see.

“I write to you from France, where a pro-marriage rebellion is underway! Francois Hollande, the ultra liberal President of France, swept into power last May, promising among many other things a swift legalizing of same-sex marriage and adoption. But the people of France did not want this to be. You see, the French people know in their bones that every …

Tea Party hero Rep. Steve King (R-IA) has introduced a bill that would deny American citizenship to the children of undocumented immigrants. The bill would amend section 301 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to clarify those classes of individuals born in the United States who are nationals and citizens of the United States at birth. It’s generally thought that …