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American Family Association’s Fischer: Make homosexuality ‘a criminal offense’
On his radio show Focal Point on Monday, American Family Association spokesman Bryan Fischer called on all fifty states to criminalize homosexuality.
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Detroit radio personality launches LGBT-friendly daily deals website ‘Gaypon’
A new daily deals website catering to the LGBT community launched on Tuesday, and offers subscribers with daily offers from local and regional businesses who are known to be gay-friendly.
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Commentary
Unfair attack on Charlotte Pride does not go unanswered
An area minister, Michael Brown, sought to interrupt last weekend’s Charlotte Pride event with something he called “God Has A Better Way,” in which he and a large number of folks wearing red t-shirts infiltrate the pride event, try to preach to the folks there, and generally attempt to disrupt the festivities.
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News (USA)
Iowa Governor: No connection between anti-gay marriage sentiment and teen’s murder
Iowa’s Republican Governor Terry Branstad on Monday said “there’s no connection at all between Iowa’s debate over gay marriage rights and the death of Waterloo teen Marcellus Andrews.”
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First Lady Michelle Obama discusses America’s ‘culture of bullying’
The First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres Show on Monday and discussed her thoughts on the culture of bullying in our country.
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Commentary
Shut The (Bleep) Up
Candidates are actively interrupting scientific communication in this country. Blatantly standing up in the middle of the show and making factual inferences with fantastical statements. Distracting people from the reality hiding behind the curtain with a little folksy humor or superstitious nonsense. And I’m annoyed.
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Santorum complains the gay community has declared ‘jihad’ against him
Rick Santorum, the GOP presidential contender who claims to have gay friends who don’t deserve rights because marriage equality is destroying the American family, now claims that the gay and lesbian community has declared a “jihad” against him.
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News (USA)
What are the Proposition 8 proponents trying to hide?
Just what are the Prop 8 proponents trying to hide, and why are they afraid to let the public see their witnesses being cross-examined? We may find out after a hearing on Monday. Also, John Boehner’s defense of DOMA is found to be full of junk science, a semi-reprieve for LGBTs fearing deportation, and there’s lots of work still to do in Maine.
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News (USA)
Federal court hearing Monday on Prop 8 trial videotape release
First, there was a federal court trial. Then, there was a hearing on whether to sequester videotapes of the trial; Monday, there will be a hearing on whether to release the videotapes of the trial.
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New music from out artist Matt Zarley — ‘Change Begins With Me’
Matt Zarley has received critical acclaim as an openly gay singer and songwriter, has been named one of People Magazine’s “Hottest Bachelors,” has performed on Broadway, and last week released his latest CD, “Change Begins with Me” featuring the single “WTF,” that is currently heating up the charts and dance clubs around the world.
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Commentary
Gay groups make religious individuals feel like ‘second class citizens’
Though I should be surprised, I have found myself expecting the National Organization for Marriage to make outlandish and ridiculous statements. In today’s episode of “what did NOM say,” I give you the repeat of “NOM becomes a victim.”
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Commentary
How is being gay like gluing wings on a pig?
Virtually all sins share a crucial, defining, common quality. Because that quality, which is present in every other imaginable sin, is utterly missing from being or acting gay, insisting on putting homosexuality into the same category as every other sin — or in the category of sin at all — is like gluing wings on a pig…
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Linda Harvey: ‘There’s No Proof’ that LGBT people exist
Mission America’s Linda Harvey dedicated her weekend broadcast to criticizing the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, one of her favorite targets, and said “there is no proof” that LGBT people exist.
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Irene: God’s Judgement on New York?
Many people, desiring to make sense of it all, will ask questions such as “Is Hurricane Irene a sign from God?” or “Is God punishing the Northeast — especially the state of New York — for its acceptance of the “gay lifestyle” and the regions embrace of gay marriage?”
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Perry signs anti-gay pledge, vows to support federal marriage amendment
Texas Governor and Republican presidential contender Rick Perry on Friday signed an anti-gay marriage pledge, vowing to support a Constitutional amendment to ban same-sex unions nationwide.
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News (USA)
HRC announcement confirms March 2012 departure of president Joe Solmonese
Joe Solmonese, President of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBT civil rights organization, will announce his departure next Tuesday, reports Pam Spaulding at Pam’s House Blend.
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The Grio: Rick Perry retreat co-host says MLK deserved no credit on civil rights
While hundreds of thousands of Americans converge on the National Mall to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. this weekend as the president dedicates a memorial to the slain civil rights leader, Rick Perry, the newly minted Republican Party presidential front-runner, will be attending a retreat with a man who believes King deserves no such honor.
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New York Rabbi Yehuda Levin blames East Coast earthquake on gay marriage
New York Rabbi Yehuda Levin actually blames gay marriage for causing the East Cost earthquake. But what’s important to note about Rabbi Levin is his connection to the anti-gay group National Organization for Marriage.
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News (USA)
Michele Bachmann to deliver keynote address at anti-gay group event
GOP presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann on Saturday will be the keynote speaker at the Florida Family Policy Council’s 6th Annual Policy Awards Dinner. The FFPC is a a conservative Christian organization dedicated to fighting against marriage equality.
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Commentary
Rick Perry’s homophobia problem is more serious than originally thought
While the gay community is distracted by the antics of Michele Bachmann and her husband, the real danger to our equality –Texas Governor Rick Perry — is trying to sneak into the Oval Office.