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Developments in Uganda
It looks like “legislators” in Uganda have dropped the death penalty provision from that country’s proposed new anti-gay law. (Gay sex is already illegal in Uganda.) These provisions remain… • Criminalize all speech and peaceful assembly for those who advocate on behalf of LGBT citizens in Uganda with fines and imprisonment of between five and […]
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Rachel Maddow to Anti-Gay, Ex-Gay Hater Richard Cohen: “I’m reading it from your book, dude.”
JoeMyGod: You may recall the deranged “ex-gay” advocate Richard Cohen, whose ridiculous “reparative therapies” such as beating out one’s homosexual tendencies with a tennis racket and a pillow became the laughingstock of YouTube. Well, it turns out that Cohen isn’t quite the relatively harmless lunatic we all thought. His book’s completely fabricated “statistics” about gays […]
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Straight Woman Auctions Right To Marry
“I’m an unmarried heterosexual woman,” writes Jamie Frevele, on eBay. “And since I probably won’t be using my right to get married, I would like to give it away. I would like to sell it to the highest bidder and donate the proceeds to an organization that supports LGBT rights since the government designed to […]
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The Ex-Gay Movement
Let’s not delude ourselves about anti-gay “religious” leaders in the US and their ultimate aims… Proposed legislation would impose the death penalty for some gay Ugandans, and their family and friends could face up to seven years in jail if they fail to report them to authorities. Even landlords could be imprisoned for renting to […]
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Heaven Is Like a Monster Truck Rally
Only straight people go. And hell is like an Atlantis Cruise or a Lady Gaga concert or a men’s underpants store—only gay people go. At least that’s the impression you get scanning the headlines. Mayor Osby Davis Last week the mayor of a city in California that no one outside California had ever heard of […]
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Required Viewing: New York State Senator Diane Savino Comments During Yesterday’s Debate
I’ve never heard anyone do a better job refuting the my-priest-is-gonna-be-forced-to-marry-the-homos argument. Right now churches can refuse to marry straight couples—couples waving marriage licenses—for any reason whatsoever. Marriage equality for same-sex couples will not oppress religious conservatives. Religious conservatives and officials will just have to do what they do now: tolerate the existence of marriages […]
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Same-Sex Marriage a No-Go in New York
Here’s one of the “no” votes in New York. JoeMyGod: Marriage equality failed today in the New York Senate after a years-long battle to bring the issue to a vote. The final tally: 24 YES, 38 NO. Among the surprises was a “no” voted from Bronx Democrat Sen. Hiram Monserrate, who had previously been a […]
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“You cannot legislate morality, but you can legislate justice.”
New York’s state senate is debating a marriage equality bill right now. A vote is imminent. The other house of NY’s legislature—the State Assembly—has passed a marriage equality bill three times (once again last night for emphasis), and NY’s governor has pledged to sign the bill into law just as soon as the NY state […]
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Who’s Behind Uganda’s Proposed “Kill the Gays” Law?
The man pushing a law in Uganda—which is likely to pass—that would result in the execution of Ugandan gays and lesbians is deeply involved with the American evangelical movement, American social conservatives, and just so happens to be one of Saddleback pastor Rick Warren’s BFFs…
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Blogtown Somehow Overlooked…
Okay, I stole this from Slog, and it’s a couple days old. But in case you missed it, here’s a YouTube that will make you temporarily optimistic about the future of humanity. (And then you will watch this video, and all hope will evaporate.) I want his T-shirt.