Yesterday Obama said that listening to his kids talk about their friends with same-sex parents helped bring him around on the issue of marriage equality. Parenting expert Bristol Palin weighs in: While it’s great to listen to your kids’ ideas, there’s also a time when dads simply need to be dads. In this case, it […]
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Posted inElection 2012
Guess Where Mitt Romney Stands on Gay Marriage?
Mitt Romney, unsurprisingly, has come out against gay marriage: Mitt Romney says he believes marriage should be restricted to one man and one woman and that he’s held that view “since running for office.” Romney on Wednesday called same sex-marriage “a very tender and sensitive topic” as he contrasted his position with President Barack Obama’s […]
Posted inElection 2012
“OBAMA FLIP FLOPS, DECLARES WAR ON MARRIAGE”
This is the real headline on Fox Nation right now: Man, I can’t wait to see what the Romney campaign’s response to all this will be. UPDATE: Glad I took a screenshot; they’ve already changed the headline. The new headline is a slightly more tasteful “OBAMA FLIP FLOPS ON GAY MARRIAGE.” Way to flip flop […]
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Obama Comes Out for Same-Sex Marriage
The news: President Obama today announced that he now supports same-sex marriage, reversing his longstanding opposition amid growing pressure from the Democratic base and even his own vice president. In an interview with ABC News’ Robin Roberts, the president described his thought process as an “evolution” that led him to this place, based on conversations […]
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Gay Rights by State
It’s infographic-o-clock! My favorite time. Anyway, the Guardian pieced together a visually pleasing graphic breaking down gay rights in each state. This is somewhat weird, because the Guardian is a UK paper, but hey, thanks! Not only does it color-code each state’s level of acceptance, but the version on its website fills you in on […]
Posted inElection 2012
What He Said
Andrew Sullivan: Ezra Klein may well sigh: “Obama’s real pitch to the gay community: He’s not Mitt Romney.” But, given how little power the president has on marriage, that’s enough for me. Romney is virulently anti-gay, and could not stand up to even the most rancid of homophobes in Bryan Fischer. His church, moreover, is […]
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Confidential to NOM’s Brian Brown: You’re On, Motherfucker
I will name the time and the place, per your offer, as soon as possible. Looking forward to it, NOMnuts.
Posted inReligion
Dan Savage SAVAGES the Pope!
These are the comments that have had the Catholic League spitting out deranged press releases for two days. ZOMG! Dan Savage said those things about that pope that Dan Savage has said before! The same things he’s said on his podcast more than once! Things that he’s more than happy to post to his own […]
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Transgender Woman Ticketed for Using the Women’s Restroom
Where do you think a transgendered woman would get ticketed for using a women’s room? In Texas, of course: Parkland police cited Paula Witherspoon, whose legal name is Paul Witherspoon, for disorderly conduct on April 25. “It was definitely humiliating, degrading,” she said. “I felt like I was being discriminated against.”…Witherspoon said she offered to […]
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Homo-Hatin’ Hillbilly Just Got Himself Into a Heap of Trouble
What follows is a hillbilly asshole firing his shotgun into a yard sign that opposes North Carolina’s Amendment One (another one of those tedious “one man, one woman marriage” amendments). Joe. My. God. picked it up on his blog, and now not only is it going viral, but this half-wit drooling hayseed may go to […]
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Vicious Anti-Christian Hate Speech Restored to YouTube Thanks to Efforts of Anti-Gay Hate Groups!
Peter LaBabera runs an anti-gay hate group—officially designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center—and he follows me on Twitter. When Peter isn’t fantasizing aloud about my sex life, he’s accusing me of engaging in anti-Christian hate speech. (The Gospel According to Peter: Any gay person who refuses to stand perfectly still while religious bigots punch […]
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Creeping On Straight Chicks
Lesbian poet Staceyann Chin wrote a piece of the Guardian about her habit of chasing—and bagging—straight girls. Gabrielle Rivera isn’t having it: As a lesbian, bisexual or queer woman, it’s almost inevitable that you will crush on, fuck and/or be emotionally tormented by a straight chick. One, they’re EVERYWHERE. They’re eating ice cream in Central […]