Saturday, March 24, 2012

Frothy: Obama Will Destroy America

This is an actual Rick Santorum ad.

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Afternoon View - Cool Walkway Thing

This neat circular walkway thingy connects the two Chevron towers I posted this morning. It's killing me that I've only gotten to see a couple of blocks of a deserted downtown Houston, but we're here less than 48 hours. When you add up flight time, airport time, all day meetings, planned in-house meals...well, you hardly get a chance to stick your head outside of the host hotel at all. There's a least a half-dozen Houston neighborhoods that look interesting, but those will have to wait, dammit. At least we get out for drinks in Montrose tonight!

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Tweet Of The Day - Lady Gaga

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Photo Of The Day - Afghanistan Pride Flag

Just posted to the Wipeout Homophobia page of Facebook with the caption: "hubbie in afghanistan raising a gay pride flag." I'm still in meetings at the journalists conference in Houston, so I'm hoping my flying monkeys can track down the back story behind this photo. (Tipped by JMG reader David)

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Ill Papa Visits Mexico

(Photo via Andres Duque)

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Weekend Mix - DJ Shane Stiel


Get on down with your bad self with this exclusive JMG mix by San Diego's hot DJ Shane Stiel. Setlist Twitter. Podcasts. Facebook. Interview. Beefcake.

UPCOMING GIGS: The Jungle @ Rich's San Diego, Tonight. Vancouver Pride, Oasis Lounge, LL Bear @ Rich's San Diego.

PREVIOUSLY ON JMG: DJ Jerry Bonham. DJ Michael Fierman. DJ Sin Morera. DJ Herbie James. DJ Paul Ferrer. DJ Dave Huge.

NOTE: This is the seventh in the revived JMG Weekend Mix series in which we highlight major national and up-and-coming DJ talent. This series ran for 28 installments in 2010 with entries from such well-known names as Susan Morabito, Corey Craig, David Knapp, Paul Goodyear, Ted Eiel, and many others. Lots of great names coming in 2012!

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JMG Vs LCR At Haas Convention

Fellow blogger Joe Mirabella tweeted my too-brief questioning of Log Cabin Republicans head R. Clark Cooper at this weekend's Haas Convention for LGBT journalists. Timeline is from the bottom up.Jeremy Hooper summed up the room's mood afterwards.UPDATE: Somebody is feeling ignored.

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Porno Pete: People Are Mean To Me!

"As sick and twisted as Dan Savage’s wicked anti-Santorum hate-site is, you wouldn’t believe the nasty e-mails and tweets I’m getting from fans of Savage! The Libertine Left’s awful demonization of conservatives and especially Bible-believing Christians is finally coming home to roost — because when the Dan Savages and Bill Mahers of the world, and venomous homosexual bloggers like Joe Jervis (Joe.My.God.) are exposed, anyone who can think (and is not a hard-core liberal ideologue) sees who the real Haters and Bigots are." - Peter LaBarbera, who denounces GLAAD for "censorship" while simultaneously demanding that MTV censor Dan Savage.

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Hate Group Debuts NC Marriage Ad


(Via Good As You)

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Morning View - Chevron Headquarters

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Kirk Cameron: I'm Being Oppressed, Part 2

"I love seeing the homeschool movement, I love seeing these conservative movements and the gospel being proclaimed boldly and fearlessly, not just in America but around the world. And then there’s an agenda to want to cut us off from our past, there are those who want to hide the past and our Christian heritage and if you can do so people lose their identity and they are looking for a new identity. If the anti-Christian agenda will say, ‘here’s your identity, you’re an evolved amoeba who ought to just go do whatever you want and don’t let anybody tell you different.’ Then they can get you to throw your faith, your character, your courage, and your liberty right out the window." - Kirk Cameron, speaking on Washington Watch Weekly.

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TV News Reports On Madonna/Russia

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Gay Cruise Passengers Speak Out

The two men arrested on their Dominica cruise ship tell quite a different story than that told in the press release issued by Atlantis Events president Rich Campbell. The Washington Post reports:
Dennis Jay Mayer, 53, told The Associated Press that he has no doubt they were arrested in Dominica because they were gay. [snip] “He said: ‘You’re being arrested for being gay. We’re arresting you for the crime of buggery,’” Mayer said. “He said that other people said that we were engaging in homosexual sex. He repeated that several times. I told him I didn’t know why they would say that. I wasn’t doing that.” Mayer said he was naked in his cabin and nearly naked on the balcony. “I was less partially clothed than I should have been.” During the interrogation, the police official threatened to take them to a clinic and have them medically examined for proof of homosexual activity, Mayer said. “He said, you know, we’re looking for specific things, fluids, bruising, things of that nature,” Mayer said. After making the threat, the official left the room, then came back saying they had a right to refuse the test, Mayer said.
Mayer adds that while the couple was transported to the police station, an angry crowd surrounded the police car to chant, scream, and bang on the vehicle.
They paraded many people by to look in on us as if we were some type of animal, which was quite humiliating,” he said. “People got great joy in the pleasure of taunting us.” In Thursday morning, police drove them to the courthouse in the capital of Roseau, passing through an angry crowd, Mayer said. "They were chanting and banging on the police vehicle. They were screaming things,” he said. “I’ve never seen anything like this in my life, other than in movies. Both my partner and I really feared for our safety.” Police drove around the block twice to avoid the crowd and journalists. Officers formed a barricade with their bodies and urged Mayer and his partner to run into the courthouse and not stop.
Does that sound like a "traffic ticket," as Campbell dismissed the entire ordeal?

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Tired Old Queen At The Movies #97

1942's Reap The Wild Wind, starring Paulette Goddard, John Wayne, Ray Milland and Susan Hayward. Directed by Cecil B. DeMille.

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Friday, March 23, 2012

Quote Of The Day - Slaggie Gilamonster

"Starbucks has voluntarily decided -- as a corporation -- to associate its brand with a major political issue, the CEO just confirmed. I was in the room. I heard him. Customers across the world have a right to know that contrary to the promises made by the corporation in the Middle East and elsewhere, Starbucks does subsidize political causes. Drinking a cup of Starbucks coffee, sadly, means supporting gay marriage. Speak out, and stop being invisible to powerful men like Schultz. The business of America may or may not be business, but the business of corporations is to make an honest profit by serving all their customers well, both those who favor and those who oppose gay marriage." - Maggie Gallagher, writing for Real Clear Politics.

NOTE: Our tipster for this quote insists you check out the decades-old photo Maggie submitted for the above-linked article.

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RUSSIA: St. Petersburg Authorities Threaten To Arrest Madonna

Earlier this week Madonna vowed to break St. Petersburg's new "don't say gay" law during her coming concert. Today the bill's author declared that he will be at the venue and will charge Madonna, should she break the new law against promoting homosexuality.
The law, which took effect March 11, in part prohibits “the propaganda of homosexuality and pedophilia among minors.” Gay rights activists say it would criminalize even reading, writing or speaking about gay, lesbian, or transgender people. Violations can carry hefty fines, ranging from about $170 for individuals up to $16,700 or organizations and businesses. The bill’s author, city assemblyman Vitaly Milanov, says he wants Madonna charged under the new law if she speaks out against it during her concert. He said he was willing to attend the show “to control its moral content.” “I’m ready to personally suffer a couple of hours of her concert,” he told the Russian Interfax news agency.
Some Russian LGBT activists have denounced Madonna's refusal to cancel. Famed activist Nikolai Aleksev:"“The law will stay in force, Madonna will leave and the Russian LGBT community will be humiliated even more." Other gay groups say they welcome any attention Madonna can bring to their plight.

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Starbucks Thank You Card

Go sign it. They're on their way to ten times the number that have signed NOM's boycott pledge.

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Afternoon View - Houston Ape Rebellion

I wasn't really expecting cowboys and oil wells, but I didn't think the view from my Houston hotel room would evoke the climactic rebellion scene from Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes. Amirite? #dorkattack

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CHILE: Lesbian Mom Wins Back Kids

One of Chile's longest-running LGBT rights cases has ended with a win for the good guys:
Karen Atala (left), an openly gay judge in Chile, has finally won back custody of her three daughters after a nearly eight-year court fight, officials say. Atala, 48, was stripped of custody of her children in 2004 when she revealed she is a lesbian. The Chilean Supreme Court ruled her children would be in "a situation of risk" that may "damage their psychic development." However, Tuesday's reversal of that ruling rewarded her custody and $60,000 for pain and suffering. She will also be awarded $12,000 to cover legal fees. Atala only received 10 percent of what she asked for in her lawsuit.
Eight unrecoverable years without her kids though.

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Obamacare Infographic

Today is the two year anniversary of the bill's passage and Think Progress provides the above infographic.

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FRC Backs NOM On Starbucks

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Finland Considers Gay Marriage

The government of Finland has begun debating a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage.
Considered one of the most conservative Nordic nations, there is already a relationship register in the country for same-sex couples, which has been in place since 2002. The new amendment would end the separation between heterosexual marriages and same-sex partnerships and allow all couples to share a surname and adopt children. The amendment would have no bearing on religious groups, and would only redefine civil marriages. The Finnish Parliament have now sent the initiative to the Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee, where its passage is uncertain. The draft amendment was signed by 76 of the 200 members of Parliament, with more lawmakers including Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen expected to vote for it, Reuters reports.
Norway and Sweden have already legalized gay marriage.

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Mittens: Unshakably Extreme

The DNC stays on the sketchy meme.

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Birtherism's 2012 Rebirth

After a year or so of relative quiet, the approaching election has spawned a massive rebirth in birtherism, with all kinds of new whackadoodle conspiracy theories.

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Reality Show For Cyndi Lauper

Deadline notes:
Cyndi, starring singer Cyndi Lauper and executive produced by Mark Burnett, and Kendra On Top, starring Kendra Wilkinson-Baskett. Cyndi, which has received a 12-episode order, will chronicle the personal and professional life of Lauper, who has been married to actor David Thornton for 20 years and has a 13-year-old son. The series will start production next month for a summer launch.
I'll actually watch this one, at least at first.

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New From Newt

Go shake it.

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#1 Thirty-Five Years Ago Today

Recorded in the summer of 1975, ABBA's only U.S. chart-topper didn't achieve its lone week at the summit until the spring of 1977. Dancing Queen's glory as ABBA's biggest and most enduring American hit was besmirched last year when it the media learned it was Newt Gingrich's ringtone. TRIVIA 1: Dancing Queen was written just months after ABBA won Eurovision 1974 for Sweden with Waterloo. TRIVIA 2: Among the many well-known acts that have lovingly (and often mockingly) performed Dancing Queen in concert: The Sex Pistols, U2, Bjork, Alanis Morrisette.

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Freedom To Marry Launches New Drive

Via press release:
Today Freedom to Marry announced the Win More States Fund to raise at least $3 million dollars, every penny of which will be spent directly on the work of winning in five 2012 marriage battleground states: Maine, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, and Washington. “Winning marriage at the ballot in even one state will take away the last desperate talking-point our opponents use to disparage the gains we are making across the country,” said Evan Wolfson, founder and President of Freedom to Marry, the campaign to win marriage nationwide. “In each of our battleground states, Freedom to Marry is taking a lead role alongside local families and leaders, adding talent and resources on the frontlines to do the critical work necessary to win.”
With five states on the 2012 ballot, it's almost a rerun of 2004. This time, however, three of the state battles can end in legalization.

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The 50 Looks Of Madonna

You can look at any old photo of Madonna and instantly know about what year it was taken. You can't say that about about anybody else. Billboard Magazine has a 50 photo trip down memory land. My favorite period was the Erotica years. Least favorite: the Guy Ritchie years.

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Gay Divorce In Ohio

Legal questions are being raised after an Ohio gay couple was granted a divorce there after marrying in New York state.
Jonathan E. Baize, 31, and Stephen J. Wissman, 31, were granted a divorce last week by Judge Donald A. Cox after a 10-minute, “unremarkable” hearing, said attorney Thomas J. Addesa. He represented only Baize in the case. Baize and Wissman were married in New York on Sept.1 last year, but later agreed to divorce. It is one of the first cases of a same-sex divorce approved in Ohio since gay marriage was barred by a constitutional amendment approved by voters in 2004. The amendment defines marriage as solely between one man and one woman. The Ohio Campaign to Protect Marriage, the group that spearheaded the effort to pass the constitutional ban, filed a legal brief in the case. However, there is no indication that the judge considered the group’s argument, Addesa said.
The anti-gay group argues that the divorce cannot be valid because that would be an implicit admission that the marriage was too. (Tipped by JMG reader Gus)

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TENNESSEE: Senate Passes Bill Allowing The Teaching Of Creationism

The Tennessee Senate has approved a bill that will allow teachers to advocate for creationism and against climate change. The bill's wording is couched in terms of "protecting the right to open discussion."
Senators voted 24-8 to pass a bill that says schoolteachers cannot be punished for "helping students to understand, analyze, critique and review in an objective manner the scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses of existing scientific theories" taught in public schools. The measure has drawn strong opposition from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Center for Science Education and the American Civil Liberties Union, which said it is cover for teachers who want to teach creationism or intelligent design. Supporters said the measure would give teachers more guidance to answer students' questions about science topics. "The idea behind this bill is that students should be encouraged to challenge current scientific thought and theory," said state Sen. Bo Watson, R-Hixson.
Insanity.

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NOM's Starbucks Boycott: Day One

On the first full official day of NOM's boycott, yesterday Starbucks' stock price plummeted soared by $1.41. SNORK!

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Kid Sues His Bully, Eight Years Later

A former student at Manhattan's exclusive Calhoun School is suing the school and his tormenting bully for abuse that he suffered in 2004.
In a lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Eric Giray — now a sophomore at Brandeis University — accuses Daniel Dworakowski — now a sophomore at Cornell — of taunting him for years before shoving him into the school’s bleachers on Oct. 15, 2004. Giray, who attended Calhoun for the sixth, seventh and eighth grades, broke his nose and needed 18 stitches to close the gashes, according to his attorney Ric Cherwin. The incident came two weeks after Giray’s mother, Dr. Ayse Giray, a pediatrician, complained in two emails to school administrators that Dworakowski, a champion athlete, had repeatedly called her smaller son “gay” and told him he had “elephant ears." “I really don’t want him to be bullied again,” the mother wrote in a September 2004 email to Calhoun administrators.
The mother of the sued student said yesterday that the broken nose incident was merely "an accident," and not bullying. The suit seeks $1.5M in damages.

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Smithsonian AIDS Quilt Exhibit

Panels from the NAMES Project will be on display as part of this summer's Smithsonian Folklife Festival on Washington DC's National Mall. The exhibit runs June 27th to July 1st and July 1st thru July 4th. When last measured, the AIDS Quilt weighed 54 tons in its entirety. It's the largest piece of community folk art in the world. Bring Kleenex.

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Morning View - Triborough Bridge

I took this just after 7AM.

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Celebs Read Tweets About Themselves


(Tipped by JMG reader Wilson)

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Headline Of the Day

Never.

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Canada's Porn Channel Ad


(Via Copyranter)

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PPP Survey: Obama Leads By Four

The respected Public Policy Polling's latest survey shows the president leading Romney by four points, but the "undecided" field is troubling.

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Eurovision: San Marino's Valentina

Valentina Monetta's entry for tiny San Marino is an almost novelty song. Originally titled Facebook Uh-Oh, Monetta was informed of the Eurovision rule: "No commercial messages of any kind shall be allowed. A breach of this rule may result in disqualification." On the final day of eligibility, the track was was reworked and retitled The Social Network Song.

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Spartacus Guide Ranks U.S. States

The Spartacus gay travel guide has ranked the states (PDF) by several factors including existing laws granting LGBT rights and protections. Embiggen for details and hit the link for the rest of the list.
(Tipped by JMG reader Paulo)

UPDATE:
I've gotten emails saying that some of the rankings are off. Fact check away, flying monkeys!

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Spartacus Guide Ranks Foreign Countries

The Spartacus Gay Guide has ranked (PDF) every country in the world based on the legal status of LGBT residents and the safety of gay tourists. Below are the best results. Embiggen for details and hit the link for the rest of the list.

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The Final Four

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I AM: Trans People Speak

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GSN To Launch Bible Quiz Show

GSN (formerly the Game Show Network) will launch an hour-long Bible quiz show hosted by Jeff Foxworthy.
GSN said the questions will be “designed to acknowledge and celebrate the Bible’s continuing importance in contemporary life and culture.” Can’t wait for the stoning-of-adulteresses question. It appears contestants will be selected on the basis of their backstories, because GSN says contestants are going to share them with viewers at home and the studio audience. And teams of contestants will represent “worthy faith-based organizations,” said GSN, without elaborating as to how it planned to weed out the unworthy ones. “I am excited to be hosting a show about the best-selling book of all time,” Foxworthy, who already hosts GSN’s “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?” said in Wednesday’s announcement.
Q: How do we know the Bible is true?
A: Because it says so in the Bible!

You just won a BRAND NEW CAR!

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Thursday, March 22, 2012

Accidental Drowning And Cocaine Use

The Los Angeles coroner has issued a report.
Whitney Houston's death was caused by accidental drowning, cocaine ingestion and heart disease, according to a preliminary report issued today by the Los Angeles County coroner's office. Marijuana, anti-anxiety drug Xanax, muscle relaxant Flexeril and over-the-counter allergy medication Benadryl were also found in the singer's blood, but those substances did not contribute to her death, the report states. No trauma or foul play is suspected, and a final report is expected within two weeks.

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Police Chief Quits In Trayvon Scandal

"Temporarily" he says. By a one vote margin, yesterday the Sanford City Council voted "no confidence" in their chief of police.

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Nation To Rise Up Against Evil Obama

So says World Net Daily.

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Is That Your Tattoo Ringing? Or Mine?

Nokia has patented a funky tattoo ink that will vibrate to alert you of incoming calls on your cell phone, which presumably must be nearby.
The tattoo would be made of ferromagnetic ink and would be able to detect a magnetic field generated by your phone in order to "transfer a perceivable stimulus to the skin," according to the U.S. patent filing, which was first brought to light by the Unwired View news site. Just as you can assign different ringtones to different contacts in your address book, this device can vibrate differently based on who's calling, or whether you're getting a text, email or news alert, according to the documents. It can even warn you when your phone’s battery is about to die.
If you don't want to commit to permanent ink, the tattoo also comes as a stick-on.

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Porno Pete To MTV: Cancel Dan Savage

"Number One: Dan Savage is a radical and raunchy homosexual activist who gives unhealthy and reckless sex advice. He aggressively works to undermine the historic ethic of marital fidelity by championing the twisted notion that married couples should allow outside sex -- like so many 'monogamish' homosexual male couples do. Incredibly, Savage argues that this would lower the divorce rate.

"Number Two: Savage is an unrepentant cyber-bully who has led a worldwide internet campaign to demonize and destroy Rick Santorum's name -- creating 'Santorum[dot]com' to 're-define' it as the revolting by-product of anal sex. He should NOT be rewarded for this evil crusade, nor held up as a role-model for young people." - Porno Pete LaBarbera, hilariously using the term "number two" in a press release to Viacom.

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Atlantis Events Responds

Atlantis Events president Rich Campbell has posted a message on the company's Facebook page.

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MISSISSIPPI: Two Life Sentences For Teenage Killer Of Gay Black Man

A 19 year-old Mississippi man has pleaded guilty and received two life sentences for targeting a random black man for abuse and killing him with his pickup truck. It was later learned that the victim was gay and in a 17 year relationship.
Deryl Dedmon, 19, of Brandon, Miss., apologized to the family of 49-year-old James Craig Anderson. While partying with six friends last June 26, Dedmon suggested finding a black man to harass. Anderson was beaten before Dedmon ran over him with his Ford pickup. "I do not ask y'all to forget, but I do ask y'all to forgive," he said before being sentenced for the murder and hate crime that was captured by a hotel security camera. AP writes, "As members of his family and the victim's relatives wiped away tears, Dedmon said God has taught him not to see race and he is a changed man."
The New York Times reported on the victim last August.
Mr. Anderson was a good country cook, a gifted gardener and always genial, his family said. He liked his job on the assembly line at the Nissan plant north of Jackson, where he had worked for about seven years. “If you met him, the first thing you were going to see was that grand piano smile,” said his eldest sister, Barbara Anderson Young. He made a point of taking care of old people and children and was helping his partner of 17 years, James Bradfield, raise the 4-year-old relative for whom Mr. Bradfield has legal guardianship. He sang tenor in the choir at the First Hyde Park Missionary Baptist Church and was so good “he’d have you falling out,” Mr. Bradfield, 44, said.

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The Day Of Monologue

Yesterday I posted one of the "conversation cards" that Focus Of The Bully plans to use to bully gay kids on next month's Day Of Silence. Today the Friendly Atheist posts a reader-submitted satire, The Day Of Monologue.

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Headline Of The Day

Mittens IS good for the economy.

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AFA Poll Of The Day

Results.

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Today's Lie From NOM

Actually, there are two lies here. First of all, nobody has been "replaced." This was a special election for an open seat. Secondly (and as I reported yesterday), no winner has been declared and none will be known until at least next week when the absentee ballots are counted. Yet Brian Brown gloats: "This race cements a new relationship between traditional marriage supporters and the Orthodox Jewish community, forced to choose between principled support for marriage and their traditional political loyalties."

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SF Gay Men's Chorus: Testimony

Clip description:
In writing TESTIMONY, Stephen Schwartz collaborated with Dan Savage, creator of the groundbreaking "It Gets Better Project." Schwartz has set the heartfelt words from the "It Gets Better" videos to music, weaving them into a breathtaking, emotional new masterpiece that speaks to anyone who has ever felt out of place. The song urges LGBT youth to hang on, telling them they're not alone, and showing them that life gets better. TESTIMONY was recorded and engineered by Leslie Ann Jones, the legendary multi Grammy award-winning Director of Music Recording at Skywalker Sound. Performed by the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus under the direction of Dr. Timothy Seelig.
Get a tissue. Get three tissues. Devastating.

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DOMINCA: Gay Cruise Passengers Plead Guilty, Receive Two Months Jail Time

The court system on Dominca moves swiftly. It appears that the jail time will be waived if the fines are "paid immediately."
The charges were later reduced to indecent exposure – the charge on which they were found guilty by a Roseau magistrate. John Robert Hart 41, and Dennis Jay Mayer 43, were fined EC$2,400 each. The fines are to be paid immediately, failing which they will each have to spend two months in jail. The ship, Celebrity X Cruises, carrying about 2,000 passengers departed Puerto Rico on Saturday and arrived in Dominica on Wednesday. It departed for St. Barts without the men, who were at the time being held in a cell at police headquarters in the capital of Roseau.
The fines are about $900 USD. Even IF the men were indeed stupidly fucking around on a ship's balcony in view of people on the dock, it remains doubtful to me that straight passengers would have been charged.

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Kony Or Baloney

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Gary Bauer Is GLAAD To Be On The List

"I’m pleased to report that my name was included on a list of pro-family, Christian leaders. Others on the list include Chuck Colson, Tony Perkins, Jim Daly, Don Wildmon and Robert George. That’s pretty good company! So, what is this list? It is a media 'black list' drawn up by the GLAAD as part of its so-called 'Commentator Accountability Project.' GLAAD is working hard to silence conservative, pro-family, Christian voices in the media. My friends, the culture war is real. This is just the latest example of the radical left’s intolerance and its assault on free speech. That is why Fox is under attack and why advertisers on the Rush Limbaugh Show are being threatened. It is more evidence of its efforts to force faith and conservatism out of public arena and into the closet." - Gary Bauer, writing for his American Values newsletter.

RELATED: In the 80's Bauer was Reagan's Chief Domestic Policy Adviser. Then he was the president of the Family Research Council from 1988 to 1999, the period after it spun off from Focus On The Family, where he was vice president. Today he is the president of the anti-gay hate group, American Values. In 2010 he was one of the first prominent signers of the Manhattan Declaration, which calls on Christians to disobey laws that protect LGBT Americans from discrimination.

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Bryan Fischer: GLAAD Are Nazis

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Dominca Newspaper Poll

Results.

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An Email From Dominica

This wonderful email came in last night....
Hi Joe,

I cannot tell you how my heart sunk when I saw the story you have picked up from my island. This morning I had to verbally reprimand a coworker and ask her to stop speaking about the "gay ship". I ignored her when she said that an arrest was made, only to find out that the story is true. I don't know the details of what went down but it boogles my mind that the cruise organizers even bothered docking in Dominica. I'm a big believer in talking with your dollars so I totally understand and support the sentiment of gay cruises boycotting countries with anti-homosexual laws.

I'm writing you because when stories like this come out it is angering and hurtful that in 2012 things like this is still happening with apparent widespread support in some areas; but I wanted you to know that this Dominican girl has been reading your blog, laughing at your jokes, crying over your tales of lost friends and even listening to some of your recommended disco songs for a few years now. There are haters out there, but there are also lovers and I know that we are on the right side of history. Also, please tell the Farmboys I love them and if they'll like to gay adopt a 30 year old island girl that I'm available.

Nyes
[For those unaware, Farmboyz is the collective name for Father Tony and his husband, a monicker they earned many years ago due to a Connecticut farmhouse they once owned.]

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Wingnut Tabs Rejoice

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