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A Maryland teenager who asked Maryland state legislators to vote 'no' on marriage equality for her 14th birthday has become the first human to successfully break the homophobe sound barrier. In her speech before Maryland's Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee, she managed to claim being gay is a choice, that parents of gay kids are harming them, that gays indoctrinate children, and that redefinition of marriage will lead to all other words being redefined. Wow. A full Homophobic Bingo card. What does she win? More »
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Fresh off a victory in Florida's GOP primary, Presidential Candidate Mittens Mittlesworth Romney has set his sights on the juicy middle parts of the country. But what he didn't count on was the surprising glitterwarlike nature of Minnesotans, who subjected the candidate to two glitterbombs at a single campaign event today. More »
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A judge in Iowa has ordered new birth documents be issued to the child of a lesbian couple who were initially told they couldn't list both of their names on their baby's birth certificate. The Iowa Department of Public Health contended that God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve, but was roundly rebuked for trying to pass redneck bumper stickers off as sound public policy. More »
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Future ex Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann hasn't given up her hopeless crusade to win the White House, despite lagging dramatically behind her fellow contenders in the polls. In fact, she's doubling down in the run up to the Iowa caucuses next week by making sure conservative Hawkeye voters know that she hates gays more than all of the other candidates. More »
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Yesterday, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (pictured) signed into law a bill that would ban state employees from receiving domestic partner benefits. In an especially craven move, he cites financial concerns as a rationale for the ban. More »
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Scandal-ridden anti-gay Minnesota politician Amy Koch has had a rough few days. First, news of her extramarital affair with her married staffer broke. Then, she was forced to resign from her position as state Senate Majority Leader. Now, it seems that the gays of the land of 10,000 lakes have seen the error of their marriage ruining ways, and one of them has written an apology letter so cold, it will you give your nipples frostbite. More »
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At a campaign stop in Iowa yesterday, Professional Republican Stereotype Newt Gingrich informed a gay Iowan that if he wants his homo-needs met, he'd be better off voting for President Obama in 2012. That's right: a candidate for President used time on a campaign stop to explicitly tell someone not to vote for him. And the ongoing game of GOP Nomination Hot Potato continues. More »
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Delusional theocrat Michele Bachmann has broken irony again, this time by claiming that the Kinsey Report, arguably one of the most significant scientific publications in the last century, is "a myth." Why? Because in Bachmanalia, up is down, left is right, science is myth and myth is science. More »
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Ambushing Republican candidates and asking them to explain their crappy positions on gay rights is becoming quite the trend in this election, and Rick Perry is the latest target. After a town hall meeting in Iowa, 14-year-old Rebecka Green approached Perry and said, "I just want to know why you're so opposed to gays serving openly in the military, why you want to deny them that freedom when they're fighting and dying for your right to run for president." More »
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The Surprise Pregnancy Announcement Youtube Video is practically its own genre, but this one has a twist: The expectant and delighted grandparents are two men. And they're jump-up-and-down excited. More »
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Like many, we were hoping that Newt Gingrich might drop out of the presidential race and retreat back to the '90s, from whence he came. Now, unless it's revealed that Gingrich has a long history of infidelity and impropriety that will sour the American people against him, it seems that he and Mitt Romney will be battling it out for the Republican nomination. That means it's time to learn a little more about the man, starting with the fact that like several other politicians prone to promoting anti-gay policies, one of his family members is homosexual. More »
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Yesterday in a speech by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a memo from President Obama, the White House laid out its new commitment to promoting gay and transgender rights worldwide. While many are applauding the announcement, some say Obama has ulterior political motives. The move has already affected the 2012 campaign by giving Rick Perry an opportunity to catch up to the other Republican candidates, who seem to be in some kind of contest to see who can make the most horrifically homophobic comment. More »
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Living argument for poll taxes Michele Bachmann is still pulling in dismal numbers, but has not given up in her fight to be remembered as someone who did not win the 2012 Republican Presidential nomination. While her opponents battle each other, her most formidable recent opponent has come in the form of a South Carolina 8-year-old named Elijah. More »
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Fancy dancing wannabe First Husband Marcus Bachmann is none too pleased with one activist's attempt to expose his kooky gay curing therapies. He's threatening to sue him for an unpaid $150 therapy bill. More »
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Those who oppose gay rights spend a lot of time worrying about how being raised by same-sex parents will damage kids. A new study found that children of homosexual parents are more likely to face hardships, but mainly because the law still discriminates against their families, not because same-sex couples are inherently incapable of raising a child. Shocking, right? More »
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Presidential candidate, vaccination expert, and executive level fearmonger Michele Bachmann has impressed many during this primary season with her public poise, debate sharpness, and seeming command of facts. Unfortunately, the facts that Michele Bachmann commands are made up facts from Planet Whackadoo that aren't actually true at all. And more and more people are starting to notice. More »
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Like many victories, you take the bad with the good. For the GLBT military folks who attended the first-ever gay military personnel convention, OutServe, in Las Vegas yesterday the good has been the non-stop support and "shrugs" they received after they came out and the opportunities that are now opening up for them. More »
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The US Senate has confirmed the federal judicial appointment of Alison Nathan, an out lesbian, with no Republican support. She's the second lesbian to receive a federal lifetime judicial appointment in the US and will join two other currently active gay judges in raining gay rainbow justice all over Real America. Those opposed to her appointment say she's an "activist," and is therefore unfit for the bench, but by now we all know that "activist" is Republican code for "homosexual, brown, or female." More »
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The group Stop SB48 has been working to repeal a new California law that requires public schools to teach social studies lessons on the contributions of gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people, but yesterday it failed to collect the signatures necessary to put the issue on the ballot. That means the law will go into effect on January 1, but Stop SB48 is expected to keep working to repeal the measure in the November 2012 election. If there's one thing that's worth protesting in the U.S., it's kids spending 20 minutes learning about Harvey Milk. More »
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A new nationwide survey via the University of Chicago claims that the public's opinion on homosexuality is "sharply divided", with 44% of participants saying that "sexual relations between two adults of the same sex" is "always wrong" and 41% saying it's "not wrong at all." (Maybe the other 15% believed that gay sex is okay if both parties are wicked hot, but it doesn't say for sure.) More »
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Michele Bachmann, GOP Presidential hopeful from the Land of 10,000 WTF's, says she would reinstate the American military's newly-lifted Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy if elected President. More »
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Josh Siegel's animal art is now a regular weekly feature. Add your own requests in the comments, and maybe Josh will draw an animal for you. More »
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For decades North Carolina Democrats were able to squash state Republicans' dreams of defining marriage as between one man and one women, but after 140 years, conservatives have gained control of the Legislature. And as you may have guessed, they're taking the opportunity to ensure that homosexuals won't have the right to marry in the state. More »
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Between heroically saving Richard Branson's mother from a fire, acting humble about it later, and speaking out in favor of natural aging, Kate Winslet has been wowing us a lot recently. It's unclear if she's just naturally awesome, or is already atoning for starring in that new Roman Polanski film, but we have another charming tale to add to the list. She tells V magazine: More »
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A three-judge panel has struck down Arizona's law denying public health insurance benefits to same-sex domestic partners, saying the state can't provide health care "in an arbitrary or discriminatory manner that adversely affects particular groups that may be unpopular." More »
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A gay Nigerian inmate said he was just trying to hug a prison guard, but he was charged with assault after the guard fell. In jury selection for the case, the dismissal of a lesbian may change whether sexual orientation is protected by the constitution. More »
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Here's Marcus Bachmann's defense of his clinic's habit of trying to "cure" gays: Only if they ask for it! Also, he claims, dubiously, that the audio of him calling gays barbarians was "doctored." More »
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Ever since we found out about Marcus Bachmann's attempts to cure the gays, there's been a certain... subtext. But as much as Mr. Bachmann's setting off everyone's gaydar is a tempting target for hypocrisy call-outs, what self-respecting progressive is going to make fun of effeminacy? More »
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The Iowa far-right group whose pledge essentially expressed nostalgia for the slave family is withdrawing that portion of the pledge, saying, "It was not meant to be racist or anything." (Really.) Michele Bachmann, who signed it, is claiming she wasn't endorsing that "preamble" in a four-page document. Meanwhile, an undercover investigation reveals that Marcus Bachmann lied about whether his counseling practice tries to "cure" homosexuality. More »
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Michele Bachmann has jumped 14 points in the polls in New Hampshire, and she's long been a threat to Mitt Romney in Iowa. All the more reason to review her wonderful positions on the gays and the ladies. More »
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Now that New York's become the biggest state to legalize gay marriage, we'll see whether it will follow in the steps of other marriage equality states in another respect: Seeing more women marry than men. More »
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A 74-year-old woman was arrested for assault at a Pride event this weekend. Her crime: kissing a preacher on the cheek. More »
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Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty has a reputation for being dull, so getting glitter dumped on him could only help his luster. On the other hand, he was getting called out for anti-woman and anti-gay positions, so... even. More »
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Michele Bachmann is having an awfully good day. She reportedly just signed a deal to write a memoir/campaign book, and a new Rasmussen poll shows her in second place after Mitt Romney among likely Republican primary voters. More »
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While battles for marriage equality are going on across the country, the issues surrounding gay adoption are slipping under the radar — and that may be a good thing. In recent years it's become a bit easier for gays to adopt, and so far it seems conservatives are too distracted by denying others their civil rights to do much about it. More »
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Michele Bachmann is a true believer, and she's not an idiot. Also, she once freaked out in a bathroom because an ex-nun and a lesbian were trying to talk to her. More »
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An Ontario Catholic school has gone one step further than Tennessee's idiotic "don't say gay" bill — they've banned rainbows. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5809535&view=rss&microfeed=true The Minnesota House of Representatives voted to send a constitutional same-sex marriage ban to the 2012 ballot on Saturday. More »
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Tennessee's "Don't Say Gay" bill has made it through the Tennessee Senate, with a few changes made: More »
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