North Carolina looks to be fast in the running to surpass Tennessee for anti-gay bigotry.
Pastor Charles L. Worley of Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden, North Carolina, has a solution to the problem of “the gay”. Concentration camps.
The good pastor also appears to have a complete lack of understanding about just who it is making new homos.
I sent the pastor an email. You can too, if you like.
Today CHER turns 66.
And I’ll say it again … she doesn’t look a day over the age she was when she first put on that purple Bob Mackie gown years ago. Yet she still refuses to tell me her secret to staying so svelte.
Then again, I’ve stopped asking.
Anyway, we started the celebrations with some cake. Let me be the first to tell you; C can out-eat anyone when it comes to cake.
Less than two weeks after President Barack Obama announced his public support forgay marriage, a prominent African-American civil rights organization is following suit.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s board of directors voted to endorse gay marriage on Saturday, according to a tweet from NAACP officerMaxim Thorne.
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The NAACP Board of Directors has just endorsed marriage equality unequivocally.
The Board of Directors of the NAACP Saturday voted to endorse marriage equality.
“Civil marriage is a civil right and a matter of civil law,” NAACP president Benjamin Todd Jealous said in a statement released Saturday. “The NAACP’s support for marriage equality is deeply rooted in the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and equal protection of all people. The well-funded right wing organizations who are attempting to split our communities are no friend to civil rights, and they will not succeed.” (Source)
This stance by the NAACP will help counter the anti-gay stance of many in black churches, who have been critical of President Obama’s recent support of marriage equality. It also reaffirms that the right to marriage is a civil right, and it is appropriate to view the struggle for equality in those terms.
Cue right-wing outrage.
Twana Williams and Stacy Baker were in Las Vegas for a honeymoon, when someone broke into their home, graffitied the interior with threats and anti-gay slurs, then set it on fire.
The Novi, Michigan couple have lived in the community with their ten year old daughter, and had no known problems with neighbors over their sexuality.
The couple have returned to Detroit, and are living in a motel temporarily. Details at Huffington Post.
Mississippi state lawmaker, Representative Andy Gipson, is rejecting calls to apologize for remarks he made on May 10, 2012 on his Facebook page. Leviticus 20:13 calls for the death penalty for homosexual acts, and Gipson cited it in response to President Obama’s recent announcement supporting marriage equality.
Gipson is a Southern Baptist Minister and business attorney, as well as a Republican Representative from Braxton, Mississippi.
Gipson is not backing down, saying “To be clear, I want the world to know that I do not, cannot, and will not apologize for the inspired truth of God’s Word. It is one thing that will never ‘change’.”
Some astronomy and science geeks are LGBTQ, too!
The recent “SuperMoon” hype is followed by Sunday’s annular solar eclipse, visible in North America. Details about the eclipse, and this video, here, at Phil Plait’s Bad Astronomy. (Quick summary: “SuperMoon” was full at it’s closest approach in it’s orbit of Earth two weeks ago, called perigee. Since the Moon orbits the Earth every 27.3 days, that means the apogee, the point furthest from the Earth in it’s orbit, occurs 13.7 days later. This eclipse happens at Perigee, so we get a slightly “smaller” Moon in front of the Sun, resulting in an annular (not annual) eclipse.)
During a Q&A in on ABC, Australian Finance Minister Penny Wong responds to Joe Hockey’s answer about why he thinks he and his wife make better parents than Wong and her female partner. Penny Wong’s response is a powerful one, ending with the statement “I know what my family is worth.” It has since gone viral in Australia.
“It may only be brief but activists are calling the exchange a ”watershed moment” in their campaign for same-sex marriage – both allowing people to understand the debate at a personal level and demonstrating its status as a mainstream political issue. Continue reading
Sir Richard Branson, eccentric billionaire and founder of Virgin Group, recorded a video joining the recently launched Out4Marriage campaign.
“Over the years, across the world, gay people have been given more and more rights,” shares Sir Richard. “But in the UK, much of the US and many other countries, one key right is denied, the right for every couple in love to marry. Getting married myself and giving my daughter Holly away at her wedding last year, are among the proudest days of my life. Everybody should be able to experience those moments if they wish to do so, regardless of their sexuality.”
As you probably already know, today is the International Day Against Homophobia & Transphobia, or IDAHO. With that, the makers of the Austrian short film ‘Homophobia’ released the film online for all to everyone to watch for free. ‘Homophobia’ is a story about a Michael, a soldier in the Austrian Military Forces who struggles to come to terms with his feelings for a comrade, and explores the fear behind homophobia.
“Laws can prevent people from doing crimes, but they don’t change people’s thinking. Art can touch people on an emotional level and therefore really make an impact.” says director Gregor Schmidinger. “People often connect homophobia with hate, but it’s really about fear. It’s the fear of the unknown and sometimes of the unknown within ourselves. With Homophobia I want to portray this conflict and provide people with new perspectives on an empathetic level.”
