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For Gay Cop Javier Pagan at Boston Bombings, Heroism Runs In the Family
Share this:Photo by John Tlumacki of the Boston Globe. Click for link. The above photograph, taken immediately after the first explosion in yesterday’s horrifying Boston Marathon bombings, has emerged as one of the iconic images of the day. And...
Self-Proclaimed Prophet Jim Wallis Sorta Kinda Comes Out for Marriage Equality?
Share this:Now that self-proclaimed prophet Jim Wallis is hawking his newest book, he’s decided to sorta, kinda, maybe come out for marriage equality. Because, you know, the young people support it. Sarah Posner, longtime Wallis critic and senior...
Michigan GOP Official: Gays ‘Will Prey On Our Children!’
Share this:Mary Helen Sears, Vice Chair of the First Congressional District of the Republican Party of Michigan, posted a bigoted rant on the website of the Schoolcraft County GOP on Sunday. Sears’s screed, ominously titled “End of the GOP?,”...
San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone Sends Holy Thursday Message of Division. Literally.
Share this:On Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, thousands of pro-equality Americans gathered outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. to show support for the freedom to marry on same days that the Court heard oral arguments on California’s...
Folk Singer Michelle Shocked Goes on Anti-Gay Rant, Wave of Cancellations Follows
Share this:On Sunday, folk singer and onetime Lilith Fair regular Michelle Shocked stunned a San Francisco audience with a vicious anti-gay tirade. From the Bay Area Reporter: …things started to fall apart for the singer during her second set, which...
NOM Chairman John Eastman: Adoption is a “Second-Best” Option
Share this:My jaw is on the floor after reading this one, folks: John Eastman, chairman of the anti-gay National Organization for Marriage, shockingly and patronizingly denigrated adoption in an interview with the Associated Press, calling it the “second-best...
Documents Reveal Regnerus Gay Parenting “Study” Was Fraud from the Start – Read the Proof!
Share this:Newly-obtained documents show that the conservative policy organizations who funded a widely discredited study about the supposed harms of same-sex parenting bankrolled the research expecting to find results that would be harmful to the marriage...
Opposition to Marriage Equality Shrinking, Increasingly Isolated
Share this:Last year pollsters Jan van Lohuizen, top pollster for former President George W. Bush, and Joel Benenson, who headed President Obama’s campaign polling apparatus in the 2008 and 2012 campaigns, teamed up with Freedom to Marry to release...
BREAKING: After Initial Denials, Cardinal Keith O’Brien Admits to Sex With Priests
Share this:Last week, Roman Catholic Cardinal Keith O’Brien — the head of the Catholic Church in Scotland, the most senior Catholic prelate in all of Britain, and its sole cardinal eligible to vote in the upcoming papal conclave — resigned...