The U.S. Supreme Court left intact a Mississippi law that lets businesses and government workers refuse on religious grounds to provide services to gay and transgender people. The justices turned away two appeals by state residents and organizations that contended the measure violates the Constitution. A federal appeals court said the opponents hadn’t suffered any injury that would let them press their claims in court.
The Mississippi fight in some ways represented the flip side of a Colorado case the high court is currently considering; the question in that instance is whether the state can require a baker who sells wedding cakes to make one for a same-sex couple’s wedding. The Mississippi law, by contrast, gives priority to religious rights. The state enacted its law less than a year after the 2015 Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
Let the negative Mississippi business and tourism-destroying Yelp reviews commence!
The Congressional Budget Office on Monday released a much-anticipated report detailing the possible effects of the American Health Care Act, the GOP leadership’s plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
The CBO projected that as many as 14 million Americans could lose their coverage due to the AHCA in 2018. As the Medicaid changes went into effect, the CBO projects this could rise to 24 million by 2026.
Critics of the law had been pointing to the CBO score as a way to fully understand the potential impact of the AHCA on the federal budget and the US healthcare system. The White House and proponents of the AHCA have spent much of the past week casting doubts on the CBO score, in an attempt to blunt the expected blow from the report.
In a press conference last week, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said, “If you’re looking at the CBO for accuracy, you’re looking in the wrong place.” Other White House surrogates like National Economic Council chair Gary Cohn and Office of Management and Budget director Mick Mulvaney criticized the CBO’s accuracy in interviews on Sunday.
And as an added Death Bonus it guts Medicare and puts our elders at serious risk.
In the past Donald Trump and the GOP have used past CBO estimates to attack President Obama and Obamacare aka The Affordable Care Act.
The Human Rights Campaign has announced that former President Bill Clinton will deliver the keynote address next month at their annual National Gala Dinner.
Via press release:
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) equality, announced today that President Bill Clinton will deliver the keynote address at the 18th Annual HRC National Dinner to be held on Saturday, October 25, 2014, in Washington, DC. “President Bill Clinton is a transformational leader for our nation and the world,” said HRC President Chad Griffin. “His ability to build partnerships around the globe and harness the power of human potential is truly remarkable, and we are thrilled he will be returning as our keynote speaker for our national dinner.” After leaving the White House, President Clinton established the Clinton Foundation with the mission to improve global health, strengthen economies, promote health and wellness, and protect the environment. In addition to his Foundation work, President Clinton has served as the top United Nations envoy for the Indian Ocean tsunami recovery effort and as the UN Special Envoy to Haiti. Today, the Clinton Foundation is supporting economic growth, capacity building, and education in Haiti. President Clinton attended HRC’s first national dinner in 1997.
Well for years HRC made hundreds of millions of dollars of DOMA and DADT. I suppose its just right that they make a little more and honor the man they made it off of. *snort*
The October 25,th. event is already sold out. But to be perfectly honest HRC sold out a looooooong time ago.
FAUX News anchor Megyn Kelly aka Tokyo Rose Barbie interviewed FRC hate group leader and known white supremacist Tony Perkin’s about the recent and tragic suicide of fellow anti-gay advocate Pastor Rick Warrens son.
At the end of the segment, Kelly seemed to support hate group leader Tony Perkins’ and other religious right hatemongers’ assertions that Christians are being victimized and oppressed by
those who support equality and asked about why LGBT rights advocates were so intolerant to so-called “Christians”.
KELLY: A lot of people thought, think, that Pastor Warren is on the wrong side of the gay marriage issue. You can relate to him in this way – not the being on the wrong side, I’m not passing a judgment on that – but you also oppose gay marriage and have been the subject of attacks, and it seems like some, not all, but some of those who want tolerance and acceptance, in their effort to get it, are very willing to pass judgment, alienate, attack, and go about it in a way that may be undermining the very thing they seek.
PERKINS:Absolutely, I think you’re absolutely correct. I mean, just to show a little bit of human compassion to a parent who has lost a child would go a long way in showing that they just want to be accepted and enjoy tolerance
Perhaps Kelley should ask all the parents of all the kids gay kids committed suicide because of the hate spewed by FRC and “Christian” ass wipes like Perkins who probably doesn;t even care about the poor kid and is using this tragic event to promote his hateful agenda.
I have nothing nice to say about Rick Warren but I’m not going to comment about the tragic situation with his son. But I WILL pass judgement on FOX News for promoting such lies and garbage. And as for Kelly her brain has been so bleached by the peroxide seeping into her brain through her skull that she probably thinks that civil rights activists in the 60s doing sit-ins at lunch counters should have been more tolerant, and have gotten up when asked
Perkins wants to play the victim? He wants us to be tolerant? Of what? Perhaps the gay-bashings in Greece and elsewhere this week;
The bullying of Tyler Clementi and the killing of Matthew Shepherd;
Discrimination in the work place, housing and the lack if civil rights and ENDA;
Of the hanging of two gay boys in Iran and the stoning to death of another gay;
Of the evangelical Scott Lively poisoning minds in Uganda;
Of the pathetic evangelical pricks who quote Leviticus;
Of the Evangelical Preachers who denounce us as sinners but take rent boys on vacation and Tony Perkins hateful evil self who hides behind “Christianity” to spread his lies and bigoted garbage.
I have a better idea.
LETS NOT be tolerant and lets expose these douchebags for what they really are.
The namby pants Gay Inc., HRC and GLADD way of dealing with these evil fucks has gotten us nowhere.
So a hearty FUCK YOU to Tony Perkins and Meygan Kelly. (By the way dimbo learn how to spell. It’s M-E-G-A-N)
Well all good things, and by the looks of it evil things, must come to an end. And so it comes to pass that the Auntie Tom gay traitors of GOProud have been screwed without lube and booted to the curb by their GOP masters as the American Conservative Union announced yesterday that GOProud will no longer be welcome at their annual Conservative Political Action Conference. (CPAC)
(Allow me to gloat a minute. Bawahahahahahahahahaha! Okay, thats better.)
It’s been confirmed. GOProud, the “conservative” organization that has homosexual “rights” at the top of its agenda, is out for the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference. The event, organized by the American Conservative Union, is one of the largest conferences for conservatives held anywhere in the United States each year. But it had faced the loss of some participants over the past several years specifically because of its inclusion of GOProud.
Some of the organizations whose leaders have raised concerns in recent years have included heavyweights such as the Heritage Foundation, Media Research Center, Family Research Council and Concerned Women for America. But word of the change came today when WND obtained access to letters mailed to GOProud as well as the John Birch Society, which also was left on the chopping block by the new procedures that Al Cardenas, the chief of the organization, announced he would implement when he took over.
“We are deeply disappointed at the decision of the American Conservative Union to bar GOProud from participating in CPAC. They are well within their right to do so, but a decision like this will have consequences.
For the last two years, GOProud has sought to support CPAC and keep the conservative movement united. Unfortunately, elements inside and outside of ACU have pushed their own narrow, divisive and sometimes personal agenda. They have done so at the expense of the conservative movement”
It’s intersting that GOProud blames ACU’s “narrow, divisive and sometimes personal agenda.” I mean it really couldn’t be one of the disastrous parties they threw at the last CPAC? Or perhaps it was one of Chris Barron’s many pyschotic breakdowns? Or maybe you queens can finally get a grip of your clutch purses and pearls and realize that the GOP HATES GAY PEOPLE !
One thing is for certain though. The self-loathing, wallet first, equality second, homos at GOProud who once said that they would support Michele Bachmann if she was nominated for the GOP Presidential ticket are getting what they deserve .
Fucked. And fucked royally by the GOP. And it couldn’t happen to a douchier set of queens.
Enjoy your fucking boys it’s probably the first and the last that you’ll have had in a very long time especially since now EVERYONE hates you.
Openly gay MSNBC reporter Thomas Roberts interviewd GOProud’s(goodlooking, but incredibly hypocrital) Christopher Barron who insisted that Ken Mehlman isn’t any more or a jerk than the Democrats who lent support to the idea that marriage is for heteros only. Then Barron, the oxyMORONic gay Republican obstructionist says it’s time to put “partisan politics” aside.
Perhaps Barron (and HRC as a matter of fact) who are out there supporting Mehlman over this “journey of coming out” seem to forget that he IS THE ROY COHEN OF OUR GENERATION.
Those in the Gay Community who have the spotlight cannot accept and give token nods simply because you think that they may attract a few delusional looney toons into MAYBE (But probably not) casting some votes for repugnatican candidates. Melhman cut a wide swath of destruction thru the Gay community for decades. DECADES! He did not come out at the age of 45 because he “sudden;y realized” he was gay or because he suddenly heard the voice of gay angels singing showtunes and saw the bright shining hevaenbly light with Judy fucking Garland standing in it! IT IS NOT courageous to come out after several decades hiding while throwing your tribe members under the bus time and time and time again, I must be fucking SUPERMAN for having come out while still in my teens without causing harm to my community Where’s my interview?
I would hope that the MOUTHPIECES of gay community is collectively intelligent enough not to unreservedly welcome people into the fold just because it’s Uber-PC or the fact that they have alot o money. Community entails responsibilities
To be perfectly blunt: I don’t want Mehlman as part of my community. He should be shunned unless he makes a major breakthrough in Republican Party thinking (which is definitely not going to happeni)
So Chris Barron…. FUCK YOU!
HRC… FUCK YOU!
Ken Mehlman…… I WOULDN’T FUCK YOU IF YOU WERE THE LAST HOMO ON EARTH.
From The Protect Marriage Press Release: (And yes, as always they beg for MORE MONEY!)
“Great news! The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has just now granted our request to suspend Judge Walker’s ruling against Proposition 8! This legal victory upholds the votes of 7 million Californians while the Perry v. Schwarzenegger case is heard on appeal. If the Ninth Circuit had not granted our motion, then Judge Walker’s decision would have gone into effect on Wednesday, changing the definition of marriage in California despite the vote of the people less than two years ago. As we pointed out in our motion, Judge Walker’s decision totally ignores virtually all legal precedents, the well-recognized public interest served by fostering traditional marriage, and even common sense itself.
In addition to stopping Judge Walker from imposing same-sex marriage on California, the Court of Appeal also ordered that this case will be expedited. That means our opening legal briefs are due in just 30 days! So please help support our legal team and all their important work. With the Attorney General and Governor refusing to defend the people’s vote for Prop 8, the entire burden of defending Prop 8 falls up our legal defense team. We receive no government funding. We rely exclusively on the generous financial support of concerned citizens like you. Please make a special donation right now to help us keep up with the legal costs of defending Prop 8! Thank you for your prayers and support”
Remember your Bible Christomaniacs!
“Pride cometh before a fall” So keep on gloating there you assholes.
