Posted Today On Christwire

From today's top story on Christwire:

Hell hath no spitfire like a lisping gay scorned, so it’s no surprise today to see legions of gays angrily sassafrasshing and sashaying all around their demigod Joe My God in heated fury and trying to scratch the skin off GOP Presidential Candidate Herman Cain. For years now gays have tried to become the new black. If you listen to their political rhetoric, it is focused on becoming the ‘scapegoated victim’ of America when in reality it is the knuckleclenched-up-the-intestines reverse ploy opposite. Gays are trying to sodomize the morality of America, trying to make us feel deep guilt that we stand against a woman having her privates mangled until it resembles a proper pickler, the surgery being shown at “Family Time Hours” on MSNBC.

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Today In Creepy Robots

FINALLY: Potties For OWS

After 54 days, the protesters in Manhattan's Zuccotti Park finally have potties.

Despite denials of permits by the City, Occupy Wall Street participants have worked diligently with the help of local officials to secure 24/7 access to toilets within reasonable distance of Liberty Square. Starting today, OWS is providing access to porta-potties in a private, well-lit space with 24-hour security, only 2 blocks away from the square. The portable toilets will be maintained by a professional service, and OWS volunteers are blanketing Liberty Square with fliers directing people to the facilities.

Prior to today, protesters have relied upon the increasingly put-upon fast food outlets that ring the park.

Family Research Council Honors Deadbeat Dad Rep. Joe Walsh As "Pro-Family"

The Family Research Council has named Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) as their "True Blue" pro-family leader, even though Walsh owes over $100,000 in unpaid child support.

"We thank Cong. Walsh who has voted consistently to defend faith, family and freedom,” said FRCA President Tony Perkins. “Cong. Walsh and other ‘True Blue Members’ have voted to repeal Obamacare, de-fund Planned Parenthood, end government funding for abortion within the health care law, uphold the Defense of Marriage Act, and continue support for school choice. I applaud their commitment to uphold the institutions of marriage and family."

Walsh responded to the honor by crowing, "Defending American values have always been one of my top priorities, and this reward reaffirms my dedication to that fight."

NOM's Brian Brownshirt Praises Michigan Law To Legalize Anti-Gay Bullying

"Are some major political players openly now asserting that protecting gay children from bullying—a worthy goal—requires giving the government the right to prohibit thoughtful and civil expressions of religious or moral viewpoints? What would become of our democracy if we accepted this reckless premise? I hope Michigan's effort to civilize children by repressing bullying becomes a landmark of a new effort to genuinely address the legitimate concerns of parents—including parents with gay teens—without heavy-handed use of government power to repress and exclude Christian views on sex and marriage." - NOM president Brian Brown, applauding the Michigan state Senate for approving a bill which allows bullying which has a "religious or moral" purpose.

CHICAGO: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Heckled By Occupy Wall Street Protesters

"Mic check! Mic check!"

Asshat Of The Day - Rudy Giuliani

"I believe that Barack Obama owns the Occupy Wall Street movement. It would not have happened, it would not have happened but for his class warfare. And remember, as it gets worse and worse because it's going to get worse and worse, where it came from. Barack Obama. He praised it. He supported it. He agrees with it. He sympathizes with it. And as it gets worse and worse, I believe this will be the millstone around Barack Obama's neck that will take his presidency down. How about you occupy a job. How about working? Working. I know that's tough." - Rudy Giuliani, speaking at an event called Defending The American Dream.

SPAIN: Ricky Martin Granted Citizenship In Possible Bid To Legally Marry

Spain has granted citizenship to Puerto Rico-born Ricky Martin, who may be seeking a legal venue to marry his boyfriend.

Spokesman Jose Blanco told a news conference that ministers had agreed to grant him a “letter of naturalization”, issued in special circumstances, because of his “personal and professional links with Spain”. Spanish newspaper El Pais reported that Martin sought citizenship in order to marry boyfriend Carlos Gonzalez Abella, with whom he is bringing up his twin three-year-old sons. Spain passed legislation allowing same-sex marriages in 2005, only the third country to do so at the time, with 20,000 gay couples entering into marriage since.

(Possibly) Madonna - Dirty Liar

Boy Culture tips us to this "purportedly" leaked track from Madonna's upcoming album. Does this sound like her?

Andy Rooney Dies At 92

The New York Times reports:

Andy Rooney, whose prickly wit was long a mainstay of CBS News and whose homespun commentary on “60 Minutes,” delivered every week from 1978 until 2011, made him a household name, died Friday in New York City. He was 92 and lived in Manhattan, though he kept a family vacation home in Rensselaerville, N.Y., and the first home he ever purchased, in Rowayton, Conn. CBS News said in a statement that Mr. Rooney died after complications following minor surgery.

Concerned Women Are Concernstipated About Free Diapers For Poor Families

"There already are programs in place through welfare that actually do provide for the very indigent and that's important, but this was a giveaway through daycare centers and really a bail-out for daycare centers -- and we just strongly believe that this is inappropriate. I call that cheap grace. You're meeting one little issue, but there's an overall issue that is requiring these folks to so desperately need diapers that they're either taking a government hand-out or calling at the ninth hour." - CWA president Penny Nance, who doesn't want the government providing free diapers to the impoverished.

Tony Perkins: Atheists Hate Children

The Cain Scandal In 100 Seconds

NEW JERSEY: Superior Court Judge Allows Marriage Equality Lawsuit To Proceed

A New Jersey Superior Court judge today granted permission for Lambda Legal to proceed with its marriage equality lawsuit on behalf of Garden State Equality and seven same-sex couples. Via press release:

"We are delighted that the New Jersey Superior Court will allow this case to continue and permit us to demonstrate how the legislature's crafting of a status other than marriage for same-sex couples has failed to provide them the equality promised by the New Jersey Constitution. Civil union relegates New Jersey's same-sex couples to a second-class status that keeps them and their families vulnerable," said Hayley Gorenberg, Lambda Legal Deputy Legal Director.

"By moving to dismiss, the government was trying to prevent us from showing exactly how the current classification system based on sexual orientation harms families. New Jersey’s exclusion interferes during medical crises, denies them health insurance, and leads to discrimination against them even in funeral homes. These families need marriage equality and should not have to live with a law that treats them as inferior."

The judge's ruling squashed the attempt by the state Attorney General to have the case dismissed entirely.

Herman Cain: I Am The Koch Brothers' Brother From Another Mother

ILLINOIS: Complaints Filed Against Two Inns For Refusing Civil Union Events

Windy City Times reports that formal complaints have been lodged against two Illinois bed-and-breakfast inns for refusing to host civil union ceremonies.

Todd and Mark Wathen of Mattoon, Ill., allege that both the Timber Creek Bed and Breakfast and Beall Mansion Bed and Breakfast discriminated against them by refusing to host their legally recognized ceremony. The Wathen's attorneys—Betty Tsamis of Chicago, and John Knight and Harvey Grossman of the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois—announced the filing Nov. 2 in a news release. In August, the Department of Human Rights announced it had found "substantial evidence" supporting their claims and gave the couple three months to file complaints. According to the complaints, filed individually on behalf of both Mark and Todd, the Wathens inquired with the inns in February, in anticipation of having a ceremony when civil unions went into effect in June. Both of the inns turned them away, they said.

The couple is requesting monetary damages and an end to the discriminatory practices.

RELATED: NOM's blog commenters weigh in.

-"So much for religious freedoms in the US. We now have Lords and Ladies."
-"Why don't people understand that all these poor, down-trodden gays want is to simply be left alone?"
-"Equality..what a joke. It's superiority."
-"Tolerance? Diversity? No, this is bullying."

God Sent Jeebus To Die On The Cross So You Would Vote For Christians Only

Architect Of Anti-Gay State Amendments Named To Out Magazine's "Out 100"

Because Ken Mehlman finally came out as a millionaire gay banker and then played a "quietly instrumental role" in New York's marriage equality battle, the folks at Out Magazine have forgiven his days as the head of the Republican National Committee, where he orchestrated numerous successful statewide campaigns to demonize and make illegal the lives and loves of LGBT people.

For all those millions of people made miserable by Ken Mehlman? Forgiven. The kids who killed themselves because of relentlessly vicious campaigns spawned by Ken Mehlman? Forgotten. The anti-gay politicians funded last year by Ken Mehlman? Ignored.

UPDATE: On their blog, Out Magazine notes this post and asks for feedback.

"We also announced Tom Duane and Daniel O'Donnell, two politicians essential in the fight for same-sex marriage in New York State. Should we only recognize the steadfastly positive and not the ones who may have a more complicated track record?"

UPDATE II: The Advocate (Out's sister publication) notes this post and quotes Out editor Aaron Hicklin.

Hicklin contends that Mehlman, and people like him, are necessary to advance marriage equality nationwide. "He is a savvy political operator, and we need people with his experience and influence to help our fight," Hicklin said. "I expected his inclusion to elicit some protests, but ultimately it’s up to readers themselves to decide how they feel about his record. The media’s role is to provoke conversation, and in this we clearly succeeded."

Did He Jump Or Was He Pushed?

Yesterday the Archdiocese of Boston retracted and apologized for their newspaper article claiming that gay people are created by Satan. Today comes word that the author of that piece has "resigned." David Avila was the official defender of marriage for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Watch for Avila to land at NOM any minute.

REACTIONS...

Human Rights Campaign:

"Mr. Avila’s dangerous view that Satan causes people to become gay has no place in any credible news publication, whether it be mainstream or religious press. He ignored not only the widely accepted science that same-sex attraction is normal, but also the modern thinking of many religions. I am pleased the Conference of Catholic Bishops accepted his resignation and I ask them to speak up and denounce his dangerous rhetoric.”

Truth Wins Out:

"Daniel Avila's column was hurtful and deeply offensive so we are grateful he quickly resigned," said Wayne Besen, executive director for Truth Wins Out. "Demonizing never creates a healthy dialogue and Avila represented a major obstacle to the church's claim to respect all people."

Rick Perry Supports Israel Making A Preemptive Missile Attack On Iran

Because the inevitable resultant global thermonuclear holocaust will bring about the return of Jesus Christ! Right? That's how works!

Trader Dumps Hundreds Of McDonald's Job Applications On OWS Protesters

A member of the Chicago Board of Trade yesterday dumped hundreds of McDonald's job applications on the Occupy Wall Street protesters. Two weeks ago employees of the CBOT mocked protesters by posting the message "We Are The 1%" in their office windows. Wanna bet somebody steps this up pretty quick?

Cain's Chief Of Staff: The Media Is A Cesspool For Reporting Scandal

Mark Block says Herman Cain is considering suing Politico for revealing the sexual harassment charges brought against him. Which is hilarious, considering that Cain himself doesn't deny that the cases actually occurred.

Morning View - First & East 69

FRC's Peter Sprigg To Join NARTH's Luggage Lifters At Phoenix Confab

NARTH's annual convention of closeted gays and open fascists takes place in Phoenix this weekend where they'll be joined by Family Research Council spokesbigot Peter Sprigg. Last year gay activists had a blast picketing outside of the NARTH convention in Philadelphia as we marched around with pink luggage in mockery of FRC co-founder George Rekers' exposure as a patron of young, lithe, Latino male prostitutes. I especially enjoyed chasing a few of NARTH's douchebags out to their cars as they sputtered and flitted their dainty "ex-gay" paws at my homofascist camera.

RELATED: After Rekers was exposed as a fan of erotic nude male massage, his name vanished from FRC's website as Tony Perkins pretended to have no memory of the man who co-founded his organization.

TAKE ACTION: There will be a local counter-protest of NARTH's convention this weekend.

Over the course of two days during the NARTH convention, a collective of organizations and individuals -- including No Longer Silent: Clergy for Justice, Human & Equal Rights Organizers (H.E.R.O.), and Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) of Phoenix -- will host press conferences, presentations, protests, and discussions during an “alternative convention” at the Phoenix Airport Marriott Hotel – the same venue as the NARTH convention

A Very Gaga Thanksgiving

Via the Hollywood Reporter:

ABC has scheduled A Very Gaga Thanksgiving to air on Thanksgiving day, Nov. 24. The telecast will feature eight performances in front of a small crowd by the singer and a sit-down interview with Katie Couric. The special, conceived and directed by Lady Gaga, will also feature appearances by Tony Bennett and chef Art Smith. Lady Gaga will perform a duet with Bennett ("The Lady Is a Tramp") and a slew of her songs, including "Marry the Night," "You and I" and "The Edge of Glory." She will also sing holiday songs like "White Christmas."

Frothy Mix: God's Law Supersedes Civil Law When It Comes To Same-Sex Marriage

Yesterday Rick Santorum told an apparently tiny Iowa audience that Biblical laws supersede the laws of man. So feel free to commit any crime allowed in the Bible, such as slavery, stoning women, etc etc! Go crazy for Jeebus!

About Those FRC Ads...

You've probably noticed that banner ads from the Family Research Council have been popping up here on JMG. There's no need to send me anguished emails, those ads are merely prompted by my usage of keywords tied to their desired audience. Anyway, I no longer try to block such ads from appearing here as it's probably good for us to see what the enemy is being served.

Google To Trawl Web Comments

According to Web Monkey, a new Google algorithm will connect your name to comments made on blog posts, web articles, and Facebook pages.

The new indexing plan isn’t just about Facebook comments, but applies to nearly any content that’s previously been accessible only through an HTTP POST request. Google’s goal is to include anything “hiding” behind a form — comment systems like Disqus or Facebook and other JavaScript-based sites and forms. Typically when Google announces it’s going to expand its search index in some way everyone is happy — sites get more searchable content into Google and users can find more of what they’re looking for — but that’s not the case with the latest changes to Google’s indexing policy. Developers are upset because Google is no longer the passive crawler it once was and users will likely become upset once they realize that comments about drunken parties, embarrassing moments or what they thought were private details are going to start showing up next to their names in Google’s search results.

A commenter notes on the above-linked article: "So in a nutshell, Google is going to publicly display public messages I intentionally left in a public place? I like privacy as much as the next guy, but in this case I can't imagine how any semi-intelligent person could have had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the first place."

WND Polls Readers On OWS

Today's World Net Daily poll reveals what Teabagistan is being told about Occupy Wall Street.

Admiral, There Be Whales Here

Clip description:

A woman floating on a surfboard near Santa Cruz, California almost ended up on the lunch menu for a humpback whale over the weekend. Barb Roettger had her camera rolling as two hefty whales popped out of the calm waters not far from the unsuspecting surfer and a pair of kayakers. A pod of humpback whales has been hanging out off the Santa Cruz coast, noshing on anchovies that flock to the area to feed on plankton. The woman found herself in the middle of a feeding frenzy called lunge feeding, which occurs when whales herd anchovies and shoot straight up out of the water with their mouth wide open to catch the fish.

YouTube commenters point out that humpbacks don't have teeth and the woman was in no danger of actually being eaten.

Undercover Cops To Work SF Bars

This weekend undercover San Francisco cops will be working the bars of the Castro in a campaign to stem a renewed wave of pick-pocketing incidents.

San Francisco Police Sergeant Chuck Limbert, Mission Station's liaison to the LGBT community, said the operation would begin this week, but he wouldn't specify when. Officers would be "specifically looking for individuals that target bars for theft of property or criminal activity," such as pickpockets and purse snatchers, he said. He said the operation would continue "until the problem is solved." Limbert said overall crime in the area is down over the last three years, but he wants to see further decline. "If we're getting two reports out of a bar on a specific night, that's two too many," he said. Limbert acknowledged Castro bar-goers might be nervous about undercover police visiting nightspots, but he suggested that would be good in the case of people with nefarious intentions.

Unsurprisingly, bar managers report that the most-stolen items are iPhones.

Women Breed Babies Just So They Can Be Sacrificed To Satan On Halloween

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Polls Unaffected By Cain Scandal

Yesterday's ABC/WaPo poll shows Herman Cain continuing to ride high among the GOP presidential field.

NOM's Brian Brown Tweets The Wrong Cindy Golding And She Is SO Not Happy

One Cindy Golding is a NOM puppet running for state office in Iowa on the platform of denying Americans the civil rights guaranteed to them by the Constitution. The OTHER Cindy Golding is a decent, equality-loving woman who is SO not having her Twitter account dragged into the NOM mud by Brian Brown. Suh-NAP! (Via - Aksarbent)

NOTE: NOM's Twitter accounts are likely run by their blogger and "Cultural Affairs" director Thomas Peters, who also runs a "papist" blog for Catholic Vote.

Fort Lauderdale Goes Tea Party: It's Not What You Make, It's What You Keep

Fort Lauderdale is plugging Florida's lack of a state income tax with a campaign tag-lined, "It's not what you make, it's what you keep." In the clip playing hourly on cable news networks, that line is spoken by Wayne Huizenga, the former garbageman who founded Waste Management and Blockbuster Video and who ended up owning most of Florida's pro sports franchises.

Slaggie Gilamonster On Kim Kardashian

"I'm reluctant to criticize any given individual who divorces because moral judgments are hard without more information that it is my business to know – and celebrity divorces are too common to warrant special notice. Hollywood in general and Kim Kardashian in particular support gay marriage. Perhaps that makes sense, if the speed of her divorce reflects a reduced commitment to the marriage." - Maggie Gallagher, speaking to the Christian Post.

Creepy Boy Scouts Ad

Copyranter has more.

Conan Marries Two Gay Men

Far lovelier than you would believe. WATCH THIS.

HomoQuotable - Larry Kramer

"At the height of the Holocaust, when Jews were being shoveled into the ovens by the trainload, a great woman by the name of Hannah Arendt, who was a political philosopher – Jewish, obviously, and German – said, in essence, to all of the Jews in the world, 'Why are you allowing this to happen? Where is your army?' She thought the Jews should actually have their own army, which was an unbelievable thing for a woman to say. And, in essence, she was saying, 'You brought all this on yourselves. You get what you deserve. You're not fighting back. And you've never fought back, ever, in your whole history.' And I say that about us, too. People don't want to hear it." - Larry Kramer, speaking to Metro Weekly's Chris Geidner.

Read the entire interview.

Carbon Emissions

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Huntsman: Mittens Is A Pretzel

CEASE & DESIST: Chaz Bono Tells National Enquirer To Stop Lying About Him

Celebrity PR guru Howard Bragman emailed us a copy of the above demand that the National Enquirer stop lying about the health of Chaz Bono.

NY Post To Bloomberg: End OWS

KapoQuotable - Jimmy LaSalvia

"The gay left is the most hateful, intolerant, disgusting group of people I’ve ever come across in my lifetime, and everything we do is criticized by them. They hate gay conservatives more than anything in the world, and I don’t know why. - GOProud president Jimmy LaSalvia, talking to the Dallas Voice.

LaSalvia goes on to express outrage that anybody would suspect that either he or GOProud member Taylor Garrett had staged the hate crimes both allegedly suffered. Garrett claimed to have had a rock thrown though his window during the launch week of his Logo reality series A-List: Dallas. LaSalvia claimed to have scared off a group of black teenaged would-be gay-bashers by pretending to have a gun. He turned that alleged incident into a week-long round of media appearances to promote GOProud's positions on gun rights.

Santa Died For Your Sins

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Photo Of The Day

The Village Voice's Steven Thrasher notes that the half-built One World Trade is (for the moment) providing New Yorkers with a spooky flashback as viewed from uptown with the Trump Soho tower.

Of course, these towers are much lower than the original twin towers. The Trump SoHo is only 46 stories, and it's not even that close to the WTC site. But for the next couple of weeks, while One World Trade stays at this height, the scale of the two of them next to each other is quite reminiscent of what we recall the old World Trade Center looking like from this intersection a decade ago.

Ten With Ten Or More

Rihanna has just her scored eleventh pop chart topper, prompting an update in Billboard's list of acts with ten or more #1 pop singles.

1. Beatles - 20
2. Mariah Carey - 18
3. Elvis Presley- 17
4. Michael Jackson - 13
5. Madonna - 12
6. The Supremes - 12
7. Whitney Houston - 11
8. Rihanna - 11
9. Janet Jackson - 10
10. Stevie Wonder - 10

NOTE: Paul McCartney has nine additional #1 singles as a member of Wings and as a part of duets with Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson. Similarly, Diana Ross had six number one pop singles as a solo act.

ALSO NOTE: Mariah Carey's initial string of consecutive #1 singles is highly questioned by some, as at the time she was romantically involved with Sony president Tommy Mottola, who dumped millions of Carey's singles into the retail market at hugely discounted prices. Those singles often sold for 99 cents at retail when other releases were selling for three to four times that much.

Recapping The Cainwreck

Business Insider FTW. Go read it.

VIDEO: Today's Senate DOMA Hearing

It didn't last very long, but Sen. Diane Feinstein got to say her piece. The committee vote is now scheduled for November 10th.

APPEALS COURT: 70 Corporations & Others File Brief In Support Of DOMA Suit

Filed in the First Circuit Court of Appeals in support of Massachusetts' DOMA suit against the federal government. View the entire list, which also includes trade groups, employee associations, and civic organizations. (Via - GLAD)

Gasp! X-Men Is A Gay Allegory!

The always culturally au courant Christian right has suddenly stumbled onto the fact that the X-Men series is one big honking allegory for gay rights. Viciously anti-gay wingnut Michael Brown opens today's Townhall column with this:

The X-Men movie series, based on the comic books of the same name, is well-known for its unusual cast of gifted mutants and for its extraordinary special effects. What is not as widely known about the X-Men is the fact that the movies, along with the comic books, draw many clear parallels between the mutants and the gay and lesbian community.

Get the fainting couch! Even Bryan Fischer is shocked! Shocked, I tells ya!

APPEALS COURT: 133 House Democrats File Brief In Support Of DOMA Suit

Filed in the First Circuit Court of Appeals in support of Massachusetts' suit against the federal government. Read the entire brief. (Via - Good As You)

WISCONSIN: State Senate Passes Abstinence Education Bill

The GOP-dominated Wisconsin Senate has passed a bill ordering teachers to downplay any mention of contraception in sex education classes. Because the only thing you need to know is "God hates fucking."

The new GOP-backed legislation would not ban teachers from discussing contraceptives, but would demand they stress abstaining from sex the only reliable way to avoid sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies. "We are trying to back away from the bill passed last year that we feel mandated sex ed that was too nonjudgmental, too explicit and at too young an age," said Republican state Sen. Glenn Grothman. Democratic counterpart Sen. Jon Erpenbach said Wisconsin was "taking a step back to the Flintstone era" with the legislation.

Note that the GOP rep actually said that the previous bill wasn't judgemental enough.

UGANDA: Local TV Covers British Threat To Withhold Aid Over Gay Rights

Ugandan politicians say they'd rather go without foreign aid than submit to immoral Western homosexuals and their advocates.

BALTIMORE: Whole Foods Solicits Donations For Anti-Gay Charity

Today JMG reader John convinced the manager of a Baltimore-area Whole Foods to temporarily remove a placard which solicits donations for a local charity which trumpets the below mission statement on its website.

We believe that God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of a marriage between a man and a woman. We believe that any form of homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality, bestiality, incest, fornication, adultery, and pornography are sinful perversions of God’s gift of sex. We believe that God disapproves of and forbids any attempt to alter one’s gender by surgery or appearance.

According to John, the manager mentioned having received other complaints about the charity. For now, their slot (on the left) on the Whole Foods donation station remains blank. Contact the manager to keep it that way: Dan.Reilly@WholeFoods.com.

UPDATE: Please note that the House of Ruth, which is pictured above, is not the charity in question. The Baltimore Rescue Mission is the charity whose placard has been removed from the above donation box.

Republicans Want More Dead Soldiers

MI Senate Legalizes Anti-Gay Bullying

Michigan's state Senate has passed an anti-bullying law which contains a GOP mandated exemption for bullying which has a "religious or moral basis." And that has infuriated the father of the dead child for whom the bill is named.

"Matt's Safe School Law" passed 26-11 with all Democrats voting against it. The bill is named for Matt Eppling, an East Lansing 14-year-old who committed suicide after being bullied by classmates in 2002. The law includes a section noting it doesn't abridge First Amendment free speech rights or prohibit expression of religious or moral viewpoints — a provision Democrats fear could be used to justify harassment of gay, lesbian or transgender students. "I am ashamed that this could be Michigan's bill on anti-bullying when in fact it is a 'bullying is OK in Michigan law,'" Kevin Eppling, Matt's father, whose letter was read by Sen. Glenn Anderson during Wednesday's session.

VIDEO: Towleroad tips us to the outraged response by one Michigan Democrat. "You have explicitly outlined how to get away with bullying!" WATCH THIS.


UPDATE: Readers suggest sending emails of gratitude to Sen. Whitmer: sengwhitmer@senate.michigan.gov

Child Abuse

"How many kids here tonight want to speak in tongues? You'll chase DEVILS away when you learn how to speak in tongues!"

UPDATE: The clip has been pulled by its creator.

NOM Hires Tea Party Lawyer Cleta Mitchell In Battle To Evade MN Campaign Laws

NOM has hired notorious Tea Party attorney Cleta Mitchell in their battle to evade Minnesota's campaign finance disclosure laws.

Mitchell registered as a lobbyist with the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board last Wednesday, according to board records. She’s the only lobbyist that NOM has currently registered in Minnesota, although NOM President Brian Brown was registered for a month earlier this year. Mitchell is a rising star in conservative politics, mainly for her efforts in opposing campaign finance laws and helping candidates and groups exploit loopholes in existing laws.

Mitchell has already written a letter to Minnesota's election board in which she claims that rabid homofascists will physically attack innocent Christians should their anti-gay donations be made public. Mitchell: "This regulatory scheme is unlawful, is not constitutionally sound, threatens NOM members, donors and supporters with personal injury and harm and the Board should cease immediately its efforts to rewrite Minnesota law to achieve this unlawful purpose."

RELATED: You may recall that Mitchell spearheaded the failed attempt to repeal same-sex marriage in Washington DC. She also led a CPAC walk-out over the attendance of GOProud.

Tribute To Phyllis Diller

Yoga Is From Satan

"Whether they know it or not, Christians who engage in yoga are participating in a religious expression that is antithetical to Christianity. The result is often an unguarded spirit that is susceptible to the many lies of Satan and a slow, almost unperceivable degradation of faith and Christian truth in one’s life. The act itself is a worship act. Subsequently, it cannot be done in a way that is not spiritual." - Pastor Mark Driscoll of Seattle's Mars Hill Church. We last heard from Driscoll when he announced that male masturbation is totally gay, because it is sex with a man.

TODAY: Senate Begins DOMA Debate

Today the Senate Judiciary Committee begins debate on the Respect For Marriage Act, which would repeal DOMA. First to comment this morning is Freedom To Marry:

“Today is another step toward restoration of the traditional practice of having the federal government respect marriages lawfully celebrated by the states – and eliminating the gay exception that unfairly denies that equal treatment to loving and committed couples who have gotten legally married,” said Evan Wolfson, founder and President of Freedom to Marry. “As the Senate Judiciary Committee considers this bill, we urge members to take into account the real harms families face because of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act, and the burdens this departure from the usual way the federal government honors marriages imposes on businesses, employers, and others dealing with married couples.”

As I've noted here several times, a repeal of DOMA in the Senate would only be a moral victory as the bill has zero chance of advancing in the GOP-dominated House. Nevertheless, we shall closely track the Senate debate.

TODAY: Frank Kameny Memorial

A memorial for late gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny takes place from 3pm-8pm today at Washington DC's Carnegie Library, where Kameny's body will lie in repose.

Filene's Basement Bankrupt

Discount clothing retailer Filene's Basement and its parent company Syms have declared bankruptcy and will close all stores nationwide on January 1st.

CEO Mary Syms, whose father Sy Syms founded the company in 1958 based on offering bargain prices for designer clothes, blamed the move on competition from department stores and private label discounters, plus the weak economy. “Filing for bankruptcy and pursuing a liquidation of our stores is not a step we took lightly,” Marcy Syms said in a statement on the company website Both chains plan to hold going-out-of-business sales beginning Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving that kicks off the holiday shopping season. There are 21 Filene’s stores nationwide.

The giant Filene's in Union Square is probably the only clothing story I visit even semi-regularly.

GHANA: President Denounces British Threat To Cut Aid Over Gay Rights

Vowing that he will "never legalize homosexuality," the president of Ghana is blasting British Prime Minister David Cameron, who last month threatened to cut aid to nations that abuse their LGBT citizens.

The Ghanaian President John Atta Mills has reacted angrily UK’s threat to cut bilateral aid if the country refuses to legalise homosexuality. He said the UK did not have the right to “direct to other sovereign nations as to what they should do”, saying their society’s “norms” were different from those in the UK. Mr Atta Mills told the BBC: “I, as president, will never initiate or support any attempt to legalise homosexuality in Ghana.” The British Prime Minister raised the issue of gay rights and bilateral aid at a Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Australia.

Gay activists in Ghana and elsewhere have warned that Cameron's cuts could result in local retribution against the LGBT community. British gay activist Peter Tatchell weighs in: “Instead of cutting aid, Britain and other donor countries should divert their aid money from human rights abusing governments and redirect it to grassroots, community-based humanitarian projects that respect human rights and do not discriminate in their service provision."

American History With Kirk Cameron

He's clearly studied with David Barton.

BOSTON: Catholic Archdiocese Retracts "Gays Are From Satan" Newspaper Story

The Archdiocese of Boston has retracted its column claiming that gay people are created by Satan. (On Monday that column was excerpted here on JMG.) The article was written by David Avila, the policy advisor for the US Conference of Catholic Bishops' Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage.

The 182-year-old newspaper withdrew the column from its website on Wednesday, saying it had failed to recognize the "theological error" before publication. It posted an apology from Avila saying the column didn't represent the position of the Conference of Catholic Bishops, whose stated purpose is to "promote the greater good which the Church offers humankind," and wasn't authorized for publication. Avila said he deeply apologized for the "hurt and confusion" the column caused. Archdiocesan officials said Avila's apology would appear in the issue of The Pilot to be published this week, The Boston Globe reported. The Boston archdiocese, the bishops' group and Avila were involved in communications leading to the decision to retract the column, said archdiocese spokesman Terrence Donilon, who called Avila "passionate about his faith and passionate about his church."

Ann Coulter: Our Blacks Are Better

Tony Perkins Vs Conan O'Brien

Open Thread Thursday

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Herman Cain: Rick Perry Ratted Me Out

Three hours after a desperate fund-raising plea which blamed racist liberals for his own sex scandal, Herman Cain now says it was Texas Gov. Rick Perry that ratted him out.

The Cain campaign points to longtime GOP consultant Curt Anderson, who worked for Cain's failed 2004 U.S. Senate bid and was debriefed on the harassment allegations by Cain himself. Anderson now works for Perry. And Chris Wilson, a former pollster for the restaurant association, said Wednesday he witnessed Cain's alleged inappropriate behavior. He's now involved with a pro-Perry super political action committee.

Both men deny leaking the story and the Perry aides says the first they learned about it was this week in the press. But Cain's team isn't buying it and demands an apology. "This is one of the actions in America that is the reason why people don't get involved in politics," Mark Block, chief of staff to Cain's campaign, said in an exclusive interview with Fox News' Special Report. "The actions of the Perry campaign are despicable." "Rick Perry and his campaign owe Herman Cain and his family an apology," Block said.

Oh, the hilarity. No retraction of the "racist liberals" claim, but suddenly Cain wants a fucking apology from Rick Perry. Stop, my sides! No, really. Stop.

FRC: Ask God To Stop Gay Parenting

The fascist pigs at the Family Research Council want its followers to beg God to destroy gay families.

May God intervene and stir Americans to resist and stop this effort to advance the radical homosexual agenda and literally to possess our nation's children. May God open our eyes! (Gen 1:26-28; 2:21-24; Lev 18:22-30; Dt 26:7-8; Pr 28:4; Lk 17:1-2; Acts 5:29; Eph 5:31-6:4)

Today's prayer was prompted by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's federal bill that would legalize gay adoption nationwide. The FRC rants:

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) has introduced the Every Child Deserves A Family Act. The Act would end all federal funding for adoption agencies that refuse to place children in LGBT "families." It will punish public and private agencies that act on their view that traditionally married couples are the best candidates to adopt. It will trounce on adoption agencies in the 31 states that have passed marriage amendments. It will put some Christian groups that take federal funds out of business altogether. Moreover, it will subject foster and adoptive children to the homosexual indoctrination and behavior of LGBT "parents".

Note the scare quotes around "families" and "parents."

86 House Members Demand Banning Gay Weddings On Military Bases

Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) has issued a letter calling for on-base gay weddings to be specifically banned in the Senate version of the National Defense Authorization Act. Eighty-six members of the House have co-signed Akin's letter.

"The Defense of Marriage Act was passed by a bipartisan vote in Congress and signed into law by President Clinton,” said Congressman Akin. “Unfortunately, this current administration is now directing the Department of Defense to ignore this law and perform gay marriages on military bases. I think this is wrong, which is why I offered an amendment to the House-passed defense bill making it clear that DOMA applies to the DOD. This letter calls for the Senate to add a similar amendment to their version of the bill. The Department of Defense should not be allowed to simply ignore laws they do not like.”

The names on Akin's letter are a Who's Who In Douchebaggery: Michele Bachmann, Mike Pence, Randy Forbes, Vicky Hartzler, Allen West, Joe Wilson, Steve King, Virginia Foxx, etc etc.

Email Of The Day - Herman Cain Campaign

According to a donation plea just sent out by the Herman Cain campaign, EVIL LIBERALS are behind the revelation that he'd been accused of sexual harassment. No evidence is offered to back this claim and no mention is made of swirling internet rumors that it was a GOP insider aligned with Romney that made the leak.

The email concludes: "This is what the Left always does. They hated Clarence Thomas. They hated Allen West when he ran in 2010. And now they hate Herman Cain. The Left spews such hatred at black conservatives because they know that if the GOP ever breaks the Democrat stranglehold on the black vote, they are DONE as a party."

Greek Referendum Dominates G20

It's a snowballing mess.

Home Of Gay Rights Pioneer Frank Kameny Listed On Nat'l Register Of Historic Places

The Washington DC home of the late gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny has been listed with the National Register of Historic Places. Kameny died last month at the age of 86. Via press release from the National Park Service:

"Dr. Kameny led a newly militant activism in the fledgling gay civil rights of the 1960s," said NPS Director Jonathan B. Jarvis. "He was a landmark figure in articulating and achieving gay civil rights in federal employment and security clearance cases, and in reversing the medical community’s view on homosexuality as a mental disorder." Kameny’s efforts in the civil rights movement, modeled in part on African American civil rights strategies and tactics, significantly altered the rights, perceptions, and role of gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered people in American society. For years, Dr. Kameny’s residence at 5020 Cathedral Avenue, NW, in Washington, DC, served as a meeting place, archives, informal counseling center, headquarters of the Mattachine Society, and a safe haven for visiting gay and lesbian activists. It was here that Dr. Franklin E. Kameny developed the civil rights strategies and tactics that have come to define the modern gay rights movement.

Just fantastic. I'm looking up that address next time I'm there.

New Radio Ad From Rick Perry

Now airing in Iowa and New Hampshire.

President Obama Mentions Gay Parents In National Adoption Month Proclamation

An excerpt:

The decision to adopt a child has brought profound joy and meaning into the lives of Americans across our country. Parents are moved to adopt for reasons as unique and varied as the children they embrace, but they are unified by the remarkable grace of their acts. Adoptive families come in all forms. With so many children waiting for loving homes, it is important to ensure that all qualified caregivers are given the opportunity to serve as adoptive parents, regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation, or marital status.

The wingnut reaction should be delish.

MINNESOTA: Anti-Gay Hate Group Offers Sweepstakes Prize For Petition Signatures

Good As You asks: "Is this even legal?"

Drunk With The Holy Spirit

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Buzzfeed Vs. Kim Kardashian

Buzzfeed has posted the photos of "20 couples that put Kim Kardashian to shame." The caption for the above photo: "Ed Watson is 78 years old and has Alzheimer's. He's worried that by the time the court finally rules on Prop 8, he won't be able to recognize Derence, his partner of over 40 years. They cannot get married, but Kim Kardashian can... for 72 days."

New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan: We're Being Threatened With Lawsuits For Not Hosting Gay Weddings

According to New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan, Catholic parishes have been inundated with threats of lawsuits over not hosting gay weddings. That revelation will come as a surprise to the rest of the world, who has not heard a single peep about any such thing.

"One of our arguments has always been that people of principle who feel this violates their deepest-held convictions are going to be forced to the wall," Archbishop Dolan said. "We were told we were being Chicken Littles and that was ridiculous." But "no sooner was the ink dry," he said, than priests throughout the state started coming to him with stories of couples threatening to sue if they didn't agree to rent out their parishes for same-sex weddings.

Richard Barnes, executive director of the New York Catholic Conference, said threats like those are unlikely to gain legal traction in the near future. A religious exemption in the New York marriage law specifically prohibits lawsuits against churches that refuse to provide their buildings or services for gay weddings. It also protects such religious organizations from being penalized by the state, through loss of aid to church welfare programs, for example.

Could the noble Archbishop be a giant fucking liar?

Top Newspaper Circulation

The above figures reflect combined physical sales and paid online subscriptions.

Digital circulation for The New York Times, which put in place a paid online model in the spring, more than tripled to 380,000. The Wall Street Journal was the only paper with a larger paid digital circulation, with more than 537,000. The Wall Street Journal remained the largest weekday newspaper when both print and digital subscriptions were included, with a total average circulation of just under 2.1 million. The New York Times retained its distinction as the largest Sunday paper at 1.6 million. (Weekday circulation for The Times was 1.2 million).

The rest of the top 25 is here.

MEOW: Mittens Vs. Rick Perry

FRIDAY: Blowoff NYC @ Highline Ballroom

Blowoff will bust its sweaty, furry self into Chelsea's Highline Ballroom this Friday. Doors open at 11:30pm. Advance tickets here. This party will probably sell out.