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Watch Rep. Joe Crowley (D-NY) take an unusual method to denounce the GOP's spending plan.
"We have homophobes on our party. That’s disgusting to me. We’re all human beings. We’re all God’s children. Now if they’re going to get off on that stuff—Santorum has said some cruel things—cruel, cruel things—about homosexuals. Ask him about it; see if he attributes the cruelness of his remarks years ago. Foul. Now if that’s the kind of guys that are going to be on my ticket, you know, it makes you sort out hard what Reagan said, you know, 'Stick with your folks.' But I’m not sticking with people who are homophobic, anti-women, moral values—while you’re diddling your secretary while you’re giving a speech on moral values? Come on, get off of it." - Former GOP Sen. Alan Simpson, speaking on MSNBC's Hardball. Hit the link for video.
"I do not intend to 'educate your college students,' Maggie. Your college students—the offspring of NOM supporters—are being 'educated' at Brigham Young, Liberty University, Bob Jones, Seattle Pacific University, and other Christianist madrassas. My college tours typically take me to secular institutions of higher learning where the kids were hooking up and having sex long before my visit to campus.
"I know what women are like. I may not know what women taste like—I've never gone down on one—but I do know what women are like. My mother was a woman, my sister is a woman, my aunts are women, my favorite bartender is a woman, lots of my friends, neighbors, and coworkers are women. And as someone who sleeps with men and is a long-term relationship with a man, I know what (straight) women have to put up with. I'm not the first gay man that women have turned to for advice about love and sex, Maggie, and I won't be the last. And aren't you a practicing Catholic? Not knowing what women are like (or taste like) has never stopped the Pope from offering his unsolicited advice to women—no birth control, no abortions, no oral, no anal, no handjobs—and it's hypocritical of you to suggest that I'm not qualified to advise women, since I won't fuck 'em, without first telling that old fag in Rome to STFU already." - Dan Savage, responding to yesterday's attack from NOM chaircow Maggie Gallagher.
Read Savage's complete essay.
Sometimes it feels like Weiner and his college roommate Jon Stewart should totally switch jobs.
"I'm not the world's most sensitive guy, but it does me good to see conservatives whine over DOMA. D-D-D-DOMA." Sung from the president's perspective with a clever reference to death panels thrown in. I bet the Kinks would approve.
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The Gay Preacher: A small group of Christian radicals came to Auburn University screaming at the students about how the are living unholy lives and how they are all going to hell, the students decided to respond back to the radicals.I love that he quotes the scripture of RuPaul.
An American Red Cross employee accidentally tweeted from the official account. Oops? No, not really, the mistaken tweet resulted in an avalanche of blood donation pledges. And for their part, Dogfish Beer staffers joined in.
The small town of Manhattan, Kansas, known locally as the "Little Apple," has narrowly approved a sweeping LGBT rights ordinance by a vote of 3-2. This was the second required vote for the bill which was first approved by the same margin in December. As I noted at that time, the vote was hotly followed across major anti-gay websites as a possible harbinger of the continued march for equality out of the big cities and into the heartland. Manhattan is now the first town in Kansas to include gender identity among its protections. Congratulations are due the local activists who worked so hard on this breakthrough!
A cartoonist didn't like it when NOM hot-linked one of his panels, so he replaced his image with a rainbow flag and a quote from Thomas Jefferson, which then ran on NOM's blog for several hours. Heh.
Many thanks to all that participated in yesterday's freeping of Pepsi's "big ideas" contest as GLSEN finished in second place and WON the $250,000 grant for their safe schools project! You guys rock! JMG reader Tom notes via email: "Based on the rankings it [also] appears Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD) got a $25k award, as did a LGBT health awareness program, and an Equality Pennsylvania youth leadership training program. If I’m doing the math right, Pepsi just committed $325K to LGBT causes around the country. I usually don’t drink soda, but I’m heading to the vending machine now to get a Pepsi for my morning break."
