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National Black Justice Coalition Blasts NOM's Exploitative Politics
The National Black Justice Coalition has released a statement about the leaked memos proving the National Organization for Marriage tried to pit black people and gay people against one another to...
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Trevor Thomas, Hope for Western Michigan in Congress: VIDEO
Back in February I posted about Trevor Thomas, the former Communications Director for Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, and his run for Congress, challenging Rep Justin Amash, a Tea Party...
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So Long, David Archuleta: VIDEO
Well, that's that. American Idol runner-up David Archuleta is now officially a Mormon missionary. The 21-year old singer embarked yesterday on his two-year journey, starting with basic missionary...
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Appeals Court Will Hear DOMA Arguments Next Wednesday
There's finally some movement on the case against the Defense of Marriage Act. The Washington Blade reports that the First Court of Appeals in Boston will hear oral arguments about the matter next...
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New Robot Gives Superman A Run For His Money: VIDEO
First the tech company Boston Dynamics brought us the immovable, tarantula-esque Big Dog robot that can run over rocky terrain. Then they brought a super fast automaton Cheetah. Now the company had...
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Mark Bingham's Mom Responds To Carson Daly
Carson Daly forgot a very important person when he claimed gay people couldn't tackle a crazed pilot: Mark Bingham, the gay man who helped tackle terrorists on doomed 9/11 Flight 93. But Alice...
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Pressure Builds For GOP Candidates To Renounce NOM Pledge
Way back in August of 2011, Republican candidates save for Ron Paul signed the National Organization for Marriage's anti-gay equality pledge. But that was before it was revealed that NOM wanted to...
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Chris Matthews Grilled About Hosting Anti-Gay Tony Perkins: VIDEO
It's typically Chris Matthews who's dolling out the questions, but the MSNBC pundit was the one getting grilled during a recent book signing in Massachusetts, where gay Christians from Faithful America...
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Victory In Tuscaloosa As Schools Allow Gay Couples Into Prom
Elizabeth Garrett caused quite a ruckus at her Tuscaloosa, Alabama, high school in January by wearing a sweatshirt showing her gay pride: "Warning, This Individual Infected With ‘The Gay,’ Proceed With...
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Conservative Distrust For Science At All Time High, Says Study
We all know that that right wing Americans regularly disregard science in favor of politics. Global warming and evolution simply can't exist, they say, because they're not simply the creations of...
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Remembering The Lost Art Of Book Binding: Video
Remember books? They were those things people read before television and the internet and the iPad. Sometimes judges would throw them at criminals, and other times people would sit on them for an...
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More Anti-Trans Messaging In Anchorage Discrimination Battle
Anchorage residents vote next week on whether to pass Proposition 5, an ordinance including sexual orientation and gender identity in the city's anti-discrimination policies. As the vote nears, right...
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Majority Of North Carolinians Support Anti-Gay Amendment One, But Many Don't...
Anchorage isn't the only place where LGBT rights are going to ballot in the near future. North Carolina votes May 8 on Amendment One, which constitutionally bans both same-sex marriage and civil...
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Julian Bond On NOM Memos: 'One Of The Most Cynical Things I've Ever Heard'
Anderson Cooper asked Julian Bond, chairman emeritus of the NAACP, about the National Organization for Marriage's race-baiting tactics. Bond responded thusly: It's one of the most cynical things I've...
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News: Marco Rubio, Rest Stops, Ryan Budget, Military Pride
Progressive Muslims from coast-to-coast are working toward more inclusive, pro-gay, pro-women congregations: "While far from accepted by mainstream clerics, these worshippers feel that the future of...
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Matt Barber Claims 'No Evidence' Of Violence Against Gay People: VIDEO
Explaining why he thinks it's alright -- indeed, a duty -- for nations to outlaw same-sex love, hateful Liberty Counsel activist Matt Barber today claimed there's no such thing as anti-gay...
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Police: Man Extorted MLB Player Carl Pavano Over Alleged 3-Year Relationship
Police in Southington, CT, searched 36-year old Christian Bedard's home after he allegedly tried to extort money and a Range Rover from Minnesota Twins pitcher Carl Pavano in exchange for his silence...
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Thomas Roberts Speaks with Bully Filmmaker Lee Hirsch as Movie Opens Today,...
Bully filmmaker Lee Hirsch and human rights activist Kerry Kennedy joined Thomas Roberts in the MSNBC studio yesterday to talk about the film opening unrated and the impact it might have, and who needs...
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Adam Lambert Won't Be Fronting for Queen, at Least Not Yet: VIDEO
The UK's Sonisphere festival has been canceled, taking with it Adam Lambert's planned performance as frontman for Queen. Tweeted Lambert: "While I'm sad that the Sonisphere festival has been...
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Texas Woman, 71, Arrested for Anti-Gay Hate Assault with Cane
A 71-year-old woman was arrested and charged with a hate crime for using her cane in an anti-gay attack on a man, the Star-Telegram reports: Wanda Derby attacked the 25-year-old man Wednesday night as...
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