Gay Marriage
The Democratic Takeover of Orange County Is Nearly Complete
Yesterday Democrat Gil Cisneros finally took the lead over Republican Young Kim to become the next representative from California's 39th district. The district, which encompasses Yorba Linda - home of the Nixon Library - had been held by retiring Republican Ed Royce since 2013 ...read more
Trump Revokes Rights For Same-Sex Partners Of Diplomats
This Monday, the Trump Administration began a new policy denying visas to same-sex partners of foreign diplomats and UN employees. It used to be that only spouses in traditional marriages to UN employees were allowed a G-4 visa: this policy was extended to gay couples in 2009 by ...read more
MEMBERS ONLY: Bill Maher Is Not The Enemy, Part Two
My late colleague Chez Pazienza wrote about liberal fury directed at Maher in the last essay he ever published. He referred to it as a "circular firing squad" that saw the left cannibalizing itself over outrage directed at the wrong person. Just over a year late, here we are ...read more
The Gay Mike Pence Bunny Book Exposes The Idiocy Of The Straight Mike Pence Bunny Book
In an interview on The Colbert Report shortly before he died, Where the Wild Things author Maurice Sendak dismisses one of Colbert's children's book ideas as "so bad that it not only will sell, it will make pots and pots of money." Like Colbert's fictional counterpart, Mike ...read more
Yes, Republicans Just Tried To Kill A Bill Banning Child Marriage
House Republicans have all but killed a bill this week that would prohibit child marriages in the state of Tennessee, citing a dubious legal theory that passing the bill could deter a radical Christian lawyer's case against the Supreme Court decision on gay marriage. The ...read more
Here’s What Bernie Sanders Didn’t Tell His Crowd About Gay Marriage
As independent Vermont Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders stumps for votes in California, he has become mired in a feud with HIV/AIDS activists who are insufficiently grateful for all he’s done for them. Although Sanders’ campaign website still ...read more
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Marco Rubio's Plan for LGBT Rights Says Everything You Need To Know About the GOP
Marco Rubio is supposed to be the sane one. He's positioned himself as face of young-ish conservatism, a Spanish-fluent son of Cuban exiles who tries not to come off as a rabid ideologue and who claims to love hip-hop in general and Wu-Tang in particular (even though he couldn't ...read more
Kim Davis' "Eye of the Tiger" Freedom Walk is America
Behold Murica, this is what freedom looks like: What could be more Christian than discriminating against gays, breaking the law and spending time in prison? Kim Davies is a true American/Christian hero! And those tears - a martyr too! Kim Davies is just like Jesus. Except ...read more
The Bob & Chez Podcast: Fox & Friends' Gay Cake Tips, Ted Nugent Strikes Again and Jesse Venture Nails the GOP
Topics from our Thursday show -- Fudge and Nuts: Fox and Friends Tell Gay People to Get Their Cakes from a Nonexistent Cake Shop; Fox News A-hole Keith Ablow on Gender Equality; Ted Nugent Weighs in on the Confederate Flag; Subway Guy Questioned About Child Porn; Diff'rent ...read more
Jon Stewart Humiliates Antonin Scalia Over Gay Marriage Dissent
On last night's Daily Show, Jon Stewart laid into Justice Antonin Scalia for his pissy dissent over the Supreme Court's gay marriage ruling. “I think we found Scalia’s tell,” said Stewart. “The crankiness of Scalia’s insults runs inverse to his intellectual consistency.” ...read more
Quote of the Day: Pat Robertson Says Gays Will Force You to Like Bestiality and Anal Sex
Everyone's favorite batshit crazy grandpa Pat Robertson clearly hasn't taken the Supreme Court's gay marriage ruling well. In a vintage screed against the gay terrorists taking over America, Robertson warned his viewers on "The 700 Club" about the homosexual agenda, and their ...read more
The 7 Dumbest Conservative Reactions to the Supreme Court Gay Marriage Ruling
Wading through conservative reactions to the Supreme Court Gay Marriage, one cannot help but feel an extreme sense of schadenfreude. For those who have invested much of their time and energy suppressing the rights of their fellow citizens, the rapid disintegration of their ...read more
The Westboro Baptist Church Just Imploded Over Supreme Court Gay Marriage Ruling
The rabidly anti-gay Westboro Bapist Church appears to have gone into complete meltdown mode after the Supreme Court gay marriage ruling passed this morning. In a series of increasingly deranged tweets, the Church is warning America that the end is nigh and the country is well ...read more
One Giant Step Forward For Humanity: Gay Marriage Now Legal Nationwide!
While America might be the land of guns, mass incarceration, right wing paranoia and idiotic foreign policy, it sometimes gets things so right that it deserves its reputation as the freest nation on the planet. In a historic ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 today that it ...read more
2016 Hopeful Lindsey Graham, Who is Definitely Not Gay, Thinks Gay Marriage is Like Polygamy
Lindsey Graham, the GOP's favorite Mint Julep Sippin' Southerner wants to be President of the United States. Having declared his candidacy yesterday, Graham will be running as a military hawk, telling an audience in South Carolina: I’ve got one simple message. I have more ...read more
The Revolution Continues: Ireland Becomes First Nation to Legalize Gay Marriage via Popular Vote
The world truly is turning a corner when it comes to accepting homosexuality as a completely normal and healthy facet of human existence. In a remarkable social shift, Ireland has voted to legalize gay marriage by popular vote. The traditionally Catholic country only ...read more
Head to Head With Conservatives on Baltimore, Gay Marriage and Gardening
I was on the Thom Hartmann show last night going at it with conservatives on the riots in Baltimore and gay marriage. My co guests were Hughey Newsome of Project 21 and Jennifer Kerns, contributor at The Washington Times and The Blaze. Interestingly, there were many points of ...read more
Ted Cruz: Gay Activists and Marriage Equality Supporters Are 'Liberal Fascists'
Arguably the most ludicrous book to emerge during the George W. Bush era was hilariously titled, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning, by National Review Online editor-at-large Jonah Goldberg. Yes, somehow Goldberg ...read more
You'll Never Guess What Same-Sex Marriage Will Lead to Now...
Photo by David McNew/Getty Images On Monday, we discussed how Pastor Robert Jeffress said that legal same-sex marriage would lead to legal polygamy, legal child marriages and the End Times. Question: if same-sex marriage will lead to the End Times, does it really matter what ...read more
Scott Walker Will Attend Your Big Gay Wedding Reception, But Not the Wedding Itself
Over the weekend, the New Hampshire #FITN Republican Leadership Summit wound down to the tune of reporters asking this season's crop of Republican presidential hopefuls the hive-minded question, "Would you personally attend a gay wedding?" The question was asked of at least ...read more
Hillary Clinton Breaks Huge Gay Marriage News... Through a Spokesman
Almost a year ago, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton got into a contentious exchange with NPR's Terry Gross over her own "evolution" on the issue of marriage equality, and settling on the then-preferred view that gay marriage was progressing nicely on a state-by-state ...read more
What Would Ben Carson Think If Being Black Was A Choice?
The political outrage of the day for Wednesday centers around remarks that brain surgeon and Republican presidential exploratorer Dr. Ben Carson made about homosexuality, or to put it another way, today is a day. On CNN's New Day, Dr. Carson patiently explained to Chris Cuomo ...read more
Of Course President Obama Was Bullshitting On Gay Marriage, Or Else We Wouldn't Have Any
Former senior Obama adviser and current book-promoter David Axelrod has stunned the political world with the revelation, in his new tome Believer: My 40 Years In Politics, that Barack Obama supported gay marriage long before he completed his public "evolution" on the topic. From ...read more
Nationwide Gay Marriage Is Going To Be a Reality
(Photo: J. Scott Applewhite/AP) As a lot of people are saying right now: this is it. The Supreme Court has now decided that it will hear a 2-to-1 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit that is currently upholding bans on same-sex marriage in Ohio, Michigan, ...read more
Ted Cruz Loses His Sh*t Over the Supreme Court's Decision on Gay Marriage
Ted Cruz isn't happy about yesterday's non-ruling by the Supreme Court on the issue of gay marriage. The court refused to review lower court decisions that overturned bans on same-sex marriage in five states, letting those decisions stand and effectively opening the door to gay ...read more
Tommy Christopher: The Reason Why President Obama Nominated a Pro-Confederate, Anti-Choice Judge
President Obama's nomination of Judge Michael Boggs for a lifetime appointment to a federal District Court has been a source of fierce opposition from progressive Democrats, who scored a victory this week by effectively killing the nod in the Senate Judiciary Committee. ...read more
Christian Parents Disowning Their Gay Son Are Everything That's Wrong With Religion
The most fundamental problem with any religion is that it has no evidentiary foundation whatsoever. Were this its only fault, it would hardly be worth anyone's time to critique it. Plenty of people, for example, believe Bigfoot exists or that Elvis is still alive, but the ...read more
Michele Bachmann Said Just About the Worst Thing You Can Say About Gays, Or Anyone
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) is mercifully retiring from Congress in January after somehow being elected and reelected four times by the voters in Minnesota's sixth district. She is exiting the House just as she entered it: in a spectacular blaze of ingloriousness. On ...read more
Archie Is Going To Die In Vain For Gay Rights And Gun Control
Every good comic hero has to die sometime. Superman did it back in the early 90s. Spider-Man just got back from dying (sort-of?). Now it’s Archie’s turn. And he’s going out in a blaze of liberal glory. The AP reports, “The 73-year-old red-headed character will die in ...read more
Wendy Davis Won't Win, But Here's What She Can Do To Hurt Texas Republicans
Thursday was the one-year anniversary of Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis’ famous filibuster against the enactment of abortion restrictions in the state. While the 11-hour protest made her a national darling of the Democratic Party, you won’t find language about abortion anywhere on ...read more
How To Get Away With Bigotry In Just 3 Words: "It's My Faith"
On Wednesday night, the city of Houston, Texas passed an ordinance banning discrimination based on, among other characteristics, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, sex, nationality, age, religion, disability, pregnancy, and military status. Given the sweeping nature of ...read more
The Newest Argument Against Same-Sex Marriage is the Most Pathetic One Of All
Of all the things ever said about gay marriage in the United States, none has been as sad, pathetic, and stupendously idiotic as the notion that it somehow persecutes Christians. This view was most recently articulated by Texas congressman and noted slack-jawed yokel Louie ...read more
Redneck Idol "Stone Cold" Steve Austin Spoke His Mind About Gay Marriage...
Steve Austin, better known by his wrestling persona "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, a beer-swiggin', middle-fingerin' sonofabitch who once made up his own biblical verse (Austin 3:16) which stated that he had "just kicked your ass," has made his very strong opinions on gay marriage ...read more
Will Conservatives Champion 'Piss Christ' to Defend Bigoted Wedding Photographer?
God, I hope so. The Supreme Court disappointed conservatives this week by refusing to hear the case of a New Mexico wedding photographer who refused to photograph a lesbian couple's commitment ceremony in 2006. The wrinkle in this case is that the defendants attempted to ...read more
Bullying the CEO of Mozilla Over His Anti-Gay Marriage Donation Was Wrong
I've written about our Age of Outrage and my loathe for it so often that at this point I could probably create a template Mad Libs piece and just plug the specifics in every time a new example of it comes up. Suffice it to say, I almost always dislike the notion of bullying ...read more
Opponents of Gay Marriage Have Already Lost
Photo: AFP/File, Yasuyoshi Chiba Just a little while ago, a U.S. district judge struck down Texas's ban on same-sex marriage. Judge Orlando Garcia says that while he'll allow the state to continue to enforce the ban while his ruling is appealed, likely all the way to the ...read more
My Days of Not Taking Adam Baldwin Seriously Are Certainly Coming To a Middle (a "Firefly" Fan's Dilemma)
Is it really possible to separate the art from the artist? No, this isn't another piece about Woody Allen and a 20-year-old case of alleged sexual abuse. It's about a question that rarely arises given the lack of quality art that's traditionally come from a certain end of the ...read more
Cory Booker Slaps Down Anti-Gay Marriage Protestor In Serious Style
In the first ever gay marriage in the state of New Jersey, Newark Mayor Cory Booker officiated the marriage between two of his friends at City Hall at 12:01 a.m. this morning. Following the law, Booker asked whether there was anyone present who objected to the union of the ...read more
Twenty Years After Igniting National Freakout, Hawaii Revisits Gay Marriage
The marriage equality debate in the United States has finally come full circle, with Hawaii’s Democratic governor, Neil Abercrombie, on Monday calling a special session of the state Legislature for October 28 to take up a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage in the 50th ...read more
Traditional Gay Wedding in Africa
I love being from Africa but the motherland definitely needs to loose some of its more homophobic tendencies. This video gives me hope for the future. ...read more
Your Imaginary God Doesn't Get To Overrule Our Human Rights
So DOMA is no more and Prop 8 has been kicked back to the lower court's ruling by the Supreme Court, meaning that it's pretty much left-for-dead as well. It practically goes without saying that this isn't the end of the fight for marriage equality in this country, but it's ...read more
ESPN's Chris Broussard is a Homophobe and a Bigot Whether He Likes it Or Not
I'm going to make this quick. I defend religion and religious people quite a lot on these pages. I get almost as annoyed with dogmatic atheists as I do religious fundamentalists given their lack of tolerance for anyone with views that differ from their own. I don't think ...read more
Matt Taibbi Demolishes David Brooks on His Weird Gay Marriage Stance
David Brook's latest NYT column on gay marriage is, well, rather weird. After reading it a couple of times, it's clear Brooks thinks gay marriage is ok, but his argument is so convoluted and condescending it makes you want to dunk his head down a toilet bowl. Brooks ...read more
Bill O'Reilly Finally Comes Out In Favor of Secular Government
For what's seemed like an eternity, Bill O'Reilly has amassed a fortune by anointing himself a "culture warrior" while waging what he's called "the culture wars" -- an ongoing battle between white Christian conservatives, commanded by narcissist-in-chief O'Reilly, against ...read more
Another Vote for Marriage Equality
The American Academy of Pediatrics recently released a policy statement endorsing same sex marriage. You can read their full report here. According to them: "Children need secure and enduring relationships with committed and nurturing adults to enhance their life experiences ...read more
Gay Marriage ≠ Christian Persecution
It's always entertaining to watch the right, particularly the Christian right, whine about victimization. As Steve Benen over at the Maddowblog says today, no one's raised melodramatic self-pity to an art form the way America's conservative Christians have, regardless of ...read more
